02-04-98 -

AMERICAN MUSIC: THE VIOLENT FEMMES MAILING LIST
currently run by Pat. Wary

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TOUR DATES: (NEW DATES MARKED WITH A **)

Feb. 4-The Vogue Theatre, Vancouver, BC, CA (O,P)
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,O)
THIS IS A 21 AND OVER SHOW ONLY
Feb. 28-8 p.m. Duluth Entertainment Convention Center, Duluth, MN (O)
Mar. 1-Wayne State College, Wayne, NE (O)
Mar. 3-Marzz, Raleigh, NC (O) TENTATIVE
Mar. 4-Bohagers, Baltimore, MD, $20 (O)
Mar. 5-Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA (O) TENTATIVE
Mar. 6-Nightclub 9:30, Washington, DC, $20 (O)
Mar. 27 or 28-N. Michigan U., Marquette, MI (O) TENTATIVE

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:

Give it, give it, give it to me harder..Harder..HARder..HARDER!!!
-From Black Girls

PLEASE send your VF quotes to
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WHO/WHERE
Going to a VF concert? Want to know if anyone
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Vancouver, BC, CA
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Baltimore, MD
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Washington, DC
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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
Guitar: http://www.bucknell.edu/~wtorres/violent_femmes
http://www.olga.net
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list. Once it’s up and running, you can then write in
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you’ll be visiting.

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In Today’s Issue:

Wayne State Info Needed
The Seattle Show
The Seattle Show
RE: Lots of Stuff
RE: Dumb DMFD
RE: Dumb DMFD
RE: Dumb DMFD
RE: Dumb DMFD
RE: Dumb DMFD
RE: Dumb DMFD
Wanted: Johnny TABS

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Wayne State Info Needed
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Does anyone have a number I could call for tickets to the Wayne State
show March 1st?

Becky

-Pat. Says: After much surfing and lots of hair pulling I found ONE
number:402-375-7000. I think that’s the main switchboard.
You’re on your own after that. Anyone with any info about
this show please write me.

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The Seattle Show
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How did everyone like the Seattle concert? Anyone go in the middle where
all the ruckus was? Did I bump into any of you? Just wanting to know
who made it and how they liked it! Feedback to me at
or to this newsletter. Thanks. Take care.

Brian

-Pat. Says: Ruckus?? tell us more!!

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The Seattle Show
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I’m so happy! I finally got to see the Violent Femmes live! One thing
I’ve realized though… the VF have a lot of tall fans, and they all
like to stand in front of me. 🙂 I only got to see a rare glimse of
Gordon, got to see Guy even less times, but i was able to see Brian
almost the whole time. Oh well, it was still a great show. The only
thing that really bothered me about the crowd was the crowd surfing…
i got someone dropped directly on my head which made my already bad
headache worse. Hmm… I’m not going to go into the whole concert
because I can’t really think of anything important that happened that
hasn’t already been told by people in other posts and that won’t be
told better by other people that went to the concert too. Overall
though the show was great and I urge anyone who has not seen the Violent
Femmes live to try their hardest to go to a show.

Robin

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RE: Lots of Stuff
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first off id like to say hello to everyone. i havnt written the list in
so long 🙂 so hello:). this issue i have a whole lot to respond to,
which hasnt happened in a while.

to ‘laurel in salt lake city’ i just want to tell her her say in the
last ‘American Music’ made me smile. the boys are always great to chat
with (especially when the teenage girls stop screaming) after the show
and i love hearing stories of people meeting other people, 🙂 just a
thing i have i guess. but what surprised me was that guy wasnt
talkative. he spent about a half hour with me and a few of my friends
at the last show i saw of theirs.

to gkaiser about the song “bad” i heard it too and i also dont remember
it on any album, but then again i dont have all of them. but it was a
good song wasnt it?

to nick janssen, yeah it is a pretty dumb song if you just sit and
listen to it. but i guess its just one of those songs that you listen
to while your cleaning or you need to get rowdy for a while : ) you know
what i mean. it is a great song live though

to james, i was at the library this afternoon and i actually found an
article in the Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians…or something like
that

to dale…do you remember anything about a small yellow plastic ring
with 3 insects in it?

ok, ive written long enough : )
~shannon……

Pat’s right on this one. I also skip over it when I’m listening to Add
it Up because it sounds so redundent, but it is one hell of a song when
they play it live. Brian always finds some creative way to introduce it.
I also don’t really care for ‘Black Girls’ on CD but the Femmes really
jam it out in concert, so I have a new respect for the song.

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RE: Dumb DMFD
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I have to agree Nick about DMFD. Although the music to the song is ok
in concert, it has to be the least lyrically challenging song the Femmes
have. Brian had played the song in concert with a one-string bass
guitar, which was pretty cool.

And about the new album. Does anyone know if the new album will be a
normal release or will it be an abbreviated import release like ‘ROCK’?

Back from the land of the dead,

Mike – Ft. Lauderdale

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RE: Dumb DMFD
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hey nick!

i couldn’t disagree with you more about the song DANCE MOTHER FUCKER,
DANCE!
personally, i think this song is hilarious and just the fact that the
femmes wrote it makes me laugh. i have seen this song performed twice,
and let me tell you—-there is nothing like this song to get ANY crowd
riled!
i understand that this song might be offensive to you, but i suggest
not taking it tooo seriously. after all….IT IS THE FEMMES!

~emily

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RE: Dumb DMFD
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I just wanted to say, that I too didn’t quite appreciate Dance Mother
Fucker Dance until I heard it live. Its really hard to explain but at
the show I saw, they played it about half-way through their set.
Everyone was already pumped up and when they started playing it things
went wild. I think it is one of those things that you have to really
experience in order to get. Also, does anyone know when (or if) the
show at the Marzz in Raleigh is going to be confirmed & is anyone else
thinking about going? Just wondering.

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RE: Dumb DMFD
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A response to the DMFD comment.

I agree with Pat. whole-heartedly! Dance MF dance is an average tune at
best on the recorded stuff. But LIVE is a whole different experience.!

I cannot tell you the energy that flows when Brian goes through a long
spiel on whatever is on his mind at the time and in the end a person
always says…”WHen I say Dance, YOu Best Dance….”

It is a song of pure energy that shows the Femmes music has roots in
all styles music including PUNK!

MBLack
Champaign, IL

http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~mg-black

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RE: Dumb DMFD
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Hi,

In regards to “Dance MF Dance”, it is probably gotta one of the most
horrible songs I’ve ever heard, both on album and LIVE! I tried to
find some goodness in the song just because it was the Femmes, but it
seems so impossible. I know they love to play it live too, and that’s
what I hate! It is so terrible!
But, that is just my opinion! 🙂

Ryan

“Without friends, we only have our butts!”

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Wanted: Johnny TABS
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Do you know where I can get the tabs to the last song on “Add it up” I
think it is called “Johnny”?

-Pat. Says: I see what you mean..all I could find were chords. Did you
try the tab digest?

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