From: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com (edheads-digest) To: edheads-digest@smoe.org Subject: edheads-digest V4 #249 Reply-To: edheads@efohio.com Sender: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Errors-To: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Precedence: bulk edheads-digest Friday, October 19 2001 Volume 04 : Number 249 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Swallow Hill, Denver ["Mark Hojegian" ] friday night in marblehead ["photomonk@earthlink.net" ] Re: EFO: Re:requests ["Carey Farrell" ] Re: Speaking of Requests [Diane Mittler ] Borders review [Nicole Carlson ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 09:39:12 -0600 From: "Mark Hojegian" Subject: Swallow Hill, Denver Hey out there! Anyone planning on attending the Swallow Hill show in Denver, CO? Let me know, we have some sick pre / post show plans right near by... Hojo _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:42:55 -0400 From: "photomonk@earthlink.net" Subject: friday night in marblehead posting a plea.. is there anyone in the boston/cambridge/somerville area who is going to the show at the me and thee who might have room for a passenger? i'd really like to see this show, but am carless. i could get to marblehead, but not back again on the T, so i am hoping someone is going who might have room for me. thanks... amy p. photomonk@earthlink.net - -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:43:24 -0500 (EST) From: efo@dirk.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: EFO: Re:requests Or go to one of Robbies Solo shows, I think the encore at Jammin Java was longer than the other two official sets he did, He took suggestions from the floor. I also managed to get Stupid american played by asking Julie when she was off stage having a drink break, this was a few years back. Ian On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Nicole Carlson wrote: > First Mike announces from onstage that I put a gun to their heads, now > Eric accuses me of using voodoo to get my requests played. I've > never heard such nonsense--I only use voodoo to influence them to tour > California more often. > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Liam Sullivan wrote: > > Since you were sucessful, what's the best way to get the band to play a > > request? Send them an e-mail ahead of time? Send them a hand-written > > request on fine stationary? Shout out "Free Bird" loudly while they're > > tuning? Are there any songs they'll absolutely refuse to play no matter how > > nicely you ask? Seriously, I'd like to hear "North Pacific Rain" one of my > > favorite songs that I've never, ever heard them play at any show I've been > > too. > > Honestly, I find it works best to politely request something at least a > day or so in advance and hope for the best. The only song I know of that > they flat-out refuse to play is Schoolhouse Rock. (They got sick of it.) > > Some hints--not that I'm saying that you've necessarily been trying wrong, > but some thoughts I've long wanted to give to everyone I've overheard > after shows going "Sucks they didn't play _____; I yelled it out during > intermission." > 1. Be polite. Remember, you're asking a favor. > 2. Yelling out requests has a success rate on par with rain dancing. > 3. If your request is out of left field, they'll need to know about it > way beforehand if it's to have any chance at all. Not just before the > show, but before sound check--they may need to run through it. At the Santa > Cruz show, someone yelled out a request for Falling Rock. Now, cool as it is > to request something obscure, EFO haven't done Falling Rock in several > YEARS. > 4. Don't take it personally. There are all kinds of compelling reasons why a > song might not get played. > > As for my own request, I was talking with Julie after the Santa Cruz show > and learned that a) they liked the way Bowling In The Hills fit into the > setlist they had in mind, and b) they had a chance to run through it during > soundcheck. Voodoo magic? Personal charm? Mad song-requesting skillz? Nah, > just a happy marriage of song request and favorable conditions for it. :) > > Good luck. > > --nicole twn > > *** > "We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm."--Winston > Churchill > Visit Nicolopolis! http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~carlsonn > nmcarlson@ucdavis.edu ana.ng@tmbg.org carlsonn@seclab.cs.ucdavis.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:39:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Jess Subject: Re: Speaking of Requests CONGRADULATIONS!!!!!!! That's awesome and you should totally email the band. Jess > At 04:31 PM 10/17/01 -0400, YourPalCM@aol.com wrote: > > I thought it would be neat if they played "Little > Man" at the show and > > somehow surprised my wife by mentioning that Julie > wasn't the only woman > > bearing child in the room. :o) > > > >That's such a corny idea that I'm embarassed that I > even thought of it, > >but what the heck. What do you guys think? And if > you don't think it's > >too corny, who would I talk to about the > possibility? > > "Caroline dreams > That's all she'll ever do > If she doesn't wake up > Won't her dreams come true?" > -the nields! ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J. Whiting Brown E LVCTVS SPES "I am not an optimist, but I am a prisoner of hope. You've got to think like that to survive." -Jess Klien Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 20:11:14 +0000 From: "Carey Farrell" Subject: Re: EFO: Re:requests >Or go to one of Robbies Solo shows, I think the encore at Jammin Java >was longer than the other two official sets he did, He took suggestions >from the floor. Hee! I was at that show, too, and the encore was at least as long as the two "official" sets put together. And he took plenty of requests. Just keep in mind, tho...it's probably not a good idea to ask him to do "Old Dominion. :) Carey _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:21:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Diane Mittler Subject: Re: Speaking of Requests Ditto on the congrats! Seems like Dancin' Joe monitors this list serve--maybe he would pass it on to Julie?! - --- Jess wrote: > CONGRADULATIONS!!!!!!! > That's awesome and you should totally email the > band. > Jess > > > At 04:31 PM 10/17/01 -0400, YourPalCM@aol.com > wrote: > > > I thought it would be neat if they played > "Little > > Man" at the show and > > > somehow surprised my wife by mentioning that > Julie > > wasn't the only woman > > > bearing child in the room. :o) > > > > > >That's such a corny idea that I'm embarassed that > I > > even thought of it, > > >but what the heck. What do you guys think? And > if > > you don't think it's > > >too corny, who would I talk to about the > > possibility? > > > > "Caroline dreams > > That's all she'll ever do > > If she doesn't wake up > > Won't her dreams come true?" > > -the nields! > > > ===== > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > J. Whiting Brown > E LVCTVS SPES > > "I am not an optimist, but I am a prisoner > of hope. You've got to think like that to survive." > -Jess Klien > Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. > http://personals.yahoo.com Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:04:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicole Carlson Subject: Borders review Hi everyone According to the little blurb at the EFO listening station in my local Borders, Quick is "their best effort yet"! - --nicole twn *** "Take a good look into the eyes of a flounder."--my psychology professor Visit Nicolopolis! http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~carlsonn nmcarlson@ucdavis.edu ana.ng@tmbg.org carlsonn@seclab.cs.ucdavis.edu ------------------------------ End of edheads-digest V4 #249 *****************************