From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #218 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, September 9 2005 Volume 14 : Number 218 Today's Subjects: ----------------- shameless ebay plug (Robyn Related) [Bret ] shameless ebay plug (Robyn Related) [Bret ] Re: shameless ebay plug (Robyn Related) [Eb ] Re: shameless ebay plug (Robyn Related) ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: Seattle set list (9/2) ["Marc Holden" ] bad news for Wrens fans... [Jeff ] l;kahsdf (fwd) [John Barrington Jones ] New RH on DaD [FSThomas ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V14 #217 [James Dignan ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 20:22:25 -0500 From: Bret Subject: shameless ebay plug (Robyn Related) It is nowhere as cool at a Soft Boys contract, but........... I feel sorta bad about sending this to the lits, but at least it is on topic. 2 records: Explodiong in Silence Pic disc ( http://tinyurl.com/atk38 ) and Baloon Man promo ( http://tinyurl.com/cpk76 ) enjoy. I'm dumping my entire collection (1500 or so records) on ebay slowly (slowly because it takes me forever) but figured yif anyone cared about one of these, you'd be here. Yeah, I'm a longtime lurker. thanks. - -b * * - -- - --Bret Bolton ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 20:22:25 -0500 From: Bret Subject: shameless ebay plug (Robyn Related) It is nowhere as cool at a Soft Boys contract, but........... I feel sorta bad about sending this to the lits, but at least it is on topic. 2 records: Explodiong in Silence Pic disc ( http://tinyurl.com/atk38 ) and Baloon Man promo ( http://tinyurl.com/cpk76 ) enjoy. I'm dumping my entire collection (1500 or so records) on ebay slowly (slowly because it takes me forever) but figured yif anyone cared about one of these, you'd be here. Yeah, I'm a longtime lurker. thanks. - -b * * - -- - --Bret Bolton ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 19:29:08 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: shameless ebay plug (Robyn Related) Bret wrote: > I'm dumping my entire collection (1500 or so records) on ebay Did you find religion, a woman or an iPod? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 22:46:21 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: shameless ebay plug (Robyn Related) >From: Eb >Subject: Re: shameless ebay plug (Robyn Related) >Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 19:29:08 -0700 >Bret wrote: >>I'm dumping my entire collection (1500 or so records) on ebay >Did you find religion, a woman or an iPod? Or a large credit card debt? Max ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 22:21:52 -0500 From: Jeff Subject: photo of the century - -- ...Jeff The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:35:43 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Re: Seattle set list (9/2) - ----- Original Message ----- > Birdshead (Electric with Peter Buck/12-string and Bill Berry/drums) > Flesh Number One (With Michael Stipe/bass and Sean Nelson) Part of the R.E.M. info seems a bit off here. The photos from the party the night before show Mike Mills on bass/keyboards, rather than Michael Stipe. The drummer was also the Bill from R.E.M. but it's the current drummer, Bill Rieflen, rather than Bill Berry. photos here: http://www.tonx.org/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 07:45:39 -0500 From: Jeff Subject: bad news for Wrens fans... Industry Moguls Retain Wrens' Back Catalogue Firmly Lodged in Asshole (this is an excerpt from an Absolutely Kosher press release) Wind-Up Records has just formally turned down Absolutely Kosher Records' offer of $100,000 to purchase the rights to the Wrens' first two albums, Silver and Secaucus. This is the fourth and most substantial offer Absolutely Kosher has made to acquire the records since the label signed the Wrens in late 2002/early 2003. Two previous attempts to license the albums (rather than buy them) were quashed when Wind-Up insisted an advance given to the band in 1996 be repaid before licensing negotiations proceed. When it became clear that the history between Wind-Up and the Wrens was dictating that label's business decisions, Absolutely Kosher was left with no choice but to try and buy the albums outright. The latest offer of one hundred thousand dollars (yes, $100,000.00) was made several weeks ago just prior to the band's landmark performance at Chicago's Intonation Festival in front of 16,000 people and was rejected this morning. Absolutely Kosher label head Cory Brown said of the conversation, "Even their licensing person seemed surprised that the higher-ups had turned down the offer. She said she would keep me posted if there had been any progress and that we could revisit this in six months. She said that Wind-Up might reissue the albums, but no definite plans had been made or she, at least, hadn't been made privy to them. I told her that as much as it would be great to see these records in print eventually, the time to do so was now and we were the label to do it." Both Silver (1994) and Secaucus (1996) were released on Grass Records, also home to such bands as Brainiac (pre-Enon) and Commander Venus (pre-Bright Eyes). Grass was purchased by industry mogul Allen Meltzer, fresh off the sale of the Alliance Entertainment Corporation, a conglomerate of one-stop distributors he founded in the early 1990's. Meltzer transformed the label into Wind-Up not long after the Wrens decided not to sign the rather binding multi-album deal the label had laid before them. Both albums (as well as the bulk of the Grass catalog) promptly went out of print and have been fetching anywhere from $35 to $160 on e-Bay, Amazon and the like. The Wrens would have likely been forgotten by all but a few avid fans were it not for the release and remarkable grass roots success of their third album, The Meadowlands, released by Absolutely Kosher in September 2003. "The public deserves to be able to buy Silver and Secaucus for a reasonable price and no label is better suited to put them back in print than The Wrens' active label partner, Absolutely Kosher Records. Wind-Up squandered their opportunity with the Wrens years ago and have done absolutely nothing in the two years since The Meadowlands' break-out success. The expectation that they would put the proper time and energy into these reissues, if they even choose to pursue them at all, is unrealistic. Several commercially generous offers have been made for records which are doing nothing but collecting dust in their vaults and each time they have turned them down with no counter-offer. Perhaps it's vague self-interest, perhaps it's spite. Either way, it borders on criminal both morally (in terms of what's best for the fans and the band) and fiscally (in terms of what's best for the label). We'd like to call on all Wrens fans and people concerned with artists' rights to write a letter to Wind-Up Records urging them to accept Absolutely Kosher's most recent offer and FREE THE WRENS' BACK CATALOGUE. Here's their address: Wind-up Records RE: FREE THE WRENS' BACK CATALOGUE 72 Madison Ave New York, NY 10016 - -- ...Jeff The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 10:10:15 -0700 (PDT) From: John Barrington Jones Subject: l;kahsdf (fwd) - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 12:46:11 -0400 From: "Bayles, Todd" To: John Barrington Jones Subject: l;kahsdf Did you go to the Robyn H. show last night? My friend who saw it said it was awesome, and that R.E.M. was his backup band, and that I missed out. Colin Meloy played right after that, which seems like bad scheduling. \ Todd Bayles ATO Assistant Transnation Title Company (503) 262-4727 "If you need somebody with skills, I can pretty much do whatever you want." - --Napoleon Dynamite ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 19:55:29 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: New RH on DaD A supposedly uncirculated Robyn gig has appeared on DimeADozen, complete with some interesting covers: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=59038&hit=1 Robyn Hitchcock Two Bells Tavern Seattle, WA September 5, 2004 Lineage: MR (MD)>CD>EAC>FLAC This is an uncirculated show from one of Robyn's unannounced shows at the Two Bells Tavern. The set list includes quite a few Dylan and Beatles covers and has Kurt Bloch and Scott McCaughey guesting. There is some crowd noise, talking and moving of chairs, but overall this has good sound that I'd rate as a B. Set List: \\Happiness Is A Warm Gun (cut at beginning) Ole Tarantula One Long Pair Of Eyes Full Moon In My Soul The Ghost In You Simple Twist of Fate* Yes Blues Medley (w/ Steve & Mr. Cheney/It's Alright Ma)* Dark Princess** Clothes Line Saga** Odds & Ends** Waterloo Sunset@ Strawberry Fields> Baby You're A Rich Man> OM@ * Kurt Bloch, G ** Scott McCaughey, G, V @ Kurt Bloch, G, V; Scott McCaughey Melodica, V ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:08:32 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V14 #217 > > Missed something...what happened to his fettle? > >He broke his foot in the spring... That wasn't a fettle, that's a fetlock. James "In my dictionary, cleanliness is actually next to Cleethorpes" - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #218 ********************************