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tmbg-list Digest, Volume 2, Number 231
Tuesday, 20 August 1996
Today's Topics:
Boston
Re: Beware: Unrelated Things
Re: tmbg-list Digest #2-230
FW: WW & Jewel & a note for Brother John Bejezus
Re: Beware: Unrelated Things
311 vs. Wang Chung (no TMBG here, sorry)
Greetings!!!!
Re: Boston
Re: tmbg-list Digest #2-230 (marching band)
two clarinets?!?
re: boston
Mono Puff Concert
The Cardigans and TMBG on my birthday!!!
show/t-bone
Re: show/t-bone
9:30 comments (a tad bit late)
Re: Boston
Re: Fried/Dunn concert
TMBG in Maine!!!
upcoming shows..
The 9.30 Experience, by me
TMBG rock the 930 club!!
concert inquery
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Date: 19 Aug 96 09:37:21 EDT
From: Robert.Grabill.Jr@VALLEY.NET (Robert Grabill Jr.)
Subject: Boston
Who is planning on going to the boston show on the 6th?
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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 09:45:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sarah Kunz <cb378@FreeNet.Buffalo.EDU>
Subject: Re: Beware: Unrelated Things
On Mon, 19 Aug 1996 gsm_kth@de.lucent.com wrote:
> Erm....
>
> Danger Mouse:
>
> Danger Mouse is, as has been previously suggested, the cream cake (with jam) of
> cartoons, and yes it is/was British, but I'm afraid to tell you that the U.S.
> received a foul imitation of the real thing. In the original version Baron
> Greenback's henchman Stiletto was Italian (judging from previous posts I think
> they may also have changed his name but I don't know), and had a catchphrase
> "Si Baronee", which sounded a lot funnier than it looks. The U.S. version
> (I'm told) revamped the character so as not to offend the Italian community.
well, and i could go check my dangermouse tapes downstairs, but it's
really too early in the morning to move, but stiletto did say "si,
baronee" and indeed he was still italien. this is just from my memory so
i can't necessarily be trusted on this info.
yeah! i'm finally back from vacation, but i haven't gotten a chance to
read my past digests yet...
sarah
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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 11:00:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Elitza Nicolaou <enicolao@scnc.waverly.k12.mi.us>
Subject: Re: tmbg-list Digest #2-230
All:
I'm glad to hear that the show was good. Anyone know when (if?) they're
coming to Michigan/Indiana/Illinois?
And about the marching band thing... At my school it's true (to a point).
Two of the five or six diehards that I know of in my school are in band,
one is in orchestra, and the others are in choir.
RE: TMBG @ camp... it happened while I was there recently!! One of my
friends started playing Flood while we were at open swim the first week.
Another girl and I started singing along, dancing, etc. while the rest of
my cabin looked on in amazement. By the end of the two weeks, almost
everyone in the cabin wanted a copy of that tape (including me, stupidly I
don't own it).
Bye for now...
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Elitza Nicolaou \ "We apologise for the inconvenience."
enicolao@scnc.waverly.k12.mi.us / *--
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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 08:23:44 PDT
From: Ryan_Shepard@xn.xerox.com (Shepard,Ryan)
Subject: FW: WW & Jewel & a note for Brother John Bejezus
nola: and who could forget "if you're gonna spew, spew in this" or the
great dish "cream uvsum yung gi"
"A gun rack? What am I gonna do.....with a gun rack? I don't own *A*
gun, let alone many guns to necessitate an entire rack? What would I
do with a gun rack?"
"You don't like it? Fine. You know, Wayne Campbell, one of these
days, you're going to lose me."
jewel is one awesome ***schwing*** babe, but i think she might need to
invest in some braces...
That's your only complaint? *LOL* Forget the braces....I think she's
fine the way she is.
Oh, does anyone know of a Soul Coughing mailing list yet?
shep
www.tripod.com/~RoadTrip/index.html
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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 11:29:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Geoffrey Kinlin <seakin@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: Beware: Unrelated Things
gsm_kth@de.lucent.com wrote:
> Danger Mouse is, as has been previously suggested, the cream cake (with jam) of
> cartoons, and yes it is/was British, but I'm afraid to tell you that the U.S.
> received a foul imitation of the real thing. In the original version Baron
> Greenback's henchman Stiletto was Italian (judging from previous posts I think
> they may also have changed his name but I don't know), and had a catchphrase
> "Si Baronee", which sounded a lot funnier than it looks. The U.S. version
> (I'm told) revamped the character so as not to offend the Italian community.
Yep. In the US he had a Cockney accent. He still said "Right
Baronee" though.
-Sean
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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 08:43:59 PDT
From: Ryan_Shepard@xn.xerox.com (Shepard,Ryan)
Subject: 311 vs. Wang Chung (no TMBG here, sorry)
ObOff-TopicStuff: Blonde Guy from 311 and Blonde Guy from Wang Chung...Same
Guy? Discuss.
I have to disagree. The guy from 311 you're referring to is Nicholas
Hexum, who used to have his head shaved. I know this because I have
my head shaved too. No real correlation, thought I'd throw it in.
The guy from Wang Chung is much older and never had the same
platinum-esque quality that Nicholas has with his coiffure. Hence,
not the same.
311 is playing in Rochester this Thursday. Yeee-hah! Guest list, here I come.
Oh, by the way.....for all Rochestarians.....another show tonight at
Midnight! Stay tuned! If you listen around 11:30, I'll be on with
Mike, who's doing his last show....and we were both all MESSY at the
Phish concert, so it should be a hoot. Listen close, and keep telling
your friends.
And coming soon......SHEP@WBER stickers to put on things that shouldn't
have things put on them.
shep
www.tripod.com/~RoadTrip/index.html
P.S. And if anyone ever really REALLY wants to say hi....e-mail me and
I'll send out the phat digits you can reach me at US-wide.
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From: "Johannisson, Sune" <SJohanniss@AKI.KU.DK>
Subject: Greetings!!!!
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 96 18:34:00 DST
Hallo everyone!
I've just 'joined' and wanted to test how this thing works...
And introduce myself: Name's Sune. I'm from Denmark. M/27. I've been a BIG
fan of TMBG for a couple of years now, they are my favorite band, actually.
They are not very well known in Denmark, unfortunately :-) How well are they
known i the states (Or where ever you may be at)????
It's a bit hard to find alternative music over here, so I was wondering if
some of you would mention other bands that you like (For me to check out)
Thats all for now. (Thanks for 'listening' :-)
Sune Johannesson | Testing, testing, 1,2,3....
Sjohanniss@aki.ku.dk | Yeah... my .sig works!
http://www.geocities.com/Rainforest/1610/ | (But it's bloody boring)
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Subject: Re: Boston
From: blue_eyes@juno.com (Chris Moesel)
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 13:42:01 EDT
I'm planning on going to the Boston show!!! I'm going to college near
Boston, and the show's exactly one week after I arrive. Perfect timing!
It will be my very first TMBG show. I'm really looking forward to it.
However, I'm still trying to get info/details, just so I know what's
going on and I show up at the right time and all that. Any help would be
appreciated. Thanx!
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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 14:02:02 -0400
From: Evan Chakroff <chakroff@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: tmbg-list Digest #2-230 (marching band)
> any way some people were saying that they discovered tmbg in
>(marching) band. and, oddly enough, the same gos for me. i played trombone,
>and on a trip to Columbus i asked a fellow t-boner if she had any tapes i
>could listen to. she gave me Flood, and i've been hooked since.
>
>your favorite tangy grilled kabob,
>Chakka
Marching Band Rules!! So do They!! Anywho, I found out about TMBG through
one of my friends from Marching Band. I play trombone too!!
The world is coming closer together.
Evan Chakroff
The Internet Mystery Spot
. <-- http://www.GeoCities.com/SoHo/4545
"It's as much fun as a barrel of monkees...
and a shotgun." -Another Satisfied Customer
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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 15:48:49 -0400
From: jtt@magicnet.net (JOHN T THOMPSON)
Subject: two clarinets?!?
Here's an interesting thing that happened.
I was riding in a car, and I asked my friend if he wanted to go with me to
see Them in Gainesville. He said "hell yeah", and then he said "you know
what's really cool? When They play, like, two clarinets or two trumpets at
once." I asked him what song he had seen the two trumpets on, and he said
(nobody flame me if there aren't even any trumpets here, I haven't heard it
in a while) "She's actual size". Any thoughts on that? He said that they
were both played well, I need to ask him about the two
clarinets. . .
Dan (jtt@magicnet.net)
"If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be prailines and dick"
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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 10:51:04 -1000 (HST)
From: Steven Osborn <lbowman@ohana.com>
Subject: re: boston
any and all people going to the boston show: is there a way we might be
able to meet one another somehow? just a thought. BUT, it was a short
thought.
steven
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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 16:01:51 -0500 (CDT)
From: Braaaaaaaad <tutterow@stlcop.edu>
Subject: Mono Puff Concert
Is anyone planning to attend the Mono Puff show in St. Louis
August 31?
-----------------B -------------tutterow@stlcop.edu-------------------
------------------R "Well the rain falls down without my help I'm
-------------------A afraid, and my lawn gets wet though I witheld
--------------------D my consent." - TMBG
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From: mjames@envy.loyola.edu (Matthew James)
Subject: The Cardigans and TMBG on my birthday!!!
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 17:06:36 -0400 (EDT)
> Ohmigosh ohmigosh. I just got back from vacation in Boston and I have been
> reading all of my digests. The one from August 12 brought me to tears.
> On my birthday, September 6, TMBG is playing in Boston with the Cardigans!!!
> Ohmigosh. My two favorite bands in the whole world. If nobody out there has
> heard the Cardigans before, rush out right now and buy "Life," their first US
> release (they're from Sweden). They sound like no other band I have ever
> listened to. All of their songs make me want to dance like a lunatic around
> my room. I wonder if they are opening for TMBG on any other dates. That would
> be the best night of my entire life.
> Terribly depressed but hopeful, Neal
Wow! The Cardigans might rival the Candy Butchers and Frank Black as
the best opening band ever, they are a great band from what I've heard.
Does anyone know if that Boston show is on a weekend day?
Matt
"Hey hey hey hey, get outta my way"
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-----------------Bruce Campbell-Sam Raimi for '96------------------------
Matt James polk@tmbg.org Matt.James.K.Polk@tmbg.org |TMBG|Sleeper
"EIREANN GO BRATH!"|Menswe@r|Echobelly| The Ocean Blue|The Beatles|XTC
Judybats|Robyn Hitchcock|Cause & Effect| "Hail to the king, baby"-Ash
Pogues|Erasure|Warsaw-JoyDivision-NewOrder|Elastica|Blur|Suede|Pulp
Smiths|Revenge|Other Two|Moxy Fruvous|Lightning Seeds|SPOCK|Supergrass
-------The poor remain poor. Someone has to work at Woolworths.---------
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From: Matthew James <mjames@justice.loyola.edu>
Subject: show/t-bone
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 19:56:10 -0400 (EDT)
Someone asked who the trombone player was for TMBG this time around.
In DC and I would assume everywhere else Dan Levine played trombone.
He was the same trombone player that played with Monopuff during
their 3 city tour.
Someone also asked if Monopuff was still playing on Aug 31 in St. Louis.
Do you mean TMBG? I can't imagine any more Monopuff concerts would
be going on now.
Lastly, I had a great time at the Friday, DC show. The horns were
present and the band was kickin! Also, I really really enjoyed
the Candy Butchers. This is the second time I've seen them open
for TMBG and I enjoyed them even more this time around. They
were good with the crowd and played some really good tunes.
I was rather amazed not to hear Don't Let's Start during TMBG's set.
I was glad to hear such tunes as We're the Replacements, Turn Around,
and Maybe I Know. Also, I thought their fetish with aneurysms was
pretty strange as Linnell sang, "Aneurysm...aneurysm" in stead of
Ana Ng and they also called No One Knows My Plan Aneurysm. It was
great fun getting together with a bunch of listies and their friends,
there was a great deal of us there. Also, Baltimorefest was good (if
I can call it taht as everyone met there before the concert). We
also met Peter Weller of Robocop fame in Baltimore's Inner Harbor,
he was a very nice gentlemen and that was very exciting.
Oh, I did find it kind of odd that they did not play any first
album songs whatsoever (I don't think they did, correct me if I'm wrong).
That's about all there is to it, bye bye
Matt
--
-----------------Bruce Campbell-Sam Raimi for '96------------------------
Matt James polk@tmbg.org Matt.James.K.Polk@tmbg.org |TMBG|Sleeper
"EIREANN GO BRATH!"|Menswe@r|Echobelly| The Ocean Blue|The Beatles|XTC
Judybats|Robyn Hitchcock|Cause & Effect| "Hail to the king, baby"-Ash
Pogues|Erasure|Warsaw-JoyDivision-NewOrder|Elastica|Blur|Suede|Pulp
Smiths|Revenge|Other Two|Moxy Fruvous|Lightning Seeds|SPOCK|Supergrass
-------The poor remain poor. Someone has to work at Woolworths.---------
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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 21:09:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Lawrence P Solomon <lps+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: show/t-bone
Excerpts from internet.music.tmbg: 19-Aug-96 show/t-bone by Matthew
James@justice.lo
> Oh, I did find it kind of odd that they did not play any first
> album songs whatsoever (I don't think they did, correct me if I'm wrong).
Nope. They sure didn't. It was very odd that they didn't play Don't
Let's Start - I think that was about the first time they didn't since
1986.
I feel really stupid for having looked at the set list before the show,
though - I didn't see the hand written question mark after Birdhouse, so
I thought that it would be over... I started walking out. If I'd still
been up front, I would have probably been yelling for Chess Piece Face,
since they can play it with no backup... oh well.
>and Maybe I Know. Also, I thought their fetish with aneurysms was
>pretty strange as Linnell sang, "Aneurysm...aneurysm" in stead of
>Ana Ng and they also called No One Knows My Plan Aneurysm. It was
Perhaps they're trying to tell us something... but according to someone
else I talked to, Flans started the aneurysm thing at the beginning of
Ana Ng, and Linnell continued it, prompting Flans to give him a strange
look... but I didn't notice that. I think they just said aneurysm at
the very end of Ana Ng, too, which prompted me to shout "Heart attack!"
(going with the medical terms theme...) Unfortunately, they didn't play
it...
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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 20:28:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Paul Sebold <psebold@husky.northern-hs.ga.k12.md.us>
Subject: 9:30 comments (a tad bit late)
Hello All,
well, I didn't get to meet any list people (sorry), but I had a
helluva time at the show nevertheless. Anyway, I'll let you know (if you
care) that I was the guy in the Duke hat and Schoolhouse Rock shirt on
the right side of the stage that yelled "She's an Angel" (in vain) until my
throat died. Except for the exclusion of Pink Album material, I must say
that concert was a shining model for all other concerts to hold up and
attempt to approach.
Oh ya... who knows how to get hold of Candy Butcher stuff?
-ok, who's the asshole that requested "Eye of the Tiger"?
Paul
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+ -excess ain't rebellion, you're drinkin' what they're sellllin'... +
+ *Cake* +
+ psebold@husky.northern-hs.ga.k12.md.us Paul Sebold +
+ http://husky.northern-hs.ga.k12.md.us/~psebold/extra.html +
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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 21:40:24 -0400
From: Matthew Jason NeSmith <jnesmith@atl.mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: Boston
And so it was spake ynto us by blue_eyes@juno.com (Chris Moesel):
>
>I'm planning on going to the Boston show!!! I'm going to college near
>Boston, and the show's exactly one week after I arrive. Perfect timing!
>It will be my very first TMBG show. I'm really looking forward to it.
>However, I'm still trying to get info/details, just so I know what's
>going on and I show up at the right time and all that. Any help would be
>appreciated. Thanx!
>
-=snif=-
As one who was in college in those parts for the '92 show, I can tell you
it's-a-gonna be kick ass. The Hatch Shell is a big outdoor ampatheater
on the bank of the Charles, about half a mile from Mass Ave. And it's
FREE FREE FREE!!
You kids have fun, play safe, and we want to hear all about it when you
get home.
Jason Nummer Drei, who finally has a new .sig!!
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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 22:06:45 -0400
From: Matthew Jason NeSmith <jnesmith@atl.mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: Fried/Dunn concert
If anyone is lucky to attend these shows, let us know how they were.
They sound really swell.
Jason Nummer Drei
At 04:01 PM 8/16/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear People--
>
>I'm sending this notice to a handful of friends, some people who asked to
>be informed by e-mail, and a few select others whom I thought might be
>interested. If you receive more than one copy, my apologies.
>
>HERE presents
>THE AMERICAN LIVING ROOM 1996
>The Music Lounge
>
>TRAVELOGUE by Joshua Fried
>performed by Sheridan Roberts
>
>plus a short impromptu from Douglas Dunn--dance
>and Joshua Fried--music (in anticipation of our
>November '96 premiere at The Kitchen).
>Featuring the Musical Shoes!
>
>THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1996 9pm
>HERE
>145 Avenue of The Americas
>(one block South of Spring @ Dominick)
>Tickets $10 at the door only - Box office opens 6pm
>HERE information: 212/647-0202.
>
>Shared program with Dina Emerson and Tony Boutte -- new opera in progress.
>
>For more information on this performance or the Joshua Fried/Douglas Dunn
>Project, call 212/966-6999.
>
>FRIED/DUNN premiere November 7-10, 1996. Mark your calendar.
>
>====================================================
>
>TRAVELOGUE is scored for voice and taped accompaniment, and uses what I
>call headphone-driven performance: the performer tries to replicate pre-
>recorded voices played on headphones, with complete accuracy and
>absolutely NO LAG TIME. It's an impossible task that produces a bizarre
>unknown language and very often a dramatic, heightened performance
>experience for performer and audience alike.
>
>To maintain the necessary element of surprise, a person can perform
>TRAVELOGUE only once--this time out, the performer will be dancer/actress
>Sheridan Roberts. Sheridan has toured with Theater For The New City's
>resident company and with Mimi Gerard Dance Theater; in New York she's
>performed at La MaMa, Theater For The New City, Dia Art Foundation and
>elsewhere.
>
>Headphone-driven performance is also the cornerstone of my upcoming
>collaboration with choreographer Douglas Dunn, so coupling TRAVELOGUE with
>our "jam session" makes up a kind of teaser for the Fall--well, sort of.
>
>In our improvisation, Douglas--amazingly communicative and witty as a
>dancer--will move, and I will play the Musical Shoes--ordinary shoes
>which activate electronics when struck.
>
>For those who don't know, Dunn is a highly-regarded innovator in the dance
>field, and is considered in the Cunningham lineage. His company, Douglas
>Dunn & Dancers, was formed in the '70s and has performed all over the
>world. He is inspiring to work with (and funny too). We are of two
>different generations and genres: I am a "downtown" experimental
>composer (post-minimalist?) and spent the better part of the '80s in the
>East Village performance art/club scene.
>
>Whereas TRAVELOGUE is a solo piece, in our new work for the Fall, multiple
>performers will sing, move and interact based on headphone input as well
>as pre-set choreography, and the distinctions between actor, singer and
>dancer will be blurred. There will be a substantially different cast each
>night of our run. Our experiments so far have produced exhilarating
>results, and we see metaphoric links between our "instructed" headphone
>interactions on stage and the interplay of cultural instructions in
>contemporary society.
>
>For more information on this performance or the Joshua Fried/Douglas Dunn
>Project, call 212/966-6999
>
>FRIED/DUNN premiere November 7-10, 1996. Mark your calendar.
>
>Thanks for reading.
>
>Joshua Fried
>
>
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Subject: TMBG in Maine!!!
From: blue_eyes@juno.com (Chris Moesel)
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 23:30:09 EDT
Hey guys, I got the inside scoop on a They Might Be Giants concert in
Maine!!! Actually, not the "inside scoop" but more than I've heard about
it here. Apparently, They Might Be Giants will be playing at Zoots (a
club in Portland) on September 5th!!! Yes, boys and girls of the
Northern state, TMBG in concert September 5th. No band has been chosen
to open for them yet. For more info or tickets call Bull Moose Music
Stores!
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From: Matthew James <mjames@justice.loyola.edu>
Subject: upcoming shows..
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 23:37:39 -0400 (EDT)
Just a couple questions here...
Has anyone ever been to Lupo's Heartbreak Lounge in Providence, RI?
And is anyone going to this show on Sept 7?
Also, is there any location yet on the Sept 28 show (location TBA)?
I'm looking for another show to go to but Providence is close to an
8 hour drive.
Oh, any word of other new dates beyond this (i.e. October and beyond)?
Matt
--
-----------------Bruce Campbell-Sam Raimi for '96------------------------
Matt James polk@tmbg.org Matt.James.K.Polk@tmbg.org |TMBG|Sleeper
"EIREANN GO BRATH!"|Menswe@r|Echobelly| The Ocean Blue|The Beatles|XTC
Judybats|Robyn Hitchcock|Cause & Effect| "Hail to the king, baby"-Ash
Pogues|Erasure|Warsaw-JoyDivision-NewOrder|Elastica|Blur|Suede|Pulp
Smiths|Revenge|Other Two|Moxy Fruvous|Lightning Seeds|SPOCK|Supergrass
-------The poor remain poor. Someone has to work at Woolworths.---------
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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 00:12:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Mike Rose, with a bullet" <flippy@yucc.yorku.ca>
Subject: The 9.30 Experience, by me
Hey all!
Well, I am back now from my weekend excursion to see TMBG in DC
and to hang out with Matt James and Nola Weaver, two amazing people who I
feel lucky to know. Hi also to Sarah and Amy, and Leo, and Jeff, and
Kevin, and, um, other people I am forgetting.
Alex and I left Totonot at 5 AM Friday morning and arrived at Matt
James' house in Baltimore eleven hours later. That's when I met Matt's
dog and cat, and his sister, and Fran, oh yes, hi fran, and Sarah was
there and Nola was there but Matt was out for food with Amy and Kevin...so
anyway he came back and we all hung out and then we went to the Sound
Garden where I got Rag and Bone Buffet by XTC, and Alex got the 7" of Why
Does The Sun Shine, and then we went to DC, got lost driving around, and
eventually found the club and parked on an adjacent street where we
promptly pissed off a DC driver with some sort of an eighteen-point turn,
and we also blew the right front tire of Alex's car. But screw that, we
went into the club and I bought a T shirt (Pokey little puppy) and signed
my name for the third time to the mailing list sheet in the hopes that
THIS time I might actually begin to receive some material...heh yeah
right, that'll be the fucking day. Anyway, we were in the club and over
the PA they were playing what sounded like some or all of the new TMBG
album...notable was SEXXY with a great 70's string section. Then, Candy
Butchers came on and they won me over, they were cool, but after they left
we waited like an hour for TMBG to show and then they did, to the strains
of Older...and what transpired was a truly great performance which blew me
away. The horns came on partway thru the show and that made it all so
sweet....the moshing and crowdsurfing that did occur was not to my liking
(and Kevin got kicked in the head, as you may know) but this was not too
big of a problem, though it still offended me. Either way, this was an
incredible show and I'm glad I was there, it's been 2 years since I have
seen them with a horn section, and this show outpaced RIT and Etown
without question.
I thought that when Flans and Linnell were saying "aneurysm" that
they were actually saying "Anger isn't."...but that doesn't make any
sense, heh heh...I also liked Linnell's Ana Ng improv line at the end, in
that final part in between the repeated chorus where the music got quiet
and he sang " I can't remember stuff." I guess that's cause of the
aneurysm.
Oh yeah anyone recall this from WDTSS: "Millions of
degrees....lots and lots of stuff." Heh. I'll post the XTC vs. Adam Ant
spoken word improv later.
After the show we got a tow truck guy to come and change the tire
and I was glad there was a group of us cause this was not Mr. Roger's
Neighbourhood we were standing in at 2 AM. But I had a great conversation
with a certain Jeff Scanlon, I hope that's right, and found him cool. Oh
yes, before we left I said hello to a Mr. Leo Bicknell and I did feel
lucky to meet the man who helps make all of this possible. I regret not
meeting some of the others of you who were there, since that was something
I was looking forward to, but I was there, all the way from Totonot, and I
was the guy, in case you care, with glasses and the Pokey little puppy
shirt and before the show I was talking to some people who just happened
to be standing next to me in the crowd, and they were great, one guy with
that bootleg TMBG shirt, and his gal, and another guy and gal who liked
Ween and XTC...hi to you if you're out there. Anyway, we get the tire
fixed and bid adieu to the wonderful Amy, Kevin and Jeff and made our way
back to Baltimore.
I will suffice it to say about my weekend in Baltimore that I had
a wonderful time, largely due to the winning personalities of Matt James,
Nola Weaver, and of course Sarah and Rich and everyone else, I am blanking
out about names, sorry. Matt James is an amazing guy who I feel lucky to
know, and to have spent time with, and you should all be so lucky. I think
I already said that. Hmm. Well I really like him, that's the point. And
as for Nola, well, what can I say, she's the best, a joy to be with, and a
great hugger...so was Rich, though :) Anyway it was hard to leave these
two great people behind. Thanks guys for a really cool weekend. PS:
Matt, I am not returning the cutlery. Come and get it. :) And what's with
this nonexistant Baltimore water pressure? The toilet didn't flush a damn
thing...well, anyway, let's not talk about that.
Happy birthday Sarah Rickter by the way, that is correct spelling
I hope. She's a great gal and I think I freaked her out with Dead Alive
but what the hell.
As Matt posted before, we did meet Peter Weller, the original
Robocop and even cooler, the guy who played Buckaroo Banzai!! So with
credits like that I was understandably nervous about approaching him as he
sat outside a coffee shop smoking a cigar and chatting with a gal, but we
did talk to him and he was super nice and signed autographs for all four
of us. Nola saw him first actually, I was pretty surprised he was there,
but how do you ignore Buckaroo Banzai once you see him? The answer: you
can't. You are forced to accost him. Anyway, this was a great way to cap
this trip to the fascinating city of Baltimore, and I look back fondly
upon this whole experience.
So anyway the driving was endless and I spent too much money and
we blew a tire and all I saw of DC was a scary shithole of a
neighbourhood and I am too far away from Matt and Nola to see them more
often as I would like, but it was all worth it. The show rocked out and I
got an XTC album and met Robocop and fell in love with some wonderful
Americans who made fun of me for saying pop instead of soda but who I love
anyway. I am a lucky person and I know it. I think TMBG will be here in
Totonot in a few months so come on up here when they do, and say hi to me,
and Alex, your two Canadian friends.
Mike, exhausted from lack of sleep, awake and not in bed.
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"All of your friends will be floating right above your disembodied head"
They Might Be Giants/John Flansburgh/John Linnell/King Missile/XTC/Ween
**********************RYERSON FILM: CLASS OF 1996**********************
!!Brazil/Batman/Aliens/2001/Evil Dead II/The Simpsons/TV Nation/MST3K!!
"You gotta put one in the brain. Then he's dead. Then we can go home."
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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 00:22:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: *groovechild* <nweave1@tiger.towson.edu>
Subject: TMBG rock the 930 club!!
Hello everybody! I would be a poopy head if I did not give my thoughts on
the very eventful TMBG show on Friday.
First of all, the flag was an absolute success! Fran and I worked damn
hard on it and I must say it was beautiful. And special thanks to Mary
Ellen, and to Matt for letting us mess up his floor. We attracted lots o
people, including Adam and his gang (hi!), but I'm sorry that there were
indeed listers there who I did not meet (Paul, I guess this was not our
chance to meet).
The show was chicken cool! It was the shit! It was neato keen green
bean! The horns were excellent, and Flans broke into Staying Alive at one
point!! I think it was the best TMBG show I have been to. It was very
odd how they were playing the new album when we came into the club. When
I heard strains of "XTC vs. Adam Ant" for a split second I thought they
were already on stage. Arrgh.
I have to say also that hanging out with the SUPERCOOL listers made it all
the more a heavenly experience. I will never ever forget it. I have to
give a shout out to Fran, Mike, Alex, Amy, Kevin, Jeff, Leo, John, Adam,
Mary Ellen, Sarah (who will not see this), Matt, Lawrence, and anyone esle
I am forgetting. It was a pleasure. Oklahoma Flesh Fest is getting more
feasible by the moment. Anybody have a Winnebago??
John Linnell was staring at me the whole time.
Also: show in Richmond? True story or vicious rumor?
I LOVE YOU!!!!! ---Nola
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From: sgleave@btigate.com
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 22:39:14 -0700
Subject: concert inquery
Does anyone know if tmbg will ever come to Bismarck, North
Dakota? Perhaps they might come to Fargo, though that's out of the way.
I'm young, and need a close concert if I'm to attend.
Aneurin Gray
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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 01:02:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Mike Rose, with a bullet" <flippy@yucc.yorku.ca>
Subject: I almost forgot
Oh yeah,
on the way back to Totonot today I found a Big Boy restaurant (not
a Bob's, but part of the chain anyway) in PA and, inspired by David Lynch,
I ordered a silver goblet milkshake. (Chocolate). According to Lynch,
who had one of these every day for seven years, a good one was the
consistency of butter. Well, this one was not that thick, which was
disappointing, but when I tasted it...well, it was a fucking good
milkshake. I think it was one of the best milkshakes I have ever had. I
mean it, go check it out. Next time though I am going to ask them to
make it like Lynch described. Unfortunately there are no Big Boys in
Canada.
Well, that's all. Hey Nola: MUADIB! Love you babe.
Mike
--------------------------flippy@yucc.yorku.ca-------------------------
"Here comes XTC around the mountain. They're holding a death ray."
They Might Be Giants:John Flansburgh&John Linnell/King Missile/XTC/Ween
**********************RYERSON FILM: CLASS OF 1996**********************
!!Brazil/Batman/Aliens/2001/Evil Dead II/The Simpsons/TV Nation/MST3K!!
"I k i c k a s s f o r t h e L o r d ! ! !"
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