From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #295 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, December 21 2005 Volume 14 : Number 295 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Another Fall cover? [Spotted Eagle Ray ] Re: Another Fall cover? [Mike Swedene ] Re: final word ["Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." ] Re: Another Fall cover? [2fs ] FF = Gang of Fall? [Spotted Eagle Ray ] Re: final word [Eb ] 12/20 birthday power trio [Spotted Eagle Ray ] ps [Eb ] RE: 12/20 birthday power trio ["Brian Nupp" ] Sheesh [Eb ] Closet guitarist alert (NY/LA-area only) [Eb ] Re: final word [FSThomas ] Re: final word [2fs ] Re: final word [FSThomas ] top choons of 2005 ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Another Fall cover? [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: 12/20 birthday power trio ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: 12/20 birthday power trio [Tom Clark ] RE: 12/20 birthday power trio ["Michael Wells" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 11:22:43 -0800 From: Spotted Eagle Ray Subject: Re: Another Fall cover? So... it was Franz Ferndinand? Weird. Even the "whooooh"'s were caliberate to MES's specific brand of tunelessness and phrasing. - -Rx On 12/20/05, Spotted Eagle Ray wrote: > > If what I am hearing right now is not The Fall covering "Sexy Boy" by Air, > then I will need an explanation as to why any other artist would want to > produce something that sounds exactly like The Fall covering "Sexy Boy" by > Air. Anyone? > > -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 12:02:20 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Swedene Subject: Re: Another Fall cover? This was Franz Ferdinand. They had a link on Stereogum, but it is dead now. Mike - --- Spotted Eagle Ray wrote: > If what I am hearing right now is not The Fall > covering "Sexy Boy" by Air, > then I will need an explanation as to why any other > artist would want to > produce something that sounds exactly like The Fall > covering "Sexy Boy" by > Air. Anyone? > > -Rex > - ------------------------------------------------- "there is water at the bottom of the ocean" - talking heads _________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:58 -0600 From: "Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: final word > From: Eb > Subject: final word > > Grrr. It's clear that this deck needs professional help. Tune it up yourself: 1. Buy some CAIG Deoxit (http://tinyurl.com/cqczp). Your local Radio Shack may stock it. 2. Spray it on the deck's moving mechanical parts to clean and lube them. 3. Spray it on the deck's pickup heads to clean them, too. Use a q- tip to carefully remove any oxidation. 4. Spray it on RCA inputs, then stick in an RCA cable and remove it a couple of times, to clean and lube RCA inputs. Then: 5. Buy a Griffin iMic (http://tinyurl.com/9xjgl), which you can use to rip your yucky Enigma cassettes and outmoded LPs to your Macintosh. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:54:06 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Another Fall cover? On 12/20/05, Spotted Eagle Ray wrote: > If what I am hearing right now is not The Fall covering "Sexy Boy" by Air, > then I will need an explanation as to why any other artist would want to > produce something that sounds exactly like The Fall covering "Sexy Boy" by > Air. Anyone? Holy Cog Sinister, Batman! You are correct. About the only thing is I think if it really were the Fall, the vocals would be mixed just a bit higher. (It is, as you later said, Franz Ferdinand...who are, it would seem, graduates of the Birmingham School of Business School.) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:01:36 -0800 From: Spotted Eagle Ray Subject: FF = Gang of Fall? On 12/20/05, 2fs wrote: > > > (It is, as you later said, Franz Ferdinand...who are, it would seem, > graduates of the Birmingham School of Business School.) I have to wonder if it's a different FF member singing lead on this track. I would also have to say that as much as the guitar sounds of 2004/2005 have harkened directly back to Gang of Four, the MES vocal approach has been aped to an unprecedented degree in tandem. - -Rx ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:10:38 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: final word > Tune it up yourself: > > 1. Buy some CAIG Deoxit (http://tinyurl.com/cqczp). Your local Radio > Shack may stock it. > 2. Spray it on the deck's moving mechanical parts to clean and lube > them. > 3. Spray it on the deck's pickup heads to clean them, too. Use a q- > tip to carefully remove any oxidation. > 4. Spray it on RCA inputs, then stick in an RCA cable and remove it a > couple of times, to clean and lube RCA inputs. Well, now the deck REALLY needs help -- the left belt snapped. It seems like it wouldn't be impossible to fix, if I had a replacement belt -- the big issue is simply that the task requires a certain amount of disassembly to rehook the belt. Eb now dumping: old Rocket from the Crypt albums ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 11:14:08 -0800 From: Spotted Eagle Ray Subject: 12/20 birthday power trio For whatever reason I noticed that among today's birthdays lurked a fascinating potential power trio: Billy Bragg, Mike Watt, and Peter Criss. They jam econo. Does anyone else remember the school playground rumor that Peter Criss died in a car wreck? It was so fully presented as fact that when the "original" Kiss* reformed in my adult years, I still believed Criss had been dead for like a decade and a half. I knew that thing about Mikey's stomach exploding from poprocks and Coke was horseshit all along, though. - -Rx *or is that KISS, and if so, why? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:18:34 -0800 From: Eb Subject: ps Eugene Hopstetter, Jr. wrote: > 5. Buy a Griffin iMic (http://tinyurl.com/9xjgl), which you can use > to rip your yucky Enigma cassettes and outmoded LPs to your Macintosh. Anyone over 30 who doesn't own any LPs -- or views them as just a lingering headache to be phased out/replaced -- is lame. :p Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:27:22 -0500 From: "Brian Nupp" Subject: RE: 12/20 birthday power trio From: spottedeagleray@gmail.com >Does anyone else remember the school playground rumor that Peter >Criss died >in a car wreck? It was so fully presented as fact that when the >"original" >Kiss* reformed in my adult years, I still believed Criss had been >dead for >like a decade and a half. I remember that! - -Nuppy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:48:51 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Sheesh http://cgi.ebay.com/SONY-TC-WR565-DUAL-CASSETTE-DECK- NR_W0QQitemZ5844566247QQcategoryZ71553QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem http://cgi.ebay.com/Sony-TC-WR565-Dual-cassette- deck_W0QQitemZ5843054822QQcategoryZ71553QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem http://cgi.ebay.com/Barely-Used-Sony-Dual-Cassette-Player-Recorder-TC- WR565_W0QQitemZ5843784586QQcategoryZ71553QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Three (cheap) offerings of my exact tape deck. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:11:52 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Closet guitarist alert (NY/LA-area only) > Hi, > Here's the info for the upcoming performance and recording of: > "Symphony No.13 (Hallucination City)" for 80 guitars, 20 basses and > drums. It premiered at the former WTC on June 13, 2001. If you > played in the piece at the WTC or in the studio last year you will > probably know most of this. > > The venue will be the Kasser Theater at Montclair St. University, NJ. > The show is part of the Peak Performance series being put together by > the redoubtable Jed Wheeler. For exact location and directions go to: > www.montclair.edu/kasser. It's easy to get there from Penn Station. > The dates and times are Feb. 2,3 and 4th, with the performance on the > 4th. The rehearsals and recording (they've got a good digital studio > there) will be the 2nd and 3rd, 11am to 9pm on both days and the 4th, > 1-6pm with the performance at 7:30. Food and drink will be provided. > Each musician will need to know his/her part (but you don't need to > memorize it). The recording will be released on Cantaloupe Records > (the bangoncan guys) with the indefatigable Wharton Tiers on drums > and the > always > assured John Myers conducting. You'll need to bring a guitar and amp > (whatever you've > got, a medium sized amp would be best). It will also be necessary to > restring your guitar > for the tuning. Basses will not need to be restrung OR retuned. > And I will > have a serious > quantity of replacement strings on hand. > > The parts are in staff notation. The playing technique includes plenty > of double-strumming and downstroke chording. Complete detailed > instructions will come with the parts which will be sent before the > end > of December. I will answer any questions you have about the part when > you get it. > > If you want to do the gig you should e-mail your postal mailing > address > and telephone number (please note whether you play BASS or GUITAR) to > dthetncrkr@earthlink.net. I have rewritten the piece and it is now > in 3 > movements of about > 20 minutes each. So if you played in the piece last time don't work > on your > old part. But > your new part will still be in the tuning that you played. > > There will also be a performance of the piece in LA on March 29th. So > if you're on the coast you might prefer to do that one (although you'd > miss the recording). > > It is still not possible to pay this number of people. So you'll have > to do the gig for free. Also, if you know anyone else who you > think might > want to do the gig I still need some more players. > > Thank You, > Glenn Branca ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:12:38 -0500 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: final word Eugene Hopstetter, Jr. wrote: > Tune it up yourself: > > 1. Buy some CAIG Deoxit (http://tinyurl.com/cqczp). Your local Radio > Shack may stock it. > 2. Spray it on the deck's moving mechanical parts to clean and lube > them. > 3. Spray it on the deck's pickup heads to clean them, too. Use a q- > tip to carefully remove any oxidation. > 4. Spray it on RCA inputs, then stick in an RCA cable and remove it a > couple of times, to clean and lube RCA inputs. > > Then: > > 5. Buy a Griffin iMic (http://tinyurl.com/9xjgl), which you can use > to rip your yucky Enigma cassettes and outmoded LPs to your Macintosh. You missed: 6. Unplug all RCAs, unplug electric, remove deck, take deck to Sal's and write off the donation for 125-150% of the actual value. 7. Dismiss cassettes as out-moded and firmly unnecessary, upgrade to 8-tracks. 8. Sober up, berate yourself for the 8-track short-sightedness, go to confessional over lying on your taxes for aforementioned fraudulent deduction, and swear on a stack of bibles to stick to LPs, CDs, and quality .flac files. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:26:32 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: final word On 12/20/05, FSThomas wrote: > Eugene Hopstetter, Jr. wrote: > > Tune it up yourself: > > > > 1. Buy some CAIG Deoxit (http://tinyurl.com/cqczp). Your local Radio > > Shack may stock it. > > 2. Spray it on the deck's moving mechanical parts to clean and lube > > them. > > 3. Spray it on the deck's pickup heads to clean them, too. Use a q- > > tip to carefully remove any oxidation. > > 4. Spray it on RCA inputs, then stick in an RCA cable and remove it a > > couple of times, to clean and lube RCA inputs. > > > > Then: > > > > 5. Buy a Griffin iMic (http://tinyurl.com/9xjgl), which you can use > > to rip your yucky Enigma cassettes and outmoded LPs to your Macintosh. > > You missed: > > 6. Unplug all RCAs, unplug electric, remove deck, take deck to Sal's and > write off the donation for 125-150% of the actual value. > 7. Dismiss cassettes as out-moded and firmly unnecessary, upgrade to > 8-tracks. > 8. Sober up, berate yourself for the 8-track short-sightedness, go to > confessional over lying on your taxes for aforementioned fraudulent > deduction, and swear on a stack of bibles to stick to LPs, CDs, and > quality .flac files. Ferris and I might disagree about politics, but we agree on this one. Although frankly, home-recorded cassettes are still better than goddamned 7" singles...which are never pressed on center, and seem vulnerable to damage if a micrograin of air happens to approach at an oblique angle within four inches. If that didn't make sense, it's because it's my birthday and I'm in the process of getting drunk. Thank you. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 00:20:36 -0500 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: final word 2fs wrote: > Ferris and I might disagree about politics, but we agree on this one. Venkman, I think we've crossed the streams. - -f. np: /An Evening With Wild Man Fischer/. Absolutely fucking *brilliant*. Downloaded from PCL Linkdump: http://easydreamer.blogspot.com/2005/12/week-41-merry-christmas-do-not-unwrap.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 09:48:02 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: top choons of 2005 My maximal list, in alphabetical order: * A Hawk And A Hacksaw -- Darkness At Noon * Animal Collective -- Feels * Beck -- Guero/Guerolito * Bright Eyes -- Digital Ash In a Digital Urn/I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning * Caribou -- Marino Audio: yes, it's a promo. A combination of the audio tracks from the Marino DVD release and the 2005 tour CD, I much prefer it to The Milk of Human Kindness. * The Decemberists -- Picaresque: I know all the hip kids had it as MP3s last year. * Dressy Bessy -- Electrified * The Fruit Bats -- Spelled in Bones: folk, with just the right tinge of bubblegum * Malcolm Middleton -- Into The Woods: anyone who can sing about the existential possibilities of Falkirk High station, and also about love & chips, is deep into the Scottish psyche. * Of Montreal -- The Sunlandic Twins * Kate Rusby -- The Girl Who Couldn't Fly * Sigur Ros -- Takk ...: and yet I still don't know what they're singing about. * Sufjan Stevens -- Illinois * Teenage Fanclub -- ManMade * Vashti Bunyan -- Lookaftering: don't dismiss this as merely fey hippy nonsense; it's beautiful fey hippy nonsense. We like them, they like us: * Lazerlove5 -- Flicker Mask: fine funkiness from a fellow feg. * Dan Jones -- Get Sounds Now: Catherine's elementary school friend rocks out Excellent compilations from 2005: * Ivor Cutler -- An Elpee and Two Epees * Charlie Poole & The Roots of Country Music -- You Ain't Talking to Me Some excellent tracks, but not entirely memorable as albums: * Devendra Banhart -- Cripple Crow: I'm a Child is crazed genius, but lose the Spanish lounge music, eh? * Eels -- Blinking Lights And Other Revelations * Jennifer Gentle -- Valende: I Do Dream You is the perfect garage punk song. * John Parish -- Once Upon a Little Time * Sleater-Kinney -- The Woods * Wolf Parade -- Apologies to the Queen Mary: what was with the lumpen first few tracks? cheers, Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:57:35 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Another Fall cover? - --On 20. Dezember 2005 11:17:09 -0800 Spotted Eagle Ray wrote: > If what I am hearing right now is not The Fall covering "Sexy Boy" by Air, > then I will need an explanation as to why any other artist would want to > produce something that sounds exactly like The Fall covering "Sexy Boy" by > Air. Anyone? I haven't found that one yet, but looking for it I found this: It's a Belgian girl choir led and accompanied by two brothers. They're called "Scala & Kolacny Borthers". Some of their stuff doesn't sound too bad, some is downright horrible. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:28:48 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: 12/20 birthday power trio > *or is that KISS, and if so, why? Because it stands for "Knights In Satan's Service." Duh. - --Quail N.P. "La Villa Strangiato" by Royal Ushers in Satan's House ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:53:10 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: 12/20 birthday power trio The Great Quail wrote: > > N.P. "La Villa Strangiato" by Royal Ushers in Satan's House Well, it *is* Rush Day today, unless you're in the US. cheers, Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:09:04 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: 12/20 birthday power trio On Dec 21, 2005, at 9:53 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > The Great Quail wrote: >> N.P. "La Villa Strangiato" by Royal Ushers in Satan's House > > Well, it *is* Rush Day today, unless you're in the US. And just in time for your holiday gift giving: http://tinyurl.com/cnq3t Rock On, - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:13:18 -0600 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: RE: 12/20 birthday power trio > > Well, it *is* Rush Day today, unless you're in the US. Every day is Rush day! TC: > And just in time for your holiday gift giving: > http://tinyurl.com/cnq3t Much more at http://www.showtechmerchandising.com/Rush_Backstage/ Check out the AFTK hoodie. Michael "I'm ordering my toque right now" Wells Np: CARESS OF STEEL on a perpetual loop ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #295 ********************************