From: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org (trajectory-digest) To: trajectory-digest@smoe.org Subject: trajectory-digest V2 #100 Reply-To: trajectory@smoe.org Sender: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk trajectory-digest Wednesday, October 7 1998 Volume 02 : Number 100 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Scrappy Bitches Tour Review / Trade Request / Tree Offer ["Drew Harringto] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 16:19:57 -0700 From: "Drew Harrington" Subject: Scrappy Bitches Tour Review / Trade Request / Tree Offer Hey all, I caught the Scrappy Bitches Tour (I kind of felt uncomfortable saying that until I saw the show) at both the San Francisco and Palo Alto shows. I was familiar with Veda's music, Spine being one of my recent favorite CDs, but had no exposure to Kinnie or Susanna. The first show on Tuesday at the Coco Club, South of Market in San Francisco was very casual. They opened the show in their superhero personas, "argued" about who would start, and then did three independent sets: Kinnie, Susanna, and Veda in that order. Kinnie did a great set of spoken word / hip-hop / dirty guitar grunge. She apologized for the 60Hz saturation, but it didn't seem out of place. I had never seen her before, but she definitely found at least one new fan that night. The subject matter of many of her songs seemed to fit right into the environment. Veda and Susanna backed her up on several songs with piano and vocals. During her set she gave the mic to a local poet and performance artist Sister Spit (did I hear that right?) who spent 10 minutes sharing a poem and a story with the audience. It was very enjoyable, and fit into Kinnie's set perfectly. Susanna did a short 40 minute set of her songs. Once again, I was unfamiliar with her work, but will be keeping an eye out for her in the future. Her beautiful voice was accompanied by her own acoustic guitar playing, and on a few songs by Veda on piano and vocals, and Kinnie on vocals. Her songs all seemed to have a heavy "western" mood that fit well with the almost country-ish style of her vocals. Veda's 60 minute set included many songs I recognized from "Spine". I had always thought her sound melodic, but slightly atonal - giving it a complexity I had always attributed on her CDs to sophisticated production. Well if you have never seen Veda live, let me tell you that Veda singing and playing her piano or her 4 string tenor guitar are unmistakably Veda. The simplicity of the arrangements are filled out beautifully by slightly dissonant sophistication of her vocal and playing style. It's just amazing. I remember myself thinking that several times throughout her set - "Amazing!" Veda was also joined by Kinnie and Susanna on a couple songs. The show was closed with the three of them sharing Pond Scum - one of Kinnie's songs. Veda and Susanna seemed to be having great fun with the hip-hop tune, playing along amusingly. All in all, the only thing more amazing than the diversity of styles of the three "Bitches" was the effortlessness with which they fit together. __ The Stanford Coffee House show the following Saturday night was shorter, and in a different format. The three of them traded songs round-robin on a song by song basis. They started with the same superhero and argument skit, this time the order was Kinnie, Veda, Susanna. The audience didn't seem as responsive at this show. They only did two sets of about 50 minutes each. There was *NO ENCORE*. I didn't get to pay as much attention to this show as I was spending most of my time at the soundboard recording the show. I had previously gotten permission from all three of the fabulously cool bitches. I told Veda that I would be making the show available to Ecto and Trajectory list members. ____ So..... Here... Goes.... ____ The Stanford show tape was run direct from the soundboard MACKIE 1604VLZ->SBM1->D8. The bottom line is that it sounds *fabulous*. I will be making CDR copies available to Ecto and Trajectory members for free. If you are interested, drop me a piece of email. I will be asking that you send me two blank CDRs and a SASE for their return. In order to keep from getting swamped by this (I've already promised to get copies to Veda, Susanna, Kinnie, Allette Brooks (who opened) and the promoter), I WILL ONLY BE SENDING COPIES TO THE FIRST SEVERAL PEOPLE WHO REPLY. If you have the capability to copy CDRs, *please* let me know in your email. If I get a lot of requests, I will build a tree to get copies to the others. If you are a DAT / CDR trader and have a list, send it, it's always nice to get non-blank disks in return 8-) If this goes well, and if the Seattle show turns out well (A friend of mine also taped that show), I might tree that tape as well. PLEASE REPLY IN PRIVATE EMAIL so as not to swamp the lists. Thanks, Drew ------------------------------ End of trajectory-digest V2 #100 ********************************