From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #39 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, February 14 2005 Volume 14 : Number 039 Today's Subjects: ----------------- NEW on EZT: Nigel & The Crosses (Hitchcock/REM/Bragg) 1989-04-28 London [jeff albertson ] Who would YOU want to see? [Eb ] Re: NEW on EZT: Robyn Hitchcock October 1990 Demos and Rough Sketches [A] Re: Who would YOU want to see? [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Who would YOU want to see? [John Barrington Jones ] Re: NEW on EZT: Robyn Hitchcock October 1990 Demos and Rough Sketches [Be] Speaking of stupid typography.... [Eb ] Re: NEW on EZT: Robyn Hitchcock October 1990 Demos and Rough Sketches [] Re: Speaking of stupid typography.... ["Stewart C. Russell" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 00:43:04 -0500 From: jeff albertson Subject: NEW on EZT: Nigel & The Crosses (Hitchcock/REM/Bragg) 1989-04-28 London http://www.easytree.org/torrents-details.php?id=27824&hit=1 >A new torrent has been uploaded to EZT. > >Torrent: 27824 >Title: Nigel & The Crosses (Hitchcock/REM/Bragg) 1989-04-28 London >Size: 500.73 MB >Category: Rock >Uploaded by: rh60 > >Description >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Nigel & The Crosses (aka Robyn Hitchcock w/REM and friends) >May 28, 1989 >Borderline >London, England >Audience cassette master->DAT->FLAC > >Robyn Hitchcock, plus various combinations of Peter Buck, Peter >Holsapple, Glenn Tilbrook, Mike Mills, Billy Bragg, Andy Metcalf & >Morris Windsor. > >Disc 1 (running time: 59:33) >1. I Wanna Destroy You >2. She Said She Said [Beatles] >3. Eight Miles High [Byrds] >4. Queen of Eyes >5. Waterloo Sunset [Kinks] >6. America >7. Freeze >8. The Veins of the Queen >9. Birdshead >10. Rain [Beatles] >11. Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis) >12. Bells of Rhymney [Pete Seeger] >13. The Rumour >14. Kingdom of Love > >Disc 2 (running time: 28:49) >Encore: >15. Listening to the Higsons >16. Revolution Number One [Beatles] >17. Sin City [Gram Parsons] >18. Route 66 >19. You Ain't Going Nowhere [Bob Dylan] >20. I Saw Her Standing There [The Beatles] >21. Foxy Lady [Jimi Hendrix] > > >From an June 21, 1989 interview with Robyn Hitchcock by Robert >Loerzel (http://www.robertloerzel.com/Clips/hitchcock.htm): > > I read that you occasionally played with Peter Buck and Peter > Holsapple and you were calling yourselves Nigel and the Crosses? > > RH: That's right, yeah. We did a Nigel and the Crosses gig. The > first one was actually at the Cubby Bear in Chicago. It was a sort > of accident. Holsapple was doing a benefit, and we all got up and > played with him. We were basically covering ourselves and covering > other people, doing old Soft Boys songs... basically just pop > rock. > > Are you planning on playing together again? > > RH: We did one in London last month, which was quite fun. But it's > a matter of getting everybody in the same place. I'd like to do > one at Christmas, but it gets expensive. I can't imagine doing a > Nigel tour. > > I read that you thought of it as an equivalent of the Traveling > Wilburys? > > RH: (Laughs.) Well, actually the guy put that into my mouth. He > said, "You mean, is it like the Wilburys?" And I said, "Sort of." > The Wilburys was a way of relaunching their respective careers, > you know, which was a brilliant marketing move. With the exception > of Tom Petty, the rest of them hadn't been doing that well > recently. I don't know really know whether -- it's different for > us. We have guest Wilburys. We have Billy Bragg as a guest -- Not > Wilburys, Nigels, sorry. Billy Bragg was with us, and Glenn > Tilbrook from Squeeze. So they're kind of honorary Nigels. It's a > floating outfit. > >Detailed Lineage: > >BP transferred his audience cassette master to DAT, I obtained a copy >from him in August 1996. Converted to FLAC format by TN February, >2005. > >DAT-> PC (from Sony PCM-500 into LynxONE digital I/O card) -> FLAC > >Fade in/fade outs via Sound Forge Studio 6.0d. >cdwave used for track splits. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 11:47:13 -0500 From: jeff albertson Subject: NEW on EZT: Robyn Hitchcock Avalon, Boston, Mass 2-8-92 + Campus Club, Providence, R. I. 2-5-92 http://www.easytree.org/torrents-details.php?id=27890&hit=1 >A new torrent has been uploaded to EZT. > >Torrent: 27890 >Title: Robyn Hitchcock - Avalon, Boston, Mass 2-8-92 + Campus Club, >Providence, R. I. 2-5-92 >Size: 612.18 MB >Category: Rock'n'Roll >Uploaded by: hezekiahx2 > >Description >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Robyn Hitchcock - Avalon, Boston, Massachusetts (USA) February 8 1992 > >CD1 >01 introduction (flickering brain) / Oceanside > 02 So You Think Youre In Love > 03 Birds In Perspex > 04 Chinese Bones > 05 Dark Green Energy > 06 Balloon Man > 07 Vegetation And Dimes > 08 Uncorrected Personality Traits > 09 Child Of The Universe > 10 A Globe Of Frogs > 11 Ultra Unbelievable Love >total running time: 47:16 > >CD2 > 01 Autumn Is Your Last Chance > 02 Clean Steve > 03 Glass Hotel > 04 Winchester > 05 Madonna Of The Wasps > 06 One Long Pair Of Eyes > 07 My Wife And My Dead Wife >encore: > 08 Ride > 09 Airscape (Element Of Light) >10 Freeze > >bonus tracks: Campus Club, Providence, Rhode Island (USA) February 5, 1992 >11 introduction (Rhode Island Red) / Birds In Perspex >12 Airscape (Element Of Light) >13 Lysander >14 Balloon Man >15 Somewhere Apart >16 Child Of The Universe >17 Uncorrected Personality Traits (excerpt only) >total running time: 78:59 > >TECHNICAL NOTES: >Boston: >mono >recorded: single (1) Nakamichi 300 mike > super-attenuated audio (HiFi) >track of Sony 8mm videocamera (most likely CCD-TR5) >Mike placement: above the crowd, from balcony; the balcony in this venue >is pretty far back, so a certain amount of crowd noise and conversation is >audible. >Providence: >stereo >recorded: (2) Nakamichi 300 mikes > Sony WMD6 >Mike placement: also suspended above the crowd, from a light fixture about >halfway between the stage and the back of the room. Even though the mikes >were actually closer to the PA than they were in Boston, there is more >undesirable chitchat evident in the recording, as much of the crowd was >comprised of local (Brown University) college kids who seemed to be there >more for a night out than for any particular interest in the artist in >question. (In the immortal words of Mr. T: too much jibber-jabber.) > >LINEAGE: >Boston: >master 8mm > dbx 117 (c. 1.4 expansion factor to recover lost dynamics due >to ALS) > DAT > CD-R > flacfile >Providence: >master cassettes > reel-to-reel > CD-R > flacfile > >TRANSFER: >Boston: >Sony EV-C100 (8mm pb deck) > Sony 790 (48kHz) > Sony RCD-W10 > xxx >Providence: >Nakamichi C1 (with azimuth adjustment) > Technics 1506 (1/4-track with >pitch control) > Sony RCD-W10 > xxx >Almost no editing done on either source tape except for fades up and down. >(There is some mike rustling edited out.) L/R channels balanced. Slight >EQ performed on Boston tape to emphasize vocals. The last track (#17) on >CD2 gently fades out during the song for reasons detailed below. > >"ABORIGINAL THOUGHTS" >These shows are part of the last gasp of The Egyptians as a full-blast >rock band. When they came back a year later it was a quieter, >semi-acoustic presentation. After that it was mostly RH solo; things >didnt get loud again until the Soft Boys reunion of 01. > >Providence (bonus tracks): >Im including part of the 2/5/92 show to flesh out CD2. Im not being coy >by including only 7 songs---thats all I got! Batteries ran out after >about half an hour---I was stuck in the middle of a crowded club with a >dead recorder, unwilling to leave my equipment unattended while I went out >into the cold February night in search of a place to buy fresh ones, and >no guarantee that I would be able to get back in if I did venture out. I >can laugh now (sort of), but at the time I was fuming! One can feel the >tape recorder dying as the last song on CD2 speeds up (as it was being >recorded slower and slower by failing batteries). I include the excerpt >despite its inexorable drift into the Chipmunk Dimension---for the sake of >completeness, and because it seems kinda funny (now) and appropriate >(considering the song), and also to appeal to any sense of Schadenfreude >that might be out there. (Everybody feels a little stupid when things go >wrong thus; and to make matters worse, there doe > snt seem to exist any other tape---complete or otherwise---of this > particular performance to serve as balm for my wounded ego) (unless > someone out there has/knows of one??). > >The Campus Club was a short-lived venture that operated while Lupos >Heartbreak Hotel was briefly out of commission (before moving to a new >location). It is so dimly remembered that when Marshall Crenshaw put out a >live CD containing a track recorded there, he was evidently unable to >conjure up the name of the spot to put in the liner notes, and just >identified it as not Lupos [!!] > >The Rhode Island Red mentioned during RHs opening monologue is a breed of >rooster. > >Boston: >Mono. The technical meltdown of 3 nights previous was caused in part by >trying to do too many things at once. The realization of this nudged me >into simplifying my exploitation strategy (so as to minimize the >possibility of further fuckups). Thus I pared things down to a single >microphone. > >The flickering brain referred to in RHs opening monologue was a novelty >item at the far end of the club. Evidently called (at least in some >quarters) a plasma ball, its the variation of a jacobs ladder that you >sometimes see in science museums or sold (in a miniature version) as a toy >at Spencer Gifts: a glass globe surrounding a Van de Graaff generator, >with static electricity arcing inside the globe. The spark is drawn to >your fingertip when you touch the glass ball, as resistance is lowered at >the contact point due to the fact that you are earthed (grounded) relative >to the rest of the globes surface. (Okay, you can put your pencils >away---science lesson over.) > >TRACK SEPARATION: >Robyn Hitchcock performances present an unusual (perhaps unique) problem >in terms of track separation, as the long dadaistic spoken introductions >to the songs can almost be considered discrete performance pieces unto >themselves. Many therefore opt to break out these raps between songs as >separate tracks, such that accessing a particular song by track # brings >one right to music. Millions may disagree, but my overriding philosophy is >that the number of tracks on a CD should equal the number of songs: 10 >songs = 10 tracks. Accordingly, I append the introductions (however long) >as the beginnings of the songs tracks. (This is not that much of a >dilemma during the kind of full-blown electric performances presented >here, where the discourses between songs are not inordinately long; but in >some of RHs solo performances, the introductions can run longer than >the succeeding songs!) But the impromptu discourses are a big part of what >makes each RH tape unique. In fact one of my fav > ourite parts of this Boston show is RHs Springsteen satire at the > beginning of My Wife And My Dead Wife---totally lost on the Robyn > Hitchcock audience, most of whom were probably familiar with Springsteen > in name only. > >ARTWORK: >Like all of my projects, this was essentially created for an audience of >one (me!). The design for the back cover (tray) artwork employs >comparatively pale type over a similarly coloured background--- in other >words, the lettering does not jump out at you. I printed out a test copy >on high-gloss photo paper and the effect, while subtle, looks nice (to me, >at least) and readable---but I dont know how legible it will be if >printed on plain paper (where the colours might vary and the ink might >bleed a little bit). Just a word of caution > >Ohand while I didnt include the JPEGs, I did devise artwork for the >labels if anybody cares >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:56:56 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Playlist fun On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Eb wrote: > [...] > The Jazz Butcher/Sex & Travel > Purchase/download them, and report back. ;) If only we could, in this case! a ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:46:24 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Who would YOU want to see? This year's SXSW lineup.... http://2005.sxsw.com/music/festival/ I'd be most happy to see the below names perform...especially the asterisked acts (whom I've never seen before). Plus Musical Youth and Vanilla Ice, of course. PS I never knew Costello was from New York. *The Album Leaf (San Diego CA) American Music Club (San Francisco CA) Vic Chesnutt (Athens GA) Elvis Costello and the Imposters (New York NY) Jason Falkner (Los Angeles CA) *the Futureheads (Sunderland UK) Ed Harcourt (London UK) Robyn Hitchcock (London UK) Hot Hot Heat (Victoria BC) Mary Lou Lord (Boston MA) Louis XIV (San Diego CA) [haven't heard much by these guys, but I'm curious to hear more...] Stephen Malkmus (Portland OR) *Kathy McCarty (Austin TX) Of Montreal (Athens GA) Sleater-Kinney (Portland OR) *Chris Stamey (Chapel Hill NC) *Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players (New York NY) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 17:05:03 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: NEW on EZT: Robyn Hitchcock October 1990 Demos and Rough Sketches On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > An added bonus - I can now hear 'Dark Green Energy' without thinking > it's the faggiest song ever recorded. I'm sorry, I must be imagining things-- I could have sworn you just used the word "faggy" to mean "bad". a ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:17:32 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Who would YOU want to see? Eb wrote: > This year's SXSW lineup.... > > http://2005.sxsw.com/music/festival/ > > I'd be most happy to see the below names perform... > especially the asterisked acts (whom I've never seen > before). Plus Musical Youth and Vanilla Ice, of course. > > PS I never knew Costello was from New York. Hey, if Malkmus is now from Portland instead of Stockton.... > *The Album Leaf (San Diego CA) > American Music Club (San Francisco CA) > Vic Chesnutt (Athens GA) > Elvis Costello and the Imposters (New York NY) > Jason Falkner (Los Angeles CA) > *the Futureheads (Sunderland UK) > Ed Harcourt (London UK) > Robyn Hitchcock (London UK) > Hot Hot Heat (Victoria BC) > Mary Lou Lord (Boston MA) > Louis XIV (San Diego CA) [haven't heard much by these > guys, but I'm curious to hear more...] > Stephen Malkmus (Portland OR) > *Kathy McCarty (Austin TX) > Of Montreal (Athens GA) > Sleater-Kinney (Portland OR) > *Chris Stamey (Chapel Hill NC) > *Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players (New York NY) ===== "I had naively believed all these many years that Americans genuinely believed in freedom of speech. [But I] discovered there that when you made an utterance that was remotely contrary to what the White House was saying, then they attacked you. For a South African the deja vu was frightening. They behaved exactly the same way that used to happen here [during apartheid]: vilifying those who are putting forward a slightly different view." -- Desmond Tutu __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:42:48 -0800 (PST) From: John Barrington Jones Subject: Re: Who would YOU want to see? On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > Eb wrote: >> This year's SXSW lineup.... >> >> http://2005.sxsw.com/music/festival/ >> >> I'd be most happy to see the below names perform... >> especially the asterisked acts (whom I've never seen >> before). Plus Musical Youth and Vanilla Ice, of course. >> >> PS I never knew Costello was from New York. > > Hey, if Malkmus is now from Portland instead of > Stockton.... Ditto Sleater-Kinney of Portland, OR. We're thrilled to say we have 'em though!! - --John B. Jones (Portland, OR) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:33:31 -0800 (PST) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: NEW on EZT: Robyn Hitchcock October 1990 Demos and Rough Sketches On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Aaron Mandel wrote: > On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > An added bonus - I can now hear 'Dark Green Energy' without thinking > > it's the faggiest song ever recorded. > > I'm sorry, I must be imagining things-- I could have sworn you just used > the word "faggy" to mean "bad". "Right" or "wrong," people still do that--are you surprised? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:50:03 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Speaking of stupid typography.... I just read a press release for the band "The pAper chAse." Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 19:21:32 -0500 From: "Lauren" Subject: Re: NEW on EZT: Robyn Hitchcock October 1990 Demos and Rough Sketches Aaron Mandel says: > I'm sorry, I must be imagining things-- I could have sworn you just used > the word "faggy" to mean "bad". In the case of the "Dark Green Energy" single, I admit that for me, the 'faggy' nature of the song does contribute to a certain negative feeling I've always had about the song, but I in no way feel or meant to imply that negativity is a conclusion in the use of the word. I actually meant it to be descriptive. I don't actually know if you are being ironic. I generally err on people's being sincere, which sometimes make me look like a fool, but it's better than my alternative of encouraging my own cynicism. xo Lauren ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 19:35:41 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Speaking of stupid typography.... Eb wrote: > I just read a press release for the band "The pAper chAse." shouldn't that be capital-G-r-o macron-a-n? Oh, and Compuserve circa 1991 called; they want their back. Stewart - -- now playing: Lemon Jelly - '68 aka Only Time (yes, James, there's a new Lemon Jelly CD out. It's called '64-'95. Its packaging isn't as groovy as the last ones. The content, however, is.) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:44:25 -0800 From: Eb Subject: God, what a DISASTER (Grammys) Did ANYONE except Alicia Keys sing in key on this much-ballyhooed "Across the Universe" tribute? Yikes. HORRIBLE! Eb ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #39 *******************************