From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #584 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, April 26 2008 Volume 16 : Number 584 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: What sounds like the Fall but doesn't have very many of the same people in it? [Michael Sweeney ] Re: Great Unused Album Titles [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?) [HwyC] Re: First singles / elpees (was: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a le... [HwyCDRre] Re: First singles / elpees (was: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?)) [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Robyn Hitchcock, Ole! Lesbian [craigie* ] Re: First singles / elpees (was: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?)) ["Stewart C. R] Re: First singles / elpees (was: Great Unused Album Titles ["Stewart C.] Re: First singles / elpees (was: Great Unused Album Titles [Sebastian H] Re: First singles / elpees (was: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?)) ["m swed] Re: What sounds like the Fall but doesn't have very many of the same people in it? [Rex ] Re: What sounds like the Fall but doesn't have very many of the same people in it? ["Stacked Crooked" ] NICKeLOWEdeon [The Great Quail ] Re: NICKeLOWEdeon [Rex ] RE: First singles / elpees (was: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?)) ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: FYI [2fs ] Re: First singles / elpees ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: [Flags] Lorain Lighthouse (Ohio, USA) [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] reap [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: First singles / elpees (was: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?)) [] Re: First singles / elpees (was: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?)) [] Re: Robyn Hitchcock, Ole! Lesbian ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Lou Reed Marries Partner Laurie Anderson In Secret Ceremony In Colorado... ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: barbara? [Barbara Soutar ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:16:36 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: What sounds like the Fall but doesn't have very many of the same people in it? Jeff 2fs wrote: >On 4/24/08, Rex wrote:>>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:45 PM, 2fs wrote:>>>>> On 4/24/08, Rex wrote:>>>>>> Wouldn't it be simpler to write _Searching for People Who Haven't Been in>>> The Fall_? I'm pretty sure that by the time MES dies,>>>> (hushed voice) That's just not going to happen.> >I'll tell ya: that last version of the Fall is going to be incredible: Mark E. Smith, Keith Richards, and three cockroaches. ...Plus Iggy, David Crosby, and (no, not a bloke with no hand) Marianne Faithful... Michael "Hell, let's say 'Liza Minelli,' too...just for yuks" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ In a rush? Get real-time answers with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_ realtime_042008 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:33:37 +0000 From: Brian Hoare Subject: RE: I remember > On Apr 24, 2008, at 8:43 AM, Rex wrote: >> Hey, I don't remember having this thread on feg before... >> album/single you paid for with your own damn money. 45: The Dickies' version of Paranoid. Also being the last vinyl I played before ditching the record player. CD: RH&E : Respect. Being the first RH release that demanded a cd player. LP : ? either A Tonic for the Troops or Parallel Lines. Brian _________________________________________________________________ Play the Andrex Hello Softie Game & win great prizes http://www.thehellosoftiegame.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:42:54 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: Great Unused Album Titles how about negativeland's The Letter U and The Numeral 2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Letter_U_and_the_Numeral_2 http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.01/negativland.html In a message dated 4/24/2008 4:30:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com writes: However, this should bring us back to the obvious: which is that U2 could be subtle and name an album something like "The Fifth Track on the First Neu! Album"... **************Need a new ride? Check out the largest site for U.S. used car listings at AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/used?NCID=aolcmp00300000002851) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:52:58 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?) LP- 1st stereo LP - US soundtrack to HELP ! (surprised i had to pay with my new allowance of $1 a week) 45's - I'd Wait A Million Years/Take Me To Havana by The Grass Roots + Can't Get Next To You by The Temptations + Hair by The Cowsills very soon followed by Ballad Of John & Yoko - and - Give Peace a Chance - with picture sleeves ! CD - Dylan Biograph - WWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY before I had a CD player cuz the credits were gonna be changed on the back or something Decided to get a CD player when i discovered that IODOT would have exclusive tracks Decided to get a DVD player when i heard Don't Look Back would have previously unreleased material In a message dated 4/24/2008 5:18:04 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, tclark@mac.com writes: > Hey, I don't remember having this thread on feg before... first > album/single > you paid for with your own damn money. LP: Grand Funk Live 45's: Crocodile Rock & Young Americans CD: Lexicon of Love **************Need a new ride? Check out the largest site for U.S. used car listings at AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/used?NCID=aolcmp00300000002851) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:06:30 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: First singles / elpees (was: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a le... the 1st thing i downloaded was something george harrison played slide guitar on - --even though he never met the band (Rubyhorse) In a message dated 4/24/2008 11:05:01 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com writes: I have no idea whatsoever what my first MP3 was - even though it's more recent (obviously) than all the other ones. Weird. **************Need a new ride? Check out the largest site for U.S. used car listings at AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/used?NCID=aolcmp00300000002851) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:15:33 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: First singles / elpees (was: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?)) - -- "Stewart C. Russell" is rumored to have mumbled on 24. April 2008 22:37:30 -0400 regarding Re: First singles / elpees (was: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?)): > First 45 : "The Smurf Song" - Father Abraham & The Smurfs I loved that as a kid! IIRC I even got the LP, but I wouldn't consider that my first, because I didn't buy it myself. My first self-bought LP was Abba - - The Album. I think my first CD was Dire Straits - Love Over Gold, I think. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:57:38 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: REAP: Brian Davison > Drummer with The Nice, on April 15, at home. c* > -- > first things first, but not necessarily in that order... > > I like my girls to be the same as my records - independent, attractively > packaged and in black vinyl (if at all possible)... > > Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (the motto of the Addams Family: "We > gladly feast on those who would subdue us") ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:20:01 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, Ole! Lesbian On 24/04/2008, 2fs wrote: > > >snip< ...and reminding to ask folks here if they've heard the notorious > > studio bit from 1991 or so wherein Partridge goes utterly loony while > trying > > to record the vocal part for 'Omnibus,' doing a zillion impressions and > > whatnot, Is that on one of the Fuzzy Warbles discs? I only have 1-4... c* - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... I like my girls to be the same as my records - independent, attractively packaged and in black vinyl (if at all possible)... Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (the motto of the Addams Family: "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us") ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:00:56 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: First singles / elpees (was: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?)) Actually, I think I got it wrong - it was TMBG's Long Tall Weekend album for my first MP3. I remember my computer wasn't quite fast enough to play them. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:03:13 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: First singles / elpees (was: Great Unused Album Titles Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > I loved that as a kid! IIRC I even got the LP Ah, so there's someone else who remembers "Smurfing Beer" around here ... Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:56:05 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: First singles / elpees (was: Great Unused Album Titles - --On 25. April 2008 08:03:13 -0400 "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: >> I loved that as a kid! IIRC I even got the LP > > Ah, so there's someone else who remembers "Smurfing Beer" around here ... Hm, I can't say I do. Note that I had the German-language version! Either that wasn't on there or I've forgotten all about it. I don't possess that record anymore. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:25:53 -0400 From: "m swedene" Subject: Re: First singles / elpees (was: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?)) Hmmm.... Thought about this one last night and this is the best i can recall.... First 45 (yard sale): "Help!" - Beatles First 45 (store Bought) : "Every Breath You Take" - Police First album : "Monkees Greatest Hits" - Monkees First CD : "Eponymous" - REM & "Sgt Peppers" Beatles first CD (given to me): "(Nothing but) Flowers" - Talking Heads (Promo CD single) Mike ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:43:50 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: What sounds like the Fall but doesn't have very many of the same people in it? On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Michael Sweeney wrote: > Jeff 2fs wrote: > > > >On 4/24/08, Rex wrote:>>> On Thu, Apr 24, > 2008 > at 7:45 PM, 2fs wrote:>>>>> On 4/24/08, Rex > wrote:>>>>>> Wouldn't it be simpler to write > _Searching for People Who Haven't Been in>>> The Fall_? I'm pretty sure > that > by the time MES dies,>>>> (hushed voice) That's just not going to happen.> > >I'll tell ya: that last version of the Fall is going to be incredible: > Mark > E. Smith, Keith Richards, and three cockroaches. > > > ...Plus Iggy, David Crosby, and (no, not a bloke with no hand) Dude. Moulty from the Barbarians on drums. (The Fall should cover that song anyway.) > Marianne > Faithful... Get Craig Scanlon back in there and you got the best Fall lineup evar. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:46:09 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Great Unused Album Titles On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:42 PM, wrote: > how about negativeland's The Letter U and The Numeral 2 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Letter_U_and_the_Numeral_2 > http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.01/negativland.html That's the full extent of Jeffrey's logic-- Negativland is named after a Neu! song, so this is some kind of crazy borrowed-name daisy, jesus, and mary chain. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:05:46 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: What sounds like the Fall but doesn't have very many of the same people in it? "Sally Was A Legend"! can't remember where from? don't think i paid for the track, but paid $10 for winamp. similarly, my first DVD was *Storefront Hitchcock*. robyn's my killer-app, it seems. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:37:04 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, Ole! Lesbian On 4/25/08, craigie* wrote: > > > > On 24/04/2008, 2fs wrote: >> >> >snip< ...and reminding to ask folks here if they've heard the notorious >> > studio bit from 1991 or so wherein Partridge goes utterly loony while >> trying >> > to record the vocal part for 'Omnibus,' doing a zillion impressions and >> > whatnot, > > > Is that on one of the Fuzzy Warbles discs? I only have 1-4... > There's a similar bit of goofiness, but no, this one was sent to me by the guy who compiled the "Chalkhills' Children" fan tribute tapes during the '90s. But as it happens, I'd uploaded it for a friend...so here 'tis: < https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/jenor/public/AP.mp3>. Since it's nothing but voice, I encoded at only 64kbps in mono, but if anyone really really feels the need for a higher-quality version, I can probably help you out. Listen to it first, though... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:34:10 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: NICKeLOWEdeon > how about a Nick Lowe best of : NICKeLOWEdeon I love that Nick Lowe's first e.p. was called "Bowi," a facetious commentary on Bowie's album of that year, "Low." - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:52:23 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: NICKeLOWEdeon On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 8:34 AM, The Great Quail wrote: > > how about a Nick Lowe best of : NICKeLOWEdeon > > I love that Nick Lowe's first e.p. was called "Bowi," a facetious > commentary > on Bowie's album of that year, "Low." > John Wesley Harding had some riff on this where, by dint of the fact that the historical guy in the Dylan song/album was actually named John Wesley *Hardin*, he claimed the right to release an album called "Bob Dylang". The argument didn't quite hold together, but it was amusing. Add "Tim" and "Warren G."; season to taste. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:56:38 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: First singles / elpees (was: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?)) First CD - Dark Side Of The Moon First DVD - Das Boot First musical VHS - URGH! A Music War ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:57:06 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Lou Reed Marries Partner Laurie Anderson In Secret Ceremony In Colorado... http://www.gigwise.com/news.asp?contentid=42641 Lou Reed Marries Partner Laurie Anderson In Secret Ceremony In Colorado... **************Need a new ride? Check out the largest site for U.S. used car listings at AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/used?NCID=aolcmp00300000002851) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:00:08 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: NICKeLOWEdeon i remember when JWH toured with The Band (reunited) i took me a few seconds to figure out what it all meant In a message dated 4/25/2008 12:54:37 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, spottedeagleray@gmail.com writes: John Wesley Harding had some riff on this where, by dint of the fact that the historical guy in the Dylan song/album was actually named John Wesley *Hardin*, he claimed the right to release an album called "Bob Dylang". The argument didn't quite hold together, but it was amusing. Add "Tim" and "Warren G."; season to taste. **************Need a new ride? Check out the largest site for U.S. used car listings at AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/used?NCID=aolcmp00300000002851) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:21:00 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: FYI from : >>Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft. [...] "But when you try to tell the victims that their penises are still there, they tell you that it's become tiny or that they've become impotent. To that I tell them, 'How do you know if you haven't gone home and tried it'," he said.<< for those that prefer their newz closer to the "buzzkill" end of the spectrum, argues the wheels may be much closer to coming off than even the doomers've been assuming. by the way, after a second listen, i think it's safe to include the new black angels alongside the three prevously mentioned standout records of this standout year. instructions: download, turn it up loud as fuck (no turn it up LOUDER than fuck!), and bask... then repeat the process all over again. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:10:07 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: FYI On 4/25/08, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > from : > > >>Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using > black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and > attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft. [...] > > "But when you try to tell the victims that their penises are still there, > they tell you that it's become tiny or that they've become impotent. To > that I tell them, 'How do you know if you haven't gone home and tried it'," > he said.<< > > > by the way, after a second listen, i think it's safe to include the new > black angels alongside the three prevously mentioned standout records of > this standout year. > > instructions: download, turn it up loud as fuck (no turn it up LOUDER than > fuck!), What if sorcerers have shrunk your penis so that the volume of fuck is but a mere whisper, a rustling in the grass, a fart in a windstorm? Then what? And please don't say, you're well and truly fucked - because you know, that's the problem, plus which I couldn't hear you what with the volume of fuck being all turned down by sorcerers and suchlike. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:04:43 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: First singles / elpees Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > Hm, I can't say I do. Note that I had the German-language version! There's an MP3 of Smurfing Beer linked from here: . Caution, it may make you want to rip your ears out. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:11:31 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: [Flags] Lorain Lighthouse (Ohio, USA) >On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 4:45 PM, ><grutness@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > >Replacing Mary Travers in a classic folk trio, wherein Mr. Yarrow decides to >give surprisingly high billing to his hairpiece: "Robyn, Peter's Toupee, >Paul"? > >Okay, I'll stop now. But someone else has to start. > > >You mean like Mr Hitchcock covering songs made famous by a famous >early 20th century tenor: "Robyn-sung Caruso" > > >Fine work, sir. Damned fine work indeed. I thangkew James (bows, retreats from hail of thrown vegetables) PS - did I really use that subject line? Must've slipped through from another list somehow. Lucky I didn't send the post to the flag list as well! - -- 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: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:24:31 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: reap Humphrey Lyttelton (86) has finally reached Mornington Crescent. 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, 24 Apr 2008 14:07:21 -0700 From: JBJ Subject: Re: First singles / elpees (was: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?)) On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Michael Sweeney wrote: > Rex wrote: > >> if i recall, the first full-length rock and/or roll album i ever > purchased>> was actually two at the same time: *1984* and *Bark At The > Moon*. > > >Hey, I don't remember having this thread on feg before... first > album/single > >you paid for with your own damn money > Cat Stevens, "Teaser & The Firecat". Cassette, age 8. Didn't buy music again until 4 years later or so, when I went through a 45rpm phase that began with Macca's "Arrow Right Through Me" (bw "Mull Of Kintyre") JBJ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:48:59 -0700 From: JBJ Subject: Re: First singles / elpees (was: Great Unused Album Titles (was:Is there a letter lower than A?)) my first mp3 was Belly's "Spaceman". This was in 1996 I believe. My Apple LC 475 wasn't even powerful enough to play it. I think it took 5-6 hours to decode it into an .aiff file just so I could listen to it. On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:57 PM, 2fs wrote: > On 4/24/08, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > > > > > > First MP3 : "Nowhere Nothing Fuckup" - Built To Spill > > (through an emusic free trial) > > > I have no idea whatsoever what my first MP3 was - even though it's more > recent (obviously) than all the other ones. Weird. > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:23:24 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, Ole! Lesbian 2fs wrote: > > But as it happens, I'd uploaded it for a friend...so here 'tis: < > https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/jenor/public/AP.mp3>. That's a major fit of giggles. You can tell he listened to The Goons a lot; that's a spot on Willium "Mate" Cobblers impersonation. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:37:33 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: reap grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > Humphrey Lyttelton (86) has finally reached Mornington Crescent. Or got to play Wobblng Bunnies. And yeah, that was him playing with Radiohead, too. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:03:52 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Lou Reed Marries Partner Laurie Anderson In Secret Ceremony In Colorado... Richard Belzer was at the ceremony? Something about that just doesn't scan... np Miles Davis '58 Sessions On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:57 AM, wrote: > http://www.gigwise.com/news.asp?contentid=42641 > Lou Reed Marries Partner Laurie Anderson In Secret Ceremony > In Colorado... > > > > > **************Need a new ride? Check out the largest site for U.S. used car > listings at AOL Autos. > (http://autos.aol.com/used?NCID=aolcmp00300000002851) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:08:48 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: REAP: Brian Davison Wotta shame. There was an entertaining little unit. Used to have a live album of theirs called Five Bridges that had some spectacular Keith Emerson B3 freakouts... On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:57 AM, craigie* wrote: > > Drummer with The Nice, on April 15, at home. > > > c* > > > > -- > > first things first, but not necessarily in that order... > > > > I like my girls to be the same as my records - independent, attractively > > packaged and in black vinyl (if at all possible)... > > > > Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (the motto of the Addams Family: "We > > gladly feast on those who would subdue us") ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:58:19 -0700 From: Barbara Soutar Subject: Re: barbara? Caroline! Message received. My e-mail address hasn't changed so I don't know why you are unable to reach me. It's at the top of this message, so try it again. Look forward to seeing you while you're on this side of the Rockies. Happy first birthday to Rosie too. I want to return your Storefront Hitchcock, it was great. Just to add my bit to the ongoing discussion, the first records I bought with my own money were the Beatles 45s: "She Loves You", "Love Me Do", and "I Want to Hold Your Hand". I got a dollar allowance per week and if I didn't spend it on a 45, I bought a Barbie doll outfit or fancy marker pens. Later I would get Monkees and Donovan LPs for Christmas. You get the drift... A fun topic. Barbara Soutar Victoria, BC ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #584 ********************************