From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #26 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, January 30 2006 Volume 15 : Number 026 Today's Subjects: ----------------- DIME: Robyn Hitchcock & The Minus 3 - January 27th 2006 - Exeter UK (SBD) [Matthijs van Geldere ] eh? [Steve Schiavo ] DIME: Robyn Hitchcock & The Minus 3 - January 25th 2006 - London UK (SBD) [Matthijs van Geldere ] Re: Fleece and Firkin: something of a disappointment [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 14:58:08 +0000 From: Matthijs van Geldere Subject: DIME: Robyn Hitchcock & The Minus 3 - January 27th 2006 - Exeter UK (SBD) http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?&id=80265 Robyn Hitchcock & The Minus 3 Phoenix - Exeter - UK January 27th 2006 Recorded by Matthijs van Geldere Source Information: - - Soundboard - - Sony Hi-MD MZ-NH900 in PCM (uncompressed) stereo mode - - Sony Sonic Stage -> digital transfer to PC via USB cable -> WAV - - Sound remixed with Cool Edit Pro 2.0 - - CD Wave - - Flac Frontend 1.7.1 CD1 01. If You Were A Priest 02. Acid Bird 03. When A Kid 04. Ole Tarantula 05. Adventure Rocket Ship 06. Birdshead 07. Flesh #1 08. A Man's Got To Know His Limitations Briggs 09. Oceanside 10. Somewhere Apart 11. Sally Was A Legend 12. Creeped Out CD2 01. Television 02. Madonna Of The Wasps 03. Jewels For Sophia 04. Driving Aloud 05. Coffee Cigarettes and Booze # 06. Aw Shit Man # 07. Eight Miles High 08. I Wanna Destroy You 09. Give It To The Soft Boys 10. Listening To The Higsons * 11. Queen Of Eyes Robyn Hitchcock & The Minus 3 - ------------------------------------- Robyn Hitchcock Lead Vocals, Electric Guitar Peter Buck Electric Guitar Scott McCaughey Bass, Backing Vocals Bill Rieflin Drums Morris Windsor Percussion, Backing Vocals # Scott McCaughey on Lead Vocals and Electric Guitar - Peter Buck on Bass * Peter Buck on Drums - Bill Rieflin on Bass [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef which had a name of winmail.dat] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:29:56 -0500 From: wojizzle forizzle Subject: NEW on DIME: 2006-01-23 - Robyn Hitchcock & The Minus 3 - Brighton - UK (SBD) http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=80266&hit=1 - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [bot-dimeadozen-org] NEW on DIME: 2006-01-23 - Robyn Hitchcock & The Minus 3 - Brighton - UK (SBD) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:45:17 +0100 (CET) From: DIME (www.dimeadozen.org) A new torrent has been uploaded to DIME. Torrent: 80266 Title: 2006-01-23 - Robyn Hitchcock & The Minus 3 - Brighton - UK (SBD) Size: 455.97 MB Category: Rock Uploaded by: mgeldere Description - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robyn Hitchcock & The Minus 3 Komedia - Brighton - UK January 23rd 2006 Recorded by Matthijs van Geldere Source Information: - - Soundboard - - Sony Hi-MD MZ-NH900 in PCM (uncompressed) stereo mode - - Sony Sonic Stage -> digital transfer to PC via USB cable -> WAV - - Sound remixed with Cool Edit Pro 2.0 - - CD Wave - - Flac Frontend 1.7.1 CD1 01. If You Were A Priest 02. Acid Bird 03. Creeped Out 04. Ole Tarantula 05. Adventure Rocket Ship 06. Birdshead 07. Chinese Bones 08. Flesh #1 09. Somewhere Apart 10. Sally Was A Legend 11. Driving Aloud 12. Alright Yeah CD2 01. Jewels For Sophia 02. Madonna Of The Wasps 03. Beautiful Queen 04. Aw Shit Man # 05. Coffee Cigarettes and Booze # 06. Underground Sun 07. Queen of Eyes 08. Give It To The Soft Boys 09. Listening To The Higsons * Robyn Hitchcock & The Minus 3 - ------------------------------------- Robyn Hitchcock Lead Vocals, Electric Guitar Peter Buck Electric Guitar Scott McCaughey Bass, Backing Vocals Bill Rieflin Drums Tim Keegan Acoustic Guitar # Scott McCaughey on Lead Vocals and Electric Guitar - Peter Buck on Bass * Peter Buck on Drums - Bill Rieflin on Bass - ------------------------------------------ Search words: Robyn Hitchcock, Soft Boys, Minus 5, Young Fresh Fellows, R.E.M. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:29:05 -0500 From: wojizzle forizzle Subject: NEW on DIME: 2006-01-27 - Robyn Hitchcock & The Minus 5 - Exeter - UK (SBD) http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=80265&hit=1 - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [bot-dimeadozen-org] NEW on DIME: 2006-01-27 - Robyn Hitchcock & The Minus 5 - Exeter - UK (SBD) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:39:53 +0100 (CET) From: DIME (www.dimeadozen.org) Reply-To: bot-dimeadozen-org-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com To: bt-dimeadozen-org A new torrent has been uploaded to DIME. Torrent: 80265 Title: 2006-01-27 - Robyn Hitchcock & The Minus 5 - Exeter - UK (SBD) Size: 525.53 MB Category: Rock Uploaded by: mgeldere Description - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robyn Hitchcock & The Minus 3 Phoenix - Exeter - UK January 27th 2006 Recorded by Matthijs van Geldere Source Information: - - Soundboard - - Sony Hi-MD MZ-NH900 in PCM (uncompressed) stereo mode - - Sony Sonic Stage -> digital transfer to PC via USB cable -> WAV - - Sound remixed with Cool Edit Pro 2.0 - - CD Wave - - Flac Frontend 1.7.1 CD1 01. If You Were A Priest 02. Acid Bird 03. When A Kid 04. Ole Tarantula 05. Adventure Rocket Ship 06. Birdshead 07. Flesh #1 08. A Man's Got To Know His Limitations Briggs 09. Oceanside 10. Somewhere Apart 11. Sally Was A Legend 12. Creeped Out CD2 01. Television 02. Madonna Of The Wasps 03. Jewels For Sophia 04. Driving Aloud 05. Coffee Cigarettes and Booze # 06. Aw Shit Man # 07. Eight Miles High 08. I Wanna Destroy You 09. Give It To The Soft Boys 10. Listening To The Higsons * 11. Queen Of Eyes Robyn Hitchcock & The Minus 3 - ------------------------------------- Robyn Hitchcock Lead Vocals, Electric Guitar Peter Buck Electric Guitar Scott McCaughey Bass, Backing Vocals Bill Rieflin Drums Morris Windsor Percussion, Backing Vocals # Scott McCaughey on Lead Vocals and Electric Guitar - Peter Buck on Bass * Peter Buck on Drums - Bill Rieflin on Bass - ------------------------------------------ Search words: Robyn Hitchcock, Soft Boys, Minus 5, Young Fresh Fellows, R.E.M. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 07:58:43 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: 5 or 3 or other prime numbers Re: robyn and the minus 3 on bbc 6music wojizzle forizzle wrote: > looks like robyn and the minus 3 Is there any reason why The Minus 5 are being referred to as The Minus 3? Do they lose two when being exchanged dollars for pounds (or is it euros now)? "A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer." -- Mitch Hedberg . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:59:19 -0500 From: Caroline Smith Subject: Re: 5 or 3 or other prime numbers Re: robyn and the minus 3 on bbc 6music On 29-Jan-06, at 10:58 AM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > wojizzle forizzle wrote: >> looks like robyn and the minus 3 > > Is there any reason why The Minus 5 are being referred > to as The Minus 3? Do they lose two when being > exchanged dollars for pounds (or is it euros now)? > but wouldn't that be "Minus 2"? ; ) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 09:20:38 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: 5 or 3 or other prime numbers Re: robyn and the minus 3 on bbc 6music Caroline Smith wrote: > On 29-Jan-06, at 10:58 AM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > > wojizzle forizzle wrote: > >> looks like robyn and the minus 3 > > > > Is there any reason why The Minus 5 are being > referred > > to as The Minus 3? Do they lose two when being > > exchanged dollars for pounds (or is it euros now)? > > but wouldn't that be "Minus 2"? > > ; ) > Actually, to get from Minus 5 to Minus 3, you have to add "Plus 2." [-5]+[+2]=[-3] And I just noticed that John Hamberg isn't in the UK with the rest of them, and apparently he's worth 2. "A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer." -- Mitch Hedberg . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:05:42 -0800 From: "Hurricane Jesus" Subject: My name is "Eb", and *I've* got back hey, just uploaded "Get Back", from the mountain stage jam session recently torrented at dime-o', to . some funny lyrics changes; and it sounds great with the horns! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:32:40 -0500 From: wojizzle forizzle Subject: Re: IS anyone recording the KEXP interview? one time at band camp, a long time ago, John Barrington Jones said: > This is the most I've heard him talk about the artist/fan connection in > quite awhile. don't know how long it's been there, but i just noticed that the latest news item at yep roc is an article saying that the march 5, 2005 kexp appearance, which jbj was asking about above, is archived on kexp.org at: http://www.kexp.org/aspnet_client/KEXPViewMediaGroup.aspx?rID=2540&pID=528&fID=539&artist=JR there are three songs -- "autumn is your last chance", "chinese bones", and "television" -- and an interview segment. i don't recall if a complete recording of this ever surfaced on dime or elsewhere. can someone refresh my memory? woj ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 17:41:20 -0500 From: wojizzle forizzle Subject: Re: robyn and the minus 3 on bbc 6music one time at band camp, wojizzle forizzle (woj@smoe.org) said: >looks like robyn and the minus 3 will be on stuart maconie's freak zone > on sunday, january >29th at 1700 BST. the session happened in the last half-hour of the program. you can listen in glorious stream realaudio at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/6music_aod.shtml?6music/6m_freak or, for those who avoid the realaudio plug-in like the plague, the direct link is at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/shows/rpms/6music/6m_freak.rpm i captured 6music's highest-quality live stream (48kbps 32khz windows media) and transcoded it to mp3 (convert to wav with winamp's diskwriter and then encode to mp3 with lame's standard alt-preset). those mp3s can be downloaded from http://www.fegmania.org/. enjoy! woj ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:25:33 -0600 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: eh? - - Steve __________ Bush's [domestic] political successes all have three main elements in common....The first is massive partisan discipline.... Element No. 2 is massive giveaways to well-organized lobbies.... The third element is - how should I put it? - lying. - Jonathan Chait ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 08:18:24 +0000 From: Matthijs van Geldere Subject: DIME: Robyn Hitchcock & The Minus 3 - January 25th 2006 - London UK (SBD) http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?&id=80433 Robyn Hitchcock & The Minus 3 Scala - London - UK January 25th 2006 Recorded by Matthijs van Geldere Source Information: - - Soundboard - - Sony Hi-MD MZ-NH900 in PCM (uncompressed) stereo mode - - Sony Sonic Stage -> digital transfer to PC via USB cable -> WAV - - Sound remixed with Cool Edit Pro 2.0 - - CD Wave - - Flac Frontend 1.7.1 CD1 01. If You Were A Priest 02. Acid Bird 03. When A Kid 04. Ole Tarantula 05. Adventure Rocket Ship 06. Sally Was A Legend 07. Birdshead 08. Flesh #1 09. A Man's Got To Know His Limitations Briggs 10. Chinese Bones 11. Somewhere Apart CD2 01. Creeped Out 02. Television 03. Madonna Of The Wasps 04. Driving Aloud 05. Beautiful Queen 06. Coffee Cigarettes and Booze # 07. Aw Shit Man # 08. Underground Sun 09. Bells Of Rhymney 10. Queen of Eyes 11. Give It To The Soft Boys Robyn Hitchcock & The Minus 3 - ------------------------------------- Robyn Hitchcock Lead Vocals, Electric Guitar Peter Buck Electric Guitar Scott McCaughey Bass, Backing Vocals Bill Rieflin Drums Morris Windsor Percussion, Backing Vocals # Scott McCaughey on Lead Vocals and Electric Guitar - Peter Buck on Bass [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef which had a name of winmail.dat] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:22:59 -0500 From: wojizzle forizzle Subject: NEW on DIME: 2006-01-25 - Robyn Hitchcock & The Minus 3 - London - UK (SBD) http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=80433&hit=1 - ----- Forwarded message from DIME ----- A new torrent has been uploaded to DIME. Torrent: 80433 Title: 2006-01-25 - Robyn Hitchcock & The Minus 3 - London - UK (SBD) Size: 573.66 MB Category: Rock Uploaded by: mgeldere Description - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robyn Hitchcock & The Minus 3 Scala - London - UK January 25th 2006 Recorded by Matthijs van Geldere Source Information: - - Soundboard - - Sony Hi-MD MZ-NH900 in PCM (uncompressed) stereo mode - - Sony Sonic Stage -> digital transfer to PC via USB cable -> WAV - - Sound remixed with Cool Edit Pro 2.0 - - CD Wave - - Flac Frontend 1.7.1 CD1 01. If You Were A Priest 02. Acid Bird 03. When A Kid 04. Ole Tarantula 05. Adventure Rocket Ship 06. Sally Was A Legend 07. Birdshead 08. Flesh #1 09. A Man's Got To Know His Limitations Briggs 10. Chinese Bones 11. Somewhere Apart CD2 01. Creeped Out 02. Television 03. Madonna Of The Wasps 04. Driving Aloud 05. Beautiful Queen 06. Coffee Cigarettes and Booze # 07. Aw Shit Man # 08. Underground Sun 09. Bells Of Rhymney 10. Queen of Eyes 11. Give It To The Soft Boys Robyn Hitchcock & The Minus 3 - ------------------------------------- Robyn Hitchcock Lead Vocals, Electric Guitar Peter Buck Electric Guitar Scott McCaughey Bass, Backing Vocals Bill Rieflin Drums Morris Windsor Percussion, Backing Vocals # Scott McCaughey on Lead Vocals and Electric Guitar - Peter Buck on Bass - ------------------------------------------ Search words: Robyn Hitchcock, Soft Boys, Minus 5, Young Fresh Fellows, R.E.M. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:36:29 +0000 From: "Brian Hoare" Subject: Bristol 26th Jan. Mike said that he was going to write this up, but it's got to monday without seeing anything from him. Using Matthijs' lists to help my memory I reckon that they probably played the following tunes in something like this order. If You Were A Priest Acid Bird When I Was A Kid Ole Tarantula Adventure Rocket Ship Creeped Out A Man's Got To Know His Limitations, Briggs Birdshead Flesh #1 Television Chinese Bones Somewhere Apart Sally Was A Legend Driving Aloud Madonna Of The Wasps Beautiful Queen - -- Aw Shit Man # Coffee Cigarettes and Booze # 8 Miles High Queen of Eyes I Wanna Destroy You Give It To The Soft Boys ( With "Original Introduction" ). The night's celebrity guest was Morris. He was on stage from the start of the mellower songs until the end of the show to provide percussion and backing vocals. Very good to see him there, especially for the bandless Television. Very, very packed and the Fleece ran out of bitter. I don't think a live recording has ever emerged from the Fleece. Now for the list of random observations. Robyn and the band all seemed to be having a lot of fun except for PB who seemed a bit disconected - even looking bored while playing the minus 5 tracks. The rythym section kept it simpler than the Egyptians might have but produced a hefty quantity of pure-rock power. This disapated a bit for the "softer" songs (around Brigs to Bones) when a bit of a lull set in. Robyn's playing was as impressive as ever. He seems to have worked out new solos for the older songs and took full advantage of the Kim free environment to indulge himself ( but not overly). Seemed a touch more effect heavy than I remember. The highlights for me where When I Was A Kid, the menacing Creeped Out where I started to hallucinate a video for the song, the dueted Television whose bing-bongs now seem absolutely correct and the especially venomous I Wanna Destroy you. cheers, Brian ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:29:15 +0000 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: Fleece and Firkin: something of a disappointment Quoting fegmaniax-digest : > fegmaniax-digest Friday, January 27 2006 Volume 15 : Number 024 "Her service is perfect pain: 26 Jan 2006, Fleece & Firkin, Robyn Hitchcock and the Minus 3" as seen by Mike Godwin, Honorary Visiting Research Fellow, Dept of Economics & International Development, University of Bath. First, many thanks to Brian Hoare for getting me a ticket and giving me a lift back from the Fleece. Brian, I could see you were worn out but I made you take me home. Sorry! I hope that the Italian meal was some compensation. Next, the set list: If You Were A Priest Acid Bird When I Was A Kid Tarantula Adventure Rocket Ship [Enter Morris]: Birdshead Flesh #1 (Beatle Dennis) Briggs [complete with long long story about Clint Eastwood] Chinese Bones Somewhere Apart Sally Was A Legend Behind Your Eyes(?) Exit Scott And Peter Bing Bong(?), Robyn, Morris and Bill Re-enter Scott and Peter Madonna of the Wasps I Feel Like A Legend(?) (song with mention of chinchilla) Driving Aloud Beautiful Queen Encores: Cigarettes And Whiskey And Wild Wild Women Some other song (I was too busy looking for rare badges to pay attention) Queen of Eyes (with extra verse I wish I was up, I wish I was down) Eight Miles High I Wanna Destroy You (dedicated to "fucking Tony Blair") Give It To The Soft Boys. The pluses were as follows: They opened with a very confident 'If You Were A Priest', followed by 'Acid Bird' - both great songs which were in the set the first time I saw Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians in 1986. He seems to have settled on Please dont lock away your eyes rather than varying the last line. Then "stagger back to your childhood - was it really such a nightmare - of course it was" - and into When I Was A Kid. After that it was downhill a lot of the way until a lift in the performance when Morris came on to perform Birdshead, Beatle Dennis, Bing Bong (?), Beautiful Queen, Queen of Eyes, Eight Miles High and some other songs. RH apparently believes that Madonna of the Wasps, has not to have been issued in the UK  either he has forgotten that it is on the Kershaw Sessions, complete with extra intro, or he doesnt count that as an official release. Savage indictment of Tony Blair before I Wanna Destroy You. Robyn also dissed the British electorate fairly comprehensively, until he realised it was us, the audience, whom he was slagging off, when he apologised a bit. Beautiful Queen was OK, but no substitute for a performance in a wet fairground with Jake and Tim. Brilliant merchandise, as mentioned by Peter from Cambridge. I spent all my cash on badges and an autographed LP (sic) of Fegmaniax. Shirt: Robyn was wearing a sensible psychedelic shirt, not one of those unpleasing polka dot things. But the minuses outweighed the pluses for me: no Syd, no Bob Dylan or Beatles covers: I think that this is the first gig I have ever seen where Robyn hasnt performed at least one by Syd and one by Bobby. And its Syds 65th birthday month too! No Kimberley (unlike Cambridge), and, worse than that, no Jake and Tim. I wrote to Brian Hoare a few days ago to say that none of the R.E.M. TV appearances that I have seen gave me any confidence that Peter would be an adequate substitute for Kimberley, and regrettably that was correct. He radiates good vibes but sticks much more to standard rhythm guitar than Kim ever does. No Airscape; No Heaven; no Old Brown Shoe; no 52 Stations; no Sleeping With Your Devil Mask; no Oceanside; no Birds In Perspex - - all of these have been the high spot of one gig or another at some time. Instead he played that dreary song with a tune that is nicked from Bruce Springsteen and that awful 'Briggs' thing with an introduction that seemed to go on for ever; for me, it is beginning to bring back dreadful memories of Gene Hackman being played at every single sodding performance. A nerd on bass who didn't like Eric Idle films (I was the one yelling " I video'd Nuns On The Run ") if anyone recorded the show. The gig was lifted towards the end with a very fair encore of Eight Miles High marred by a lousy bass part from a musician who confessed that hed never played it before. Whaaattt? Room for a version of that David Lodge parlour game for English lecturers who have to confess that theyve never read Moby Dick, or Wuthering Heights, or Ulysses (the winner wins the game but loses his or her job). My confession: I pretended to a friend recently that I couldnt remember whether I had ever played Free Bird, but I suspect I would have recalled the incident if it had ever happened. Born to be wild yes, loads of times (though not as often as Ive played Gloria), Light My Fire yes, Mystery Train yes, I Saw Her Standing There yes, Eight Miles High yes, Gigolo Aunt yes, Free Bird probably no. On the way out I said to the vendor chappie: I stopped listening to the new stuff after Star For Bram ". "What about Luxor "? asked a bloke called Nick whom I last saw riding in a car up to Oxford for a Soft Boys show. Well I got it free at the 50th birthday show - it's OK I replied, but I wouldn't have bought it I thought to myself. - - Mike I know its a bit negative but I have had two strokes and my wife has got bastard cancer Godwin n.p. Madonna of the Wasps from the Kershaw Sessions. PS I spotted a brilliant photo opportunity of taking the bar directly complete with glass reflections of Robyn, Peter and Morris. However I didnt have my camera, for reasons too tedious to explain, so I borrowed one from the bloke standing in front of me. If he is reading this: Did they come out? Or did the flash ruin them? PPS If you want to know the best post-Egyptians show I ever saw, it was with Tim, Jake, Patch Hannan and Kimberley at the Fleece in 2000, with Morris guesting on some numbers. PPPS There were a a few golden moments in the Soft Boys tours  notably Astronomy Domine in Oxford, a virulent Destroy for George Bush in Dorset (I think), one or two great interpretations of 'Insanely Jealous' and 'Underwater Moonlight', plus Strings falling delightfully apart in Dorset. But too much of it was like another disappointing tour by the Incredible String Band (without Williamson, for heavens sake) or the Long Ryders (without their youthful enthusiasm, apparently). > End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #24 > ******************************* ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #26 *******************************