Errors-To: owner-tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Reply-To: tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Sender: owner-tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Precedence: bulk From: owner-tmbg-digest@tmbg.org To: tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Subject: tmbg-list Digest #62-9 tmbg-list Digest, Volume 62, Number 9 Saturday, 22 February 2003 Today's Topics: Re: TMBG: SEXXY Re: TMBG: SEXXY TMBG: Show Recordings Re: TMBG: SEXXY Re: TMBG: SEXXY TMBG: Feb. 28 show TMBG: 2/14 early show banter notes (crazylong) Re: TMBG: 2/14 early show banter notes (crazylong) Re: TMBG: 2/14 early show banter notes (crazylong) Re: TMBG: 2/14 early show banter notes (crazylong) TMBG: 2/14 late show Administrivia: If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing send mail to tmbg-digest-request@tmbg.org for instructions on how to be automatically removed. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The views expressed herein are those of the individual authors. --------------------------------------------------------------------- tmbg-list is digested with Digest 3.5b (John Relph ). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-Id: Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:08:13 +0000 From: "Richard Hilton" Subject: Re: TMBG: SEXXY There she goes is from The La's isn't it? More importantly is one able to download this. It says play only but the others have play only and download options as well. Any ideas anyone? Richard >>> "Bill Seybolt" 20/02/03 23:00:14 >>> I was pretty excited about a TMBG remix. But, after listening, it seemed a little too much. It was a bit muddled at times. Here's what I heard along the way... There She Goes - The Boo Radleys Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice Sgt. Peppers Lonley Heart's Club Band - Beatles Only Time Will Tell - Asia Parade of the Wooden Soldiers Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie Rockit - Herbie Hancock Chris Nuccitelli Sent by: owner-tmbg-list@tmbg.org 02/20/2003 02:57 PM Please respond to Chris Nuccitelli To: tmbg-list@tmbg.org cc: Subject: Re: TMBG: SEXXY There's a ton of samples from other bands here. I suspect that's the "uncopyright-cleared" bit. The synth-strings at the very beginning are from Asia's "The Smile Has Left Your Eyes", if I'm not mistaken. There's another one in 0:59-1:05 from a different Asia song that I can't place at the moment. Followed by something that sounds very Ministry-ish. Ziggy Stardust at 1:45.... This could be fun. Anyone? -- slothradio. synthpop / 80s / classic alternative http://www.slothradio.com/ > ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 07:28:09 -0500 From: "Matthew W. Miller" Subject: Re: TMBG: SEXXY Message-ID: <20030221122809.GA448@columbus.rr.com> On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:08:13AM +0000, Richard Hilton wrote: >There she goes is from The La's isn't it? More importantly is one able >to download this. Yes, by selecting 'Play'. The 'Download' links are to StuffIt archives, thus, useless. -- /) Matthew W. Miller ( \ || | PLD Linux - "May the penguin be with you." ------------------------------ From: "Jason Sigala" Subject: TMBG: Show Recordings Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:11:37 +0000 Message-ID: There are a few shows I was wondering if anyone has copies of by chance. Pittsburgh, PA (8-06-02) Ann Arbor, MI (10-21-02) Celeveland, OH (10-31-02) These are the only three shows I've been to, so I don't have anything to trade., but I'll glady pay for them, of course. Contact me at FatHead173@msn.com Thanks in advance. Jason S _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030221105228.00b17eb8@pop.runbox.com> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:54:31 -0500 From: jessie Subject: Re: TMBG: SEXXY At 09:08 AM 2/21/2003 +0000, Richard Hilton wrote: >More importantly is one able to download this. It says play only but the >others have play only and download options as well. Any ideas anyone? you can just right click the "play mp3" link and "save target as", because the link is directly to the mp3 file. ------------------------------ Subject: Re: TMBG: SEXXY Message-ID: From: "Bill Seybolt" Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:09:57 -0500 Ooops... I just pulled the first artist I could remember covering it instead of doing my homework. Plus, The Boo Radleys is just a cool name for a band. "Richard Hilton" Sent by: owner-tmbg-list@tmbg.org 02/21/2003 04:08 AM Please respond to "Richard Hilton" To: cc: Subject: Re: TMBG: SEXXY There she goes is from The La's isn't it? [Attachment omitted, unknown MIME type or encoding (text/html)] Desperately seeking anyone who is either a) driving from NY/New England to the Feb. 28 show or b) lives somewhere not too terribly far from Baltimore/Towson and will let me stay with them Thursday night. Monetary compensation and ETERNAL GRATITUDE will be provided. Quinn {http://home.houston.rr.com/johnlinnell/main.html} "People are kind of screwed up sometimes." ~John Linnell From owner-tmbg-list@tmbg.org Fri Feb 21 19:46:01 2003 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ussenterprise.ufp.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id h1M0k1t83861 for tmbg-list-outgoing; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:46:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from owner-tmbg-list@tmbg.org) Received: from mail.smith.edu (mail.smith.edu [131.229.64.14]) by ussenterprise.ufp.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h1M0k0i83853 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:46:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from selfcallednowhere@houston.rr.com) Received: from sven.houston.rr.com ([131.229.197.84] (may be forged)) by mail.smith.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/SC1.4) with ESMTP id TAA04811 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:45:59 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20030221194341.00a0cbe0@pop-server.houston.rr.com> X-Sender: selfcallednowhere@pop-server.houston.rr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:44:40 -0500 To: TMBG list From: Quinn Collard Subject: TMBG: 2/14 early show banter notes (crazylong) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-tmbg-list@tmbg.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Quinn Collard Also, I think the message I sent about this didn't go through for some reason, but I have a lot of pictures on my site. JF: For the people who are standing in the back, this is the first time we've ever sat down for a show. Guy in audience: Enjoy! JF: We're enjoying ourselves, so if you're feeling like a little self-pity, y'know, we've got twenty years of standing up behind us. We're just gonna take it easy on this special Valentine's night...so we got a song from--this song was written by that heckler over there. JL: This is from the...understated, underrated John Henry album. *cheering* But it's not the one you're thinking. JF: Not *that* John Henry album. It's that Joe Henry album. Actually, I think I better tune up...we've really got our shit together up here, folks. JL: So we're trying to do songs that are so hard that we have to stare at our hands while we're playing them. It's actually not fun for us, and it's not fun for you either. There's no reason to do it. JF: So, I don't know how many people here are going to that rally tomorrow, but I'm really looking forward to the long haul between Columbus Circle and the UN...Like a year ago, we were actually doing a show in Washington, DC, and it was one of those deals where, uh, I forgot to pack before the show completely. Beforehand we were doing two nights in a row or something like that, and we did the gig, and y'know, we're jumping around and like at the end of the show I'm wearing clothes that need to be burned, basically. But of course I have no other clothes to wear. And then the next morning there was the big WTO protest in DC and I spent the entire morning just asking people where the nearest Gap was. Which brings us to our next song. Which is about feelin' shitty. [Piece of Dirt] JF: So, uh, we have a lot of prepared material for the between-song chatter. So, tell them about the song, John. JL: So this is--I *think* I remember this correctly. We are gonna play this with just the two guitars, right? That's the arrangement that we cooked up yesterday. JF: What-evah. JL: *stage whisper* John, stick to the script. JF: Sure, that's right, John. Just the guitars on this next number. JL: *really fake laugh* All right. *They start to play Letterbox and Flans doesn't sing. They stop.* JF: That's negative one Flansburgh, zero Linnell. The official tally's beginning. See, when you said, *just* guitars, I was thinking, "That's right, I *just* play the guitar on this one. No need to think about singin'. I'm on easy street." JL: If I had had anything to do, I would've fucked it up as well. JF: Move your head slightly before you start singing so I know when to come in. JL: Ok, yeh. In fact, y'know, we should just generally do that in the future. That should be our whole... JF: Yeh, that whole stock-still thing is just not working for you. JF: So this next song is inspired by the Loser's Lounge band before they all got married in their freaky quickie weddings. Back when they were a little bit more fun to hang around with. This song is called Drink!, and the exclamation point is for all the people who are fulfilling their two-drink minimum, the pledge that is part of the oath of coming into Joe's Pub. This is a sacred place, ladies and gentlemen. Please, tip your waiters, bartenders, waitresses. Tips--it's National Tip Your Waitress Day as well. Even if you're only having one drink and it's a Coca-Cola, it's nice to tip. JF: The stage is getting scarily--eerily empty. JL: I'm walking too. JF: In keeping with the VH-1 vibe of this performance, in the third verse of that last song I actually am channeling--not Chim Chim, but the little boy from-- JL: That'd be Spritle. JF: Spritle. Spritle. I'm not kidding, listen to the record. You'll know what I'm talking about. JL: There's a part where you sing with two different voices. JF: Yes. And one of those voices is Spritle and the other one is Chim Chim. From Speed Racer. Yeh. Now the drunk people know what I'm talking about. So let's, uh-- JL: We got another fucked-up, uh-- JF: How does this one start? I don't sing on this one, right? JL: You don't sing on it, and I don't play on it. We're trying to, like, y'know, strip everything down...for some reason... JF: I'm gonna do the great--the [something] Rod Stewart thing just to go *holding mic out* JL: Oh, yeh, this is like one of those great like "crowd tries to sing along"...probably the worst possible opportunity. (After Mammal) JL: I always thought that song should end with like a little *some weird adorable little meowing sound* JF: Yeh, I felt like we were--we were almost facing our own personal extinction near the end there. As the lights went out on me while I was still playing and then went out slowly on you. Mr. Iggy Ignolia ladies and gentlemen, on the lights. This is an all over-21 crowd here so it's ok if I say--he's usually stoned. We love you, Iggy. However you are. So this, uh-- *some guy in audience laughing in an odd way* He's not the only one who's stoned. I think the guy laughing uncontrollably, stage right, is stoned too. JF: This song is called Maybe I Know. It was originally written by Ellie Greenwich in 1960something. Not too fast, John. People are sitting down, we don't wanna scare 'em. How about, like wicked-- JL: Wicked slow. I was gonna say that. JF: Crazy, crazy slow. JL: This slow? *stomping foot* JF: When you stomp your feet it gets a little-- *They start to play, then stop* JF: Nuhnuhnuh. [Or something.] JL: What does that mean, that's too slow, or that's, uh-- JF: You and that crazy foot stomp thing is distracting me. And it [something--sounds like "jubits"] the song...It's not the Smothers Brothers, John. We've got a professional sense of-- JF: So, uh...how 'bout this Phil Spector thing, huh? We got nothing to add to that...I saw that coming. That guy was a *timebomb.* JF: So this next song-- JL: Is our final song. JF: It's our final song. Technically our final song. There are no more songs...well, Dan Miller feels that playing in tune is more important than keeping the ball rolling. I have left those kind of ideas behind. Quinn {http://home.houston.rr.com/johnlinnell/main.html} "People are kind of screwed up sometimes." ~John Linnell From owner-tmbg-list@tmbg.org Fri Feb 21 20:57:24 2003 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ussenterprise.ufp.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id h1M1vOO85376 for tmbg-list-outgoing; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 20:57:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from owner-tmbg-list@tmbg.org) Received: from macdialup.com (w020.z208036022.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net [208.36.22.20]) by ussenterprise.ufp.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h1M1vLi85371 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 20:57:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from greatbigz@macdialup.com) Received: from [4.65.155.174] (4.65.155.174) by macdialup.com with ESMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 3.0.3); Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:57:20 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: GreatBigZ@mail.macdialup.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20030221194341.00a0cbe0@pop-server.houston.rr.com> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20030221194341.00a0cbe0@pop-server.houston.rr.com> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:56:11 -0800 To: tmbg-list@tmbg.org From: greatbigz@macdialup.com Subject: Re: TMBG: 2/14 early show banter notes (crazylong) Cc: Quinn Collard Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-tmbg-list@tmbg.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: greatbigz@macdialup.com Quinn, you are godlike. That post had me laughing out loud many times over, really really wishing They would come back to the northwest soon so I could hear that nutty banter for real. Thank you for your diligence. PZ From owner-tmbg-list@tmbg.org Fri Feb 21 21:03:33 2003 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ussenterprise.ufp.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id h1M23Xs85599 for tmbg-list-outgoing; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 21:03:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from owner-tmbg-list@tmbg.org) Received: from mail.smith.edu (mail.smith.edu [131.229.64.14]) by ussenterprise.ufp.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h1M23Qi85590 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 21:03:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from selfcallednowhere@houston.rr.com) Received: from sven.houston.rr.com ([131.229.197.84] (may be forged)) by mail.smith.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/SC1.4) with ESMTP id VAA05191 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 21:03:25 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20030221210107.00aaad40@pop-server.houston.rr.com> X-Sender: selfcallednowhere@pop-server.houston.rr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 21:02:04 -0500 To: TMBG list From: Quinn Collard Subject: Re: TMBG: 2/14 early show banter notes (crazylong) In-Reply-To: References: <5.1.0.14.0.20030221194341.00a0cbe0@pop-server.houston.rr.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20030221194341.00a0cbe0@pop-server.houston.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-tmbg-list@tmbg.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Quinn Collard >Quinn, you are godlike. Awww *blush* Thank you. I'm working on the one of the late show as we speak...it's taking longer cos there's even more. > That post had me laughing out loud many times over, really really > wishing They would come back to the northwest soon so I could hear that > nutty banter for real. Any way you can make it to those upcoming San Francisco shows? > Thank you for your diligence. Well, thank you for appreciating it :) Quinn {http://home.houston.rr.com/johnlinnell/main.html} "People are kind of screwed up sometimes." ~John Linnell From owner-tmbg-list@tmbg.org Fri Feb 21 22:25:43 2003 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ussenterprise.ufp.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id h1M3Phk87617 for tmbg-list-outgoing; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 22:25:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from owner-tmbg-list@tmbg.org) Received: from mail.smith.edu (mail.smith.edu [131.229.64.14]) by ussenterprise.ufp.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h1M3Pgi87610 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 22:25:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from selfcallednowhere@houston.rr.com) Received: from sven.houston.rr.com ([131.229.197.84] (may be forged)) by mail.smith.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/SC1.4) with ESMTP id WAA05690 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 22:25:41 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20030221222252.00aa97f0@pop-server.houston.rr.com> X-Sender: selfcallednowhere@pop-server.houston.rr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 22:24:21 -0500 To: TMBG list From: Quinn Collard Subject: Re: TMBG: 2/14 early show banter notes (crazylong) In-Reply-To: References: <5.1.0.14.0.20030221210107.00aaad40@pop-server.houston.rr.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20030221194341.00a0cbe0@pop-server.houston.rr.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20030221194341.00a0cbe0@pop-server.houston.rr.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20030221210107.00aaad40@pop-server.houston.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-tmbg-list@tmbg.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Quinn Collard >Unfortunately, they're on a Monday through Wednesday. Yes, so? ...no, I understand, weeknights can be difficult. >Not sure about the Stanford one -- I haven't found any links where I could >buy tickets. Hmm. I'm not sure about that. >Keep your fingers crossed for me. *does so* > And keep updating that awesome website. :) Awww, thank you! You're too sweet :) I'm actually getting a bunch more Mundanes stuff very soon...and then I'm going to five more shows in the next month and a half, so... Quinn {http://home.houston.rr.com/johnlinnell/main.html} "People are kind of screwed up sometimes." ~John Linnell From owner-tmbg-list@tmbg.org Fri Feb 21 23:25:24 2003 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ussenterprise.ufp.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id h1M4POH88986 for tmbg-list-outgoing; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 23:25:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from owner-tmbg-list@tmbg.org) Received: from mail.smith.edu (mail.smith.edu [131.229.64.14]) by ussenterprise.ufp.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h1M4PDi88975 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 23:25:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from selfcallednowhere@houston.rr.com) Received: from sven.houston.rr.com ([131.229.197.84] (may be forged)) by mail.smith.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/SC1.4) with ESMTP id XAA06112 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 23:25:13 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20030221232320.00aaaa70@pop-server.houston.rr.com> X-Sender: selfcallednowhere@pop-server.houston.rr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 23:23:50 -0500 To: TMBG list From: Quinn Collard Subject: TMBG: 2/14 late show Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-tmbg-list@tmbg.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Quinn Collard JL: Thanks for spending this special holiday with us. It might seem inappropriate to come to a show on this day, but we're gonna try and make it special. JF: We're gonna be performing complex love songs. Non-love songs. JF: Y'know, this is a very different kind of show, and not just because we're sitting down for the very first time in our careers, but also, we've never done this whole completely acoustic unplugged thing before. We usually have a drummer and at least one extremely talented lead guitar player with us backing us up. But y'know, we figured--y'know, it's time to change it up. We've been playing for twenty years and we wanted to get back to our mellower folk roots that we never really had. JF: I don't know if you heard the warnings about the whole duct tape thing, but it's exciting to know as a musician that suddenly we have a cultural edge. Y'know--of course, it's the apocalypse and everything, but still, y'know, ya just take those breaks where you can find 'em when you're a musician. I'm just surprised that they didn't just say, y'know, "Put a plastic bag over your head." Seemed like it would sort of, y'know, save on the plastic. This next song is another extraordinarily depressing number. Oh, this song...I'm jumping ahead, I'm jumping ahead. JL: The *rest* of the songs are depressing. JF: We're counting down--just one more song until the incredibly depressing numbers. This song actually is off our children's album, and it's actually going to be made into a picture book for kids this fall coming out on Simon and Schuster, and the song is called Bed Bed Bed Bed Bed. JF: People talk--y'know, there's sort of like a modern thing about bad hair days, but for me, right now...my hair has never looked more like a wig. And that's exciting for me. I mean, check it out. If somebody told you I had hair plugs, you'd be like, "Well, yeh. It's totally fake." And I sort of don't know what to do on those days because, uh, I'm rather proud of my full head of hair, but the fact that it looks like hairplugs. So this next song is another experiment in self-loathing off our Lincoln album. JF: Y'know, we've done a lot of shows over the years, and one of the strangest things about shows like this where you can actually hear people talking and stuff like that is that there are often strange self-selected individuals who decide that the show is all about them. We played at a place in Milwaukee called The Mine Shaft where there was a guy who gave us the finger for the entire show. And he was standing--this was kind of like a miniature hardcore club, it only held like, y'know, 50 people. The strange thing about the show was that--y'know, this was the '80's, and the people who ran the club were like, "Jerry Harrison's gonna be here tonight." And so we're like, "Oh. Cool." And then I'm sort of aware that Jerry Harrison's over there, and there's this guy giving me the finger for the entire show just right over there. But this was not the first time that we've gotten the finger for the entire show. Because we played at Bedrock in Williamsburg back in the '80's--back when Williamsburg was cool. And there was a guy there who gave us the fnger for the entire show. Earlier tonight there was this guy doing this sort of rasberry thing over there that was just--just brings back fond memories of the Mine Shaft and Bedrock. So we're lovin' this crowd, this rasberry-free crowd we've gathered here tonight. This special Valentine's Day night. JF: The really, like, the ultimate--like, you'll never understand what it is to tour in the United States...The guy who gave us the bird at The Mine Shaft, at the end of the show he was the *only* guy who bought a t-shirt. So, like, we're actually doing, like, "Buy our t-shirts!" thing, he came over and he was just like, "You guys rock pretty hard." JL: He came out to the van after the show. And we were like, "Oh shit. Here comes that guy." JF: He was like, "You got that extra-large?" Guy in audience: So you're not gonna sell many today, then. JF: I don't know. We're selling t-shirts. We've got plenty of brand-new-- JL: There's still plenty of time to give us the finger. JF: This next song is a special long-distance dedication to my friends over at the Loser's Lounge tonight. This song was written for them, before they, uh...before all my rowdy friends settled down, ladies and gentlemen. *to Dan Miller* Are you playing that Heart song again? JL: He's playing Journey. JF: Dan Miller has an encyclopedic knowledge of bad music. *They all play the beginning of some Journey song and Flans sings a bit.* JF: John, technically, the last show, I think we actually fucked this song up a little bit. So...This next song is a Mike Nesmith song, from the Monkees. *cheering* The tiniest of "whoo" 's for Mike Nesmith...I think the thing is, we gotta--we shouldn't do it *too* slow. JL: Too slow. We started out too slow. Yehyehyeh. JF: There are all these long notes that I cannot sustain. And I don't want to give in to that whole refund thing. JL: Right. Don't even bring it up in front of the crowd. Give them ideas. About getting a *refund.* JF: "Yeh, I saw that show. *Fuck* those guys." So um yes, just don't play it *too* slow. *JL starts playing* Yeh, sort of--somewhere between Mark Russell and Garrison Keillor. *They play What Am I Doing Hangin' Round* JF: Mr. Garrison Keillor, Mr. Mark Russell. JL: We tried it really fast, and it exactly sounded like one of those Mark Russell political comedy what the hell is that guy doing on TV... JF: The red-white-and-blue piano. You know what we're talking about. Y'know, pledge time only comes around once a year, that's when they play those Mark Russell specials. And you just gotta wonder--who likes that guy? ...I'm digressing once again. JL: Let's talk about Garrison Keillor. JF: John does an incredible, wicked Garrison Keillor impression. JL: Nonono. *cheering* JF: The show doesn't work that way. It's all about delivering disappointment. JL: It's not about what you *want.* JF: It's about what we're not willing to give you. But y'know ladies and gentlemen, what Valentine's Day song would be complete without the next song, Mammal. JF: John, I don't know what you've been doing recently, but I've been watching a *shitload* of TV. JL: And your conclusion? JF: Awesome. Totally awesome. The freakiest thing of all--I got this Roadrunner thing, which is like, y'know--it's cheap. It starts at like $180 a month. The next year it'll be like $700. But you feel like you can't live without it, so it's cool. Cos y'know, you get the Inter--the AOL thing like really *fast*. But the best thing about it is the VH-1 Classics. Which, I don't know which--it's channel 136. Now, you people are thinking like, "VH-1? Doesn't that equal 'suck'?" But actually, the great thing about this VH-1 Classics, it plays the best of the '60's, the '70's, and some of the '80's. It's really good. And this next song, although not *featured* on VH-1 Classics, reminds me of how much I love VH-1 Classics. JL: People think you're kidding, but you're serious, you really like it. JF: I'm not kidding. It's pretty much locked on 136. I know there's, like, interesting foreign language networks on 135 and 137 from when I accidentally punch it in the wrong way. 136. It's worth the $180-$700 a month. That it costs. Of course, viewing digital cable would not be complete without the TV that is *this big.* And when the HBO ad for Keith Richards comes on, well of course a few tears are shed, but it's worth it. JL: The kids start crying. Hey, y'know, I actually saw a, um, I saw, like, some Hullabaloo or something version of this-- JF: That's the kind of thing that they play on VH-1 Classics. That's the kind of entertainment satisfaction you're looking at. JL: The thing that was weird about it-- JF: When you lay down the $180-$700 a month. JL: The thing is--the weird thing is that, like, the arrangement of this song is, like--I don't know, is it Quincy Jones?--it's like one of these huge-sounding arrangements. This is the song that we're about to play, that Leslie Gore popularized-- JF: You get much more than that John, you get the kind of technical support that only Warner--Time Warner can give you. The guy comes into your house, and he plugs in the cable thing with the big white cord, like super*crazy*ugly, like you're like, "Don't put it there! Please!" He's like, "Gotta be here. *sawing crunching sort of noise* Gotta be here." Like, "No no no no!" It's like--and then, and then there's like--"All right, where's your computer, where's your computer?" He goes over here and he takes this here off, "Ok, ok, wait wait wait, ok, wait, you don't have Ethernet. I'm out!" And then he leaves without telling you your password. So you gotta go to Customer Service on 14th Street. Which is pretty much like a weekend on Riker's Island. But back to the Hullabaloo, John. JL: Nonono, I lost my train of thought. Let's play the song. JF: Nonono, now I feel bad. I stepped on your story. JL: Nononono. JF: You were watching Hullabaloo, and there's like this crazy production-- JL: The thing that was weird is the song sounds great, the sound of it, and Leslie Gore looked incredibly uncomfortable lip-synching to this, and it kind of made me--I can't get that out of my head *now* when I listen to it, that she doesn't look as happy as I *feel* listening to the song. JF: She's like a person trapped in a person's body. JL: Yes. That's the weird thing about it. Usually like checking out the film, the vintage film, but not this time. Anyway, here's our--this is our inferior but still ok rendition. JF: Ladies and gentlemen, we've gotta get back on stage here Mr. Dan Miller--I don't know if he can hear the sound of my voice from his apartment, but Dan, if you're here, or even if just a friend of yours who has a cell phone is here to call you, please, come back to the stage! JF: Marty Beller on the *acoustic* drums! Ladies and gentlemen, we're entering the, uh, portion of the show we like to call...I've never performed sitting down before, so the whole repertoire of mic moves is extremely limited. JL: Y'know, I went to the, uh--I went to the movies recently and I saw Marty Beller's name in the credits, and it was like I was so completely...I actually said really loud in the theater, "I know that guy!" And then I was like..."Jesus christ." JF: Marty Beller also was [something]. No, what movie--what movie were you in? Confessions of a Dangerous Mind? JL: You can enjoy his work. JF: He plays Chuck Barris as well, but the important thing is he's... (After Mink Car) JL: See, that *feels* like a Valentine's song. JF: But at its emotional center, it's really not a love song. JL: Sort of a Hallotine's Day. Or a...maybe a Valloween...you would think. JF: Ladies and gentlemen. It's time for the slow songs. The slow songs that we call the end of the [something] show. That's right, everybody *hates* 'em. But the theme of the show is *disappointment*, ladies and gentlemen. JF: We wanna thank you again all for coming out to the show, we wanna invite you back to later shows, we wanna thank all the people to stand while we got to enjoy the luxury of sitting down for the first time in our career. Thank you for being in the back. I have no idea how uncomfortable it is there, but it's a little bit less uncomfortable than the people who are sitting behind you. JL: I have that funny feeling of sitting on the subway when there's people, y'know, standing. Like, "I should really give you my seat, but...had a hard day at work..." And I can't explain that. Anyway...here's another song from our kids' record. JF: No, wait, we should thank our crew, John. JL: Oh yehyeh, yeh. I was gonna do that *during* the song...no I wasn't. (Before Cyclops) JF: I guess it's not really Peter Noone that it's in the style of. JL: Nonono. JF: I think it's probably more--I don't know, some drunk English guy. JL: No, you see, I--we played it the first set, y'know, we sort of introduced it as Peter Noone. Then it was like the full rock band, it was more...I thought it was more like one of those Who songs that Keith Moon sings? Know what I'm talkin' about? *sings part of Bell Boy* I dunno. JF: I'm just [something--latching? lushing?] on that John Langford, the guy from the Mekons, I saw him performing, and at the end of the show, he was like, "If there's anybody here from a magazine or a radio station who can help us...fuck you!" It was like this incredible beautiful synthesis of this entire thing. So, uh, what're we doing here... Guy in audience: Ana Ng! Other guy in audience: They'll Need a Crane! First guy: ANA NG! Woman in the audience: Shut up! JF: I hear you, but I'm trying to ignore you. Quinn {http://home.houston.rr.com/johnlinnell/main.html} "People are kind of screwed up sometimes." ~John Linnell ------------------------------ End of tmbg-list Digest #62-9 *****************************