From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #183 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, April 28 2007 Volume 16 : Number 183 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Mini-Review ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: Once again, misheard lyrics [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: Best/worst opening acts [kevin ] RE: gone shopping ["Michael Sweeney" ] RE: gone shopping ["Michael Sweeney" ] Re: Best/worst opening acts ["Michael Sweeney" ] best opener [Jill Brand ] Re: best /worst acts [great white shark ] Re: Once again, misheard lyrics [kevin ] RE: Best/worst opening acts ["Mark P" ] RE: gone shopping & Best/worst opening acts ["Marc Holden" ] Re: Best/worst opening acts [Rex ] Re: best/worst opening act [Rex ] Re: Best/worst opening acts ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: Best/worst opening acts ["Mark P" ] Re: Best/worst opening acts [Tom Clark ] Re: Best/worst opening acts [Tom Clark ] the cheese alarm ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] REAP ["Marc Alberts" ] some fiendishly interesting topics ["Michael Wells" ] Fegs, where are you? ["Michael Sweeney" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:26:03 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Mini-Review Hella, *There's No 666 In Outer-Space* ~ best...album title...ever? maybe! the record itself is pretty good. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:33:32 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: Once again, misheard lyrics > >Subject: Once again: misheard lyrics > > >I still like Alanis Morisette and "the crosseyed baby you gave to me." For years I could never work out why Kurt would be shouting out Ronnie Dio's name at the end of "Smells like teen spirit". Or, for that matter, what Chrissie Hynde meant by "private life dromedary, leave me out". And Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee did a great version of the song "Old Andy Warhol" ("Hole in the wall", apparently) I always heard "The wrong 'em boyo" as "The rum, unboiled", while Alice always hears it as "The wrong employer" Mind you, the only enjoyable line in the Beach Boys tragedy "Kokomo" is the one about "Martinique, and lumps of rotten steak." I blame tinnitis. 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: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:34:18 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Best/worst opening acts >I can't get over the horrible, horrible live >experience. > > Stewart I also need to report on a fave opening act: When Capt. Beefheart came through town on his last tour, local boys The Beakers opened the show and played a very nice set of out-there, vaguely funky material with a lot of wailing soprano sax. One of the better bands on the local scene before the Grunge Years turned our quiet little town into a media circus. I always remember that show with a smile. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:47:04 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: RE: gone shopping Michael Wells said: >Michael Sweeney >>...and further tying it together, that same brother was with me (and >>Wells, as it turns out) at that Roger Waters show (think he -- my >>brother; not Wells or Waters -- gave me bronchitis that night...) >ISTR the solo stuff was in the first set and the >Floyd second I'm pretty sure it was the other way around, since my brother was holding the tix and he was late, so I stood outside, hearing (pretty sure it was) "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" (either that or "...Eugene") rumbling through the closed doors before scrambling inside once he showed up for the rest of the show... >when he did "Nobody Home" >sitting in the ratty red chair, with the TV and lamp the only other >things on stage...wow. Still one of my fave concert memories. Aye on that, back when Roger still "sang" songs (rather than semi-narrating them)... Michael Sweeney Still really like "The Final Cut" today...but, like I said the other day, "...Hitch-hiking," not so much... _________________________________________________________________ Interest Rates NEAR 39yr LOWS! $430,000 Mortgage for $1,299/mo - Calculate new payment http://www.lowermybills.com/lre/index.jsp?sourceid=lmb-9632-19132&moid=14888 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:02:33 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: RE: gone shopping Mr Bachman wrote: >Mr Wells wrote: >>Ain't that the truth. I watched Deadwood's season 1 finale and season 2 >>opening episode back-to-back courtesy of Netflix. Jarring, to say the >>least, but still enjoyable. >our contact there is Stephen Swearingen. >I always kidded him and called him Al, as did some of his co-workers. ...Well, based on the Al / Wu scenes, he coulda been called much worse! Mr Sweeney ...another Michael triplet post -- c'mon Mr Swedene or one of the other non-recent-posting Michaels. pile on! _________________________________________________________________ Interest Rates NEAR 39yr LOWS! $430,000 Mortgage for $1,299/mo - Calculate new payment http://www.lowermybills.com/lre/index.jsp?sourceid=lmb-9632-19132&moid=14888 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:13:40 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: Best/worst opening acts "linnig@cox.net": >Stay far away from the IL State Fair. We go because my niece likes the fair and one of my best friends lives in Springfield, but...we never see the bands (usually, ultra-ugh!). In fact, last time we were there, staying at the best hotel in town (really, about the ONLY non-motel hotel in town), we saw Tom Scholz roll up after Boston's performance at the fair. He got out of the limo, took his guitar out of its trunk, and strolled in past a few hangers-on waiting to get their spaceship-covered records signed. The rest of the "band" members? Nowhere in sight. Probably getting vanned out to the Comfort Inn by the interstate (where, no doubt, they'd be doubling up)... Michael Sweeney Plus, we looooooooove those little fresh-made cinnamon mini-donuts they serve at the fair... _________________________________________________________________ Interest Rates NEAR 39yr LOWS! $430,000 Mortgage for $1,299/mo - Calculate new payment http://www.lowermybills.com/lre/index.jsp?sourceid=lmb-9632-19132&moid=14888 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:21:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: best opener Billy Bragg, hands down. He opened for the Smiths as a last minute replacement for some band at the Opera House in Boston in June, 1985. I had never heard of him and was also drooling over getting to see the Smiths for the first time. Nevertheless, he won me over in about 2 minutes. My husband wanted to leave after BB's set because he doesn't like the Smiths much and didn't want to ruin his good mood. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:50:17 +0930 From: great white shark Subject: Re: best /worst acts best; hunters and collectors opening for ian dury and the blockheads in 1981 in adelaide- fucking jaw droppingly weird , they played percussion on lpg gas cylinders - later thay became SOOOOOO mainstram, but their first couple of albums are classics worst ; far too many to list . but possibly they worst ever was a soul band called" little women " who opened for hendrix, family,etc at woburn 68 - lots of hippies throwing toilet rolls at them, they were just BAAAAAAAD. and it wan't because the audience hated soul, geno washinton and the ram jam band were a huge hit on the same bill . these guys just sucked , lousy falsetto vocals and drekky material . http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/woburn1.html this is the one I am trying to get mike godwin to remember any details about donovans performance , but he has seemingly erased all memories of it . I've done the same for all donovan's performances and I must have seen him about six times on and off over the years at various festivals, highly forgettable , but essentially harmless . Oh and also deep purple in 1968 at the national jazz and blues festival, all wearing purple satin shirts and playing crap like neil diamond's "kentucky woman " yucckkh ,they hadn't got it together at that time- joe cocker came on after them and just BLEW them away . This was when he was good, not MOR . http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/sunbury1.html der kommander ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:18:47 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Once again, misheard lyrics >I always heard "The wrong 'em boyo" as "The rum, unboiled", while >Alice always hears it as "The wrong employer" > I love the wrong employer! I think I'm gonna start hearing it that way too. >Mind you, the only enjoyable line in the Beach Boys tragedy "Kokomo" >is the one about "Martinique, and lumps of rotten steak." > I hate the fact that that song is even hypothetically associated with Brian Wilson. It's Mike Love's work, if you want to call it that, and while he has been the sole proprietor for lo, these many years of The Beach Boys, Inc., I still think he's an ass and I dislike everything about him. Lumps of rotten steak, indeed. Probably what he tosses to his ex-wives when their lawyers start barking too loud. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:08:28 -0400 From: "Mark P" Subject: RE: Best/worst opening acts >>Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:52:53 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Best/worst opening acts Sometimes it's the mid act of a three act concert that's the one that sucks the worse. When I saw the Go-Betweens two years ago at The Abbey Pub in Chicago, the second act was The Double from NYC. They were terrible hackneyed imitators of Interpol. MJ Bachman<< Oddly enough ...middle bit worser act, for me, was The Go-Bes. They were sandwiched inbetween Dash Rip Rock and The dB's back in Oct/'87, at the Ritz in NYC. Dash came out and, well, ripped it up. Was a bigtime DB's -as well as Dash- fan back then and so, for me, The Go-Bes just kinda' paled out. Wasn't in the mood for them after Dash. dB's lit the place up again though. Gene Holder showed up that night, he was out of the band at that point, Sound Of Music era. He and Janet Wygal came down those dressing room stairs at the side of the backstage and I knew something cool might be afoot...Holsapple turned seven shades of white but coaxed him to slot in during a quite rousing rendition of "Any Old Thing" ...Gene's a fairly decent guitarist! Bad openers ...man, there's been tons. Thee Unforgiven for a dB's/Alex Chilton show at Irving Plaza back in Dec/'85 was a stand-out bad opening act ...anybody recall Johnny what's his name from Cracker, anyway, his three guitar cow-punk-pukey ensemble from back then ...man, did they stink! Saw Cowboy Mouth open for several bands ...sucked every time ...one night they and the middle act both blew chunks and made for one long and arduous evening ... Cowboy Mouth/The Suburbs openers for The Church at The Ritz back in July/'86. Choich didn't hit the stage 'til after 1AM, mighta' been 2 come to think of it. That was a long long night. Night before was a stellar three band bill ...Winter Hours/The Rain Parade/Let's Active. Night before that was Zimmy and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at Madison Sq. Garden. Don't know where the fortitude came from back then! City Boy opening for Be Bop Deluxe and Styx at The Palladium back in Oct/'77, they were pretty awful. We had first row for that show. I guess I was somewhat sleepy that night, had my feet up on the rim below the stage. Just sort of relaxing. The lead singer guy came over to me and aped a sort of "are we asleep" stance at one particular point o'their set ...to which I responded w/my own emphatically aped "YAWN!" Great openers too ... Saw AC/DC open for The Dictators and middle bit, The Michael Stanley Band at The Palladium back in summer of '77. Think that was AC/DC's first time in NYC. Bon vresh o'the band. They absolutely blew me away, AC/DC. Saw Judas Priest on their first time over as well, for the Sin After Sin elpee. Same summer. They opened for REO Speedwagon who always sucked ass. Cuspid times, that summer ...attempting to hone our punk *edge* whilst still holding on to the old skool stuff. Crack The Sky as openers for a Drastic Plastic Be Bop show down at The Paramount in Asbury Park. April ...'78? They were cool. Henny Youngman opened for The Tubes at The Calderone in Hempstead. Odd openers ... Van Halen opening for Horslips at The Palladium. Lynyrd Skynyrd opened for Black Sabbath at Nassau Coliseum ...when ...I'm guessing 74...? First Skynyrd album, Ed King was third guitarist. Forget the middle band for that. m ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:22:19 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: RE: gone shopping & Best/worst opening acts Mike W. asked: >Marc you saw this show too, right? Does this jive? I saw both parts of the tour, with Clapton (at the Meadowlands) and without Clapton (Philadelphia--Eric did play Philadelphia on the first leg of the tour, but this was the second leg). It was the Floyd material then Pros and Cons after the intermission. The Floyd sets were slightly different on the Clapton leg of the tour and the Andy Fairweather Low leg. From the tour books: First Half (Welcome to the Machine--second leg) Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun Money If (Welcome to the Machine--first leg) Have a Cigar Wish You Were Here Pigs on the Wing In the Flesh? Noboby Home (while sitting in the ratty red chair, with the TV and lamp the only other things on stage, as Mike described) (Hey You--first leg only) (Another Brick in the Wall--second leg only) The Gunner's Dream Second Half The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (complete album) (remember the missle streaking across the background and exploding massively?) The encores aren't listed in the tour books, but I seem to remember Brain Damage/Eclipse and possibly an additional song or two. Best openers--Butthole Surfers (for Pearl Jam) the Ramones (for Pearl Jam) Pylon (for R.E.M.) Luna (for Screaming Trees) Pere Ubu (for the Pixies) the Fiery Furnaces (when Andy Knowles was still the drummer)--opened for the Shins Worst--Journey (actually the headliner) Billy Squier (at the above Journey show, which we left 25 minutes into the show) Getting ready to drive out for Coachella tomorrow morning (Friday and Saturday only, skipping Sunday). Catch you next week, Marc I don't pretend to have all the answers. I don't pretend to even know what the questions are. Hey, where am I? Jack Handey ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:32:33 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: best/worst opening act >(Query isolated for ease of future clipping / re-posting; I'm nothing if not >sem-self-referentially convenience-minded...) > >What are the best and / or worst opening acts you've encountered in your >years of concert-going? best was the time Jesus and Mary Chain came to Dunedin - they got the DoubleHappys (later to morph into Straitjacket Fits) to open for them. The DHs set a very high standard which the JAMC them proceeded to top. Brilliant. As for the worst, I recall a one-day festival back in the mid eighties (The Pretenders and Talking Heads were the top two acts). One of the early acts (possibly the first) was JoBoxers. Horrible, horrible, horrible. 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: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:51:54 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Best/worst opening acts On 4/26/07, 2fs wrote: > > On 4/26/07, Michael Sweeney wrote: > > > > > > What are the best and / or worst opening acts you've encountered in your > > years of concert-going? The bad ones from my early days of gig-going stand out more, because I used to actually pay attention to every band no matter how bad they were, out of some kind of theory that I owed it to them, honor-bound as a musician or something. I'd try to see the good in every band. Nowadays, of course, if with friends, I usually move off to the side and conversate during a crappy opener. If I'm by myself, though... well, some really obnoxious and musically uninteresting trio opened for the Fall when I saw them. The lead singer actually tried to bait the crowd by saying something like "You lot probably like wimpy garbage like Belle & Sebastian", and I kinda thought, where does he get that from? We're here for the Fall. But someone else actually came out and yelled back at him, "They're still better than YOU!", which was so lame it was awesome. Or something like that. Best: measured in terms of enjoyment vs. expectations, Fuzzy. I saw them open for Velocity Girl and the Posies, and enjoyed their set more than either other band. (I like both bands a lot, although I was there for Velocity Girl, and didn't get into the Posies until a year later-- at the time I found their stage presence a little grating and somewhat at odds with their music). - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:59:04 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Best/worst opening acts On 4/26/07, Mark P wrote: > > >>Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:52:53 -0400 > From: "Bachman, Michael" > Subject: RE: Best/worst opening acts > > Sometimes it's the mid act of a three act concert that's the one that > sucks the worse. When I saw the Go-Betweens two years ago at The Abbey > Pub in Chicago, the second act was The Double from NYC. They were > terrible hackneyed imitators of Interpol. > > MJ Bachman<< > > Oddly enough ...middle bit worser act, for me, was The Go-Bes. The dB' and gB's I would love to have seen together. To me, they're on of those pairs of separated-at-birth bands, like the Posies and Teenage Fanclub, or Pylon and Gang of Four. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:42:25 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: best/worst opening act On 4/26/07, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > >(Query isolated for ease of future clipping / re-posting; I'm nothing if > not > >sem-self-referentially convenience-minded...) > > > >What are the best and / or worst opening acts you've encountered in your > >years of concert-going? Forgot one more "worst", because the show itself was atypically large for me-- The Mars Volta, openinging for the Pixies. Horrible mismatch. Every MV song was longer than the whole "Come On Pilgrim" EP, and the vibe was like the worst apects of Santana and Smashing Pumpkins, stirred together and-- this is important--baked. Really baked. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:03:39 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Best/worst opening acts hi fegs, re: *not* best acts i don't remember the name of the second act at the 19 nov 2006 maxwell's show and maybe it's better that way. oftentimes cute girls can get away with stuff, but not that kind of stuff. i'm sure there are tons but i tend to ignore them unless they have very interesting clothes or i'm saving a good spot by the stage and just by simple logistics am forced to listen. oh, plus i'm late almost everywhere i go; that cuts down on the number of opening acts i can dislike. re: best acts i'm sure there are two or three more if i think hard, but one show that comes to mind is the first time i saw interpol. they had two good bands open for them - calla and phaser. the other times i saw them they had decent opening acts then as well - one of the other times a fairly interesting band called elefant opened (although i bought the cd and ended up not liking it much.) i remember the singer for elefant seemed to think he was very hot perhaps a la unbloated morrison. that's generally an equation for disaster, but i think he was foreign or maybe just faked being foreign and pulled it off okay. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:57:58 -0400 From: "Mark P" Subject: Re: Best/worst opening acts > The dB' and gB's I would love to have seen together. To me, they're on of > those pairs of separated-at-birth bands, like the Posies and Teenage > Fanclub, or Pylon and Gang of Four. > > -Rex > Angel and Styx too!? Maybe not. I indeed hear ya though. You prolly woulda' dug a Teenage Fanclub/Yo La Tengo show back around 94/5 then...? That was at Irving Plaza. Going against the grain ...again, it's my nature... YLT never quite clicked for me but the people I went with were over the moon. Another great pairing/dream show at Woody's this time ...Ron Wood's joint o'yore off Astor Place ...Redd Kross and Dramarama, that was a pretty great show from around that same time too, show consisting of two rockingly kitschy yet poppishly savant bands. One of best *band* incarnations though. Heh, this thread is so multi-faceted, innit? Velvet Crush ...circa 1994. When they toured for the freshly released Teenage Symphonies to God. Mitch Easter produced that and for a brief window he slotted in as their third guitarist. Jeffery on guitar was still a core member along w/Ric and Paulie. Their primary hired gun for the tour though, one David Minehan. He from The Neighborhoods and a friend o'theirs from their Rhode Island days. Boston's 'hoods being one o'yrs truly's fave ever bands. So that string of shows ...they preformed on Conan's too... was like ...well, GOD! Mitch and Dave both in the MIGHTY Velvet Crush. Didn't get much better! Although they did have Tommy Keene as hired axeman for a while too. Truly underrated guitarist, TK. Both Tommy and Dave hired on w/Westerberg. Dave before his stint in VC, Tommy afterwards. Enough useless info from me... m ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:11:04 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Best/worst opening acts Worst - there have been a lot, but I seem to have put the out of my memory... There were these two guys that seemed to open every Robyn show in Boston during the late '80's. The Kendall Brothers perhaps? "Grating" pretty much sums it up. I wish I could remember the name of the band that opened for King Crimson at The Pier in NYC, summer of '81 I think. It was a three piece fronted by this wild haired Japanese chick. The entire audience ended up flipping them off in rhythm to their songs. That's brotherhood, man. Best Hoodoo Gurus opening for RH in Hampton Beach, NH, 1989. Replacements opening for Tom Petty at Great Woods, MA, 1990(?) - We actually just went to see the 'mats. Left three songs into TP's set. "Hell Toupee" opening for The Butthole Surfers, Paradise in Boston, 1990. Never heard of them before or after the show, but they were a lot of fun. Also one of the best band names EVAR. R.E.M. opening for The English Beat, Hartford, 1982. Great set, despite the issues I had with the guitar player... - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:16:46 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Best/worst opening acts On Apr 26, 2007, at 8:57 PM, Mark P wrote: > Their primary hired gun for the tour though, one David > Minehan. He from The Neighborhoods and a friend o'theirs from their > Rhode Island days. Boston's 'hoods being one o'yrs truly's fave ever > bands. Me too! Still have that vinyl stashed away someplace. Loved that early Lemonheads stuff too, before Ben Deily left. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:28:59 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: the cheese alarm hi fegs, http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSKUA64723020070426 or http://tinyurl.com/yufqco here's where you can watch the action: http://www.cheddarvision.tv/ xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:19:58 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: REAP Mstislav Rostropovich, 80. NP: Brahms Cello Sonatas - Rostropovich and Serkin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:02:59 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: some fiendishly interesting topics The Sweenster: > Yep - it was the Ticketron outlet at the Sears in Park Forest Plaza for me. Ah, the old Ticketron. Many a night camped outside Rose Records, listening to tunes, smoking bowls and waiting for McDonald's across the street to open for coffee. Keeping line discipline, at least until the advent of the lottery system. After awhile we made it a quest to find "hidden" ticket machines; i.e. ones not in obvious locations like record stores. We ended up finding one at a minor league baseball team's ticket office, where we won the lottery twice (4th row for Rush, 2nd row for Jeff Beck/Santana!) before word got out. Of course that's all irrelevant now. Marc: > It was the Floyd material then Pros and Cons after the intermission. I stand corrected! Clearly the memories are starting to become a little disjointed some twenty years on...saw The Firm around that time and can pull back only snippets now: Page's bow solo, not playing any Zep tunes, etc. Somewhere I have a Firm t-shirt that now fits my 8-year old (I will say that t-shirt quality seems to have improved pretty dramatically since then, though - those mid-80's concert T's were as thick as a Kleenex and about as durable. Keeping one in good shape for future tours was an art form.). Best opening acts: Hrm, discounting festivals, equal-billing gigs and small folk club deals... SRV (2nd on bill) for Eric Clapton and SRV for Jeff Beck. Having Stevie Ray open your show always seemed to me to be an act of intestinal fortitude, in that he could smoke just about anybody off the stage. To his credit Clapton stood up and was better, while Beck was different enough to not be a direct comparison. Stevie Ray just KILLED though. Oranger (2nd on bill) for Apples in Stereo. The first band was indescribably bad, Oranger was outstanding and Apples were pretty damn ragged, as well as going on very, very late. Robert was hammered. Steve from Frisbie for RH: clear, perfect vocals, great Frisbie tunes, nice stage presence. By far my favorite Robyn opener, including Wes. Other good ones: Dag Juhlin for Wes, Twisted Sister for Dio, Ted Nugent for Aerosmith, Motorhead for Dio / Iron Maiden. Worst: Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark for The Power Station. These guys made The Cars look energetic. Insipid blandness. I'm still pissed I'll never get that hour of my life back. Paradoxx (with two x's!) for BOC. If you're going to open for BOC you've got to bring it, and all they brought was hair and spandex. Marillion for Rush. I thought they might stand a chance, but were nearly booed off the stage (in an arena). They sucked. Other bad ones: Twisted Sister for Iron Maiden, Steve Vai for anybody. It seems now that the only arena shows I see are "an evening with..." meaning no opening act: Rush, David Gilmour, etc. In smaller clubs the openers just haven't seemed that memorable, other than The Lonesome Organist for the Softs. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:52:36 +0100 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Attn. UK fegs Don't forget to programme those videos for 9pm BBC4 tonight! - MRG ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:22:29 -0700 (PDT) From: JBJ Subject: Re: Attn. UK fegs I'm still waiting for a torrent of the "Sex, Death, Tarantulas" doc off of Showtime -- anyone? anyone? =jbj= On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 hssmrg@bath.ac.uk wrote: > Don't forget to programme those videos for 9pm BBC4 tonight! - MRG ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:49:16 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Fegs, where are you? ...Late Friday, after a torrent-of-digests week (2 weeks, really), and...nothing! Refresh, refresh, refresh...still nothing. OK - first concerts, opening acts, disbelief at what Lauren just bought, gun/anti-gun rants, even actual Robyn-related content (or even some Eb-baiting (we know you're still out there))...WHERE IS IT ALL? ...Or does just everybody else (mostly) have lives or something? Hmm... Michael "Guess it's back to online poker for me..." Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Download Messenger. Join the im Initiative. Help make a difference today. http://im.live.com/messenger/im/home/?source=TAGHM_APR07 ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #183 ********************************