From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #128 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, March 29 2007 Volume 16 : Number 128 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: NYC Knitting Factory Show 03/28/07 [Steve Talkowski ] Re: My name is "Eb", and my mom used to beat me on my bareass with a white-hot curling iron -- but unbeknownst to her, I rather enjoyed it!!! [] re: apropos of corn [kevin ] Re: apropos of corn [Rex ] Re: apropos of corn [Rex ] Re: undigested [Rex ] Re: the growing menace of cephalopod muggers [Rex ] Re: the growing menace of cephalopod muggers [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: the growing menace of cephalopod muggers [Christopher Gross ] Re: NYC Knitting Factory Show 03/28/07 ["Daniel Lynch" ] iConcertCal iTunes Plug-in [Steve Talkowski ] RE: Apropos of Corn ["Bachman, Michael" Subject: Re: NYC Knitting Factory Show 03/28/07 Hey Mike, If I knew what you looked like I might've been able to spot you in that crowded throng of fegs. Damn it was bloody hot though, eh? I was standing just right of the merch table, ducking out to the bar every so often just to get some air (and water) I thought the show was great also, though it began a bit slow at first. Perhaps it was just the uncomfortable heat and constant being bumped into by these annoying women. Honestly, what compels someone to literally stand 1" in front of your body - when there's plenty of room further out - and proceed to have some pointless conversation w/ o realizing that your standing right there? Argh. But once it picked up I was in the groove and the jangly guitars made me smile. Was glad to hear The Authority Box, sad that he didn't play Underground Sun. Chinese Bones, Queen of Eyes, Madonna of the Wasps, ARS, love it. Wasn't too fond of his Pink Moon though. And - for a first time ever - I bought one of those well designed concert posters. - -Steve On Mar 29, 2007, at 1:33 AM, m swedene wrote: > Just got home.... > > Great energy. > Great show. > > Once I get a chance to split up tracks, I will seed the show on Dime. > > Highlights: > > No Guests, although Beck was there in the crowd. > > Shirts: > 1) Main set: Black and White floral-esque pattern > 2) Encore - Purple(y)/Blue with big flower > 3) post show blue button down > > Highlights: > Arms Of Love > Chinese Bones > Pink Moon > Madonna of the Wasps > > So many to list.... and morning comes early. > > Have a Feggy Day! > > Mike ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:20:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: the growing menace of cephalopod muggers http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/03/the_humboldts_are_rising.php - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:01:51 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: My name is i've yet to read a >satisfactory explanation for *why* we started civilisation, given that it's >resulted in more toil, more hardship, less leisure, lower life-expectancy. >but i'd recommend a quite fascinating and very readable overview of the >process by which it happened: *Savages And Civilization*, by jack >weatherford. Thx for the pointer, I'll hunt it down @ library. Personally I like Terence McKenna's speculations about human culture as a consequence of eating mushrooms growing in cow flop. Not necessarily advocating for his theories, I just like his style. He was a very entertaining guy. Wd also recommend "Tree Of Origin," essays in primatology as it relates to human evolution edited by Frans de Waal. Haven't looked at it recently but it was a very eye-opening, not to say depressing, read. I was previously not aware how adept chimpanzees are at warfare, nor that they practice cannibalism - and somewhere in the text was a very impressive argument that the language aptitude of modern humans can be traced to our primate ancestors' development of communication skills in order to lie to each other more effectively. (Or should that be efficiently?) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:17:18 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and my mom used to beat me on my bareass with a white-hot curling iron -- but unbeknownst to her, I rather enjoyed it!!! On 3/28/07, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > > or, here's the other thing i've been thinking lately: as *Pet Sounds* > (which i can't stand, but, whatever) was a response to *Rubber Soul*, and > *Sgt. Pepper* a response to *Pet Sounds*; perhaps *The Crane Wife* was a > response to *Twin Cinema*, and now the new pornographers must take up the > gauntlet threwn down by *The Crane Wife*. As a lover of the NP's and possessor of an ever-increasing Decemberists aversion, I can only say, gawd, I hope not. But I'm not that worried about it... the Beatles and Beach Boys were twinned by cultural and interpersonal forces that don't pertain to any two bands these days. Rock and roll was smaller back then, and we liked it. > that's an early contender for laugh-out-loud-est line of the year. > (although it also itches one of my pet peeves: should be "Popeye*'s* and > Yahweh's".) But that makes them sound like competing chicken restaurants. Which is pretty good lulz, actually. > > interesting! seems like it should be fairly easy, then, for some > pissed-off auteur to leak his or her original "vision" to the internet, > no? > or has this already been happening, and i've simply missed it? Well, since the "split track masters" have six to eight tracks of audio, it's not that easy unless you actually have a (usually) DigiBeta machine which runs all eight tracks, and the studio owns those masters and generally wouldn't loan them out to Pissed Off Auteur Guy, who probably wouldn't have a DigiBeta machine, it's trickier than it might seem. It's not undoable, but with most of the software out there you'd have to transfer all eight tracks into a sound applications, edit them, and remarry them to the video. So for "us" (we who control the master tapes and deal with the labs who do the dubbing) it's pretty easy, but for "civilians" it'd require a lot of chicanery and payola to do something like that. Analogy: mashups are easy, but remixes require access to master tapes. If that makes sense. and speaking of leaks: not that i'm complaining, but, how difficult could > it actually be to trace them back to the source? are there really so many > people that have access to the material that it's impossible to figure out > who did it? In the music biz, I couldn't say, but for some reason I think it'd be easier with music than with film. But that's because I know it would be really easy to leak film material, and a lot of people within any given studio have easy acces to material with which it would be easy to do it fairly invisibly. But that's a very different ballgame-- see recent discussions of why people don't download movies that much yet. An album leak is pretty much the final product out the door; film leaks are usually trailers or rough footage for some rabid fanbase with a boner to get a good look at the new CGI version of Optimus Prime or some shit. And by the way, how the hell is "Transformers" a big-budget project that people are excited about in 2007 anyway? Isn't that one of those things that you might've dug in childhood, but was actually so completely vapid and crass that it's impossible to look back on it later as cool? I could understand if someone was trying to do, like, "Star Blazers" or "Robotech" or something, since adapted anime actually had characters and plots and stuff, but "Transformers" really was a toy commercial and the only memory it congures up for me is, wow, I made my parents throw away a lot of money on little cars that could turn into, like, the same car with spindly legs and a head. But apparently big name screenwriters who are "fans of the franchise" workshopped the script on this thing. I'm happy for the Rise of the Geek as a Cultural Force, really, but can't the geeks be a little more discerning in their nostalgia? (Maybe I just expect more because I know so many geeks that aren't as emotionally stunted as the stereotype would have it. But then again, maybe when you get rich by geekery, there's less incentive to grow out of the emotional stuntedness. Also then again, the people who are still excited about the Transformers movie also, by definition, find watching a Michael Bay film acceptable, and are thus far beyond salvation in this world.) - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:22:14 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: re: apropos of corn > art and religion aside, the idea of efficient assumes that there is some standard that everyone agrees upon. social darwinism dilutes any sense of strength. is it lawyers, guns, and money that make us strong? Mostly it's just a great song. I'd argue that an efficient organism (individual, species, nation, corporation, whatever) is one whose behavior is oriented toward its long-term welfare/survival, which would necessarily require taking care of its environment and maintaining good relations with its neighbors. In the long run (which is more or less my default state) any other behavior will be self-defeating. At present it's looking like the wasteful practices humans routinely engage in are inefficient enough to ensure our failure, from an evolutionary standpoint. I suspect that the massive brain of the human is going to prove to be another tragic example of overspecialization... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:23:31 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: apropos of corn On 3/28/07, ken ostrander wrote: > it's like two xerox machines hooked up by telephone Ken, you are the winningest at these. > > np 'reformation post-t.l.c.' the fall Not up to the standard of the last two, but it's got some high highs, huh? I treasure "Insult Song", although I sure wish I knew what kind of accent MES is attempting at the beginning of it... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:29:51 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: apropos of corn On 3/28/07, Benjamin Lukoff wrote: > > > People want not to have to work--but they don't REALLY want to be > wasteful, do they? I mean, seriously wasteful? It's not that they wake up and say, "How to waste today"? It's more like Lauren's model... they desire to be able to do whatever they want without consequences, and with money, they don't have to live in or near the consequences of their waste, and they got to die before those consequences bite the entire human race in the ass. And sometimes megalomania and the desire to be respected and feared leads the powerful to want to demonstrate power by how casually they can waste stuff... human life, money, conspicuous consumption. Think of historical dictators, Bond villains, rappers, CEO's... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:38:52 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: undigested On 3/28/07, ken ostrander wrote: > > >>for the time being i have to make the most of blue's > >> clues, wonderpets, and dragon tales. > > > >Oh noes. I don't know the middle one! The land of Little Girl TV has > moved > >on... my kids are growing up... sniff... > > that reminds me of 'click': "i missed the whole 'dragon tales' era?" > wonder pets is the new currency. it's three singing animals who help other > animals in trouble. now we need to find a way to help the parents who get > in trouble absentmindedly singing the catchy little tunes from the show, > making their little shuggies want to watch it immediately. > > > > >>>> > the need to provide for, and > explaing things to, others whom you love unconditionally, gives you a > purpose, and a reason to separate the philosophical wheat from the chaff > as > you go along. If, when it comes down to it, it's not worth imparting to > your child to help them deal with, then you can let go of needing to > puzzle > it out for yourself a little more easily. > <<<< > > keep it simple. as a parent you really come to understand how a lot of > the complications are just intellectual machismo. Right. Ideally you start to care less about appearing to be right, and just start trying to be right. It's even more imperative if you have a divorce to explain/make up for. Just do it right from there on out. It makes it a lot easier to explain what the hell's going on to the kids when you're not making excuses for your own questionable judgment. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:54:37 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: the growing menace of cephalopod muggers On 3/29/07, Christopher Gross wrote: > > http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/03/the_humboldts_are_rising.php Keep meaning to mention this, but the comic strip LIO, which replaced MALLARD DRINKMORE in the LA Times, is turning out to have quite a high squid-quotient. All I can find is this: http://kalimao.blogspot.com/search/label/lio ...but the kid's pet squid did mug/devour someone earlier this week. One to watch. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:00:24 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and my mom used to beat me on my bareass with a white-hot curling iron -- but unbeknownst to her, I rather enjoyed it!!! On 3/29/07, Rex wrote: > > > And by the way, how the hell is "Transformers" a big-budget project that > people are excited about in 2007 anyway? > I think - more than the intense aridity of the imaginative desert in which greenlighters apparently search in vain for the merest sign of creativity - that it's a profound lack of respect in the public's imagination. We can't be expected to like anything *new*; we have to have some callback to our childhood, our teens, something that's been proven to work. Big bucks and careers are at stake! I suppose there have always been boneheadedly stupid movies...but it's as if all major movies in the 1940s had been geared toward, I dunno, some hypothetical uneducated rural rube who finds chickens' heads being chopped off unimaginably funny, and every other movie finds new ways to chop chickens' heads off, or something. I mean, "Norbit" WTF? Are there actual adults who don't need bystanders to remind them how to breathe amused by that? Or is the assumption that only stunted adolescents laughing like Beavis and Butthead (mouth open, spastically) go to movies any more? Are there major, mainstream entertainment productions that are actually aimed at adults? And I mean "adult" in the actual sense, not as dumb-ass synonym for porn. (Ooopsy...forgot my happy pills!) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:16:25 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: the growing menace of cephalopod muggers On 3/29/07, Christopher Gross wrote: > > http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/03/the_humboldts_are_rising.php I should also have pointed to this, which is sorta silly, but I wanna see which feg scores the highest: http://www.squidsquid.com/squidquotient.php In the interest of full disclosure, I got 154, and yes, I know I'm gonna get pwned. But at least I scored a Wire record! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:23:50 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and my mom used to beat me on my bareass with a white-hot curling iron -- but unbeknownst to her, I rather enjoyed it!!! Stacked Crooked says: > of the civilized world to me or we'd still be living in caves.> > > the world'd be a lot better off if it were the case. well that's would be all fine for the world and stuff, but what the fuck would i do, pregnant again without even zeno's paradox to ponder? xo - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:35:48 -0800 (PST) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: My name is On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, kevin wrote: > Wd also recommend "Tree Of Origin," essays in primatology as it relates > to human evolution edited by Frans de Waal. Haven't looked at it > recently but it was a very eye-opening, not to say depressing, read. I > was previously not aware how adept chimpanzees are at warfare, nor that > they practice cannibalism - and somewhere in the text was a very > impressive argument that the language aptitude of modern humans can be > traced to our primate ancestors' development of communication skills in > order to lie to each other more effectively. (Or should that be > efficiently?) Anyone ever read Richard Dawkins's "The Ancestor's Tale"? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:30:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: the growing menace of cephalopod muggers Rex wrote: > I should also have pointed to this, which is sorta silly, but I > wanna see which feg scores the highest: > > http://www.squidsquid.com/squidquotient.php > > In the interest of full disclosure, I got 154, and yes, I know I'm > gonna get pwned. But at least I scored a Wire record! 154. I'd prefer Pink Flag. "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mail ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:37:51 -0800 (PST) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and my mom used to beat me on my bareass with a white-hot curling iron -- but unbeknownst to her, I rather enjoyed it!!! On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Rex wrote: > And by the way, how the hell is "Transformers" a big-budget project that > people are excited about in 2007 anyway? Isn't that one of those things > that you might've dug in childhood, but was actually so completely vapid and > crass that it's impossible to look back on it later as cool? I could Well...not COOL per se--but it brings back some great memories. Hey, Eric Idle as Wreck-Gar!! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:51:22 -0800 From: "vivien lyon" Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and my mom used to beat me on my bareass with a white-hot curling iron -- but unbeknownst to her, I rather enjoyed it!!! The little theater in my 'hood played The Transformers Movie (the old one, obviously) last summer and I went to see it. Goddamn but that was a good time. Beer helped. The audience was incredibly enthusiastic, also. "Oh shit, what are we gonna do now?" <-- was in movie, made everyone scream in exulatation. Plus, Weird Al's "Dare to be Stupid" is played over an entire battle scene. On 3/29/07, Benjamin Lukoff wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Rex wrote: > > > And by the way, how the hell is "Transformers" a big-budget project that > > people are excited about in 2007 anyway? Isn't that one of those things > > that you might've dug in childhood, but was actually so completely vapid > and > > crass that it's impossible to look back on it later as cool? I could > > Well...not COOL per se--but it brings back some great memories. Hey, Eric > Idle as Wreck-Gar!! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:04:06 -0400 From: wojbearpig Subject: Nothampton Iron Horse gig preceded by free public appearance on Main St! - ----- Forwarded message from jimneill ----- To: RobynHitchcockClub@yahoogroups.com From: "jimneill" Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:37:35 -0000 Thu 3/29 Robyn and the V3 + Sebadoh will do a live remote on WRSI 93.9 FM from the Northampton Box Office, 76 Main st in Northampton MA at 5PM prior to the 7PM gig at The Iron Horse. Sebadog (reunion!) at Pearl street after the Robyn show. - ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:50:08 -0500 From: Johnathan Vail Subject: Apropos of Corn > Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:18:30 -0700 > From: "Stacked Crooked" > > > back anything lukewarm I have said about them since November.> > > i've been listening to *Crane Wife* *a lot* lately. if i had my '06 list > to do over again, it'd finish much closer to the top-five. > > I saw them Friday and been listening to the Crane Wife as well. My infatuation increases with every listen. Is there a recording of the recent tour, especially of Boston? I can't get a new Dime account to see myself... I was hoping to see Robyn or Sebadoh next week but alas I have fatherhood this weekend. I suppose I will just have to listen to people talk about how great it was here. jv - -- Blog: http://volcano.newts.org ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:38:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: the growing menace of cephalopod muggers 162.25! - --Squidly ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:21:47 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: Apropos of Corn Lauren roomcounted: >Is it my imagination or has the show attendance been pretty high? >It's been nice to see the turnouts at the last few shows I've attended >- - Sellersville and Maxwells (first night, I think the second night had >lower turn-out) in November and Philadelphia this past week. It seems >the band shows are more popular than the solo shows of the past few >years. My experience has been limited to Chicago (until Philly the other night), but even the many multiple solo shows (plus the Soft Boys gigs) over the years have been pretty packed...into varying size venues, of course (750s, 1,000s, large bars for multi-nights). All that, plus even the venerable we-all-used-to-love-it "Fine ROck" station, WXRT, can be barely bothered to play RH anymore. Heard the title arachnid track on there maybe 2 or 3 times, but...other than that, not so much support (although Robyn did appear on Jon Langford's every-other-week show on 'XRT back last fall). They broke him for me, playing "Egyptian Cream," "Another Bubble," and "my Wife..." back in '86 until I bought in with "Fegmania!"...and it's been yips-a-doodle ever since for me. He used to do in-studios there fairly regularly..and the Nov. show was supposed to be taped for an 'XRT airing, but I never heard further. Aw, hell -- it just could be that I don't listen as much as I used to (the quality of the station had definitely gone down over the last decade), but I just don't hear much radio support here at all, and I am always pleasantly surprised by the ongoing live-gig support for RH by the windy city feg contingent... >My "date" would attribute it to Mr. Peter Buck, but then he's... Tom Clark? >...like that, you know. Ahhhh -- I see...My bad for jumping the gun. (And bonus joke for Chicago fegs -- with the hair cut, Mr. Buck now sorta resembles a younger "Fast Eddie" Vrdolyak, a local politician of dubious ethics who used to stymie Mayor Harold Washington back in the "Council Wars" days of the mid-'80s...Not the best pic, (recent; all I could find; this guy's stock around here has fallen nearly as far as Steve Bartman's or Alan Keyes') but here's a link to give you non-Chicagoans an idea: http://www.vrdolyak.com/bio_edwardvrdolyak.html) Michael "Chicago ain't ready for reform!" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ i'm making a difference. Make every IM count for the cause of your choice. Join Now. http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwme0080000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://im.live.com/messenger/im/home/?source=hmtagline ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:44:45 -0500 From: "Daniel Lynch" Subject: Re: NYC Knitting Factory Show 03/28/07 > From: "m swedene" > Subject: NYC Knitting Factory Show 03/28/07 > > Just got home.... > > Great energy. > Great show. > > Once I get a chance to split up tracks, I will seed the show on Dime. > > Highlights: > > No Guests, although Beck was there in the crowd. > > Shirts: > 1) Main set: Black and White floral-esque pattern > 2) Encore - Purple(y)/Blue with big flower > 3) post show blue button down > > Highlights: > Arms Of Love > Chinese Bones > Pink Moon > Madonna of the Wasps > > So many to list.... and morning comes early. > > Have a Feggy Day! > > Mike Hi Mike and Fegmaniax. My first post here, and thankfully it will be a contribution.... My recording from last night. Will be seeded too: Robyn Hitchcock and Minus 3 2007-03-28 Knitting Factory New York, NY USA Digital Audience Master Recorded from Front of Board 20 feet directly in front of stage right PA Speakers Neumann KM-150's (AK-50 Hypercardiod Capsules) > Apogee Minime > digital coaxial > M-Audio Microtrack > 24bit 48kHz wav file > Soundforge (downsample, set fades, no other editing) > CD Wave 1.95 (tracking) > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac Terrific concert, wonderful recording. The only drawback is slightly apparent during quieter moments--three electric ceiling fans were on throughout the concert. This is the 16bit version for CD burning. The 24bit recording is available upon request. Recorded and Produced by danlynch 2007-03-29 The Minus 3: Peter Buck: guitar Scott McCaughey: bass Bill Rieflin: drums [total time 1:49:30] Setlist 01 [banter] 02 I Got The Hots 03 1974 04 Pink Moon (Nick Drake) 05 [banter] 06 The Afterlight 07 [banter] 08 Ole! Tarantula 09 She Belongs To Me (Dylan) 10 Sally Was a Legend 11 Intro Improv > Balloon Man 12 [banter] 13 Chinese Bones 14 Vibrating 15 [banter] 16 Television 17 Beautiful Queen 18 Creeped Out 19 The Authority Box 20 Madonna of the Wasps 21 [banter] 22 Driving Aloud (Radio Storm) 23 [encore break] 24 I Often Dream of Trains 25 Arms of Love 26 [banter] 27 Adventure Rocket Ship 28 City of Shame 29 Queen of Eyes Please support Robyn Hitchcock and purchase his official releases here: http://www.robynhitchcock.com/giftshop.htm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:46:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: That American Idol crap Is it wrong of me that even though you'd have to pay me to watch it, I really want that Sanjaya guy who can't sing but has silly hair to win, just because it appears that it will annoy the people who think that American Idol has credibility to damage in the first place? "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:48:28 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: iConcertCal iTunes Plug-in Just sent this to the Costello-ites... I discovered this very useful iTunes Plug-in. It searches out local concerts based on the artists in your iTunes library. http://www.iconcertcal.com/index.php There's been quite a few times in the past where i've kicked myself (rather hard) for missing someone I really wanted to see live because I either was a day or two late, or simply did not even know they were in town. If you're an iTunes patron, enjoy! - -Steve ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:50:26 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Apropos of Corn Subject: Re: Apropos of Corn Lauren roomcounted: >>Is it my imagination or has the show attendance been pretty high? >>It's been nice to see the turnouts at the last few shows I've attended >>- - Sellersville and Maxwells (first night, I think the second night >>had lower turn-out) in November and Philadelphia this past week. It >>seems the band shows are more popular than the solo shows of the past >few years. Michael "Chicago ain't ready for reform!" Sweeney came back with: >My experience has been limited to Chicago (until Philly the other night), but even the many multiple solo shows (plus the >Soft Boys gigs) over the years have been pretty packed...into varying size venues, of course (750s, 1,000s, large bars for multi-nights). All that, plus even the venerable we-all-used-to-love-it "Fine ROck" station, WXRT, can be barely bothered to play RH anymore. Heard the title arachnid track on there maybe 2 or 3 times, but...other than that, not so much support (although Robyn did appear on Jon Langford's every-other-week show on 'XRT back last fall). They broke him for me, playing "Egyptian Cream," "Another Bubble," and "my Wife..." back in '86 until I bought in with "Fegmania!"...and it's been yips-a-doodle ever since for me. "Fegmania!" was my initiation into Robyn world as well. Although it was a review in either Rolling Stone or Musician magazine in 1985 that prompted me to buy a vinyl copy of "Fegmania!". I still have all my old copies of Musician from 1984 when I started my subscription, all the way to when it went belly up back in 2000. MJ Bachman ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #128 ********************************