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The Quote Of The Day:

I had me a wife…had me some daughters…
I tried so hard…I never knew still waters
-From Country Death Song
-Submitted by Beyz

PLEASE send your VF quotes to amusic

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TOUR DATES:

October 2- Case Western University, Cleveland, OH (O,P)
October 3- St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI (O,P)
Oct. 6- Youngstown State Univ, Niles, OH (O)
Note: Pollstar lists this date as Oct. 4. Can anybody verify the date?

Oct. 22- 7 p.m. First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN (P,T,O) 21+ show
Oct. 23- 7 p.m. First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN (P,T,O) all ages show
Oct. 25- 7:30 p.m. Barrymore Theater, Madison, WI (O,P) $22
available at Barrymore outlets or call 608-241-8864
Oct. 26- 8 p.m. Opera House, Oshkosh, WI (O,P) $22.25 reserved price
call 920-424-2350
Oct. 27- 8 p.m. Grand Theater, Wausau, WI (O,P) $22 reserved price
call 715-842-0988
Oct. 29- 8 p.m. Hollywood Theater, LaCrosse, WI (O,P) $22
call 608-789-7400
Oct. 30- 8 p.m. State Theater, Eau Claire, WI (O,P) $22.50
call 715-832-2787
Oct. 31- 8 p.m. Pabst Theater, Milwaukee, WI (O,P,T)
call Ticketmaster or the Pabst Box Office 414-286-3663
Nov. 3- Riviera Theatre, Chicago, IL (P,O)
Nov. 11- University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL (O)
Nov. 13- Haverford College, Haverford, PA (O)

TENTATIVE TOUR DATES (*=Inertia Tour):

Oct. 14-15- The Melody, Montreal, QUE, Canada (O)*
Oct. 16-17- Music Hall, Toronto, ONT, Canada (O)*
Oct. 18- The State, Detroit, MI (O)*
Nov. 4-5- Plaza of Nations, Vancouver, BC, Canada (O)*
Nov. 6-7- Pier 48, Seattle, WA (O)*
Nov. 8- Museum, Portland, OR (O)*
Nov. 10- Irving Plaza, New York, NY (O)

**Nov. 11- Irving Plaza, New York, NY (From Moxy Fruvous newsletter,
curtesy of Marylee)**

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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WHO/WHERE
Going to a VF concert? Want to know if anyone
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Madison, WI
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Chicago, IL
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http://206.103.163.50
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palladium/6918
VF Message
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Past Tour Dates:
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/1725/femmes/femmes.html

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

MP3’s http://members.tripod.com/~GasolineFumes/music.html

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

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

Une banane:Send in your top five faves each week to:
melancon.

HERE I AM: Tell me where you live for the Here I Am list.

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In Today’s Issue:

Cleveland Show
Inertia?
Minnesota Area
VF at UCF
Irving Plaza
RE: Question
Re: VF comp
RE: No, Let’s Start Over
Re: VF comp
Notable Quotables
New Club

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Lots of tour dates again; I’m going to be more stringent in posting the
complete tour list and who/where on Mondays only (there was no issue
this Monday, so I’m making the exception), and the rest of the time will
only list new dates and the who/where for the current week.

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Cleveland Show
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does anyone have any info on the show at Case Western?

Juliana
jboiar

What do you call a fish with no eyes?
Fshhhhhh!

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I need to kow what is the inertia tour???/ Is it for an album? is it
coming to philly?
Tanks for any info

dan
JStamm

-Pat. Says: The Inertia Tour apparently will be a tour of early- and
post-alternative bands (whatever that means) from the
late 70’s/early 80’s. Nothing seems to be firmed up yet;
the web page has no bands or dates listed yet, but they
expect several dates in the US and Canada. Stay tuned to
http://www.monsterclub23.com for more details.

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Well I really want a tape too so I’d be glad to help in the Minnesota
area, so… I guess that’s all, right now I’m just trying to come up
with a plan to go see the Violent Femmes in Minneapolis on October 23rd
in secret because my parents don’t want me to go. So Pat if you have any
ideas, or if anyone else does, let me know. Thanks. : )

~Mara
Mara731

-Pat. Says: I’m going to keep a list of people who want to help with
distribution. We’ll get back to you when the time comes;
when we know how many distributers we’ll need to get these
out quickly when done. As far as the other matter, as a
parent, I can’t help you. It’s part of the secret contract
we all sign, which you won’t be able to see till you have
kids of your own.

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Well I have been bummed for awhile cause I haven’t seen the femmes in
awhile, but today I checked the mailing list and saw that they were
coming here to my school, and now i am so happy! I haven’t heard
anything about it at school so I was wondering if anyone else knew some
information about the concert. Are they playing at the Arena? Any info
would be great. I am going to try to find out from school what is going
on.

Thanks so much, Michelle
mdelato

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I just got a news letter/tour schedule from Moxy Fruvous and they
are opening for the Femmes at Irving Plaza in NY on 11/10. Just wanted
to let you know that they have a tentative second show with the Femmes
listed for 11/11.(also at Irving Plaza.)
I’m really going to try to get up there for one of them even though
both are on weeknights.(blah!) Moxy Fruvous is a fun, novelty band who
also happens to play some pretty good music so it should be a great show.

Marylee
Rubaiyat

-Pat. Says: Moxy Fruvous was the opening band at the Newport Folk Fest
in Newport, RI last year. In my opinion they should have
been much higher on the roster. I’d never heard them before
but was impressed. So much so that I bought an album. They
are better live IMHO.

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RE: Question
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I too felt similar to Pat. It is Definatley a bit Over Produced,
however the overall sound is very good. In terms of mixing I think it
is one of the best, Some of their albums were mixed rather poorly. The
songs are amongst my favorite now though. I think it is One of their
best albums overall. Too many extra musicians aside, that is the kind
of song crafting that I wish they still took the time to do.

Oellablue

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Re: VF comp
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I know that you wonderful people doing this video comp dont want money
for the videos, and i dont have any boots that i could contribute, but
would it be cool to donate a bunch of blank VHS tapes? I have
connections with people at Best Buy and Radio Shack and whatnot so
theres a big chance that I could get tapes at a discount price. send me
any info you may need.

-Emilia
PunkGirl42

-Pat. Says: That’s a detail we’re not ready to look into yet. We’ll get
the thing put together first and then get in touch with you.
It’s a good idea; it might be cheaper for all to get blanks
in bulk.

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RE: No, Let’s Start Over
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actually, no lets start over was an official release in 1985.
however, it is not in print anymore and i’m sure it wouldn’t cut out
from their profits… My copy isn’t even an original…

-james
schrader

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i was just wondering if you could give me more info about the
compilation tape. i’m afraid i don’t have too much to offer. i have
the video of blister 2000 somewhere, but i haven’t been able to find it.
i’m sure you already have that anyway. also. do you have more info on
the show at haverford. maybe i’ll actually be able to catch up with the
group members at one of these shows. wvu was close

Bobby
vanallen

-Pat. Says: All we have to tell you is in last Wednesday’s issue (Sept.
23). Once we start finding more videos we’ll update you on
the tracklist. I don’t think we have Blister2000. I don’t
know anything about Haverford right now, except for the fact
that it’s too far for me to drive.

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Notable Quotables
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>From Eugene Chadbourne’s new CD The Insect and Western Party –
Conversation between tracks 8 & 9 (sounds of a ball game in the
background):
Ritchie: “Knocked Brett Favre out. I don’t like to hear that.”
Chadbourne: “You know between his haircut & his build it’s like we’re
doing a recording session with a football player.”
(laughter) “I should have worn some shoulder pads.”
Ritchie: “Yeah they wrote this nasty article about the Femmes…
said that um… No we don’t use a setlist. Brian Ritchie
just calls out the tunes. It’s like a quarterback calling
out the plays in the huddle. Then the journalist says
yeah but Ritchie is built more like a linebacker.”

If the smart ass humor alone doesn’t intrigue you enough to order this
CD from Dale @ Charm School records http://www.charmrec.com/.
(shameless plug I know but it is VF related!) then how about the fact
that BR plays on 5 tracks – acoustic bass & Moroccan bugle to be exact.
Chadbourne’s recordings are… well… as unique as his song titles
(ex. The Indian Pancake Talks Once & Fuck Your Cat are my fave titles
from this CD). IMHO Chadbourne is unencumbered by the restrictions
of conventional composing and seems to have a no holds barred policy on
experimentation, improvisation, and what exactly constitutes a “musical
instrument.” Listen with an open mind & you just might get into it.
Listen with a closed mind and the electric rake might do some brain
damage! :o)

Deana
ddearry

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Hey guys. This is Jamie with a new idea. Yahoo has made it possible
to creat special “clubs” for various interest groups. Tonight I went
and made one for the Femmes. It is called “New Times Violent Femmes
Club”. It is TOTALLY free. all you have to do is get a Yahoo ID which
is free. That way you can send messages and use the chat services. The
best thing of this is that the whole thing is FREE. I will work on a
home page for it. Well the address for this club is

http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/newtimesviolentfemmsclub
I will try to get a chat session planned soon. We’ll have fun. Oh
yea by the way, I am not trying to make this services message board
replace “Never Tell” that one is probably better than the one on
Yahoo. I jsut like it mainly for the chat. We’ll see ya’ll there!

-Jamie
i_eimaj

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