From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V18 #57 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, March 19 2010 Volume 18 : Number 057 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alex Chilton: REAP [] Re: REAP [kevin studyvin ] Re: Alex Chilton: REAP ["craigie*" ] REAP--Alex Chilton ["Marc Holden" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:03:38 -0400 From: Subject: Alex Chilton: REAP Argh. http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/03/17/big-star-singer-and-cult-icon-alex-chilton-dead-at-59/ This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:02:24 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: REAP On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > Alex Chilton. Bummer. > > -tc > Double bummer. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:54:56 +0000 From: "craigie*" Subject: Re: Alex Chilton: REAP Bah. I'm glad I crashed backstage in 1993 to meet him. He was atrue gent (and autographed all my Big Star and AC cds!) bah again. c* On 18 March 2010 03:03, wrote: > Argh. > > > http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/03/17/big-star-singer-and-cult-icon-alex-chilton-dead-at-59/ > > This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain > privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have > received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the > original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited. > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... I like my girls to be the same as my records - independent, attractively packaged and in black vinyl (if at all possible)... Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (the motto of the Addams Family: "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us") ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:15:19 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: REAP--Alex Chilton I had held off on comments about Vic Chesnutt and Mark Linkous recently, but this one was particularly upsetting--at least it wasn't a suicide this time. I saw and met Alex many times over the years--solo, with Big Star, and with the Box Tops. He was always interesting, sometimes abrasive and sometimes extremely nice. The first time I saw him at the old 9:30 Club in Washington D.C., I sneaked backstage and hung out with Alex for a while after the show. He passed me a joint, but since I was driving back home north of Baltimore in a few minutes, I declined. He told me about a time when he was still with the Box Tops and had been hanging out at a beach house owned by the Beach Boys, and after an evening of excessive partying, he fell asleep on a large sofa. Later when he woke up, there was a guy curled up at the other end, who later became famous as a cult leader/serial killer--Charles Manson. Once during a show, I saw him stop mid-song and yell at the sound man,"I don't know why I bothered coming down here this afternoon to do a sound check if you're just going to fuck up the sound anyway..." He was a pretty straightforward sort of guy, if a bit overly direct. When I saw one of the Big Star shows at the House of Blues in Hollywood, the band was close to finishing the set when Alex asked the crowd if there was anything else they wanted to hear. I remembered a Chubby Checker song he had covered solo, that I heard on a vinyl bootleg, and I yelled out "Do the Hucklebuck". Alex started laughing and then got the band into a quick huddle to coach them on the song. It was totally awesome, and left most of the crowd looking around like, "What the fuck just happened?" The last time I saw Alex was several years ago, with the Box Tops. It was a surprisingly good show, and I even had a (shitty) concert photo of the group added to their official website (still there, I just checked, http://www.boxtops.com/sahuarita.htm ). Alex always seemed, to me, to be underappreciated, and it was really great to get a chance to see so many different aspects of his abilities. He really was one of the greats, even if a majority of people are only vaguely familiar with his work. It was really a sad thing for me to add him to what is essentially the graveyard section of my concert memory list. Seems like there have been a lot of additions lately. Marc MUSICIANS I'VE MET THAT HAVE PASSED AWAY SINCE: ALEX CHILTON COUNTRY DICK MONTANA DEE DEE RAMONE JOE STRUMMER JOEY RAMONE JOHN ENTWISTLE JOHNNY RAMONE LADY JAYE BREYER P-ORRIDGE LUX INTERIOR (THE CRAMPS) MANA "CHINA" NISHIURA (SHONEN KNIFE DRUMMER) MARK LINKOUS (SPARKLEHORSE) RANDY BEWLEY (PYLON) RICHARD WRIGHT (PINK FLOYD) STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN VIC CHESNUTT WESLEY WILLIS ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V18 #57 *******************************