From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #101 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, March 15 2007 Volume 16 : Number 101 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: My name is "The Allman Brothers" and I'm trying to figure out what a doobie is [Rex ] Re: My name is "The Allman Brothers" and I'm trying to figure out what a doobie is [Rex ] Random note [kevin ] Re: We are the knights who say Ning? ["Stewart Russell" ] Re: We are the knights who say Ning? [Tom Clark ] Re: My name is "The Allman Brothers" and I'm trying to figure out what a doobie is [2fs ] Re: My name is "The Allman Brothers" and I'm trying to figure out what a doobie is ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: My name is "The Allman Brothers" and I'm trying to figure out what a doobie is [craigie* Subject: Re: My name is "The Allman Brothers" and I'm trying to figure out what a doobie is On 3/14/07, Michael Sweeney wrote: > > > ...So -- we're both kinda right, but both kinda wrong. But, in a plus, > nobody's calling anyone hurtful names over it! (sorry, couldn't resist...) I have read before that the Heisenberg principle is often misinterpreted, but I think the reason it gets misinterpreted is that the crux of the misinterpretation-- the idea that the act looking at, thinking about, or becoming even marginally involved in a situation of any kind has quite a high probability of fucking up the thing be looked at or thought about, etc.-- rings quite true and resonates with the life experiences of most people, quite outside the arena of quantum physics (often as not, with regards to friendships and other messy relationship situations). So there probably should be a new "Principle" coined to descrine this. "Sweeney's Look At It and Fuck It Up Axiom", or some such thing. Hey, Godwin's already got a law... all Feggy Mike should have one. (That, by the way, is The Law of Broome's Law of Mikes Having Laws Law.) Or maybe, given our recent Trek tangent, we're all thinking of the Prime Directive. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:10:37 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: My name is "The Allman Brothers" and I'm trying to figure out what a doobie is ...quick add, upping the RH content of this thread considerably! Upon further (multiple Wikipedia entries) reading: Physicist Stephen Hawking once exclaimed, "When I hear of Schrvdinger's cat, I reach for my gun," paraphrasing German playwright and Nazi "Poet Laureate", Hanns Johst's famous phrase "Wenn ich 'Kultur' hvre, entsichere ich meine Browning!" ("When I hear the word 'culture', I release the safety on my Browning!"). The line is often reduced to "When I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun," and is usually misattributed, sometimes to Hermann Gvring and sometimes to Heinrich Himmler. ...I was familiar with this quote, and, of course, always liked Robyn's variations (in "The President"): "When I hear the word 'Democracy' / I reach for my headphones" "When I hear the word 'Security' / I reach for my shotgun" Michael "Sometimes a well-rounded education can add to the enjoyment of your favorite musical artists!" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Mortgage rates as low as 4.625% - Refinance $150,000 loan for $579 a month. Intro*Terms https://www2.nextag.com/goto.jsp?product=100000035&url=%2fst.jsp&tm=y&search=mortgage_text_links_88_h27f6&disc=y&vers=743&s=4056&p=5117 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:38:39 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: My name is "The Allman Brothers" and I'm trying to figure out what a doobie is - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sweeney Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 3:11 PM To: spottedeagleray@gmail.com Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Re: My name is "The Allman Brothers" and I'm trying to figure out what a doobie is ...quick add, upping the RH content of this thread considerably! Upon further (multiple Wikipedia entries) reading: Physicist Stephen Hawking once exclaimed, "When I hear of Schrvdinger's cat, I reach for my gun," paraphrasing German playwright and Nazi "Poet Laureate", Hanns Johst's famous phrase "Wenn ich 'Kultur' hvre, entsichere ich meine Browning!" ("When I hear the word 'culture', I release the safety on my Browning!"). The line is often reduced to "When I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun," and is usually misattributed, sometimes to Hermann Gvring and sometimes to Heinrich Himmler. When I hear the word Culture, I think of their great album Two Sevens Clash. It's a toss up for me between Black Uhuru's Red and Culture's Two Sevens Clash as being my favorite reggae album. MJ Bachman "What a liv an bamba yay...when the two sevens clash!" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:46:25 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: My name is "The Allman Brothers" and I'm trying to figure out what a doobie is First, I apologize for not being named "Michael." I will note, however, that I have a cousin, brother-in-law, and cousin-by-remarriage all named Michael, so I hope that grants me at least a temporary pass. Anyway: On 3/14/07, Michael Sweeney wrote: > > ...quick add, upping the RH content of this thread considerably! > > Upon further (multiple Wikipedia entries) reading: Physicist Stephen > Hawking once exclaimed, "When I hear of Schrvdinger's cat, I reach for my > gun," paraphrasing German playwright and Nazi "Poet Laureate", Hanns > Johst's > famous phrase "Wenn ich 'Kultur' hvre, entsichere ich meine Browning!" > ("When I hear the word 'culture', I release the safety on my Browning!"). > The line is often reduced to "When I hear the word culture, I reach for my > gun," and is usually misattributed, sometimes to Hermann Gvring and > sometimes to Heinrich Himmler. > > > ...I was familiar with this quote, and, of course, always liked Robyn's > variations (in "The President"): > "When I hear the word 'Democracy' / I reach for my headphones" > "When I hear the word 'Security' / I reach for my shotgun" And of course also the source for Mission of Burma's "That's When I Reach for My Revolver" (or, if you're Moby, "That's When I Reach for My Mollification of MTV"). - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:11:16 -0400 From: wojbearpig Subject: NEW on DIME: (DVD) Robyn Hitchcock - 1990-04-30 - Atlanta http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=138364&hit=1 - ----- Forwarded message from DIME ----- A new torrent has been uploaded to DIME. Torrent: 138364 Title: (DVD) Robyn Hitchcock - 1990-04-30 - Atlanta Size: 6.29 GB Category: Acoustic Uploaded by: terrapin5000 Description - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robyn Hitchcock April 30, 1990 The Point Atlanta Video: MPEG-2, 720 X 480 (NTSC), 4:3 Audio: Linear PCM, 2ch, 48kbps 16bps Lineage not known. As with the other discs in this series, I rate the video quality about B-, and the audio quality about B (note that there is quite a bit of audience chatter at times). Setlist: Satellite Autumn Is Your Last Chance Young People Scream Queen Elvis The Devil's Coachman Glass Hotel Executioner Flavour Of Night I Got The Hots I Used To Say I Love You Bass Glass My Wife And My Dead Wife Beautiful Girl Raymond Chandler Evening Madonna Of The Wasps Listening To The Higsons I Often Dream Of Trains My Favourite Buildings Cynthia Mask ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:45:30 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: My name is "The Allman Brothers" and I'm trying to figure out what a doobie is On 3/14/07, 2fs wrote: > > > > ...I was familiar with this quote, and, of course, always liked Robyn's > > variations (in "The President"): > > "When I hear the word 'Democracy' / I reach for my headphones" > > "When I hear the word 'Security' / I reach for my shotgun" > > > And of course also the source for Mission of Burma's "That's When I Reach > for My Revolver" (or, if you're Moby, "That's When I Reach for My > Mollification of MTV"). Well, ya beat me to that one. Moby gave an interview citing various potential changes to the lyric he considered before settling on "That's When I Realize It's Over", saying that his favorite was "That's When I Reach for My Chihuahua". That became the title of the birthday mix CD I gave to a good friend that year, and she liked the title so much that I retained it for every subsequent mix tape I made for her, paired with equally bizarre subtitles. I missed a few years but I've just about finished "TWIRFMC Volumes 5 & 6" for her birthday this year. - -Rex, self-obsessed and sexxee, but occasionally relevantly so ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:46:26 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: My name is "The Allman Brothers" and I'm trying to figure out what a doobie is Hi Fegs, Michael Sweeney says: > But, in a plus, > nobody's calling anyone hurtful names over it! (sorry, couldn't resist...) Oh that's what you think... ..."Michael" ;) And this part has nothing to do with Michael... See, this was one of my points about Wikipedia. As much as I love it, it's starting to ruin the fine art of bullshitting! Although I imagine we're relatively safe for the time being, as dining room tables and meeting rooms are where the true bullshitting gets done. Slight tangent: plus there's always Andy's Theorem which posits that two people that don't know what they're talking about might actually know even less than one person who doesn't know what he's talking about: http://www.cartalk.com/content/read-on/1997/10-24-97-1.html And really, if people don't bullshit, what the hell will they talk about? xo - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:08:29 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter Jr." Subject: Raw Records downloads The Mutant Sounds MP3 blog has put two Raw Records compilations up for download; they feature some Soft Boys songs. It's neat to hear the Boys' labelmates. You can find them here: . ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:10:17 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: My name is "The Allman Brothers" and I'm trying to figure out what a doobie is On 3/14/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > And really, if people don't bullshit, what the hell will they talk about? Ah, it's not just the bullshitting I miss... it's the pulling down of a hefty reference volume from a high shelf and paging through it to settle those esoteric dinner-party disputes. I mourn the loss of the usefulness of an atlas at least as much as that of the LP sleeve... We have a giant old dictionary at home on the 2nd floor landing to which I can still run from any given point in the house and look up a word more quickly than it can be Wiki'd, so long as the Wiki'er isn't sitting at the computer already. Because that's how we live. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:03:20 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: NPR Thursday Night: Robyn Hitchcock in Session _http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7986700_ (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7986700) In Performance Thursday Night: Robyn Hitchcock in Session Audio Available on Thursday Night, Produced by KUT Robyn Hitchcock _NPR.org_ (http://www.npr.org/) , March 14, 2007 7 Robyn Hitchcock knows no trends. In the mid-'70s, when punk was all the underground rage in England, his band The Soft Boys played psychedelic folk-rock and inspired the likes of R.E.M. and Camper Van Beethoven. Long into his solo career with various backing bands (The Egyptians, The Venus 3), Hitchcock continues to carry psychedelic music's swirling torch. Hitchcock currently pursues a film and art career in addition to his eclectic and ever-expanding discography. _KUT_ (http://www.kut.org/) reflects Austin's diverse live music scene: Americana, rock, folk, jazz, and blues. Related NPR Stories * Dec. 7, 2006 _Robyn Hitchcock: Willfully Eclectic_ (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6593139)


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AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:44:09 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: We are the knights who say Ning? So I'm a hip Web 2.0 guy, right? Hardly. In fact the whole "social network" thing makes me want to hurl. Nonetheless, just for grins I started a feg page at ning.com, a new "create your own themed social network" site. It's pretty sparse at the moment, but it does include a rather hideous photo of my nom de web, Denis Vengeance. Check it out here: http://fegmaniax.ning.com/ Join up and add shit. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:29:22 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Random note Currently listening to Little Feat's 2nd opus, Sailin' Shoes. I don't mind saying that when this platter came out back in 19 and 72 I was impressed enough that I bought half a dozen of 'em to give out at Xmas. Now I may have been subject to bias, given that I was living in the haze of the Avocado Empire at that time and the Feats were definitely the house band du jour, but here it is 35 years later and I'm still pretty fond of it. From the wacko Buddy Holly groove of "Easy to Slip" to the demonic instrumental break in "Texas Rose Cafe" it still leaves me with a grin and without any of the watered-down jazzizm of their later work, either. So what do y'all think out there in Fegland? Can I get a amen? Interesting sight earlier this week: guy in full camo down at Westlake Park holding up a roughly 3X3-foot sign reading FATHER KILLED BY NINJAS - NEED $ FOR KARATE LESSONS. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:05:40 -0500 From: "Stewart Russell" Subject: Re: We are the knights who say Ning? Sheesh, I need a meta-social web aggregator. Myspace, facebook, twitter (which has to be the most compellingly inane shit ever), ... The list is too long. Stewart On 14/03/07, Tom Clark wrote: > So I'm a hip Web 2.0 guy, right? Hardly. In fact the whole "social > network" thing makes me want to hurl. Nonetheless, just for grins I > started a feg page at ning.com, a new "create your own themed social > network" site. It's pretty sparse at the moment, but it does include > a rather hideous photo of my nom de web, Denis Vengeance. Check it > out here: > http://fegmaniax.ning.com/ > > Join up and add shit. > -tc > - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:05:55 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Happy Pi Day Hi Fegs, I almost missed this... My computer linguistics professor informed us that it is Pi Day (3-14). Although in U.K. is it 14-3 perhaps? poor folks, you might not even have a Pi Day over there. So go crazy and recite some digits. Or for you family folks, pi makes good bedtime reading for the youngsters: http://www.exploratorium.edu/pi/Pi10-6.html xo P.S. Playing that Kate Bush song is cheating! - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:09:01 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: We are the knights who say Ning? On Mar 14, 2007, at 6:05 PM, Stewart Russell wrote: > > On 14/03/07, Tom Clark wrote: >> So I'm a hip Web 2.0 guy, right? Hardly. In fact the whole "social >> network" thing makes me want to hurl. Nonetheless, just for grins I >> started a feg page at ning.com, a new "create your own themed social >> network" site. It's pretty sparse at the moment, but it does include >> a rather hideous photo of my nom de web, Denis Vengeance. Check it >> out here: >> http://fegmaniax.ning.com/ >> >> Join up and add shit. >> -tc > Sheesh, I need a meta-social web aggregator. Myspace, facebook, > twitter (which has to be the most compellingly inane shit ever), ... > The list is too long. > No shit. And I compound my anger by reading Valleywag.com. All the photos of those 20-something's acting like they invented the fucking internet. And then there's that frigtard Kevin Rose... Anyway, like I said, I did it to see what all the fuss is about. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:13:35 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: My name is "The Allman Brothers" and I'm trying to figure out what a doobie is On 3/14/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > > Slight tangent: plus there's always Andy's Theorem which posits that > two people that don't know what they're talking about might actually > know even less than one person who doesn't know what he's talking > about: This explains Republicans. Seriously: it does help explain the curious phenomenon that people who watch *more* TV news tend to know less about reality than people who watch less. Of course, the correlation may flow the other way (ignorant people are inclined to watch more TV). - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:37:52 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: for Stew/Negro Problem fans - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:51:13 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: My name is "The Allman Brothers" and I'm trying to figure out what a doobie is 2fs says: > This explains Republicans. > > Seriously: it does help explain the curious phenomenon that people who watch > *more* TV news tend to know less about reality than people who watch less. > Of course, the correlation may flow the other way (ignorant people are > inclined to watch more TV). There was a bit on probably "All Things Considered" many years ago that was someone reporting after they had gone around collecting overheard bits of misinformation. I wish I could remember some more, but the one I remember was some guy overheard explaining how fax machines work: "It's like two xerox machines hooked up by telephone." xo - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:26:13 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: Re: Happy Pi Day here, in the UK, we have to make do with 22/7 as our Pi day. Which is more accurate than your 3-14 any day. so there. c* On 15/03/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > Hi Fegs, > > I almost missed this... > > My computer linguistics professor informed us that it is Pi Day (3-14). > > Although in U.K. is it 14-3 perhaps? poor folks, you might not even > have a Pi Day over there. > > So go crazy and recite some digits. Or for you family folks, pi makes > good bedtime reading for the youngsters: > http://www.exploratorium.edu/pi/Pi10-6.html > > xo > > P.S. Playing that Kate Bush song is cheating! > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." > > - The Buddha > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:33:03 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: Re: My name is "The Allman Brothers" and I'm trying to figure out what a doobie is When *I* hear the word 'Culture' I am reminded that in Japanese it is 'bunka'. What, then, are we to make of the Teardrop Explodes song ' Culture Bunker'? c* On 14/03/07, Bachman, Michael wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On > Behalf Of Michael Sweeney > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 3:11 PM > To: spottedeagleray@gmail.com > Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org > Subject: Re: My name is "The Allman Brothers" and I'm trying to figure > out what a doobie is > > ...quick add, upping the RH content of this thread considerably! > > Upon further (multiple Wikipedia entries) reading: Physicist Stephen > Hawking once exclaimed, "When I hear of Schrvdinger's cat, I reach for > my gun," paraphrasing German playwright and Nazi "Poet Laureate", Hanns > Johst's famous phrase "Wenn ich 'Kultur' hvre, entsichere ich meine > Browning!" > ("When I hear the word 'culture', I release the safety on my > Browning!"). > The line is often reduced to "When I hear the word culture, I reach for > my gun," and is usually misattributed, sometimes to Hermann Gvring and > sometimes to Heinrich Himmler. > > When I hear the word Culture, I think of their great album Two Sevens > Clash. It's a toss up for me between Black Uhuru's > Red and Culture's Two Sevens Clash as being my favorite reggae album. > > MJ Bachman > > "What a liv an bamba yay...when the two sevens clash!" > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:10:34 +0000 From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Re: Random note - -------------- Original message -------------- From: kevin > Currently listening to Little Feat's 2nd opus, Sailin' Shoes. I don't mind > saying that when this platter came out back in 19 and 72 I was impressed enough > that I bought half a dozen of 'em to give out at Xmas. Now I may have been > subject to bias, given that I was living in the haze of the Avocado Empire at > that time and the Feats were definitely the house band du jour, but here it is > 35 years later and I'm still pretty fond of it. From the wacko Buddy Holly > groove of "Easy to Slip" to the demonic instrumental break in "Texas Rose Cafe" > it still leaves me with a grin and without any of the watered-down jazzizm of > their later work, either. So what do y'all think out there in Fegland? Can I > get a amen? AMEN! It's my favorite studio album of their's, but the deluxe expanded reissue of the live album "Waiting For Columbus" is still their nadir. Sailin' Shoes would be right up there in my top 10 for 1972 along with #1 Record, Transformer, Pink Moon, Ziggy, Close To The Edge, Neu!, Roxy Music, Ege Bamyasi and Eat a Peach. MJ Bachman ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:35:19 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: My title is "The Pope", and my cat smells like something Eb's butt dragged in Stacked Crooked wrote: > > keep in mind, however, that "biscuit" has an entirely different meaning in > australia than it does in canada. I don't think so. A Canadian biscuit is the same as a British one. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:07:41 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: Re: My title is "The Pope", and my cat smells like something Eb's butt dragged in Wasn't this thread originally about the Digest(ive)? ... I'll get me coat... c* On 15/03/07, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > > Stacked Crooked wrote: > > > > keep in mind, however, that "biscuit" has an entirely different meaning > in > > australia than it does in canada. > > I don't think so. A Canadian biscuit is the same as a British one. > > Stewart > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:31:06 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: My name is "The Allman Brothers" and I'm trying to figure out what a doobie is - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of 2fs Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 12:14 AM To: Not Reg Subject: Re: My name is "The Allman Brothers" and I'm trying to figure out what a doobie is On 3/14/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: >> >> >> > Slight tangent: plus there's always Andy's Theorem which posits that >> two people that don't know what they're talking about might actually >>know even less than one person who doesn't know what he's talking >> about: >This explains Republicans. >Seriously: it does help explain the curious phenomenon that people who watch >*more* TV news tend to know less about reality than people who watch less. >Of course, the correlation may flow the other way (ignorant people are inclined to watch more TV). Hmm, I watch Countdown and Hardball when I can. PBS News Hour on Friday night for the analysis of Shields and Brooks and Meet The Press every once I a while. I figure I get bonus points though for having the Fox News channel pc blocked the last few years. MJ Bachman NP John Pizzarelli - knowing you ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:05:12 +0000 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #100 > Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:48:12 -0700 > From: Carrie Galbraith > Subject: Re: movie talk > Somewhere, deep in my > library, I have an "unauthorized" biography of the Rolling Stones > that I bought with my allowance money in '71 or '72. A lot of > coverage of the Circus event, Altamont and the film Performance, > which I still think is mind-blowing and just recently was released on > DVD. The biography is beautifully written, has an in depth look at > Brian Jones, and is filled with great images of early Stones, who I > thought were the greatest thing when I was a teenager. Led Zep be > damned and the Beatles? Old dudes by then. Or at least until Plastic > Ono and the discovery of Mr. Lennon, God rest his soul. But when I > first heard Pink Floyd, well, even the Stones took a back seat... > - - c * Me too. My memories of the Stones Rock'n'Roll Circus were published in a letter to Mojo some years ago. I did get Eric Clapton's autograph on a Marquee handout on the set but haven't seen it for quite a while. Didn't bother to get John Lennon or Yoko Ono's autograph, of course... and couldn't get near to Brian, Mick, Keith, Charlie or Bill. > ps: I had tickets to see the Stones at the Forum, in Inglewood, in > '73 I think. My parents forbade my going, with my dad calling them > the "center of the drug culture." I got caught climbing out my window > to meet my friends to go to the show. *sigh* They told me is was > incredible and our seats were about 20 rows back from the stage... * They were impressive in '73 but were definitely on that devil trip by then, playing 'Dancing with Mister D' and all that other 'Goat's Head Soup' stuff, but they were doing a stunning 'You can't always get what you want' at that time. I would still say that they were better in '71 when they were previewing 'Dead Flowers', 'Bitch' and 'Brown Sugar'. > Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:56:19 EDT > From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com > Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 US Tour > 3/14 SXSW > 4:00 pm at Austin Convention Center, Daystage One. Robyn will be appearing > with Joe Boyd, who will be reading selections from his book White Bicyles > while Robyn performs songs by the people he mentions, whom he > recorded back then. * In that case he must perform 'My White Bicycle'! I would love to be there. > Half Man Half Biscuit - four stars.> * Saw them once, but they weren't as funny as the Bonzos or the Albertos. Has anyone else heard 'Anadin' recently? Or 'No legs he cry'? They were a really amusing band, led by C P Lee who wrote that book about the 'Judas' episode. > Michael "Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush woulda got it right the first time!" Sweeney * Never forgiven MGM for cutting that 'Dr Hack-in-a-puss' song out of the film and substituting the ghastly water ballet... > Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:51:09 -0500 > From: Barbara Soutar > Subject: RE: Long and probably unnecessary posting > Just wanted to put in my opinion on the Buddy Holly/Beatles connection. > Since Buddy Holly toured England to adoring crowds, it follows that > English lads learned that even nerds could be rock and rollers! Anything > goes... goofy glasses and stutter and all. Didn't have to be a > sexually-charge Elvis or an authentic black guy. I am convinced that > this gave permission to all the little blokes to dive into it and voila: > The British Invasion. > Barbara Soutar > Victoria, BC > (Hope this makes it onto the 100th digest. Fast and furiously typing) > End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #100 > ******************************** * You only just made it, Barbara! Totally agree about the sensational effect of Buddy Holly and the Crickets touring the UK. And also Eddie Cochran: Georgie Fame has interesting reminiscences of being in Eddie Cochran's band up to the night he died. Apparently Eddie Cochran was the first person who performed Ray Charles songs in the UK (notably 'Hallelujah I love her so') and he turned all the British musicians on to Ray Charles, particularly the Animals. - - Mike 'how an elephant got in my pyjamas I'll never know' Godwin ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #101 ********************************