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Best viewed with Courier size 10 maximized screen ************************************************************************ The Quote Of The Day: I hate the President y'know that he's killing me -From I Hate the TV -Submitted by hanzzzz PLEASE send your VF quotes to amusic ************************************************************************ NEW TOUR DATES Sept. 19- Newport Folk Fest, Concord Pavillion, Concord, CA (P,O) Sept. 20- Fresno County Fairgrounds, Fresno, CA (P,O) Sept. 21- The Outback, Tucson, AZ (O,P) Sept. 22- Club Rio, Phoenix/Tempe, AZ (O) 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) 21+ show Oct. 23- 7 p.m. First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN (P,T) 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 Thank You, Dale Kaminski and Rob Coons, for delailed info on the WI shows! 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. 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Southern Tour? Italian Fans? Singles Online? Femmes Quiz? KROQ Flashback 500 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thanks, Andrea, for a timely and thought-provoking quote. Off-Topic:Jonathan Richman will be on Viva Variety on the Comedy Channel Tues. at 10pm, Wed. at 1am, and Sat. at 10:30pm. Any of you who would like to see a person who may well have influenced the VF should tune in. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WI Show Info ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel this morning ran an article about the Femmes 'unplugged' tour of Wisconsin in October. I'll spare you the boring parts, talking about BITS, etc. and just tell you about the show specifics... here we go... The article didn't say anything about the Green Bay show Oct. 3, but the guy I talked to there didn't say anything about it being unplugged either, so I think it's probably a regular show. Again, those tickets were $15 in advance or $20 day of show (1-800-SNC-BOXX), on sale Sept. 14... Hope all this helps! rob=) coons ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pabst Theatre Tickets ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ According to the Shepherd Express ad, VF tix for the Pabst Theatre on Halloween go on sale Monday! tombaas -Pat. Says: Yes, they are onsale right now. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ First Ave Question ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hi, I was wandering if the shows at first ave in Mn are age restricted, and if so could someone boot it for me, i'll pay. And also, does anyone know if freak magnet will be on vinyl? nick p. nick -Pat. Says: One of the First Ave shows is 21+, the other is all ages. You can get your ticket at Ticketmonster. Good Question about FM. I don't know the answer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *ALMOST* Heaven, *ALMOST* Hell! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Um...how do these things work again? Uhh, tap-tap-tap, oops, delete, tappity-tappity-tap. Alright, I'm ready now that I've refreshed rusty writing reflexes. I apologize for the belatedness of the WVU review, but I've been busy alright?! A few months ago, one of my friends told me of his quest to have sex in all 50 states. That's all well and good for him, but since I'm such a stick-in-the-mud, old-habits-die-hard, Why CAN'T I get just one fuck?, because "Religion ruined my life, halleleujah!" moralist, I tried to think of something *I* could at least try to do in as many states as possible. The perfect answer finally came to me--Violent Femmes shows!!! The only problem I could see was, where in WVA could the Femmes possibly play. I mean, they wouldn't exactly be welcome on the campus of Appalachian Bible College (That's a shame; it'd do a lot of those students a lot of good to hear a VF song!) A few months later, Deana calls to tell me the Femmes are playing a date at WVU, WITH TMBG! and IT'S FREE!!! Of course I had to go! After 15-16 hours in a car, I was VERY HAPPY to see the WVU campus. Kate (who I always think is a female version of Gordon: very dark hair, very blue eyes, and very short! ;) and Josh, two of my best friends from back in PA had driven the 7 hours out to my new residence in IN the evening before, so they'd had even more experience with a numb-butt, my favorite road-trip symptom! I told them they were crazy, since they live a mere 2.5 hours from Morgantown and instead they turned it into a 22 hour trip to the concert, but they insisted they wanted to spend time with me. Shucks-darn, I'm touched but that's just nuts! One of the highlights of the concert happened almost immediately after we arrived and that was getting to meet up with other people from the list--passing the time before the music started was actually enjoyable! Kate had "enjoyed" herself so much she was losing coherency while we were waiting for the Giants to play. "I can't wait for TMBJ!" she said. "Kate?" said I, "They Might Be Jelly-doughnuts? They Might Be Jock-itch? They Might Be Jehovah's Witnesses? What exactly are you trying to tell me dear?" The Giants' set was wonderful good fun! "Apes! Apes! Apes! Apes!//Peo-ple! Peo-ple!" And of course the highlight was the puppet-heads, although I must note John #3 that I think they say "Ba Bada Ba Bada-ba-ba" and not just "Da Da Da Da" or whatever--that just reminded me of the Volkswagon commercial with the now infamous song by this group named "Trio" that was from Germany (appropriate since where are VWs made? but the group sucked.) They tried to get us to do a congo line, and I really enjoyed joining in at a previous TMBG show but there was no way I was losing my spot so we all kinda congo'd left a step, congo'd right a step, congo'd forward, congo'd backward, rinse, repeat. All in all, I'd have to agree with Deana--I enjoyed the TMBG set more than the Femmes, but I think that had a lot to do with the crowd, which wasn't as stupid while the Giants played. The "musicians" that played in between TMBG and the Femmes are the root of all that's evil! I could have listened to some Parliament, I could have listened to some Aretha, but I just couldn't listen to their dumb-ass mixing. I was soooooo tired and I wanted to just close my eyes and go to sleep but I couldn't bring myself to be quite that rude. I think I annoyed them by not playing any of their reindeer games though--I did not wave my hands in the air like I just didn't care, I did not shake my booty--I put in ear plugs and ate some peanuts. I actually did fall asleep waiting for the Femmes. Apparently I looked like I needed bothered because "sweaty, naked man" rudely nudged me and said "Wow man! Like, how can you sleep standing up?!" I told him I learned it from my horses and that there are lots of things one can learn from horses. For instance, I know a man who is sterile because one time he woke a sleeping horse and it kicked him in the balls. Fascinating, isn't it? When the Femmes came on it was obvious the crowd's intelligence had fled in horror after being insulted by the previous act. It was the worst fucking crowd I've EVER been in. I was constantly crushed up against the barrier for the entire show and had to fight to breathe. For several days afterward I had a nice bruise line right across my ribs and on both hip-bones from the barrier. Never, never have I been in a crowd like that! I felt terrible because I could barely concentrate on the show--fortunately or unfortunately, it was a pretty standard set. However, it was nice to hear Guy talk during the show, Gordon was the "happy dancing little man", Brian looked "way cool!", and it was good to see Johnny back. When introductions were made, Brian introduced Gordon simply by name, no quirky little joke. Maybe he couldn't think of anything to say? Gordon got Brian pretty good though by introducing him as "Mr. Personality---BRIAN RITCHIE!!!" Brian's intro to Dance MF Dance explained how they were going to play an old John Denver song, one that he'd taught them when he stopped by their dressing room once to check them out. Of course, they changed it around a little bit and now, it goes like this. . .! When the guys returned to play Add It Up, Brian apologized for not being able to play longer, but said they were going to play their "best song" and that should satisfy everybody. Then they struck up with "Almost Heaven/ West Virginia/ Blue Ridge Mountains/ Shenendoah River/ Dark and dusky/ DAAAAAAAYYYYY...AFTERRRRRRR DAAAAAYYYYYYY!" Does anybody want to tell him how out of place the "dark and dusky" line is?--It's from the middle of the 2nd verse. Oh well. All told, some parts of the trip were "Almost Heaven"-ly while others were almost hellish!!!! Speaking of which, anybody out there with an extensive bootleg collection, at what point did Gordon change the words in Country Death Song to "Good children go to Hell"??????? Just curious! love****amber amberlace ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Southern Tour? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I was wondering if the Femmes were going to set some tour dates in Florida this year? Maybe somewhere near Tampa? Dan Crick dbcrick1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Italian Fans? Singles Online? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Do you know if there's any Italian VF fans out there? I mean, I'm the one and only receiving the American Music list in Italy (I'm from Milan)? I'd like to find out some Italian femmes-maniacs to talk to. Let me know about it. Do you know if there's any music store on the net where I can find VF singles, like Breakin' Up or Machine, etc.? I never found 'em in Italy. Always waiting for FM (any good news?), Andrea hanzzzz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Femmes Quiz? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Can we just compile answers for the quiz so that someone can get it right so we can get some correspondence back on the web page? Can everyone give the answers that they are 100% sure on and then we'll go from there. 1. Jesus 3. Green Bay Packers 4. fuck 6. BoDeans 7. Star Trek - the next generation 8. 1981 11. 300,000 12. high school 14. Pretenders 16. Dr. Barry Baumann 17. Dahmer 18. Canada 19. Drake Scott and Caleb Lentzer All replys welcome. "Bring it on!!" LilBoek ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ KROQ Flashback 500 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hey!!! Okay, check it out, for Labor Day Weekend, last week, this big L.A. radio station, KROQ, counted down the top 500 "flashback" songs, which are pretty much all 80's songs that they used to play. Anyway, the Femmes had 5 songs on it: #293 - American Music #52 - Gone Daddy Gone #34 - Add It Up #16 - Blister in the Sun #3 - Kiss Off so I thought that was really cool. The Femmes had four of the top 52, more than anybody else, even Depeche Mode, or the Cure, the overall top 2 bands. KROQ does these periodically and last time the same five songs were on it, but American Music was 400-something and Gone Daddy Gone was 200-something. And Blister was #3, and I think Add it Up was 16 and Kiss Off was 48. If anybody wants to know what # a certain song was, just e-mail me. I'll list the top 10 here: 10 - Buffalo Soldier - Bob Marley (KROQ apparently used to play a lot of Bob Marley) 9 - Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo (crazy song, has the cool line: "I wish I was in Tijuana, eating barbecued iguana...") 8 - Jane Says - Jane's Addiction (has anybody heard "All I Want" from Freak Magnet? it sounds like Jane Says) 7 - 88 Lines About 44 Women - The Nails (um, well, what the hell do you say about this???) 6 - Just Like Heaven - The Cure (AHHHH!!!! I love this song. It's my second favorite Cure song, right after Close to Me) 5 - Anything Anything - Dramarama (this was #1 last time, Tainted Love was #2) 4 - Madness - One Step Beyond (whatever... this is probably only up here because of the recent Madness reunion. like I said, whatever...) 3 - KISS OFF - VIOLENT FEMMES!!!!!!!! 2 - Brass Monkey - Beastie Boys (My favorite song from Licensed to Ill (Paul Revere) was only #30, but I guess that's good...) ...and the #1 flashback song.... Blasphemous Rumours - Depeche Mode!! Can you believe that?!?! Blasphemous FRIGGING Rumours!! Geeez... Nick mypen15 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RE: Lots of Stuff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <> Lets see, you were in the front row- people bashing up against you all night no doubt....and a headache with ringing in your ears - I take it that you did not wear earplugs....here's a little tip...... EARPLUGS ARE NOT LAME THEY ARE SMART. If you think they block out too much sound go to a music store(one that sells instruments not cds) And ask someone about good earplugs that don't block out too much. That way when you are sixty something you might still have good hearing. And no more headaches or ringing after a concert. <> YES <> DID YOU HAVE TO PUT THOSE TWO PEOPLE IN THE SAME Sentence? WHATS WRONG WITH YOU? <> SOUNDS LIKE A WHOLE LOT OF EXCUSES. THEY HAVE SUPPOSEDLY BEEN EXPRESSING INTEREST FOR MANY MONTHS NOW :) -Pat. Says: Well, when you get an inside line on things, let us know, OK? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~