From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #772 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, November 10 2008 Volume 16 : Number 772 Today's Subjects: ----------------- A Hard Day's Night [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] Hitchcock moved ["Marc Holden" ] Re: Hitchcock moved [Jeff Dwarf ] paster interview [ontario moe ] chicago sun-times interview [ontario moe ] Re: Hitchcock moved [JBJ ] Obama Grabs Headlines - November 5, 2008 (NR) [Steve Schiavo ] Re: Obama Grabs Headlines - November 5, 2008 (NR) ["(0% rh)" ] Re: Reap ("Three Roses for Emily") [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Reap ("Three Roses for Emily") [Capuchin ] Re: paster interview [Rex ] Get Your War On: New World Order (NR) [Steve Schiavo I have always just played the major barre chord moving my little finger from the 4th to the 3rd string and back, but I don't think he's doing that. - - Mike Godwin n.p. A Hard Day's Night ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 07:48:56 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Hitchcock moved This Wednesday's show is being moved from the Fillmore to Great American Music Hall. Not sure why it changed. Marc http://www.livenation.com/edp/eventId/336048 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 11:51:46 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Hitchcock moved Marc Holden wrote: > > This Wednesday's show is being moved from the Fillmore > to Great American Music Hall. Not sure why it changed. > Marc > > http://www.livenation.com/edp/eventId/336048 Smaller venue due to shrinking economy, etc. Probably a bit better for an acoustically inclined show anyways. I still can't go. "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:58:53 -0500 From: ontario moe Subject: paster interview http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2008/11/robyn-hitchcock-announces-new-venus-3-record.html Robyn Hitchcock talks details of new Venus 3 record By Josh Jackson on November 7, 2008 7:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) Robyn Hitchcock recently revealed to Paste that his new album, Goodnight Oslo, will be released by Yep Roc on Feb. 17. It was recorded with The Venus 3: Peter Buck and Bill Reiflin of R.E.M. and Scott McCaughey of Young Fresh Fellowsball members of the most recent of line-up of the Minus Five. bThe V3 and I have been playing together for years,b Hitchcock says. bPeter and I since 1985, Scott and I since 1994, and the four of us officially since 2005. R.E.M., The Young Fresh Fellows and Ministry all represent great things about American music. As rock is an Anglo-American creature in origin, it makes sense for them to have an Englishman in there sometimes.b The album also features vocals from Colin Meloy (The Decemberists), Sean Nelson (Harvey Danger), Morris Windsor (The Soft Boys) and Welsh singer Lianne Francis. And one of the songs, bSixteen Years,b was co-written with Buck. bWe have another one in the can,b Hitchcock says. bbPropellor Time.b Andy Partridge and I are [also] sporadically writing together. It sounds good so far.b(b The 55-year-old Englishman looks to the past on his 15th studio album. bThe songs on Goodnight Oslo are a requiem for the Smoke Age, and in part about breaking out of predictable cycles. But Ibm not in recovery or anything physical.b( [The title track is about] an evening in Norway 25 years ago, refracted through time.b Hitchcock has also kept busy with his other artistic pursuits including painting, drawing and acting. But the cover artwork for Goodnight Oslo is his wife MichC(le Noachbs treatment of an old Norwegian postcard. bI wanted to get away from my own imagery on this cover,b he says, bexcept in the emotion of color.b(b After his film debut in Jonathan Demmebs remake of The Manchurian Candidate four years ago, hebs once again in a Demme project, Rachel Getting Married, one of Pastebs favorite films of 2008. bAt my level, acting is just performanceba parallel of what I do on stage,b he says. bMultiple takes in the studio are not so different from multiple takes on camera. In Rachel Getting Married, Ibm just being me, singing songs at a virtual wedding. I canbt claim to have stretched anything much yet except my stomach from eating so much at the craft table. Only the de-alcoholized wine indicated that this wasnbt a real ceremony. Itbs very exciting, whatbs happening to this movie.b(b Some of the stops on his November tour in the U.S. and his February tour in Europe are clubs he played as an indie rocker back in the early b80s. bWe were called bAlternativeb back then," he says. "We used to sit out on the porch and wait for the Replacements to come home. All the crows would fly off the wires, and the lamposts would shake when [Paul] Westerberg climbed down from the tailgate. Back then, I had no concept of a future me. Ibm amazed that Ibve lasted this long. The landscape has changed even if human nature hasnbt, much. Marijuana and tobacco have changed places, and recorded music is now virtually worthless. Ibm thrilled that there are people who still want to hear my stuffbthatbs the honest truth.b(b Stream Goodnight Oslo's "Up to Our Necks" here . ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:08:41 -0500 From: ontario moe Subject: chicago sun-times interview http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/music/1265445,WKP-News-live07.article Robyn Hitchcock looks back at his most introspective work November 7, 2008 BY JIM DeROGATIS Pop Music Critic After splitting from his influential band the Soft Boys, English psychedelic rocker and surrealist folk troubadour Robyn Hitchcock launched his solo career with a fine album called "Black Snake Diamond Role" (1981). But then something went wrong. Hitchcock found himself sucked into a disastrous and misguided bid for pop stardom with "Groovy Decay" (1982) as producer Steve Hillage (a veteran of progressive rockers Gong) buried his songs under obnoxious horns, synthesizers and disco grooves. "Hillage had justly got into his sort of 1980s Kings Road suits and was trying to be anything but psychedelic," Hitchcock told me years ago. "He was into club mixes and all that sort of stuff, and I was really lost and getting loster." That spectacular failure prompted the singer and songwriter to withdraw from music and re-assess. He kept himself afloat by writing lyrics for Captain Sensible of the Damned, but his own songs eventually began to accumulate again, and he finally returned to the studio after a three-year break to craft what many fans consider his best album. "I Often Dream of Trains" (1984) is a quiet, introspective and "wonderfully autumnal" effort driven by acoustic guitar, piano and vocals -- "It's like wanting to see what you're like when you take everything else away"-- and it includes moving and intensely personal songs such as "This Could Be the Day," "Sounds Great When You're Dead" and the title track. Now, nearly two and a half decades later, Hitchcock is performing this classic live on a tour that includes two shows at the Old Town School of Folk Music. We recently talked about the recording and his decision to revisit it from his home in England. Q. For many of your fans, "I Often Dream of Trains" is a special and personal record, not unlike "Tonight's the Night" or "Velvet Underground III." It's a quiet keeper. RH: Yes, but I think you never know when you've made one of those. I'm very pleased that it now seems to have become that. To me, the things like "Time (The Revelator)" by Gillian Welch and the second Band album and "Avalon" by Roxy Music are my great favorites along those lines, though the genres are a bit different. They are still essentially very private records. While I think I've got better songs on other records, that's probably the most atmospheric record I've made. In other words, it's the closest thing to a concept album, though I don't know if the concept of the concept albums ever actually fulfill their concept! Q. Where did you get the idea to revisit it? RH: Oh, well, it was coming out again [as a CD reissue from Yep Roc]. It's probably the third or fourth time it has been released, and each time it has a different artificial history attached to it and a new collection of outtakes. I'm going to be doing a director's cut [in concert], which means it's not exactly the same as the recorded version, but it's actually the original song selection. I'm doing two shows in one night in Chicago, so I'll probably vary a couple of songs. In any event, it was actually my wife Michele who said, "Why don't you do one of your own records instead of doing those Pink Floyd tributes?" She helps put those on and we do them in a pub in Clerkenwell; we've also done "The White Album" and "Sgt. Pepper's" and "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" -- records that were in my collection as a lad. We do them unadvertised. But you know, in terms of doing things in public, she said, "Why don't you do your own thing for a change?" Q. You're going to have some help from bandmates Terry Edwards and Tim Keegan in concert, but when you made the album, you pretty much did everything on your own, right? RH: It was mostly me, and it was the first time I had access to a multi-track [recorder] on my own. The idea of having your own four-track machine... You could really get going very fast, and it was the first time I was able to experiment with recording with multi-track without having to go through other people. I had very, very basic kind of effects. I pretty much built it as I wanted it to be, which is why when you listen to the demos on the outtakes on the latest version, they are ones I recorded myself, and the recording quality isn't noticeably any different from the 24-track versions on the main album. Q. How close were you really to abandoning music before this album? It's hard to accept that now, when you've released some 33 discs since "I Often Dream of Trains"! RH: Yes, well, this is 22 years ago. Me and the times I was in were particularly at odds with each other then. I think what I wanted to do in music... sometimes the wind is behind you, and sometimes it's against you. I think when we got going with the Soft Boys in the late '70s, there was a bit of wind behind us because people were ready for a change, but what they wanted to change into wasn't what me and my colleagues wanted to change into. I think the Soft Boys did what they could, and then the ship floundered and we bailed out. On my own, I found myself in a musical landscape that really didn't make any more sense. There were nods to psychedelia in the form of the Psychedelic Furs and Echo and the Bunnymen and Julian Cope, but not in the same way. It was a much more wide-screen, punky sort of way. Ours was old-fashioned and intricate, standing around with three-part harmonies. We were an alt-country band, really, and back then we really didn't fit. I think very often if you don't fit, you're invisible. It didn't work, so I sort of shut down and wrote lyrics, did some gardening jobs... Q. Really? You were on your knees with your hands in the dirt? RH: Yeah! I thought, "I am not going to do any more gigs!" I kind of wanted to see what it was like, and I wanted to challenge myself and say, "OK, do you really not want to do any gigs? Are you really going to give up the idea of yourself as a performer? You're the master of your own destiny; do you want to be this guy in the background that does stuff but you're not an act and you're not going to write your own songs?" I think while I was making a living doing other things, I had this four-track machine, and I realized after a year that I had stockpiled all of these songs, which then became "Trains" and "Fegmania!" (1985). So actually, it wasn't over. I think I was coming up to 30, so I had the menopausal thing going: "Look at what the kids in the Kings Road are wearing." I passed it. In the youth culture you keep running across those things that are warning signs that you might be past it, and then when you finally are, you don't care, because the world is filled with fifty-something rockers grinning at their awards, and we're just all thrilled to exist. I couldn't care less that I don't look good anymore on stage because I'm 55. I don't have to; all I have to do is be there! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 09:28:37 -0800 From: JBJ Subject: Re: Hitchcock moved The Fillmore is a pretty large venue; maybe ticket sales are poor? On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Marc Holden wrote: > This Wednesday's show is being moved from the Fillmore to Great American > Music Hall. Not sure why it changed. Marc > > http://www.livenation.com/edp/eventId/336048 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:50:48 -0600 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Obama Grabs Headlines - November 5, 2008 (NR) - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 15:22:39 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: [none] http://www.theonion.com/content/node/89675 "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 19:13:42 -0500 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: Obama Grabs Headlines - November 5, 2008 (NR) Steve says: > that was really cool. (list protocol discourages "me too" comments, but, whatever: that *was* really cool.) xo p.s. filed under "i read yesterday's news": glen campbell covers "sadly beautiful"?!? - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 19:26:17 -0500 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Reap ("Three Roses for Emily") um.......yuck: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iRVlNjZHuzLKkxS5PK7w2gmmZXcAD94AU70O0 - -or- http://tinyurl.com/6rx3uh as ever, lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 18:09:12 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Reap ("Three Roses for Emily") (0% rh) wrote: > um.......yuck: > > http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iRVlNjZHuzLKkxS5PK7w2gmmZXcAD94AU70O0 > -or- > http://tinyurl.com/6rx3uh Of course, they aren't releasing her identity though they will point out that she's one of Frank Bernstorff's sister, and it's not Anita or Elaine. But they aren't releasing her identity. Not at all. "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 20:23:22 -0600 (CST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Reap ("Three Roses for Emily") On Sun, 9 Nov 2008, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > Of course, they aren't releasing her identity though they will point out > that she's one of Frank Bernstorff's sister, and it's not Anita or > Elaine. But they aren't releasing her identity. Not at all. Now, come on. Frank, Anita, and Elaine might have plenty of 90 year old sisters. You don't know. J "I was thinking the same thing." . ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 19:45:17 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: paster interview On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:58 AM, ontario moe wrote: > > http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2008/11/robyn-hitchcock-announces-new-venus-3-record.html > > Robyn Hitchcock talks details of new Venus 3 record > > By Josh Jackson on November 7, 2008 7:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) > > Robyn Hitchcock recently revealed to Paste that his new album, Goodnight > Oslo, will be released by Yep Roc on Feb. 17. Yes. Overdue but welcome. Maybe Robyn just couldn't bring himself to release it while Bush was still in office. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:16:30 -0600 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Get Your War On: New World Order (NR) > Get Your War On: New World Order > > In the wake of the Obama win, Accounts Receivable gives Accounts > Payable a little heads up about exactly what kind of "change" Obama > was really talking about all those months on the trail. Payable is > NOT going to like this. Not one bit. But he needs to know. And > Accounts Receivable is the man to tell him. Accounts Receivable is > a really good friend, you know? - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:59:29 -0800 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Obama Grabs Headlines - November 5, 2008 (NR) What's up with the "A New Hope" headline? Seems like that was the title of a movie I've seen somewhere... On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Steve Schiavo wrote: > > > > - Steve > __________ > I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl > with a scythe. - John > > ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #772 ********************************