The dBs opening for REM on my list of Best Shows EVAH. At the Tower Theater in Philadelphia (well Upper Darby) in, uh, '84?
I'm eleven hundred and twenty years old! Just gimme a friggin' beer!
Anya ,'Storyteller'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
lisah - Feb 20, 2004 9:47:59 am PST #1153 of 10003
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Sue - Feb 20, 2004 9:55:30 am PST #1154 of 10003
hip deep in pie
Happy Birthday Bicyclops!!
Hayden - Feb 20, 2004 9:57:56 am PST #1155 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Another band covered it on one of the Bloodshot comps too.
Trailer Bride. Melissa Swingle also sings on Alejandro Escovado's tepid cover of "Sexxx Beat" on his Bourbonitis Blues EP.
DavidS - Feb 20, 2004 10:15:11 am PST #1156 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Sorry to butt in. A hypodermic is sometimes referred to as a "gun." OK, butting out, now.
I'm sure that was a factor in the name selection, now that you mention it. Sure beats Creeping Ritual.
The dBs opening for REM on my list of Best Shows EVAH. At the Tower Theater in Philadelphia (well Upper Darby) in, uh, '84?
Saw that tour! Saw them in Providence, RI actually.
Also saw the following bands open for REM at different shows: Let's Active, Husker Du, The Neats.
lisah - Feb 20, 2004 11:02:33 am PST #1157 of 10003
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I think I saw them with Let's Active. Brain fuzzy. sooo long ago.
Husker Du playing at an Elk's Club in Philly (in '85/'86?) was one of my other best shows. I saw Bob Mould recently here in baltimore and I told him that and he said someone else had come up to him that night and said they were at that same show.
(I also told him about how they helped me survive high school and how i quoted "Chartered Trip Away" in my yearbook and how he looked fantastic and how I do pilates now... I was xtra babble-icious fangirl!)
Hayden - Feb 20, 2004 11:08:16 am PST #1158 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I bet Bob dug that.
lisah - Feb 20, 2004 11:11:33 am PST #1159 of 10003
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I bet Bob dug that.
He did, I think. He was a little bemused but nice.
lisah - Feb 20, 2004 11:18:50 am PST #1160 of 10003
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tangerine juice, chocolate chip muffin
this is where I saw Husker Du way way back inna day:
funny the stuff you can find on the internet. what i really want now is a list of all the bands that opened for REM on their various tours so I can jog my feeble brain.
Jon B. - Feb 20, 2004 12:39:03 pm PST #1161 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Heh. I know that thirdave guy (from lisah's poster link). He used to go see The Pee Wee Fist all the time.
Did you know Stamey toured with Alex Chilton for a year?
Doesn't surprise me -- I've got that "Summer Sun" 7" (one of the best opening sound effects ever).
The Bible of Bop (Kimberly Rew backed by Softboys, dBs and Waves).
"Stomping All Over the World" -- One of the great forgotten powerpop tunes.
Happy Birthday bicyclops! I did'nt realize you were quoting the Beatles and meaning it all literally. We also share a birthday with Kurt Cobain, Patty Hearst, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Robert Altman.
Jon B. - Feb 20, 2004 12:42:22 pm PST #1162 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
t Looking at the poster
I saw Husker Du and Soul Asylum on that same tour. They did a pair of shows at the Paradise in Boston. It was those shows that made me realize, gee, I really ought to get earplugs. I remember not being able to hear anything well into the next day (I was on the radio the early the next morning and only got a few hours of sleep).