From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #105 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, May 13 2006 Volume 15 : Number 105 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: sending out a Beatles SOS [2fs ] Fuck! I just.... [The Great Quail ] Re: Fuck! I just.... [wojizzle forizzle ] Re: Fuck! I just.... ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] Re: Fuck! I just.... [2fs ] Re: Andy Davies and Fat Freddy's Cat [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 22:46:54 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: sending out a Beatles SOS On 5/11/06, Jill Brand wrote: > > My son Curt is re-writing Happiness Is a Warm Gun for his BC Calculus > Class (it's about Newton's Methods) and he is having some chord issues. > Does anyone have accurate chords for this or know where to find them? > He's got most of it down, but he's having some troubles and the > chords/tabs that he has found online don't seem satisfying. Probably far more detail than he needs, but < http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/hiawg.html>. Scroll down near the bottom for actual chords. Briefly: "She's not a girl who misses much...": Am7, Am6*, Em9, Em (arpeggiated in a pattern much like "Dear Prudence") * for these two chords, little finger on the bottom string goes from fret 3 to fret 2 (G to F#), for the second chord, open the B string - I suppose that's really Am6/9 or something. "She's well-acquainted with the touch...": Dm6 (Dm chord with open B string), Am (sometimes open B string: listen closely), repeat "I need a fix": A7 (*major* third) chromatic bass riff (A, A#, B) to C, back down to Am (although this is ambiguous: sometimes sounds like A major, other times like different players playing both minor and major chords simultaneously). Lather, rinse, repeat. "Mother Superior jump the gun..." A, C, A, G. The rhythm guitar (which you can barely hear) appears to be playing basic root position chords here. "Happiness is a warm gun": Basic '50s doo-wop sequence - C, Am, F, G repeat... The funny chord near the end is an Fm with a C bass, I think. Some sorta 7th to 6th thing going on (an ambiguity they play with throughout the track, in fact). I won't even *think* about transcribing all the tricky metrical shifts. I'll say only that they make perfect sense if you just follow the vocal phrasing and don't try to count, but are confusing as hell if you do try to count ("is it this phrase that ends in a bar of 5/4, or the next one?"). John Lennon was a freakin' weirdo, man... Good luck! - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 10:35:56 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Fuck! I just.... ...fucking love fucking TOOL. - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 10:39:34 -0400 From: wojizzle forizzle Subject: Re: Fuck! I just.... one time at band camp, The Great Quail (quail@libyrinth.com) said: >...fucking love fucking TOOL. huh huh you said tool. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 08:28:01 -0700 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: Fuck! I just.... On 5/12/06, The Great Quail wrote: > > ...fucking love fucking TOOL. ...individually or in some kind of daisy chain type arrangement? Speaking of non-RH pet artists, I'm really happy with my new Tom Verlaine records. The one with vocals, "Songs and Other Things", is slightly overlong... maybe it just feels that way because 14 tracks is unprecedented for the guy, but there are four or five tracks that could be trimmed to make it damned near perfect. "The Day On You" is easily as good as anything on "Dreamtime", and that's a big deal to me. The instrumental record is lovely. I think I like it slightly better than his last such album, but that may be novelty. Rest assured this one will provide NPR news shows with bumper music for decades to come. - -Rx ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 17:29:12 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Fuck! I just.... On 5/12/06, Spotted Eagle Ray wrote: > > > Speaking of non-RH pet artists, I'm really happy with my new Tom Verlaine > records. The one with vocals, "Songs and Other Things", is slightly > overlong... maybe it just feels that way because 14 tracks is > unprecedented > for the guy, but there are four or five tracks that could be trimmed to > make > it damned near perfect. "The Day On You" is easily as good as anything on > "Dreamtime", and that's a big deal to me. > > The instrumental record is lovely. I think I like it slightly better than > his last such album, but that may be novelty. Rest assured this one will > provide NPR news shows with bumper music for decades to come. Oddly, I glommed onto the instrumental one first. What's interesting about the song one is that his songwriting has become more abstract, less riff-oriented...and in many ways, closer to his instrumental tracks (there are, in fact, two instrumentals on the "vocal" album). But yes, I'm pleased with both of 'em as well, even though they lack the immediacy and, uh, viscerality (don't think that's a word) of Television or his first two solo things. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 22:43:32 +0100 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: Andy Davies and Fat Freddy's Cat Quoting fegmaniax-digest : > fegmaniax-digest Thursday, May 11 2006 Volume 15 : Number 104 > Thrilling news from Andy Davies: the Korgis are reforming after a lapse of decades. AND Andy is working on the soundtrack of the new Furry Freak Brothers film in conjunction with top banjo player Leon somebody. "I can do the voice for Fat Freddy's Cat" quoth I. "Oh, they're trying to get Jack Nicholson for that" came the discouraging reply. Apparently Gilbert Shelton was spotted in the Prom Bar in Bristol recently, so it looks as if this project is up and running. Any other news of a FFB film? - - Michael "now that Mel Blanc is gone, there must be an opening" Godwin n.p. Juan Martin doing 13th Century Sephardic stuff from Granada. Magical! ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #105 ********************************