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fegmaniax-digest        Tuesday, August 7 2007        Volume 16 : Number 285



                               Today's Subjects:
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  Re: My name is "Eb", and when I figure out who rearranged my  Steve Austin DVDs, there *will* be H-ll to pay...oh yes, there will  []
  My name is "Eb", and my pyjamas have Yodas-and-shit on them  ["Stacked Cro]
  Re: My name is "Eb", and my pyjamas have Yodas-and-shit on them  [Jeff Dwa]
  Re: My name is                        [kevin <kevinstudyvin@earthlink.net>]
  Does Kurt Russell know about this?    [kevin <kevinstudyvin@earthlink.net>]
  Re: My name is "Eb", and..my e-mail program doesn't allow subject lines that lon  ["Michael Sweeney" <m_l_sweeney@hot]
  Re: My name is "Eb", and..my e-mail program doesn't allow subject lines that lon  ["Michael Sweeney" <m_l_sweeney@hot]
  Re: My name is "Eb", and..my e-mail program doesn't allow subject lines that lon  ["Michael Sweeney" <m_l_sweeney@hot]
  Re: fegdom (was Re: 1-800-FEG-TECH)       [Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com>]
  Re: Does Kurt Russell know about this?         [Tom Clark <tclark@mac.com>]
  Re: My name is "Eb", and my pyjamas have Yodas-and-shit on them  [Tom Clar]
  Re: My name is "Eb", and when I figure out who rearranged my Steve Austin DVDs, there *will* be H-ll to pay...oh yes, there will  []
  Re: My name is "Eb", and..my e-mail program doesn't allow subject lines that lon  [2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@g]
  Re: fegdom (was Re: 1-800-FEG-TECH)         [2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>]
  Re: My name is "Eb", and my pyjamas have Yodas-and-shit on them  [2fs <jef]
  Re: fegdom (was Re: 1-800-FEG-TECH)  ["Stewart C. Russell" <scruss@gmail.c]
  Re: fegdom                    ["Michael Sweeney" <m_l_sweeney@hotmail.com>]
  Re: fegdom (was Re: 1-800-FEG-TECH)       [Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com>]
  Re: My name is "Eb", and when I figure out who rearranged my Steve Austin DVDs, there *will* be H-ll to pay...oh yes, there will  []
  Re: My name is "Eb", and..my e-mail program doesn't allow subject lines that lon  ["Michael Sweeney" <m_l_sweeney@hot]
  Stunt guitar                         [Steve Schiavo <steveschiavo@mac.com>]
  Re: fegdom (was Re: 1-800-FEG-TECH)         [2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>]
  6 august                       ["Lauren Elizabeth" <softboygirl@gmail.com>]
  Re: Stunt guitar                            [2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>]
  Re: My name is "Eb", and..my e-mail program doesn't allow subject lines that lon  ["Lauren Elizabeth" <softboygirl@g]
  Re: My name is "Eb", and..my e-mail program doesn't allow subject lines that lon  [Rex <spottedeagleray@g]
  Re: My name is "Eb", and..my e-mail program doesn't allow subject lines that lon  [2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@g]
  Re: My name is "Eb", and..my e-mail program doesn't allow subject lines that lon  ["Michael Sweeney" <m_l_sweeney@hot]

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Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:47:46 -0400
From: "Stewart C. Russell" <scruss@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and when I figure out who rearranged my  Steve Austin DVDs, there *will* be H-ll to pay...oh yes, there will

David Stovall wrote:
> 
> I'd love to hear something like this.  I must be one of a *very*
> limited demographic, in that I like just about any sound ...  that
> comes out of a bagpipe.

Eww.

> Mississippi John Hurt.

Which is why he played the blues.

(or is it a tabloid heading about police raiding a Jackson brothel?)

  Stewart
(Displacement Activity Professional)

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Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:59:11 -0700
From: "Stacked Crooked" <etews@inwa.net>
Subject: My name is "Eb", and my pyjamas have Yodas-and-shit on them

<For one thing, get the bonus tracks out of the middle of albums like
"Eye".>

i think *Trains* is the only album with bonus tracks in the middle, right?
(although russ couldn't even abide the bonus tracks at the *end* of
*Moonlight*...)  and rhino just copied what had been done with the glass
fish CD.


<For another thing, let's have a double disc of the original issues of GD
and GD with the bonus tracks doled out at the end of each.>

i think the two bonus tracks included on *Deco* were the only two bonus
tracks available from that era.  (here defining "bonus track" as a track
that had previously been issued on vinyl, but not CD -- although in
<URL:http://www.livedaily.com/news/11872.html> robyn seems to be saying
that there are many heretofore-unheard tracks soon to be released by yep
roc.)  i personally don't think *Decoy* needs its own separate reissue:
just throw the alternate versions onto the end of *Decay*.


<plus don't the cool kids buy vinyl?  (although i suppose that doesn't mean
they listen to it.)

okay who can tell me how that last sentence should be punctuated?>

should have a comma after "plus".


<Complimentary instrument ringtones!

I'm not exactly sure how an instrument can give me a compliment.>

i understand that you're joking, but, how are you parsing it so that you
don't read it as "free ringtones"?  (i mean to say, how ought it to have
been written to produce that meaning?)


<This leads me to (A) wonder if the "A" in the name of the band A Camp is
supposed to be an article (I'd assumed not, and that it was sort of the
first in a series of camps, preceding B Camp and C Camp, or just a complete
nonsense name)>

what if you re-tagged the artist name to "A-Camp"?


<<And you know, we're all showing our age by assuming that people generally
conceive of albums in two parts any more - it's pretty much been CD since,
oh, 1990 at least. That's nearly two decades of no such thing as one side
or the other.>>

<Remember "Attention CD Listeners" on Tom Petty's "Full Moon Fever"?>

i can't for the life of me believe that that album's almost
twenty-years-old, but: released one year prior to jeff's 1990 cut-off date.


<which, big fracking surprise, brought up a question for me. you folks have
probably already hashed it but feel free to rehash:

what constitutes a feg?>

it were hashed, dashed, sliced, diced, spindled, and marinated beginning in
<URL:http://fegmania.org/archives/fegmaniax/2003/v12.n331>.

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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 14:21:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jeff Dwarf <munki1972@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and my pyjamas have Yodas-and-shit on them

Stacked Crooked <etews@inwa.net> wrote:
> >For one thing, get the bonus tracks out of the middle of albums
> >like "Eye".
> 
> i think *Trains* is the only album with bonus tracks in the middle,
> right? (although russ couldn't even abide the bonus tracks at the
> *end* of *Moonlight*...)  and rhino just copied what had been done
> with the glass fish CD.

The first Geffen-in-the-US issues of the pre-Skylarking XTC albums
(save English Settlement) had their bonus tracks in the middle
(though the recent, Caroline-in-the-US re-issues move them to the
end). I never liked bonus tracks in the middle on those, but I
actually do like them in the middle on Trains; those tracks feel like
the missing third side of the album that goes inbetween the other two
sides really comfortably.


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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 15:49:48 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
From: kevin <kevinstudyvin@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: My name is

>I'd love to hear something like this.  I must be one of a *very*
>limited demographic, in that I like just about any sound (but not
>smell, and if *dey has uh flavr* I don't wanna know about it) that
>comes out of a bagpipe.  I think they're *just neat*, and some of the
>best music made on them is transcendent - even the predictable ones
>like Amazing Grace and whatever that one is that's played at funerals.
> And, yes, I have heard a few of them live, in person and up close.
>This same fascination for odd tones/timbres also leads me to things
>like Derek Bailey, Euegene Chadbourne, Henry Kaiser, John Zorn (man,
>I'd LOVE to hear Zorn strangle a bagpipe the way he does a sax).
>
There's a couple a guys who set up in downtown Seattle a couple times a week during tourist season you'd love - traditional (or at least traditional-sounding) piper accompanied by a guy playing hard, aggressively funk-style drums. You can hear 'em from a block away even over rush-hour traffic and they seriously rock. 

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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 16:00:10 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
From: kevin <kevinstudyvin@earthlink.net>
Subject: Does Kurt Russell know about this?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/06/wice106.xml


NP Mazzy Star/So Tonight That I Might See

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Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:35:46 +0000
From: "Michael Sweeney" <m_l_sweeney@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and..my e-mail program doesn't allow subject lines that lon

Rex said:

>...I can't go for a harmonica-less continuum.  Good harmonica has
>done much much to enrich the world.  Perhaps bad harmonica has had
>just as much or more negative impact, but one could make the same
>argument about most any musical instrument/abstract concept/species
>etc.

I don't mind harmonica that much, being a long-time Dylan guy (plus the 
tasty tidbits Lennon used sparingly in the '60s)...but, around about the 
period in the '80s when The Hooters (Philly guys, right, Lauren?) were 
clogging up radio with twee songs prominently featuring mandolin (plus Bruce 
Hornsby, et al), I decided the world would be a much better place if rock 
use of mandolin were limited to A) former members of The Band, B) Steve 
Winwood (but with some stringent caveats toward overuse), and C) Rod Stewart 
ONLY IF he went back to producing music similar to his original folk-rock 
output (fat chance, as the apparently-never-heard-of-self-parody bastard 
continues to rake in the bucks peddling his version of The "Great" Songbook 
As Interpreted By a Guy Who Can Barely Freakin' Sing to pretentious 
wine-sippers and insomniacs).


Michael "I mean, we're talkin' _Dylan_, man -- he _could_ freakin' add 
bagpipes, and it would probably still work (besides, who would have the 
moral authority to tell him it _didn't_?" Sweeney

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Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:48:39 +0000
From: "Michael Sweeney" <m_l_sweeney@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and..my e-mail program doesn't allow subject lines that lon

Dolph said:

>I like the reference to Pete Murphy is John Wesley Harding's "Goth Girl" 
>very very much.

I still laugh everytime I hear one of my alltime favorite, funniest 
"reference" lines in rock history (along with Flavor chiming in with 
"Motherfuck (Elvis) AND John Wayne!" in "Fight the Power!"):

Ben Folds, "Battle of Who Could Care Less":  "Well this should cheer you up 
for sure / See, I've got your old I.D. / And you're all dressed up like The 
Cure"


Michael Sweeney
I can just picture the goth kid, so into it that he/she is wearing full R. 
Smith makeup in their student I.D. (or whatever) pic...makes me giggle even 
now...

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Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:57:27 +0000
From: "Michael Sweeney" <m_l_sweeney@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and..my e-mail program doesn't allow subject lines that lon

Lauren said:

>sort of related is that i really got a kick out of jeff 2fs point
>about oprah being on the cover of every copy of "O" magazine.

...And his answer / observation was inspired by my post about my actual 
dream of Robyn being on the cover of "O" -- but my (even my subconscious') 
point was A) Robyn's been on only one even-semi-major mag cover (Creem) in 
the past 20 years...and B) Nobody BUT Oprah is EVER on the cover of "O"...

...Now, if Oprah was on the cover of the debut issue of "Feg!" Magazine, 
boy...THAT'd be weird...


Michael "First I'm quiet for weeks, now I apparently can't shut up (and I 
already have another digest to read / respond to)" Sweeney

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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 17:07:02 -0700
From: Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: fegdom (was Re: 1-800-FEG-TECH)

On 8/6/07, 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/6/07, Lauren Elizabeth <softboygirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Stewart <scruss@gmail.com> says:
> > > (perhaps the only feg with a dulcimer, but I'm okay with that.)
> >
> > my sister has one.  or at least did at some point.  she has/had a
> > mandolin as well.  i've only see her play guitar as of late.  her
> > husband plays accordion.  i like him anyway.
>
>
>
> A good friend of mine owns a dulcimer.


The next-to-last-time I was in WV, they sold "beginner dulcimers" at
Wal-Mart-- from the "Act One" brand that also sells beginner acoustic and
electric guitars through the same unholy venue.  They were not in evidence
this year, so I kinda regret not plunking down twenty-five big dollars or
whatever on one.

For bonus points, part of my fifth grade music curriculum involved learning
to play at least a little bit of *hammer* dulcimer.  Very different
instrument, though.

I've had and destroyed two mandolins, both crap (one actually destroyed
itself), and I kinda want one again.  It'd go well with some of the music
projects I'm doing, and I'm much better at playing it than I am at playing
banjo (although I've gotten pretty fair at basic ukulele lately).

- -Rex

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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 17:27:06 -0700
From: Tom Clark <tclark@mac.com>
Subject: Re: Does Kurt Russell know about this?

On Aug 6, 2007, at 4:00 PM, kevin wrote:

> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/06/ 
> wice106.xml

That article just blew my mind.  Seriously.

- -tc

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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 17:30:59 -0700
From: Tom Clark <tclark@mac.com>
Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and my pyjamas have Yodas-and-shit on them

On Aug 6, 2007, at 1:59 PM, Stacked Crooked wrote:

> <This leads me to (A) wonder if the "A" in the name of the band A  
> Camp is
> supposed to be an article (I'd assumed not, and that it was sort of  
> the
> first in a series of camps, preceding B Camp and C Camp, or just a  
> complete
> nonsense name)>
>
> what if you re-tagged the artist name to "A-Camp"?

A less heavy-handed approach is to use the new "Sorting" tab and  
update the "Sort Artist" field.  Works like a charm.

- -tc

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Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 12:41:29 +1200
From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz
Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and when I figure out who rearranged my Steve Austin DVDs, there *will* be H-ll to pay...oh yes, there will

>  > Although an album of Dylan covers done with voice, acoustic 
>guitar or piano,
>  > and bagpipes subbing for and playing transcribed versions of the harmonica
>  > solos would be interesting. At least in Scotland.
>
>I'd love to hear something like this.  I must be one of a *very*
>limited demographic, in that I like just about any sound (but not
>smell, and if *dey has uh flavr* I don't wanna know about it) that
>comes out of a bagpipe.


 From the esoteric instrument front, I can report that myself and a 
friend once planned (and rehearsed) to record a version of "Tomorrow 
Never Knows" using bagpipes and didjeridu. Sadly, the times I've 
tried to play bagpipes I can get a few bars in then burst out 
laughing, which rather spoils the effect (and inflation of the bag, 
for that matter.

James
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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 19:40:19 -0500
From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and..my e-mail program doesn't allow subject lines that lon

On 8/6/07, Michael Sweeney <m_l_sweeney@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> ...And his answer / observation was inspired by my post about my actual
> dream of Robyn being on the cover of "O" -- but my (even my subconscious')
> point was A) Robyn's been on only one even-semi-major mag cover (Creem) in
> the past 20 years



Incorrecto: if I recall, Robyn was on the cover of _Magnet_ about a year
ago. _Magnet_ is at least "even-semi-major."

- -- 

...Jeff Norman

The Architectural Dance Society
http://spanghew.blogspot.com

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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 19:44:58 -0500
From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: fegdom (was Re: 1-800-FEG-TECH)

On 8/6/07, Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 8/6/07, 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > A good friend of mine owns a dulcimer.
>
>
> For bonus points, part of my fifth grade music curriculum involved
> learning to play at least a little bit of *hammer* dulcimer.  Very different
> instrument, though.
>


In the interest of accuracy, I will point out that I mis-typed: my friend
(Rex has met her, actually) owns a hammer dulcimer.

As opposed to a hammered dulcimer, which is what happens when you get
frustrated trying to play the dulcimer - much likelier, in fact, if you
yourself are hammered at the time.

(NB: utterly and completely different from the ham dulcimer - undertaken as
an experiment once at a barbeque but unfortunately mistaken for the main
course and consumed before it could be strung - with fine, tightly wound,
high-tension bacon.)

("Stop...hammer time!")

I've had and destroyed two mandolins
>

That's so rock-n-roll - or it would be, anyway.

What would be a country- or bluegrass-appropriate way of destroying a
mandolin? I'm imagining crushing it beneath a rocking chair...


- -- 

...Jeff Norman

The Architectural Dance Society
http://spanghew.blogspot.com

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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 19:47:10 -0500
From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and my pyjamas have Yodas-and-shit on them

On 8/6/07, Tom Clark <tclark@mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 6, 2007, at 1:59 PM, Stacked Crooked wrote:
>
> > what if you re-tagged the artist name to "A-Camp"?
>
> A less heavy-handed approach is to use the new "Sorting" tab and
> update the "Sort Artist" field.  Works like a charm.


Yeah -  but I've never been able to get a charm to work.

I think their supposed reliability is considerably overstated - much like
the sales popularity of hotcakes, in fact.

- -- 

...Jeff Norman

The Architectural Dance Society
http://spanghew.blogspot.com

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Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:19:20 -0400
From: "Stewart C. Russell" <scruss@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: fegdom (was Re: 1-800-FEG-TECH)

Rex wrote:
> 
> The next-to-last-time I was in WV, they sold "beginner dulcimers" at
> Wal-Mart

If you can shell out a little bit more, I've heard that these guys' 
instruments are unbelievable value: 
<http://www.backyardmusic.com/Dulcimers.html>. Their banjos are 
supposedly good, too.

>  (although I've gotten pretty fair at basic ukulele lately).

I completely suck at ukulele. I have a nice, though beat-up, Chalmers 
Doane Northern ukulele. The strings are just too close together for my 
fingers. Doane-style ukes are weird if your used to "normal" reentrant 
uke tuning: they use (a, d, f#, b) with a low A string, so they're like 
a mini version of a tenor guitar.

Apparently ukuleles were big in Canadian schools in the 70s and 80s. It 
might explain James Hill: <http://www.ukulelejames.com/> (and yes, he 
does a creditable version of 'Little Wing').

  Stewart

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Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:26:17 +0000
From: "Michael Sweeney" <m_l_sweeney@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: fegdom 

Jeff (via Lauren) said:

>what constitutes a feg?
>
>Fegs know more about aquatic creatures than their own interests might
>suggest.  They are familiar with a wide variety of colorful shirts. They
>know the term "blepharism." They are apt to giggle at references to the
>Welsh Policemen's Chorus. They may fear cones - or love them.

They know who Cthulhu is...and what a trilobite is.  They know who wrote 
"Walking on Sunshine."  They enjoy playful wordplay and tend to agree what a 
knackered year 1974 was (sure, we got rid of Nixon, but..."Seasons in the 
Sun," "Billy, Don't Be a Hero," "I Honestly Love You," "(You're) Having My 
Baby" -- arrrrrgghh!!!).  They've been hanging 'round Covent Garden for 
centuries.  They like it when you really screw the wanger up high.  They are 
often knowledgeable about postal and / or bit rates.  They tend to be above 
average in looks, intelligence, and self-deprecation.  They will likely 
utter an involuntary chuckle upon hearing the names "Nora," "Reg," or 
"Ralph."  They wouldn't be surprised at all if, suddenly, blood red horns 
gouged through their scrambled eggs.  They've been waiting on Festival Pier 
for you, honey, for decades.  And, of course, they want to be an anglepoise 
lamp...(but, no, they don't remember Guildford).


Michael "...and don't ask if, at Christmas time, they sing about 'Feggy 
pudding' -- that would just be silly" Sweeney

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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 18:32:51 -0700
From: Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: fegdom (was Re: 1-800-FEG-TECH)

On 8/6/07, 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I've had and destroyed two mandolins
>
> That's so rock-n-roll - or it would be, anyway.
>
> What would be a country- or bluegrass-appropriate way of destroying a
> mandolin? I'm imagining crushing it beneath a rocking chair...

It was intended as rock and roll, with debateable results.  Mandolin
#1 was a Tijuana purchase circa 1992; in 1993 I was asked to join
There Goes Bill (cf. Blatzman's last post) and had less than a week to
learn all the songs.  A compromise resulted in us doing two mutually
known covers ("Generals & Majors" and "Under the Milky Way")... but I
also didn't learn the set-closing original.  In the meantime my
mandolin had ceased to work, so I scawled "HELL-BOUND" on it (in some
kind of mutual Mike Watt/Breeders tribute), pretended to play it for
half of the closing number, and then smashed it to bits on the stage
of Toes Tavern in Pasadena.  There's some photographic evidence around
here somewhere, even.

Mandolin #2 was a Berkely flea market cheapie with plastic tuning
pegs.  Its own strings, when properly tuned, exerted enough pressure
on the top to collapse it.  That's about it for that one... a demise
neither blugrassy nor rocky, alas.

- -Rex

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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 18:34:03 -0700
From: Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and when I figure out who rearranged my Steve Austin DVDs, there *will* be H-ll to pay...oh yes, there will

>  From the esoteric instrument front, I can report that myself and a
> friend once planned (and rehearsed) to record a version of "Tomorrow
> Never Knows" using bagpipes and didjeridu.

That sounds perfect.  Please follow through!
- -Rex

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Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:40:33 +0000
From: "Michael Sweeney" <m_l_sweeney@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and..my e-mail program doesn't allow subject lines that lon

...I'll give you the appearance, but -- I'm in writing / publishing and I've 
never even _heard_ of "Magnet," so...it's the "even-semi-major" that's in 
doubt, at least in my mind (I'm "in publishing," but I'm apparently NOT in 
the target demo...) (although I'll bet most people today not around the 35+ 
age group have even heard of "Creem," either...) (maybe even 40+...)


Michael "Wait, where did 'The Saturday Evening Post' go?" Sweeney


>From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
>To: "Michael Sweeney" <m_l_sweeney@hotmail.com>
>CC: fegmaniax@smoe.org
>Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and..my e-mail program doesn't allow subject 
>lines that lon
>Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 19:40:19 -0500
>
>On 8/6/07, Michael Sweeney <m_l_sweeney@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > ...And his answer / observation was inspired by my post about my actual
> > dream of Robyn being on the cover of "O" -- but my (even my 
>subconscious')
> > point was A) Robyn's been on only one even-semi-major mag cover (Creem) 
>in
> > the past 20 years
>
>Incorrecto: if I recall, Robyn was on the cover of _Magnet_ about a year
>ago. _Magnet_ is at least "even-semi-major."
>
>--
>
>...Jeff Norman
>
>The Architectural Dance Society
>http://spanghew.blogspot.com

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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 21:07:32 -0500
From: Steve Schiavo <steveschiavo@mac.com>
Subject: Stunt guitar

http://tinyurl.com/yovbu5


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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 21:09:15 -0500
From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: fegdom (was Re: 1-800-FEG-TECH)

On 8/6/07, Stewart C. Russell <scruss@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> I completely suck at ukulele.


Well, there's your problem: that's not how you're supposed to play it.

- -- 

...Jeff Norman

The Architectural Dance Society
http://spanghew.blogspot.com

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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 22:14:41 -0400
From: "Lauren Elizabeth" <softboygirl@gmail.com>
Subject: 6 august

for those keeping track, it's the 62nd anniversary of the dropping of
the atomic bomb on hiroshima on 6 august 1945.

i guess things could be better.

or they could be worse.

so it goes.

xo

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                   - The Buddha

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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 21:28:41 -0500
From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Stunt guitar

On 8/6/07, Steve Schiavo <steveschiavo@mac.com> wrote:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yovbu5


No - no - what needs to happen is that this guitar gets played by a
dwarf...and then someone makes a supertiny guitar that gets played by a
giant!

Now *that* would be cool.

- -- 

...Jeff Norman

The Architectural Dance Society
http://spanghew.blogspot.com

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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 22:42:57 -0400
From: "Lauren Elizabeth" <softboygirl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and..my e-mail program doesn't allow subject lines that lon

Sweeney <m_l_sweeney@hotmail.com> says:
> ...I'll give you the appearance, but -- I'm in writing / publishing and I've
> never even _heard_ of "Magnet," so...it's the "even-semi-major" that's in
> doubt, at least in my mind (I'm "in publishing," but I'm apparently NOT in
> the target demo...) (although I'll bet most people today not around the 35+
> age group have even heard of "Creem," either...) (maybe even 40+...)

magnet seems fairly popular around here, but i believe it's published
in philadelphia; perhaps there's a correlation.  it makes it to an
eye-level (or close by) shelf at the barnes and noble, so it seems
fairly mainstream.  most of the articles are about elliott smith.

as an aside, it's printed on very nice paper stock, and the
photography's good - at least as far as the rock 'n' roll magazines
go.  also, when you subscribe, they send a cd to you that,
surprisingly, doesn't suck.  last time i got a subscription, i got the
most recent fall cd.

xo

p.s. i put in some "extra" commas for eddie.

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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 20:12:42 -0700
From: Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and..my e-mail program doesn't allow subject lines that lon

On 8/6/07, Michael Sweeney <m_l_sweeney@hotmail.com> wrote:
> ...I'll give you the appearance, but -- I'm in writing / publishing and I've
> never even _heard_ of "Magnet," so...it's the "even-semi-major" that's in
> doubt, at least in my mind (I'm "in publishing," but I'm apparently NOT in
> the target demo...) (although I'll bet most people today not around the 35+
> age group have even heard of "Creem," either...) (maybe even 40+...)

Nah, 35+ gets it. At least among currently 35+ males who, at a younger
age, were more drawn to music magazines with Robyn Hitchcock on the
cover than those with Vince Neil or whomever.

Of course, it should've been David Byrne or somebody.

- -Rex

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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 22:50:03 -0500
From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and..my e-mail program doesn't allow subject lines that lon

On 8/6/07, Lauren Elizabeth <softboygirl@gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> magnet seems fairly popular around here, but i believe it's published
> in philadelphia; perhaps there's a correlation.  it makes it to an
> eye-level (or close by) shelf at the barnes and noble, so it seems
> fairly mainstream.  most of the articles are about elliott smith.



Well, they used to mostly be about Guided by Voices...so much so that I
suspect Dayton's Own must secretly be shareholders.

My impression is it's pretty much the pre-eminent indie-rock magazine these
days - I'm rather surprised Michael of Sweeney hasn't heard of it. I've seen
it most record stores.

What the hell: print magazines, record stores...what century is it anyway?

- -- 

...Jeff Norman

The Architectural Dance Society
http://spanghew.blogspot.com

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Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:00:51 +0000
From: "Michael Sweeney" <m_l_sweeney@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and..my e-mail program doesn't allow subject lines that lon

Rex wrote:

>On 8/6/07, Michael Sweeney <m_l_sweeney@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > ...I'll give you the appearance, but -- I'm in writing / publishing and 
>I've
> > never even _heard_ of "Magnet," so...it's the "even-semi-major" that's 
>in
> > doubt, at least in my mind (I'm "in publishing," but I'm apparently NOT 
>in
> > the target demo...) (although I'll bet most people today not around the 
>35+
> > age group have even heard of "Creem," either...) (maybe even 40+...)
>
>Nah, 35+ gets it. At least among currently 35+ males who, at a younger
>age, were more drawn to music magazines with Robyn Hitchcock on the
>cover than those with Vince Neil or whomever.
>
>Of course, it should've been David Byrne or somebody.

...good one! -- and I'm _still_ somewhat pissed at Byrne:  the early Heads 
stuff so good, "The Catherine Wheel" "soundtrack" one of my alltime favorite 
records (I used to drive friends semi-batty by playing it over and over, 
kinda forcing it on them, in the early '80s; "Uh, Mike, ya got any _other_ 
records we could play tonight?")...

Then, just about after that "Rock's Renaissance Man" (or whatever it 
proclaimed) cover on "Time," he seemed to go into the dumper for me.  Not 
because of the hype (I love to see people I like and appreciate get hyped), 
but because (to me, anyway) the latter-day output (last Heads record (maybe 
the last 2), the stupid movie, early solo stuff) all sucked...maybe the 
later solo stuff (I DO luvs me some Brazilian music!) got better, but by 
then I'd stopped paying attention.

I watch "Big Love" on HBO (my GF started watching, and, post-"Sopranos," I 
had the time), and I saw a little featurette about how DB is now doing the 
music for the show -- meh: not so anyone would notice...not even Randy 
Newman-level noticable (and I DO luvs me some Randy Newman!)...

Oh well...YDBMMV, tho...


Michael Sweeney
...and, rather than the "Big Love" music, I much prefer the three "Big" 
songs from "CW": "My Big Hands (Fall Through the Cracks)," "Big Business," 
and "Big Blue Plymouth (Eyes Wide Open)"

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