From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V18 #66 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, April 2 2010 Volume 18 : Number 066 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Production [Jeremy Osner ] Two vinyl questions ["gene@hopstetter.com" ] REAP [michaeljbachman@comcast.net] Re: Production [kevin studyvin ] Soft Boys Fillmore poster [Tom Clark ] Winamp crossfade [David Witzany ] Band query [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] RE: [sfbayfegs] Soft Boys Fillmore poster ["Reynolds, Russ" ] Re: Production [2fs ] Robyn Hitchcock is thrilled to announce that Mike Heron will be opening all the [HwyCDRre] Fwd: Two vinyl questions [michaeljbachman@comcast.net] Snap judgement on Propellor Time [Jeremy Osner ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 15:02:30 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Production http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/why-records-do-all-sound-same ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:03:44 -0500 From: "gene@hopstetter.com" Subject: Two vinyl questions 1. Does anybody have a test pressing of IODOTs? If yes, tell me about it. I once held a copy of this but didn't buy it. 2. Was "Respect" issued on vinyl? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 19:38:20 +0000 (UTC) From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: REAP http://www.comcast.net/articles/music/20100401/US.Obit.Herb.Ellis/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 12:40:14 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Production ...and that's why recordings from the 1930s still sound so good. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/why-records-do-all-sound-same ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:02:21 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Soft Boys Fillmore poster 30% off TODAY ONLY if you use the coupon code NEWFS http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/the-soft-boys/poster-art/poster/F452.html - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 15:57:02 -0500 (CDT) From: David Witzany Subject: Winamp crossfade kevin studyvin asked: > >I've got a couple questions that I hope some of the more gear-oriented in >fegland can maybe answer. (1) Does anybody know of a Winamp app that will >crossfade tracks in a playlist? Check under Options/Prefs/Output. Your current plugin probably already does this--double-click it, and there should be a Fade tab. and, (2) Having just discovered that some >recent problems are due to the fact that the iMic doesn't work properly in >Vista, can anybody suggest a Vista-compatible audio capture device? > Insert snarky "I went from XP to Win7" remark here. >Thanx / KS. I may just be getting too old for this stuff... > Dave. ...fading back into obscurity until tomorrow comes... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 10:23:33 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Band query Can anyone tell me anything about a band called Wooden Shjips? I've heard one song of theirs on a compilation ("Outta my head"), and it sounds like the re-birth of Paisley Underground. Pretty sure they're Californians, and I would love to hear more of their music... 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: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 16:42:33 -0500 From: "Reynolds, Russ" Subject: RE: [sfbayfegs] Soft Boys Fillmore poster I was trying to remember if ever I got one of those. If I recall correctly, I think I had to scramble to pick one up after the fact. I'm loving Propellor Time, by the way. ________________________________ From: sfbayfegs@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sfbayfegs@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Tom Clark Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 2:02 PM To: pipe camera guy - NO MIDGETS; oldschoolfegs@yahoogroups.com; Bay Area Fegs Subject: [sfbayfegs] Soft Boys Fillmore poster 30% off TODAY ONLY if you use the coupon code NEWFS http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/the-soft-boys/poster-art/poster/F452.html -tc __._,_.___ Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic Messages in this topic (1) Recent Activity: Visit Your Group MARKETPLACE Do More for Dogs Group. Connect with other dog owners who do more. ________________________________ Welcome to Mom Connection! Share stories, news and more with moms like you. ________________________________ Hobbies & Activities Zone: Find others who share your passions! Explore new interests. Yahoo! Groups Switch to: Text-Only , Daily Digest * Unsubscribe * Terms of Use . __,_._,___ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:11:45 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Band query On Apr 1, 2010, at 2:23 PM, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > Can anyone tell me anything about a band called Wooden Shjips? I've heard one song of theirs on a compilation ("Outta my head"), and it sounds like the re-birth of Paisley Underground. Pretty sure they're Californians, and I would love to hear more of their music... Allmusic.com sums it up succinctly: "San Francisco's enigmatically named Wooden Shjips play a minimal, droning brand of garage-styled psychedelia with a noticeable '60s Krautrock influence." I first likened them to The Doors meets The Charlatans. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 19:58:42 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Production On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/why-records-do-all-sound-same > Meh. Product engineered to sell huge numbers of units sounds like McDonald's version of music. News? I think the writer is looking in the wrong place. Commercial interests have *always* tried to figure out how to sell the most records (actually, the writer gets that - the bit about Motown's tambourines, etc.), it's just that up until, oh, the last 15-20 years or so, they assumed that the people who'd know the most about how to do that were musicians or affiliated with the music business...thus it was that producers and such, up into the '70s, were typically musically trained. Somewhere along the line, the industry realized that the general public had no clue whether something was musically good or not, and it became all about sound and image. Not that those things weren't prominent before...but they were added on to something that someone somewhere regarded as music: the most commercial songwriters were still thinking in terms of *musical* features that were commercial, etc. Anyway: that's why just don't turn on the fucking radio. The only part about this that does worry me is the loudness wars...since that seems to transcend chart music and has wormed its way well down the market, where even folks who you'd think of as not giving a damn about how many units they can move still end up having the music pumped up to oblivion. The funny thing is, this is easier to see - literally - now than it ever was, since nearly anyone can rip a sound file, open it up with an audio editor, and note that it's generally a near-solid block of whatever color the app designates for its waves. Fortunately, I think a lot of people are starting to get sick of this...and precisely because it's so very easy to compress the frak out of things, it's also very easy to *not* do so. Here's my new proposal: why not just make every album available in a "musician's mix" and an "airplay mix"? Let the musicians do it the way they want...then turn the sound files over to whomever to bang them all up to the max. Anyone who knows will know that the "airplay mix" is approximately like (for us oldsters) listening to an album on your little sister's Close-n-Play and ignore it. The industry's moving, inevitably, away from physical product anyway - so it's not as if you'd need to press two discs or anything. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 23:26:02 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Robyn Hitchcock is thrilled to announce that Mike Heron will be opening all the Mike Heron Robyn Hitchcock is thrilled to announce that Mike Heron will be opening all the dates on his UK tour, starting in Newcastle on April 7th. Mike was a founder member of the Incredible String Band, psych-folk legends from the 1960s and one of Robynbs teenage favourites. Mike will be accompanied by is daughter Georgia Seddon on keyboards for all the dates, plus Mike Hastings on guitar and Solveig Askvik on fiddle on selected shows. This will be Mikeb s first full British tour for some years, coming after his much-appreciated cameo appearances at the ISB celebration and the Pestival show in London last year. Coincidentally, the first four ISB records have been re-released by Fledgling Records, re-mastered by Joe Boyd and John Wood. http://www.robynhitchcock.com/category/news/ Bob Dylan Examiner Column http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner Twitter - @DylanExaminer also on Facebook ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 13:59:41 +0000 (UTC) From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Fwd: Two vinyl questions - ----- gene@hopstetter.com wrote: > From: gene@hopstetter.com > To: fegmaniax@smoe.org > Sent: Thursday, April 1, 2010 2:03:44 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Two vinyl questions > > 1. Does anybody have a test pressing of IODOTs? If yes, tell me about it. I once held a copy of this but didn't buy it. > 2. Was "Respect" issued on vinyl? No and I don't know. Nuppy might have a vinyl copy of "Respect" id ther was one issued. I do have a vinyl copy of Fegmania! which I bought 25 years ago this June. It was my first ever Robyn related purchase, so in a couple of months I'll be a 25 year Hitchcock vet. Michael B. PS I just got my cd copies of Propeller Time and Shadow Cat from Yep Roc a couple of days ago andB I'm enjoying both of them. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 15:45:14 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Snap judgement on Propellor Time 8 good-to-great songs on a 10-song album... Does the instrumentation on "Primitive" remind anyone else of Simon and Garfunkel? "Sickie Boy" would be a great song if it were on BSDR; here and now, it is only good. J ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V18 #66 *******************************