From: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com (edheads-digest) To: edheads-digest@smoe.org Subject: edheads-digest V6 #45 Reply-To: edheads@efohio.com Sender: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Errors-To: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Precedence: bulk edheads-digest Monday, March 10 2003 Volume 06 : Number 045 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Gypsy Tea Room [ImSerius2@aol.com] (nEFOc) Jump, Little Children: Dock Street 2002 Tree Announcement [Bryan ] Re: Gypsy Tea Room [Nicole the Wonder Nerd ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 15:30:25 EST From: ImSerius2@aol.com Subject: Gypsy Tea Room Here's a review of EFO's show at the Gypsy Tea Room in Dallas, TX, from 3/8/03 compliments of my friend Paul Brown (the OTHER Paul Brown, not the crazy Edhead from northern Michigan). He sent pix, too - if you're interested in seeing them, e-mail me off the list and I'll share. Side note, if you've never seen Christopher Williams, you should - I really was hoping he and Eddie would do a djembe jam together. Suzie Tee ************************* Well, even though it was my very first time to see the Eddies live and in person, I'll attempt to give you a bit of a review... They played the Gypsy Tea Room last night to basically a sold out room -- tix had been for sale through a local service, and possibly due to having that advance count, they had about 100-120 chairs set out, 10 to a row --- the Tearoom is a long room with the stage at one end, but only about 25-30 feet across. And on a side note, the city of Dallas recently enacted a smoking ban in restaurants (and bars?) within the city limits -- so the Tearoom was pleasantly (surprisingly) smoke-free.... and additional plus... Christopher Williams opened up, doing a good set, mixing in his usual acapella, guitar, and djembe-based tunes, and joking about the snow in Boston. Before his set was over, though, they were having to bring in more chairs (rattling around), but not being too distracting. The crowd definitely liked him, but he didn't do an encore. I asked him during the break if he was going to do a percussion jam with Eddie, but he said they hadn't had time to work it out.... After about a 10 minute break, EFO came out, to hoots and hollers from the crowd, which had grown to possibly 150(?). For you fashion mavens out there, Eddie was in an almost-Hawaiian shirt (I think), Mike in basic black with tan pants, Robbie in dark navy, and Julie wore plaid pants and a black button-down v-neck sweater... Not knowing their material that well, I didn't EVEN attempt to take a setlist, but I'll hit a few points... They opened with (I'm guessing, based upon Suzie Tee's prior review) "Irish Dream", followed by "Loitering In The Lobby"... followed by "Quick"... after that, it was just song after song -- they were having fun, it was plain to see... They gave some nice credit to Chris W, joking that "we've been friends... well, acquaintances... for about 10 years..." other songs I know included "Hey Little Man," "Tommy the Canexican," "1000 Sarahs," "Eddie's Concubine," (side note: at one point during the song, Mike and Robbie both get behind/beside Julie and do some sort of fast "yak yak yak yak yak" thing a couple times.... but before the second time, Mike and Robbie whispered to each other quickly... and when they did it the second time (non-mic'd), it sounded like they were saying "F*ckf*ckf*ckf*ckf*ckf*ck", which broke Julie (and the crowd) up for several seconds.....) ... a new one, supposedly inspired by "Joe Millionaire"s apparently poor choice of the woman who loves horses, basically around that it's a mistake to get involved with a woman who owns/loves a horse, because you'll always be #2..... A Dylan cover of "It's All Right"... (They didn't do "Mesolithic", although I had my tshirt on, sent to me by Suzie.... :^( but the shirt got good comments from a few fans... ) And the Texas puns were flying through most of the set... a line about "Texas" being an adverb, to magnify something, as in, 'It's not just cold, it's TEXAS cold..." "She's TEXAS beautiful..." and a pun I can't remember right now, that Mike apparently got booed for in Houston, but Robbie got laughs for in Dallas... after a discussion of superheroes by Robbie about "Captain Underpants", leading to "Fly"... which has a nice line -- "I'm seven years tall..." Eddie ("Three Sticks", his blues name, like Blind Melon Jefferson) did a very impressive percussion solo -- damn, can that man's hands fly... in the middle of it, after hitting a low note on a djembe, somebody hooted, and he immediately paused, looked out at the audience with a full-toothed grin, and said (like a little kid) "why, thank you!"... to much laughter... and proceeded on...And there were obviously fans there with Virginia ties, who whooped it up at any mention of the state, of course... Thus, "Old Dominion" was quite the hit.... And the encore tunes included the Youngblood's "C'mon People Now"... All in all, it was a really enjoyable gig... all too short, but they played a good 80-90 minutes. Good stuff... Paul ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 21:31:27 -0500 From: Bryan Hall Subject: (nEFOc) Jump, Little Children: Dock Street 2002 Tree Announcement We are announcing a CD tree for the four Jump, Little Children shows from Dock Street 2002. If you would like to have your own personal copies of these shows on CD, this tree should be the fastest and most efficient way to get them. If you want to be part of this tree, please go to http://www.shelleymonster.com/tree01/ for details and the signup form. Signups open 10 March at 12am (midnight tonight) and close 17 March at 11:59pm. For anyone unfamiliar with what a tape/CD tree is, there is plenty of explanatory information at the site. If you have any questions or run into any problems with the website, please email me ( bah213@nyu.edu ) with "Dock Street 2002" in the subject line. I apologize for the off-topic post, but I know there are Jump fans on the list, and these shows are a wonderful introduction to a great band that I think all of you would love. Please feel free to pass this announcement on to anyone you feel may be interested. Bryan Hall, Admin Melissa Bollbach, Seed Shelley Adams, Webmaster ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 20:17:45 -0800 From: Nicole the Wonder Nerd Subject: Re: Gypsy Tea Room > Canexican," "1000 Sarahs," "Eddie's Concubine," (side note: at one point > during the song, Mike and Robbie both get behind/beside Julie and do some > sort of fast "yak yak yak yak yak" thing a couple times.... but before the > second time, Mike and Robbie whispered to each other quickly... and when they > did it the second time (non-mic'd), it sounded like they were saying > "F*ckf*ckf*ckf*ckf*ckf*ck", which broke Julie (and the crowd) up for several The "echo" in the third verse of Eddie's Concubine is sort of tradition. It started live (it's not on the album) within months of the song's debut. (My guess is that--like Candido & America, where the harmonies on the bridge didn't evolve until after the album's release--the song was not *quite* finished when committed to CD.) At first, they played it pretty straight: Julie: Eddie is a nightclub owner, a man who runs a double life Mike & Robbie: He runs a double life! Julie: He says that when he sells his business, he promises he'll leave his wife Mike & Robbie: He says he'll leave his wife! But they soon grew bored and used the opportunity for a gag or two. Mike & Robbie would bounce around the stage like maniacs before converging--apparently spontaneously!--on Julie's mic. Or else they'd intentionally garble their lines. (This sounds lame, but was actually pretty funny coming in the middle of a carefully enunciated song.) The most recent development is the gag you noticed, wherein Robbie & Mike invent a new second line moments before saying it. Generally it ties in to the location or the evening's running gag or something. For example, from Santa Cruz: Julie: ...he promises he'll leave his wife Mike & Robbie: She's a banana slug! (referring to the UC Santa Cruz banana slugs) Unlike, say, Robbie's mutable bit from the end of Great Day (which I am sure is pre-written), these bits are always improv. Like other band gags, though, it's always EXTRA fun if Julie is rendered temporarily incapable of singing. :) - --nicole twn *** "Thank God I'm not teaching this class."--guest lecturer in Programming Languages class Visit www.nicolopolis.com ... digital nonsense for a weary world. ------------------------------ End of edheads-digest V6 #45 ****************************