08-16-96

THE ROCK!!!!! VIOLENT FEMMES MAILING LIST
currently run by James Schrader

The Quote Of The Day:
“Now every once in a while
There’s a crack in my smile
Dark voices are talking to me
Dark voices tell me the way.”
from “Breakin’ Up” on NEW TIMES.
send your quotes to [email protected]

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I’m still looking for the tabs or chords to 4 SEASONS on “NEW TIMES” (which I’m listening to right now). If anybody has them please email them to me at. Thanks.
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In Today’s Digest:
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Pancake Day & Femmes here
Short Review Of Pancake Day (More To Follow)
Lazer Local Licks/Joe’s Place/Channel Six/Sigmund Snopek
Re: ROCK!!!!! for 8-9-96
Re: ROCK!!!!! for 8-9-96
ROCK!!!!! Disney World
NEW FEMMES CONCERT DATE!!!

From: This is where the evil grows
Subject: Pancake Day & Femmes here

I got a copy of Pancake Day & I don’t like it very much. It’s really
weird…just not my type o music I guess? I dunno. But that’s my take on the
album.
Also the Femmes are playing here (Columbus, Ohio) at the Brewery Festival
Sept.20 as headliners for that night. I won’t get to see em cuz I’ll have moved
to Wisconsin (argh!)!

eep opp ork ah-ah,
Lyce

From:
Subject: Short Review Of Pancake Day (More To Follow)

Okay, I’ve got alot to say this time, So i am going to send them in a couple different message so all the things i talk about are listed on the table of contents.

first, i bought Pancake day (by Victor Delorenzo) a couple days ago and have not listened to the whole thing yet, but from what i’ve heard so far, it’s great. It doesn’t sound a whole lot like the femmes, but its still great. it’s got the same femmes attitude.

A Couple Of Songs:

PEACH: The crazy album opener, for some reason reminds me of the presidents of the united states of america, but i like this song better, alot better. It seems to be an ode to a peach, Showing Victor’s crazier side. Just listen and you’ll know what I mean.

BLIND: While this is a great song, it could’ve been produced better to make it sound more hard hitting which would give it more of an impact , but nevertheless, it is still and amazing song.

NOISE: This one was produced right, so the vioce it clearer and it comes across perfectly.

I can’t think lof anything else to say other than that these are great songs. I’ll say more in the next message I send in a couple minutes

John, AKA NoidLess
“when everybody’s happy”

From:
Subject: Lazer Local Licks/Joe’s Place/Channel Six/Sigmund Snopek

I was listening to Lazer Local Licks (a radio show that is about local music in milwaukee, 102.9 FM, Sundays at eleven o’clock PM>) When they started talking about Victor Delorenzo and The Violent Femmes

Keep In Mind that this is a hard rock station, who has NEVER in my memory played either the femmes or victor, alwasy plays bands like Metallica.

The DJ woman (I don’t remeber her name) First played the song BLIND. and then talked about how she had gone to the release party for PANCAKE DAY over at JOE’S PLACE, Victor’s Studio. She talked about how she had talked to Victor and had a great time
Then she started talking about a plaque (Sp?)
she saw on the wall that held a letter that Channel Six in milwaukee has sent the femmes back sometime in the 80’s screaming at them for something that they had done on the air at channel 6 that had insulted them or something like that and it was really cool.

also, later in the show, they played a really cool track from Sigmund Snopek, who if any of you know, played on many of the femmes CDs.

John, AKA NoidLess……

From: Brendan
Subject: Re: ROCK!!!!! for 8-9-96

In reply to….

> From:
> Subject: Big Gordon news
>
> I don’t know much details about this, but this is what one of my friends
> told me he read in Rolling Stone.
> Apparently the Talking Heads are getting back together minus the lead
> singer (David Byrne) and are going to be called Heads. Anyway, they are
> going to have a few different singers on the album to do three or four songs
> a piece, and considering what mailing list we’re on, I don’t have to tell you
> who one of these singers is. Keep your eye open for more details, because if
> it does happen, it will be very big news in the music industry.
> Gordon was probably chosen as one of the illustrious few because of his
> relationship to Jerry Harrison.
> Gotta go, ta ta
> HpyChicken, Matt

Actually the album is going to be called, NO TALKING, JUST HEAD. 🙂 It’s true and yes
Gordon will be a singer on the album. The new lead singer for the tour will be the girl
from Concrete Blonde. It should be interesting and definitly a must listen and see!!!

Gord Rules!!

—Brendan

From:
Subject: Re: ROCK!!!!! for 8-9-96

this isnt about anything else, im just curious. does anyone know who plays
the sitar on the song “lies” on the “add it up…” compilation? i dont think
it says in the credits or anything.

From: Femmes Freak
Subject: ROCK!!!!! Disney World

hello everyone…
I think I’ve said this before, but ROCK!!!!!, for anyone in the Milwaukee
area who doesn’t have it is availble at The Exclusive Company (one on
Bluemound Road in Brookfield and several others around I believe) for
about $17… it rules.
Someone mentioned Q101 having ‘Blister In The Sun’ as the #2 alternative
song of all time…I read somewhere (can’t remember where now) a while
back that I believe Rolling Stone (that may not be correct) listed out
the Top 100 most influental alternative albums of alltime…The
self-titled ‘Violent Femmes’ was ranked either #2 or #3, behind The
Ramones, and possibly Nirvana’s “Nevermind”
Also, to JohnPOP…the lyrics are “We all get late” (although on the web
page it has both late and laid listed)…the song is referring to the
City of Milwaukee’s crappy public transit system which the Femmes used
heavily early in their career. This song is a fun one to sing in
crowds…I was with some friends in Disney World and we got maybe 100
people singing it with us outside the Marketplace while we were waiting
for the Disney buses to take us back to the hotel…Several people asked
who the song was by…but no one had heard of the Femmes. oh well.
rob=)

From: Femmes Freak
Subject: NEW FEMMES CONCERT DATE!!!

–From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Aug. 14, 1996–
FEMMES HEADED TO NORTH POLE

Watch out, Santa. The Violent Femmes are headed for the North Pole.
Singer-guitarist Gordon Gano, bassist Brian Ritchie and drummer Guy
Hoffman of the Violent Femmes will give a concert on August 31 for 70
Molson sweepstakes winners at a bash aboard the luxury Russian icebreaker
Kapitan Dranitsyn. The Red Hot Chili Peppers play the next night.
“The Femmes are a wild and fun and irreverent band, and they fit with
the personality of the promotion,” said Bruce Winterton, the New
York-based brand manager for Molson Ice.
There’s another local connection: Milwaukee’s Miller Brewing Co. is
Molson’s U.S. importer.
The Femmes are headed north to play the second annual Molson Ice Polar
Beach Party, a promotion for the Canadian beer.

I’m not exactly sure how you win one of the 70 invatations…if anyone
knows please post it!
rob=)

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