From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V8 #46 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Tuesday, March 3 2009 Volume 08 : Number 046 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Randall Bewley RIP [Tom Marcinko ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:30:56 -0700 From: Tom Marcinko Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Randall Bewley RIP Thanks for those backstage memories. I'm sort of in an eighties timewarp since I finally found Magazine's last album and Howard Devoto's solo album on CD. On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 5:56 AM, wrote: > If I can add a few tidbits here.... > > I also saw them on the Gang of Four tour, in Chicago. I interviewed GoF > that night before the show and original bassist Dave Allen was oddly AWOL. > He > showed up for the set, but as it turned out had tried to quit the band > that > night- he did a few more gigs, flew home, and was eventually replaced by > Sara > Lee. Pylon were amazing- I was nearly as excited to see them that night, > and > I can't think of many bands beyond a height-of-their-powers GoF who > wouldn't > have been blown off the stage by them. > > Perhaps an even fonder memory was a 2-night Bay Area stand on the 1989 > reunion tour, where I had temporarily relocated just a week earlier. A > college > buddy made up matching We Eat Dub for Breakfast t-shirts for the occasion. > I > danced hard enough that half the letters fell off by the second night, but > the > point was made. > > I was also at the Halloween show mentioned in the attached article- > apparently Bradford of Deerhunter had personally invited them to play. It > was really > heartening- not only were they very good, but very well received by a > large > crowd healthily mixed between "back in the day" fans and youngsters. > > For some reason the song I've been humming the past two days is Sugarpop, > the highlight from their reunion Chain LP, and the one they retained in > recent > sets. > > Ever the conceptual artists, at the Halloween show they were selling a > Jack-O-Lantern themed t-shirt with the face constructed of pylons and the > band > members' initials: R, M, C, V. To me this is further proff they would > never > continue without the full quartet. RIP. > > Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:49:22 -0700 > From: Tom Marcinko > Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Randall Bewley (of Pylon) RIP > > Sad. They were a great band. Saw them open for Gang of Four at the Emerald > City in NJ. Wasn't that a time? > > > > **************Get a jump start on your taxes. Find a tax professional in > your > neighborhood today. > ( > http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=Tax+Return+Preparation+%26+Filing&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000004 > ) > - -- http://tomaq.livejournal.com/ "In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?" Bruno Argento http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2009/01/the_true_21st_century_begins.php ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V8 #46 ******************************