From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #42 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, February 17 2005 Volume 14 : Number 042 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: fegmaniax-digest V14 #41 ["Brian Hoare" ] RE: Feb 15 in history ["Matt Sewell" ] RE: Feb 15 in history [Dolph Chaney ] Robyn in latest Acoustic Guitar ["'bisontentacle'" ] Veronica Mars [Sumiko Keay ] RE: catching up on this day in Rush history...and twenty years ["Bachman,] Re: catching up on this day in Rush history... [Rex Broome ] RE: Minimalism ["Matt Sewell" ] News from the Beck Front [The Great Quail ] Re: Minimalism [The Great Quail ] RE: catching up on this day in Rush history...and twenty years [2and2make] Re: Minimalism ["Matt Sewell" ] reap [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Minimalism [Tom Clark ] Re: catching up on this day (year) in Rush (Robyn) history...and twenty years [Tom Clark ] Re: Religion 101 [2and2makes5@comcast.net] Re: Minimalism [Jeff ] Re: Religion 101 [Rex Broome ] Re: Minimalism [Aaron Mandel ] Re: Minimalism [Eb ] Re: Religion 101 [Jeff ] Re: Religion 101 [The Great Quail ] Re: Obscure Albums ["Brian Nupp" ] RE: reap ["Bachman, Michael" ] RE: catching up on this day (year) in Rush (Robyn) history...and twenty years ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: reap ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Minimalism [Eb ] Re: robyn tribute/unhatched crablings? [Capuchin ] Re: catching up on this day in Rush history...and twenty years [Jon Lewis] 20 years ago... [Eb ] RE: Minimalism ["michael wells" ] Re: Veronica Mars ["Nora B." ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 07:56:17 +0000 From: "Brian Hoare" Subject: RE: fegmaniax-digest V14 #41 Aaron: >Uh, I have terrible news for you guys-- a computer does all this stuff. The computer just does the arithmetic, the deviser of the system did the more interesting maths. >Quail: >>"Fly By Night" was released thirty years ago, and "Moving Pictures" >>twenty-four years ago. Mike: >Well observed, my good man. And Brian H., two more to pick up before you >settle on an opinion. The plan is to from Kings up to MP in order, then I _may_ start to head backwards. Brian. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:21:11 +0000 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: RE: Feb 15 in history Presumably that's John Adams the minimalist composer rather than the toy factory of the same name in which I worked for a couple of Summers... strangely enough I was just listening to Shaker Loops while looking through a cardboard kaleidescope the other day... Anyone else round these parts have a soft spot for minimalism? Now showing on the IC (internal cinema): Berlin Horse Cheers Matt >From: Eb > >Also, it's the birthday of composer John Adams, piano icon William >Steinway and Zappa fan Matt Groening. > >Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 07:36:22 -0600 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: RE: Feb 15 in history At 05:21 AM 2/16/2005, Matt Sewell wrote: >Anyone else round these parts have a soft spot for minimalism? Ja, you betcha, especially Adams. I only enjoy Philip Glass when combined with Godfrey Reggio. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:11:43 -0500 From: "'bisontentacle'" Subject: Robyn in latest Acoustic Guitar - ----- Forwarded message from Adam Leonard ----- From: Adam Leonard To: "'bisontentacle'" Subject: Robyn in latest Acoustic Guitar Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:53:26 -0000 Hello. Not sure if this is already known because I only get the fegdigests, but there is a Robyn interview and a transcription of 'Television' in the latest (March 2005) issue of 'Acoustic Guitar' magazine: http://www.acousticguitar.com/issues/PastIssues/toc.asp?IssueID=154 +A - ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:01:40 -0600 From: Sumiko Keay Subject: Veronica Mars Anyone watch it? The guest playing "Mr. Rooks" bore a strong resemblence to Robyn. It was distracting. Sumi ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:11:42 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: catching up on this day in Rush history...and twenty years > James: re RT > > Stylistically, they both have the same influences. There's > a lot of Jansch > and Renbourn in both of them's styles, to start with. > > Paging Daryl. We need an RT expert on this one. > > > Quail: > > "Fly By Night" was released thirty years ago, and "Moving Pictures" > twenty-four years ago. Michael Wells came back with: > Well observed, my good man. And Brian H., two more to pick up > before you settle on an opinion. > > During their last go-around it occurred to me that I have > seen their 10, 20 and 30th anniversary tours. And I thought they were old > fogies in 1984. The list of people whose new music I've enjoyed for twenty years > is awfully thin, come to think of it. Hey, 2005 marks my twenty years of enjoyment of Robyn, starting with buying Fegmania! Michael B. NP Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:16:08 -0800 From: Rex Broome Subject: Re: catching up on this day in Rush history... On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:56:23 -0800, michael wells wrote: >The > list of people whose new music I've enjoyed for twenty years is awfully > thin, come to think of it. I haven't listened to new music long enough to have such a list. As of next year I'll be able to check in, though. I figure I'll get Robyn, Kristin, and Neil. I guess you could count Camper, but there was a hell of a lull in there. Didn't start listening to Dylan until later, and it's just been pointed out to me that Verlaine hasn't released any new music for a period roughly congruent with his entire solo career, and sadly REM has just now crossed the Suck-Rubicon even in my book, or they woulda made it. - -Rex. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:09:17 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Minimalism > Anyone else round these parts have a soft spot for minimalism? Well, I think my passion for Philip Glass has been the butt of a few Eb-jokes, but you could say I have something considerably more than a soft spot.... And if I may be pedantic -- ooh, pedantry on the Feg List! what a surprise - -- John Adams isn't really a minimalist composer. Granted, his early pieces were very much inspired by Philip Glass*, but the majority of his work defies categorization. He's generally considered a post-minimalist with strong ties to modern American romanticism. Although the Glass-like opera "Nixon in China" is my favorite work by Adams, a lot of his more recent stuff is extremely impressive, and really displays his unique voice. I recommend the piano concerto "Century Rolls," the Nativity oratorio "El Nino," and his emotional Violin Concerto. His setting of Whitman's "The Wound Dresser" is also very moving. (Just avoid " I Was Looking at the Ceiling Then I Saw the Sky" at all costs! It's awful.) Another post-minimalist composer who has done some great work is Gavin Bryars, though he's got more avant-garde, rock, and jazz leanings. - --Quail *PS: The majority of Glass' work really isn't minimalist either, but I'm using the term in the more broad and popular sense to signify music constructed around repetitious patterns. PPS: A few days ago Philip Glass sat across from me on the subway. It was very difficult for me to continue reading my book and trying not to stare rudely.... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:40:10 +0000 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: RE: Minimalism Cheers for that Oh GQ, Now you come to mention it, I must say the Adams stuff I've heard other than Shaker Loops isn't very minimalist... actually a couple of years ago I saw Terry Riley doing a performance in St Barnabas church, a lovely building just round the corner from my flat, and that had nothing of his minimalist roots... I think I prefer Reich to Glass - not that I have anything at all against Glass, it's just that the early Reich stuff really blows my mind in as far as how incredibly alien it sounds - sorta like the difference between Berg and Webern. Cheers also for the Bryars tip - sounds right up my street! Matt >From: The Great Quail > > > Anyone else round these parts have a soft spot for minimalism? > >Well, I think my passion for Philip Glass has been the butt of a few >Eb-jokes, but you could say I have something considerably more than a soft >spot.... > >And if I may be pedantic -- ooh, pedantry on the Feg List! what a surprise >-- John Adams isn't really a minimalist composer. Granted, his early pieces >were very much inspired by Philip Glass*, but the majority of his work >defies categorization. He's generally considered a post-minimalist with >strong ties to modern American romanticism. > >Although the Glass-like opera "Nixon in China" is my favorite work by Adams, >a lot of his more recent stuff is extremely impressive, and really displays >his unique voice. I recommend the piano concerto "Century Rolls," the >Nativity oratorio "El Nino," and his emotional Violin Concerto. His setting >of Whitman's "The Wound Dresser" is also very moving. (Just avoid " I Was >Looking at the Ceiling Then I Saw the Sky" at all costs! It's awful.) > >Another post-minimalist composer who has done some great work is Gavin >Bryars, though he's got more avant-garde, rock, and jazz leanings. > >--Quail > >*PS: The majority of Glass' work really isn't minimalist either, but I'm >using the term in the more broad and popular sense to signify music >constructed around repetitious patterns. > >PPS: A few days ago Philip Glass sat across from me on the subway. It was >very difficult for me to continue reading my book and trying not to stare >rudely.... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:00:11 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: News from the Beck Front I've recently got to listen to a leaked copy of Beck's new album, "Guero." I'd like to officially go, "Wow." It's kind of like classic Beck meets 70s grooves. Very, very good! You can download an EP of remixes from iTunes -- "Hell Yes" which puts a Casiotone overlay over four tracks. The actual album itself is more stripped down and groovy.... - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:26:18 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Minimalism >actually a couple of years ago > I saw Terry Riley doing a performance in St Barnabas church, a lovely > building just round the corner from my flat, and that had nothing of his > minimalist roots... It's kind of an irony that because of "In C," Riley is credited as one of the founders of minimalism; but the vast majority of his work is nothing like minimalism. In fact, some of his best work -- his string quartets written for Kronos -- aren't even very repetitive. (Just to mention, I am not a big fan of his "New Age" music.) > I think I prefer Reich to Glass I always think of the two as being very different -- Reich's music is more intellectual, Glass is more emotional; Reich more concerned with rhythm, Glass with melody and harmony. I think in purely classical terms, Glass is the better composer, but Reich has more avant-garde cred. > Cheers also for the Bryars tip - sounds right up my street! Here are a few of my favorites: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000069CH http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000004CWJ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000040V7 - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:51:17 +0000 From: 2and2makes5@comcast.net Subject: RE: catching up on this day in Rush history...and twenty years > Hey, 2005 marks my twenty years of enjoyment of Robyn, starting with buying > Fegmania! > > Michael B. 20 years for me too--I was introduced to Fegmania! by my dorm-mate Bob Hitchcock, whose sister Robyn was naturally a big fan. Jon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:51:25 +0000 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: Minimalism Absolutely - hence my Berg/Webern comparison... both used 12-note serialism as a basis for their compositions - essentially atonal music, but Berg's was beautiful and composed much more as a classical piece of the era (or, at least, the end of the C19th) whereas Webern's was stricter, more mathematical, much more challenging to the ear... And yep, thoroughyl agreed on Riley and his new age music (which, sadly, made up the vast majority of the live set I caught). Cheers Matt >From: The Great Quail > > I think I prefer Reich to Glass > >I always think of the two as being very different -- Reich's music is more >intellectual, Glass is more emotional; Reich more concerned with rhythm, >Glass with melody and harmony. I think in purely classical terms, Glass is >the better composer, but Reich has more avant-garde cred. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:00:56 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: reap They may not realize it yet but... The National Hockey League. It's a suicide. ===== "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: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:39:38 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Minimalism On Feb 16, 2005, at 7:09 AM, The Great Quail wrote: > Another post-minimalist composer who has done some great work is Gavin > Bryars, though he's got more avant-garde, rock, and jazz leanings. > Yeah, some chick who goes by the moniker 'lj' forced me to buy Bryars' "A Man In A Room, Gambling". I'm not an aficionado of the genre, but it is a pretty mesmerizing piece. > > PPS: A few days ago Philip Glass sat across from me on the subway. It > was > very difficult for me to continue reading my book and trying not to > stare > rudely.... > > You should have just said "I loved you on South Park" - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:44:42 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: catching up on this day (year) in Rush (Robyn) history...and twenty years On Feb 16, 2005, at 9:51 AM, 2and2makes5@comcast.net wrote: >> Hey, 2005 marks my twenty years of enjoyment of Robyn, starting with >> buying >> Fegmania! >> >> Michael B. > > 20 years for me too--I was introduced to Fegmania! by my dorm-mate Bob > Hitchcock, whose sister Robyn was naturally a big fan. > Same here. I read a combined review of fegMania! and Gotta Let This Hen Out in Rolling Stone, then mail ordered a copy of the Black Snake Diamond Role LP. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:59:33 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Minimalism > Quail: > PPS: A few days ago Philip Glass sat across from me on the subway. It > was > very difficult for me to continue reading my book and trying not to > stare > rudely.... > How did you resist talking to him?? And didn't he notice the slowly spreading puddle of urine around your seat? > I've recently got to listen to a leaked copy of Beck's new album, > "Guero." > I'd like to officially go, "Wow." > > It's kind of like classic Beck meets 70s grooves. Very, very good! Hrm. I heard one song on radio -- might have been called "Ghetto Malfunction"? -- and was really disappointed with it. Just sounded like a calculated, tired rehash of the Odelay sound. If that's the single, this album may be in trouble. > Sumiko: > Anyone watch it? > The guest playing "Mr. Rooks" bore a strong resemblence to Robyn. Ever seen the flesh-crawling cinematic equivalent of "The Office," "Chuck & Buck"? I'd give "Chuck" the prize. http://us.ent4.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/ paramount_pictures/down_to_earth/_group_photos/chris_weitz16.jpg http://us.ent4.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/ oscars/75th_academy_awards_luncheon_photos/_group_photos/ chris_weitz11.jpg http://www.filmstew.com/Users/DailyNews/8785/ ChrisWeitz(KevinMazurWireImage).jpg Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:19:22 +0000 From: 2and2makes5@comcast.net Subject: Re: Religion 101 Anyone know what the deal with cross-burning is, if the KKK's goal is protecting Christianity? Idiots, Jon - -------------- Original message -------------- > This is where I turn when I have a question about pretty much anything, so > here goes. My ESL class (80% Asian) read an article about religion in > America, and one of the students asked me why the KKK thinks of itself as > an organization protecting Christianity. Does anyone know what biblical > texts it refers back to to support its claims? I know that there is > something somewhere about miscegenation, but where is it? > > Thanks, > Jill ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:39:27 -0600 From: Jeff Subject: Re: Minimalism On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:59:33 -0800, Eb wrote: > > Quail: > > PPS: A few days ago Philip Glass sat across from me on the subway. It > > was > > very difficult for me to continue reading my book and trying not to > > stare > > rudely.... > > > How did you resist talking to him?? And didn't he notice the slowly > spreading puddle of urine around your seat? I just don't have the heart to make the obvious "LA guy" vs. "filthy NYC subway" joke... - -- ...Jeff The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:47:03 -0800 From: Rex Broome Subject: Re: Religion 101 2and2makes5@comcast.net <2and2makes5@comcast.net> wrote: > Anyone know what the deal with cross-burning is, if the KKK's goal is protecting Christianity? Well, their greater goal is the protection of stupidity, and burning one's own putative symbol does a wonderful job of illustrating that principle. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:59:07 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Minimalism On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Eb wrote: > Hrm. I heard one song on radio -- might have been called "Ghetto > Malfunction"? -- and was really disappointed with it. Just sounded like > a calculated, tired rehash of the Odelay sound. If that's the single, > this album may be in trouble. If it was called "Ghettochip Malfunction", it's the remixed version of "Hell Yes" that was released on iTunes in advance of the album. I have no idea why. Agreed that (in either form) it's not a great song. The rest of the record does sound mostly like bits and pieces of Beck's past, but unlike "Hell Yes" it doesn't have that trying-too-hard vibe. This is all assuming the leaked version of the album is more or less what's going to be released, even though the leak sounds kind of hissy and has a different running order than has been announced. So I'm not jumping to any conclusions. (On the other hand, Beck's people are apparently worried about all the leaking, so they would want to spread that word that the album was totally different from the leaked form even if it weren't.) a ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:04:39 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Minimalism >> Hrm. I heard one song on radio -- might have been called "Ghetto >> Malfunction"? -- and was really disappointed with it. Just sounded >> like >> a calculated, tired rehash of the Odelay sound. If that's the single, >> this album may be in trouble. > > If it was called "Ghettochip Malfunction", it's the remixed version of > "Hell Yes" that was released on iTunes in advance of the album. Yeah, that's definitely what I heard. Do you (or anyone else) have any thoughts on these obscure albums? Recently appeared amidst a MOJO list of the all-time most "out there" records. Paddy McAloon - I Trawl the Megahertz Basil Kirchin - Quantum Ollie Patterson - Spring Song AR & Machines - Echo Wiliam S Fischer - Circles Dreamies - Auralgraphic Entertainment Cybotron - Cyber Ghetto Ca Quintet - Trip Thru Hell The Stark Reality - ...Discover's Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop Joe Meek and the Blue Men - I Hear A New World (An Outer Space Musical Fantasy) Patty Waters - College Tour Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:25:57 -0600 From: Jeff Subject: Re: Religion 101 On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:47:03 -0800, Rex Broome wrote: > 2and2makes5@comcast.net <2and2makes5@comcast.net> wrote: > > Anyone know what the deal with cross-burning is, if the KKK's goal is protecting Christianity? > > Well, their greater goal is the protection of stupidity, and burning > one's own putative symbol does a wonderful job of illustrating that > principle. I suspect their reasoning would be something-something "burning wrath of the Lord" something-bullshit-something. But, I think that in the context of an ESL class (whose subject isn't religion), even attempting to present their supposed religious justification does them way more favors than they deserve. "They're assholes" is the most succinct, and the most accurate, approach to the issue in that context. Unfortunately, I know that many college students, native English speakers or not, are terribly naive about the way people can twist nearly any means to justify their desired ends. "If everybody knows there are problems with education, how come nothing's being done about it?" If I suggest, point-blank, that most such problems don't affect the power of the powerful, and therefore there's no motivation for those powerful to change any damned thing, very few students will accept what they see as my thoroughly curdled cynicism. I will stop grumbling now, and return to listening to Dan Bejar warble away on my CD player. - -- ...Jeff The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:26:42 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Religion 101 >> Anyone know what the deal with cross-burning is, if the KKK's goal is >> protecting Christianity? Let's see...because it's kind of terrifying? - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:34:17 -0500 From: "Brian Nupp" Subject: Re: Obscure Albums No, I haven't, but I'm always on the lookout for a good obscure record. Best ones are the one's your find unexpectedly. I just recently found this great record by Jesus Moreno. Very rare. It seems you had to be on a certain cruise ship in the 1960's to get one of his albums. Smashing! Better than the beautiful latin music is the pose of Jesus himself on the album cover. Think of the glamour shot of Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite. - -Nuppy >Do you (or anyone else) have any thoughts on these obscure albums? >Recently appeared amidst a MOJO list of the all-time most "out there" > >records. > >Paddy McAloon - I Trawl the Megahertz >Basil Kirchin - Quantum >Ollie Patterson - Spring Song >AR & Machines - Echo >Wiliam S Fischer - Circles >Dreamies - Auralgraphic Entertainment >Cybotron - Cyber Ghetto >Ca Quintet - Trip Thru Hell >The Stark Reality - ...Discover's Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop >Joe Meek and the Blue Men - I Hear A New World (An Outer Space >Musical >Fantasy) >Patty Waters - College Tour >Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow > >Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:01:49 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: reap > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Dwarf [mailto:munki1972@yahoo.com] > They may not realize it yet but... > > The National Hockey League. > > It's a suicide. The NHL needs some major rule changes to bring back the exciting brand of play that was the NHL in the 1980's and early 90's. Put the Original Six back together in the same division, drop about six teams, maybe move a team into Portland and a team back into Quebec. With a salary cap, cheaper tickets, fewer teams and a more exiting game, the NHL could be revived. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:22:15 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: catching up on this day (year) in Rush (Robyn) history...and twenty years > On Feb 16, 2005, at 9:51 AM, 2and2makes5@comcast.net wrote: > > >> Hey, 2005 marks my twenty years of enjoyment of Robyn, > starting with > >> buying > >> Fegmania! > >> > >> Michael B. > > > > 20 years for me too--I was introduced to Fegmania! by my > dorm-mate Bob > > Hitchcock, whose sister Robyn was naturally a big fan. > > > > Same here. I read a combined review of fegMania! and Gotta Let This > Hen Out in Rolling Stone, then mail ordered a copy of the Black Snake > Diamond Role LP. Hmmm, it could have been that Rolling Stone review that prompted me to buy fegMania! as well. Or maybe it was a review in Musician magazine that did it as I had subscriptions to both back then? I still have all my Musician mags from back then, but not the RS's. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:21:16 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Minimalism On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Eb wrote: > Paddy McAloon - I Trawl the Megahertz There's someone who LIKED that? It's the lead singer of Prefab Sprout making a mostly-instrumental kinda-ambient album. I'm sure I'm not doing it justice with that description, but that's okay, because I wouldn't want to encourage anyone to buy it. > Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow I think Lightning Bolt are part of the unlistenable noise-art-metal scene in Providence. Also not my thing. Eb (or anyone else): Have you heard Enon? I'd known for a while that one member of Brainiac went on to form them, but for some reason (despite liking Brainiac a lot) I never did. I just picked up a secondhand copy of Hocus-Pocus and though no one song has lodged in my head, I like it. Hard not to be reminded a little of their neighbors Guided By Voices' younger, wilder days. a ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:25:54 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: reap Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > The National Hockey League. Ah, it won't be missed. It was just several big guys chasing a paperweight around a curling rink. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:42:12 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Minimalism > Eb (or anyone else): Have you heard Enon? I'd known for a while that > one > member of Brainiac went on to form them, but for some reason (despite > liking Brainiac a lot) I never did. I just picked up a secondhand copy > of > Hocus-Pocus and though no one song has lodged in my head, I like it. > Hard > not to be reminded a little of their neighbors Guided By Voices' > younger, > wilder days. > Sure...I dig Enon. Neat variety of sounds. Buy High Society -- it has a similar sound to Hocus Pocus, but is a lot stronger. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:01:29 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: robyn tribute/unhatched crablings? On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Aaron Mandel wrote: > Second, is there a nice clean copy of Colin Meloy's RH-tribute songs > somewhere? I have mp3s encoded from video files, but they sound awfully > rattly (since the video's audio track was already compressed a lot > before I got my hands on it). I recorded the entire gig on minidisc. I'd have to track it down and digitize it. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:42:24 -0500 From: Jon Lewis Subject: Re: catching up on this day in Rush history...and twenty years On Wednesday, February 16, 2005, at 11:11 AM, Bachman, Michael wrote: > > Hey, 2005 marks my twenty years of enjoyment of Robyn, starting with > buying Fegmania! > Me too! I can't remember for the life of me what made me buy it, either. I hadn't read about him or anything. I'm also celebrating 20 years of Fall fandom this year (cassette of The Wonderful And Frightening World Of...) Jon Lewis ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:04:06 -0800 From: Eb Subject: 20 years ago... ...I only had strong interest in 30 or so bands, period. Which didn't include Hitchcock. Beatles/Lennon/McCartney, Doors, Who, Byrds, Kinks, Moody Blues, VU, Buffalo Springfield, Jefferson Airplane, Cream, Hendrix, Springsteen, Dylan, Bowie, Eno, King Crimson/Fripp/Belew, Yes, Genesis/Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, ELP, Jethro Tull, Roxy Music, Talking Heads, Kate Bush, Laurie Anderson, Jean-Michel Jarre...that basically takes care of it. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:03:02 -0800 From: "michael wells" Subject: RE: Minimalism > Cheers also for the Bryars tip - sounds right up my street! Gavin also composed and arranged the backing track to John Wesley Harding's "Sussex Ghost Story" from his album ADAM'S APPLE, a snippet of which can be heard here: http://tinyurl.com/5qec4 . At his recent Chicago gig (my recordings of which may still be up on EZT, I haven't checked recently), JWH played live atop the pre-recorded Bryars quartet. Fantastic. I started trying to write a quick song tonight that contained the word "minimalist," but the first rhyme that occurred to me was "Stephanie Zimbalist" so I put it to bed. > re: reap (NHL) For folks interested in backstory to what's been happening, I would commend them to this: http://tinyurl.com/6xqtw - certainly one of the best books about sports period, let alone hockey. If the owners get a salary cap next year, then I want my ticket prices, nacho prices and beer prices all capped too. Period. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:51:08 -0800 From: "Nora B." Subject: Re: Veronica Mars Sumiko Keay wrote: >Anyone watch it? I watch and adore this show! > The guest playing "Mr. Rooks" bore a strong resemblence to Robyn. Oh he totally did! Great episode all around. Gotta love that non-formulaic formula television ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #42 *******************************