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VIOLENT FEMMES MAILING LIST currently run by Pat Wary The Quote Of The Day: "I danced before I had two feet, sang before I had a tongue " send your quotes to ************************************** TOUR DATES: July 18-Waukesha County Fair, Waukesha, WI July 19-Madison Theatre, Peoria, IL August 1-Spinnaker's, Palm Beach City, FL August 2-Oak Mountain Amphitheater, Pelham, AL August 8-Allen County Memorial Coliseum, Fort Wayne, IN August 9-Ben & Jerry's Folk Fest, Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI September 1-Mill City Music Fest, Wharehouse District, Minneapolis, MN ************************************** /-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/ WEB PAGES: Unofficial: http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~mmerry2/femmes.html Official: http://www.vfemmes.com Guitar: http://www.bucknell.edu/~wtorres/violent_femmes/ /-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/ IF ANYBODY HAS SUGGESTIONS FOR THE OFFICIAL WEB PAGE, EMAIL THEM THROUGH THE PAGE /-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/ In Today's Issue: All about ME! * * * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ROCK!!!!! <> ROCK!!!!! <> ROCK!!!!! <> ROCK!!!!! <> ROCK!!!!! <> ROCK!!!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Welcome back, everybody! And hello, new subscribers! My name is Pat. Wary, and I've taken over this newsletter from James Schrader. Let's all give him a round of applause for the fine way he's developed this list since he took over from Neil Fahey, the originator of the ROCK! newsletter. Now, before we begin, I'll fill you all in on who I am, so here goes, ready or not. I'm 36, which makes me one of the oldest subscribers here, although I do seem to recall there's a few older. I subscribed to this list in March 1996, so I've been here, mostly lurking, almost since the beginning. I was born in Connecticut, USA, on Labor Day, thereby announcing to the world my warped sense of humor. I received a BS in Chemistry, with almost a minor in Physics, from UCONN. I had planned to work in a museum, authenticating, dating, and otherwise testing old stuff, but it turns out most museums are located in the city(imagine that), and I prefer the country, where I can be as noisy as I want without someone calling the cops. So I got a job in the chem lab of a Nuke plant, which I hated, and was more than happy to oblige when this nice young man named Scott swept me off my feet and promised to take me away from all that. We bought a 50 acre farm here in Stillwater, Pennsylvania, and I proceeded to birth two boys over the course of a couple of years. So now I work in the garden,design wild clothes, do all kinds of needlework, paint the house when the mood hits me, and nurture the chillun'. Oh, and there's always that nasty housework stuff. I also read a lot (Camus, Kafka, Fairy and Folk tales, Sci-fi/Fantasy, mostly fantasy), and am trying to teach myself to play the bagpipes. As soon as we've added on again, I'll be getting my old piano from home. We own about 300 CD's, about as many vinyls, and some tapes. I listen to everything from 'Classical'(especially Stravinski, Dvorak, Berlioz,and Orff), Ethnic music (Irish Celtic, Qawalli, I need more mideast stuff), Pre-bigband Jazz (Bix Beiderbecke), early Rock'n'Roll (Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly), Rockabilly, Punkabilly, Psychobilly, Ska, Old and New School Punk, and many different kinds of music many people call Alternative for lack of a better word, from the early 80's to the present. And then there's the stuff which is hardest to pigeonhole, like the Balanescu Quartet and the David Grisman Quintet. I guess you could say I like all kinds of music. This week,I'm listening to a lot of the Violent Femmes (as always), Joe Strummer (remember the Clash), Fugazi, 311, Therapy?, Killing Joke, and Dada. I'm forced right now to play out of my computer, because I blew out my stereo speakers. I started listening to the Femmes in 1982, when the first album came out. The first time I heard them was like an epiphany. I remember thinking, "Now THAT'S what I've been missing!", and let me tell you that happens so rarely in life. So I have every album(except for Debacle and the elusive Film Noir), plus some singles, 3 0n 3, and a press release video. I have been to 5 Femmes concerts, and plan to go to the Newport Folk Fest in August, with my kids and my mother, who celebrates a birthday the weekend before. I just have to get tickets. OK, I'm sure I've bored you all to tears; flame away, it is deserved. I'll pretty much keep my mouth shut from here on out. This incarnation of ROCK! is now operational. If any of you have any suggestions concerning the layout of this newsletter, please submit them to me. They'll be considered. Is everyone comfortable with the name of the newsletter itself? If I had originated it, I might have called it American Music, but this works OK. I have added a couple of things to the welcome letter new subscribers get, such as "please conduct flame wars outside of this newsletter, please don't ask about band members' sexuality, we're all sick of the subject, and we don't care". For those of you who want to unsubscribe, now would be the ideal time. I'm sure there are those of you who have already asked to be removed from the list, James just couldn't get to it because I was pestering him so much for a list, any list, ASAP, like now man. So if you get this in your mailbox, and think it's Dreck, email me, and I'll remove you posthaste, tout de suite. There are currently !!!!809!!!! subscribers! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ROCK!!!!! <> ROCK!!!!! <> ROCK!!!!! <> ROCK!!!!! <> ROCK!!!!! <> ROCK!!!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~