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fegmaniax-digest       Saturday, January 9 2010       Volume 18 : Number 004



                               Today's Subjects:
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  Birthday Boys- Bowie + Presley                          [HwyCDRrev@aol.com]
  Who wants to join in a pointless protest?  [kevin studyvin <kstudyvin@gmai]
  Re: My name is "Eb", and that was the first and last time I was ever  involved with the canning of corn!  ["Nect]
  Time enough at last                       [Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com>]
  craig ferguson                                          [HwyCDRrev@aol.com]
  Re: Vic Chesnutt                          [Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com>]
  Re: Kinks Choral Collection               [Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com>]
  Re: Kinks Choral Collection  [Sebastian Hagedorn <Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koel]
  reap                              ["Stewart C. Russell" <scruss@gmail.com>]
  Re: Kinks Choral Collection                   [Jill Brand <jlbrand@bu.edu>]
  Re: Kinks Choral Collection                    [ross <fricchaud@gmail.com>]

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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 10:37:04 EST
From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com
Subject: Birthday Boys- Bowie + Presley 

Robyn Hitchcock : 
David Bowie and Elvis Presley share the same birthday  .  .
however their careers followed a very different trajectory  
 
Bob Dylan and . . . 
David Bowie  
http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner~y2010m1d7-Bob-Dylan-and-D
avid-Bowie
and  Elvis Presley (Part  One)
http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner~y2010m1d8-Bob-Dylan-and-E
lvis-Presley-Part-One



Bob  Dylan Examiner Column 
http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner 

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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 14:21:27 -0800
From: kevin studyvin <kstudyvin@gmail.com>
Subject: Who wants to join in a pointless protest?

Sign up, what the heck.


http://www.petitiononline.com/patbotpa/petition.html

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Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:11:13 -0800
From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" <etews@inwa.net>
Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and that was the first and last time I was ever  involved with the canning of corn!

<I take it that you're saying that he hadn't performed that particular
vocalization before... because he's performed the song itself before.>

yes.  apologies for the ambiguity.


speaking of the live robyn experience, i suppose this is as good a time as
any to again offer y'all some tapes.  i had offered a while back, but there
were no takers.  this time, if no takers, i'm going to craigslist 'em.
peruse at <URL:http://fucktheusa.info/tapes/>.  if interested, do get in
touch with me.

note that i'm offering the tapes, but not the discs.  note too that i'm not
interested in parceling them out in small batches.  take all or none!  (i
would, however, give somebody all the robyn tapes, without forcing the
non-robyns upon them...)

it'd be nice if somebody would be willing to not only give them a good
home; but also to digitise and upload some of them to archive.org.

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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 18:47:31 -0800
From: Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com>
Subject: Time enough at last

I: what this is called, and
II: why.
III: interesting aspects of the featured video:
   A. Features the chick who plays Moaning Myrtle in the Harry Potter films,
as do about 50% of all films I've watched this month.
   B. Eerily reminiscent of one of my own crap student films from way back.
 So much so that it took seven minutes or so to decide that it was just a
coincidence and not some British knockoff of me own hard wyrk.

http://brixsmithsvolumeradargordonbottom.blogspot.com/2009/12/not-only-in-afterglow.html

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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 01:08:12 EST
From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com
Subject: craig ferguson

seems extra funny tonight  . . 
 
Bob Dylan  Examiner Column 
_http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner_ 
(http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner)   

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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 00:32:35 -0800
From: Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Vic Chesnutt

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Terrence Marks <terrence.marks@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> I really like About to Choke, especially Degenerate and Threads.  I've
> heard mixed reviews of his other music.  What'd be a good second album
> to get?


West.

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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 00:39:01 -0800
From: Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Kinks Choral Collection

On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Jill Brand <jlbrand@bu.edu> wrote:

> Sebastian asked about the Kinks Choral Collection, so I'll give my first
> impression.  I got it for Christmas (no, I didn't race out to buy it), so
> I've only listened to it once.  I don't think it is earth-shattering, but,
> in that I am someone who loves choral music, I quite like it.  Do You
> Remember Walter, Big Sky, and Picture Book are my favorites from this first
> listening.  I am astounded at how good Ray still sounds, although I guess
> these days it is very easy to touch up someone's voice electronically.
>

I couldn't get through it.  The choral stuff only works 1/3 of the time at
best, and at worst, damn.  The lead vocals are indeed nice, but the band
arrangements sounded totally perfunctory.  Sigh.

- -Rex

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Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:49:21 +0100
From: Sebastian Hagedorn <Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: Re: Kinks Choral Collection

- -- Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com> is rumored to have mumbled on 9. Januar 
2010 00:39:01 -0800 regarding Re: Kinks Choral Collection:

> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Jill Brand <jlbrand@bu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Sebastian asked about the Kinks Choral Collection, so I'll give my first
>> impression.  I got it for Christmas (no, I didn't race out to buy it), so
>> I've only listened to it once.  I don't think it is earth-shattering,
>> but, in that I am someone who loves choral music, I quite like it.  Do
>> You Remember Walter, Big Sky, and Picture Book are my favorites from
>> this first listening.  I am astounded at how good Ray still sounds,
>> although I guess these days it is very easy to touch up someone's voice
>> electronically.
>>
>
> I couldn't get through it.  The choral stuff only works 1/3 of the time at
> best, and at worst, damn.  The lead vocals are indeed nice, but the band
> arrangements sounded totally perfunctory.  Sigh.

I only listened to the 30-second bits on iTunes, but that gave me the same 
impression ... I like choral music a lot, but these arrangements didn't 
work for me.
- --
Sebastian Hagedorn
Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany
http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/
"Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock

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Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:34:37 -0500
From: "Stewart C. Russell" <scruss@gmail.com>
Subject: reap

Art Clokey, creator of Gumby, 88.

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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 10:02:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Jill Brand <jlbrand@bu.edu>
Subject: Re: Kinks Choral Collection

On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Rex wrote (about the Kinks Choral Collection):

> I couldn't get through it.  The choral stuff only works 1/3 of the time at
> best, and at worst, damn.  The lead vocals are indeed nice, but the band
> arrangements sounded totally perfunctory.  Sigh.
>
> -Rex
>

I can fully understand this.  I like the CD but I don't love it, and since 
I am such a choral music fan, I'm probably more predisposed to enjoying 
this kind of endeavor than most other people.  I haven't been wild about 
Ray'srecent solo stuff either, so I'm not expecting much these days.

We got some Graham Parker on CD that we had only had on vinyl for years. 
It's been fun re-discovering Another Gray Area and The Up Escalator.  I've 
been listening to that and Patrick Watson a bunch.

Jill

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Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:03:41 -0500
From: ross <fricchaud@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Kinks Choral Collection

Jill Brand wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Rex wrote (about the Kinks Choral Collection):
>
>> I couldn't get through it. The choral stuff only works 1/3 of the 
>> time at
>> best, and at worst, damn. The lead vocals are indeed nice, but the band
>> arrangements sounded totally perfunctory. Sigh.
>>
>> -Rex
>>
>
> I can fully understand this. I like the CD but I don't love it, and 
> since I am such a choral music fan, I'm probably more predisposed to 
> enjoying this kind of endeavor than most other people. I haven't been 
> wild about Ray'srecent solo stuff either, so I'm not expecting much 
> these days.
I saw the choral project as a rather desperate effort to cash in by 
somebody whose recent (and quite decent, IMO) work is being ignored. I 
quite liked Workingman's Cafe.

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