FROM: Dr. Redjeaves
DATE: Mon Sep 15 09:45:29 PDT 1997
By Jove, Voltaic is onto something here, chaps! I've always thought Robyn Hitchc--k was sort of daft in a loveable way; but perhaps he's really the 20th century's Shelley or Keats! Not to plunge headlong into hyperbole; but perhaps this man's music is DEEP. Maybe there is more to his records than whether or not they are cool. I mean, contractual obligations or not, great literature, and great lyrics, have been written under a variety of circ-mstances, including contractual, and have not suffered because of it. They say d--kens was paid like a lawyer of his day: per word! He has survived. Hitchc--k, it may be seen over time, has a consistently excellent lyrical quality. His occasional (and nowadays infrequent) goofiness aside, virtually all of his songs are operating on more than one level: at least two: the literal level and the level of subconcious... The man paints; and he tells great stories; so we have to a--ume he likes the literal sense of his works, even as crazy and surreal as they are; so give him that; but he has as well a less literal side, a spiritual side if you will, that deals with the soul and its bodily manifestation--his sexual identity is forever appearing in his songs.....talk amongst yourselves!


FROM: Voltaic
DATE: Mon Sep 15 09:30:33 PDT 1997
If I were a college english major searching for an untapped thesis subject, it would be Robyn Hitchc--k's lyrics, which do not evaporate on closer listening only to leave you with a hollow feeling. No! They reward closer observation, often, which startling revelations: in fact, you may discover often that you have heard the complete opposite from what you should have heard. This is not an artistic flaw; it is like the peeling of an onion, and the truth comes out and makes you weep. Somebody, either Oscar Wilde or his buddy Walt Whitman, was once told, "you have contradicted yourself." To which the accused answered, "Of course I contradicted myself! I CONTAIN MULTITUDES!."


FROM: Voltaic
DATE: Mon Sep 15 09:25:54 PDT 1997
Why must we always weigh one album against another. When I asked a close friend if he'd heard the new Van Morrison (The Healing Game) I added a comment that it sounded so much better, band/music-wise, than say, early eighties works like "Enlightenment"... his retort was that when you're talking about Van, and here we are talking about Robyn who is a true artist as well, you are simply talking about "different degrees of greatness." So what's with the cutting of Respect, which to me is perhaps lacking in production quality (even though it boasts a Beatles engineer and the mastering environs of P. Gabriel's Real World) yet it is immediate, live feeling. The Yip Song, about his dying father, is a strange production, but likeably so, and incredibly panicked...this is a man watching his father die...he returns to the theme in Moss Elixir (The Speed of Things). Serpent at the Gates of Wisdom is a mystical car drive, a qabbalistic autoban. And no less than Julian Cope has commented on that one, giving the less analytical Robyn a few metaphorical interpretations..... Anyway, I think Robyn's albums are all good, and I am no a---kisser. Ciao!


FROM: Chewing Wax <drunk@decoy'sparty.com>
DATE: Mon Sep 15 09:15:38 PDT 1997
Hey all and boo hoo for my Football Team. Disgruntled, I think with the vollume of postings, and the almost conversational tone we achieve, the amount of Robyn related material is remarkable. Go back and read Decoy's brilliant posting of 9/12. All Robyn and no football (or whatever) makes Disgruntled a dull boy. Welcome back sleepy. We all missed you. Voltaic was lost without you. Now dear Myk is troopsing around Der Vaterland looking for internet kiosks. I won't venture a guess as to the character of his holiday. I don't see too many sheep though. A lot of loud music and fast hot strobe lights. Huge mugs of dark beer. But enough. I have yet to mention Robyn in a substantive form. As you might have noticed, Decoy and I had a close encounter and he finally got that copy of Moss Elixer Voltaic promised him long ago. I listened to Respect out of respect on my long drive east of here to rejudge for myself. It's an awful album. It sounded like the songs were written quickly. I remember feeling cheated by how short it was in this day and age of hour plus recordings. But lack of quantity is not a problem if the quality is there. It seemed to be a contractual obligation album. I must give a nod to Waffle Head though, and I'm only comparing it to the standard Robyn sets for himself. I certainly didn't hesitate to buy his next offering for fear of a repeat. But, compared to the recent Perspex Island and Moss Elixer, Respect con't hold the proverbial candle. Hell, The Kinks and Jethro Tull throw out the occasional junker. Roger Waters never has, but then if you take four years to make an album maybe you can get it right. I'm meandering. Very favorite Robyn song? "Earthly Paradise" of course. And possibly all of "I Often Dream of Trains".


FROM: Freddy
DATE: Mon Sep 15 07:45:47 PDT 1997
Disgruntled, how about a list of your favorite Robyn songs, just to start off? Mine are: Queen of Eyes; Airscape; Autumn; Bones in the Ground; The Man Who Invented Himself; Uncorrected Personality Traits; ROck and ROll Toilet, and all the others too.


FROM: Voltaic
DATE: Mon Sep 15 07:42:07 PDT 1997
Nice to see Sleepy back in the fold; he's a complimentary, equalizing force on this otherwise teeter-tottering board. St. Julian is a fave! And Robyn, I am living in your weather as we speak.


FROM: Knowitall Jones
DATE: Mon Sep 15 07:39:52 PDT 1997
Hey Disgruntled, you are yet another who complains about the content yet contributes nothing. This is not a tv show. Participation is fine; complaints are fine; but complaining about participation is a little like cursing the wet as you're taking a leak.


FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Mon Sep 15 06:17:56 PDT 1997
Joe - if you're still there - how do you know the "Rabbit Train"? Were you in the record shop in San Francisco with Murray Attaway? What a great song that was!


FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Mon Sep 15 06:11:21 PDT 1997
You're should be your, of course. I must proofread...


FROM: Sleepy
DATE: Mon Sep 15 06:09:46 PDT 1997
Hello again! Chewing Wax - you're imagined description of my holiday was frighteningly accurate. So many sheep! So much tea. One very large spider. Myk - very old message re: "we both like Brian Ferry". The song is, as you probably already know, "I got a message for you." My favorite Soft Boys album: Underwater Moonlight. Favorite Robyn song: Queen of Eyes. Did someone hint at Julian Cope earlier? My childhood king. Still supercool. Oh, yes. I saw Radiohead on Sat--day. They were excellent. I must get some Nick Drake records ...


FROM: Disgruntled
DATE: Sun Sep 14 14:47:39 PDT 1997
Well, it seems to have gone silent here about anything to do with Robyn and his music. Just a lot of people (or is it just a few) communitcating through his site? What's up? Can't you communicate to each other outside of here? Does anyone else out there really want to read about your day to day thoughts? Isn't this suppose to be a site about Robyn?


FROM: Jerome K. Feldspar
DATE: Sun Sep 14 08:10:48 PDT 1997
I'm just throwing in my favorite Robyn song:::::(this is tricky)...I would have to say it is, Sometimes I wish I was a pretty Girl.It was the first song I heard of Robyns and I was in a relationship with the female species for the first time.There is a certain feminiminity about some of Robyns songs that has always been so elusive to me. I think it wasn't untill Moss Elixr that he has realy explored and refined this.


FROM: Chewing Wax <!!~!!>
DATE: Sat Sep 13 23:44:41 PDT 1997
I feel so sorry for Decoy. Any how, Bills will kill weekend. I say Caroline, No need to be so naked we've been intoduced. Pretenders!


FROM: Chewing Wax <!!~!!>
DATE: Sat Sep 13 23:44:13 PDT 1997
I feel so sorry for Decoy. Any how, Bills will kill weekend. I say Caroline, No need to be so naked we've been intoduced. Pretenders!


FROM: Chewing Wax <!!~!!>
DATE: Sat Sep 13 23:43:11 PDT 1997
I feel so sorry for Decoy. Any how, Bills will kill weekend. I say Caroline, No need to be so naked we've been intoduced. Pretenders!


FROM: Decoy <Docor@IAlmost Typed>
DATE: Sat Sep 13 23:31:15 PDT 1997
Well, (again I start with a contemplative article) Chewing Pax is wavering and bordering on giving in to the same muse a sailor pooch. I challenge you to retort. IHP rules!!!!


FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Sat Sep 13 23:26:08 PDT 1997
Studpid foreigners. I've found Decoy and I'd rendered him inadequate. Anyhow. We're listnening to Moss Elixir and enjoying it quite a bit. I have nothing to say about the old postings. Happy happy joy joy. But I edon't believe I won't be back again.


FROM: Decoy <frogs@theNorth>
DATE: Sat Sep 13 23:18:39 PDT 1997
I don't know where to begin.Well, we seem to have (wait before I get into that Bud Selig has alterior motives to the smooth running of this message board so I thing we should disregard hid comments) a confusing conversation concentrating on coming up with a coherent cognation concerning coming to a conclusion concatenating some kind of coherent coming of quesidillas. Ok, I ran out. But I really take exception to f--king frog persons participating in an otherwise normal message board. So you have 120 yard football field and really good beer; don't lord it over us! Cripes, its the wife, more later!


FROM: Bud See-Legs
DATE: Sat Sep 13 18:01:01 PDT 1997
You're on thin ice, Rose!


FROM: Pete Rose
DATE: Sat Sep 13 18:00:04 PDT 1997
How much you wanna bet we're very close to archive 8, kids?


FROM: Mrs. Howell
DATE: Sat Sep 13 17:59:12 PDT 1997
Thurston, where are my gloves!


FROM: Magoo
DATE: Sat Sep 13 17:57:42 PDT 1997
Bungo and Stale Pooch: Quite quibbling over questioning content and query the queerly quickening quagmire of questionable quills dipping into this quite quacky quorom. Hrrumph


FROM: Nailor sooch <barking@mad.com>
DATE: Sat Sep 13 12:48:54 PDT 1997
,,,THATS.. "MOOCH"..pungo..."SAILOR MOOCH"... ( SHAKEN NOT STIRRED),and I quite like the Indigenous chaps myself..the INUIT also a lovely lot.....


FROM: Pungo <goodbye@rfk.com>
DATE: Sat Sep 13 12:34:23 PDT 1997
Complain all you want Sailor Moog-it'll do you no good. Complainers get thrown into the raging sea from a 10.000 foot cliff. Anyway, just popped in to say howdy and HAIL TO THE REDSKINS!!!


FROM: Sailor Mooch <barking@mad.com>
DATE: Fri Sep 12 23:22:27 PDT 1997
I"D LIKE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE TONE OF THIS MESSAGE BOARD.(actually both my wife and I.)IT SEEMs TO "SWING WILDLY" BETWEEN FOOTBALL AND PANCAKES,where is the link to our music?,our very special apreciation of that so called "thing" which is very hard to put into a catagory in order for it to be viewed as an extention of our interest in things not pancakes or even football.And furthermore,ROBYN should not go to Quebec until this nasty business of sovernity is cleared up. He might be detained,and held for ransom,or worse!I would strongly advise against it.Anyway,They wouldn't be able to completly understand him either because they're "French".(What Robyn might try, is to sell a large quantity of recordings before he goes there,that way they will be familiar with his music, and can sing along)..I hope this is of some help to you Lad. OH my wife would like to know, has Robyn released any Hawaiian music?I have the wasp stuff,and quite enjoy it....."hoova pievah!"


FROM: daisy bomb
DATE: Fri Sep 12 20:04:52 PDT 1997
Advice to people who shall remain nameless- Robyn had a long and fruitful career before signing up with A&M records, doing videos, or meeting Peter Buck. I SWEAR to you. Ok, nasty sarcasm mode OFF. Childish mode ON. Perspex Island is mostly dreadful. EYE RULES! EYE RULES! NYAH NYAH! Seriously, however, I do think Perspex is a failed stab at commercialism and rather half-baked overall. There are one or two good songs on it and even those are hampered by irritating overproduction. Plus Michael Stipe's backing vocals tend to distract rather than enhance. It's almost like saying "Hi, I'm doing a celebrity cameo" like when Sting's voice was so highly audible on "Money for Nothing". Whine whine. Eye is beautiful though. To me the best of Robyn's solo work by far. Exquisite.


FROM: Critic
DATE: Fri Sep 12 17:33:33 PDT 1997
One too many hockey pucks in yer forehead, there, hoser....


FROM: PEE-AIR McCRETIEN
DATE: Fri Sep 12 14:34:56 PDT 1997
Boy ho boy,dat ROBYN IS ONE SWELL writin a TUNE KIND OF FELLOW ..EH? YA. BUT I WAS WONERIN' IF HE COMES BACK TO QUEBEC OR SOMETHIN,...EH?dat be real swell..aright,yeah...wooops,pancakes are cooked,gotta split..eh?thanks an that.......please under stand.dis is da best i can do..eh?


FROM: Random Man
DATE: Fri Sep 12 11:32:03 PDT 1997
Joe, I think your swell. Let's hang out and have completely random conversations!


FROM: Tomoto Joe
DATE: Fri Sep 12 11:31:11 PDT 1997
Robyn has a song on Respect in which he mentions my hometown, Sacramento, CA....so our local "alternative" station (such a load o' crap term, no?) played the song a few times---back in the days before Jewel... I think Van Morrison has a song called In the Days Before Rock and Roll


FROM: phaerus
DATE: Fri Sep 12 11:22:14 PDT 1997
Last week, I actually heard a Robyn tune on the radio. As "The President" was playing on my radio, I tried to think of the last time I heard one of his tunes when he *wasn't* a guest or promoting a show. It had been a long time. The last time I heard him on commercial radio was in the days before Nirvana. The only time I hear him now is on public radio (KCRW). When was the last time any of you heard a Robyn song on the radio?


FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Fri Sep 12 11:12:08 PDT 1997
Volatile, I think you were too kind. But enough picking on poor happless Joe. You can gleam bits of worthwhile content from his seemingly senseless babbling. He also suffers from not reading previous postings. I don't understand that exactly. I'll be back. Let's talk about Robyn eh?


FROM: Volatile
DATE: Fri Sep 12 11:02:24 PDT 1997
Perhaps that was childish. I guess we are all potentially bafoons. And I was one just now. Sorry!


FROM: Volatile
DATE: Fri Sep 12 11:00:21 PDT 1997
I think I found the word I was looking for to describe you, Joe, in my previous tirade. But for the sake of decorum and politey, I won't mention it. I. D.on't I.nsist O.n T.oo much, but there is it.....


FROM: Joe <nmorris@manhattan.edu>
DATE: Fri Sep 12 10:30:44 PDT 1997
Anybody like Barrett? I like Ricks playing on that album, particularly during It is Obvious. Incidentally, the Kershaw (is that right Chris?) session CD has a lot of the Respect songs but done gently, on acoustic. Singalong like. I don't know about Respect; true, the songs are good, "R. Shoes" is pretty fantastic, but "Bob"'s (praise "BOB"!) is really in his element in live performance. And Queen Elvis is too short, but "Swirling"s a knockout song. And I thing it was gear (I like that word...gear) that Robyn was doing videos, tho the earlier vids were far better, even if they were about hats and things. Anyone know what key "Birds in Perspex" is in? Now thats an underrated album, Perspex Island, don't ya figure? Thats one that you can only find in the bins I'm afraid, and its really one of his best. Pete Bucks cool! Take care y'all, and don't bother Syd. He really doesn't like it. He doesn't exist anymore...my poor fool


FROM: Joe <nmorris@manhattan.edu>
DATE: Fri Sep 12 10:24:46 PDT 1997
Anybody like Barrett? I like Ricks playing on that album, particularly during It is Obvious. Incidentally, the Kershaw (is that right Chris?) session CD has a lot of the Respect songs but done gently, on acoustic. Singalong like. I don't know about Respect; true, the songs are good, "R. Shoes" is pretty fantastic, but "Bob"'s (praise "BOB"!) is really in his element in live performance. And Queen Elvis is too short, but "Swirling"s a knockout song. And I thing it was gear (I like that word...gear) that Robyn was doing videos, tho the earlier vids were far better, even if they were about hats and things. Anyone know what key "Birds in Perspex" is in? Now thats an underrated album, Perspex Island, don't ya figure? Thats one that you can only find in the bins I'm afraid, and its really one of his best. Pete Bucks cool! Take care y'all, and don't bother Syd. He really doesn't like it. He doesn't exist anymore...my poor fool


FROM: Voltaic
DATE: Fri Sep 12 09:47:13 PDT 1997
CW, not to be contrary, but I admit to an interest in Barrett's life. It is fascinating. But it becomes unseamly to discuss the minutae of some person's life as if it were intimate knowledge, and then to make pronouncements and judgements based on those fan magazine factoids. The fact is nobody knows the guy -- at least nobody on this board. So let's get over the heresay details and talk about his music....where he has told us so much about himself that it is achingly poignant...for instance, I have always loved "It is Obvious," where he sings, "And it is found on another plain....I can creep into cupboards...." Heartbreaking, and honest and beautiful. And where he sings that he is a "broken pier on a waving sea." There is so much he told us in those songs about himself...that nobody can tell you based on "sightings" and tabloid gossip about this or that.... In fact, I think the fundamental difference between RObyn's early music and Syd's music is that Robyn was angry when Syd was hopelessly lost. Now that Robyn is older, ironically, he injecting a bit of the helpless side of himself into his lyrics, a shadow side of femininity almost. Yes he did songs about wanting to be a pretty girl early in his career, but those, again, were not songs about vulnerability, they were songs about wresting a personal freedom from the clutches of an uptight victorian social hangover. Gotta go again.


FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Fri Sep 12 09:03:48 PDT 1997
I think Voltaics right. I have no interest in Syd's personal life. I have no interest in celebrity cult. I do want to go home and listen to Respect. It is one album I haven't listened to in quite a while. I have The Madcap Laughs on cd but have never seen Barrett in the bins. I miss that album. It lacked the raw one take and out sound of the earlier work but I recall it had some wonderful songs. I owned the vinyl but my record player was stolen off my front porch five years ago. I know they sell new ones but I never got around to it. I guess I really should. Oh that I had the infinite funds to buy one of those really cool $30,000 beauties they are always reviewing in Stereophile. Anyhow, school is back in session and tons of kids have their internet access back. Egg heads. Ok, I'll stop. We need sleepy/pungo back.


FROM: Voltaic
DATE: Fri Sep 12 08:45:11 PDT 1997
I am not ready to take an oath not to mention other artists, but I do think the tangents are sometimes leading to tangents which are unproductive and not very interesting. Like the whole Syd discussion...very little has been said of his music; more about his lifestyle since plunging into an unfortunate mental condition...that is cult of celebrity stuff, not a discussion of an artist and his music. It's tedious and useless and ultimately plays into the stalker mentality whether or not you are hanging out at his mailbox. And tagging "ripoff" to a song which shows truly genuine appreciation for another artist through its melody, chords, and/or delivery and which is hardly an effort to put one over on the other artist, is plain childish. Let's just get passed this "rip off" b.s. I'd like to read some intelligent comments about Hitchc--k's Lennon influences; those would be very interesting. Like our discussion of Nick Drake last week: it was enlightening and ultimately brought some of us to explore another artist's music. Gotta go.


FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Fri Sep 12 07:48:54 PDT 1997
I'm still fuming. "Somewhere Apart" is a brilliant song. Robyn takes Remember, and rebuilds it in his own image. It is remarkable how different the two songs are yet they are unmistakable linked together. When Robyn sings, "always..." echoing Lennon's "always" it's pure genious. I heard "Somewhere Apart" for the first time and thought Robyn was sounding a lot like John Lennon. Years later I bought Plastic Ono Band, heard "Remember" and ran for my tape of Element of Light. My one concern is that Yoko finds out. Robyn doesn't need that kind of heat. I'm feeling better now. Sorry to go on about this. Love you all.


FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Fri Sep 12 06:59:45 PDT 1997
Here here Mr. Decoy. My God we have our many differences, if not deep hatred for each other, but I must admit sometimes in your rare moments of clarity you can hit the nail on the head. I'm confused about the rip off theory. I've read it before in this board and ignored it. daisy understands but I thnk this needs explaining to the duller ones amoung us. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE "REMEMBER". IT'S A TRIBUTE. Goodness you'd have to be dim not to see that. Dumb as a flat rock. I've caught Decoy's fit. I say we take an oath never to mention anything but Robyn on this board from here on in. Oh I love Robyn. I have a lot of his albums. Sometimes he sounds like John Lennon but I love him anyhow. Doh.


FROM: Decoy <bitch@me,eh?>
DATE: Fri Sep 12 06:13:08 PDT 1997
It's no one's fault that there is no Syd Barrett message board. And now for my weekly (seemingly) LIGHTEN UP, DAMMIT message. I think we can all talk about what we share in common interests, there are lots of sports fans and Floyd fans, and Lit. majors, etc. You can't talk about one subject all the time without external points of reference, else things loose part of their meanings. You should all know that. Shame on you! (usually reserved for Syd stalkers.) Feel free to take exception, and let people know it, I often do. But don't bitch about the content. Download the page a search for Hitchc.o.c.k and ignore everything else why dont you. Ok, sorry if that's a spazzing flame fit.


FROM: Chris <ALaw14480@aol.com>
DATE: Fri Sep 12 02:08:49 PDT 1997
Volatile...Joe is not as you say but his postings may come off that way. He would be far from saying Robyn's a ripoff of these folks except by maybe saying he's surpased them through teir influence. If anyone deserves some bashing it ain't him. As for Respect..it has to rate as one of my least fave Robyn albums...I agree the songs are good (mostly) but they usually are. It just don't do it for me like many others. I guess it's the production. I mean who would suggest it to a friend as even one of his first 10 picks?? So don't talk bad to Joe...or I'll...or I'll...say not to again!!! ---not meaning to fight...just blabbing on..ya know???


FROM: daisy bomb
DATE: Fri Sep 12 01:45:17 PDT 1997
Er, "Somewhere Apart" a ripoff? Pull the other one. That is really too ridiculous to even comment on. As is the next thing I"m going to comment on, but I couldn't help it, so here goes :). I don't think Robyn needs any help from me and you and Joe as far as the drug thing or any other thing goes. The man is saner and wiser than most by my reckoning and as Volatile points out, he's hardly a giddy young newbie in the music biz. I think if by the age of 44 he's avoided all that so far it's probably safe to say he's not going to start up going on wild drug binges at this point in time.


FROM: Volatile
DATE: Thu Sep 11 21:29:36 PDT 1997
I am not one to call people names, but Joe, I believe you deserve to be called one; however I am not sure which yet; so I will abstain from any such utterance.... "That song on Element (Somewhere Apart) is a ripoff of" c'mon, aren't we above that here? Do we have to start listing the songs Lennon "ripped off" from other people? Not my word choice, yours. And "Respect doesn't have much to recommend it..."; right, except that the songs are great and the lyrics are great and it's a maturing phase of Hitchc--k, the ripoff artist. If you knew anything at all about Hitchc--k beyond the shallow a--umption that he's trying to rip off Lennon and be a Syd clone, you'd realize that he is more than twenty years older than Syd was when Syd started dropping acid, so you'd know he's a little passed a potential drug problem...he was making recorded twenty years ago, and at that time had been in music scene for five or six years or more. I mean, come on...It's not like Robyn is at the brink of stardom and sowing his wils oats! Really... has this site become a chat room for Syd fans and football fans? What about Robyn?


FROM: Joe <nmorris@manhattan.edu>
DATE: Thu Sep 11 17:30:47 PDT 1997
Lee was an idiot. Unless he wins an appeal hes in jail for the first 8 years of a 12 year sentence. Apparently they put him away for possessing a gun. This after drug possession and pulling a gun on someone who banged his supermarket cart (I'm not making this up!) When I met Rob I gave him a Love shirt and told him how great Arthurs band was when I saw them (this in 94). Although Respect doesn't have much to recommend it, I'm impressed by the fact that he rather wears his influences on his sleeve. That tune on Element is a ripoff of Lennons Remember off of Plastic Ono. Love was such a magnificent band; but again it was the drugs. The drugs didn't help Syd, and I hope Robyn steers clear. Steer clear Robyn! Syd is such a dumbass. I'm going to write EMI because this 30th anniversary of his recordings (his singles with Floyd and the mono Piper have finally gotten official release)should have everyone going out en masse to get those recordings. Really, both are a revelation. And who wouldn't want to have "Paintbox" on CD. Though not me, I can tell you! Incidentally, the Storefront taping was fantastic, though it was unnerving that he restarted Airscape to change his guitar pick. Very strange. Has Robyn ever covered any of Nick Drakes songs? Like From the Morning, or perhaps Pink Moon itself? He covers Beefheart, the notorious Byrds bros, the early Pink Floyd. Well, why not ol' Nick. I heard they were buddies once. My only friend, the rain. What a strange site - ni!


FROM: yhcleuqS
DATE: Thu Sep 11 17:19:53 PDT 1997
oops


FROM: The Black Crow's Nose
DATE: Thu Sep 11 17:19:19 PDT 1997
Snoooork! (translation: !ychcleuqsmaI)


FROM: The Black Crow
DATE: Thu Sep 11 17:17:52 PDT 1997
What did Lee do? Steal Syd's CD player? heh heh. david gilmour and roger waters are both richer than god and wouldn't allow Barrett to starve...if he refuses royalties (think about all of the reissues that dweebs like us gobble up every year!) that not the same as saying he's hurting...he's simply not capable of handling his own affairs....


FROM:
DATE: Thu Sep 11 16:50:06 PDT 1997
No, really. In a recent (95) interview with his sister (you can find it in A Fish Out of Water) hes very bad for cash. He doesn't even have a CD player though he would like one. I think you can find it as an import at Tower. I ordered it from Hip Cat. Bless Rob for mentioning Arthur in song. Alas! the man is in jail for 12 years, which is a shame. He had been working on a sequel for Changes (called appropriately enough Forever Changes II). Take care of yourself, and the black crow knows, don't you now. And God bless Robyn. All together now: And in the element of light...


FROM: The Black Crow
DATE: Thu Sep 11 16:03:14 PDT 1997
Believe in Love.....and I'll believe in you


FROM: The Black Crow
DATE: Thu Sep 11 16:02:51 PDT 1997
But I will check out the Love stuff... "...The wreck of the Arthur Lee...."


FROM: The Black Crow
DATE: Thu Sep 11 16:01:21 PDT 1997
The message from Joe sounds like an amalgamation of heresay, the Crazy Diamond biography, and wishful thinking. Doesn't get royalties--I am a freaking floyd freak and I have never, ever heard that one...you must have your ears very close to the office doors down at EMI, eh?


FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Thu Sep 11 14:02:30 PDT 1997
I'm off to cheer my Champion Bisons and get a lot of free stuff. Sorry for the lack of Robyn related material. Ah, tomorrow is Friday.


FROM: Joe <nmorris@manhattan.edu>
DATE: Thu Sep 11 14:02:19 PDT 1997
Hi...Syd, ah where is Syd? I know where Syd Barrett lives but I'm not going to tell you. Actually, his sister (Rosemary) is the only one who deals with him. He has a phone, but shes the only one who calls him. He sleeps late, eats a lot and is getting rather large. He gets a considerable amount of mail (still) but any addressed to Syd goes in the wastebasket. Just so you know. The mono version of Piper is extraordinary, alone with the singles of 67 collection thats just come out. EMI put it out early August, but it can only be got as an import here I'm afraid. Anyone into Love? Damn good band. Bryan Mclean is putting out an album of 66/67 demos on Sundazed, from around the time of the Forever Changes album. Check it out. ...The only persons Syd really deals with are the children on his road, whom he all knows the names of. He doesn't really do much. He goes to London to check on art at the museums, for about a day. He still plays, but if anyone walks in while playing, he'll just stop. Just chords, but you figure he enjoys it. Too bad about the fellow, what? Hes just left. Noone can get to him. And he hates visitors. He just doesn't want to be bothered. He paints all day but he doesn't really do much. He still loves the Stones, and watches telly, but since he doesn't get royalties (you reckon he throws it out, that mail to "that other person" as it were) he lives on 30 pounds a week. Its kind of sad cos he wanted to buy a drum but couldn't afford it! Rose helps him as much as she can on a nurses salary. So hes still alive and functioning, but he doesn't really do much, and is pretty much alone. Sad huh? I think so. Take care. Hi Chris.


FROM: CW
DATE: Thu Sep 11 13:15:12 PDT 1997
Correction: Never been one for conspiracy theory. Much better


FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Thu Sep 11 13:13:16 PDT 1997
Myk, for about five hours this message board and Robyn's whole area here at WB seemed to be missing. I just got the WB logo and a cryptic message that the url I had chosen was out of date. The whole affair was like a twisted, horrible waking nightmare. So, my last message was my expression of joy when the board popped back up after my reload. I thought I heard angels singing. I suspect a sleepy/pungo symbiotic merging of personality traits and similar holiday habbits, but then I've ever been one for conspiracy threory. Notice how neither uses capital letters in their names?


FROM: Decoy <back@theBoard>
DATE: Thu Sep 11 13:12:14 PDT 1997
Caloo callay! [sp] Hey, webmaster, what was that all about?


FROM: Myk Murphy
DATE: Thu Sep 11 12:47:37 PDT 1997
i have nothing to add today, except that was listening to "Eye" last night, and i very much enjoyed it. mr wax, i must ask: WHAT is back? and yes, we are also a bit low on pungo (we've discussed sleepy's expected absence).


FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Thu Sep 11 11:50:57 PDT 1997
It's back it's back it's back. Oh frabjous day.


FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Thu Sep 11 06:42:14 PDT 1997
Morning all. What was going on last night while I was listening to my beloved Bisons win the American a--ociation Championship? Fred Mercury sang it best. A little love chat room? My oh my. And Professor backwards joke wasn't even very good. I should talk. Decoy's bit about watching the World Series was the same joke only much more creative (see archive 7). I'm just jealous. As for the my favorite song game, I like "I Am Not Me", "The Speed of Things", "De Chirico Street" and "You and Oblivion". Completely different from Chris what? And where has pungo been lately? Chris, what demo version of Bones In The Ground? I like that song a whole lot too. Man, I like all of "I Often Dream of Trains", but that is ancient history. Got to go do something else for a while. With quiet adoration...


FROM: Chris formaly The Man Who Rented Himself <ALaw144480@aol.com>
DATE: Wed Sep 10 23:51:29 PDT 1997
What's up with my postings comming out all screwed up...or is it just me? I was wondering if anyone noticed the bit of some other song in the right channel at the end of the demo version of The Bones In The Ground. Facinating stuff, what? Yeah right. Moss Elixer has grown on me to. Hmmmmmm? Moss has grown on me...ahhh yes. I think I was so used to the live versions first that it took a while. My faves are Something In You, Devil's Radio and Filthy Bird (which took awhile to really dig) Ok bye kiddies


FROM: Myk Murphy
DATE: Wed Sep 10 17:36:45 PDT 1997
i dunno, decoy... maybe we should leave the room and leave the two of them alone. this room has suddenly changed its nature yet again! heh heh. maybe we can pungo to give L a longer name... he did great work with voltaic, who had even less name to start with, as you recall.


FROM: Decoy <together@last?>
DATE: Wed Sep 10 17:28:41 PDT 1997
DOn't let us get in the way ... go right on ahead!


FROM: L.
DATE: Wed Sep 10 17:03:30 PDT 1997
Oh my god my message posted twice. Just pretend the other one isn't there


FROM: L.
DATE: Wed Sep 10 17:01:05 PDT 1997
Dear Professor Backwards: Very witty!!! Love your message. Love to talk to you sometime. But how??? I guess we could invent a secret code or else we could speak in a diferent language. I don't know..... L.


FROM: L.
DATE: Wed Sep 10 17:00:57 PDT 1997
Dear Professor Backwards: Very witty!!! Love your message. Love to talk to you sometime. But how??? I guess we could invent a secret code or else we could speak in a diferent language. I don't know..... L.


FROM: Myk Murphy
DATE: Wed Sep 10 15:31:06 PDT 1997
mr wax's idyllic imagery of a rural english holiday is a delight. i can envision it too, mr wax, though sleepy strikes me as a determined urbanist. i can more easily see him as the sort that lurks in doorways in soho or southwark, or at least spot him shopping on oxford street. hmmmm...


FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Wed Sep 10 11:57:38 PDT 1997
Yes, I too miss sleepy and his rare wit. Holiday. Pastoral, bucolic, relaxation. Can't you see him striding through the sheep strewn hills, walking stick in hand, happening upon a tiny hamlet of thatched-roofed cottages and having tea and scones with clotted creme at Ms. Knickerbockers B&B. Pardon me.


FROM: Myk Murphy
DATE: Wed Sep 10 11:41:17 PDT 1997
where the hell is sleepy? is he still on vacation/holiday???? damn him, he's supposed to post us on all the leisurely excitement!!


FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Wed Sep 10 11:04:41 PDT 1997
Ew. You might want to see somebody about that. It's raining out. Steady rain. My only friend. You'all saw that walking up 6th Ave eh?


FROM: Cement Bucket
DATE: Wed Sep 10 10:44:09 PDT 1997
Lord! Frogs are reproducing on my back! And bubbles keep emerging from a crack!


FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Wed Sep 10 10:10:45 PDT 1997
Good morning Squelch. It's over there by your skull. Is it really only Wednesday. Is summer really over? Hockey training camp? The leaves fall so suddenly. The Sun sets at 4 o'clock. Exactly what I'm dreading.


FROM: Squelchy
DATE: Wed Sep 10 09:48:26 PDT 1997
Uurrr, [yawn], I say, has anybody seen my long red bottle of wine?


FROM: Decoy <awful@this>
DATE: Wed Sep 10 09:21:16 PDT 1997
Awful, See? Insert self depricating remark here.


FROM: Myk Murphy
DATE: Wed Sep 10 08:57:23 PDT 1997
damn buggy connection today... sorry for the double post.


FROM: Myk Murphy
DATE: Wed Sep 10 08:53:05 PDT 1997
oh, god help us all. we've descended into the realm of awful jokes. yes, mr wax, awful is truly the answer! heh heh.


FROM: Myk Murphy
DATE: Wed Sep 10 08:53:04 PDT 1997
oh, god help us all. we've descended into the realm of awful jokes. yes, mr wax, awful is truly the answer! heh heh.


FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Wed Sep 10 07:35:50 PDT 1997
Awful?


FROM: Decoy <Can'tRememberPunchlines@All>
DATE: Wed Sep 10 07:22:25 PDT 1997
I think the punchline is actually, "Terrible!" Sorry, It illustrates the point, though.


FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Wed Sep 10 06:15:40 PDT 1997
Decoy, you botched that joke really bad. The soldier says to Hitler, "My dog has no nose." Hitler (with concern) replies, "how does he smell?" To which the soldier answers, "with the aid of a highly sensitive membrane wired directly to the smelling centers of his tiny dog brain!"


FROM: Decoy <morning@8.45>
DATE: Wed Sep 10 05:43:49 PDT 1997
Moss would grow on anybody if they sat around watching TV all day. I love killer jokes, here's the standard in case anyone doesn't know: A man is walking down the sreet with his dog and another man comes up and says, "Hey, your dog has no nose, how does he smell?" To which the man replies, "Bad."


FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Wed Sep 10 05:25:53 PDT 1997
daisy, don't worry about the likes of beatle dennis and his long suffering ilk. He's gone now and I think the rest of us, the ones who hang in there, the ones who have more or less put up with me and Decoy for weeks now, can handle the occassional joke. Two peanuts were walking down der strasse, und vun vas a--aulted... peanut. Get it? Myk, tell that one in Germany. They'll bust a gut. I was driving to the final baseball game of the season last night listening to my threadbare, rag-eared copy of Moss Elixer and I remembered how Robyn had said in his interview with Tricia Halloran that he hated listening to records for the first time. I thought about how true it is. I didn't love Moss Elixer the first time I heard it. It has grown on me.


FROM: The Man Who...ah seems I've been outed I guess It's Chris now <ALaw144480@aol.com>
DATE: Wed Sep 10 03:32:42 PDT 1997
Why doesn't Robyn play the banjo...ha??? Don't you think that would be good folks?? What's with the recent spat of covers of the Velvets between Mr Robyn and those boys that call them selves Pavement??? I've been set free, indeed. My roomate bet that he would drink his own urine if the Jets didn't make the spread next game. Not to bring up football which I loathe. Too late I guess. So, what was the point of this posting?? Anyone else notice the remanants of some mystery tune in the right channel at the end of the demo version of The Bones In The Ground?????


FROM: daisy bomb
DATE: Wed Sep 10 00:59:51 PDT 1997
yes, irony IS rather difficult to convey on a message board. To state my position once and for all- I do NOT know where Syd Barrett lives (at least in so far as physical space goes) nor do I wish to, and I deeply feel that there is in fact something rather ghoulish about wanting such information or giving it out if one has got it. The poor man is not a tourist attraction to be gawked at, photographed in the bath, etc. Please. Anyway in further posts I shall be absolutely literal and pepper all joking references liberally with those horrible :) things when I joke, so as not to cause undue fuss.


FROM: Crunchie Little Superman <Lex@dailyplanet.com>
DATE: Tue Sep 9 18:47:31 PDT 1997
It's a squeaking head and I'm touching the parts I could'nt reach, don't worry I'll improve immediately.


FROM: Joe <nmorris@manhattan.edu>
DATE: Tue Sep 9 16:26:59 PDT 1997
On Thursday incidentally. How will the crowd react to "The Ghost Ship" I can't imagine. Robyn rules! Long live "The Rabbit Train"!


FROM: Joe <nmorris@manhattan.edu>
DATE: Tue Sep 9 16:25:06 PDT 1997
Hello! Incidentally I'm doing a gig at the Charleston in Brooklyn right up from the Bedford stop on the L. I'll do a couple of Robyn songs at the open mike at 9. Not Autumn or Heartful. I'm not worthy not worthy! Hi Chris, uh, the man who rented himself. So long and thanks for all the fish. I'll find a way to make you see, just what your love has done for me & etc.


FROM: Arch Drude's Younger Brother
DATE: Tue Sep 9 16:19:49 PDT 1997
Hey you Hitchc--k fans! There's another Syd devotee with a catalog of classics. Long Live Droolian! PS: Dwarfbeat Rooooooooooooooooock!


FROM: Decoy <post@me>
DATE: Tue Sep 9 13:59:34 PDT 1997
Would have, but I was about 15 minutes late. Agreed, 'Gene. GrimGrum, it's very sad that there was so much unrealized stuff. I just know I would have loved that music. But we will never know, really.


FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Tue Sep 9 13:49:22 PDT 1997
Yes. Grimble Grumble, my twisted little gnome. I know all of those early Floyd songs and agree with you. "Let's Roll Another One" was Decoy's personal favorite. I smell a little decoy in Eugene's posting there. I don't think any of us want to begin to contemplate what happened with Squelchy when he let out that HOOO!


FROM: Eugene
DATE: Tue Sep 9 13:38:22 PDT 1997
what axe?


FROM: Professor Backwards
DATE: Tue Sep 9 13:37:02 PDT 1997
Nurse Ratchet, where is Squelchy's comfy chair!?!?!?!?


FROM: Squelchy
DATE: Tue Sep 9 13:35:47 PDT 1997
blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug HOOO! blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blug blugblug blug blug blug...


FROM: Grimble Grumble
DATE: Tue Sep 9 13:34:23 PDT 1997
To be truly educated in the obscure connections between Robyn and Syd, you must find some of the very rarest of Floyd curios: "Vegetable Man," "Candy and a Currant Bun" (originally called, "Let's Roll Another One,"), "Scream They Last Scream," and "Apples and Oranges." Then look for the post-Syd Floyd's nod at "Lucy in the Sky": "Point My at The Sky..." [...If you survive til 2005 I hope you're exceedingly thin; for if you're about than you'll have to breath out when the others around you breath in breath in breath in...."] These are essential listening...they were singles more like what Syd wanted to do; the 1st album (Piper) was a poor imitation [so it is said] of what the Floyd were doing in the clubs before their record deal (gee, that's a new story ---please note the irony!)


FROM: Decoy <suprised@that.too>
DATE: Tue Sep 9 13:32:32 PDT 1997
Chewer, perish the thought.


FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Tue Sep 9 12:21:59 PDT 1997
Decoy. Are you making fun of me?


FROM: Myk Murphy
DATE: Tue Sep 9 12:05:27 PDT 1997
decoy, you have hit the nail on the head. qm reg, i'll never have the answers. voltaic, your warning about the difficulties of communicating subtle bits of meaning on this text board is crucial for us to understand. perhaps we will avoid all bad feelings with this in mind. but in the words of Jimi Hendrix at Winterland, 1968: "f--k it, hell, i don't give a damn"


FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Tue Sep 9 11:59:27 PDT 1997
Decoy - what the hell is goi on with you? Are you having a spaz attack or a coniption fit?


FROM: Decoy <PraxyServer@fault>
DATE: Tue Sep 9 11:58:08 PDT 1997
That was the proxy server, not me - I onlt presses post once.


FROM: Decoy <P@Fault>
DATE: Tue Sep 9 11:57:14 PDT 1997
Once again, Wax, you have crystalized my very thoughts with the elegance of a poet.


FROM: Chewing Wax
DATE: Tue Sep 9 11:55:37 PDT 1997
Decoy - you double posted. Now our archive is all screwed up. And, you snuck in there two minutes under me. That was a nice bit though. I want to know where Robyn lives. Not really. You see the difference. Robyn could come at you with his sanity and leave you in the dust. Syd would be soft and bewildered and not even know why you were there.


FROM: Decoy <online@last.wbr>
DATE: Tue Sep 9 11:53:40 PDT 1997
Perhaps we have subconsciously raised a point which is not meant to be taken literally (if it is to be funny at all). Everyone lives somewhere, and thats just fine. I live in my kitchen, for example. But where someone lives can really be about 'where the state of mind is.' Or maybe where you are in your life. I add my voice to the leave poor Syd alone chorus - he's about the the only big time music person (undead) that I truly pity. So, depending on how you take it, 'I know where Syd lives,' can certainly have some tragic if only unflattering connotations. Not in that you go gawk at him looking through the shoe bins down at the mall, but that you are there as well - if not physically but voyeuristically and on purpose. Shame on you. Syd seems to be casualty of different era. Dennis, get the joke, though, and do lighten up. I think we all know where he lives to a degree, especially poor Squelchy.


FROM: Decoy <online@last.wbr>
DATE: Tue Sep 9 11:53:15 PDT 1997
Perhaps we have subconsciously raised a point which is not meant to be taken literally (if it is to be funny at all). Everyone lives somewhere, and thats just fine. I live in my kitchen, for example. But where someone lives can really be about 'where the state of mind is.' Or maybe where you are in your life. I add my voice to the leave poor Syd alone chorus - he's about the the only big time music person (undead) that I truly pity. So, depending on how you take it, 'I know where Syd lives,' can certainly have some tragic if only unflattering connotations. Not in that you go gawk at him looking through the shoe bins down at the mall, but that you are there as well - if not physically but voyeuristically and on purpose. Shame on you. Syd seems to be casualty of different era. Dennis, get the joke, though, and do lighten up. I think we all know where he lives to a degree, especially poor Squelchy.