AMERICAN MUSIC: THE VIOLENT FEMMES MAILING LIST
currently run by Pat. Wary
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TOUR DATES: (NEW DATES MARKED WITH A **)
Jan. 22-Memorial Auditorium, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (O,P)
Jan. 23-Miller Stage, San Diego, CA (P,O)
Jan. 24-The Coach House, San Juan Capistrano, CA (T,P,O)
Jan. 26-The Joint, Las Vegas, NV (O)
Jan. 28-The Canyons Arena, Park City, UT (O)
Jan. 29-Union Block, Boise, ID (O)
Jan. 31-Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA (O)
Feb. 1-Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA (T,P,O)
Feb. 2-LaLuna, Portland, OR (T,P,O)
Feb. 4-The Vogue, Vancouver, BC, CA (O)
Feb. 5-SAME AS ABOVE, OPTIONAL DATE (O)
Feb. 7-Egan Civic & Convention Center,Anchorage,Alaska (O,P)
Feb. 8-same as above (O,P)
**Feb 27-First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN (T)**
THIS IS A 21 AND OVER SHOW ONLY
Mar. 1-Wayne State College, Wayne, NE (O)
NOTA BENE: ‘O’ stands for the Official homepage
‘P’ stands for Pollstar
‘T’ stands for Ticketmaster
‘I’ stands for Insider Info
All other references are subscribers
To book a show, contact Monterey Peninsula Artists.
Serious inquiries only.
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The Quote Of The Day:
Yes I know it’s in my heart
surely you see what’s inside of me
-From See My Ships
PLEASE send your VF quotes to
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WHO/WHERE
Going to a VF concert? Want to know if anyone
else on the list also going? Check here first!
Stanford, CA
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(looking for someone to go with)
San Diego, CA
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San Juan Capistrano, CA
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Las Vegas, NV
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Seattle, WA
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ANY SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO IMPROVE THIS LETTER SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO
ANY AND ALL CORRESPONDENCE CONCERNING THIS LETTER SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO
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WEB PAGES:
Official: http://www.vfemmes.com
Unofficial: http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~mmerry2/femmes.html
NEW ADDRESS: http://vf.scopemag.com
or try: http://206.103.163.50
Download the unofficial homepage:
http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~mmerry2/backup.zip
Auction News: http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~mmerry2/bids.txt
Guitar: http://www.bucknell.edu/~wtorres/violent_femmes
http://www.olga.net
TAB DIGEST:
The tab digest is give and take; remember to share what
you have.
Une banane
dans l’oreille: Send in your top five faves each week to:
They will periodically be compiled
and posted.
HERE I AM: write to me, , to add your name to this
list. Once it’s up and running, you can then write in
to find out who lives near you, or who lives in a town
you’ll be visiting.
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In Today’s Issue:
Have a Good Time
RE: VF On Piano..See My Ships Tab?
RE: International VF
How’d They Do That?
Phil Cody
I Wanna See You Again…Looking For Rock
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Have a Good Time
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To those of you going to the Stanford show tomorrow: have a great time,
and please remember to submit a report on that show. If you happen to
get a setlist, send it out to me. I probably won’t post it, but I think
I’d like to keep a collection of setlists, in case anyone ever asks,
have the VF ever played
with authority.
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RE: VF On Piano..See My Ships Tab?
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>Sometime this summer, someone wrote in asking about piano scores for
>VF songs. No one responded. I’d like to revive that question. Does
>anyone know about this? I’d like to get back to my piano playing, and
>starting with VF songs would be great.
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WEll, i’m sure that if i took the time i could figure out a piano score
for any femmes song that I have guitar music for, i’m not sure how i
could send the music over the internet though, unless i made it into a
midi file, which would be hard to do because I have a keyboard and a
midi program but no cord to connect them…
i haven’t really done any piano scoring yet, but i know can (actually I
was at a camp in Drummond Wisconsin this summer and they had a piano
there, and I actually figured out how to play most of “confessions”)
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also, does anybody have a TAB of “see my ships”? all I could find are
the very basic chords on the guitar web page. I’m looking for tabs of
the finger work done….
okay, thanks
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Pat. Says: I suppose I could figure it out myself; laziness alone stops
me…one could download the abc software program at
http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc
As far as tabs, I checked OLGA, and there was nothing for
see my ships, but some other interesting tabs. I’ve now
included it in the guitar tabs list, since Wes Torres
seems to change his address weekly lately.
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RE: International VF
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Becky asked about Femmes experiences abroad…
I was in Chile over christmas vacation for a mission trip, and we had
some time one day to do some shopping. There was a mall nearby with 16 CD
stores, so a couple of people, myself included, ventured over there to
see if we could find some bootlegs or rare stuff….
While I didn’t dig up any rare Femmes, I did find a few of their albums
in several stores. In every store I was in, “New Times” and “3” were
higher priced than “Violent Femmes” and “Add It Up”…which kind of
surprised me.
Finally I asked one of the guys working in this store why “New Times”
cost so much more than “Add It Up” and he told me that “New Times” is a
better album. He gave some reasons too but unfortunetly my spanish
wasn’t quite good enough to catch them. I just thought it was kinda
strange…
oh well
rob=)
Pat. Says: This leads to some interesting questions, which only our
non-American subscribers can answer: what are the most
popular VF albums in your country? Is New Times more popular
elsewhere than it is here? If so, could you send in an
explanation why you think that is so?
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How’d They Do That?
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ah yes,
hell-o. i was listening to “(R)Add it up” the other day when i once
again noticed that the version of “Lies” which is on the album seems sort
of strange to me. has anyone else noticed this? i am sure all of you
astute fans have. i am not really looking for an explanation…….i
really don’t know what i am looking for. ok. maybe an explanation from
you technical gurus out there.
****why does the song seem to morph from a studio version to a live
version?**
just wondering!
emdididy doo
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Phil Cody
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Do you know what band is opening for the Femmes this year? I was
wondering about Phil Cody in particular (one of the band members and I
“shared a moment”). I’m hoping they’ll come to the DC area sometime soon.
danica
Pat. Says: I did a search, and it seems Phil Cody is not touring at this
time.
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I Wanna See You Again…Looking For Rock
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#1 The last time I saw Femmes was back in April of last year. It was
awesome. From what I understand is that they come to the Hill
Auditorium every once in a while. I was hoping that I would be able to
see them sometime soon. If anyone knows of anything about an up coming
show in Ann Arbor, MI, Bowling Green, OH, or anywhere in the area let
me know.
#2 I am looking for ROCK!!!!! I can’t find it anywhere that I have
looked. Does anyone have any suggestions on where I could locate it?
If so, please contact me at my address:
Thanks
Angie
-Pat. Says: The best place to get ROCK! is off the Official Homepage.
The US$12.50 price includes S/H; CA residents must pay tax.
If you don’t want to order online, just send to the address
shown. Sure, it’ll take a few weeks, but you’ve waited this
long…what’s a little more time?
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