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

June 21- City Fest, Birmingham AL (O,P)
June 26- Summerfest, Milwaukee, WI (O,P)
July 11- Brewery District Pavilion, Columbus, OH (O,P,T)
July 30- Starts @ 3:30 p.m., Newport Folk Fest, Lakewood Amphitheatre,
Atlanta, GA (O,P, http://www.newportfolk.com/tour.html)
August 1- Starts @ 3 p.m., Newport Folk Fest, Entertainment Center,
Camden, NJ, $15-$35-$45.
(O,P, http://www.newportfolk.com/tour.html)
August 2- Newport Folk Fest, Jones Beach Amphitheatre, Wantagh, NY,
$15-$32-$42 (O,P, http://www.newportfolk.com/tour.html)
August 16- Starts @ 3 p.m., Newport Folk Fest, Merriweather Post,
Columbia, MD, $27.75-$39-$50
(O,P, http://www.newportfolk.com/tour.html)
August 20- Starts @ 4 p.m., Newport Folk Fest, Deer Creek Music Center,
Noblesville, IN, $15-$26.50-$40,
(O,P, http://www.newportfolk.com/tour.html)
August 21- Starts @ 3 p.m., Newport Folk Fest, New World Music Theatre,
Tinley Park, IL, $14.75-$27.50-$42.75
(O,T,P, http://www.newportfolk.com/tour.html)
August 22- Starts @ 1 p.m., Newport Folk Fest, Pine Knob Music Theatre,
Clarkston, MI, $18-$35
(O,T,P, http://www.newportfolk.com/tour.html)
August 23- Starts @ 2 p.m., Newport Folk Fest, CocaCola Starlite
Ampitheatre, Burgettstown, PA, $15-$40
(O,T,P http://www.newportfolk.com/tour.html)

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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Serious inquiries only.

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In Today’s Issue:

Newport Folk Fest Dates
Grosse Point Blank on Starz
Back From Germany
RE: Freak Magnet
RE: Never Tell
RE: Never Tell
RE: Ska Covers
RE: Ska Covers and More

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Newport Folk Fest Dates
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As you can see, there’s a lot of info above about these shows. You can
find more by going to http://www.newportfolk.com/tour.html
There you can find who else is playing, when doors open, who to call
for even more info, and when tix go on sale. Tickets are already on sale
for some of these shows, so you really should check it out to make sure
they haven’t sold out as yet.

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Grosse Point Blank on Starz
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For those of you who have cable or dish, Starz is showing Grosse Point
Blank this month. I just saw it last night. My guide says it can also
be seen (Eastern time) at 8pm on the 16th, 8pm on the 29th, and 3:05am
on the 30th. Check your TV guides for times in your area.

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Back From Germany
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Hey everybody! Hope your summers are going smashingly well! I’m
sitting on a butt-doughnut and wearing a back support right now because
my first day back from Germany one of my horses bucked me off and almost
broke my tailbone. (You know, I didn’t eat any horse-burgers while in
Europe but it’s not too late!!!! 😉 There are pebbles embedded in my
ass! And you think you have problems! Thankfully, although Munich was
home base for my trip, I returned home one day before that big train
wreck and so I my only near-disaster was flying through tornadoes and
lightning to get to Pittsburgh. (Oh yeah. Pat? BTW Pittsburgh has an
“h” at the end; please change the spelling for the Newport Folk Festival
in the ‘burgh. It’s been driving me nuts!) Tornadoes in *PA*! Hmmm,
approaching Armageddon or just El Nino?! Anyway, we’re hopefully
getting a horse farm in the state of Indiana this summer and my sister
was hounding me for a farm name. I suggested “Freak Magnet Farm”
because it seemed so perfect!–All our horses are freaks, the Jack
Russells are definitely freaks, my snaggle-toothed puddin’-headed pudder
cat is a freak, Goat-Goat is a freak, and we’re…perfectly normal,
well-adjusted human beings thank you very much! “Uh…no!’ she said.
My brother-in-law loved it though and he even came up with a slogan:
“Bring your freaky horse to our freaky farm!—We’ll treat it like the
freak it is!”
He’s not normal. Not even close.
And Beyz, you said something about a cover of Kiss Off by the Banditos.
Any chance the people at the store told you it didn’t exist because you
were thinking of the cover by the Refreshments who have a song called
Banditos??? Just a thought.
Sean Lennon has great taste! I AM a huge Beatles fan. They are in fact
(gasp!) my FAVORITE band! Ok, damnit I know there was more, but my
sister’s yellling at me to get off the computer b/c she needs to make a
phone call. Aaaaarrrrrrgggghhhhhh! Love ya!***amber (I wanna take
Ginger-Spice’s place!)

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RE: Freak Magnet
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Hey guys. All this talk about Freak Magnet is pissing me off. I want
the CD so freaking bad. And you guys keep talking about it and telling
us how great the songs are and how much you are enjoying it. IT’S NOT
FAIR!! Some of you are already chilling to it and I have to wait till
savas knows when to listen to it!! Even if I had a tape of it, I’d
still buy the CD. I have tapes of Violent Femmes, Blind Leading the
Naked, and Debacle: The 1st Decade. But, I also have Violent Femmes
and Blind Leading the Naked on CD. Man do I want to hear Freak Magnet
so bad! Hehe. But I guess I’ll just have to wait (simmer, simmer,
glare, steam). I was wondering if anyone else caught this lil blip…
<<<“Happiness Is” (4:20) >>> I wonder if that was done on purpose or
not…anyone have any opinions on it? (For those of you that are
clueless..welllll…you just don’t know what you’re missing 😉 )
Grand Kaiser: You need to get a job or do something with all that free
time(grin)

beyz

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RE: Never Tell
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>The Femmes really should re-learn how to play “Never Tell”: that would
>be the ultimate live Femmes song, imho.

Hey, they still play it, man. When I saw them last November it was one
of the most kick ass songs that they played!

-gkaiser

I just wanted to say that they DID play Never Tell at the 9:30 club in
Washington DC in March and it was one of the coolest concert experiences
I ever had!

Josh

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RE: Ska Covers
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In a message dated 98-06-05 10:03:33 EDT, you write:

> Any ideas on which songs would transfer well to ska or swing?

my very short lived ska band… we did a tribute to Violent Femmes…we
played Kiss Off, Add it Up, Give me the Car (which was probably the
best), mirror mirror (I see a damsel), and lastly blister in the sun
(came out the worst)… but I loved it so much… cause I don’t ever get
to sing… but with these songs I did… woo hoo

Zac

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RE: Ska Covers and More
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“Tonight.” That has ska written all over it. I just listened
to exerpts from every Femmes song I have . Tried to skank to each one,
and “Tonight” is the numero uno choice. Man, actually you know there’s
like a grnd total of about 10 songs by the Femmes that you can’t convert
easily to Ska. See, our heros use almost exclusively 1-4-5 progressions,
only instead of power chords, octaves, or fifths, they actually use full
chords. You just have to switch them over to the cheap substitutes and
add distortion.
You know what… actually, I bet that if you did a compilation
that would kick some major ass. “Old Mother Reagan” and “Dahmer is Dead”
would fit SO nicely in there. I’m getting excited. Actually don’t do
that… I want to. And I’m sure you could pull off “Black Girls” if you
can convince your band members to trade in their trumpets for game
calls.
Speaking of which…
I found out what the didgeridoo sounds like. Thanks Pat. And I
have a question about “Rock!!!!!” Those are the band members on the
cover, right? Who’s who? I think they are. The black haired one
looks like Brian (look at the nose) The one in the back looks like
Guy, but it might actually be Gordon. And that one on the floor, I have
no idea. Maybe it’s not them. That would make my life easier. Anyone?
Anyone? Bueller?
And thanks to everyone who’s supporting me on the boardwalk
thing. This country has a superfluety of cops and I think we should
cause some rucous about it! I’m gonna start throwing bricks!
Hey has anyone tried Guy’s chicken soup recipe? Is it any
good?

-Drew

-Pat. Says: You got Brian right, but the one in the back is Gordon (that
4:00 shadow, see?) and the one on the floor is Guy. You know
actually Guy looks great in drag. He just takes such good
pictures.

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