From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #179 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, April 24 2007 Volume 16 : Number 179 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: First concerts [2fs ] Re: First concerts ["Michael Sweeney" ] First concerts/Commack Arena ["Mark P" ] Re: First concerts/Commack Arena [Rex ] Re: First concert [Bradley Wood ] Re: First concerts [Eric Loehr ] reap ["Aaron L." ] Re: First concert ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: First concert ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: Machismo Festapalooza ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: First concert [michaeljbachman@comcast.net] katrina & the clash [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: First concerts/Commack Arena [kevin ] Re: First concert [kevin ] Re: First concert [kevin ] Re: First concerts [kevin ] Re: First concert ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: First concert [2fs ] RE: First concert ["Bachman, Michael" ] RE: First concert [kevin ] Re: First concert [kevin ] Re: First concert [kevin ] RE: First concert [Carrie Galbraith ] State of the Ebert [Jeff Dwarf ] RE: First concert [kevin ] gone shopping ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:11:51 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: First concerts On 4/23/07, Rex wrote: > > > I've never seen a single Beatle or Velvet in live performance. > > And it took me way too long to get around to seeing Dylan, too. As I said, I saw the Stones. Never seen the Who or any members thereof. Never seen any Beatles (and probably won't...and frankly, if Ringo played a concert and I went, would that really count?). Never seen Dylan. Seen Reed. Never seen Cale (would love to: of all the folks here I haven't seen, he'd be at the top. Next would be Dylan). - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:36:16 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: First concerts Jon floyded: >Roger Waters, "Pros and Cons of Hitchiking" in Philly. Probably a third of >the >audience was there for Clapton. I saw that tour, too, when it swung through Chicago (suburban Rosemont, actually). Thought I liked the album (perhaps I did then), but replayed it recently (on Rhapsody; I only own it on vinyl) and found it nigh onto unlistenable*. ("'Jump' says Yoko Ono / 'I'm too scared and too good looking' I cried" -- my gawd, what the hell was that crap?) At least the first half of the show -- with all the Floyd songs (and props) - -- was great...and Clapton just kept standing there, smoking cigs, doing the Frank Z. thang of shutting up and playin' yer guitar... Michael Sweeney *Although, I'd probably still end up favoring it over the latter, non-Waters Floydian output... _________________________________________________________________ Exercise your brain! Try Flexicon. http://games.msn.com/en/flexicon/default.htm?icid=flexicon_hmemailtaglineapril07 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:37:46 -0400 From: "Mark P" Subject: First concerts/Commack Arena >>Oh yes, me too. Skated there, went to the Clyde Beatty Circus every year, Ducks Games, you name it. Then when I was 13-14 (1976 - 77) I went to a lot of shows: Charlie Daniels w/ Mark Farner opening (the redneck audience chased Farner off the stage with a barrage of beer bottles); Robin Trower w/ Eddie Money; Utopia* w/ Cheap Trick. It was great with the floor being totally open - like a big party. I remember seeing a guy walking around with a four foot bong offering hits to everyone. Ah, the 70's... > It's a bloody supermarket/shopping center now. I thought they put a Home Depot there. - - -tc<< Tom, Haven't been past there for ages. Twenty or so years or better come to think of it. Thought there was a King Kullen supermarket last time I past. Maybe the Home Depot came after ...? ...maybe I misstepped a couple hundred yards or so. Place was a dump but it was wicked cool and it's way missed. So many memories of the parents taking us *way* up island -from Medford- before we were able to drive the fifteen/twenty miles ourselves. Easier drive than out to Uniondale in Nassau county. Anyway ...the folks were awesome to all us little rock 'n' roll degenerates as my friends' parents as well as mine would take us to shows, drive back - -if a Coliseum show- the forty some miles -each way mind ya- then turn around and drive back out a couple hours later to pick us up and take us home. Dunno if I'd do that! ;-) Got another Commack show for the history books. Ten Years After/Peter Frampton ...forget who else was on that bill. Early in my high school senior year so it was September/Oct of '75. A bit of that Frampton gig made it to Framptoon Comes Alive. Idea for another threadline ...how many live elpees are you actually *on*? >>*Utopia keyboardist Roger Powell works here at Apple now.<< No foolin'. He concocted that hand held Powell Probe keyboad thingy back around his time in Utopia. Smart dude I reckon, eh? He released a solo elpee wayback before his stint in Utopia ...synthy melange entitled "Cosmic Furnace". Might have to dig that out. Just did a quick Google, it's been reished on ceedee, hmmm. That Utopia/Cheap Trick show was Thanksgiving Eve, '77 ...I think? I was expecting a full-on Utopia RA show -"Singring and The Glass (ice for the smash-up from high atop the tubular pyramid) Guitar", laser eyes/smokin' nostrils spyhnx, Todd performing his acrobatics on the jungle gym pyramid- but they were into a half RA/half Ooops, Wrong Planet show by then. Alas. Good show though, as much as I fuzzily remember. I think it was that weekend the Good Rats headlined the place. Could be wrong. Bunch of other all L.I. bar bands on that bill. Jitterbug Jones for one. They had a guitarist in the band who would Zal all up (mime-ishly in grease paint and clowny toggery) for the Sensational Alex Harvey Band gaggle of songs they'd cover. Anyway. The guy would do himself up like a clown for the entire gig actually, every time I saw 'em anyway. J-Jones KICKED Twisted Sister to the CURB! There ya go ...the 70s ... Long Island had BAR BANDS that covered the likes of Alex Harvey. Ain't ever gonna happen again ...ever!? Mark ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:47:54 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: First concerts/Commack Arena On 4/23/07, Mark P wrote: > > > Got another Commack show for the history books. Ten Years After/Peter > Frampton ...forget who else was on that bill. Early in my high school > senior year so it was September/Oct of '75. A bit of that Frampton > gig made it to Framptoon Comes Alive. Framptoon! I envision the cover all Roger Rabbitty now. Or maybe PF's face and headstock bursting through the Loony Toons logo. The only commercially issued live record I'm "on" that I can think of is the live mini-set on Sonic Youth's "Dirty Boots" EP. I think there might be another one that's slipping my mind just now, though. - -Rx ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:49:05 +0000 From: Bradley Wood Subject: Re: First concert My first concert was the now nearly forgotten band, Mad River, when they played my high school. Second concert was Altamont. Somewhat different vibe. Bradley _________________________________________________________________ Explore the seven wonders of the world http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=7+wonders+world&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:00:23 -0400 From: Eric Loehr Subject: Re: First concerts OK, I'll bite, since Jeff mentions the Who. Messers Lang and Godwin have me beat by a few years, but my first show was the Who, Jethro Tull, and It's a Beautiful Day at Tanglewood (Lenox, MA) 7/7/70. Never saw a Beatle, but have seen the Stones, Dylan, and Reed. Eric "didn't quite make it to Woodstock" 2fs wrote: > On 4/23/07, Rex wrote: >> >> I've never seen a single Beatle or Velvet in live performance. >> >> And it took me way too long to get around to seeing Dylan, too. > > > > As I said, I saw the Stones. Never seen the Who or any members thereof. > Never seen any Beatles (and probably won't...and frankly, if Ringo played a > concert and I went, would that really count?). Never seen Dylan. Seen Reed. > Never seen Cale (would love to: of all the folks here I haven't seen, he'd > be at the top. Next would be Dylan). ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:27:39 -0500 From: "Aaron L." Subject: reap Boris Yeltsin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:38:09 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: First concert >From: "Lauren Elizabeth" >Subject: Re: First concert >Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:34:04 -0400 >Max says: >>I saw my first show at the Spectrum as well, the fourth night of Bowie's >>four night stand on the Serious Moonlight tour. >i went the first and second night to those shows (not my first >concert(s).) it was the last time i went to a stadium show as long as >i don't count the time i was tricked into seeing r.e.m. at temple's >stadium (r.e.m. was originally scheduled to play the dell west <- not >called the dell west anymore (but i haven't caught up with the east >river drive being renamed yet.)) The Mann Music Center? I've only been to the Robin Hood Dell once, for Stanley Clarke. REM's hits tour? The sound at the Liacorous Center is worse than worseless. I saw them open for the Police at JFK in an early 80's something, they were great that day. >i spent a not insignificant part of my teenager years waiting in line >at the local sears (i think it was a ticketmaster agent or something) >for concert tickets. I went to the Moorestown Mall's Wannamakers for my Ticketron tix. Max _________________________________________________________________ MSN is giving away a trip to Vegas to see Elton John. Enter to win today. http://msnconcertcontest.com?icid-nceltontagline ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:20:20 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: First concert Max says: > The Mann Music Center? I've only been to the Robin Hood Dell once, for > Stanley Clarke. that's the one. it's (or at least it was) a good place to see a show. i saw the eurythmics there a long time ago and even longer ago (okay start laughing now) jackson browne (who put on a very good show (he was rumoured to have been a bit of a mess of drugs in years passed (?past.)) > REM's hits tour? The sound at the Liacorous Center is worse than worseless. > I saw them open for the Police at JFK in an early 80's something, they > were great that day. it's true, i've been outed. but there's a story and i'm sticking to it: my usual robyn "date" is a longtime friend (who max has even met on two occasions) from my last job who's been really cool about accompanying me to shows, robyn and otherwise (he actually likes robyn quite a bit.) occasionally (well maybe not occasionally but at least once) i force myself to pretend that i'm not completely self-preoccupied and accompany him to a show he'd like to go to. r.e.m. was a decent one to go to because it was at the mann (much smaller than a stadium) and i'm okay with r.e.m. (that took awhile no thanks to the existence of r.e.m. fans.) later the show got sent to temple (university) so that's how i ended up a stadium for the only time since "serious moonlight" tour. my friend ended up being on travel anyway, so a friend of his went in his place, as well as his mom and her husband. his mom's really cool so that part was good. his mom and the husband also went to a travis show with us at the tower one time. she's a big beatles fan but sheesh, don't mention yoko around her. okay, i adore you fegs and all the trips down memory lane, but frankly, it's clear that you all (or most of you all) remember at least a portion of your younger years and so simply *chose* not to contribute to the bad song thread. it was such a loser thread you could have at least taken pity on it and made up something (perhaps you remember some high-school poetry?) so, with all due respect, take this you bastards: http://home.comcast.net/~ralpal/Silver-Wham-Bam-Shang-A-Lang.mp3 don't make me post the b-side. x "i own that single" o - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:44:47 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: Machismo Festapalooza <> hmm...at least in this neck of the woods, we say "eagle-eyes" or "eagle-eyed" -- and it's mostly *not* ironically. i really love that sentence! yep. i always figured i owed it to myself to see the dead at least once; but every time they'd come around, i'd say, "oh, next tour." and then it was too late. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:54:06 +0000 From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Re: First concert - -------------- Original message -------------- From: Bradley Wood > My first concert was the now nearly forgotten band, Mad River, when they > played my high school. Second concert was Altamont. Somewhat different > vibe. > Cool! I am so envious, you got to see Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers! MJ Bachman ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:15:13 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: katrina & the clash _http://www.backstreets.com/news.html_ (http://www.backstreets.com/news.html) THE MAGNIFICENT 36 Springsteen nuts tend to be Clash nuts, too, so we're guessing you'll be interested in The Sandinista Project, a track-by-track re-do of The Clash's landmark triple album Sandinista!, all 36 songs. Due next month, the tribute features many Springsteen- and NJ-associated performers, among them Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers ("The Magnificent Seven"), Willie Nile ("Police on My Back"), and The Smithereens ("Up in Heaven"). Produced by longtime Backstreets contributor and Runaway American Dream author Jimmy Guterman, The Sandinista Project also features performers as diverse as Katrina (of the Waves) Leskanich ("Hitsville U.K."), Jon Langford ("Junco Partner"), Amy Rigby ("The Leader"), Camper Van Beethoven ("Kingston Advice"), and many more -- some of whom we've heard of. The record is coming out on May 15, we'll be carrying it in our store, and we'll keep you posted on some events that will come around the release of the record. - -April 23, 2007 ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:44:27 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: First concerts/Commack Arena >(the redneck audience chased Farner >off the stage with a barrage of beer bottles > J-Jones KICKED Twisted Sister to the CURB! There ya go ...the 70s >... Long Island had BAR BANDS that covered the likes of Alex Harvey. > >Ain't ever gonna happen again ...ever!? > The one and only Jethro Tull show I ever went to had the SAHB as opening act, and they got bottled off the stage. Only other time I saw that happen was at a Banshees show here in '81 when an opening band (I think the Insex from Vancouver BC but I could be wrong) walked off after their lead singer caught one in the forehead. That was a crappy deal, but on the other hand the Banshees tore up the place, to the extent you could say that about an act whose dominant characteristic was their glacial cool... np: Pere Ubu, St Arkansas ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:50:02 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: First concert >My first concert was the now nearly forgotten band, Mad River, when they >played my high school. Second concert was Altamont. Somewhat different >vibe. > Neighbor of mine back in SoCal used to tell us how he never understood what all the big deal was about the Altamont thing - he was there and had a great time, he said. Of course he was kind of a bristly soul who liked to make a big deal about being a New Yorker exiled among the flower-power victims of L.A. and may only have been speaking for effect. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:58:14 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: First concert >x "i own that single" o > So it shouldn't be a total waste, I do own some hideously embarassing singles (it's a senior thing, kids), probably the worst being BJ Thomas "Hooked On a Feeling" with that hideous electric-sitar break. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:04:22 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: First concerts >Seen Reed. >Never seen Cale (would love to: of all the folks here I haven't seen, he'd >be at the top. Next would be Dylan). Seen Reed 3 times, first in '76 when he had a stage set that consisted of a wall of TV monitors displaying blobbish black&white images that pulsed more or less randomly, then on the Magic & Loss and New York tours. Saw Cale when he was here in '81 with the Honi Soit band. That was incredible. Saw Wings in '76 too, at the now-defunct Kingdome which the city blew up before they'd even paid for it...that was pretty fun but the acoustics were not the best, to be expected in an inverted concrete soup bowl half a mile across... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:15:28 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: First concert kevin says: > >x "i own that single" o > > > So it shouldn't be a total waste, I do own some hideously embarassing singles (it's a senior thing, kids), probably the worst being BJ Thomas "Hooked On a Feeling" with that hideous electric-sitar break. that's the one with the line: "i'm high on believing, that you're in love with me." i wonder if she's actually in love with him or he just believes it or whether in the end, it's the same thing. as usual, i remember the lyrics but not the musical parts and so sadly can't recall the electric sitar part. actually, i remembered ken's posting of the limbo dance song and through the power of that one bad song, he's redeemed all fegs re: bad songs. i was trying to figure out if the limbo dance song is a song or a commercial and came across this amazon page. http://www.amazon.com/Very-Best-David-Hasselhoff/dp/B00005Q8UG I love this: "Customers who bought this item also bought * Sings America ~ David Hasselhoff * Jump in My Car ~ David Hasselhoff * Looking for Freedom ~ David Hasselhoff * Spaced Out: The Best of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner ~ Leonard Nimoy * David Hasselhoff ~ David Hasselhoff * Night Before Christmas ~ David Hasselhoff * Sings America: Gold Edition ~ David Hasselhoff * Cowboys Run DVD ~ David Hasselhoff" and also the customer review that proclaims: "you'll want to do the limbo dance...in the Hoff's pants" xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:30:49 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: First concert On 4/24/07, kevin wrote: > > >x "i own that single" o > > > So it shouldn't be a total waste, I do own some hideously embarassing > singles (it's a senior thing, kids), probably the worst being BJ Thomas > "Hooked On a Feeling" with that hideous electric-sitar break. Was that BJ Thomas? There was another version...by Blue Swede, I believe (who were Pink Floyd's from an alternate, evil dimension perhaps). Did they both have that bizarre "ooga-chucka, ooga-chucka, ooga-ooga-ooga chucka" bit? Interesting that even into the '70s there were fairly commonly competing versions of the same song by different artist - it was either "Billy Don't Be a Hero" or "The Night Chicago Died" that also had two versions... (Sorry 'bout the musical indigestion I've just induced...Dr. Rawk prescribes putting on Metal Machine Music and turning it up to "11" - that should clear things right up.) It's also amusing recalling that also into the '70s, rock tours were weird package deals (KISS opening for the vaguely progressive Flock, with the violin player who'd been in Mahavishnu...). Seems kinda barnstorming, like early days of minor league baseball or something. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:08:38 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: First concert Jeff wrote: >It's also amusing recalling that also into the '70s, rock tours were weird package deals (KISS opening for the vaguely >progressive Flock, with the violin player who'd been in Mahavishnu...). Seems kinda barnstorming, like early days of >minor league baseball or something. - -- I had the first Flock album on 8 track. Jerry Goodman was the violin player. I should pick it up on cd one of these days. Was Jerry the original violin player for Mahavishnu? I have Inner Mounting Flame and Birds of Fire on cd but haven't played them in ages and can't remember the exact line up. I saw Mahavishnu Orchestra open up for Jeff Beck back in 1975, that was a good combo. As I mentioned earlier my first concert was Fleetwood Mac with Black Sabbath in 1971. That was a real strange combo. I went to the concert to see Peter Green and Fleetwood Mac. BS had just released Paranoid or was close to releasing it and they played a lot of cuts from it. They were quiet entertaining, though too many folks got wasted and passed out as I remember stepping over a lot of bodies. I saw BS four months later when they were the closing act of an all day festival, and they sucked. Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes were also part of the show. That was the last time I saw either of them, as they both played way too loud for my taste and gave me a splitting headache. I remember Bob Seger also played that day, but that was during his solo acoustic period of 1971 and I wasn't impressed at all. MJ Bachman ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:32:02 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: RE: First concert >Seems kinda >barnstorming, like early days of >>minor league baseball or something. >-- Oh the good ol' days when yer rock shows always had three bands that often had nothing to do with each other (note the Fillmore marquee on the recent Neil Young live release: smash hit bill of Steve Miller, Miles Davis and Neil young/Crazy Horse). >I had the first Flock album on 8 track. Jerry Goodman was the violin >player. I should pick it up on cd one of these days. Was Jerry the >original violin player for Mahavishnu? I have Inner Mounting Flame and >Birds of Fire on cd but haven't played them in ages and can't remember >the exact line up. Yer right on the money. Goodman was snapped up from the Flock by John McLaughlin (there's a fun story - we went to a show at the old Long Beach Auditorium that had the Mahavishnus opening for Emerson Lake & Palmer. The M.O. played a very nice set to a totally unreceptive audience and then some gimp came out to inform us that the bridge on Greg Lake's bass had been broken and it would have to be rebuilt. There followed a delay of over an hour while the crowd became increasingly restive {I think the technical term is "pissed off".} ELP finally took the stage to a rousing chorus of obscenities but saved the day by playing their asses off. Those were the days before rock tours became well-oiled professional machines - no spare instruments, ten minutes of tuning between songs, your favorite twisted recollection here). I found an old vinyl copy of the first Flock album on vinyl last year. Paid a buck for it. It was overpriced. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:37:43 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: First concert >> So it shouldn't be a total waste, I do own some hideously embarassing >> singles (it's a senior thing, kids), probably the worst being BJ Thomas >> "Hooked On a Feeling" with that hideous electric-sitar break. > >Was that BJ Thomas? There was another version...by Blue Swede, I believe >(who were Pink Floyd's from an alternate, evil dimension perhaps). Did they >both have that bizarre "ooga-chucka, ooga-chucka, ooga-ooga-ooga chucka" >bit? Oh no, BJ Thomas was a good Christian boy from the Midwest. No way did his record have that ooga-chucka stuff - might have implied the possession of testicles. He just went for the sitar. I think his next single was "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:43:51 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: First concert >that's the one with the line: "i'm high on believing, that you're in >love with me." i wonder if she's actually in love with him or he just >believes it or whether in the end, it's the same thing. as usual, i >remember the lyrics but not the musical parts and so sadly can't >recall the electric sitar part. > I'm still impressed that that thing made it on the radio. It was a very special historical moment when you could crack the top 40 with a song that equated teenage luuv with drug addiction. And an electric sitar break to boot. Not just cheese, but highly processed cheese. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:13:33 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: RE: First concert - -----Original Message----- >From: "Bachman, Michael" >Jeff wrote: > >>It's also amusing recalling that also into the '70s, rock tours were >weird package deals (KISS opening for the vaguely >progressive Flock, >with the violin player who'd been in Mahavishnu...). Seems kinda >barnstorming, like early days of minor league baseball or something. >-- >I had the first Flock album on 8 track. Jerry Goodman was the violin >player. I should pick it up on cd one of these days. Was Jerry the >original violin player for Mahavishnu? I have Inner Mounting Flame and >Birds of Fire on cd but haven't played them in ages and can't remember >the exact line up. I saw Mahavishnu Orchestra open up for Jeff Beck back >in 1975, that was a good combo. I have both of those as well, but on vinyl. The 70s had some great shows/strange combinations. I can recall seeing bands like The Moody Blues, Beach Boys and Jethro Tull at the Long Beach Arena but I don't remember who opened for them. After I moved to Santa Barbara in '74 I saw plenty of good music, including Randy Newman, who, while playing Campbell Hall at UCSB once, gave the ultimate sarcastic comment to the lighting/stage folks when, in the middle of his song "Burn on, Big River" the lights come on 3 seconds late for the line "Cleveland, city of light." Without missing a beat or dropping the song, he just said into the mic "Elton would shit" and kept going. It seems it was SB where I got out of the rock thing and really in to that whole '70s jazz fusion thing - Chick Corea and Return to Forever, Herbie Hancock, Flora Purim, Mahavishnu Orchestera and the like. As for booing off the stage for opening acts, well, there was the time when Warren Zevon got booed off the stage at a Day on the Green at UCSB with a full-on Grateful Dead audience. Before he left the stage he screamed insults at the Dead Heads, telling them what losers they were and the like. As if it mattered to a sea of folks who had dropped in order to time their peak with Garcia's guitar space out. The last LA show I went to was in '79 I think. The Germs and X at the Whisky. Afterwards, a friend and I went to the Masque with Darby Crash. It was my first introduction to punk. - - c note: one of the best performances I've ever seen, hands down, was Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:56:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: State of the Ebert http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/355049,cst-nws-ebert24.article "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:35:10 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: RE: First concert >I have both of those as well, but on vinyl. The 70s had some great shows/strange combinations. I can recall seeing bands like The Moody Blues, Beach Boys and Jethro Tull at the Long Beach Arena but I don't remember who opened for them. > uh huh, saw the Beach Boys down there with Joe Walsh/Barnstorm. That Walsh show may not have been the loudest thing I've ever heard but it was way up there. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:10:37 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: gone shopping hi fegs, it's a slow day around here and you're sort of a captive audience... so the trader joe's i go to is in a strip mall. a few doors down there's this store and every time i go by it, it re-perplexes me. it's called "dress barn." or maybe it's "the dress barn." okay so i can understand the concept of say "office depot" like you're going to some military supply depot and getting all kinds of good deals, or "k-mart" reminicient of the old(e) time outdoor markets, but the "dress barn"? i mean, it makes it sounds like someone found a crap pile of old dusty dresses and, hey, here they are for you to buy. did the owners of the store say to marketing: oh, just think of *something*. how about the "dress orchard"? at least that would give the impression that the dresses might be, uh, clean and fresh. i guess it's a step from the "dress dumpster." xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #179 ********************************