From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V19 #28 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, March 29 2011 Volume 19 : Number 028 Today's Subjects: ----------------- recent concerts [M Holden ] Re: recent concerts ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: recent concerts [M Holden ] reap [lep ] Tickets available [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 3:09:21 -0700 From: M Holden Subject: recent concerts It was a good week for concerts. Tuesday, I saw Dan Bern in Missoula, Montana, then yesterday I saw the Baseball Project (Peter Buck, Steve Wynn, Linda Pitmon, & Scott McCaughey) in Scottsdale, AZ. I just got back from Tucson, from the Festival en el Barrio Viejo, which included Robyn Hitchcock, Calexico, and the Baseball Project. The Baseball Project did a shorter version of last night's set with no solo material thrown in. The band seemed really relaxed and talked with people in the crowd as they set up and waited for their set time to start, and then again while waiting for Robyn's set--everyone, including Robyn spent a pretty good amount of time walking through the crowd, and seemed more approachable than they often are. Here's the basic rundown on Robyn's set: No real soundcheck, Robyn mostly talked through the mike check. Flower pattern shirt and start the set solo with the Fylde acoustic guitar. When the person came up to introduce Robyn, she let the crowd know that the U of A Wildcats were knocked out of the NCAA tournament. Robyn commented that he is British, and they tend to be depressing people, good to listen to when your team has lost. "I'm like the damp pillow fairy." Wreck of the Arthur Lee Airscape (add Peter on 12 string electric) Oh Yeah (Roxy Music) I Often Dream of Trains (Robyn switches to a solid body Gibson Les Paul (Scott's?), add Scott on bass and Linda on drums) Vibrating Madonna of the Wasps Adventure Rocket Ship A Man Has Got to Know His Limitations, Briggs (no comments made about Peter's guitar being an Eastwood 12 string, btw) (add Howe Gelb) Ole Tarantula (add Steve) Kung Fu Fighting (accapella) Queen of Eyes Wow, a great set. Airscape was really awesome. Vibrating was tight. Briggs, which I usually am less interesting in, was really good today. Queen of Eyes kicked serious ass--Linda really pushes the song, I like her drumming a lot. Later, during Calexico's set they covered Fight Test (Flaming Lips) and the usual Alone Again Or (Love), in addition to their own Crystal Frontier and a lot of their regular set songs. They had many mariachi musicians join them on stage including someone playing the harp. During the final encore, Robyn joined them to take the lead vocal. I initially thought they were starting the play "Itchycoo Park" from the Small Faces, but they played John Lennon's "Instant Karma". A great evening overall, and a nice wrap-up to the week. Marc btw--If you are in the Phoenix area, the Baseball Project has been playing free sets at some of the Cactus League games--they have a really nice t-shirt for sale with a typical desert graphic on it. To wrap it up, they are playing at games in the Goodyear area. Sunday (Diamondbacks vs. Reds) and Monday (Indians vs. Cubs). ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:09:30 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: recent concerts On 11-03-27 06:09 , M Holden wrote: > It was a good week for concerts. Sure was. Holiday Surprise played Toronto. They're a ramshackle supergroup of all your Elephant Six bands: Neutral Milk Hotel, Elf Power, Olivia Tremor Control and The Music Tapes. Longterm (but quiet) feg Bryan Poole was rocking a beautiful rainbow Gibson SG, no doubt got from the Gibson promo deal with Of Montreal. Two drummers, up to four guitarists playing top hits of the lo-fi dial. Twee games and odd stories (hey, Julian was there; can't be helped). Crazy requests (including the usually surly Lee's Palace hairy metal stage crew grinning ear to ear when they were asked to play with the band, as they were the only ones that knew the chords to "Hell's Bells"). Andrew Rieger winning the Jacques Tati lookalike contest *again*. Antipodean covers (Elf Power do love their Tall Dwarfs). Best of all was discovering that Julian Koster is perhaps the most insanely entertaining drummer since Animal. He flails about madly yet defines the beat precisely. Fun fun. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 10:21:19 -0700 From: M Holden Subject: Re: recent concerts Stewart replied enthusiastically: > Sure was. Holiday Surprise played Toronto. They're a ramshackle > supergroup of all your Elephant Six bands (...) They played here earlier in the month, another great show. They ended the show by marching everyone out to the parking lot, as they played, and finished with a sing-along on the tarmac. The audience request song was "Octopus's Garden". That SG really was a thing of beauty. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 03:25:31 -0400 From: lep Subject: reap paul baran, early internet (arpanet) engineer, 84 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/technology/28baran.html?_r=1&smid=tw-nytimestech&seid=auto (this article is good reading for anyone interested in the history of computing - mr. baran had quite a life.) xo p.s. i had either forgotten or not known drexel was known once as drexel institute of technology. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:41:33 +0100 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Tickets available Just reporting that tickets are now available for the Bath show from: http://www.seetickets.com/Venue/The-Spiegeltent "Playing a set of his own material and then Beefheart's CLEAR SPOT with full band!" - - MRG ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V19 #28 *******************************