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The Quote Of The Day:

…. Heartache—too late
And I gotta get up
I know
I been workin’ twenty-five hours a day
I don’t want to live this way
Five and a half weeks with one day off
Stop the train I’m getting off …
-From Heartache
-Submitted by ddearry
(Pat. Says: the poor woman; she’s been living these
lines for several weeks now)

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

March 30- Shrover Auditorium, Bozeman, MT (P,O)
March 31- MSU Ballroom, Missoula, MT (P,O)
April 1- Snow King Resort, Jackson Hole, WY (P)
April 2- Doubletree Ballroom, Boise, ID (P,O)
April 3- The Rock, Pocatello, ID (P,O)
April 4- 7 p.m., Mount Baker Theatre, Bellingham, WA, $25 (T,O,P)
April 6- 8 p.m., Emu Ballroom, U of Oregon, Eugene, OR, $25 (O,P)
April 8- 8 p.m., Evansville Memorial Coliseum, Univ. of Evansville,
Evansville, IN, ONLINE ONSALE MARCH 31, (T,P)
April 9- 7 p.m., Univ. of Dayton Arena, Dayton, OH, $23 (P,T)
(W/George Clinton)
April 16- Robins Center, Univ. of Richmond, Richmond, VA (P,T)
(w/Pat McGee Band)
April 17- Shepherd’s College, Shepherdstown, WV (P,O)
April 18- 6.30 p.m., Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH (T)
(Pre-concert party, price includes preferred seating
and hotdog/chips, price does NOT include concert)
April 18- 7 p.m., Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH (T,P)
April 20- 9 p.m., The Canopy, Urbana, IL, 18+ show, (T,P)
Note: this conflicts with the Absinthe show.
April 21- 8 p.m., Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, MI (T,P,O)
April 22- 8 p.m., Agora Theatre, Cleveland, OH, $14 (T)
April 23- Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA (P,O)
May 1- Harvard, Cambridge, MA (O)
OR
May 1- Johnson and Wales College, Providence, RI (P)
May 4- Le Batacian, Paris, France (P)
May 5- Forum, London, England (P)
May 6- Student’s Festival, Lisbon, Portugal (P)
May 8- Oporto Festival, Oporto, Portugal (P)
May 10- E-Werk, Cologne, Germany (P)
June 6- Performing Arts Center, Newark, NJ (P)

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GANO SOLO DATE:

April 26- 8 p.m., Wetlands Preserve, NY, NY, $8 (T)
w/Heal, Lil Mama
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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

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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!

Pocatello, ID
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ANGEL34TA

Bellingham, WA
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BurrResear (Bob)

Eugene, OR
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chzbooger

Ann Arbor, MI
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alexa135 (Andrea)

Cambridge, MA (If correct)
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thenewkid (Drew)
potatoe482 (Em)

London, England
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tylerboa
xav (Xav)

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ALL CORRESPONDENCE CONCERNING THIS LETTER SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO
AMUSIC
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In Today’s Issue:

Tour Date Info Needed
RE: Femmes in London
Jackson
RE: Faith Dance
RE: What Album Should I Get..
RE: What Album Should I Get..
RE: What Album Should I Get..
RE: What Album Should I Get..
RE: What Album Should I Get..
A Dream
Cover This

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OT: FINALLY UConn didn’t choke!!!
OT: Anyone living near Fredericksburg, PA (Intersection of 22 and 78,
roughly between Harrisburg and Reading) may want to see my sons race mx
at Sleepy Hollow this coming Saturday. This past Sunday, Austin took
second and Ethan placed respectably, considering it was his first-ever
race. Write me if interested. Our attendance depends upon the weather.

The Official Homepage has been updated a bit. One piece of information:
you can see and hear Dr. Varuni Kulasekera (Mrs. Brian Ritchie) by
going to
http://www.discovery.com/exp/epidemic/dengue/dengue.html

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Tour Date Info Needed
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<< **June 6- Performing Arts Center, Newark, NJ (P)**
**April 26- 8 p.m., Wetlands Preserve, NY, NY, $8 (T)**
Gordon Gano, Heal, Lil Mama >>

please send me anything you know or find out about these!

~shannon
Fraggle3

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RE: Femmes in London
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>I am going to see the femmes may 5th in london. I would like to get in
>touch with anyone else going. cheers

I’m going, and dragging along a couple of friends. Well, when I say
“dragging”, one of them came with me to see them play last time they
were here, and naturally jumped at the chance to see them again. The
other one has never seen them play before, but I’m sure he’ll enjoy
it.

I’m looking forward to it immensely. Like most people this side of the
pond, I’ve never heard any of the Freak Magnet stuff, so that’ll be a
treat. I just hope they bring some T-shirts this time – they didn’t
have any last time, and my three from previous gigs are looking a bit
tattered now 😉

Xav
xav

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Jackson
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When I heard the Violent Femmes were playing in jackson, I was
extremely excited and couldn’t. However in the weeks to come, I began
to become nervous.I learned that the femmes show was a private party
for milsaps students only (A $12,000 a semester college.) I knew I had
to get in.
After many failed attempts to get tickets thru a friend who has a
friend who attends milsaps.When Friday Morning came up, and I hadn’t
got my tickets, I knew what I had to do. I awoke about 8:30 got
dressed, ate and drove to Jackson (about an hour and 15 minutes away
from hattiesburg.) I went to Be-bop records (I worked for the sister
store back home for 4 & 1/2 years.) and I got directions to Milsaps. I
arrove on campus and went to the administration office and got an
admissions packet. I then asked if I could walk around campus for a
little while, they said that it was not a problem. I wandered around
for about an half an hour and i stopped this girl and asked her how i
could get tickets for the show tonight. She told me that she already
gave her tickets away, she stopped her friend who told she wasn’t
planning to go and she would give me her tickets for free! It was
amazing! THe show was amazing! The femmes played for about an hour and
a half, opening up with “Jackson Town” a song about Jackson Mississippi
and they also played a Version of “Faith” where Gordon broke into the
bridge and played the mississippi state song, then He sang the lyrics
I couldn’t tell if the femmes hated being in mississippi or what. I
don’t care however I had a blast. I have the tape if anybody wants a
copy email me for a trade. I could also post the entire set list.

Love
Your Femmes Buddy in MS.
mike-maynard
mdixon

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RE: Faith Dance
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<< I did a little faith dance that I made up.

this is very funny!!!

Kyle_Souza

-Pat. Says: This dance should be videotaped and put on the web so we
can all see it. Then we can all do something during a
show that doesn’t involve pink flamingoes.

either the self entitled [some may consider it a cliche, but we all
know it’s a classic :)], or hallowed ground which is also a wonderful
album.

~shannon
Fraggle3

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RE: What Album Should I Get..
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My advice to you, mein freund, would be to either get the original
self-titled album or ‘Hallowed Ground’. Both of them are classics, both
of them with classic songs all over them. Every song on the original
album is an essential Femmes song, thought provocing, innovative, and
easy to listen to over and over. ‘Hallowed Ground’ is the follow-up to
the original, and contains more songs that sound like they could have
come from the first album, like ‘Country Death Song’, ‘I Hear the Rain’
and ‘Never Tell’. The album also starts to show some religious and jazz
influence with songs like ‘Jesus Walkin on the Water’ an ‘It’s Gonna
Rain’. Both albums are awesome, and essential to any Femmes fan’s
collection. My suggestion: you need to own both of them 🙂

gkaiser

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RE: What Album Should I Get..
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First album would definitely cover the basics, a solid second
investment, but make sure to then take a good long look at “Hallowed
Ground” this album is mystical…..an excellent slice of musical
diversity. I feel as if the song “Never Tell” sums up the Femmes, and
their prowess, every time that I hear that song, it takes me through
the full range of music induced emotions.

“I’ll show you what it’s like to sink!”

Kevin T. Grady
ktgrady

Mike, I think you should buy “Why Do Birds Sing”. It’s a really great
c.d. I really like “Look Like That”, “Hey Nonny Nonny”, “Used To Be”,
“He Likes Me”.
I’m gonna stop here with the song list, because there’s not a song on
that album that I dislike. So, that’s the one (if you can only buy
“one” ) that I’d pick. “Add It Up” was the first c.d that I bought
and then “Why Do Birds Sing” was the second. However, I have had
Violent Femmes/Violent Femmes on vinyl from the get go…..so…I was
not in the same position as you. The best advice I can give is…..
“Splurge baby, and buy them all”. At least that’s what I finally did.
Hope that help.

Peace,
Tammy from Tampa
LTJENX13

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YOU MUST GET “Why Do Birds Sing?”….that album is the shit! I can
listen to it from beginning to end a million times and never get tired
of it…actually every damn album this band has done is awesome…

Samantha
Pntr1

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A Dream
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Last night I had a dream about the femmes. It was pretty weird. They
were giving a concert at my high school, in the auditorium. The school
band (which I am in, i play trombone) was in the pit, I guess taking
the place of The Horns of Dilemma. There was only about 20 people at
the concert too. So anyway, I don’t really remember a lot of the
songs they played (it was a dream after all), but they kept taking
breaks, and during one of these breaks they were talking to people in
the pit. I wanted to ask them if I could play with them on stage (I
also play guitar) but I didn’t have the nerve. While they were still
on break I did ask them, however, if they would be signing autographs
after the concert, and all three of them said “oh yeah.. of coarse”
and then Gordon said “ok guys, lets play add it up and get out of here”
So they did and they left, but I went out back to try and find them for
an autograph
I saw Guy and Brian talking to each other in the parking lot so I went
to talk to them, by the time I got there Brian was gone, but i asked
Guy for an autograph and he said “no… we’re trying to stop giving out
autographs” , but for some reason that didn’t bother me and I just left
to find Gordon or Brian…. then i woke up…… weird huh
I don’t know what to think of it

and to answer the question of what my fantasy/dream would be… it
would be to play with them in a concert

Sorry it’s so long
Joel
TeamEnos

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Cover This
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I was going through my CD’s the other night and remembered (reading,
hearing, psychically receiving which I can’t remember). Something about
Brian saying the band wanted to do a whole album of cover tunes. I
started thinking about it and I came up with a few I though would be
really cool (or extremely comical) for them to cover:
Mean Woman Blues which is on “A Black and White Night Live” Roy Orbison
with a collection of other great musicians.
The Jumpin’ Jive by Cab Calloway (Not to be confused with Jump, Jive,
and Wail).
Crimson and Clover by Tommy James and the Shondells.
Not Fade Away by Buddy Holly
And just to be completely ridiculous Lovegun by Kiss.

Kathryn
Kittricken

-Pat. Says: I agree with Not Fade Away. I think they could show the
Deadheads how it’s really supposed to be done 🙂
It seems many VF love songs are done with tongue planted
firmly in cheek, so I’d have to cast a vote for
Love Potion #9, can’t remember who did it first.

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