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The Quote Of The Day:

Beautiful angels.
Don’t ever leave me behind.
Your all too perfuming of my life.
-From Sweet World of Angels
-Submitted by Extatika

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

Aug 15- 7:30 p.m., Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, CA $25-$36 (T,P)
Aug 19- House of Blues Cybercast (See Kathryn’s post below)
6:30 p.m. PDT, 9:30 p.m. EDT, 1:30 a.m. GMT
go to http://www.hob.com
Aug 21- 6 p.m., 96.3 Planetfest 1999, Pine Knob Music Theatre,
Auburn Hills (Clarkston) MI $15.96(lawn)-$19.96(pavillion)
w/ Sister Seed, Flock of Seagulls, Smithereens
See http://www.pineknobmusic.com
onsale via ticketmaster, do online search for venue, not for
the Violent Femmes (T)
Aug 28- Jones Beach Amphitheater, Long Island, NY $15 (O)
go to: http://www.vw.com/
Sept 2- Blue Note, Columbia, MO (O)
Sept 3- Liberty Memorial Park, Kansas City, MO (O)
Sept 4- Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle, WA (O,P)
Sept 5- 5 p.m., Washington Park Rose Garden Amphitheater, Portland, OR,
$25 (P,T) w/Cake
Sept 8- Fillmore, San Francisco, CA (P)
Sept 10- Gas Lamp Quarter, San Diego, CA (P)
Sept 11- 8 p.m., Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona, CA, $5-$14 (P,T)
see http://www.fairplex.com

**Sept 14- Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ (P)**

Dec 31- Falls Festival, Lorne, AUS (P)

SOLO SHOWS:
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Aug 27- 9 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., Tonic, NY, NY (O)
http://www.tonic107.com
Aug 30- 9 p.m., Alterknit Theater, Knitting Factory, NY, NY,
Straylight Dialogues, AKA Brian Ritchie! (O)
http://www.knittingfactory.com/Welcome.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

To book a show, contact Hornblow USA at: hbgusa
Serious inquiries only.

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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!

Saratoga, CA
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sandycitarella (Sandy)
stepheno (Stephen)

Seattle, WA
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stevens (Michelle)

Portland, OR
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stevens (Michelle)
LilBoek (Steve)
friday (Sandy)
parr (Nick)

Pomona, CA
———-
mypen15 (Nick)

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WEB PAGES:

Official: http://www.vfemmes.com

Unofficial: http://vf.lasvegasweekly.com/
http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/bluenote/936/
http://www.bigfoot.com/~planetblue
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Theater/6571/index.html
http://geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Show/6806/
http://www.violentfemmes.net
http://www.homestead.com/lucylittleland/vf.html
http://www.fortunecity.com/campus/bates/377/

Yahoo Chat: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/newtimesviolentfemmesclub

Past Tour Dates:
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/1725/femmes/femmes.html

Guitar: http://www.smug.adelaide.edu.au/~therapy/femmes/
http://www.angelfire.com/hi/VFemmes

Glenn Gano’s Page: http://www.alaska.net/~ggano

Charm Records: http://www.charmrec.com

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

RE: Planetfest
RE: Falls Festival
RE: Don’t Talk About My Music
Re: Don’t Talk About My Music
RE: Punk?
RE: Punk?

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RE: Planetfest
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I e-mailed you before about the femmes playing at this planetfest in
detroit with Sister Seed, Flock of Seagulls and the Smithereens. well i
heard on the radio today that U2 will also be at planetfest. this will
be one rockin show. i can’t wait.

mark
tmclure76

-Pat. Says: I checked the WPLT homepage, Pine Knob homepage, U2 pages,
Pollstar…can’t get confirmation of U2 being there. I’m
going to listen to the station online tomorrow, see if I
can hear the commercial myself.

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RE: Falls Festival
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I live in Victoria, Australia, and I just thought that I would tell
you that it is still to early to get tickets to the Falls Festival.
They will probably go on sale around october/november, I will inform
you when I get the exact date.

Manta
tnob1

Hi, Pat. From my recollection of their show here, yes, it is the same
song. VF’s version is slower than the original. However, Mr. Ritchie’s
vocals and the accompaniment of the Horns of Dilemma make VF’s version
the preferable choice for me.

According to the liner notes on “Born to Choose,” the song is written
by Donn and Terry Adams. Terry Adams is NRBQ’s keyboard player and
one of their vocalists. I’ve only ever seen NRBQ twice briefly…they
opened for R.E.M. on the “Green” tour and I remember seeing them on a
TV show called “Night Music.” Didn’t have much an opinion on their
music then…not much now either.

Best regards,

Ray
raoki

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Re: Don’t Talk About My Music
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ok- so now I’m really interested. Because when I heard Brian sing it
(“Don’t Talk About My Music”) at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee last
October it really sounded like a song the Femmes had written. It was
perfect for them.
If someone else did it, did the Femmes change some lyrics or just add a
verse or what — because I can’t imagine someone else would have
written “They won’t release our album/They say it sucks/But if you
don’t like the Femmes/Why don’t you get fucked”… or something to that
extent.

anybody know more about this song’s origins??

rob=)
coons

At one time the Femmes were def considered punk – I’m gonna date myself
and say if you’re getting into NOFX you should consider Black Flag,
SNFU, the Stooges and Poison 13!

Liz
Liz8829

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RE: Punk?
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In response to Joel asking if the Femmes are considered “Punk”, I must
say that it’s completely an age/area thing. You see, in ’81 I was
eleven years old, growing up in the outskirts of Duluth, MN. Vixen was
“Heavy Metal”, REM was “Alternative”, Anthrax was “Thrash”, or “Skater
music”, and therefore Violent femmes were “Punk” right next to Sex
Pistols, the Dead Milkmen and even Soft Cell.

When you have children (I assume you don’t) that listen to the
equivalent of Marilyn Manson and call that “Mainstream Pop” you’ll
understand why labels mean different things to different people.

Hope I helped (and didn’t harm).

OPKUTech
opkutech

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Mercy Seat
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Hi Pat,

An excellent album for any femmes fan to listen to is Mercy Seat with
Gordon Gano. This gospel album that Gordon participated in is available
on ebay this week and guaranteed to please.

Glenn
pwnordic

-Pat. Says: I also highly recommend this album (it’s vinyl), but don’t
expect Gordon’s voice to be front and center.
This reminds me: anybody know Greek? Glenn sent me a scan
of a poster he bought (thanks for that); I’d love to figure
out the date of the show (so Nick can add it to his list),
but…it’s all Greek to us!

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