From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #58 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, February 25 2009 Volume 17 : Number 058 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Feg Commune ["C. Huff" ] Re: Beatles - Revolution 1 take 20 [David Stovall ] Re: My name is "Eb": Cut my skin, it makes me human [michaeljbachman@comc] Re: Robyn in Nashville April 6th [Gene Hopstetter ] Re: Miles Goosens' 322nd Wilco Dream [Great Quail ] Re: Feg Commune [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Feg Commune [2fs ] Re: My name is "Eb": Cut my skin, it makes me human [kevin studyvin ] RE: No Line (0% Robyn) ["Brian Huddell" ] We Have Leakage ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] reap [James Dignan ] Re: reap [Jeremy Osner ] Re: reap [kevin studyvin ] Genesis of the Grammar Nazi [Tom Clark ] Re: My name is "Eb": Cut my skin, it makes me human [michaeljbachman@comc] Re: My name is "Eb": Cut my skin, it makes me human [kevin studyvin ] Everthing is so *obedient*... [Jeremy Osner ] Bubbles of warming (NR) [Steve Schiavo ] Re: Feg Commune ["C. Huff" ] Re: All That You Can't Quarry [lep ] Re: All That You Can't Quarry [Rex ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:15:56 -0800 (PST) From: "C. Huff" Subject: Re: Feg Commune Ok...back in the 80s the NYC fan club was run by these two women from Brooklyn who called themselves "Sandra" and "Trudi" - they told us at the merch table that his name was Reginald Robyn Hitchcock, but "don't call him that"...I don't rule out that they could have been messing with us but they "seemed" sincere... lol this is completely ridiculous, but some other random British person at a gig in 1988 said "Yes, his first name is really Reginald". Rumo(u)r? Fact? Odd synchronicity? and yes, The Order of The Victorian Squid is opening an ashram on the Isle of Wight I hear... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:01:39 -0500 From: David Stovall Subject: Re: Beatles - Revolution 1 take 20 > From: m swedene > Subject: Beatles - Revolution 1 take 20 > > Nothing from here on this?I had to read it on fricking Google news! > Oy! > > http://jp917.blogspot.com/2009/02/leaked-beatles-revolution-1-take-20.html > > comments? > anyone? > Bueller? Got it off Dime before it got banned (just Dime being very careful - their reasoning was the EMI had had pullled it from Youtube, and better safe than sorry,...) It's very interesting, and goes on for a long time; I've played it through only once (I think on Saturday morning), but paid pretty close attention. It starts out almost indistinguishable from Revolution #1, the slow, loping version, and once it gets through a bit more than the standard length of that version, a few extra electronic/phasing effects creep in, and it just keeps going. Never gets as aggressive as the single version's hard rock shuffle, but still manages to point a bit in that direction. Sound quality is damn fine, though I'm pretty sure it's mono and not stereo as some of the earlier comments had claimed. It's apparently one track off a newly issued double-disc bootleg set of (recently discovered? or just obscure but recycled?) other Beatles-and-related tracks, but the Dime uploader had deemed this one track the only thing important enough to upload right away, before being able to verify that the rest of the set was Dime-legal, i.e., contained no other officially released performances, etc. I'm pretty sure the whole set is widely available on other BT trackers; I'm just getting to the point where I'm bothering to look around for other specialty/artist-oriented trackers, having downloaded such a STUPID quantity of stuff through Dime but realized that I've kinda left my Beatles roots behind,... Anybody who needs this and has trouble getting it elsewhere, get in touch, and I can find a way to get the file to you. I think it's around 50-70+MB in FLAC format (can't remember right now), so really too big for practical emailing. da9ve ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:59:51 +0000 (UTC) From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Re: My name is "Eb": Cut my skin, it makes me human Eddie wrote: >whew! B 2008 was the fucking year of years, in my opinion. B many thanks to >allfegs for all the great rekkids you tipped me off to! Yes! My thanks as well for the rekkids and 2008 was a great year!! I'll be checking out some of ET's rekkids for sure. I am currently enjoying 2008's Charlie Haden Family & Friends - Rambling Boy Charley playing great bass as usal, his triplet daughters Petra, Rachel and Tanya of That Dog fame supplying the most gorgeous B vocals.B Elvis Costello, Rosanne Cash,B Ricky Scaggs, Dan Tyminski (Oh Brother Where Art Though singer) and Jack Black (married to Tanya Haden) and The Whites on the other cuts. Nashville and New York musicians such as Pat Metheny and John Leventhal on guitars, Bela Fleck on banjo, Bruce Honrnsby on piano. This is very much a star studded country and bluegrass effort that reminds me of the great "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" albumsB fromB years ago. I'll be playing this one for years. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:44:17 -0600 From: Gene Hopstetter Subject: Re: Robyn in Nashville April 6th > From: 2fs > Subject: Re: Robyn in Nashville April 6th > > I think we should start a Facebook petition - Get Robyn Hitchcock to > Play a "Normal" Set in Nashville for Miles. > > C'mon - who's in? I'm in, but only if the petition is called "Get Robyn Rowan Hitchcock to Play a "Normal" Set in Nashville for Miles." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:10:58 -0500 From: Great Quail Subject: Re: Miles Goosens' 322nd Wilco Dream Miles writes, > Even though I think Cline and Sansome are hugely talented > musicians, Wilco's music has not been to my taste since they joined: the > music's become busy, ornate at times, and there's way too much playing going > on. Heh. And needless to say, I like the current line-up of Wilco better than any others. I tend to grab a lot of Wilco bootlegs from Dime a Dozen, and I *definitely* favor this last tour. In fact, Wilco was my favorite concert last year. > Do you have to have a U2.com subscription to do this? I went 'n' > looked, and I all I saw were 30ish sec sound clips of four songs. Yes, you do need to be a member, which I am.... I get a free T-shirt every year, and a presale when tickets go on sale. Plus, I like to think that my membership fee contributes to Bono's cowboy hat budget. - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:28:49 -0800 (PST) From: "C. Huff" Subject: Re: Feg Commune That was why we originally asked..."what's up with that line"? Because we speculated that his name wasn't actually Robyn either... The British fellow said he had been at shows "since the beginning" and it was indeed true that his 1st name was Reginald. All sounds a bit dodgy...lolo ________________________________ From: Marc To: C. Huff Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 8:14:21 AM Subject: Re: Feg Commune C. Huff wrote: > Ok...back in the 80s the NYC fan club was run by these two women from Brooklyn who called themselves "Sandra" and "Trudi" - they told us at the merch table that his name was Reginald Robyn Hitchcock, but "don't call him that"...I don't rule out that they could have been messing with us but they "seemed" sincere... > > lol this is completely ridiculous, but some other random British person at a gig in 1988 said "Yes, his first name is really Reginald". Rumo(u)r? Fact? Odd synchronicity? > Maybe this has something to do with the "please don't call me Reg" line in "Brenda's Iron Sledge"? Marc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:42:24 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Feg Commune I will name my boy Reginald Robyn Rowan Richelieu Horace Osner. 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, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:28 AM, C. Huff wrote: > That was why we originally asked..."what's up with that line"? Because we speculated that his name wasn't actually Robyn either... > > The British fellow said he had been at shows "since the beginning" and it was indeed true that his 1st name was Reginald. > > All sounds a bit dodgy...lolo > > > > ________________________________ > From: Marc > To: C. Huff > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 8:14:21 AM > Subject: Re: Feg Commune > > C. Huff wrote: >> Ok...back in the 80s the NYC fan club was run by these two women from Brooklyn who called themselves "Sandra" and "Trudi" - they told us at the merch table that his name was Reginald Robyn Hitchcock, but "don't call him that"...I don't rule out that they could have been messing with us but they "seemed" sincere... >> >> lol this is completely ridiculous, but some other random British person at a gig in 1988 said "Yes, his first name is really Reginald". Rumo(u)r? Fact? Odd synchronicity? >> > > Maybe this has something to do with the "please don't call me Reg" line in "Brenda's Iron Sledge"? > > Marc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:44:12 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Feg Commune On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:28 AM, C. Huff wrote: > That was why we originally asked..."what's up with that line"? Because we speculated that his name wasn't actually Robyn either... > > The British fellow said he had been at shows "since the beginning" and it was indeed true that his 1st name was Reginald. Whole thing sounds completely like a joke ginned up from the "please don't call me Reg" line, and then taken seriously. Someone should just ask him. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:50:23 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: My name is "Eb": Cut my skin, it makes me human Haden is one of the greats, however unsung. Like another bass player with the same initials (can ya guess?), he's been associated with some groundbreaking projects and rarely done anything that wasn't tasty with a capital Y. On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:59 AM, wrote: > Eddie wrote: > >whew! B 2008 was the fucking year of years, in my opinion. B many thanks > to > >allfegs for all the great rekkids you tipped me off to! > > > > Yes! My thanks as well for the rekkids and 2008 was a great year!! I'll be > checking out some of ET's rekkids for sure. > > > > I am currently enjoying 2008's Charlie Haden Family & Friends - Rambling > Boy > > Charley playing great bass as usal, his triplet daughters Petra, Rachel and > Tanya of That Dog fame supplying the most gorgeous B vocals.B Elvis > Costello, > Rosanne Cash,B Ricky Scaggs, Dan Tyminski (Oh Brother Where Art Though > singer) and Jack Black (married to Tanya Haden) and The Whites on the other > cuts. Nashville and New York musicians such as Pat Metheny and John > Leventhal > on guitars, Bela Fleck on banjo, Bruce Honrnsby on piano. This is very much > a > star studded country and bluegrass effort that reminds me of the great > "Will > The Circle Be Unbroken" albumsB fromB years ago. I'll be playing this one > for > years. > > > > Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:45:21 -0500 From: Great Quail Subject: All That You Can't Quarry Jeff Dwarf writes, > Easily the best thing since Achtung, and the first truly good album since the > Passengers record, and I don't think this is going to be an "All That You Can > Leave Behind/You Are the Quarry" sort of situation where you thinks its pretty > good, but six months later, two songs you in, all you can think is "eh, fuck > this, I'm gonna listen to Joshua Tree* instead." I don't feel that way about "Behind" *or* Quarry. In fact, I think "Quarry" is a great album through and through, and I still listen to it more than his earlier solo work. But you did mention The Smiths -- well, I try to separate the two. The Smiths were The Smiths, and I try not to compare them Morrissey's solo work, it just makes me frustrated. You are right, his solo band is not as good, so I try to put it into the Police/Sting camp. (On a related note, I watched the Oscars, and my main thought at seeing Peter Gabriel was, "How can this be the same guy from my beloved early Genesis?" It's the same weird, disorienting feeling as when I try to square modern Bowie with Ziggy Stardust. You don't get that feeling of complete temporal identity alienation with, say, Van Morrison or Elvis Costello!) (Oh, and -- I do NOT feel that "Behind" or "Dismantle" sound like Coldplay. Really, I cannot stand Coldplay. I hear how Coldplay tries to sound like U2 at times, but whatever wild genius of chemistry occurs between the Irish lads when they write a song, their music never feels bland and uninspired to me. Furthermore, Chris Martin's lyrics cannot come close to Bono's lyrics.) But back to the "eh fuck this" thought. It's interesting to me... Because sometimes I believe my own bullshit about groups I love ("Oh, this is Jethro Tull's best album since..."Stormwatch?") I know a band is truly still "vital" to me when I find myself doing two things: One, I actually listen to a group's new stuff *more* than their old stuff, not because I like it better (cf. Wilco, Flaming Lips, Radiohead, Animal Collective) but because it seems a better fit with my current mindset, and I just find myself *naturally* wanting to hear it. I feel that way about both "All That You Can't Leave Behind" as well as "You Are the Quarry." I also feel that was about Elvis Costello, Rush, and even some Bowie albums. I am surprised at how often I *want* to listen to "Hours," as opposed to feeling that it's my duty. Second -- during a live show, I find myself *wanting* to hear the new songs just as much as the old songs. Here, U2 clearly fits the bill. > I guess Eno and Lanois > function even more than usual as the 5th and 6th U2s here and co-wrote most if > not all of the music, which was a very inspired idea. I like Lanois, he's a good fit for U2, so was Steve Lillywhite. But Brian Eno really knows how to kick their creative ass into gear. > it's always a good sign, when your first thought when an album ends is, "What, > that's over?" Man, well said! Well said. - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:10:54 -0600 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: No Line (0% Robyn) > it's always > a good sign, when your first thought when an album ends is, "What, > that's over?" Another good sign is that I notice my attention perking up around the *middle* of the record. That sure never happened with "Behind" or "Dismantle". ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:41:49 -0800 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: We Have Leakage not the decemberists, but perhaps the next best thing: the veils!! . i'm downloadin' as we speak... the chris cornell's leaked as well. i've downloaded it; but don't really have great expectations. i didn't like it as much on the second listen. yeah, this is great. thanks! i'm trying to muster the courage to give it a second spin. until i am able to do, it's on my very short list of album-of-the-decade candidates. (the others: *We Shall Overcome*, *Twin Cinema*, *The Crane Wife*.) other good ough-nine-ers, apart from the previously raptured-over andrew bird, antony & the johnsons, and fever ray discs: dan deacon and gregor samsor. springsteen, akron/family, and william e. whitmore are just okay. yeah yeah yeahs and beirut are disappointing. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:10:06 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: reap Philip Jose Farmer, 91 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: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:18:16 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: reap On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:10 PM, James Dignan wrote: > Philip Jose Farmer, 91 Oh no, first we lose Vonnegut, now Kilgore Trout! 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, 25 Feb 2009 13:49:49 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: reap What a shame...one of the weirdest writers ev-ar. All that Tarzan/Doc Savage stuff he was cranking out in the early 70s was irreplaceable, and then the mad Riverworld stories after that were even more so. This makes losing my job look trivial, almost. On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:10 PM, James Dignan wrote: > Philip Jose Farmer, 91 > > > > 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: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:56:46 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Genesis of the Grammar Nazi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8fbrUjjivw - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:49:10 +0000 (UTC) From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Re: My name is "Eb": Cut my skin, it makes me human Chris Hillman would be my guess. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "kevin studyvin" To: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Cc: "Nectar At Any Cost!" , fegmaniax@smoe.org Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:50:23 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: My name is "Eb": Cut my skin, it makes me human Haden is one of the greats, however unsung.B Like another bass player with the same initials (can ya guess?), he's been associated with some groundbreaking projects and rarely done anything that wasn't tasty with a capital Y. On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:59 AM, < michaeljbachman@comcast.net > wrote: Eddie wrote: >whew! B 2008 was the fucking year of years, in my opinion. B many thanks to >allfegs for all the great rekkids you tipped me off to! Yes! My thanks as well for the rekkids and 2008 was a great year!! I'll be checking out some of ET's rekkids for sure. I am currently enjoying 2008's Charlie Haden Family & Friends - Rambling Boy Charley playing great bass as usal, his triplet daughters Petra, Rachel and Tanya of That Dog fame supplying the most gorgeous B vocals.B Elvis Costello, Rosanne Cash,B B Ricky Scaggs, Dan Tyminski (Oh Brother Where Art Though singer) and Jack Black (married to Tanya Haden) and The Whites on the other cuts. Nashville and New York musicians such as Pat Metheny and John Leventhal on guitars, Bela Fleck on banjo, Bruce Honrnsby on piano. This is very much a star studded country and bluegrass effort that reminds me of the great "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" albumsB fromB years ago. I'll be playing this one for years. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:52:15 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: My name is "Eb": Cut my skin, it makes me human Give that man a gold-plated "Mr. Tambourine Man" 45! On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:49 PM, wrote: > Chris Hillman would be my guess. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "kevin studyvin" > To: michaeljbachman@comcast.net > Cc: "Nectar At Any Cost!" , fegmaniax@smoe.org > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:50:23 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: My name is "Eb": Cut my skin, it makes me human > > Haden is one of the greats, however unsung. Like another bass player with > the same initials (can ya guess?), he's been associated with some > groundbreaking projects and rarely done anything that wasn't tasty with a > capital Y. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:56:46 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: All That You Can't Quarry Great Quail wrote: > Jeff Dwarf writes, > > But you did mention The Smiths -- well, I try to separate the two. The > Smiths were The Smiths, and I try not to compare them Morrissey's solo > work, it just makes me frustrated. You are right, his solo band > is not as good, so I try to put it into the Police/Sting camp. I don't think that ultimately works though, because the music componant of Morrissey's career is still in pretty much the same neighborhood as the stuff Marr did with Rourke and Joyce (and sometimes Gannon), whereas Sting's solo work has, for the most part, explored different sonic territory. So even Sting's crappiest solo work never feels like lesser Police work -- it just feels like tedious bullshit. Whereas Morrissey solo work always still feels Smithy, but all-too-frequently less so. And technically, I don't really have a problem with his solo band -- just his co-writers. I'm fine with Whyte, Boorer, and Tobias playing on his albums and with him live (I'm sure that he's relieved); I just wish he'd farm out the writing to people would give him better tunes. > (Oh, and -- I do NOT feel that "Behind" or "Dismantle" sound like > Coldplay. Really, I cannot stand Coldplay. I hear how Coldplay tries > to sound like U2 at times, but whatever wild genius of chemistry occurs > between the Irish lads when they write a song, their music never feels > bland and uninspired to me. Furthermore, Chris Martin's lyrics cannot > come close to Bono's lyrics.) The only Coldplay song I even like a little is "The Scientist." "City of Blinding Light" (which I truly hate) is the main reason I tend of think of Dismantle as Coldplay-ish; I didn't mean to say that Behind was terribly Coldplay-ish though (I blame Chris Martin). Still think it's terribly and unnecessarily conservative though. > But back to the "eh fuck this" thought. It's interesting to me... > Because sometimes I believe my own bullshit about groups I love > ("Oh, this is Jethro Tull's best album since..."Stormwatch?") I > know a band is truly still "vital" to me when I find myself doing two > things: > > One, I actually listen to a group's new stuff *more* than their old > stuff, not because I like it better (cf. Wilco, Flaming Lips, > Radiohead, Animal Collective) but because it seems a better fit with my > current mindset, and I just find myself *naturally* wanting to hear it. > I feel that way about both "All That You Can't Leave Behind" as well as > "You Are the Quarry." I also feel that was about Elvis Costello, Rush, > and even some Bowie albums. I am surprised at how often I *want* to > listen to "Hours," as opposed to feeling that it's my duty. > > Second -- during a live show, I find myself *wanting* to hear the new > songs just as much as the old songs. Here, U2 clearly fits the bill. I wouldn't necessarily agree with the specifics there (though I would regarding Radiohead, Costello, and Bowie -- though not Hours), but I think that's mostly where my head would be too. I can't imagine I'll ever like No Line as much as Achtung or Unforgettable Fire, but I can see me liking it as much was War, long-term. Not enough money to pay to see U2 though; shit, I still can't remember how I managed to afford Radiohead last year. > > I guess Eno and Lanois > > function even more than usual as the 5th and 6th U2s here and co-wrote > > most if not all of the music, which was a very inspired idea. > > I like Lanois, he's a good fit for U2, so was Steve Lillywhite. But Brian > Eno really knows how to kick their creative ass into gear. ATYCLB exempted. :) > > it's always a good sign, when your first thought when an album ends > > is, "What, that's over?" > > Man, well said! Well said. "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell - --- On Wed, 2/25/09, ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:31:54 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Everthing is so *obedient*... I posted another set of Robyn's stage patter -- this is from April 1999 at the Largo: http://readin.com/blog/?id=1768 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, 25 Feb 2009 20:34:51 -0600 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Bubbles of warming (NR) - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:24:50 -0800 (PST) From: "C. Huff" Subject: Re: Feg Commune LOL love it - my next one, boy or girl, is going to be Topaz Life Unicorn Hitchcock Thundercloud Huff ________________________________ From: Jeremy Osner To: C. Huff Cc: Marc ; fegmaniax@smoe.org Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:42:24 AM Subject: Re: Feg Commune I will name my boy Reginald Robyn Rowan Richelieu Horace Osner. 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, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:28 AM, C. Huff wrote: > That was why we originally asked..."what's up with that line"? Because we speculated that his name wasn't actually Robyn either... > > The British fellow said he had been at shows "since the beginning" and it was indeed true that his 1st name was Reginald. > > All sounds a bit dodgy...lolo > > > > ________________________________ > From: Marc > To: C. Huff > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 8:14:21 AM > Subject: Re: Feg Commune > > C. Huff wrote: >> Ok...back in the 80s the NYC fan club was run by these two women from Brooklyn who called themselves "Sandra" and "Trudi" - they told us at the merch table that his name was Reginald Robyn Hitchcock, but "don't call him that"...I don't rule out that they could have been messing with us but they "seemed" sincere... >> >> lol this is completely ridiculous, but some other random British person at a gig in 1988 said "Yes, his first name is really Reginald". Rumo(u)r? Fact? Odd synchronicity? >> > > Maybe this has something to do with the "please don't call me Reg" line in "Brenda's Iron Sledge"? > > Marc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:24:46 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: All That You Can't Quarry Jeff Dwarf says: > Great Quail wrote: > The only Coldplay song I even like a little is "The Scientist." "City of Blinding Light" (which I truly hate) is the main reason I tend of think of Dismantle as Coldplay-ish; I didn't mean to say that Behind was terribly Coldplay-ish though (I blame Chris Martin). Still think it's terribly and unnecessarily conservative though. i love "the scientist". but i would (nothing gets me like a song about science (even if it only pretends to be about science.) aimee mann does a gorgeous cover of it (like that's news.) i seem to be fairly immune from the intense rage which coldplay brings out in its "listeners". i actually somewhat liked their first album, and very much liked their second. but it's probably just that i don't have very good taste in music. i even loved when they used "a rush of blood" (or whatever its called) in that episode of "six feet under" (it's the first episode of season three, after nate has had his brain surgery and spends the episode wandering through parallel lives (particular memorable because of the scene where nate sits in on a game of chinese checker with his father and (it turns out to be) the figures of Life, and Death (Life uses the wonderful come-on line "fuck me, puppethead!")) it was around the time that chris martin married ms. paltrow and starting looking all this-month "details" magazine that i got annoyed with coldplay. i haven't heard anything off of their third (or later - - i'm assuming more exist?) album. they're not the kind of band i would ever call "good" (i don't actually have an opinion as to whether they're good or bad - i just happened to like their second album.) but my feeling is that the deal with coldplay is that they're the kind of bad that a band can only be by having attained a certain level of success. i mean, they even annoy me, and i don't (1) dislike them or (2) ever hear anything by them. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:35:08 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: All That You Can't Quarry On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:24 PM, lep wrote: > but my feeling is that the deal > with coldplay is that they're the kind of bad that a band can only be > by having attained a certain level of success. i mean, they even > annoy me, and i don't (1) dislike them or (2) ever hear anything by > them. > That sounds about right. I'm a little nonplussed by the vitriol, near-cellular or whatever, but I assume it's held by people who hear too much Coldplay in the course of daily life, and I'm not such a person. If anything, Coldplay songs seem to belong to a larger set of a specifically modern type of overemotive ballads all of which are pretty much interchangeable, except that that one Snow Patrol song is worse than most of the rest of them (and I probably only really feel that way because I saw the video for it, and haven't for any of the others). They might be dismissed for being mediocre, but I think they can only be despised for being famous. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #58 *******************************