From: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com (edheads-digest) To: edheads-digest@smoe.org Subject: edheads-digest V8 #73 Reply-To: edheads@efohio.com Sender: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Errors-To: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Precedence: bulk edheads-digest Friday, July 1 2005 Volume 08 : Number 073 Today's Subjects: ----------------- The Point, 6/23/2005 [msholley@APPLEVAC.COM] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:45:21 -0400 From: msholley@APPLEVAC.COM Subject: The Point, 6/23/2005 OK., I'm a week behind, but with our new email system at work and just discovering that I can again post to the list, here we go!!! So here's the skinny on the band's -final- show at The Point in Bryn Mawr, PA {at least in -this- incarnation} For those of you who don't know, they closed their doors on Saturday night, but -are- looking for another location for the venue. It will be missed and it's a bummer. For those in NoVa, think Jammin' Java, except not as long. For those in MA, think the Iron Horse without an upstairs. For those in NYC, think...um...Knitting factory but with tables....Y'all get the idea. =) Intimate venue.....great to see bands in....sucks that it's closed now. It was ont of their new Backstage/Onstage shows with a Q & A in the middle and the set -and- Q & A were fun & entertaining. Anyhoo, the set: Good at That And The Rain Crashed Down This Is Me Minnesota 1945 Hey Little Man Julie told the story of this song and that when She had Liam she wanted to write this nice, sweet song that she could sing him to sleep to , but when he was a baby soft music didn't calm him down and they'd pop in 'Fishbowl' because they were touring with that when she was pregnant with him and that'd calm him down, so she decided that she'd better make it a Mike: One of the questions that came up last night at the Ram's Head was 'Why doesn't the bass player sing more?' Ok...never mind that it was ME that asked it..... But I'm going to answer that question right now and this is by request for the Bowers....' At this point, the people at the table -behind- where the Bowers were to sit held up the 'reserved for' sign for the empty table Mike: Well then...in THAT case, this one goes out to the opium den down here{read: those of us on the couches stage Mike} Cowboy Santa Margherita Adios Lorena Julie: Does anyone know what Robbie's shirt means? Robbie then took off his guitar to show everyone his 'YOUR MOM GOES TO COLLEGE'shirt in, of course, the same color scheme as the 'Vote For Pedro' shirt from NAPOLEON DYNAMITE Robbie: It's from NAPOLEON DYNAMITE,if you aren't familiar with it. We've actually stopped communicating as a band now in sentences and -only- communicate through NAPOLEON quotes. If you haven't seen it yet, you should definitely watch it. He's the ultimate geek super-hero and after this song if instead of clapping, if everyone can just make a fist and raise their arms in front of their face and pull it down and say 'YESSSSSSSSSSS', like this, that'd be awesome. Ok....should we do a trial run?? {everyone does a trial run} Ok, and don't anyone be like the lady in Virginia who didn't wait long enough and yelled 'WHOOO HOOOOO!!!!' Fly {complete with the -entire- audience doing -awesome- Kip 'YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!'es} At this point, they did the Q & A portion of the show. During this portion, we discovered that the way the band resolves their conflicts is that they're a family, so they work things out like one{and with the help of a nipple clamp shock system according to Eddie}, that they work out who sings lead/arrangements for songs while they rehearse them out for years before recording, how they came to do the theme song for 'Golf's Ultimate Road Trip' and would they play the song{which Robbie said they were getting to later}, that Julie's son, Corey has a great voice and Mike's son, James can sing an aria back to you after hearing only ones -and- has perfect pitch{'just like his father, according to Julie--hee!}and that that night was the most that Eddie'd ever spoken in the last 14 years, both on AND off-stage. Irish Dream{why do people clap along for the first chorus or so, then never resume?? makes me crazy..esPECIALLY at the end} Baltimore The Three Fine Daughters of Farmer Brown Observation Drive{said PGA song......but y'all know that} Old Dominion{another one of my 'why don't people stay clapping???!!!' pet peeves} ENCORE Ok...-this- was awesome because Julie & Robbie were in the bathroom, so Mike & Eddie came out & Mike started to play the bass line to Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side' & Eddie played along and Mike made up a song about Julie & Robbie having to use the bathroom and Robbie came up before Julie and actually hit the stage in PERFECT timing for Mike to sing " and the people said Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew, Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew, ' then Robbie went to his mic and chimed in, too' When Julie started walking up, he changed it to being about her, too. T'was just more of the fun, extemporaneous charm & fun of a live EFO show. Mike asked Eddie to tell the same introductory story that he'd told the night before in Annaplois for the next song. Eddie: When we were in Chicago recently for a couple of shows, my girlfriend was out there for a conference, so it was nice because we got to spend some time together. One night, we went to a Blues club and we were sitting there and they announced that it was someone's birthday and asked her to get up and sing a song and then this Big ol' Blues woman that sounded like she'd smoked 6 packs of cigarettes a day and drank a bottle every day and then she BELTED out a Blues song and then said 'You all can go on, but it's my birthday, so I'm gonna keep drinkin'!!', we figured that at that point the night was just gonna go downhill from there, so we left. Alone So all in all, another fun night at an EFO show. Catch ya on the flip side!! Yay for being able to post again!!! Peace out!!{ala Kip} ~ShellsBells~ ------------------------------ End of edheads-digest V8 #73 ****************************