03-13-98

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

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

Apr. 1- Salem State College, Salem, MA (O) TENTATIVE
Apr. 2- Brandeis Universtiy, Waltham, MA (O) TENTATIVE
Apr. 4- 8:30 p.m. Timkin Gymnasium, Mt. Union College, Alliance, OH
$10 (P,O)
Apr. 5- 7.30 p.m. Elco Theatre, Elkhart, IN (T,O,P)
Apr. 6- 9 p.m. World Mardi Gras, Indianapolis, IN (T,O,P) 21+ SHOW
Apr. 7- Knight’s Hall, Bellarmine College, Louisville, KY, ~$17.50
(P,O)
Apr. 16- University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, WI (O) TENTATIVE
Apr. 17- North Michigan University, Marquette, MI (O) TENTATIVE
Apr. 18- 7:30 p.m. McGown Gym, Winona State University, Winona, MN
(P,O)
Apr. 19- Fargo Civic Auditorium, Fargo, ND (O)
Apr. 21- Madison Theatre, Peoria, IL (O)
Apr. 24- Center CityFest ’98, Charlotte, NC (O)
Apr. 26- La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA (O) STUDENT ONLY SHOW
May 2- Salisbury State College, Salisbury, MD (O) TENTATIVE
May 3- 99X Stage@Music Midtown, Atlanta, GA (O)
May 15- Chocolate Fest, Burlington, WI (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:

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!

Waltham, MA (Tentative)
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Alliance, OH
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Indianapolis, IN
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Louisville, KY
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Winona, MN
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Peoria, IL
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Charlotte, NC
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Atlanta, GA
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Burlington, WI
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In Today’s Issue:

Wants to Go to Philly
Bellarmine Info
Charlotte Info
Peoria Info Needed
Cigar Page?
Quotes
Cover Talking Heads
SoCal
Are We Like Sheep?
Top 10 Typo
RE: Top 10 Again
RE: Top 10 Again
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Wants to Go to Philly
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i just wanted to say that i am going to try to go to the show in
Philly….if anyone is going that could possibly give me a ride i would
love you!! I would need a ride from either Wilkes-Barre PA or
Brodheadsville PA, which is near stroudsburg PA. i mean i could meet
someone somewhere..because I dont have my own car, and i dont think i
could get my parents car for sunday…if it wouldve been on a friday or
saturday, then it would be fine…but….oh well…someone please get
back to me ASAP so i can get a ticket.

thanks
jen

-Pat. Says: Unless you know someone at LaSalle, you’re going to have to
miss this show. I got this in the mail:

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Bellarmine Info
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Hi Pat! Just heard back from Bellarmine College about the April 7th
date. Tickets go on sale Friday, March 20th. You can charge by phone
with MC/Visa – call 502-452-8150. There will be only 3000 tickets sold
so don’t wait too long! I’m also working on the details for the Atlanta
and Charlotte shows. I will post it as soon as I get confirmations!

-ddearry

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Charlotte Info
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Concerning the Center City Fest date in Charlotte NC, Friday, April 24..
It’s a street festival in downtown Charlotte -just like the Carolina
Music Festival last September for those of you who went! For those of
you who didn’t – they close off about 5 city blocks and set up temporary
stages (at this point 4) at the corners of the area. There are food
and drink vendors, artists, street performers etc. and there is NO way
this can sell out! It’s a 3 day festival but none of the headlining
acts have been confirmed yet. They were surprised to learn VF had a
firm date on their page. Dunno! Anyway tickets are $10 bucks and are
*scheduled* to go on sale this Friday. You can charge through ticket
monster by phone or just wait and pay $15 at the gate that day! (I
would suggest this!) Or you can buy a three day pass for $25. Linda at
Ark Mgmt. said NOTHING is definite yet but she will let me know as soon
as she gets the official line-up and ticket info!

-ddearry

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Peoria Info Needed
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if anyone is going to the peoria show in april i would really appreciate
any information on where the theater is and how i can get tickets and
how much they are and if/whos the opening band. and any other info that
would be useful that i forgot to say. this will be a short road trip for
me so im very excited for it and i hope everything works out.
thank you very much!

-shawn

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Cigar Page?
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Did anyone bookmark the addy for Brian’s cigar page?!! I need some info
and I can’t find it! Thanks

-ddearry

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Quotes
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just a question for all the readers, in the top 10, i saw “(i don’t need
a quote, because I’m cool that way)” (sorry to use whoever wrote this as
an example). i notice now that a lot of people put a quote before they
sign out. i was just wondering if this was a thing that we should do or
we had to do. oh well, just wondering.
(?)
~shannon

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Cover Talking Heads
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i was just wondering…ive been listening to the talking heads too much
lately. Is it just me who thinks that the femmes should covor a few of
their songs just for the fun of it? id love to go to a femmes show and
…you know Brian could do some babbling and all of a sudden gordon
would bust out with some “Sax and Violins”, “Burning Down the house”
or “Dont Worry About the Government” or “Psycho Killer”…that would be
great…just a thought: )
~shannon

-Pat. Says: I’ve often thought that the VF would do a fine job covering
the TH. But I don’t think they really care to do covers,
except for tribute albums, and to tell the truth, they do
such a fine job of coming up with original stuff they don’t
have to resort to doing covers. And if they did a cover
during a show, that’d mean we’d hear one less original song.
I don’t think I’d like the trade off. Now, if they haven’t
already come up with a TH tribute, when they finally do get
around to it, the VF would be perfect for a song.

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SoCal
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>will my femmes never return to socal?

Yes, they will. And they will rock. Harder than they have ever rocked
before. Yes. And I will be there. And I will be there. And I will
be there as I was the last time they were in Los Angeles in September.
Last September. September 16 to be exact. At the Palace. In
Hollywood. Melrose Larry from the Howard Stern show was outside. The
Femmes will return and it will be the second best concert I will have
ever been to. Unless they top last September. They will have trouble
doing so. They rock. Hard. Very hard. I will be up in front.
Staring at all three of them. At the same time. I will be singing
along with everything. All of the girls around will be staring at
Gordon. With that look that girls get. That look. Yes.

Nick

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Are We Like Sheep?
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I’m going to have to ask you not to send in any more top 10’s at this
time. The reason is that Monday is Classifieds day, and that means it’s
already going to be a 2 parter day. I don’t want to have to send out 3.
Don’t worry. This thread is sure to come up again in about 6 months or
so, and you can submit then.
For those of you who don’t know, the subject line of this is from
Handel’s Messiah. To that I say ‘Baaahh’:

1. Little Richard
2. Cramps
3. Levellers
4. Therapy?
5. Pixies
6. Fugazi
7. Squirrel Nut Zippers
8. Black 47
9. Pogues
10. Jesus and Mary Chain

In no particular order, and not counting VF of course. Close were:
Beck, REM, Chuck Berry, Poster Children, Dada, Catherine Wheel,
Certain Distant Suns, Dink, Nirvana, Fleshtones, Rusted Root, X,
Brian Setzer, Joe Strummer, Rev. Horton Heat..stop me anytime..

Now, if you haven’t had enough, submit your top 5 favorite songs to
Edgar, and join the “une banane dans l’oreille” list.

-patwary
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Top 10 Typo
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Dear Pat…
I noticed at the end of my post that my e-mail address read “r E
barbato@…”
It is actually “r C barbato@…” just making sure in case someone
would be kind enough to e-mail me! 😉
thanks.
Ryan
“Without friends, we only have our butts!”

-Pat. Says: Sorry, Ryan. Typo. Here’s your submission again in its
entirety, with the correct addy:
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Hi everyone…
besides the femmes who are definitely on top of my favorite band
list…here is my top 10:

1. They Might Be Giants
2. The Cure
3. Depeche Mode
4. Oingo Boingo
5. Gene (the newest arrival)
6. The London Suede (aka Suede)
7. The B-52’s
8. Smoking Popes
9. Cranes
10. The Tear Garden

Ryan
“Without friends, we only have our butts!”
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RE: Top 10 Again
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Ok. I feel left out so here’s my Top Ten excluding Femmes cuz we all
know that they’re my # One.
(these ain’t in no sart of canfarmity either)

1.Counting Crows
2.Goldfinger
3.Sublime
4.Jewel
5.Ben Folds Five
6.Tool
7.Smashing Pumpkins
8.Tori Amos
9.The Offspring
10.Pink Floyd

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RE: Top 10 Again
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Heres my top ten in no particular order:
1.Nirvana
2.311
3.Blink 182
4.Weezer
5.Sugar Ray
6.Green Day
7.Reel Big Fish
8.Bush
9.Nofx
10.Prodigy

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RE: Top 10 Again
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I like never write in here, so I thought I’d bless you all with my top
10 fav. bands (not mentioning the Femmes).. and of course, they’re not
in order.
~ Jessica ~

Third Eye Blind
FAT
Sugar Ray
MxPx
Sublime
Everclear
The Verve Pipe
The Wallflowers
Blink 182
The Pansy Division

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RE: Top 10 Again
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Here’s my top 10 if you care :

1. Tori Amos
2. TOOL
3. Nirvana
4. Violent Femmes
5. Bob Dylan
6. Silverchair
7. The Gits
8. the Doors
9. Foo Fighters
10. Radiohead

This is in no particular order, except for Tori. She’ll always be number
one.

josh

(in no particular order)

-Cowboy Mouth
-Five-Eight
-Self
-Fluid Ounces
-Tom Waits
-Harry Connick, Jr
-They Might Be Giants
-Velvet Underground
-James Booker (okay, so he’s not a band, so what?)
-Jimmy Buffet
-Mazzy Star would have to be #11.

That’s it.
john #3
chicago, il

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RE: Top 10 Again
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heres some of my favorite bands plus the femmes, im adding mine because
its fun to see all the different bands that other people like, and its
cool when people like what you like……
sublime
less than jake
ani difranco
rusted root
g love
dave matthews band
van morrison
a tribe called quest
bob marley
poi dog pondering
and lucas

i think thats more than ten. opps. well you cant limit music.
-shawn

in no particular order

1. violent femmes
2. citizen king
3. dan bern
4. ben lee
5. fretblanket
6. the coctails
7. victor delorenzo
8. the hunger
9. local h
10. nirvana

i hope i got enough assortment for the lot of you…

james

“i really really like her cuz she’s ugly–
just like me…” -smudge
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RE: Top 10 Again
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I just skimed throught the mail so I don’t know what he was talking
about but I saw the list of bands and decided to send my list of
favorite bands(not including the obvious VIOLENT FEMMES)

Bush
The Presidents of the United States of America
Collective Soul
Greenday
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Everclear
Blink 182
Dave Mathews Band
Led Zepplin
Sublime
Greatful Dead
Rolling Stones
Lynyrd Skynyrd (I am not sure how to spell it) Pat Says: That’s right.
Santo and Jonny
Rusted Root
Jimmi Hendrix
Metallica

and that is all I can think of right now

bye,
Sir

(not including the femmes)
1. Matthew Sweet
2. Pixies
3. Doors
4. Breeders
5. REM (pre-monster)
6. Jane’s Addiction
7. Sugarcubes
8. TMBG
9. the Commitments (hey, even if they arent a real band they still
rock!)
10. the Smiths

plus a heck of a lot of others…

Juliana
“Hey…been trying to meet you. must be a devil between us, or whores
in my head…whores at the door…whore in my bed. but Hey! where have
you been. if you go i will surely die. we’re chained. ‘UH!’ said the
man to the lady. ‘UH!’ said the lady to the man she adores. and the
whores like a choir go ‘UH!’ all night. mary arent you tired of this?
‘UH!’ is the sound that the mother makes when the baby breaks.”
-“Hey!” The Pixies
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RE: Top 10 Again
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My top ten bands:

1) The Offspring
2) Sublime
3) Metallica
4) Violent Femmes
5) The Rolling Stones
6) Korn
7) Green Day
8) Jimi Hendrix
9) Soundgarden
10) Weezer tied with Sugar Ray

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1. NiRvAnA
2. MxPx
3. Aphex Twin
4. Violent Femmes
5. =weezer=
6. Weird Al
7. Information Society
8. Primus
9. Prodigy
10. Atari Teenage Riot

The top 4 will probably never change, & the rest will probably just
change order.

P.S. If anybody knows information concerning Aphex Twin,
Nirvana, or MxPx mailing lists e-mail me

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RE: Top 10 Again
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Finally! I’ve missed the top tens and I guess I neglected to read the
entire issue the other day when it was suggested that we start it back
up. It was great to see that someone else who love the femmes also
was into Limp Bizkit and the Deftones(I have a piece of Chino’s towel
from the Clinton show with Limp Bizkit). I love them,(for whoever’s
information: starting in June Limp Bizkit, Deftones, Korn and Helmet
are all going on tour together.) anyway, that’s my piece, here’s my
top ten, you can omit them if you want:(no particular order, excluding
femmes)

1. Barenaked ladies
2. Limp Bizkit
3. Deftones
4. Dave Matthews
5. Beatles
6. Zeplin
7. Radiohead
8. Sheryl Crow
9. Less than Jake
10. the Verve

that’s it, oh and if the Brandeis show becomes definite, I’ll
definitely be there, if anyone else is planning to go, I have friends
that go there and might let you crash there, or at least find you a
place to crash. Later

Liz

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RE: Top 10 Again
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Well, this is my first time to write in, but Matt inspired me to send in
my 10 favorite bands:
1. Blue Collar Astronauts, 2.U2, 3.Dinosaur Jr 4.Pixies, 5.Afghan Whigs
6. Talking Heads 7.Radiohead 8.Ramones 9.Led Zeppelin 10.Counting Crows

Also, I’m planning on trying to go the the Music Midtown thing in
Atlanta. I went last year to see Dinosaur Jr (now rumor has it they’ve
broken up)…hmm I also saw the Ramones at what was supposedly their
last club performance ever….guess I’m kind of a jinx?? Anyway, if
anyone is going to the Atlanta show May 3 (is that right?) let me know
and maybe we can meet up.

-Steven

-Pat. Says: Could be worse. I saw Andre Segovia, Rudolf Nureyev, and
Isaac Asimov, and soon after they DIED.

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RE: Top 10 Again
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Here they are, in no particular order:
1) They Might Be Giants
2) The Refreshments
3) Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
4) Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
5) Rush
6) Buddy Holly (yes, he’s really old–and dead–but that doesn’t make his
music any less magical for me)
7) Mighty Mighty Bosstones
8) Smashmouth
9) Cake
10) Minstrels of Mayhem

Wow. This was harder than I thought!

-Tori . . .

“If space is a vacuum, who changes the bag?”

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