From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #171 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, June 15 2009 Volume 17 : Number 171 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Sad news for NZ music fans [Roberta Cowan ] Bell House set list? [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Bell House set list? [Jeremy Osner ] Re: R.I.P. (0% RH) [djini@voicenet.com] change your vacation plans [Jill Brand ] Re: R.I.P. (0% RH) [kevin studyvin ] Hugh Hopper (NR) [Steve Schiavo ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:04:30 -0400 (GMT-04:00) From: Roberta Cowan Subject: Re: Sad news for NZ music fans That makes me very sad. :( I am sorry I was never able to see him live. Thanks for posting it James. I also just read that Hugh Hopper died..sigh. I am feeling old this morning, better have my coffee soon. Roberta ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:50:04 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Bell House set list? Hi guys, Did anyone who was there on Thursday come away with a set list? I remember a lot of the songs he played but not the order at all. I was very happy to hear "City of Shame" -- that was probably the biggest surprise of the evening for me -- and also happy about them playing "Brenda's Iron Sledge" and rocking straight through it. I had a pen and paper and was meaning to write down the songs he played and observations pursuant thereto, but I found that when he started singing the chorus of his very first song "Cynthia Mask", I was swept away and spent the rest of the evening in the moment, unable to document my experiences. "Beautiful Queen" was, as Miles said IIRC, the cornerstone of the set, what pulled everything together. Encores included "Roadhouse Blues" (!) and "Waterloo Sunset" (!!), I think those were the only two covers he played. Two songs (but I forget which two) were played with just Robyn on guitar and Bill Reiflin on rattle. The second opening act was Ken Stringfellow, whom I liked a whole lot and got his record, but when he came out to sing backup vocals for Venus 3 on the second encore, it seemed way inferior to his solo performance. (The first act, Takka Takka, was phenomenally good -- my friend Christine said, and I think she is right, that this was the solidest lineup of openers she could remember.) 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: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:51:26 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Bell House set list? Oh look at that -- m swedene got the setlist and sent it around already. Thanks, Michael! J On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > Hi guys, Did anyone who was there on Thursday come away with a set list? I > remember a lot of the songs he played but not the order at all. I was very > happy to hear "City of Shame" -- that was probably the biggest surprise of > the evening for me -- and also happy about them playing "Brenda's Iron > Sledge" and rocking straight through it. I had a pen and paper and was > meaning to write down the songs he played and observations pursuant thereto, > but I found that when he started singing the chorus of his very first song > "Cynthia Mask", I was swept away and spent the rest of the evening in the > moment, unable to document my experiences. "Beautiful Queen" was, as Miles > said IIRC, the cornerstone of the set, what pulled everything together. > Encores included "Roadhouse Blues" (!) and "Waterloo Sunset" (!!), I think > those were the only two covers he played. Two songs (but I forget which two) > were played with just Robyn on guitar and Bill Reiflin on rattle. The second > opening act was Ken Stringfellow, whom I liked a whole lot and got his > record, but when he came out to sing backup vocals for Venus 3 on the second > encore, it seemed way inferior to his solo performance. (The first act, > Takka Takka, was phenomenally good -- my friend Christine said, and I think > she is right, that this was the solidest lineup of openers she could > remember.) > > 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: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 12:50:29 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: R.I.P. (0% RH) Carrie wrote: > > But a few years ago my brother-in-law got the entire series of Kung > Fu on DVD for Christmas. He and I tried to watch it, one episode a > night, from start to finish. We got to the middle of the second > season and there was an episode with an encounter with a native > american and we lost it - or lost our ability to watch it. The Actor > who played the young Indian in need of help was Don Johnson and he > just, well, it was not well-cast. > > We never watched another episode. > It helps to be 11, or very, very drunk. But the crowing glory is the Bergman film The Serpent's Egg. It's just such a mess! There are wonderful moments and then it all falls apart and you don't know whether to laugh or cry. Liv Ullmann was probably leaning towards the crying. Come to think of it, Boxcar Bertha is like that too. Wow, he may have starred in the two worst movies of two of the greatest directors. Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:16:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: change your vacation plans Eddie Tews wrote: "if there IS a fucking "g-d", he/she/it is a god damned piss-assed fuckhole bitch motherfucker piece of CRAP." So Eddie, tell us how you really feel. No changing the vacation, huh. I once changed all our vacation plans to go to Nova Scotia because the Smiths were coming to Boston. My husband was REALLY pissed off, but then it turned out that the weather in NS was even suckier the week that we would have gone than the week we went. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:36:56 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: R.I.P. (0% RH) On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 9:50 AM, wrote: > Carrie wrote: > > > > > But a few years ago my brother-in-law got the entire series of Kung > > Fu on DVD for Christmas. He and I tried to watch it, one episode a > > night, from start to finish. We got to the middle of the second > > season and there was an episode with an encounter with a native > > american and we lost it - or lost our ability to watch it. The Actor > > who played the young Indian in need of help was Don Johnson and he > > just, well, it was not well-cast. > > > > We never watched another episode. > > > > It helps to be 11, or very, very drunk. But the crowing glory is the > Bergman film The > Serpent's Egg. It's just such a mess! There are wonderful moments and then > it all falls > apart and you don't know whether to laugh or cry. Liv Ullmann was probably > leaning > towards the crying. Come to think of it, Boxcar Bertha is like that too. > Wow, he may > have starred in the two worst movies of two of the greatest directors. > > Jeanne Speaking of the inexplicable Don Johnson, whatever happened to his costar on Miami Vice? I know his name was Philip Michael Thomas because I'm always confusing him with Philip Seymour Hoffman (because they both have three names starting with Philip) but he seems to have dropped off the face of the earth about fifteen minutes after the end of that definitively 80s teevee series, which it seems to me was most significant for having given us memorable performances from Frank Zappa, Miles Davis and Penn Jillette, persons I don't normally think of as actors (which is a category that includes Don J. himself, when I stop to think about it). ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:30:17 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Hugh Hopper (NR) Here's some HH coverage from the latest Wayside Music mailer - > HUGH HOPPER, the bassist and composer who first made his mark in > creative music as a member of Soft Machine during their most ground- > breaking period from 1969-1973, died on June 7. He had been > suffering from leukemia for some time. In addition to his > considerable musical talents both as a performer and a composer, he > was a terrific person that I am proud to say I had many > opportunities to work with. He was very friendly, very approachable > and tremendously funny in his dry way. He bore the weight of 'the > soft machine legacy' with a lot of grace and charm and humor and he > always found time for a friendly talk with fans and admirers. He had > the rare gift of having an immediately identifiable sound as a > composer and as a musician  within a couple of musical bars, you > could tell it was Hugh Hopper playing or someone trying to imitate > him. He was one of my original musical heroes when I first > discovered 'progressive' music in my early teens, and a fair chunk > of the Cuneiform catalog is associated with him and his work. All of > us here at Cuneiform can not begin to express our pleasure and > gratitude at having had the opportunity to be able to have worked > with him for so long or our sadness at his passing. > > Here's a very nice obituary from the N.Y. Times > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/arts/music/11hopper.html > > and a particularly good one from the Independent > http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/hugh-hopper-innovative-bassist-with-soft-machine-and-stalwart-of-the-canterbury-scene-1703161.html > > In the UK Times > http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6473171.ece > > and TWO very nice appreciations from Sid Smith > http://sidsmith.blogspot.com/2009/06/hugh-hopper-1945-2009.html > http://sidsmith.blogspot.com/2009/06/podcast-from-yellow-room-ix-dedicated.html > > and a nice appreciation by Jim Allen > http://blog.limewire.com/posts/19371-rip-soft-machine-bassist-hugh-hopper/ > > and a good interview from 2008 (last year he toured) at All About Jazz > http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=29328 > > and a good interview from 1998 with some typical Hugh humor and > history > http://panmodern.com/hugh_hopper.html > > and lastly a nice appreciation from Udi Koomran that includes a very > excellent duo improvisation between Hugh and Chris Cutler > http://udi-koomran.blogspot.com/2009/06/hugh-hopper-rip.html - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #171 ********************************