From: owner-alloy-digest To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V1 #14 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Thursday, 4 July 1996 Volume 01 : Number 014 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: survey Alloy: Dream songlist/Still lurking about! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ind.wnin@smtp.usi.edu Date: Wed, 3 Jul 96 15:14:49 -0400 Subject: Alloy: survey Ok, looks like we need a survey to get things going here at Alloy. Topic: Say TMDR started touring again. What would be your idea of a DREAM song list for the shows?? Hope to get 100% participation! P.S. Haven't heard from those who were some of the main kspace regulars. So would everyone mind announcing themselves to the list? You know, " Hi, I'm Monya De, email ind.wnin@smtp.usi.edu"... Monya ------------------------------ From: BugRoom@aol.com Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 20:08:06 -0400 Subject: Alloy: Dream songlist/Still lurking about! Great call, Monya! Hmmm... the ultimate Thomas Dolby show for John Neil... (thinking as I listen to XTC's _Drums_And_Wireless_... maybe I should turn the volume down...). Okay, here it goes... (with a bit more information than requested... oops!): Imagine if you will, a relatively large but intimate club such as The Paradise in Boston. The crowd goes immediately mad because the stage that once revealed a full band setup-- drums, electronic percussion, keyboard setups, racks and racks of synth modules and processors, camera projectors like the kind used in high school classes, ham radios, an old 1950's television set up on the weather channel, bass and guitars set up on guitar stands for the respective players, microphones everywhere, chemistry equipment like in old Bugs Bunny cartoons (of course), walls of old fashioned synth patch-bay modules stacked 7' high, and a rain stick-- goes completely dark. Anticipation builds. In the dark, out comes several strange-but-elegantly clad musical geniuses who walk to their instruments. The crowd's madness builds up to a wild frenzy as a count-off is heard. The stage goes red, while they subtly start playing excerpts from "The Ascent Of Man". As they sonic-ly hypnotize the audience into a high they've never felt before, a spotlight hits the left side of the stage... it's... it's THOMAS DOLBY!! A deafening roar fills the room! He walks up to his mike in the center, picks up his strap-on MIDI keyboard controller, puts it on, motions a count-off with it... 1,2,3,4... stage goes bright, and they break into... what's this?... "NUVOGUE"!! Yes!! (Deafening crowd sounds are a given at this point on) He then breaks into: 3) "Radio Silence"... done in the Lene Lovich manner of course... with Lene Lovich there!! 4) "Windpower" 5) "One Of Our Submarines"... brand new extended mix that sounds like the original, but it breaks into really cool things, and while this is happening, out pops Fiorella Terenzi! Without missing a beat, the music cleverly segues into: 6) "N.E.O." - Afterwards, Thomas introduces this brilliant beautiful person. Then they break into: 7) "Quantum Mechanic". Dr. Terenzi remains on-stage, as they go into a hauntingly stirring rendition of: 8) "I Live In A Suitcase" & 9) "The Flat Earth" Then the show goes on and many more great things happen: 10) "Europa & The Pirate Twins"/"Eastern Bloc" medley... 11) "Cruel" segueing into: 12) "Mulu The Rain Forest" 13) "Flying North" 14) "Airwaves" 15) "New Toy"/"She Blinded Me With Science"/"Get Out Of My Mix" medley (oh, George Clinton makes a guest appearance for that which leads to:) 16) "May The Cube Be With You" (which lasts about 20 minutes, building and building, with a long Peter Frampton rock ending). Encores (and I will demand them...): 1) "Neon Sisters" 2) "Cloudburst" At Shingle Street 3) "Beauty Of A Dream" 4) "Valley Of The Mind's Eye" Lull the audience into a trance-like ecstasy... then throw: 5) "Hyperactive" at them... done very differently and strangely (cyber-land meets live performance)... big ending... Great show! Applause, applause. Sorry this was so long, but this dream concert has been building up for a while!! - --John Neil bugroom@aol.com http://members.aol.com/bcchsjihad ps - Sorry I've been so scarce. I've been busy, and haven't had much to say... until now (hi Monya!... and all of you). ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V1 #14 **************************