From: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com (edheads-digest) To: edheads-digest@smoe.org Subject: edheads-digest V4 #236 Reply-To: edheads@efohio.com Sender: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Errors-To: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Precedence: bulk edheads-digest Sunday, October 7 2001 Volume 04 : Number 236 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Los Angeles October 5, 2001 ["Ron Rosen" ] Re: LA 10/5/01 Michelle Incident Addendum ["Crazylegs" Subject: Los Angeles October 5, 2001 Don't Miss the "Michelle Incident" Below I arrived at McCabes before the store closed at 6 pm (when they kick everyone out) hoping to maybe see some of the band hanging around. Sure enough I found Julie sitting on the floor behind the counter in her gray sweats inventorying some T-shirts. She remembered me from last year and we spoke about Falcon Ridge. She talked about having to go on late and having their time reduced by other people going over and the fact that so many had left by then - but how great the energy is when they are playing for a few thousand. I probably could have hung out inside the store for the next couple hours and listened to the sound check, but I chose instead to go get some food and hang out in line in front of the store in the fresh air talking to other fans, especially the lovely Stacey. FIRST SHOW I didn't keep set lists but I'll try to reconstruct. First show: Opened with Quick (Julie cupping her belly on "I wanna have mass", also did (not in correct order) No. 6 Driver, Best of Me (which Mike dedicated to some friends who were there and had a wonderful, loving, blended family, concluding, "They make me puke!"), the Simile Song (Robbie confessing he didn't know what it was about.), Hey Little Man, 1000 Sarahs (dedicated to a Sarah on her 17th birthday, complete with out of tune happy birthday song), Let's Get Mesolithic, Omar's Got a Problem, Candido and America ("Tortilla Curtain written by TC Boyle who lives just up the road in Santa Barbara"), Eddie's Drum Solo, This My Town. Mike introduce Oh My Brother by talking about the NY show. I found it very moving. The applause were subdued but about twice as long as for any other song. They did Old Dominion and Mike went off about something during the introduction which caused about a 5-10 minute delay before Robbie and Julie could get it back together to get into the song again. The show concluded with a great version of America the Beautiful which has perhaps been overplayed by all bands lately, but this version is so awesome it just stands on its own. The were a lot of jokes about Julie being pregnant. Someone told her before the show that she was "as big as a house" and Mike took off with jokes about Town House, Brownstone, concluding that she was a single family dwelling. I noticed that the way the band configures itself on stage, with Robbie and Julie on one side, and Mike on the other, you have your choice between two shows. You can watch the "serious show" - Robbie and Julie - or you can watch the Mike show. You can't really watch both at the same time because you have to turn your head. I thought, "what if they put Mike over next to Julie so you can watch both shows at once?" Then I thought, maybe it's best the way it is - so you can choose which show you want to watch at any given moment. It might be too much to watch both shows at the same instant! SECOND SHOW Julie announced that the between-show food they brought her said "Fatso" on the bag. I swiped the set list off the stage after the show, but it isn't exactly what they did (Don't Think Twice and the Simile Song are on it but weren't played). They opened with No. 6 Driver, then Stupid American, Quick, Best of Me, Hey Little Man, 1000 Sarahs, This My Town, Oh My Brother, Eddie Solo, Candido and America, Jerusalem (not on set list), Tommy the Canexican, Eddie's Concubine (which Julie threatened never to do again "and it's not because I'm pregnant, Mike,"), America the Beautiful. Encore of the song about going down in the river to pray from Brother Where Art Thou. THE MICHELLE INCIDENT If you are a tall (5'10" at least), attractive blonde with long hair, you do not want to walk in to the show 20 minutues late and take the one empty seat in the front row at stage center. But Michelle did just that. Immediately Mike and Robbie stopped stunned and the comments began, "Where have YOU been?" They really embarrased her. Julie even joined in. It was rough, but I guess Michelle withstood it. OK, so there was Michelle, in the front row, enjoying what was left of the set, drinking out of her canvas covered drinking bottle. OK, so if you're a tall attractive blonde sitting in the front row who has just made a spectacle of yourself by coming in late, you definitely DO NOT want to get up to go to the bathroom right before Mike is about to introduce the one song on which he is the featured vocalist. You just do not want to do this. But Michelle did just that. So Mike starts to talk about his great singing voice and how it's going to be featured on the next song, but now Michelle has gone, so Mike starts talking about how he's going to try to talk long enough so Michelle has a chance to tinkle, and Julie and Robbie make some disapproving comments, and Mike says that "tinkle" is an acceptable word for all ages, but now the conversation turns to peeing and urinating and Mike's trying to stall until Michelle gets back but knows she won't make it, and Robbie says things like "Mike, your pushing it." and Mike says, "That's exactly what I'm hoping Michelle is doing now." So finally Mike does Tommy the Canexican and Michelle doesn't come back until the song is over. And Mike says, you're back just in time for this next song which I wrote and which features my vocals...... After the show I said good bye to Julie, spoke to Mike about his Yamaha fretless and how he gets that fuzztone sound and why they didn't stop the show every time Barry Bond came to bat, and Mike tried to reconfigure the visor on my SF Giants cap, and Eddie was being monopolized by this one couple so I've never actually spoken one word ever to Eddie, but he did look at me appreciatively, and I spoke to Robbie and he told me how they had gotten a touring bus (sleeps 12) in San Diego and were taking it all the way up to Berkeley and can sleep on the ride and can be well rested. He said that people want to know who the band is with the bus and since people don't know who EFO is, they made up the name of some country star. Robbie told me that the bus was just around the corner if I wanted to check it out on my way out. So we said good bye and Robbie reminded me that since I'm now bi-coastal I will probably see them before they return to LA. It was a big bus with lighted little rooms and cute little window shades. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 19:53:28 -0700 From: "Crazylegs" Subject: Re: LA 10/5/01 Michelle Incident Addendum > THE MICHELLE INCIDENT > > If you are a tall (5'10" at least), attractive blonde with long hair, you do not want > to walk in to the show 20 minutues late and take the one empty seat in the front row > at stage center. But Michelle did just that. Immediately Mike and Robbie stopped > stunned and the comments began, "Where have YOU been?" They really embarrased her. Almost forgot. McCabe's is located on Pico Boulevard* right on the border of Santa Monica and West LA. So after the infamous Michelle sits down and Robbie says "Where have YOU been?" Mike says, "Are you looking for one of the Pico Boulevard AA meetings?" Oh how cruel. * If you ever listened to Dr. Dimento, you might recall one of his favorite songs was called "Pico and Sepulveda." It's a very ordinary intersection maybe a mile or so from McCabes. ------------------------------ End of edheads-digest V4 #236 *****************************