From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #814 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, December 29 2008 Volume 16 : Number 814 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Dual (duel?)-lead guitars [Sebastian Hagedorn ] best of 2008 radio show airs tomorrow morning. ["John B. Jones" ] Flying through the annopause... [James Dignan ] Lead mixing and 2008 in review (stand back, it's bound to be bland) [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:10:29 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Dual (duel?)-lead guitars - -- Terrence Marks is rumored to have mumbled on 28. Dezember 2008 16:32:00 -0800 regarding Dual (duel?)-lead guitars: > I've got Can of Bees, Marquee Moon, The Monochrome Set, and a few > horn-free Captain Beefheart albums. I'm looking for other similar > music with two interlocking lead guitar lines. > > Suggestions? To some extent The Feelies. They are heavily influenced by Television, but not all of their music is dual-lead. Sometimes there's a clear separation between lead and rhythm guitar. Then again, that's true for Television as well. Start with "Crazy Rhythms" ... - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:26:20 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Dual (duel?)-lead guitars On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Sebastian Hagedorn < Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote: > -- Terrence Marks is rumored to have mumbled on > 28. Dezember 2008 16:32:00 -0800 regarding Dual (duel?)-lead guitars: > > > I've got Can of Bees, Marquee Moon, The Monochrome Set, and a few >> horn-free Captain Beefheart albums. I'm looking for other similar >> music with two interlocking lead guitar lines. >> >> Suggestions? >> > > To some extent The Feelies. They are heavily influenced by Television, but > not all of their music is dual-lead. Sometimes there's a clear separation > between lead and rhythm guitar. Then again, that's true for Television as > well. Start with "Crazy Rhythms" ... Television's evil twin, Richard Hell & the Voidoids. Remarkably compatible with CoB. Sixties flavors include Buffalo Springfield, Moby Grape, sometimes Love... You could also do worse than to revisit those dusty old Church albums. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:23:01 -0800 From: "John B. Jones" Subject: best of 2008 radio show airs tomorrow morning. Somewhat feg-related: Two fegs will be counting down their top 10 albums of 2008 on the radio tomorrow! Those two fegs would be Michael Keefe (although I don't think he's currently subscribed to the list) and myself. My radio show ANODYNE airs on KBOO-FM in Portland, OR on Monday mornings from 3am - 5:30am PST. You may say "crappy timeslot" to which I would reply, "We're drive-time in India, bitches!!" And in this internet age, radio is just as time-shiftable as your TIVO. URL here -- http://live.kboo.fm:8000/high.m3u Michael Keefe writes about music for popmatters.com and madeloud.com these days. Cheers, JBJ p.s. for woj -- I play a track off the 10-4 All box set during the last 20 minutes or so. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:47:11 -0800 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Dual (duel?)-lead guitars On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Rex wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Sebastian Hagedorn < > Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote: > > > -- Terrence Marks is rumored to have mumbled > on > > 28. Dezember 2008 16:32:00 -0800 regarding Dual (duel?)-lead guitars: > > > > > > I've got Can of Bees, Marquee Moon, The Monochrome Set, and a few > >> horn-free Captain Beefheart albums. I'm looking for other similar > >> music with two interlocking lead guitar lines. > >> > >> Suggestions? > >> > > > > To some extent The Feelies. They are heavily influenced by Television, > but > > not all of their music is dual-lead. Sometimes there's a clear separation > > between lead and rhythm guitar. Then again, that's true for Television as > > well. Start with "Crazy Rhythms" ... > > > Television's evil twin, Richard Hell & the Voidoids. Remarkably compatible > with CoB. Sixties flavors include Buffalo Springfield, Moby Grape, > sometimes Love... > > You could also do worse than to revisit those dusty old Church albums. > Allman Bros? Wishbone Ash? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:08:20 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Flying through the annopause... Ah, the annopause - that period where nothing seems to happen between Christmas and the New Year. The time of "year's best" lists: The year's 12 best albums - in no set order: * School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms. Fantastic SJD-meets-Stereolab sound. * Youth Group - The night is ours. Excellent, Belle & Sebastian/James/Chameleons/etc sound. Lovely. * The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion. Sounds like a Polynesian Beta Band * SJD- Dayglo Spectres Up there with SJD's Southern Lights - which is on my list of the decade's best * The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely. What the last couple of White Stripes albums should have sounded like. And I thought Paul Kossoff was dead * A.Human - Third hand prophecy. New romantic? And a synth cover of "Horse with no name"? Surprisingly, yes, and much more - and it works, mostly * MGMT - Oracular Spectacular. Very Flaming Lips-y * Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson - Rattlin' Bones. Deep folk Americana with occasional Richard & Linda Thompson flashes. * Chris Knox & The Nothing - A Warm Gun. Another Knox goody - "To the sun" and "When the love comes" in particular are great * Rodrigo y Gabriela - Live in Tokyo. Flamenco metal??? * Juana Molina - Un Dma - indescribably world music. Veers wildly between Sheila Chandra, Laurie Anderson, Stereolab, and Lemon Jelly in sound, with many unexpected but effective textures. Still trying to parse this one * Weezer - Weezer (Red album). A really pleasant surprise - including a good, if overly faithful rendition of "The weight"! Bubbling under...the next ten: * Gutter Twins - Saturnalia. Screaming Trees-ish prog grunge * Ladytron - Velocifero * The Shortwave Set - Replica Sun Machine * The Autumn Defense - The Autumn Defense. Laid-back West Coast circa 1971 * Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Sunday at Devil Dirt. A goody, sort of like the Nick Cave/Kylie Minogue combination covering an alt.country Serge Gainsbourg. * The Dodo - Visiter. Hits similar territory to Neutral Milk Hotel * Jim Christy - God's little angel. Halfway between Tom Waits and Was Not Was's "Better than James Brown". Cannot be used as background music - - you need to listen to the drawled voice and its bitter messages filled with brilliant similes and metaphors. * African Dreamland & African Party (Putumayo). Delightful compilations of African music * Beck - Modern Guilt: A definite return to form. * Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Is It The Sea?. Up until now I've never got what all the fuss was about. Oddly, it took a live album to explain it. Close... The next six: * Murder by Death - Red of tooth and claw. Ersatz Nick Cave, but not bad * Tapes 'n Tapes - Walk it off. Occasional flashes of Echo & the Secret Machines make this worthwhile * The Secret Machines - Secret Machines. Not as good as it should be, but still worthwhile * Ting Tings - We started nothing. The single "That's not my name' is a virtually permanent earworm. Would love to hear them cover "These boots were made for walking"! * Radar Bros - Auditorium. Structured yet melodically unpredictable late Beatles feel. First track glorious -unfortunatelty the rest of the album doesn't reach the same heights * The Hold Steady - Stay Positive: Bob Mould meets Ed Kuepper... a little samey in places, but pretty good overall. Pleasant surprises: * Martha Wainwright's cover of "See Emily Play" - v. good. * The Fireman - Electronic arguments. Not bad from the old man. At its best when he abandons song structure entirely (which he seems unwilling to do) - the final track, a long electronic ramble, is head and shoulders above much of this for that reason. * Some music I got from Nuppy: Fast piece of Furniture's "Adventures in contentment". They wear their influences on their sleeves at times (Stones, Lou, Byrds, Talking Heads, even a trace of Patti Smith), but blend them into a nice original whole. Unpleasant surprises: * Malcolm Middleton - Sleight of heart. This has given me hope - if this guy can get a recording contract, anyone can. Dreary, dreary, dreary. Major disappointment: * The Dresden Dolls. So...ordinary. And a too-faithful cover of "Pretty in pink". Where is the weird when it's needed? The opposite is true of the far better "Who killed Amanda Palmer?", the solo debut from the DD's lead singer. Avoid the band's album, get this instead. Guilty pleasures: * Uh Huh Her - Common reaction * Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I lay my head (an album of Tom Waits covers). A limited voice, perhaps, but intriguing covers and well arranged - - almost Enoesque in places. Older stuff: * The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Strung out in Heaven - the missing link between the Charlatans and the Clean? * Also from a feg - a huge backlog of live RH from over the years. Nuff said. Thanks Marc! Still to hear: * The new Byrne/Eno * The new Goldfrapp - like what I've heard off it so far... 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: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:20:32 -0500 From: Subject: Lead mixing and 2008 in review (stand back, it's bound to be bland) >Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:32:00 -0800 >From: "Terrence Marks" >Subject: Dual (duel?)-lead guitars >I've got Can of Bees, Marquee Moon, The Monochrome Set, and a few >horn-free Captain Beefheart albums. I'm looking for other similar >music with two interlocking lead guitar lines. >Suggestions? :::delurkmodecomplete::: The Blue Aeroplanes "Swagger". Rodney, Angelo, Alex all play catch with leads. The 2006 reissue is still in print. Looking through this edition of the Digest, I realized that I don't have a 2008 list. Mostly because I don't think I've actually bought much in the 2008 releases category. However, here's what I did discover (or re-discover) in 2008: Music David Byrne & Brian Eno, "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today". Byrne is so busy being serious most of the time that it's quite a shock to hear him enjoy himself. I really loved this record. I am sorry that Eno didn't sing, though, especially after hearing (Yes, I know this is a 2008 release.) Bjork, "Debut". I bought this when it came out, listened to it a few times, and then it sat on the shelf. I started a big CD ripping project, so this one came out and was ripped in its due course. I had a listen to proof the transfer, and all I could think was, "Where have you BEEN all of my life?" The way she sings "volcano" alone is worth the price of the record. Tom Verlaine, "Cover". Tone. It's all about tone. How does he do that? It's muscular and feather-light simultaneously. As "Five Miles of You" keeps building, he keeps shoveling this tone on the fire more and more until it flares and burns itself out. (The sudden end is due, apparently, to a bad CD mastering job where the fade out got cut off completely, but it does work.) Men At Work, "Men At Work". Forget about being goofies from Oz. Although a lot of the record is light hearted, there's plenty of iron in the playing and arranging. "Down By The Sea" is still my favourite. Concerts Robyn Hitchcock, "I Often Dream Of Trains" show at Old Town School. It was the only concert event I attended in 2008. Glad I picked the right one. Film/DVD "Auntie Mame". Rosalind Russell's performance-- she's so cool and subtle, while bashing people with wordy bricks, and playing the Pied Piper. There's also that egalitarian thing that plays to my sensibilities. "The Philadelphia Story". Witty. Katherine Hepburn shooting darts at 1000 miles an hour and Jimmy Stewart solidly blocking and returning each shot. And Cary Grant? Jesus, these people may have been glamour-pusses and all, but they were *funny*. "The Dark Knight." I didn't think much of the third act-- sorta ruined the film for me, but the first two are pretty fine. Ledger's Joker is a gas, and owes more to Alan Moore than Adam West, which I really appreciated. "Westway To The World". The Clash documentary that Dolph gave me for my birthday a few years back. I'd been waiting for a special occasion to watch it, and it was worth the wait (despite Jon Savage's slag). Strummer saying just how fragile a group is, and him crying over it... well, I joined him. Readin' Material Andy Summers, _One Train Later_. Make Magazine Fantagraphics' reprints of Krazy Kat. Pat Gilbert, _Passion Is Fashion_ Dexter Filkins, _The Forever War_ Jon Savage, _England's Dreaming_ People I Am Sad To See Go: Bill Elder. George Carlin. Things I Hope Will Be Gone Soon: George Bush II Hipster Irony Le Show And finally, I miss our Gnat. Death reaps the beauty of the world. It's not fair. I hope everyone stays well and whole and has a grand 2009. - -Doc This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:00:31 -0800 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: RE: Bovine! Spongiform! Encephalopathy! all right, apologies for the delay! it's been busy days; but i did want to watch the flicker again to make sure i still held the same opinion. as it turns out, i think i've come around to jeme's view of things... the problem with the plot, as i'd seen it, is that tom's plan (that is to say, the original plan, before bernie sent it awry by not skipping town after tom's having shewn mercy toward him at miller's crossing) relied upon two crucial decisions over which he'd have no control: vera's, to tell him where bernie was hiding; and mink's, to agree to sell out the dane. for a guy who "knows all the angles", how, i wondered, could he (and by extension the screenplay) be celebrated for having devised such a shakily amateurish plan? when i presented this criticism to jeme a few years back, he argued that that's not a failing of the plot, but rather an indication that tom isn't as smart as he thinks he is. a plausible explanation, said i -- except that i didn't think the coens would ever sign off on it. having now watched it again for the first time in many, many moons, i think jeme's probably right. tom isn't, after all, otherwise presented as infallible. he only won out, for example, after benefitting from two incredible pieces of luck: bernie's having killed mink and left his body at miller's crossing; and the dane's having tried to sell johnny on a double-cross of tom, without which tom's accusations regarding the dane would've sounded like so much hot air. (indeed, this last, it may be argued, *could* be said to be a failing of the screenplay; in that it rather feels more like a case of the character's nature having been conveniently manipulated to fit the screenwriters' desired outcome rather than having been a behaviour that one would've expected from the character in question.) also, tom gets the ever-loving shit beaten out of him in seemingly every-other scene; and while he *does* in the end get square with his bookie; he doesn't get the girl, he's now committed his first murder, and he's lost his friendship with leo. not exactly a happily-ever-after scenario. so, yeah, upon further reflection, i'd guess that the coens may well *would* sign off on jeme's explanation. i might even go one further, and argue that tom *himself* doesn't think he's as smart as he wants everyone to think he is -- but so long as everyone *does* think he's that smart, he's no reason to let on that he's not. (furthermore, he does more or less admit as much to leo in the final scene: "do you always know why you do what you do?") while we'd still have to consult the brothers coen to know for sure what it is that they intended; my own personal interpretation has come around to support the, vis a vis tom, style-over-substance school of thought, as espoused by a certain mr. j. brelin. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:37:35 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: REAP http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/12/27/state/n162319S27.D TL&tsp=1 Rock songwriter Delaney Bramlett dies in LA at 69 my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ **************One site keeps you connected to all your email: AOL Mail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000025) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:02:46 -0500 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: best of 2008 radio show airs tomorrow morning. Dr. Ladysounds posts her picks here: http://scarygoround.com/?date=20081229 -- "All groups with the f-word in their name are disqualified" 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: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:22:05 -0800 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: REAP Jeeziz, the old guard's dropping like flies this year. But who was that bearded individual in tie-dye in the photo? On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 9:37 AM, wrote: > > http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/12/27/state/n162319S27.D > TL&tsp=1 > Rock songwriter Delaney Bramlett dies in LA at 69 > > my blog is "Yer Blog" > http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ > http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ > > **************One site keeps you connected to all your email: AOL Mail, > Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. Try it now. > ( > http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000025 > ) ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #814 ********************************