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fegmaniax-digest      Thursday, January 15 2009      Volume 17 : Number 013



                               Today's Subjects:
                               -----------------
  Re: Dmitry                         ["Nectar At Any Cost!" <etews@inwa.net>]
  Re: REAP                                  [Capuchin <capuchin@bitmine.net>]
  Re: REAP                                  [Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com>]
  guided by voices                              [Jill Brand <jlbrand@bu.edu>]
  My name's not Eb, but I *am* butt-nekkid (true!)  [James Dignan <grutness@]
  Re: Reap x2                       ["Stewart C. Russell" <scruss@gmail.com>]
  Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Micro Australian Tour, plus Seattle Preview    [HwyCDRrev@aol]
  Re: guided by voices             ["Miles Goosens" <outdoorminer@gmail.com>]
  Re: coming to Rod's defense     [Michael Sweeney <m_l_sweeney@hotmail.com>]
  Re: REAP                               [FSThomas <fsthomas@ochremedia.com>]
  Pretty Loaded                        [Steve Schiavo <steveschiavo@mac.com>]
  Re: If my name were "Eb", I'd be butt-nekkid already!  ["David Stovall" <d]
  Re: If my name were "Eb", I'd be butt-nekkid already!  ["Jeremy Osner" <an]
  Re: REAP                                      [michaeljbachman@comcast.net]
  Re: If my name were "Eb", I'd be butt-nekkid already!  [michaeljbachman@co]
  Re: guided by voices                           [Tom Clark <tclark@mac.com>]
  Re: guided by voices... iris dement  [Caroline Smith <caroline@redchocolat]
  Re: Dmitry                             [FSThomas <fsthomas@ochremedia.com>]
  Re: Painfully Honest Year-End List  [Great Quail <quail@shipwrecklibrary.c]
  Re: coming to Rod's defense      [Great Quail <quail@shipwrecklibrary.com>]
  Re: coming to Rod's defense                 [2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>]
  Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #12     ["Bri N" <lazerlove5@buckeye-express.com>]
  Re: guided by voices... iris dement            [Tom Clark <tclark@mac.com>]
  Hans Solo                          ["Nectar At Any Cost!" <etews@inwa.net>]
  Re: coming to Rod's defense        ["kevin studyvin" <kstudyvin@gmail.com>]
  Re: Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Micro Australian Tour, plus Seattle Preview  ["kevin studyvin" <kstudyvin@gmai]
  Re: coming to Rod's defense             [Jeremy Osner <anacreon@gmail.com>]
  Where are they now? -Andy Metcalfe  ["Bri N" <lazerlove5@buckeye-express.c]
  Re: Hans Solo                               [2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>]
  Re: guided by voices... iris dement         [2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>]
  Re: guided by voices... iris dement  ["kevin studyvin" <kstudyvin@gmail.co]
  Re: coming to Rod's defense              [Jeff Dwarf <munki1972@yahoo.com>]

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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:32:29 -0800
From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" <etews@inwa.net>
Subject: Re: Dmitry

<Note who posted the original essay (etews@inwa.net), please.  I was the
one who got trolled.>

for what it's worth, i neither expected, nor wanted, you to reply.  (but
thanks for calling me a troll: saves me the trouble of responding to your
arguments.  suffice to say, you still haven't the slightest clue.)

i posted the link because i found it to be well-written, well-argued,
interesting, and entertaining; and hoped that it would impel any who chose
to read it, and who've not already begun to do so, to begin making
preparations for life in a post-collapse world.  granted, we may not ever
*see* a post-collapse world: could be nuclear holocaust instead.  but let's
hope for the former.

beyond that, why not have replied to the *author* of the piece; then
uploaded the resultant exchange to your website, and posted the link here?
(indeed, i still encourage you to do so.)


anyway, assuming you're lying awake nights worrying that obama's going to
raise your taxes, see if you like
<URL:http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20081125.htm> any better.  feel free
to share your feelings with the author (whom, i happen to know, spends many
hours per week answering correspondence).

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:05:55 -0600 (CST)
From: Capuchin <capuchin@bitmine.net>
Subject: Re: REAP

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Tom Clark wrote:
> "The plane" has come for the boss...
> <http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g2qvwJqGvWhocLyY20dKS5R0gL_wD95N60080


KHAAAAAAAAAAAN!

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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:10:50 -0800
From: Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: REAP

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Carrie Galbraith
<meketone@ix.netcom.com>wrote:

> No. 6 finally escapes the Village.
> <http://chattahbox.com/entertainment/2009/01/14/rip-patrick-mcgoohan-
> died-at-age-80/>


I've been dreading this one for  long time.

Still sucks.

Rex

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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:32:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Jill Brand <jlbrand@bu.edu>
Subject: guided by voices

As for female vocalists, no one has mentioned Laura Nyro.  You are all too 
fucking young to have seen her perform, but she was mesmerizing.

Miles wrote:
"Unfortunately, Lead Singer Voice Aversion is difficult to overcome.
Smashing Pumpkins could be the best thing ever, but I'll never know
because I'll never get past wanting to strangle Billy Corgan before he
can emit another vocal sound."

Yup, that about sums it up.  But I feel the same way about Robert Plant, 
and that position has left me all alone in the world.

Oh, another big voice that drives me insane is Natalie Merchant's.  I 
can't switch stations fast enough.  I know I've posted this before.

Jill

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:49:36 +1300
From: James Dignan <grutness@slingshot.co.nz>
Subject: My name's not Eb, but I *am* butt-nekkid (true!)

>No-one's mentioned Maddy Pryor yet?

Nor Jacquie McShee (sp). Now *there* was a voice.

James
- -- 
    James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand  <http://www.grutness.co.nz>
    -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-
    =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-.
    -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=-
    .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=

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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:07:12 -0500
From: "Stewart C. Russell" <scruss@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Reap x2

James Dignan wrote:
> 
> also David Vine, 72

Damn. David V shaped our family character - we'd all sit round Ski
Sunday, and holler "wahay!" when a skier wiped out.

 Stewart

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:30:33 EST
From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com
Subject: Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Micro Australian Tour, plus Seattle Preview  

Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Micro Australian Tour, plus Seattle  Preview
21 The Triple Door Seattle
25 The Annandale Hotel - Sydney NSW  Sydney
27 The Corner Hotel Richmond, Melbourne
28 The Apollo Bay Music  Festival Apollo Bay, VIC 
 
from RH.com


my blog is "Yer  Blog"
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http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/
 
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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:45:41 -0600
From: "Miles Goosens" <outdoorminer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: guided by voices

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Jill Brand <jlbrand@bu.edu> wrote:
> Miles wrote:
> "Unfortunately, Lead Singer Voice Aversion is difficult to overcome.
> Smashing Pumpkins could be the best thing ever, but I'll never know
> because I'll never get past wanting to strangle Billy Corgan before he
> can emit another vocal sound."
>
> Yup, that about sums it up.  But I feel the same way about Robert Plant, and
> that position has left me all alone in the world.

I actually almost put Plant among my favorites.  I wonder if you'd
like him better now that the years have made him mostly unable to hit
the high notes and have compensated him with a wonderful lower
register.  Plant, now there's a guy who's had a mostly-unheralded,
wonderful second act to his career.  Seriously, you just don't hear
about Plant's solo career, and there's not a bum record in it.  NOW
AND ZEN is probably the worst one of the solo albums, and it's darn
good; the ones since have been incredibly well-arranged, superbly
performed by both band and singer, and have done as much to cement my
Plant fandom as the Zep years.

Sadly, the worst album Plant's done since Zep is the Plant/Page studio
album, though the versions on the subsequent tour did a lot to redeem
those songs.  I'd like to blame Steve Albini.

later,

Miles

- -- 
now with blogspot retsin! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:53:50 +0000
From: Michael Sweeney <m_l_sweeney@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: coming to Rod's defense

Rex wrote:

>We seem to be stuck on schoolyard rumors these days,
>but my first memory of Rod was "Do You Think I'm Sexy",
.and my second was the rumor about two quarts of semen
>being pumped out of his stomach.


...Contemporaneously, when we heard this (as teenagers in the late '70s), it
was more like "nearly a pop-can-ful" (i.e., about 12 oz.) of semen.  I luv to
hear that it has rumoredly grown to a half-gallon...


Michael "37?  See, I KNEW you were younger than that age I supposed in the
mistaken KISS post..." Sweeney
_________________________________________________________________
Windows Live: Keep your life in sync.
http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_allup_howitworks_01200
9

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:22:55 -0500
From: FSThomas <fsthomas@ochremedia.com>
Subject: Re: REAP

michael wells wrote:
> TC:
>  > "The plane" has come for the boss...
> 
> Man, it would so rock if his coffin was a 1982 Chrysler Cordoba

With Ricardo in a white tux, lying on fine, Corinthian leather.

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:59:32 -0600
From: Steve Schiavo <steveschiavo@mac.com>
Subject: Pretty Loaded

<http://www.prettyloaded.com/>

Loading animations, good timewaster.


- - Steve
__________
I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone  
girl with a scythe. - John

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_6O-xByzRg>

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:10:18 -0500
From: "David Stovall" <da9ve.s@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: If my name were "Eb", I'd be butt-nekkid already!

> From: "Stewart Russell" <scruss@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: If my name were "Eb", I'd be butt-nekkid already!
>
> No-one's mentioned Maddy Pryor yet?
>

Love Maddy's voice.

Big yes to Chrissie Hynde - she'll never know but would probably
understand that she helped hurry me and many contemporaries though
puberty.

Just heard, for the first time that I know of, Nellie McKay on a rerun
of Prairie Home Companion over the weekend, and quite dug her, and how
on earth does she do all that stuff on "Identity Theft"?

Karen Bergquist (Over the Rhine)

Dagmar Krause

Victoria Williams (NOT Lucinda Williams, she's fine and all, but
Victoria is much more interesting)

Jewlia Eisenberg (and some of the other gal singers/harmonizers for
Charming Hostess)

But mostly Dawn McCarthy of Faun Fables.  Seriously, fans of Sandy
Denny and/or Linda Thompson, Dawn is the new ___.  Numerically
remarkable dynamic range, and rock solid at every decibel level, you
can practically build physical objects out of her voice.  Find "Eyes
of a Bird" (credited to Faun Fables) on youtube or something, and
listen all the way through to the ending climax; better yet, buy the
damn Family Album CD and crank up the studio version l.o.u.d. and then
listen to "Higher" and get yer gospel on.  Shit, she yodels, too.  I
wonder how anyone can stand opposite her on a stage and not get gusted
off (Nils Frykdahl excepted, of course); maybe some hidden cantilever,
dunno.

da9ve

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:26:25 -0500
From: "Jeremy Osner" <anacreon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: If my name were "Eb", I'd be butt-nekkid already!

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the Best Female
Vocalist Ever was Patsy Cline. Her voice does things to my head that
few others do.

I don't know much about describing how I listen to a voice. The
technical aspects of music criticism are a foreign language. What
makes me respond to a singer is if when I hear him or her sing a line,
I get a concrete sense of the singer as a person -- there's a sort of
Mandelbrot set thing going on where the moment it takes the singer to
sing the one line communicates the singer's entire life (or appears to
do so.) This is the extreme case -- it is only going to be true of
particular lines, particular songs, particular bits of the singer's
experience... I started to formulate this idea last year while I was
listening very heavily to RH, trying to communicate what turned me on
about him; Patsy Cline might be the singer besides RH to whom it is
most applicable. YMMV.

J


If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the
essential words. -- Josi Saramago
http://www.readin.com/blog/

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:29:56 +0000 (UTC)
From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net
Subject: Re: REAP

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "michael wells" <braneout@wowway.com>
To: "Tom Clark" <tclark@mac.com>
Cc: "Snakesmaniax Jesus Christ" <fegmaniax@smoe.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 7:41:29 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: REAP

TC:
B >> "The plane" has come for the boss...

>Man, it would so rock if his coffin was a 1982 Chrysler Cordoba

With fine Corinthian leather and powered by a "lean burn" engine.

My parents had a 1976 Cordoba with both of those features!



Michael B.

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:36:04 +0000 (UTC)
From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net
Subject: Re: If my name were "Eb", I'd be butt-nekkid already!

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Osner" <anacreon@gmail.com>
To: "David Stovall" <da9ve.s@gmail.com>
Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:26:25 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: If my name were "Eb", I'd be butt-nekkid already!

>I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the Best Female
>Vocalist Ever was Patsy Cline. Her voice does things to my head that
>few others do.


Good call on Patsy. I had Emmylou Harris on my list but didn't include any
other female country singers.

If my list was expanded to 25 she would be on it for sure as well as
country/bluegrass/folk singers Dolly Parton and Alison Krauss. More jazz
singers like June Christy, Nancy Wilson, Carmen McRaeB and Anita O'Day would
have also madeB up my top 25.B  Kathleen Edwards and Caitlin Cary show some
promise.



I can't believe I forgot Tracey Thorn of EBTG fame, she should have been in my
bakers dozen!



Michael B.

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:56:16 -0800
From: Tom Clark <tclark@mac.com>
Subject: Re: guided by voices

On Jan 14, 2009, at 6:32 PM, Jill Brand wrote:

> Oh, another big voice that drives me insane is Natalie Merchant's.   
> I can't switch stations fast enough.  I know I've posted this before.
>

Really?  I'm not a big fan of her work, but her voice just feels warm  
and inviting to me.  The one who hits it out of the park though is  
Iris Dement.

- -tc

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:10:50 -0500
From: Caroline Smith <caroline@redchocolate.ca>
Subject: Re: guided by voices... iris dement

On 15-Jan-09, at 10:56 AM, Tom Clark wrote:

>  The one who hits it out of the park though is Iris Dement.
>

I don't know much about Iris Dement, but I've always been fond of this  
video (sorry about the long intro):

http://tinyurl.com/8p6pua

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:11:52 -0500
From: FSThomas <fsthomas@ochremedia.com>
Subject: Re: Dmitry

Nectar At Any Cost! wrote:

> for what it's worth, i neither expected, nor wanted, you to reply.  (but
> thanks for calling me a troll: saves me the trouble of responding to your
> arguments.  suffice to say, you still haven't the slightest clue.)

When posting something like that you take the gamble that someone might
reply; that's the nature of the Internets and open forums.  I 
acknowledge that risk when I reply so the two-way traffic it shouldn't 
surprise you.

As far as not answering simply for having been called a troll,
fine. Carry on. I never would have thought you so thin-skinned, but 
fine. Perhaps my skin's too thick (along with the rest of me) or my 
skull's too dense, but I occasionally read tings that annoy me to the 
point I feel compelled to reply.

As to my not having the slightest clue I would beg to differ. I'm not
bereft of clues, they're just diametrically opposed to yours. The 
telling difference to me being that history has time and again proven
socialist states abject failures and free-market solutions and nation 
states with lower taxes thrive. Acknowledge and move on.

> i posted the link because i found it to be well-written, well-argued,
> interesting, and entertaining; and hoped that it would impel any who chose
> to read it, and who've not already begun to do so, to begin making
> preparations for life in a post-collapse world.

I won't fault you there, it was all of those things. I too wonder where
exactly we're headed, the difference being I don't think you can spend
your way out of debt with money you don't have. Cool.

> anyway, assuming you're lying awake nights worrying that obama's going to
> raise your taxes, see if you like
> <URL:http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20081125.htm> any better.

It's not my taxes I so much worry about, it's my employer's.  That and
the pressing burden Obama seems so eager to place on the nation and its
future generations, both in the form of simple debt and ever-growing
government entitlement programs, and simple overall state largess.

The solution to what's going on right now is NOT to grow the size and
scope of the Fed. It's NOT to bring more entitlement programs, and it's
NOT going to be solved through Fed make-work programs.  The solution is
to dissolve taxation to a point where the economy gets going again and 
placing the decisions of what to do with money into the hands of those 
who earned it. Let the market choose the winners and losers, not the 
Government.  Propping up bad businesses will only serve to hurt good 
businesses and find us back in the same situation further down the road. 
  That is the only plan of action that's worked in the past and it will be
the only plan of action that will work this time.

And Noam? I'm 1/4 of the way through it, but have a bit of work to 
attend to.

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:52:16 -0500
From: Great Quail <quail@shipwrecklibrary.com>
Subject: Re: Painfully Honest Year-End List

Ok, Rex -- nothing personal, really, I just have to tweak your list a bit.
It's kind of the musical equivalent of "You kids get off my lawn!"

> 8. Album-recreation concerts.  This was a neat idea, but we can stop.

Why? Who is "we?" Was "I Often Dream of Trains" a bad idea? Aren't a lot of
albums *designed* to be listened to as a whole experience, so doesn't it
make sense to have a concert where they are played that way?

I personally like this "trend," and would love to see it continue,
especially as I get older and see more favorite albums reach certain
anniversary milestones....

> 9. Serious reviews of new albums by non-artists.

Honestly. As a guy who only listened to *three* new albums straight through
last year (two of them from 80s groups), and admittedly does not like hip
hop...do you really feel capable of judging what a "non-artist" is at this
point?

I actually like the song "Womanizer." Does that make me a bad person? (Or
just a pervert?)

- --Quail

PS: Having just been introduced to the Fleet Foxes, I would like to jump
their eponymous CD immediately way high up on my Best of 2008 list. Jeez!
This album is great! And I think very Feg-friendly....

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:03:31 -0500
From: Great Quail <quail@shipwrecklibrary.com>
Subject: Re: coming to Rod's defense

"Maggie May" fucking kills me every time I hear it, it's fucking GENIUS. I
will never make fun of Rod Stewart because of that one shining moment in pop
history. I don't care how many gallons of jizz they pump from his stomach,
or how synthetic his hair and face have become, or how many pallid versions
of moldering hits he cranks out on overglitzed nostalgia tours. "MAGGIE
MAY." 

Discriminating between "favorite" and "greatest" vocalists is key, I
believe. I love Robyn and Bob Dylan and Tom Waits and Lou Reed and so on,
but I cannot honestly say they are "great" in a traditional sense.

Greatest male vocalist, hmmm... I would put my money on Van Morrison. His
voice blows my mind into little tiny smoking pieces. But then... Frank
Sinatra, of course, and Marvin Gaye.

Thought I was going so say Bono, didn't you?

- --Quail

PS: ....and Bono

PPS: Fleet Fucking Foxes! Get on it!

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:26:19 -0600
From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: coming to Rod's defense

On 1/15/09, Great Quail <quail@shipwrecklibrary.com> wrote:

>  Discriminating between "favorite" and "greatest" vocalists is key, I
>  believe. I love Robyn and Bob Dylan and Tom Waits and Lou Reed and so on,
>  but I cannot honestly say they are "great" in a traditional sense.

Well, that's true - but then, which "traditional sense" do you mean? I
think Dylan has essentially invented his own tradition (which Reed,
certainly, and Robyn, to an extent, follows) - and within that
tradition (which isn't wholly his invention) he's certainly great.

>
>  Greatest male vocalist, hmmm... I would put my money on Van Morrison. His
>  voice blows my mind into little tiny smoking pieces. But then... Frank
>  Sinatra, of course, and Marvin Gaye.

I'm surprised, now that you've done so, that no one's mentioned Van
Morrison yet. I can't say I always like his music (probably no one can
say they *always* like his music - and that probably includes
Morrison), but he's a fantastically expressive, supple singer.

And of course no one can argue with Sinatra at his peak or Gaye.

- -- 

...Jeff Norman

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

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:26:26 -0800
From: "Bri N" <lazerlove5@buckeye-express.com>
Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #12

Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:37:40 -0600
From: Steve Schiavo <steveschiavo@mac.com>
Subject: 100 albums better than Sloan

<http://absolutepowerpop.blogspot.com/2009/01/david-bashs-top-125- 
of-2008.html>

<http://absolutepowerpop.blogspot.com/2009/01/david-bash-lists- 
part-2.html>

Not the Audities list, just one guy's opinion.  The reissues on part  
2 are interesting.

I've been wanting Catnip Dynamite, so I'm finally relenting and  
ordering it from Caiman.  Other than, I own 12, 40, 60, and 101.  I  
really need to get some albums by 26, and you gotta love the title of  
75.

 - Steve
- ----------------------------

92. The Pillbugs-Everybody Wants A Way Out (Rainbow Quartz)
http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gzfyxzrkldae

Hey! They are from Toledo! (Where I am). I do not have this album, but everything Mark Mikel does is amazing. He records everything on old school analog tape. And their shows are always mind blowing with at least a couple Beatles covers. I think I mentioned them on this list about 4 or 5 years ago.

As a matter of fact Mark is a RH fan. I met him in Detroit in 93 at a RHE show. We got talking after we shared uh, er 'cigarette'. He gave me a copy of one of his cassettes which had one song on each side. To my amazement it was incredible. One song sounded like it was a lost Lennon song and the one was just pure 70's americana. Actually Mark was supposed to help me on a cover of Robyn's Do Policmen Sing, but I ended up doing a synth'd up version with my pal Joel Roberts who was in a band called Stylex. I digress...

I'm gonna go track down that Pillbugs now.

- -Nuppy

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:25:56 -0800
From: Tom Clark <tclark@mac.com>
Subject: Re: guided by voices... iris dement

On Jan 15, 2009, at 8:10 AM, Caroline Smith wrote:

> On 15-Jan-09, at 10:56 AM, Tom Clark wrote:
>
>> The one who hits it out of the park though is Iris Dement.
>>
>
> I don't know much about Iris Dement, but I've always been fond of  
> this video (sorry about the long intro):
>
> http://tinyurl.com/8p6pua

That was nice, thanks!  I dare anyone to watch this without choking up  
a little:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FikZwgj89HI&NR=1

- -tc

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:29:36 -0800
From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" <etews@inwa.net>
Subject: Hans Solo

<URL:http://vimeo.com/2809991>.

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:19:32 -0800
From: "kevin studyvin" <kstudyvin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: coming to Rod's defense

> I'm surprised, now that you've done so, that no one's mentioned Van
> Morrison yet. I can't say I always like his music (probably no one can
> say they *always* like his music - and that probably includes
> Morrison), but he's a fantastically expressive, supple singer.
>

Van the Man was definitely on my list.  Of course so was Jim Morrison, where
I seem to be all alone, but what the heck.

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:24:59 -0800
From: "kevin studyvin" <kstudyvin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Micro Australian Tour, plus Seattle Preview

Oh yessss.  And my birthday's that weekend too.

In addition to which, while crusing the Triple Door site I see that Al
Kooper's playing there Sunday nite.  That could be fun.

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:30 PM, <HwyCDRrev@aol.com> wrote:

> Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Micro Australian Tour, plus Seattle  Preview
> 21 The Triple Door Seattle
> 25 The Annandale Hotel - Sydney NSW  Sydney
> 27 The Corner Hotel Richmond, Melbourne
> 28 The Apollo Bay Music  Festival Apollo Bay, VIC
>
> from RH.com
>
>
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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:27:21 -0500
From: Jeremy Osner <anacreon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: coming to Rod's defense

> Of course so was Jim Morrison, where
> I seem to be all alone, but what the heck.

I like JM tho I would not call him a favorite. I was pretty surprised
listening to a RH gig tape the other day to hear him covering a Doors
tune, it wasn't something I was expecting to hear.

J

If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the
essential words. -- Josi Saramago
http://www.readin.com/blog/

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:54:23 -0800
From: "Bri N" <lazerlove5@buckeye-express.com>
Subject: Where are they now? -Andy Metcalfe

Haven't scene this before. So that's where Andy is!

Buffalo Smoke:
http://www.buffalosmoke.net/index.html

- -Nuppy

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:05:09 -0600
From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Hans Solo

On 1/15/09, Nectar At Any Cost! <etews@inwa.net> wrote:
> <URL:http://vimeo.com/2809991>.

She did a better job retelling it than I would - and I've seen all
three several times. (By "all three" I intend to discount utterly the
latter three movies bearing the "Star Wars" name, of course...)


- -- 

...Jeff Norman

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

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:06:20 -0600
From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: guided by voices... iris dement

On 1/15/09, Caroline Smith <caroline@redchocolate.ca> wrote:
> On 15-Jan-09, at 10:56 AM, Tom Clark wrote:
>
>
> >  The one who hits it out of the park though is Iris Dement.

Didn't she have an uncle who's a doctor? He didn't change his name
from the original Italian, though...


- -- 

...Jeff Norman

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

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:44:18 -0800
From: "kevin studyvin" <kstudyvin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: guided by voices... iris dement

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:06 PM, 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/15/09, Caroline Smith <caroline@redchocolate.ca> wrote:
> > On 15-Jan-09, at 10:56 AM, Tom Clark wrote:
> >
> >
> > >  The one who hits it out of the park though is Iris Dement.
>
> Didn't she have an uncle who's a doctor? He didn't change his name
> from the original Italian, though...



Now that was a sleeper.

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:40:38 -0800 (PST)
From: Jeff Dwarf <munki1972@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: coming to Rod's defense

kevin studyvin <kstudyvin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Van the Man was definitely on my list.  Of course so was
> Jim Morrison, where I seem to be all alone, but what the heck.

I think The Doors biggest problem is that Morrison thought he was a poet (which was ludicrous), the Oliver Stone movie -- even that Oliver Stone would make a movie about them, and when they are bad, the are over-the-top pretentiously bad. It's sort of like The Police, except that Sting had the sense to not die in a bathtub.




"I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell

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