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          tmbg-list Digest, Volume 5, Number 24

                  Sunday, 26 April 1998

Today's Topics:

              TMBG: tmbg; 4.24.98; buffalo.
             TMBG: Adrian show, Deleware show
        Re: NON TMBG: Folding the Country in half
               TMBG: Pearl Street Show 5/8
            Re: TMBG: tmbg; 4.24.98; buffalo.
             TMBG: Re: TMBG 4.24.98; buffalo.
               TMBG: Real Audio Concerts???
         Re: TMBG: Columbus Show + good question
                 TMBG: OWU/Delaware show

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From: KdsInThHal <KdsInThHal@aol.com>
Message-ID: <9f6b30f2.35418546@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 02:40:05 EDT
Subject: TMBG: tmbg; 4.24.98; buffalo.

awww yeah.

I was gonna do this tomorrow when I get home, but the only entertainment here
is the computer, so I guess I have to do this now. :) Besides, I won't sleep
unless I do <g>.
the show, was fantastic. best tmbg show out of my 3.
the tralf is a nifty place too. a *real lounge* as Flans put it. very tiny
stage.

I met the toronto crowd, Alex / Mr. Klaw, Mike Rose, and Mike Wood (hey guys!
<g> catch yer 4 am bus ok?:)) and I got a set list and a lot of confetti (why?
I dunno.) And met Hal and Dan after the show, got them to sign my set list --
Dan has short gray hair, by the way... whata drastic change from the curly
not-short brown hair.. Anyways,

First, I s'pose I'll get Lincoln outta the way,
New songs, 3 i think, ("Shotgun Supreme" just plain rocks:)"give me the keys
to the van, put the heat on man, put the heat on man...") and since Dan (the
goodlooking one <eg>) left, now they're a 3 piece.. there's also a lincoln
mailing list and new shirts. :) I got a shirt. the crowd really loved them.

and now, of course, TMBG:) they were *very* happy tonight:) yay! Linnell came
out and shook hands with 1 guy; a guy who had a tape recorder out in the open;
and guy if you see this, I want - no - I need a copy:)

The confetti cannon: they had us in the front row duck down so everyone could
see, to which flans said "now that's cooperation":) and *then* he was
explaining how it was going to hit us, and walked over and pointed at my head
as demonstration:)

Spy ran into Lie Still, complete with the mic'ed up Stick! :) {and Linnell
playing sax; first time I've seen that actually!} which then ran into "To All
The Girls I've Loved Before" with Flans on the stick mic and Linnell singing
into a microphone which made him sound like.. umm.. :) The best way i can put
it I think is the Trinoids or Fred on SimpleTalk on my computer. :) sorry.
maybe robotic is another good way to describe it. It was damn hilarious. Later
on he used it again during Hal's solo to say "Hal, your shit is on fire!" :)

The puppet heads were there; of course. So was a little kid who Flans let play
the guitar for a bit on The Guitar. <g>

Flans had to start Pet Name 3 times ("she gave me a pet name, not to say I was
invited... okay STOP, press rewind..." :)) then he finallsaid "Fuck this, I
have emotional problems."

At the end of Shoehorn, they did a fast forward version which was very good
and very funny.:)

One encore of many was just the johns doing Sapphire Bullets, yay!

"We just did an appearance on the Sally Jesse show, the episode was: 'My Bass
Player is Too Sexy."

"My prescription drugs are too sexy. Today's episode... BITCH!"

The album they *say* will be out in August. Let's hope. Apparently it will be
live with a Dr. Worm studio recording on it. This is all probably common
knowledge though.

I got the first half of the set lists,and it reads (if anyone cares; in caps):
LETTERBOX
NYC
TURN  (yes, Turn Around)
GIRL  <-- Flans tells us when he went to art school, someone said "Hey fag!"
to him and this song is about that:)
POLK
(HAL) ISTAN
ACTUAL
SEXXY
SUN
SPY/LIE/2 ALL (I think 2 all is people vs. apes? they did that around here..)
FINISHED (Finished With Lies, the new song)
DR WORM
ENSOR (flans screwed this up too :))
ANA
PET
("SEVERE") LOST
SHOE
TWIST
GUITAR / CONGA
NO ONE

that's where mine stops; they also did Birdhouse, Till My Head Falls Off,
Sapphire, Particle Man, Dig My Grave... and I can't remember any more. :}

this is where I stop. my eyes are sticky, I'm super cold (even in my tmbg
winter hat!:)), I'm on a *PC* and it's giving me a hard time, and I'm sorta
tired. :)  If I missed anything, well. too bad:)

sarah
linnellgirl@tmbg.org
http://lava.home.ml.org

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Message-ID: <19980425070609.24044.qmail@hotmail.com>
From: "Amy Greenlese" <agreenlese@hotmail.com>
Subject: TMBG: Adrian show, Deleware show
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 00:06:09 PDT

Well, since no one has said a word about the Adrian show, I guess I'll
speak up!  It was a great show, much better than the Duquense show seems
to have been.  But I"m getting ahead of myself...
Lincoln was pretty good, I thought, but rather boring.  The crowd was
kind of restless and everyone was sitting down, but as soon as Lincoln
cleared the stage people started going up front and claiming spots
between the front row of seats and the barrier.
Some guy was handing out sheets of paper with William Allen White heads
on them that you could fold into a little crown-type hat thing.  The
security guards all looked at me strangely when I came near wearing mine
:)  Anyhow, after waiting what seemed like forever, They came out to
much applause and happiness.  I didn't get a set list, but they played
the pretty standard show stuff.  I love the new fast They Got Lost!
Both Johns were in GREAT moods, and Hal and Dan seemed to be too.
Linnell mentioned the new album: "We have a new record coming out, a
live record, and YOU WILL BE ON IT!  Yes, you will be on the record if
you BUY A COPY and STAND ON IT."
The battle was for the Planet of the Clones, and Hal and Dan were the
people and John and John were representing the clones - "we're clones of
the clones" The people won, but not by much.
When they played Shoehorn with Teeth, Flans introduces Dan as the USA's
last chance to win the glockenspiel competition, and being so close to
Canada, he was going to come from behind to beat the strong Canadian
team.
The auditorium wasn't packed, it looked like about 400 people or so, but
the conga line was huge! Before they started No One Knows My Plan, Flans
chanted "Everybody Conga.......Everybody Conga...." over and over till
there was a pretty good line going.  We got around the auditorium twice,
weaving in and out of the rows and picking up people as we went.
They only played one encore, and started it with Exquisite Dead Guy with
the puppet heads. Flans was trying to move his head around but the
spotlight guy wouldn't follow him and some guy in front of me turned
around and yelled "move the light!"  After the spotlight guy finally
started following Flans, Flans tried his best to lose the light, and
even hid behind the disco ball at one point.
So it was a great show, I had much fun, and I plan to do it all over
again on Sunday!!  What's this I hear about a limited number of people
being allowed in?  As far as I know it's an outdoor show starting at 1
pm, and I heard (please don't kill me if this info is wrong) that
Goldfinger is the opening band.  I'll be there for sure, so if you yell
LIST or AMY I'll look for you :)

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From: Strawbos69 <Strawbos69@aol.com>
Message-ID: <8155971d.35418d7f@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 03:15:10 EDT
Subject: Re: NON TMBG: Folding the Country in half

In a message dated 98-04-25 03:07:06 EDT, agreenlese@hotmail.com writes:

<< So it was a great show, I had much fun, and I plan to do it all over
 again on Sunday!!
That does it!  I'm moving!!!!!  I can't stand this ANYMORE!!!!!
ARRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!
Yah know, if we just fold the country in half, from West to East, the folks on
the West coast could get in on the shows....  hmmmmm...

>> I'll be there for sure, so if you yell
 LIST or AMY I'll look for you :)

Yeah, and only twenty thousand million people named "Amy" will answer...  :)

-Strawbos69, who's name MIGHT be Amy, but will never tell...

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Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 11:01:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: GEEK <hak@keene.edu>
Subject: TMBG: Pearl Street Show 5/8
Message-Id: <Pine.OSF.3.91.980425110046.32189A-100000@monadnock.keene.edu>

Yay!  I got tickets to the show in Pearl Street, Northampton (MA)!!!
They always give a good show there....I can't wait!! *bounce bounce bounce*
Anyone else going?

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Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980425111345.006a2ccc@130.127.28.14>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 11:13:45 -0400
From: Adam Tyner <ctyner@CLEMSON.EDU>
Subject: Re: TMBG: tmbg; 4.24.98; buffalo.

At 02:40 AM 4/25/98 EDT, KdsInThHal wrote:
>
>Spy ran into Lie Still, complete with the mic'ed up Stick! :) {and Linnell
>playing sax; first time I've seen that actually!} which then ran into "To All
>The Girls I've Loved Before" with Flans on the stick mic and Linnell singing
>into a microphone which made him sound like.. umm.. :) The best way i can put
>it I think is the Trinoids or Fred on SimpleTalk on my computer. :) sorry.
>maybe robotic is another good way to describe it. It was damn hilarious.
Later
>on he used it again during Hal's solo to say "Hal, your shit is on fire!" :)

Sounds like a vocoder.  I wish they had one when I saw them...  :)

-Adam
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Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 14:17:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Rose <flippy@yucc.yorku.ca>
Subject: TMBG: Re: TMBG 4.24.98; buffalo.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980425135112.4861A-100000@yucc.yorku.ca>

	Yes, here's my little addition to what has already been posted
about the KICK-ASS Tralf show last night in Buffalo NY. I had never been
to Buffalo before, but was aware of its existence, and was pleased to
discover that it was actually there when I arrived. So was the club, and
it's a good club, very large, and on the recommendation of a local, I
pressed myself up against the front barrier which is not something I
usually do but I decided to go for it this time.  I like to be near the
front, but I don't like being kicked in the head by moshers.  Fortunately
there weren't any moshers, and for the most part I was happy I stayed
where I was.  At one point there was a girl who decided to come up behind
me, press herself suggestively against my body, and hold out a ring to
Linnell, but she happened to choose the beginning of Pet Name to do this,
when the club was plunged into total darkness.  She seemed oblivious to
this and just stodd there holding out the ring which Linnell could not
see, so I told her that the lights would in fact be kept off for the
entire song, to which she retreated in a huff.  Little did I know of
course that Flans was about to fuck up the song three times in a row and
that they would skip it in favour of another song.
	Obviously I don't need to go into the set list, but I will say
that it was great to hear such songs as Turn Around, Letterbox and
Sapphire Bullets Of Pure Love.  It was also eerily hilarious to hear
Linnell sing through his vocoder in To All The Girls I've Loved Before,
the line "And may I say I've had the best".  Just gave me a sudden, very
startling mental image.  New songs included Dr. Worm, Finished With Lies,
and the new fast version of They Got Lost which totally rocks, but I
should also say that it was not just the rarely played tunes and the new
songs which rocked out - it was the whole energy level of the show which
made even oft-played tunes come to life in ways that transcended my
knee-jerk retiscence to hearing certain songs in every show I see (this
was my twelfth show).  So, even chestnuts like Spy, The Guitar, Istanbul,
Birdhouse In Your Soul, and NYC came off as vibrant and cool, and I have
to say that this is right up there with the best TMBG shows I've seen.
For good measure, they brought out the Stick and the Puppet Heads, and I
could swear that there was one brief addition to the (prerecorded) vocal
track of Exquisite Dead Guy.
	Linnell also danced.
	There were two generous encores, not listed on the set list,
though for some reason they did not play Georgy Girl, which they had run
through during the sound check.  But that's OK since the sight of the two
of them on stage with guitar and accordion doing Sapphire Bullets was
downright amazing.  I also enjoyed Linnell's freeform jazz saxophone riff
leading into Lie Still Little Bottle - I'd never seen him take that
instrument to town in such a manner.
	So, onto the people - (or the apes...) people won, by the way -
anyway, hi to Sarah, and thanks for the post which preceded mine - I also
met a girl who had flown in from England all alone to see the show, and
was rewarded with Flans and Linnell autographs as well as a free T shirt
and hat.  My friends and I joined her after the show for booze and fun and
then I boarded a bus for Toronto at 4.20 AM!!! which pulled in at 6.45 and
I got home an hour later. I have a guitar pick to show for my troubles, as
well as a piece of the very large confetti which packed the Presidential
Love Cannon, a ringing in my ears, a weird message on my phone answering
machine that I cannot decipher, four American dollars from the twenty that
I brought, and another great TMBG concert experience to savour. I also got
to shake Flans' hand after the show. I thanked him for a good time, and he
thanked me for coming out. It was six years ago almost to the day that I
first saw them live and met Flans, and since then I've seen them numerous
times but never got to talk to him again, and then last night, I got my
chance once again.
	Seeing TMBG perform is, in my opinion, one of life's rare
pleasures to be enjoyed while one still can, which is why I can justify a
21 hour trip to Buffalo from Toronto just to see them play - the
experience is unforgettable, and every moment of every TMBG show I see is
thrilling simply because I am there, watching my favourite band play great
songs. It just doesn't get any better than that.
	A big wave hello to all who were there, I hope you had as good a
time as I did. I dig the Buffalo TMBG crowd. Whatever I forgot to mention
here will be forgotten forever, since I can't remember what I forgot.

        MIKe
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From: Happyfroot <Happyfroot@aol.com>
Message-ID: <976d0079.354292c6@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 21:49:56 EDT
Subject: TMBG: Real Audio Concerts???

Well, I found a link at someone's TMBG web-site to a TMBG Real Audio concert,
or so I thought...Error 404: File Doesn't Exist...blah, blah... It makes me
wonder if there is a FULL TMBG Real Audio concert out there (I've seen some
for some other bands). Just wondering if anyone knows about such a site for
TMBG?

jason "downloading Real Audio 5.0, so he can listen to a Soul Coughing
Concert" glastetter

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Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 23:51:12 -0400
From: Wayde <statue@ncweb.com>
Subject: Re: TMBG: Columbus Show + good question
Message-id: <3.0.2.32.19980425235112.007ab720@uoft02.utoledo.edu>

>Anyhoo, there were a few songs I noticed were missing this time, again
>leading me to believe the show was shorter than normal.  For example,
>no Don't Let's Start, She's an Angel and I believe no Istanbul (not sure

They did play Istanbul...it seemed like they played it faster than usual
though...

>about this tho).  Did see Flans giving autographs after the show but
>got ushed out the door before could get over there...anyone get an
>autograph last night?

got the back of a card signed....

I have an intersting question.  Durring the signing by Flans after this
columbus concert, my friend asked what Flans thought about a group called
"Heckfish" (don't know spelling) doing a cover of "twisting" by THEY...not
only do they play this song in concert, but it's on their latest
album...Flans only replied "we will look forward to those long envelopes,"
referring to the royalties! Witty and avoiding...pretty smart huh? Does
anyone else know of this covering to twisting?

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Message-ID: <3542D75D.2516@polbox.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 01:42:37 -0500
From: i close my door at night <becky@polbox.com>
Organization: http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/1790/
Subject: TMBG: OWU/Delaware show

I am going to the show....I will be wearing my Pearl shirt and
olive-green pants with racing stripes on the side seams.  I'm medium
height, chubby, with medium-length reddish-purple-brown hair.  Hope I
can see some of you there!

Becky

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