From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #788 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, November 26 2008 Volume 16 : Number 788 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Philly show [2fs ] Re: Philly show ["C. Huff" ] Re: Philly show [djini@voicenet.com] Re: Meanwhile, on some other planet (NR) [djini@voicenet.com] Re: Philly show and F.G.A.B. ["C. Huff" ] Tell me about your drugs ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Tell me about your drugs ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Tell me about your drugs ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Tell me about your drugs ["Stewart C. Russell" ] catching up [James Dignan ] Re: Philly show [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Philly show and F.G.A.B. ["Miles Goosens" ] Re: Philly show [Rob ] Re: catching up ["edwardofsim@tiscali.co.uk" ] Re: Tell me about your drugs ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: catching up ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: Philly show [Michael Sweeney ] Re: Philly show [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Philly show ["kevin studyvin" ] Craig Ferguson/Sarah Palin WAS: Philly show [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] RE: Philly show ["Bachman, Michael" ] CF was Philly show [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] request ["Duncan MacDougall" ] Re: Philly show ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Philly show ["Jeremy Osner" ] HOT TUNA was Philly show [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Philly show ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: HOT TUNA was Philly show ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: request ["Robyn Hitchcock" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:21:04 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Philly show On 11/25/08, The Great Quail wrote: > > > (pointedly ignoring the fact that he himself has made edited versions of > > some albums for his own benefit. Well, no one likes Revolution 9 > *really* > > do they?) Yes, actually, I do. I mean, I don't listen to it and dance around the room or anything, but I enjoy while it's on, and I can't imagine the White Album without it. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:41:36 -0800 (PST) From: "C. Huff" Subject: Re: Philly show That was the 7 minute version of Listening to the Higsons...hahaha that was great. Robyn was just blathering on at the piano about fish or something and they started into that. He says "Ok you win" and stops. great stuff! - --- On Tue, 11/25/08, djini@voicenet.com wrote: From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: Philly show To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Cc: huff71@yahoo.com Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 7:00 PM "C. Huff" wrote: > hahaha! no worries...there was indeed a god that surfaced at the show during Sounds > Great When You're Dead, and I believe his name was Lou Reed. Though not there in the > flesh, certainly in spirit... Oh, right, I forgot about that! That was very cute. Terry and Tim hijacked a jam over to the wild side and Robyn looked a little perplexed. I can't remember which song it was in though! Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:00:35 -0500 (EST) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: Philly show "C. Huff" wrote: > hahaha! no worries...there was indeed a god that surfaced at the show during Sounds > Great When You're Dead, and I believe his name was Lou Reed. Though not there in the > flesh, certainly in spirit... Oh, right, I forgot about that! That was very cute. Terry and Tim hijacked a jam over to the wild side and Robyn looked a little perplexed. I can't remember which song it was in though! Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:53:38 -0500 (EST) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: Meanwhile, on some other planet (NR) > Steve Schiavo wrote: > >> > So, wait - is she usurping presidential privilege? Is this a veiled insult of Macchiavellian subtlety? Or can any podunk pol pardon poulty? Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:09:56 -0800 (PST) From: "C. Huff" Subject: Re: Philly show and F.G.A.B. If you like Buffy, Carrie, you'll probably like the first 3 Star Wars (the original ones). Imho, the new ones were really terrible. The special effects are good but the acting is the pits - Hayden Christiansen WHY WHY WHY??? Even good actors flounder in the newest 3 - Euan McGregor (Feery Grrreen Atum Bual!), Sam Jackson, etc.. Now take this with a grain of cosmic salt b/c my college days were fraught with psychedelic goo...but I swear that I saw him do Furry Green Atom Bowl back in the 90s...nothing in the Asking Tree about it...but I have a distinct memory of him doing it by himself and saying "He loooves that smeeelllll" in that Mellow Together voice and bugging his eyes out...theoretically this could have been a wall that morphed into RH's face...but I remember there being a stage and other people and while I may have hallucinated RH I didn't usually dream up stages... The shame is that U.Pers.Traits was the audience hit of the evening! F.G.A.B. would have brought the house down. He was only being silly and revisionist by not doing it. Like when he played Airscape with the Soft Boys. Great song. But not a Soft Boys song. No angels wandering through my ventilator please! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:46:12 -0500 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Tell me about your drugs Hm, just now I was looking around the 'nets to see if anybody had written anything interesting about this song, and coming up fairly dry, which seems like a damn shame. There is an interview with Robyn on the subject of this song at The Asking Tree. Also, unbeknownst to me, there is a different song of the same title by the Television Personalities, a group with which I have only the most glancing of familiarities. Paul David Mena of Sommerville MA wrote a poem of this title with reference to Robyn -- "but when Robyn sings/ to his Dark Princess..." J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josi Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:52:55 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Tell me about your drugs Jeremy Osner wrote: > Hm, just now I was looking around the 'nets to see if anybody had > written anything interesting about this song Well, there's always Kimberley's response ... Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:02:45 -0500 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: Tell me about your drugs On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Well, there's always Kimberley's response ... > Pray tell? If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josi Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:16:04 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Tell me about your drugs Jeremy Osner wrote: > > Pray tell? 'Sick of Hearing About Your Drugs' on Great Central Revisited. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:49:02 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: catching up >craigie@gmail.com said: > >(pointedly ignoring the fact that he himself has made edited versions >of > >some albums for his own benefit. Well, no one likes Revolution 9 >*really* > >do they?) > >I guess I'll have to hold my hand up to adoring Rev 9. So many things >in it are so memorable, and quotable, for one thing. "The Watusi. The >Twist." "El Dorado." And "Everyone knew that as time went by they'd >get a little bit older and a little bit slower." That sort of thing. >Plus, there are some moments of almost King-Crimsonesque genuine >intensity bordering on dread. Love Revolution 9. Although I grant it's >difficult to hum. I've never wished the Beatles had made a whole album >of stuff like this, but I wouldn't be without it! I'll add a "me too" to that. I feel it's almost a necessary part of the album - it turns the whole of the White Album into an album-length "A day ion the life". Melody of various sorts, followed by a noisy crescendo, then aheavy thud to end it all ("Good night"). Edward, I'm guessing that, in a "rteverse of the above" sort of way, you're also a fan of "Thrak" as being a Beatlesque King Crimson album. It almost makes me think of the Beatles being mugged by someone heavy and nasty on their way to record Abbey Road. Re: "I don't want to hurt you but I will", I'm with the "I can't avoid fate" school - I always think of it as being as reference to the line "you always hurt the one you love". Oh, BTW, the trip went well, though we got the torrential rain for the first two days. Today, driving back from Arrowtown, was much better. Warm (not hot) and sunny, with snow on the mountaintops. James ("Take this brother, may it serve you 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: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:16:55 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: Philly show that's why i watch craig ferguson ! my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ In a message dated 11/25/2008 4:28:29 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com writes: You heard it here first, folks. Scots are everywhere! Why, there may be one living next door to you, working down the hall from you, fixing your car...creeping around your rosebushes...hiding under your bed and poisoning your meatballs! Scots! The new menace. **************One site has it all. Your email accounts, your social networks, and the things you love. Try the new AOL.com today!(http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212962939x1200825291/aol?redir=http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp %26icid=aolcom40vanity%26ncid=emlcntaolcom00000001) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:20:10 -0600 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: Re: Philly show and F.G.A.B. On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 8:09 PM, C. Huff wrote: > > If you like Buffy, Carrie, you'll probably like the first 3 Star Wars (the > original ones). I'm proof that this isn't an exact correlation. I adore all things Whedon, but God was never my scene and I don't like STAR WARS. >Imho, the new ones were really terrible. The special effects > are good but the acting is the pits - Hayden Christiansen WHY WHY WHY??? Even > good actors flounder in the newest 3 - Euan McGregor (Feery Grrreen Atum > Bual!), Sam Jackson, etc.. Hayden can act, and has done very well elsewhere, but just like everyone else you mention (and some you don't, like Natalie Portman), there's not any acting going on in that latter-day trilogy. Plus Lucas desperately needs to let someone else write the damn things. As I learned more about STAR WARS and the original Indiana Jones movies, it's become apparent that 90% of the decent dialogue in any of them was Harrison Ford ad libs. And what's the deal with Ford since, oh, the early '90s? He used to be such a lively presence on screen, whether as Han or Indy or Deckard or in the underrated MOSQUITO COAST. But now he just looks glassy-eyed and scary, and has for a long time. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that he's been battling some sort of affliction since then; he really seems quite different than he did as a younger actor, and not in a good way. Best STAR WARS product since 1980: KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC. later, Miles - -- now with blogspot retsin! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:50:49 +0000 From: Rob Subject: Re: Philly show Blimey, didn't realise he was still going and such a success in the US. I remember seeing him perform in Dundee when he was Bing Hitler. Rob On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 6:16 AM, wrote: > that's why i watch craig ferguson ! > > my blog is "Yer Blog" > http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ > http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ > > > > In a message dated 11/25/2008 4:28:29 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com writes: > You heard it here first, folks. Scots are everywhere! Why, there may be one > living next door to you, working down the hall from you, fixing your > car...creeping around your rosebushes...hiding under your bed and poisoning > your meatballs! > > Scots! The new menace. > > **************One site has it all. Your email accounts, your social networks, > and the things you love. Try the new AOL.com > today!(http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212962939x1200825291/aol?redir=http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp > %26icid=aolcom40vanity%26ncid=emlcntaolcom00000001) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:33:27 +0100 (GMT+01:00) From: "edwardofsim@tiscali.co.uk" Subject: Re: catching up grutness@slingshot.co.nz said: >Edward, I'm guessing that, in a "rteverse of the above" sort of way, >you're also a fan of "Thrak" as being a Beatlesque King Crimson >album. It almost makes me think of the Beatles being mugged by >someone heavy and nasty on their way to record Abbey Road. Definitely, Walking On Air and Dinosaur remind of Beatles, and is it People that has that repeating guitar refrain that reminds of I Want You (She's So Heavy)? Yeh, THRAK is definitely Crimso's Beatle album. And, in fact, the title track contains several moments of that same dread I was referring to in my comments about Revolution 9. (Although those moments of abolutely terrorising intensity are a common factor throughout KC's oeuvre.) It gets even better on Thrakattack! Seriously, I used to lay in the dark listening to King Crimson on headphones, and sometimes would get genuinely frightened. :-) peace, Edward Tiscali's Entertainment Blog - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/blog/ __________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:08:10 -0500 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: Tell me about your drugs On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > 'Sick of Hearing About Your Drugs' on Great Central Revisited. Ah: I did not know about that. The line "We get messed up by forces that we just don't understand!" is echoing around my brane all night. Perhaps I dreamed in German? I woke up singing, "Von maechten wird man verwirrt, die man einfach nicht versteht..." Was meinst du Sebastian, passt's? J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josi Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:32:17 -0800 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: catching up > Oh, BTW, the trip went well, though we got the torrential rain for the > first two days. Today, driving back from Arrowtown, was much better. Warm > (not hot) and sunny, with snow on the mountaintops. > Whereas in our neighborhood we got the first frost of the year yesterday. Although not much. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:44:38 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: Philly show >It has a place certainly; the story about a woman calling out"Vegetable Something!" at the Chicago (?) show made me smile. But Ihate to this day the jerk who kept calling out "Play Embryonic FuckinJourney!" at the Jorma Kaukonen show I went to several years back. Areal buzz-killer.< ...My classic memory of something similar is from a, say..., 1982 Police show. Some nearby loudmouth kid (hey, me and my pals there were about 19, 20...) CONSTANTLY shouting (in a nasal voice, as I recall), "Play 'So Lonely'! Play 'So Lonely'!" He continued to do so (even though we were in an indoor stadium upper deck; to Sting, et al he was unhearable, distant $18.50) well into the actual playing of "So Lonely"...during which he paused for a moment...then started nasally yelling, "They're playing 'So Lonely'! They're playing 'So Lonely'!" Michael "I also love the pissing-off-Ryan-Adams-with-'Summer of '69'!-shouts stories..." Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Access your email online and on the go with Windows Live Hotmail. http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_access_1 12008 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:34:47 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: Philly show he's on after Letterman (1:37 in the morning) against Conan O'Brien (if any of those names mean anything to you) :-) he has a strong cult following my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ In a message dated 11/26/2008 3:05:31 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, rcollingwood@gmail.com writes: Blimey, didn't realise he was still going and such a success in the US. I remember seeing him perform in Dundee when he was Bing Hitler. **************Life should be easier. So should your homepage. Try the NEW AOL.com. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000002) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:48:42 -0800 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Philly show Ferguson rawks. He had the Damned on two nights in a row recently, and the reformed NY Dolls the same week. On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 7:34 AM, wrote: > he's on after Letterman (1:37 in the morning) > against Conan O'Brien (if any of those names mean anything to you) > :-) > > he has a strong cult following > > my blog is "Yer Blog" > http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ > http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ > > > > In a message dated 11/26/2008 3:05:31 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > rcollingwood@gmail.com writes: > Blimey, didn't realise he was still going and such a success in the > US. I remember seeing him perform in Dundee when he was Bing Hitler. > > **************Life should be easier. So should your homepage. Try the NEW > AOL.com. > ( > http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000002 > ) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:04:55 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Craig Ferguson/Sarah Palin WAS: Philly show that's where i first saw Sarah Palin ! while CF was studying to be an American citizen (which he now is ) he had a running bit where he would ask governors of various states to be an "honorary citizen" the governor of Alaska was one of them she talked about the virtues of visiting Alaska and then crossed herself (like the Pope) and proclaimed CF to be an honorary citizen of Alaska CF joked (IIRC) that he's never going to go to Alaska and i remember thinking - well - there's a politician i'll never hear from again :-D my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ In a message dated 11/26/2008 10:41:42 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, HwyCDRrev@aol.com writes: he's on after Letterman (1:37 in the morning) against Conan O'Brien (if any of those names mean anything to you) :-) he has a strong cult following **************Life should be easier. So should your homepage. Try the NEW AOL.com. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000002) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:18:42 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Philly show - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sweeney Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 9:45 AM To: fegs Subject: Re: Philly show >It has a place certainly; the story about a woman calling out"Vegetable Something!" at the Chicago (?) show made me smile. But I hate to this day the jerk who kept calling out "Play Embryonic FuckinJourney!" at the Jorma Kaukonen show I went to several years back. Areal buzz-killer.< Lots of great Jorma guitar bits from his Jefferson Airplane days, but the solos on the studio version of Wooden Ships from the Volunteers album is my favorite. Too bad they went downhill so fast after reaching their pinnacle on Volunteers, loosing not only Spencer Dryden but also Marty Balin within a year. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:08:04 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: CF was Philly show and an ENTIRE show devoted to Ringo - where the fab drummer sang 4 songs i guess he was a punk rock drummer and even backed Nico at one point my blog is "Yer Blog" _http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/_ (http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/) _http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/_ (http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/) In a message dated 11/26/2008 10:49:03 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, kstudyvin@gmail.com writes: Ferguson rawks. He had the Damned on two nights in a row recently, and the reformed NY Dolls the same week. **************Life should be easier. So should your homepage. Try the NEW AOL.com. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000002) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:31:40 -0600 From: "Duncan MacDougall" Subject: request Furrry Grreen Atom Bowl! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:38:02 -0500 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: Philly show On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > I think the only album I have of theirs is "Bark" (the one with the > marvelous trout-with-dentures cover) http://bp0.blogger.com/__JYEjdyJ7pI/R6NQVVLetdI/AAAAAAAAEO4/0vyqMNIKmIM/s1600-h/je1.jpg If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josi Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:35:18 -0500 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: Philly show I don't really know a lot of Airplane besides (of course) Surrealistic Pillow which got a lot of play among my stoner friends in high school. I think the only album I have of theirs is "Bark" (the one with the marvelous trout-with-dentures cover) -- I learned Jorma's name from the credits on that record when I was loving the guitar work on "Third Week at the Chelsea", but went from there not to more JA but to Hot Tuna. J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josi Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Bachman, Michael wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sweeney > Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 9:45 AM > To: fegs > Subject: Re: Philly show > >>It has a place certainly; the story about a woman calling out"Vegetable > Something!" at the Chicago (?) show made me smile. But I hate to this day the jerk who kept calling out "Play Embryonic FuckinJourney!" at the Jorma Kaukonen show I went to several years back. Areal buzz-killer.< > > Lots of great Jorma guitar bits from his Jefferson Airplane days, but the solos on the studio version of Wooden Ships from the Volunteers album is my favorite. Too bad they went downhill so fast after reaching their pinnacle on Volunteers, loosing not only Spencer Dryden but also Marty Balin within a year. > > Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:01:29 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: HOT TUNA was Philly show we could be twins ! BARK was my 1st JA album too and this led me to Hot F*ckin' Tuna - i'd skip over (most) other songs to get to Jorma's songs . . . 1976 - 1st Tuna show i saw - 6 hours (plus an opening act !) at the Commack Arena on Long Island (home of the Long Island Ducks hockey team ) Jorma is the only member of JA that still puts out any interesting music and i saw Tuna and/or Jorma a few times over the last few years - he's still got it ! my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ In a message dated 11/26/2008 11:43:02 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, anacreon@gmail.com writes: I don't really know a lot of Airplane besides (of course) Surrealistic Pillow which got a lot of play among my stoner friends in high school. I think the only album I have of theirs is "Bark" (the one with the marvelous trout-with-dentures cover) -- I learned Jorma's name from the credits on that record when I was loving the guitar work on "Third Week at the Chelsea", but went from there not to more JA but to Hot Tuna. **************Life should be easier. So should your homepage. Try the NEW AOL.com. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000002) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:23:34 -0800 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Philly show > Lots of great Jorma guitar bits from his Jefferson Airplane days, but the > solos on the studio version of Wooden Ships from the Volunteers album is my > favorite. Too bad they went downhill so fast after reaching their pinnacle > on Volunteers, loosing not only Spencer Dryden but also Marty Balin within a > year. > His picking on Eskimo Blue Day is also great, though the song itself is crap, but my fave is the multiple guitars on Hey Fredrick. Nicky Hopkins wasn't bad on that either. I have a soft spot for the late JA but they really suffered from lack of a decent producer to keep their rampaging egos in check and make sure they were recorded properly. You can tell that a lot of that stuff would have sounded monstrous if there'd been somebody behind the board who knew what tha F. they were doing...instead it sounds like it was recorded with a little condenser mike in somebody's 6 X 6 woodshed - sounds flat, too dry, muffled...sheer butchery. And the Snow-nose Syndrome didn't help any either in terms of Kantner getting away with some of the most abysmal dreck (I mean, "Son Of Jesus"? Puh-leeze), which is where an iron-fisted producer like Guy Stevens could have helped in terms of quality control. I still get a rush out of the post-nuclear grooves on 30 Seconds Over Winterland though. np T. Rex: Electric Warrior ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:03:13 -0500 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: HOT TUNA was Philly show On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:01 PM, wrote: > we could be twins ! (Well insofar as Jefferson Airplane fandom is concerned anyhow.) Yeah, Jorma is one of the artists that I will definitely make plans to see him if I see he's playing around here. Fantastic guitarist and I like his ear a lot. At this point in time I think "Hesitation Blues" is as much Hot Tuna's song as it is Gary Davis'. J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josi Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:40:55 -0500 From: "Robyn Hitchcock" Subject: Re: request On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Duncan MacDougall wrote: > Furrry Grreen Atom Bowl! There's a thin line between "yes" and "no." - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #788 ********************************