From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #40 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, February 17 2006 Volume 15 : Number 040 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #39 [James Dignan ] Storefront Neil [Tom Clark ] RE: hey, knowledgeable people ["Marc Alberts" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #39 [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #39 [Spotted Eagle Ray ] Puzzling. [Spotted Eagle Ray ] Re: subject line [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:46:39 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #39 >I think they should form a band. Maybe they can slavishly imitate the >Beatles, get loads of press, and have lots of drunken punch-ups.. heh. One comment I read about the Gallaghers: "Musically, they imitate Lennon and McCartney; offstage, they imitate Ray and Dave Davies" >It might also be short for "dibbler," which is a small plastic tool shaped >like a fat pencil, used for making holes in the soil when planting seeds. ...ah, word mutations with culture - we call a flat-bladed digging tool (loike a pick, but with a shovel-like end) a "dibber" here. > But >I doubt Smith had either of those in mind. same here. I also doubt it had anything to do with the "dib-dib-dib" of the Boy Scouts. One vague possibility - DIB is a brand of military-strength inflatable boat. James PS - though I've welcomed you back offlist, an official onlist welcome back is in order, so: Welcome back, Brian! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:04:01 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Storefront Neil Demme continues... http://neilyoung.com/premiere.html - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:50:35 -0800 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: hey, knowledgeable people Jeff wrote: > On 2/16/06, Bachman, Michael wrote: > > Rex: > > >I run into people who have friends who are really into psychobilly, and > I do > > >indeed wonder how that can be. > > > > Psychobilly? That's a new one. > > The only band that leaps to mind is, of course, Eugene Chadbourne's > Shockabilly. Wikipedia names a bunch of them, although I didn't see The Reverend Horton Heat in there, which is the name that came to mind first for me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychobilly > You know, there are people who think music criticism is a low > activity, performed entirely by people who can't make actual music. I > don't think that's true...but surely, doing that is a lot better than > coining names for microgenres... I think microgenres tend to name themselves more often. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:38:13 +0000 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #39 Quoting fegmaniax-digest : > Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #37 Brian, welcome back! We almost performed "Natalie Jane" last time I saw Dolph, but the landlord called time first. [Don't you have tamer landlords than that in Oxford, Matt?]. I will try again to play it on April 30th when I have a gig at my local, the Cross Keys in Midford Road, Bath, assuming that the landlord has fixed my Fender Concert amp in time [that's what the Bath landlords are like! Fix your amp when you're down, give you gigs when you're up...] > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 Chris Gross wrote: >> > ps: But if he didn't escape, I got dibs on his Hawkwind CDs. >> >> * "Stateline Sam decided to make the trip all the way from New Jersey >> on his girlfriend's _dib_" (Fred 'Sonic' Smith, not the other Fred >> Smith). >> >> Chris, can you translate, as it's obviously in your vocab? > > Hmmm.... Well, among my people, "dibs" (always plural) are a claim to > something. Saying you have dibs on something means that you are > announcing a claim to it in a situation where that something will go to > whoever claims it first; or announcing your ownership of a piece of > property, e.g. the last doughnut in the staff lounge, when others might > mistakenly think it is up for grabs. This doesn't seem to apply directly > to Stateline Sam's case. However, maybe the usual meaning is being > broadened here to include his girlfriend's calling dibs on him as her > lover? Or, perhaps more likely, it could mean that his girlfriend paid > for the trip. Yourdictionary.com lists "money, especially in small > amounts" as an alternative meaning. However, I don't remember hearing > that usage before, and I grew up in New Jersey. > It might also be short for "dibbler," which is a small plastic tool shaped > like a fat pencil, used for making holes in the soil when planting seeds. > And there's a character named Dib in the animated show Invader Zim. But > I doubt Smith had either of those in mind. > - --Chris (who is perhaps less helpful than usual today) * Well, I thought that was exceptionally helpful, Chris! I think that implement is a "dibber" in Eng parlance, I think, not a dibbler. But who knows or cares? Anyway, if I turn up with a dibbler/ dibber ready to perform "Shakin' Street", that's the reason why. Nevertheless I vote for "money in small quantities". - - Mike Godwin n.p. Black Crowes 'Remedy' PS Eb, was it you who didn't care for 'Lady Waters and the Hooded One'? Maybe you don't like songs with a strong story line? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:01:07 -0800 From: Spotted Eagle Ray Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #39 On 2/17/06, hssmrg@bath.ac.uk wrote: > > Quoting fegmaniax-digest : > > Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #37 > > Brian, welcome back! We almost performed "Natalie Jane" last time I saw > Dolph, but the landlord called time first. [Don't you have tamer > landlords than that in Oxford, Matt?]. I will try again to play it on > April 30th when I have a gig at my local, the Cross Keys in Midford > Road, Bath, assuming that the landlord has fixed my Fender Concert amp > in time [that's what the Bath landlords are like! Fix your amp when > you're down, give you gigs when you're up...] Talkin' feg-gigs, I've just booked one... we're on at the Whisky, March 18. I'll turn 35 somewhere around the sixth song in the set. I think that makes it a clean decade since I last played there. - -Rx ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:39:28 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: subject line hssmrg@bath.ac.uk wrote: > PS Eb, was it you who didn't care for 'Lady Waters and the Hooded > One'? Maybe you don't like songs with a strong story line? No...I like it fine. I'm the one who didn't care for "The Yip Song." ;) So which Olympic event is lamer, "Team Pursuit" or "Snowboard Cross"? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:01:46 -0800 From: Spotted Eagle Ray Subject: Puzzling. Why of all things would a Spanish-language non-oldies radio station choose, as the only English language tune they've broadcast since 8AM this morning, "She's Got The Look" by Roxette? - -Rx ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:39:08 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: subject line On 2/17/06, Eb wrote: > So which Olympic event is lamer, "Team Pursuit" or "Snowboard Cross"? Trick question: almost all winter olympics events are lame, and fabricated out of whole cloth to fill up TV time. I mean, c'mon: a sport called "skeleton"? Skiing *and* shooting a gun? Who comes up with this crap? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #40 *******************************