From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #44 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, February 12 2007 Volume 16 : Number 044 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: While I like the album a fair bit [2fs ] Re: solos [2fs ] Decembrists ["John Irvine" ] Re: While I like the album a fair bit [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Solos [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: Solos [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: Some numbers are more equal than others [Benjamin Lukoff ] RE: Colin Meloy (50% shameless SP) [matt sewell ] RE: solos ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: solos [craigie* ] RE: solos ["Bachman, Michael" ] purple toothbrush solos ["Michael Wells" ] Re: Solos [2fs ] Re: solos [2fs ] Re: solos ad. naus. (sorry Lauren) [Rex ] Re: While I like the album a fair bit [Rex ] Re: Colin Meloy (50% shameless SP) [Rex ] Reap ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: solos [craigie* ] RE: purple toothbrush solos ["Bachman, Michael" ] RE: solos ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: purple toothbrush solos [Rex ] Re: That's enough guitars (ed.) [Rex ] RE: purple toothbrush solos ["Bachman, Michael" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:15:14 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: While I like the album a fair bit On 2/11/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > and can see myself liking it more with more time, I do > have to say that The Good, The Bad, & The Queen is the > worst band name in aeons. It's certainly bad - but worse than Hoobastank? Hinder? The Dark Side of the Cop? Test Icicles? Kids these days, I tell ya... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:17:55 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: solos On 2/11/07, Gene Hopstetter, Jr. wrote: > > > > The best solo ever is Dan's Smith's on Tintern Abbey's "Vacuum > Cleaner." > Don't know that one. Here are two nominees for *worst* solo ever (intentionally): "Canyons of Your Mind" Bonzo Dog Band "Too Much Paranoias" Devo - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:19:40 -0500 From: "John Irvine" Subject: Decembrists Meloy's voice worked better when they were writing olde-timey sea chanties and songs about chimbley-sweeps. Now that they are recording big shiny pop songs it sticks out more sore thumbily. I will say that he writes wonderful verses, but the choruses are generally weak and the songs tend to need to end sooner for my taste. And thanks woj for the 2003 Fletchers show - I was there. That's back when Fletchers booked decent acts. Baltimore is always burning out decent clubs. - -John http://www.thejennifers.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:47:32 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: While I like the album a fair bit 2fs wrote: > On 2/11/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > and can see myself liking it more with more time, > > I do have to say that The Good, The Bad, & The > > Queen is the worst band name in aeons. > > It's certainly bad - but worse than Hoobastank? > Hinder? The Dark Side of the Cop? Test Icicles? No, Yes, Yes, No. Of course, I'd never heard of the middle two before. I suppose I should say worst name WHILE NOT STILL BE BETTER THAN THE MUSIC ATTATCHED TO IT. Since if there is one thing than calling yourself Nickelback, it's sounding like them. > Kids these days, I tell ya... "I believe in the marketplace of ideas even if the other guy doesn't have any." -- Keith Olbermann . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:57:34 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: Solos Michael B wrote: >I'll agree with Jeff on the building power of "Marquee Moon" Here >are some of my favorites, they may not be the most popular chocies, >but the get me, >[...] >Baby's On Fire (Robert Fripp - Eno's first album) not even the best Fripp solo on an Eno album! Check out "St Elmo's Fire" (erm, the Eno song, that is). Mind you, Fripp does some beautiful solos - His solo on The Roches' "Hammond Song" is also wondrous. 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: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:58:51 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: Solos oops - perhaps I should just have posted: "What Jeff said!" - -- 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: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:09:51 -0800 (PST) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: Some numbers are more equal than others On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > Pi, on the other had, is a highly unusual number. If you treat it in > the way you used "toothbrush", there's nothing special about it. It's > an object or an idea and it transcends description just like any any > object or idea. But compared to other numbers, there's something > quite unusual about it. In fact, there are a number of unusual things > about it. It probably even has its own Wikipedia entry. Take that, > "toothbrush". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toothbrush :) It would be a pretty piss-poor reference work that didn't have entries on both pi and toothbrushes. (I wonder if Encarta has an entry on the toothbrush?) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:26:35 -0500 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Some numbers are more equal than others On 2/11/07, Benjamin Lukoff wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toothbrush :) > > It would be a pretty piss-poor reference work that didn't have entries on > both pi and toothbrushes. I had my suspicions. Darn you, "toothbrush"! xo Lauren - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:59:46 +0000 From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Re: Solos - -------------- Original message -------------- From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz > Michael B wrote: > > >I'll agree with Jeff on the building power of "Marquee Moon" Here > >are some of my favorites, they may not be the most popular chocies, > >but the get me, > >[...] > >Baby's On Fire (Robert Fripp - Eno's first album) > James came back with: > not even the best Fripp solo on an Eno album! Check out "St Elmo's > Fire" (erm, the Eno song, that is). Mind you, Fripp does some > beautiful solos - His solo on The Roches' "Hammond Song" is also > wondrous. > I have both of those, and they are certainly first rate solos as well as being great songs! MJ Bachman ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:18:15 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Some numbers are more equal than others On 2/11/07, Benjamin Lukoff wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > Pi, on the other had, is a highly unusual number. If you treat it in > > the way you used "toothbrush", there's nothing special about it. It's > > an object or an idea and it transcends description just like any any > > object or idea. But compared to other numbers, there's something > > quite unusual about it. In fact, there are a number of unusual things > > about it. It probably even has its own Wikipedia entry. Take that, > > "toothbrush". > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toothbrush :) > > It would be a pretty piss-poor reference work that didn't have entries on > both pi and toothbrushes. (I wonder if Encarta has an entry on the > toothbrush?) I am disturbed by the presence of "toothbrush" and "piss" in the same sentence. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:30:13 -0800 (PST) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: Some numbers are more equal than others On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, 2fs wrote: > On 2/11/07, Benjamin Lukoff wrote: > > > > It would be a pretty piss-poor reference work that didn't have entries on > > both pi and toothbrushes. (I wonder if Encarta has an entry on the > > toothbrush?) > > I am disturbed by the presence of "toothbrush" and "piss" in the same > sentence. http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a990416.html '"If an alien came from space and studied the bacterial counts," the professor says, "he probably would conclude he should wash his hands in your toilet and crap in your sink."' ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:30:58 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: Solos >-------------- Original message -------------- >From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz > >> Michael B wrote: >> >> >I'll agree with Jeff on the building power of "Marquee Moon" Here >> >are some of my favorites, they may not be the most popular chocies, >> >but the get me, >> >[...] >> >Baby's On Fire (Robert Fripp - Eno's first album) >> > >James came back with: >> not even the best Fripp solo on an Eno album! Check out "St Elmo's >> Fire" (erm, the Eno song, that is). Mind you, Fripp does some >> beautiful solos - His solo on The Roches' "Hammond Song" is also >> wondrous. >> > I have both of those, and they are certainly first rate solos as >well as being great songs! > >MJ Bachman I've been meaning for quite a while to burn a "Best of Fripp" CD with solos he's done for other musicians (sadly I currently don't have an active CD burner :/ The list I came up with included all of those mentioned, plus "Fade Away & Radiate" (Blondie); "I advance masked" (Summers/Fripp); "Blinding light of Heaven" (Sylvian/Fripp); "Watermusic/Here Comes the Flood" (with Peter Gabriel - off the Exposure album); "Cadence and Cascade" (King Crimson); "Ice Machine" (The Grid); and - if I can ever get it on CD - Daryl Hall's "The further away I am". 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: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:19:10 -0500 (EST) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: Some numbers are more equal than others Oops, correction, the Russian guys aren't twins. Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:48:07 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: Re: solos 'Fireball' by Deep Purple also springs to mind. Dreadful, trfuly dreadful. c* On 11/02/07, 2fs wrote: > > On 2/11/07, Gene Hopstetter, Jr. wrote: > > > > > > > > The best solo ever is Dan's Smith's on Tintern Abbey's "Vacuum > > Cleaner." > > > > Don't know that one. > > Here are two nominees for *worst* solo ever (intentionally): > > "Canyons of Your Mind" Bonzo Dog Band > "Too Much Paranoias" Devo > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:16:30 +0000 From: matt sewell Subject: RE: Colin Meloy (50% shameless SP) Yeah, I really thought I would like them but I really don't. Actually I think I loathe them, even if I haven't heard them too often - they seem to hit a Massive Annoyance switch deep in my cortex... and the hyperbole heaped upon them by those I would have expected to know better makes me a little queasy... Anyone who feels like they're about to buy a decemberist album should do themselves a favour and get Anton Barbeau's In The Village Of The Apple Sun instead... Speaking of which (seamless plugging ahead): Anton Barbeau + The New Moon + dear old lovely Mark Bosley at The Port Mahon, Oxford 13th of Feb. #4. 8pm! Cheers Matt http://www.myspace.com/thenewmoonnews http://www.myspace.com/antonbarbeau http://www.myspace.com/markbosley > Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:34:10 -0600> To: fegmaniax@smoe.org> From: aaron@starblog.org> Subject: Colin Meloy> > I want to like The Decemberists. I have tried to like them time and > again. I think that if I could hear the songs sung by someone else, > I might like some of them very much. I just canNOT get past Meloy's > whiny, nasally delivery. It grates. I can't ever get through more > than two or three songs before having to switch to something > else. Worst. Voice. Ever. I can't really explain it, but I just > can't listen to it.> > That is all. _________________________________________________________________ Personalize your Live.com homepage with the news, weather, and photos you care about. http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx?icid=T001MSN30A0701 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:30:27 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: solos Craigie wrote: >'Fireball' by Deep Purple also springs to mind. >Dreadful, trfuly dreadful. I mostly stopped caring about Deep Purple after Blackmore got rid of vocalist Rod Evans and bass player Nicky Simpier around 1970. That's okay though, Evans landed in Captain Beyond and the Captain's first album beats anything DP released during the 70's in my book. Although I know Mr. Wells will not agree with me about Deep Purple MKI vs. Deep Purple MKII, and I don't know if he has any Captain Beyond. MJ Bachman NP Talk Talk - It's My Life ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:22:33 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: Re: solos Didn't Rod Evans try to tour in the late 70's/early 80's AS Deep Purple until hec Enterprises took him to court? And if it doesn't have Jon Lord in it, It ain't Deep Purple for my money. c* On 12/02/07, Bachman, Michael wrote: > > Craigie wrote: > >'Fireball' by Deep Purple also springs to mind. > > >Dreadful, trfuly dreadful. > > I mostly stopped caring about Deep Purple after Blackmore got rid of > vocalist Rod Evans and bass player Nicky Simpier around 1970. That's > okay though, Evans landed in Captain Beyond and the Captain's first > album beats anything DP released during the 70's in my book. Although I > know Mr. Wells will not agree with me about Deep Purple MKI vs. Deep > Purple MKII, and I don't know if he has any Captain Beyond. > > MJ Bachman > > NP Talk Talk - It's My Life > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:37:05 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: solos I lost track of Rod Evans after Captain Beyond. One of the first vinyl albums I ever got when I was in my early teens was Deep Purple's second album The Book of Taliesyn, when it first came out in 1968. The third Deep Purple album with "Chasing Shadows" on it from 1969 is one of my favorite albums from that year. MJB _____ From: craigie* [mailto:craigie@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 10:23 AM To: Bachman, Michael Cc: 2fs; Not Reg Subject: Re: solos Didn't Rod Evans try to tour in the late 70's/early 80's AS Deep Purple until hec Enterprises took him to court? And if it doesn't have Jon Lord in it, It ain't Deep Purple for my money. c* On 12/02/07, Bachman, Michael wrote: Craigie wrote: >'Fireball' by Deep Purple also springs to mind. >Dreadful, trfuly dreadful. I mostly stopped caring about Deep Purple after Blackmore got rid of vocalist Rod Evans and bass player Nicky Simpier around 1970. That's okay though, Evans landed in Captain Beyond and the Captain's first album beats anything DP released during the 70's in my book. Although I know Mr. Wells will not agree with me about Deep Purple MKI vs. Deep Purple MKII, and I don't know if he has any Captain Beyond. MJ Bachman NP Talk Talk - It's My Life - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:58:28 -0600 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: purple toothbrush solos Ken: > you cannot quantify someone's personal truth or even understand it sometimes Unless you're Oliver Cromwell, of course. And then best of luck to you. > if everything is nothing, then why bother with anything? there is a way of looking at the world with awe and wonder that imbues a sense of appreciation at the wondrous complexity of everything around. isn't mystery (hysterically) subjective? so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens From William Carlos Williams (an interesting fellow in his own right), in one of many possible replies to Leibniz's question. > You arbitrarily choose "toothbrush" and, agreed, there is nothing particularly special about "toothbrush" in this manner. There's something special about mine: it is 22 / 7ths long! Mr. Bachman: > okay though, Evans landed in Captain Beyond and the Captain's first album beats anything DP released during the 70's in my book. Really? More than MACHINE HEAD? Even WHO DO WE... wasn't too bad. Rented the live "Scandinavian Nights" on Netflix and a couple of us Purple fans here at work watched it last week. Negatives: terrible camera work (staying on Gillian while Blackmore shreds), "Mule," and the NYC show tacked on. Positives: Glover's floppy hat, Blackmore (esp. on "Lazy") and Jon Lord KILLING it through the whole thing. It had never really occurred to me how important his rhythm figures were to the songs, but it's obvious here. http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=70040894&trkid=64596 I saw the 'Perfect Strangers' tour twice, and he killed it then too. Michael "that was twenty years ago, and I thought they were old then" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:18:08 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Solos On 2/12/07, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > > The list I came up with included all of those mentioned, plus "Fade > Away & Radiate" (Blondie); "I advance masked" (Summers/Fripp); > "Blinding light of Heaven" (Sylvian/Fripp); "Watermusic/Here Comes > the Flood" (with Peter Gabriel - off the Exposure album); "Cadence > and Cascade" (King Crimson); "Ice Machine" (The Grid); and - if I can > ever get it on CD - Daryl Hall's "The further away I am". _Sacred Songs_ is back in print - so you should be able to get that. No idea how readily available it is in NZ, though. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:23:08 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: solos On 2/12/07, craigie* wrote: > > 'Fireball' by Deep Purple also springs to mind. > > Dreadful, trfuly dreadful. > Yes, but was it *supposed* to be dreadful? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:29:33 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: solos ad. naus. (sorry Lauren) On 2/11/07, hssmrg@bath.ac.uk wrote: > > > * Yes, agreed. Very occasionally you see Chuck Berry on form when he > belts out one of his classic solos, but basically he doesn't care any > more. That 60th birthday film shows him (and Clapton, and KR) all > really trying, wonder of wonders. And to my mind 'Watchtower' is > over-prepared to count as a guitar solo Ah, another big caveat/question-mark in judging solos on studio records. You never know how spliced-together they are (I suspect this particularly applies to the Steely Dan tracks mentioned earlier and perhaps some of the Frippery). Nothing wrong with this, but I think it makes the "solo" a different animal. > * Get back in the studio, Rex! It's on the calendar... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:32:24 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: While I like the album a fair bit On 2/11/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > 2fs wrote: > > On 2/11/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > > and can see myself liking it more with more time, > > > I do have to say that The Good, The Bad, & The > > > Queen is the worst band name in aeons. > > > > It's certainly bad - but worse than Hoobastank? > > Hinder? The Dark Side of the Cop? Test Icicles? The Onion did a nice roundup of terrible band names, apparently an annual thing there. You can find it in the AV Club archives. My personal fave was "Lyin' Bitch and the Restraining Orders", for one reason or another. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:36:22 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Colin Meloy (50% shameless SP) On 2/12/07, matt sewell wrote: > > Yeah, I really thought I would like them but I really don't. Actually I > think > I loathe them, even if I haven't heard them too often - they seem to hit a > Massive Annoyance switch deep in my cortex... and the hyperbole heaped > upon > them by those I would have expected to know better makes me a little > queasy... That's it in a nutshell. > Anyone who feels like they're about to buy a decemberist album should do > themselves a favour and get Anton Barbeau's In The Village Of The Apple > Sun > instead... Good call, but to hear what the Decemberists are trying to do done right, I'd say immerse yourself in Fairport and its many offshoots. More authentic songs, less smirking, and yeah, somewhat better singing abound. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:32:25 -0500 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Reap Ian Richardson, actor, 72 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/3957670a1860.html xo Lauren - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:44:16 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: Re: solos I believe it was... Blackmore so hated the song, he tried to sabotage the release of the single by making the solo truly uncommercial. It wasn't the first time he'd tried this and wouldn't be the last. c* On 12/02/07, 2fs wrote: > > On 2/12/07, craigie* wrote: > > > > 'Fireball' by Deep Purple also springs to mind. > > > > Dreadful, trfuly dreadful. > > > > > Yes, but was it *supposed* to be dreadful? > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:56:55 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: purple toothbrush solos Mr. Bachman: >> okay though, Evans landed in Captain Beyond and the Captain's first >>album beats anything DP released during the 70's in my book. Mr. Wells: >Really? More than MACHINE HEAD? Even WHO DO WE... wasn't too bad. Yep! "Dancing Madly Backwards (On A Sea of Air)", "Mesmerization Eclipse" and "Myopic Void" really rock out. Bobby Caldwell is a very inventive drummer, ex-Iron Butterfly guitarist Larry Reinhardt (Rhino) and bassist Lee Dorman are also excellent. 131 reviews on Amazon, just about all of them rate it at 5 stars. Not too shabby! The album is dedicated to their Capricorn lablemate Duane Allman, who died the year before. Captain Beyond has a couple of nice extended clips on YouTube. MJB NP The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour (expanded deluxe edition). Wow, I like this one. Don't know why I didn't buy it before!!! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:06:57 -0800 From: "vivien lyon" Subject: Re: That's enough guitars (ed.) So, does that mean that you are two degrees of separation from C.S. Lewis? That's really awesome, and yet raises a host of other questions. Though we've never met, you know of me, so does that put me three degrees away from him? I have my doubts. But, I am actually real-life friends with Jim Davies, and I think you've met him in person. So that adds a degree of distance but also adds to the air of "legitimacy" in my calculations. I wonder how other people calculate the degrees. (C'mon, you know you do) Do you count the person who you know/have had contact with/been introduced to _and_ the subject of degree-counting? Also, I wonder how much contact with someone must you have for them to "count" in the chain. For instance, I would say that I'm one degree away from both Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris, having had drinks with the guy who directed them in Exit 57. Anybody say differently? Vivien On 2/9/07, hssmrg@bath.ac.uk wrote: > > > PS My batty mother-in-law used to know Sayer in the forties/early > fifties when he was headmaster of Malvern College. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:45:17 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: solos C* wrote: >I believe it was... >Blackmore so hated the song, he tried to sabotage the release of the single by making the solo truly uncommercial. It wasn't the first time he'd tried this and wouldn't be the last. Classic mid 70's Blackmore story I read some 30 plus years ago in Creem. DP were sitting is some classy restaurant eating dinner, when Blackmore stuck a fork in his baked potato and launched it across the room until it hit a wall. The manager came over and asked Blackmore if there was something wrong with his baked potato, and Ritchie said no as he proceeded to launch his undercooked steak in a similar to the potato and said to the waiter "No, I just wanted to get you attention, it's the fucking steak that's undercooked". Funny home something's remain with you all these years. It might have been Lester Bangs who wrote the article. MJ Bachman NP The second disc of The Fall's Hex Enduction Hour ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:49:17 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: purple toothbrush solos On 2/12/07, Bachman, Michael wrote: > > NP The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour (expanded deluxe edition). Wow, I like > this one. Don't know why I didn't buy it before!!! Because you were waiting for the expanded deluxe edition (which I now officially covet)? Ace, innit? Again, perhaps my favorite Fall album, which is, again, saying something. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:54:24 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: That's enough guitars (ed.) On 2/12/07, vivien lyon wrote: > > > For instance, I would say that I'm one degree away from both Stephen > Colbert > and Amy Sedaris, having had drinks with the guy who directed them in Exit > 57. Anybody say differently? I make that out as two degrees. Being zero degrees from someone would be being that person. I'm sure there are Rules of Degrees to be found somewhere which may prove me sadly mistaken! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:12:40 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: purple toothbrush solos On 2/12/07, Bachman, Michael wrote: >> >> NP The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour (expanded deluxe edition). Wow, I >> like this one. Don't know why I didn't buy it before!!! Rex came back with: >Because you were waiting for the expanded deluxe edition (which I now officially covet)? >Ace, innit? Again, perhaps my favorite Fall album, which is, again, saying something. Silly me, I always though that any Fall album that didn't have Brix would never messure up to those mid to late 80's classics, so I have somewhat resisted buying any of the pre-Brix records. I am no longer of that opinion after listening to HEH for the very first time, and it's well on it's way to being my favorite as well!!! MJB ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:16:45 -0500 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Hex Enduction Hour Hi Fegs, MJB says: > NP The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour (expanded deluxe edition). Wow, I like > this one. Don't know why I didn't buy it before!!! I don't have any fancy-pants expanded deluxe edition, but I must say that I am the very proud owner of a white vinyl copy of that that I bought a "few" years back. My favourite Fall is by far "Live at the Witch Trials" although I admit they started piling up without much of a listen after that one when they did a cover of "Victoria". I like the earlier ones enough that I never tire of them, esp. "Perverted by Language" and "The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall". Anyone have any particularly favourite "novelty"-packaged albums or CDs? How about that re-release of "Metal Box" packaged like the original issue? I'm not usually one to purchase such things, but if I passed that one in a record store, I'd give pause. And perhaps $$ as well. Speaking of novelty albums, a few years back a friend got me one of those little "Balloon Man" 3"(?) CD singles which he found in a local store. It's darling. xo Lauren - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #44 *******************************