From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #107 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, May 17 2006 Volume 15 : Number 107 Today's Subjects: ----------------- More Whitney Houston news ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] Robyn Hitchcock - guest DJ - June 14th - London [Matthijs van Geldere ] Re: Bob, the Floyd, Syd and me [Barbara Soutar ] Fuck! I just.... ["Stacked Crooked" ] Apropos of nothing, a medley [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] You should never take Glasgow for granite [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Robyn dream ["Brian Nupp" ] Thomas Dolby capsule review ["Michael Wells" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 11:34:18 -0700 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: More Whitney Houston news http://pitchforkmedia.com/news/06-05/08.shtml - -Rx ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 15:05:39 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Bob, the Floyd, Syd and me Joe Boyd was interviewed for the excellent Syd Barrett DVD and talked about the early days of Pink Floyd and Syd. That's the one with our very own Robyn performing a couple of Syd's songs. Michael B. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org]On Behalf Of Tom Clark Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 2:45 PM To: Tree Dwellers 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] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 12:25:30 -0700 (PDT) From: xx Subject: somewhat Robyn related On Friday, while heading to a *great* ramen house on Reseda (in the heart of the San Fernando Valley), I heard a familiar song on the radio. I recognized it as a Robyn song, but it was not him singing. The song was "I Often Dream of Trains". I was trying to figure out the voice, but couldn't. 'Who would cover that song?' I said to myself. Turns out it was Grant Lee Phillips. He has an album in the works titled NINETEENEIGHTES. A collection of sort of stripped down versions of songs that were influential to him. IODOT sounded interesting, not much of a change from the original, but still very listenable. - -griffith ps - saw on iTunes, Damien Youth, "I Know Where Robyn Hitchcock Lives" - any thoughts? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 19:41:50 +0100 From: Matthijs van Geldere Subject: Robyn Hitchcock - guest DJ - June 14th - London Robyn Hitchcock - guest DJ - June 14th 2006 - London Terry Edwards 14 Jun 2006 19:30 60-62 Commercial Street, Spitalfields, London, E1 6LT Cost: #5.00 Nitwood play songs from their forthcoming CD on Sartorial supported by Terry Edwards playing a solo set with guest DJ Robyn Hitchcock providing between & after set entertainment. [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef which had a name of winmail.dat] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 15:19:59 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: somewhat Robyn related On 5/15/06, xx wrote: > > On Friday, while heading to a *great* ramen house on > Reseda (in the heart of the San Fernando Valley), I > heard a familiar song on the radio. I recognized it > as a Robyn song, but it was not him singing. The song > was "I Often Dream of Trains". I was trying to figure > out the voice, but couldn't. 'Who would cover that > song?' I said to myself. Well, Firewater already has, a couple of years ago. Not all that persuasively, however. Turns out it was Grant Lee Phillips. He has an album > in the works titled NINETEENEIGHTES. A collection of > sort of stripped down versions of songs that were > influential to him. > - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 12:45:15 +0000 From: Barbara Soutar Subject: Re: Bob, the Floyd, Syd and me Thanks to Stewart for the book review of Boyd's biography, have just added it to my "buythis" list. On a personal note: I have a full time job now! I'm one of the security guards at the local TV station. I don't get to carry a weapon, except for my big metal flashlight... Barbara Soutar Victoria, BC ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 20:21:23 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Fuck! I just.... <...fucking love fucking TOOL. - - --Quail> if anybody else (especially that miserable "eb" -- what's *his* deal?) had written this, i'd assume they were mocking me. i've got the bug so badly that the only thing i can think about at work is going home, slapping on the headphones, and cranking up *10,000 Days* as loudly as humanly possible. the drawback is that, as i listen to it at absolute MAXIMUM volume, i'm afraid to listen to the ol' mp3 jukebox when out-and-about, for fear i'll permanently damage my hearing. this means that not only is the alphabetical listen-a-thon on hiatus, but also that when riding the bus, i'm forced to listen to people's idiotic cell-phone "conversations". it's worth it, though. my recording of the seattle show is still seeding at dime, by the way. up and bought a gmini for the occasion -- anybody else using this thing to boot shows? i'm pretty happy with the results (and surely will *not* miss flipping tapes...). ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 22:02:28 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Apropos of nothing, a medley Apropos of nothing, a medley. I was driving along today listening to a mix CD of various tracks and it suddenly struck me that - for those of you who have been known to do medleys and segues involving covers - a performance of "September cones" could drift beautifully into a version of Them's "Here comes the night". I'm surprised I've not noticed the similar guitar motifs before... James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 22:05:39 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: You should never take Glasgow for granite > > 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. He's not saying that Glasgow *has* granite - the granite's all kept in Edinburgh and Aberdeen. He's only saying that it *smelt like* granite. Which, you must admit, has a very different smell to basalt, so where the smell came from is anyone's guess. James (in another basalt city) - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 09:24:32 -0400 From: "Brian Nupp" Subject: Robyn dream Had a strange dream last night that I went back in time to 1993 and after a RHE show Robyn, Andy and a strangely tall Morris came over to my then apartment house for drinks. The dream sadly ending with me getting mugged by two men while I was carrying a case of beer to my car. - -Nuppy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:51:29 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: Thomas Dolby capsule review Martyr's, Chicago May 16, 2006 Leipzig One of Our Submarines The Flat Earth Flying North I Live in a Suitcase Budapest by Blimp Windpower Europa and the Pirate Twins Hyperactive She Blinded Me with Science (e) Airhead (partial) Small, mostly full venue with a mix of obsessive fanboy types and hipsters getting their serious drink on. Stage is small with TMDR's rig on one side and a large video screen occupying the rest; gig seems almost as much about the 'meta-show' as the music itself with pauses after each song for him to soak up applause, explain a bit about what he's been doing, talk up equipment, that kind of thing. As woj noted, all of the music is created or looped live on stage from preset maps, and there's live video compositing from several different camera angles. For electronic & music geeks, it's a dream come true. The setlist has the hits, plus surprise (at least to me) inclusions of "Flat Earth" and "Budapest." Overall the performance is straight-up and well done, despite needing the Macs to reload a couple times. However the best part was that I won a chance to go backstage afterwards for the private meet-and-greet with TMDR, where I got my copy of WIRELESS and a tour poster signed. He was gracious with his time, clearly very well informed and patient with questions, and since the answers were interesting I've summarized a few below: If I understood correctly, EMI wants to do a DVD audio release of the four big albums with off-label oddities licensed back by TD so they can be included; the older material will never be re-mastered in 'surround sound' (which he seems to despise); there may be a DVD video of this tour; there's a new album due later this year, with a tour of 600-700 seat venues to follow before December; there was no particular inspiration behind the song "Leipzig," other than he thought the name of the city was evocative (my question); the oscilloscopes and signal generators he has onstage are just shells - the guts have been replaced with state-of-the-art midi controllers with the surviving buttons and dials mapped to individual effects; Beatnik's software is now running on something like half the world's mobile phones (seems a bit out there - is this true?); as a huge fan of Pink Floyd he was pleasantly surprised in being asked to play the Teacher in Roger Water's "The Wall Live in Berlin," though the dangling from wires bit was his own 'daft' idea; M. Seligman was best man at the Dolby's wedding; plus a bunch of other rather detailed questions to numerous to enumerate. Michael "I would never normally go bowling on a Friday morning in New Orleans" Wells ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #107 ********************************