From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #106 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, May 15 2006 Volume 15 : Number 106 Today's Subjects: ----------------- NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock Largo 7-9-05 [wojbearpig ] Re: NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock Largo 7-9-05 [wojbearpig ] Bob, the Floyd, Syd and me [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Bob, the Floyd, Syd and me ["Stewart C. Russell" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 18:30:40 -0400 From: wojbearpig Subject: NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock Largo 7-9-05 http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=95349&hit=1 - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [bot-dimeadozen-org] NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock Largo 7-9-05 Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 02:20:48 +0200 (CEST) From: DIME (www.dimeadozen.org) To: bt-dimeadozen-org A new torrent has been uploaded to DIME. Torrent: 95349 Title: Robyn Hitchcock Largo 7-9-05 Size: 623.27 MB Category: Acoustic Uploaded by: waxdoll Description - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robyn Hitchcock with Grant Lee Phillips Saturday July 9, 2005 Largo?West Hollywood, California US A Robyn and Jon fest. A nice, subdued, Jon Bryantless gig. Lots of chat and some odd tunes in Set 1. Grant is on board for all of Set 2 except for Rocket Ship. No electric guitars. Great taping spot. Great sound. Unsure of a couple of song titles. Sonic Studios mic>Sony D7 DAT>ProTools (for level adjustment, compression, and song separation)>flac. Taped and mastered by JB. Please don't sell or convert to lossy format. Set list: CD 1 Set 1 (61:48) 1 A Globe of Frogs 2 Mexican God 3 I've Got the Hots for You 4 Ralph, Give Me a Spanner 5 Ole Tarantula 6 The Idea of You 7 Bass 8 Television 9 One Long Pair of Eyes 10 Vegetation & Dimes CD 2 Set 2 (45:39) 1 Inst./Peggy Sue 2 The Moose (improv song?) 3 Uncorrected Personality Traits 4 Trams of Old London 5 Grant song 6 Tears of Rage (Bob Dylan) 7 Queen Elvis 8 Adventure Rocket Ship 9 Pattern of Love (?) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 18:38:03 -0400 From: wojbearpig Subject: Re: NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock Largo 7-9-05 whoops, the correct url for this torrent is http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=95359&hit=1 the first one had some filenames which horked up non-mac clients. woj ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 07:36:06 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Bob, the Floyd, Syd and me http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1773746,00.html Bob, the Floyd, Syd and me Joe Boyd gives a scintillating account of Sixties rock in his exceptional memoir, White Bicycles, says Mark Ellen Sunday May 14, 2006 The Observer White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s by Joe Boyd Serpent's Tail #11.99, pp282 The folk rock sound of Fairport Convention is in the air again and there's a host of new bands who seem to have studied every note. I was watching one the other day in a pub in Clerkenwell and noticed Joe Boyd in the audience. As the man who produced those early Fairport albums, how did he feel about the revival? 'Honestly?' he asked. Honestly. He squinted at the stage and looked back with a watery smile. 'When you've heard Sandy Denny sing alone in the studio - just her, cans and a microphone - and you've stood next to Swarb playing the fiddle, it's very hard to find anything that comes close to it.' Reading Boyd's cracking account of the Sixties, you wonder if his life since hasn't been one long disappointment. Everyone likes to think their particular era was the molten core of cultural change, but this decade seems extraordinarily hard to beat. Among other pursuits, he co-promoted the UFO Club in Tottenham Court Road and, in just eight months, had put on Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Eric Burdon, the Pretty Things, the Move, Ten Years After, Jeff Beck, Family, the Fairports, Procol Harum and the Incredible String Band. A Harvard graduate with a thirst for adventure, he positioned himself at the centre of pivotal moments of rock and folk history, sometimes by luck, others by his drive and invention. His relationship with Bob Dylan perfectly sums up both. Boyd was responsible for the sound when Dylan 'stormed the citadel' with his epic first electric appearance at Newport Folk Festival in 1965, a moment he rightly identifies as 'the birth of rock' - but he'd run into him a year before when he returned to his girlfriend's Greenwich Village flat to find blankets on the sofa and a note pinned to her bedroom door: 'Sorry, change of plans!' He awoke next morning to find the fast-rising folk messiah whistling in the shower. It's a colourful story, beautifully told. Boyd went on to develop and produce the Incredible String Band and Nick Drake. He was instrumental in the birth of Cream and spent afternoons seeing Marx Brothers movies with the 19-year-old Eric Clapton. He was Muddy Waters's roadie and toured with Rev Gary Davis. He could have written the entire book on any one of them but the chapter dedicated to each gives a tantalising glimpse of its subject. It's a far cry from the dry, analytical approach of most rock biographies, peppered as it is with immaculate turns of phrase - Glasgow, when Boyd arrived in 1965, 'had that peculiar Scottish odour of coal smoke and granite'; Syd Barrett looked eventually 'as if someone had reached inside his head and turned off a switch'. Surrounding them all is the authentic scent of life. Boyd's journeys across America in the early Sixties with a future member of the Lovin' Spoonful are fuelled by his mother's diet pills and there are accounts of punch laced with acid and a skull-cracking strain of marijuana marinaded in rum and molasses and buried for two years in the Jamaican hills. Occasionally, he steps outside the narrative to offer a cultural perspective, saying, for instance, that American parents reacted explosively to the hippie revolution because 'they could not comprehend the next generation rejecting what they had worked so hard to achieve'. You are left relieved that such a central figure wrote this exceptional memoir. Boyd is just grateful to have survived to try to make sense of it all. 'I limit my regrets,' he confides, 'only to friends and peers whose lives were consumed by the intensity of the times.' 7 Mark Ellen is the editor of The Word magazine ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 10:00:30 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Bob, the Floyd, Syd and me HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > > Glasgow, when Boyd arrived in 1965, 'had that > peculiar Scottish odour of coal smoke and granite' Granite? The only granite in Glasgow is in the curling stones. We're strictly red sandstone and basalt. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 11:44:48 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Bob, the Floyd, Syd and me Coincidentally, KFJC is doing a special on Boyd during the current Month of Mayhem series: http://www.kfjc.org/programming/mayhem/index.php Tuesday Mayhem 16 from 7:PM to 10:PM Witchseason: Joe Boyd's Folk-Rock Stable Presented by Art Crimes Strange that it took an American, Elektra Records Joe Boyd, to nurture some of the highest-regarded British Folk Rock releases. In the late 60s and early 70s, Boyd worked with Nick Drake, the Incredible String Band, and Fairport Convention (and their various alumni), as well as more psychedelic acts like the early Pink Floyd and Soft Machine. Joe will tell us about but a mere slice of his long career, focusing on his Witchseason Productions family of artists. Lots other great specials as well. - -tc [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type application/pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s] ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #106 ********************************