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The Quote Of The Day:

“Now we are going to put you to sleep with a little lullaby”
-Said by gordon before playing good feelings.
last song of night, infest music festival,
summer 1993, highriver, alberta, canada
-Submitted by tylerboa

PLEASE send your VF quotes to amusic

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TOUR DATES:

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,T)
Nov. 5- Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, CA (O,P) (with Devo, Ween)
Nov. 7- University of South Florida, Tampa, FL (P)
Nov. 9- 7:30 p.m. Hunka Bunka Ballroom, Sayreville, NJ, $18.50 (P,T)
Nov. 10- 7:30 p.m., Irving Plaza, New York, NY, $26.50 (P,O,T)
Nov. 11- University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL (O,P)
Nov. 13- Haverford College, Haverford, PA (O)

TENTATIVE TOUR DATES:
THERE IS NO LONGER ANY WORD ON THE OFFICIAL HOMEPAGE ABOUT
THE INERTIA TOUR. I’LL KEEP AN EYE ON THEIR PAGE.

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
else on the list also going? Check here first!

Madison, WI
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vgrun464 (Victoria)

Milwaukee, WI
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schrader (James)
tombaas (Tom)
DidacticCP(John)
Kittricken (Kathryn)

Chicago, IL
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DidacticCP (John)

Sayreville, NJ
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Fraggle3 (Shannon)

New York, NY
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Fraggle3 (Shannon)

Orlando, FL
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PsychoEvil (Colin)

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ALL CORRESPONDENCE CONCERNING THIS LETTER SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO
AMUSIC
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WEB PAGES:

Official: http://www.vfemmes.com

Unofficial: http://vf.scopemag.com if this doesn’t work, try:
http://206.103.163.50
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palladium/6918
http://members.aol.com/kittricken/index.html
VF Message
Board: http://red.cscwc.pima.edu/~cstaley/femmes/board.html

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

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:

FOR SALE: 2 Tickets For Madison, WI
Simulcast!
Taping at Irving Plaza
New Webpage
RE: Official Webpage
RE: Geek Rock
RE: Geek Rock
RE: Freak Magnet
RE: Freak Magnet
RE: Freak Magnet

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FOR SALE: 2 Tickets For Madison, WI
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I’ve got 2 tickets for the Barrymore Theatre Oct 25– $50 for the
pair–face value.
email me.
-Tom
-tombaas

-Pat. Says: There has to be SOMEBODY who wants these! Tell me, would
you split the tickets?

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Simulcast!
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FYI:
The Oct 22 & 23 shows at First Ave in Mpls MN will be web cast from the
Ave.
the site is:
http://www.first-avenue.com/

Jill
dis
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Taping at Irving Plaza
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Hey now,
Does anyone know where would be the best place to stand at Irving Plaza
to tape the show?? Any help would be appreciated, I have never taped a
show there with microphones.

peace
matto
mowen5

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New Webpage
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OK, after being coming way too fustrated with the Official Homepage I’ve
decided to create my own. Or maybe more like “our” own webpage. I have
plenty of free space on AOL to build a page and would be more than
willing to use it. All you guys have to do is send me any pictures,
stories, lyrics, quotes from the band, whatever. It’s all up to you.
I’m going to have a page titled “Authors of this page”
where anyone who sent material will be listed. What does everyone
think?

Kathryn

Update:

It’s up and running. Or at least I think it is. You can never tell
with these homepage things.

http://members.aol.com/kittricken/index.html

I’m warning you right now it’s kind of naked hopefully I will have stuff
up by the time you guys see this.

Cio Babies,
Kathryn
Kittricken

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RE: Official Webpage
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>I have an idea let’s bitch!!! Let’s bitch until there is nothing left
>to bitch about. And then bitch some more for good measure. What’s
>the point of having an official homepage if it’s only updated every
>four months.

i just hope everything works out for the femmes in the end with all
that…that’s what is most important…but i do think that if they put
up an official page they are asking for an ass kicking by not updating
it!! it’s a femmes tease and i can’t take that!!!!! i’m such a baby
whine boy!!! i’ll quit college and go work for them…folow them around
like a little goat boy and take notes on everything that’s going down
and write some crappy horse html so everybody can be happy….and they
only have to pay me a nickel!!!!
i should write some type of bitchy email to the webpage people…then
they can tell me if i dig the femmes so much why don’t i answer the
freaking contest correctly..grrrr
i don’t care i love cheese….

> I must comment that I 100% agree with Kyle.

as for this…hmmm my first thought was…this girl is insane!!…my
friend said that if the agree percentage is over 94.6% then we have to
hump and make babies….and i said ugga bugga…go to your cave..
quote me on nothing

Kyle_Souza

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RE: Geek Rock
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Via my developmental liking for the VFemmes, along the way my subsequent
tastes have led me to Pavement (got to be one of the ultimate “we don’t
give a fuck” styles) who came into my life out of nowhere.

I would be interested if others have VFemmes geek rock spinoff taste
likings with Cake, Sonic Youth, Weezer (the kings of geek pop), Lyle
Lovett (the king of country geek) pre hype Bare Naked Ladies, ect… .
Please post so I can pursue and grow.
Reel Big Fish, Aquabats, ….. Cotton Matters….

CJM
C1J2M3Com

Erik”36″ Foisy
thehappycyclops

-Pat. Says: I always thought of him as pre-teen metal.

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RE: Freak Magnet
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> Second, get rid of “Happiness Is” (a.k.a. The Chocolate Turtle
>Song.)

Hey, I really like that song!

> Third, Forbidden Must go.

Hey, I like that song too!!

> Other than that it’s a great album.

Phew!!!

Erik”36″ Foisy
thehappycyclops

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RE: Freak Magnet
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> I mean, Freak Magnet has been ready
>for more than a year, and nothing happens

it seems like wasted material to me….they started promoting the album
by telling everyone about it and they are also playing songs off it
night after night….and for the most part(people on the list excluded)
strike all that ughh i’m having a hard time..
when bands start touring they play songs off their new album to support
that album…..there is no album to support!!! it could be out next
year for all i know…and then they are going to have to regenerate
some new type of feeling..ok i think i am nuts now…they play songs
from 1981 all the time and they don’t smell…..i have three tests
today…brain overload!!!!!!!
ackk

Kyle_Souza

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>Should we all take a moment of silence, to remember the poor ill
>received child of the band? (Let’s not lie, if Interscope didn’t want
>to release it’s most likely because it was ill recieved.)

I don’t think we can assume Freak Magnet wasn’t released because
Interscope didn’t like it. I think it’s a lot more likely that the
band dropped Interscope. Interscope never added the Femmes to their
website, never did any promotion prior to May 1st and the imminent
release of the disc and from what I understand was not prepared to put
much money behind the disc anyway. The promo discs were printed and
sent to stores a la carte (completely blank except for black & white
titles and a bio that could have been written by Ben Stein for its
lack of enthusiasm). Check your local store to see how many promos come
out without cover art of some kind – not succesful ones! The
promotional poster was only 1/3 of normal poster size and devoid of
imagination as well. Even before the release was cancelled it was
obvious Interscope had no intention of supporting this disc.

>First thing I would do is get
>rid of the remakes of “I Wanna See You Again” and “I’m Nothing”.

I do agree with this. I don’t care what the thought was behind this –
it doesn’t do the songs, the band, or the fans any justice.

>Second, get rid of “Happiness Is” (a.k.a. The Chocolate Turtle
>Song.)

NO WAY!! To me this will always be known as “The Stoner Song!”
It’s the song that should have had a running time of 4:20 :OP
Send hate mail if you want but I’m not saying Gordon does drugs
and I’m not advocating drug use – but come on he HAD to be under
the influence of something to write such silly, fucked up lyrics!
Damn I love it!!!
Maybe he took a little too much Nyquil or something 😛

PS – I think he wrote A story the same evening

Glad to see everyone writing again.
wisconsinsane

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