From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #105 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, April 5 2009 Volume 17 : Number 105 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: request [Michael Sweeney ] monittor, or, the ubiquity of all things feg [djini@voicenet.com] Re: The awesome never stops... [2fs ] Re: counting the beets [kevin studyvin ] Re: BSfrakkinG again [kevin studyvin ] re: Jeff Beck (and the Who) ["Marc Holden" ] Re: Shine on you crazy [kevin studyvin ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #101 [kevin studyvin ] Re: what Vivien said [kevin studyvin ] Re: what Vivien said [kevin studyvin ] Re: what Vivien said [kevin studyvin ] Re:VU [James Dignan ] Re: Jeff Beck (and the Who) [kevin studyvin ] wordle [James Dignan ] Re: ASLEEP AT THE FOOKIN SWITCH PEOPLE! [kevin studyvin ] Re: Dandelions, and unable to like [kevin studyvin ] Re: ASLEEP AT THE FOOKIN SWITCH PEOPLE! [vivien lyon ] Re: ASLEEP AT THE FOOKIN SWITCH PEOPLE! [Capuchin ] Re: ASLEEP AT THE FOOKIN SWITCH PEOPLE! [vivien lyon ] Re: It had to happen (NR) [2fs ] Re: The awesome never stops... [2fs ] Re: Crowded fodder [djini@voicenet.com] Re: Crowded fodder [Rex ] Re: It had to happen (NR) [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: It had to happen (NR) [kevin studyvin ] Fwd: WoS Update 4/02/09 [kevin studyvin ] Re: what Vivien said [Tom Clark ] Re: what Vivien said [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 07:56:55 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: request Viv wrote: >On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Rex wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:17 PM, wrote: >> >> > Lauren asked: >> > >> > > so could someone be a dear and start up fegmaniax-abstract? >> > >> > >> > Here's digest 100, for easy viewing: >> > >> > http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/713147/100 >> > >> >> Weird... I saw Lauren's reply to this almost 20 hours ago, and yet this >> just came through as new. >> >> Stewart... Viv... we're HUGE! >> > >That's because we like to talk about ourselves, dear. Key missing words? ROBYN or HITCHCOCK...lol -- guess it sez a lot about us out here these days... Michael "Of course, it's 3am, and I may have missed them (but I don't think so...)" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Rediscover Hotmail.: Now available on your iPhone or BlackBerry http://windowslive.com/RediscoverHotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Rediscover_Mobi le1_042009 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 17:39:13 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: monittor, or, the ubiquity of all things feg Has anyone else been playing with monittor? http://monitter.com/ I typed in "feglist" and it came up with a quote from one of my very own posts! Kind of freaky. Seems like a feggy kind of app. Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 11:33:20 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: The awesome never stops... On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Rex wrote: > ...with that one band from a town called M-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-- > > http://thequietus.com/articles/01427-the-fall-s-nex-album-will-be-on-domino?page=9 > > Must make it harder for him to fuck with his bandmates' amp settings. And > yet: new album in June. JUNE! > So what's the story w/him and the wheelchair? Temporary? Ongoing? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 11:54:26 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: counting the beets On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Jason R. Thornton wrote: > At 10:05 AM 4/2/2009, you wrote: > >> > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:39 PM, 2fs wrote: >> >> Any other photos online of Fegs With Knives (tm)? >> >> Here Are my knives; I'm behind the camera however. >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/readin/266554484/ >> > > Here are my pretty Wusthofs: > http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2208/2235452596_4bda774e12.jpg > I'm behind the iPhone. Well, "above" to be precise. > > For the record, I love beets. > Beets - with meat loaf. Collard greens - with pork chops'n'blackeye peas (traditional souther'n cuisine). I once had a short-lived job in a furniture refinisher's. We we were working on a piano once that had some kind of red stain on it, and after spending an entire day trying to sand that crap off I wound up with red stain up to my forearms that took a couple days to wear off. I gleefully entertained myself sitting in the back of the bus through Bellevue staring at my red-stained hands and doing my best creepy laugh. These days, of course, ya'd probably be detained for that sort of behavior, one more reason I miss the 70s... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 12:05:36 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: BSfrakkinG again Haven't seen it, still slowly toiling through the deeps of season 3. Could really care less about spoilers & enjoyed the Fallon show's recent treatment of the issue: http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/blogs/2009/03/spoiler-alert-fred-armisen-is-the-spoiler-alert-guy/ On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Sumiko Keay wrote: > Very spoilery if you haven't seen the finale. > > (But if you have: I highly recommend the Onion piece..) > > Sumi > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:04 AM, 2fs wrote: > > About that article in The Onion on Obama and the BSG finale: how > spoilerific > > is it for someone who hasn't yet seen the show's final three hours? (I > > noticed a spoiler from the second half of S4 right in the damned first > > paragraph - luckily I'd watched those online - just haven't had time to > get > > to the finale yet.) > > > > -- > > > > ...Jeff Norman > > > > The Architectural Dance Society > > http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 11:33:05 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: re: Jeff Beck (and the Who) Der Commander offered: >Having heard him (Jeff Beck) play with Clapton recently he >proceeded to piss all over young Eric from a great height >and he made clappo look like a plodding amateur I will >gladly fight a cyber duel with anyone who differs. No fight from me here, just a digest pile-up delayed response. I saw Beck, Clapton, and Jimmy Page together at an A.R.M.S. benefit show at Madison Square Gardens back in 1983. Jeff wiped the stage with Clapton and Jimmy. It was jaw-droppingly amazing. While I agree with Rex about Jeff being a better sideman due to a lack in having his own songs that are strongly associated with him (for example, while he is the lead guitar on many of my favorite Yardbirds tracks, those remain Yardbirds songs, to me, rather than being Jeff Beck songs), he is a really fantastic performer, who probably needs to be seen in concert to be fully appreciated. The Who are to the Stones what Beck is to Clapton and Page--in a whole other class. Enough said. Later, Marc The fact of the matter is, I'm fucking brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant. Pete Townshend ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 12:09:50 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Shine on you crazy The Hitch could shred on Chrome's "Fireball." On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Marc wrote: > Jeremy Osner wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:21 AM, 2fs wrote: >> >>> what are some songs you >>> really wish had been covered by particular artists? >>> >>> >> I have long maintained that RH and Gillian Welch could do a >> particularly killer version of Patsy Cline's "Heartaches". >> >> > In that vein, I think the two of them could turn "Walking After Midnight" > into a very cool duet. > > Marc ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 12:16:59 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #101 Mmmmm, corndogs. Probably the greatest food-on-a-stick ever (except maybe a nice lamb kebab). Sadly, the wife (and our daughter the busybody RN) have placed them strictly off limits. And Spam too, of course. I feel my trailer-trash heritage slipping away, bit by vulgar little bit... On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:07 PM, James Dignan wrote: > > "It's no corndog." <- my new favorite way of declining food. >> > >> >> That's from an old blues song, no? >> >> > No, Talking Heads. > > "This ain't no corndog/this ain't no french fries/this ain't no buttermilk > pie..." > > 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: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 12:21:56 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: what Vivien said Totally won the heart of a page at the library, ages ago, when I took her to a little Russian place up on Capitol Hill for a bowl of their mind-altering borscht. On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Stewart Russell wrote: > > Beets are awesome - but only sliced and fried. > > au contraire. Borscht is one of the tastiest soups around. Come to NYC > sometime, I shall meet you there and we will partake of a lunch at > Veselka. Your world will be moved (for the better). Seriously man, if > you don't like the soup I'll treat you to the inexpensive lunch of > your choosing. Veselka's borscht is akin to the Beatles in that it's > inconceivable anybody could dislike it. > > J > > If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the > essential words. -- Saramago > http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 12:23:48 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: what Vivien said On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Rex wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Miles Goosens >wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Jill Brand wrote: > > > > Ooh, I forgot in my earlier postings to make a stand for broccoli. > > I've always liked broccoli, even when I was a little kid who by virtue > > simply of being a little kid was expected to hate broccoli. It is a > > tasty and noble vegetable, and if you don't want your serving, I'll > > gladly accept it. > > p.s.: also pro-asparagus and artichoke! > > > Check, check and check. I will also decloak as someone who never disliked > brussel sprouts. > Yep, throw those babies in a skillet with a little olive oil...some garlic & walnuts...par-tay. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 12:28:09 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: what Vivien said On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 7:13 AM, wrote: > A couple of great SST albums from 1987 aren't that far behind the great > ones > from 1984, B Sonic Youth's "Sister" and Dinosaur Jr's "You're Living All > Over > Me". > I'm down with Sister. Fave Dinosaur is still Bug, tho. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 07:29:18 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re:VU Kevin wrote: >No denying the "Lisa Says" from 1969 is one of my all-yime favorite >recordings. Also the "What Goes On" from that set with the absolutely >trance-inducing groove. I suspect it's one of Brian Eno's too, since he...um...borrowed so much of it for "Taking Tiger Mountain" 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: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 12:30:55 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Jeff Beck (and the Who) Beck still shreds. Inclined to wonder if it has anything to do with his historical preference for cars over skag. On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Marc Holden wrote: > Der Commander offered: > >> Having heard him (Jeff Beck) play with Clapton recently he >> proceeded to piss all over young Eric from a great height >> and he made clappo look like a plodding amateur I will >> gladly fight a cyber duel with anyone who differs. >> > > No fight from me here, just a digest pile-up delayed response. I saw Beck, > Clapton, and Jimmy Page together at an A.R.M.S. benefit show at Madison > Square Gardens back in 1983. Jeff wiped the stage with Clapton and Jimmy. It > was jaw-droppingly amazing. While I agree with Rex about Jeff being a better > sideman due to a lack in having his own songs that are strongly associated > with him (for example, while he is the lead guitar on many of my favorite > Yardbirds tracks, those remain Yardbirds songs, to me, rather than being > Jeff Beck songs), he is a really fantastic performer, who probably needs to > be seen in concert to be fully appreciated. > > The Who are to the Stones what Beck is to Clapton and Page--in a whole > other class. Enough said. > Later, Marc > > > The fact of the matter is, I'm fucking brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' > brilliant. Pete Townshend ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 07:37:28 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: wordle I can't help thinking there are some potential song lyrics in that wordle... "never really far words" "well Jill sprouts" "Beatles later gone" "still love new dead someone" "borscht almost like broccoli" "Laura canned time" "Jeff made Greek bad" "something used Golias" 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: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 12:38:19 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: ASLEEP AT THE FOOKIN SWITCH PEOPLE! Can Of Bees is, for whatever reason, my most-played Soft Boys recording. On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:05 PM, vivien lyon wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:14 PM, 2fs wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Michael Sweeney < > m_l_sweeney@hotmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > Michael Bachman wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > >Canned peas are almost as bad, > > > > > > > What - not a single solitary reference to "canned bees" at this point? > > > > On the other hand, I have a can of bees and I find it to be quite to my > taste! (<-- is that what you had in mind?) > > > > I am sadly, sadly disappointed. > > > Sorry, dad. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 12:45:24 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: jeff beck , the OOO and the G Dead - beware strong opinions ! > Hallelujah brother! I'm going to see him on the 23rd in Oakland and I'm > giddy about it. "Wired" and "Blow By Blow" were practically fused to my > turntable back in the day, and they still kick ass. An added bonus is he's > backed by Vinnie Colauita and Syndey's own Tal Wilkenfeld. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuhnEcSm5sU > Saw that band on the tee-vee a while back, as part of that Clapton event. I'm jealous. Would love to catch that ensemble onstage. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 12:59:57 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Other There's a local orgnization called SeaDruNar that rehabs people with drug problems, and supports themselves by running a recycling business. Was entertained the other day to see one of their collection bins plastered with Jane's Addiction stickers. Sort of an irony fan. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 13:06:47 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Dandelions, and unable to like On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Miles Goosens wrote: > On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > > I bought "Born To Run" when it came out and it's been the only one of his > > albums I've ever needed. I guess because of that I've always > romanticized > > him as this sincere urban poet or something, > > BTR is pretty much the last flowering of that particular strain of > Springsteenism. On DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN, THE RIVER, and > NEBRASKA, it mutates into something... well, darker and crazier and > downright nihilistic. And with fewer and more well-placed words. I > guess I see Bruce as fusing his early Dylan/Morrison strains with a > big dose of Hank Sr., especially in that aforementioned run of albums, > and coming up with something that was more elemental, visceral, and > totally worthwhile. Ayup. Never heard anything of Brooce's after Nebraska that really did it for me, but I dearly love the Darkness-River-Nebraska sequence (once you delete some of the aimless Bloat from The River). And the E Street Shuffle album is part of the Official Soundtrack Of Summer to my ears. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 13:50:32 -0700 From: vivien lyon Subject: Re: ASLEEP AT THE FOOKIN SWITCH PEOPLE! That's nothing to be surprised by- it's a great record. I think, while Underwater Light is more technically successful, Can of Bees has a vibrancy and energy that just don't quit. On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 12:38 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > Can Of Bees is, for whatever reason, my most-played Soft Boys recording. > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:05 PM, vivien lyon wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:14 PM, 2fs wrote: >> >> > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Michael Sweeney < >> m_l_sweeney@hotmail.com >> > >wrote: >> > >> > > Michael Bachman wrote: >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >Canned peas are almost as bad, >> > > >> > >> > What - not a single solitary reference to "canned bees" at this point? >> > >> >> On the other hand, I have a can of bees and I find it to be quite to my >> taste! (<-- is that what you had in mind?) >> >> >> > I am sadly, sadly disappointed. >> >> >> Sorry, dad. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:06:10 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: It had to happen (NR) - - Steve _______________ Interaction with cosmic intelligence may be influenced by Penrose noncomputable Platonic wisdom embedded in Planck scale geometry. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 16:00:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: ASLEEP AT THE FOOKIN SWITCH PEOPLE! On Sat, 4 Apr 2009, vivien lyon wrote: > That's nothing to be surprised by- it's a great record. I think, while > Underwater Light is more technically successful, Can of Bees has a vibrancy > and energy that just don't quit. Are you trying to be funny? J. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 14:38:35 -0700 From: vivien lyon Subject: Re: ASLEEP AT THE FOOKIN SWITCH PEOPLE! I don't know. Did you laugh? On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Capuchin wrote: > On Sat, 4 Apr 2009, vivien lyon wrote: > >> That's nothing to be surprised by- it's a great record. I think, while >> Underwater Light is more technically successful, Can of Bees has a >> vibrancy >> and energy that just don't quit. >> > > Are you trying to be funny? > > J. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 14:43:24 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: The awesome never stops... On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 9:33 AM, 2fs wrote: > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Rex wrote: > > > ...with that one band from a town called M-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-- > > > > > http://thequietus.com/articles/01427-the-fall-s-nex-album-will-be-on-domino?page=9 > > > > Must make it harder for him to fuck with his bandmates' amp settings. > And > > yet: new album in June. JUNE! > > > > So what's the story w/him and the wheelchair? Temporary? Ongoing? > He broke his hip (hip, hip, hip, hip...) - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 16:44:17 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: It had to happen (NR) On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Steve Schiavo wrote: > > This has to be a joke. It is, right? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 16:45:49 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: The awesome never stops... On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Rex wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 9:33 AM, 2fs wrote: > >> >> So what's the story w/him and the wheelchair? Temporary? Ongoing? >> > > He broke his hip (hip, hip, hip, hip...) > Well, that's what happens when you're a fifty-year-old man - what're you gonna do about it? I certainly hope he's appreciated... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 12:38:16 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: Crowded fodder James wrote: > only PNF-WK song y'all will know is likely to be "Six months in a > leaky boat" ("Aotearoa, rugged individual..."). Dave Dobbyn's "Shaky I can't tell you how many times I've looked up the lyrics to that song. For some reason I always hear it as "rockin' individual" and I just can't remember the real lyric. Also, "glisten like a pearl" just doesn't stick, but my ears haven't come up with anything else it could be. Glabble something fruit is the closest I get. All that aside, I love that song and sing it (incorrectly) all the time. The little tag at the end (which really is a da-da-da-da da, da-da string) is heartbreakingly pretty. Of course, now that I can attach it to a conversation with a ZOMG real NZer!!! I probably will remember it, 'cause that's how my brain works. Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 16:17:07 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Crowded fodder On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:38 AM, wrote: > James wrote: > > > only PNF-WK song y'all will know is likely to be "Six months in a > > leaky boat" ("Aotearoa, rugged individual..."). Dave Dobbyn's "Shaky > > I can't tell you how many times I've looked up the lyrics to that song. For > some reason > I always hear it as "rockin' individual" and I just can't remember the real > lyric. Also, > "glisten like a pearl" just doesn't stick, but my ears haven't come up with > anything > else it could be. Glabble something fruit is the closest I get. All that > aside, I love > that song and sing it (incorrectly) all the time. The little tag at the end > (which > really is a da-da-da-da da, da-da string) is heartbreakingly pretty. > This song has now claimed most of my conscious mind, and I'm pretty sure I'll be hearing it for the rest of the day. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 17:56:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: It had to happen (NR) 2fs wrote: > Steve Schiavo wrote: > > > > > > > This has to be a joke. > > It is, right? http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Poe's_Law "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 21:43:36 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: It had to happen (NR) Guy Grand lives! On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Steve Schiavo wrote: > > > > - Steve > _______________ > Interaction with cosmic intelligence may be influenced by Penrose > noncomputable Platonic wisdom embedded in Planck scale geometry. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 22:02:53 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Fwd: WoS Update 4/02/09 Wall Of Sound, one of the few remaining "record stores" in Seattle, where I routinely struck musical gold till my job went south, issues a weekly newsletter. The current one includes a set of instructions on how to play guitar which have to be up there with Captain Beefheart's 10 commandments. I thought I ought to share: From: Wall of Sound Date: Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:11 PM Subject: WoS Update 4/02/09 - -- Hi There, This weeks email update comes with a short essay by David Fair which may or may not come in handy for all you aspiring and seasoned guitar players out there. Stop in and say hello, we'd love to see you! Best Wishes, WoS 4)---------------------------------------------------------------- How to play Guitar by David Fair I taught myself to play guitar. It's incredibly easy when you understand the science of it. The skinny strings play the high sounds, and the fat strings play the low sounds. If you put your finger on the string farther out by the tuning end it makes a lower sound. If you want to play fast, move your hand fast and if you want to play slower move your hand slower. That's all there is to it. You can learn the names of notes and how to make chords that other people use, but that's pretty limiting. Even if you took a few years and learned all the chords you'd still have a limited number of options. If you ignore the chords your options are infinite and you can master guitar playing in one day. Traditionally, guitars have a fat string on the top and they get skinnier and skinnier as they go down. But the thing to remember is it's your guitar and you can put whatever you want on it. I like to put six different sized strings on it because that gives the most variety, but my brother used to put all of the same thickness on so he wouldn't have so much to worry about. What ever string he hit had to be the right one because they were all the same. Tuning the guitar is kind of a ridiculous notion. If you have to wind the tuning pegs to just a certain place, that implies that every other place would be wrong. But that's absurd. How could it be wrong? It's your guitar and you're the one playing it. It's completely up to you to decide how it should sound. In fact I don't tune by the sound at all. I wind the strings until they're all about the same tightness. I highly recommend electric guitars for a couple of reasons. First of all they don't depend on body resonating for the sound so it doesn't matter if you paint them. As also, if you put all the knobs on your amplifier on 10 you can get a much higher reaction to effort ratio with an electric guitar than you can with an acoustic. Just a tiny tap on the strings can rattle your windows, and when you slam the strings, with your amp on 10, you can strip the paint off the walls. The first guitar I bought was a Silvertone. Later I bought a Fender Telecaster, but it really doesn't matter what kind you buy as long as the tuning pegs are on the end of the neck where they belong. A few years back someone came out with a guitar that tunes at the other end. I've never tried one. I guess they sound alright but they look ridiculous and I imagine you'd feel pretty foolish holding one. That would affect your playing. The idea isn't to feel foolish. The idea is to put a pick in one hand and a guitar in the other and with a tiny movement rule the world. Wall of Sound 315 E. Pine St. Seattle,Wa 98122 206 441 9880 Mon - Sat 11am to 7 pm Sun - 12 noon to 6pm http://www.wosound.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:30:19 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: what Vivien said On Apr 4, 2009, at 12:28 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > Fave Dinosaur is still Bug, tho. Right on. "Freak Scene" ftw. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 12:26:49 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: what Vivien said On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Tom Clark wrote: > On Apr 4, 2009, at 12:28 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > > Fave Dinosaur is still Bug, tho. >> > > Right on. "Freak Scene" ftw. You know, I usually like Mascis's music well enough...but I'm rather amused by his lyrics and interview persona. A few years ago, on another mailing list, we were discussing the band, and I wrote a Dinosaur Jr. lyric. I think it took me slightly longer to type than to compose: Hangin 'round Just bummin' round It's so cool when nothin's happ'nin' Nevermind Ain't got the time Don't bother me, my mind's just nappin' (chorus) Upside down Inside out Tryin' to see which way I'm goin' Every night Things don't seem right But it's nothin' that's worth knowin' (guitar solo) Do you know If I should go Some dumb road where I can follow But who cares It ain't anywhere No fuckin' reason I could swallow (chorus) (guitar solo) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #105 ********************************