From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #172 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, July 25 2006 Volume 15 : Number 172 Today's Subjects: ----------------- annoying tune ID required ["Stewart Russell" ] Re: annoying tune ID required [Christopher Gross ] Moss Elixir - Ten Years? Oh My.... [xx ] New Kimberley [Benjamin Lukoff ] oy vey tarantula - only IMPORT $28.99 so far - out 8/29 - like new Dylan CD [HwyCDRrev@aol] Re: annoying tune ID required ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #168 [Michael Godwin ] David Lee Roth ["randalljr" ] church tour ["Melissa Higuchi" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #168 [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: David Lee Roth [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: David Lee Roth [Eb ] Re: David Lee Roth [Jeff Dwarf ] RE: fegmaniax-digest V15 #168 ["Bachman, Michael" ] album covers spoofing album covers [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: David Lee Roth [FSThomas ] Re: church tour (Melissa & Sebastian) ["Spotted Eagle Ray" ] Re: album covers spoofing album covers [Eb ] RE: album covers spoofing album covers ["Bachman, Michael" Subject: annoying tune ID required Our voicemail hold tune has changed from being the most anodyne muzak to a selection of "popular choons". I'd rather hope that no-one on this list would be able to ID this tune, but it has a chorus that goes "hey baby, hey baby; yeah baby, yeah baby" (deep, huh?). Anyone know this so I may destroy it utterly? My office is within RPG range of Universal Canada's HQ, so I'm kinda hoping it's one of their acts. thanks, Stewart - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:09:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: annoying tune ID required On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Stewart Russell wrote: > Our voicemail hold tune has changed from being the most anodyne muzak > to a selection of "popular choons". I'd rather hope that no-one on > this list would be able to ID this tune, but it has a chorus that goes > "hey baby, hey baby; yeah baby, yeah baby" (deep, huh?). Anyone know > this so I may destroy it utterly? My office is within RPG range of > Universal Canada's HQ, so I'm kinda hoping it's one of their acts. That sounds like "Hey Baby" by Mocean Worker, from the album Aural & Hearty. You can confirm this by listening to the sample on Amazon. Although it's not really to my taste, I don't hate it as much as you seem to; but after all, I'm not usually forced to listen to it. - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ chrisg [at] gwu.edu On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:46:09 -0700 (PDT) From: xx Subject: Moss Elixir - Ten Years? Oh My.... Wow. Ten years. I guess that is was just over 10 years ago that I started listening to Mr. Hitchcock. It really started off by going to see him at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, CA - I've been hooked ever since. Moss Elixir (and Mossy Liquor) hold a special place in my heart, as that was the first 'new' Robyn CD I purchased (although I had heard most of the album live, or thanks to this list, on NetSurfer Ghost). In a weird coincidence, I went inside McCabes last week and stood looking at the stage, thinking back to the Hitchcock shows I saw there. It was around this time that I found this list. Therefore, I would like to thank you all for a great 10 years!! I do not read the list as much as I used to, and I rarely contribute. Thanks again!! I guess I need to pull out Moss Elixir & Mossy Liquor for old times sake.... - -griffith ps - any chance of me getting a CD version of Netsurfer Ghost and all of the uncarved pumpkins cassettes? Stewart Wrote: Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:05:49 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: So, what are you doing for the tenth anniversary? I see that Moss Elixir came out ten years ago this August. It's still my favourite Robyn album. I feel I need to celebrate it somehow, but don't yet know how. Suggestions? Stewart Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:52:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: New Kimberley From Ralph at Bongo Beat. Very much looking forward to all of it. > you can let the feggers know > > bible of bop - this fall > Ridgeway - next spring (mainly an EP in the vein of Essex Hideaway but > better!) > Lend Me Your Comb - shortly thereafter > (all 50s/early 60s UK duos rockers - Kim & Lee cave Berry - > originally a very small run cd made for friends > only until I heard it...the title track is NOT > the Edd Byrnes song) > > sorry to be vague but once all the art is done, > I'll have a firm date for Bible of Bop (I know, I > know) > Kim is on a creative streak so I'm trying to have > it all staggered a little bit.... but Rew fans > will not be disappointed with any of these cds, > lots of guitars throughout including > some VERY tasty instrumentals on Ridgeway. > > we MAY even have Kim out there playing some special solo dates > of course it all depends but i think the great > reaction he got to our gig at The Cavern last year > may have helped (he rocked! and the Alex Cooper/kim/Lee power trio is amazing). ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:12:58 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: oy vey tarantula - only IMPORT $28.99 so far - out 8/29 - like new Dylan CD _http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GLL2JG/sr=1-28/qid=1153793441/ref=sr_1_2 8/104-4423260-2349504?ie=UTF8&s=music_ (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GLL2JG/sr=1-28/qid=1153793441/ref=sr_1_28/104-4423260-2349504?ie=UTF8&s=music) Ole! Tarantula [IMPORT] Robyn Hitchcock & Minus 3 More about this product List Price:$28.99 Price:$28.99 & this item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Details Availability: This title will be released on August 29, 2006. You may order it now and we will ship it to you when it arrives. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:40:58 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: annoying tune ID required Christopher Gross wrote: > > That sounds like "Hey Baby" by Mocean Worker, from the album Aural & > Hearty. That's the one, thanks. It's particularly repellent at phone fidelity, when you're waiting for the conference call host to turn up. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:11:38 +0100 From: Michael Godwin Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #168 > fegmaniax-digest Thursday, July 20 2006 Volume 15 : Number 168 > > > > Today's Subjects: > ----------------- > Re: Syd's lack of accent > [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] smoking the corner of an album sleeve ["ken > ostrander" Tupman" > Subject: Re: Syd's lack of accent > >> hssmrg@bath.ac.uk wrote: >>> * That's an interesting one. I think that Ray has too much of a >>> Muswell Hill accent to be definitely RP. Whaddya think, Stewart? > Quoting "Stewart C. Russell" responds: >> I have to (rather shockingly) admit a near zero-knowledge of The Kinks; >> all I have is Village Green, and even that was from emusic. But I'm >> guessing, unless you actually were a toff in the London Scene, RP didn't >> matter. * I spent one of my sleepless nights pondering this issue, and I realised that the notorious "Estuary English" accent has its origins in the merciless mockery of the "Hooray Henry" accent by Ray Davies, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Vivian Stanshall and others. Frantic to avoid being brought down by their social inferiors, the toffs took refuge in a "you wouldn't want my traasers ter fall dahn nah, would yer?" type of Jagger Dartford whine. >> Have you any of your RKB committed to media? >> cheers, >> Stewart > > * I did a 4-track of 'Lucifer Sam' in the 80s and I used to perform > 'Terrapin' and 'The Gnome' on stage in those days to mass indifference. > More recently I did a tape of 'Elizabeth Jade' seguing into 'Rats'. And of course I learned > Arnold Layne virtually the day it came out. I think my 2006 version of 'Scarecrow' is great > and will record it in the near future... - - Mike > > Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:24:20 +0100 > From: "Charlotte Tupman" > Subject: New on Kimberley's website > News of a Kim & Lee 1950s covers album (1950's covers' album?! Pedantic > fegs please help...) and, perhaps more intriguingly, a new 'concept EP', > not to mention an epic bicycle trip: > http://www.kimberleyrew.com/ Charlotte > (Temporarily) out of her head on pots of tea, despite the heat... * Or because, perhaps? 1950s is correct, as on the web page. But I can't see a track listing. The Beatles covered 'Lend me your comb' on one of their early BBC broadcasts - don't know who did it originally. > Michael B. > NP Gram Parsons - The Complete Reprise Sessions * What, the whole lot? - - Mike Godwin PS Went on the Tal Y Llyn the other day. Brilliant, specially the Dolgoch Falls. However, v. disappointed to find that the loco named "Edward Thomas" is not named after the bicycle-record Adlestrop poet but after a mere railway functionary of the same name... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 06:40:41 -0800 From: "randalljr" Subject: David Lee Roth Saw a rerun of Conan early this morning with DLR doing a version of Jamie's Cryin'. Cringe inducing and sadly, I actually laughed several times it was so terrible. His band included, if I remember correctly, a violin, slide guitar, acoustic guitar, a mandolin, and a couple of the members singing harmonies. All singers doing a horrid job. I haven't seen a live TV performance this bad in a long, long time. Anyone else see this? Vince ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:14:48 -0000 (GMT) From: "Melissa Higuchi" Subject: church tour anyone seen the church this tour? i was considering going to see them at the great american music hall i aug. it's kind of a splurge as we are still broke from moving so i wanted to see if there were any opinions. btw what's the gamh like? melissa ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:31:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V15 #168 Michael Godwin wrote: > The Beatles covered 'Lend me your comb' on one of > their early BBC broadcasts - don't know who did it > originally. Edd Kookie Byrnes "A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer." -- Mitch Hedberg "For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk. And we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together. To build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking. And it's greatest failures by NOT talking. It doesn't have to be like this! Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking. -- Stephen W. Hawking . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:34:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: David Lee Roth randalljr wrote: > Saw a rerun of Conan early this morning with DLR > doing a version of Jamie's Cryin'. Cringe > inducing and sadly, I actually laughed several > times it was so terrible. His band included, if I > remember correctly, a violin, slide guitar, > acoustic guitar, a mandolin, and a couple of > the members singing harmonies. All singers doing > a horrid job. I haven't seen a live TV > performance this bad in a long, long time. Anyone > else see this? It was hysterical. I think he's helping promote one of those (quasi-?)bluegrass "Pickin' On" tribute albums, this one to Van Halen (of course). "A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer." -- Mitch Hedberg "For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk. And we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together. To build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking. And it's greatest failures by NOT talking. It doesn't have to be like this! Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking. -- Stephen W. Hawking . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:04:20 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: David Lee Roth randalljr wrote: > Saw a rerun of Conan early this morning with DLR doing a version of > Jamie's Cryin'. Cringe inducing and sadly, I actually laughed > several times it was so terrible. Did you happen to hear anything ELSE he has done since leaving Van Halen? More of the same, basically. I'd listen to a bluegrass "Jump" 20 times before I'd listen to "California Girls" or "Just a Gigolo" again. Eb PS Has anyone else heard a "one-woman band" called Planningtorock? I heard a bit of an album last night, and it sounded excitingly fresh and interesting. Somewhere between Kate Bush and the Residents, but with electronic polish? Gave me an instant jolt like I haven't felt lately. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:23:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: David Lee Roth Eb wrote: > randalljr wrote: > > Saw a rerun of Conan early this morning with DLR > > doing a version of Jamie's Cryin'. Cringe > > inducing and sadly, I actually laughed > > several times it was so terrible. > > Did you happen to hear anything ELSE he has done > since leaving Van Halen? More of the same, > basically. > > I'd listen to a bluegrass "Jump" 20 times before I'd > listen to "California Girls" or "Just a Gigolo" > again. You'd think you would. The thing is, say what you will about those two covers, they were recorded by a guy at the height of his powers having a goof by a guy (seemingly) unaware that he's about to be an ex-Van Halen. The bluegrass VH covers are being done by a has-been desparate for attention. It's the difference between watching someone telling a bad joke and being a bad joke. "A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer." -- Mitch Hedberg "For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk. And we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together. To build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking. And it's greatest failures by NOT talking. It doesn't have to be like this! Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking. -- Stephen W. Hawking . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:32:35 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: fegmaniax-digest V15 #168 >> NP Gram Parsons - The Complete Reprise Sessions Mike Godwin came back with: >* What, the whole lot? Yeah, pretty much the complete studio sessions for GP and Grievous Angel plus some radio promos and live radio performances and lots of alternative takes. Three discs in all plus a nice liner note booklet. It was released last month as was the DVD documentary on Gram. Michael B. NP Before Three O'Clock - Happen Happened ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:22:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: David Lee Roth 2fs wrote: > On 7/24/06, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > > > randalljr wrote: > > > Saw a rerun of Conan early this morning with DLR > > > doing a version of Jamie's Cryin'. Cringe > > > inducing and sadly, I actually laughed several > > > times it was so terrible. His band included, if > I > > > remember correctly, a violin, slide guitar, > > > acoustic guitar, a mandolin, and a couple of > > > the members singing harmonies. All singers > doing > > > a horrid job. I haven't seen a live TV > > > performance this bad in a long, long time. > Anyone > > > else see this? > > > > It was hysterical. I think he's helping promote > one of > > those (quasi-?)bluegrass "Pickin' On" tribute > albums, > > this one to Van Halen (of course). > > "Hysterical" in the sense of "appallingly bad," yes. > He sounds like a not-very-talented guy > impersonating David Lee Roth at a peculiar > bluegrass-based karaoke bar. > > The caption on one of the videos on YouTube said > something like "Strummin'for the Devil" - so maybe > that's the title of the tribute. I think that's right. > Oh - and he looks like he's hit the botox a little > too hard as well. > > If they invent time travel, it would be amusing to > show this to early VH fans and see their > reactions... David Lee Roth could never have grown old with any resembling dignity and he really should have gotten a better referral for a plastic surgeon than asking Joan Rivers and Mary Tyler Moore, and the guy who did his hairplugs was even worse. Furthermore, as you point out, his voice hasn't held up at all. Given what apparently happened with the Van Hagar reunion shows, a Roth-VH reunion tour could end up being the biggest disaster in the history of rock tourdom, including the last tours of Buddy Holly and Lynyrd Skynyrd: Roth can't sing his parts anymore, Eddie can't play his parts any more, the brothers supposedly only took Michael Anthony along last time at Sammy insistance...it could make Gary Cherrone look good. "A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer." -- Mitch Hedberg "For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk. And we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together. To build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking. And it's greatest failures by NOT talking. It doesn't have to be like this! Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking. -- Stephen W. Hawking . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:44:17 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: album covers spoofing album covers _http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view?list_id=5925&show=150&start=450_ (http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view?list_id=5925&show=150&start=450) also influenced by movie Bride Of Frankenstein 511 Serge Gainsbourg No. 2 (1959) 512 Lovage Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By (2001) 513 Balla Le Jeu (2003) Thanks to amorim for this suggestion 514 Robyn Hitchcock Groovy Decay (1982) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:44:41 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: David Lee Roth For anyone having not seen this travesty, I offer: http://youtube.com/watch?v=kX9qcggRo18&search=david%20lee%20roth%20bluegrass So sad. - -- FS Thomas | Interactive Developer | fsthomas-at-ochremedia.com 404.758.8616 (home/office) | 404.274.1632 (mobile) | ferraatu (AIM) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:52:59 -0700 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: church tour (Melissa & Sebastian) On 7/21/06, Melissa Higuchi wrote: > > anyone seen the church this tour? No, but I saw them last time around and they were easily as good as they were in their, erm, heyday (this after a number of wobbly, aloof years). If they would just replace "Milky Way" and "Reptile" with some songs from that same era that we're not all sick of... Sebastian, I never answered your question about worthy latter-day Church records. My dark horse contender for the most enjoyable of the lot is (and you must forgive the title) "Hologram of Baal", which has a slightly schizoid sound quality but consistent songs and leans to the pop side. "Forget Yourself" is possibly the best of the lot, really exuberant, uncharacteristicly scrappy but very organic and cogent. "After Everything" I find quite dull, but the side of fandom who rates "Priest=Aura" highly consider it a latter day peak (meh). Avoid the Koppes-less period like the plague; if you have the Jack Frost records, you have the best stuff that came out of the Church camp during that period. Hope that helps! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:06:12 -0700 From: "Spotted Eagle Ray" Subject: Re: album covers spoofing album covers On 7/25/06, HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > > _http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view?list_id=5925&show=150&start=450_ > (http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view?list_id=5925&show=150&start=450) Oddly the two top-elevation butterfly covers are unaccompanied by either the House of Love or Helium covers that look exactly the same. My favorite example that I don't think many people would peg on their own (although it did show up on a similar list) is The Kinks' "Kontroversy" and Sleater Kinney's "Dig Me Out". - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:18:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: album covers spoofing album covers On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > _http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view?list_id=5925&show=150&start=450_ > (http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view?list_id=5925&show=150&start=450) yep... http://www.knockoffproject.com/ as well ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:36:09 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: David Lee Roth On Feb 19, 2007, at 6:40 AM, randalljr wrote: > Saw a rerun of Conan early this morning with DLR doing a version of > Jamie's Cryin'. Cringe inducing and sadly, I actually laughed > several times it was so terrible. His band included, if I remember > correctly, a violin, slide guitar, acoustic guitar, a mandolin, and > a couple of the members singing harmonies. All singers doing a > horrid job. I haven't seen a live TV performance this bad in a > long, long time. Anyone else see this? > Didn't see it, but that did remind me that DLR is one of the headline performers at this weekend's San Jose Grand Prix. What could be more fun than 100,000 people crammed into downtown SJ to watch a bunch of loud cars race through the streets in 100 degree heat? Well for my money, adding old Diamond Dave to the mix! http://www.sanjosegrandprix.com/ - -tc, staying far away... [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type application/pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:41:53 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: album covers spoofing album covers >> http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view? >> list_id=5925&show=150&start=450 I think some of those are mere coincidence, but they're interesting all the same. Never thought about the similarity between the Ride album and "Self Portrait" before. Or between All Things Must Pass and Veedon Fleece. Also, I've been trying to recall for ages the "other" album which used the same photo as the Fountains of Wayne album, so it was nice to be given that answer. Has it ever been confirmed that the Weezer cover was a Feelies tribute? That's another which I'm dubious about. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:12:53 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: album covers spoofing album covers >> http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view? >> list_id=5925&show=150&start=450 Eb came back with: >I think some of those are mere coincidence, but they're interesting >all the same. Never thought about the similarity between the Ride >album and "Self Portrait" before. Or between All Things Must Pass and >Veedon Fleece. >Also, I've been trying to recall for ages the "other" album which >sed the same photo as the Fountains of Wayne album, so it was nice >to be given that answer. >Has it ever been confirmed that the Weezer cover was a Feelies >tribute? That's another which I'm dubious about. Damn, I couldn't open the article up. Did the article mention Miles Davis yellow and red motif on "Sketches of Spain"? I have seen a couple of knock off similarities of that one, can't remember who it was though. SoS is one of my favorite jazz album covers, and it perfectly marches the music of the album. Michael B. Np The Ocean Blue - Cerulean ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #172 ********************************