| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * AMERICAN MUSIC - December 1, 2002 * * * THE VIOLENT FEMMES Email List * * * * * * * * * * List archive online at http://www.oocities.org/violentfemmeslist ************************************************************************* TOUR DATES (*=New Dates) * 12/31/02 NAVY PIER Grand Ballroom CHICAGO, IL http://www.bigcreekevents.com/nyernrb.html Gordon Gano Solo Project - Hitting the Ground 12/2/02 Koln, Germany Gebaude 9 12/04/02 Amsterdam, Holland Paradiso Kleine Zaal http://www.paradiso.nl/index.php 12/5/02 Hamburg, Germany Schlachtof http://www.schlachthof-wiesbaden.de/vvk.html 12/6/02 Berlin,Germany Silverwings http://www.silverwings.de 12/11/02 Lisbon, Portugal Paradise Garage 12/13/02 Madrid, Spain Moby Dick 12/14/02 Zaragoza, Spain Casa Del Loco 12/15/02 Barcelona, Spain Bikini http://www.bikinibcn.com/e/index.html *************************************************************************** IN THIS ISSUE: NEW YEARS EVE in CHICAGO Sabrina the Teenage Witch & Gordon in Portugal Rolling Blackouts to open Gordon's European Dates Worcester Blues Spencer Jones on Playing in NYC and Brian Ritchie **************************************************************************** Hey Ho Femmes fans... The mark of a good year? VF playing on New Years Eve! The last time the boys rang in the New Year in Chi Town Dennis Rodman showed the crowd his "Butt and Pee Pee." :o) 93XRT/Korbel New Year's Eve Rock N' Roll Ball Ring in 2003 at the party of the year with BoDeans & Violent Femmes! Live television coverage from ABC7, Chicago's Official Midnight Fireworks display, the Ketel One Martini Bar...all at one of the most picturesque venues in the country - Navy Pier's Grand Ballroom! Tickets available at Ticketmaster outlets click below for more info: http://www.bigcreekevents.com/nyernrb.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sabrina the Teenage Witch & Gordon in Portugal ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hi guys! those anyone ever saw an episode of the "sabrina the little witch" with the the three v-femmes( Gordon, Brian and Guy) performing as actors and playing "please dont go" at the end? Just great. i saw it this summer in the PORTUGUESE TV. i still have that episode record on tape. p.s: my inglish sucks ...sorry!!!! Just for the record.....I´ve been listenig V-femmes since i was 12 years old,Im 21 now and I´ve been in four concerts here in PORTUGAL i´ve got all the albums and I will make all the eforts to try to talk with Gordon on is solo concert in PORTUGAL... Peace!!!!! Paço_Arcos_-_Henrique_Alves hjca@lusitania-cs.pt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rolling Blackouts to open Gordon's European Dates ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hot off those East Coast dates opening for VF, the Rolling Blackouts are now set to unlease the Rock on some unsuspecting Europeans! The Blackouts (feat. our own Ron "Add it Up Tattoo Guy" Dumont on bass/vocals) will be opening up for Gordon's Hitting the Ground Tour. http://members.cox.net/rollingblackouts/ If you're lucky enough to catch 'em be sure and say Hello to Ron! Deana ddearry@easterncomputer.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Worcester Blues ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hi I have been waiting for the Femmes to come to Worcester MA and it seems it will never happen. But somehow you are making it to Norway. I have been to Norway and several of the cities mentioned, they are so small that the whole town could fit in the Paladium and still there would be room for the farm animals and their friends. We have something special here that Norway doesn't. Sunlight. Are you vampires? Or Jackson relatives? Or does Worcester just scare you? bb Hexdata@aol.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Spencer Jones on Playing in NYC and Brian Ritchie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From Beat Magazine - Australia "What is sewerage to a magistrate is caviar to a psychopath," Spencer P. Jones tells Glenn Peters. While he says, "Get me a good question before I go to the bar and I’ll answer it abruptly," you know it’s all talk. Spencer is more than happy to tell a story. So instead of the usual interview, where he speaks about his top new album, The Lost Anxiety Tapes, enjoy reading about the world, according to Spencer P. Jones. SPENCER PLAYS IN NEW YORK…. "We bullshitted our way into some gigs through the internet and stuff. We got the gigs, went over there, hung around for a week and got depressed about not having any money. Then we got to look after a really nice apartment in Greenwich Village, on West Tenth. Suddenly we went from paying $120 a night for a room in Soho to not having to pay anything for ten days. Yeah, living in a nice apartment, owned by a rock star who I borrowed an amp off, who had gone up to stay at his sister’s holiday house in Cape Cod for ten days. Suddenly we had drinking money, food money, taxi money and drug money. This is how you need it when you are in New York." HOW TO FIND A DRUMMER IN MEW YORK "I did all this ground work. We went to the Village Voice. The youngest guy there had all the Beasts of Bourbon records so he gave us a really good plug. Rat Scabies (The Damned) was supposed to play drums with us but right at the last minute he couldn’t get to New York. We had already locked in the gigs so I contacted Brian Ritchie (Violent Femmes) who was going to play bass. He’s like, "That’s okay, we can get Denis from the Smithereens or, we could get Billy Ficca from Television!" So we spent five days trying to find Billy Ficca. And then, amazingly we came up with Tom Verlaine’s phone number so we got Billy’s number off Tom. Brian Ritchie made the call to Tom Verlaine with me standing near him, panting, "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever he says!" He’s one of my favorite guitar players for sure. I was in New York. These names meant nothing to me. We needed a drummer and we got the best guy in Queens. This was the night before the first gig. We had a rehearsal on the afternoon of the first gig and it was great." TELEVISION'S BILLY FICCA ... A MAN OF FEW WORDS "The last night we played at Maxwells, we opened for Luna. It was already sold out and a great gig. Billy turns up with his Japanese wife and tells me, "You truly are quite a unique kind of guy and I really like your songs and I like the way you play guitar. I’ll see you kind of soon, man." It made me feel pretty cool. He’s a very unusual kind of guy. He never speaks and this is the most he had said in two weeks. I asked if he would be interested in doing the same sort of gigs in Australia with us and he says, "Oh, man. I’m just happy to get about and go to Indiana." FRANK SERPIC,BRIAN RITCHIE & A TEAM OF JAPANESE FLUTE MASTERS "We played the Mercury Lounge and Frank Serpico was there. The actual Serpico, down the front, bootscooting with his grey beard and a million bullet holes in his back. Brian Ritchie knows some weird people. He teaches Frank Serpico Japanese flute. I was thinking we could stay with him and there were all these old Japanese flute masters staying there. Bamboo chimes in the wind with incense burning, this is pretty weird. There is a giant poster of The Kinks in the lounge room that is so big, it’s loud. I love Brian Ritchie. He loves Sun Ra and The Kinks. That says everything." Deana ddearry@easterncomputer.com ******************************************************************* To POST, SUBSCRIBE, or UNSUBSCRIBE send any kind of an email to: violentfemmeslist@yahoo.com or violentfemmeslist@ameritech.net ******************************************************************* |
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