From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #101 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, May 7 2006 Volume 15 : Number 101 Today's Subjects: ----------------- more [Eb ] Re: reap [FSThomas ] Go reap [Christopher Hintz ] Speaking of bad news... [Eb ] Re: reap [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: reap [Eb ] Re: cnet podcast [hb ] Re: the Dolby blog [Tom Clark ] Respect for Grant ["Brian Nupp" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 14:22:47 -0700 From: Eb Subject: more http://www.go-betweens.org.uk/news.htm ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 17:49:03 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: reap Eb wrote: > I hear Grant McLennan of the Go-Betweens suddenly died! 6th May 2006 Grant McLennan On Saturday 6th May, legendary Australian singer songwriter Grant W McLennan died in his sleep at his home in Brisbane. McLennan was one of Australiabs greatest songwriters who created an outstanding musical legacy as a founder member of The Go-Betweens and as a solo artist. He was enjoying enormous acclaim for the bandbs most recent album Oceans Apart, which has received five star reviews around the world and won had a prestigious ARIA award. McLennan was born in Rockhampton, Queensland on 12th February 1958. While attending university in Brisbane he met fellow student Robert Forster and together they formed The Go-Betweens. After releasing a string of singles the band recorded their debut album, Send Me A Lullaby, in 1981. The Go-Betweens recorded a series of exceptional albums that achieved widespread critical acclaim and were fundamental in bringing Australian music to a global audience. He was an unparalleled lyricist and a prolific and meticulous composer. His auto-biographical masterpiece bCattle and Caneb was recently voted by the Australian Performing Rights Association as one of the ten greatest Australian songs of all time. In 1989 The Go-Betweens took a ten year sabbatical and McLennan recorded four powerful solo albums including the vivacious debut Watershed and the epic Horsebreaker Star as well as forming satellite groups like Jack Frost with Steve Kilbey of The Church and The Far Out Corporation with Iain Haug of Powderfinger. When Robert Forster and Grant McLennan reformed The Go-Betweens in 2000, the band was greeted with adulation by a new generation of musicians like Belle and Sebastian for whom, their songs had been an inspirational teenage soundtrack. The three albums the band subsequently released were universally acknowledged as containing some of McLennanbs greatest compositions. McLennan was a passionate supporter of the arts, extremely well-read and maintained a keen interest in all contemporary music, cinema and visual art. He was an exceptionally charming and polite man who endeared himself to everyone who met him and was one of the rare individuals worthy of the epithet blarger than lifeb. His singular contribution to music and his commitment to his craft simply cannot be understated. He will be deeply missed by all who knew him. He is survived by his mother, sister, girlfriend Emma and lifetime musical colleague Robert Forster. Bernard MacMahon, Lo-Max Records, 6th May 2006 http://www.go-betweens.org.uk/news.htm - -- FS Thomas | Interactive Developer | fsthomas-at-ochremedia.com 404.758.8616 (home/office) | 404.274.1632 (mobile) | ferraatu (AIM) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 17:47:58 -0400 From: Christopher Hintz Subject: Go reap it's true http://www.go-betweens.net/ i am seriously sad forster always seemed priggish to me, so i was a grant man. Rev ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 15:19:08 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Speaking of bad news... ...surprised no one forwarded this dismaying month-old development, which I just came across. "Andy [Partridge] has unfortunately damaged his left hand. He has broken the tendon supporting his left ring finger and won't be able to go anywhere near a guitar for over 8 weeks. Then the splint will be removed and he will start physio to recover as much use of the finger as possible. According to Andy it's the one that does the majority of the work on the fretboard. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 02:06:04 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: reap - -- FSThomas is rumored to have mumbled on 6. Mai 2006 17:49:03 -0400 regarding Re: reap: > On Saturday 6th May, legendary Australian singer songwriter Grant W > McLennan died in his sleep at his home in Brisbane. That's really sad. I'm glad I saw him/them whenever I had the chance. The last time was not quite a year ago ... He didn't seem entirely healthy, but I never would've expected him to die so soon. Does anybody know how old he was? The site doesn't have a bio ... - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 17:36:48 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: reap > That's really sad. I'm glad I saw him/them whenever I had the > chance. The last time was not quite a year ago ... He didn't seem > entirely healthy, but I never would've expected him to die so soon. > Does anybody know how old he was? The site doesn't have a bio ... Only 48, according to an obit I saw. The main Go-Betweens message board has a growing tribute thread, and it already has "celebrity posts" from mixer Bill Inglot and Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 13:55:12 -0400 From: hb Subject: Re: cnet podcast During one of the interview segments, Scott mentions "last night, we played at Slim's" and "I booked a Minus 5 show for tonight at the Parkside - a little club" which would date the recording of the podast at 28 Feb 2006 in SF CA. /hal wojbearpig wrote: > http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=3058 > > Scott McCaughey and Robyn Hitchcock Podcast! > May 5, 2006, 7:14 am > > Our good friends at CNET recently had Robyn Hitchcock and Scott > McCaughey in the studio, and the results have been committed to a > downloadable MP3 stream which the kids apparently are calling a > "popcast." We might have misheard. > > Here's the CNET blurb: > > "Program 1 features cult legend Robyn Hitchcock and Minus 5 leader > Scott McCaughey. They perform a cover of Johnny Cash's "I Still Miss > Someone," "Red Locust Frenzy," and "The Days of Wine and Booze," among > others. The two discuss playing Soft Boys tunes on tour, life with > R.E.M., and keeping up their Web sites." > > Related Links: > > * http://studioc.cnet.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 13:00:47 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: the Dolby blog On May 5, 2006, at 10:27 AM, Steve Talkowski wrote: > On May 5, 2006, at 12:33 PM, wojizzle forizzle wrote: > >> the moneyshot: no encore because his mac crashed! > > Hey, Macs don't crash! Right - it's usually poorly written applications that crash (on any platform). Show me the backtrace! On another note, I find it interesting that folks dismiss Invisible Hitchcock and Groovy Dec[oa]y. I think those records show Robyn as he was at the time. He was experimenting and trying to find his solo voice after the Soft Boys blew up. Lots of different styles and some real quirky tunes. - -tc, back from Tahoe and relaxed. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 22:04:37 -0400 From: "Brian Nupp" Subject: Respect for Grant http://littlehits.com/ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #101 ********************************