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From: Robert Williams Dobson 
Subject: Trax, Charlottesville, 3/25
Reply-To: rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1992 14:00:52 GMT

Well, the show last night was hot, hot hot. I thought the first
set was pretty average, but the second set was *exceptional*. I
dont remember the set list to the 1st set. They opened with
Wilson, did a hot Split Open and Melt, Maze, Runaway Jim, Run
Like An Antelope, and...well, i just dont remember, and thought
this set was pretty good but not that memorable.
The second set I do remember (i think :-)
Tweezer
?? (Time?)
Reba (!!)
All Things Considered ("The Non-Butchered Version", according to
Trey)
Squirming Coil
You Enjoy Myself
My Sweet One
Chalkdust Torture
Cracklin Rose (Trey drums, Fish vocals & cymbal)
Golgi App.

Encores: Sleeping Monkey
Tweezer Reprise

Yee-ha!Everyting this set was done really really well. You Enjoy
was an incredible peak. Fish never broke out the vacuum or the
trombone, but when he sangg Cracklin' he had 2 cymbals, one that
said "Ah" and the other said "B" (="Bah bah bah bah"...) that he
crashed together when he sang the bah bah bah bah part of the
tune. Then Golgi was an excellent closer. And finally, the
Tweezer Reprise for the second encore!

and now, on to Winston-Salem...if anyone has a more coherent
review, or a full set list, please post it. Its 9 am, im at work
and HATING it tired...
rob
rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU


Dear Lord:
        I just want *___one* one-armed manager so I never have to hear "On
        the other hand", again.

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From: Ellis of Lemuria 
Subject: 3-25-92 comments
Reply-To: jeg5s@uva.pcmail.Virginia.EDU
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1992 05:54:03 GMT

What a hummin show!!  Don't have a setlist Handy; the Wilson opener started a
wild show, and after that insane Split Open & Melt, I kind of lost track.  I
did notice a coldness theme, songs inc: It's Ice, Tweezer, Tweezer Reprise,
Cold as Ice, etc.  Cracklin Rose is a definite must see; completely
hilarious!!  When Fishman walked up to the mics with the cymbals, he asked,
"How many of you have already seen this?"  and I guess the crowd enthusiasm
took over and virtually everyone raised their hand and screamed.  Fishman
looked bummed, until someone (Trey, I thin) said, "You don't even know what
he's talking about."  Then Fishman perked up and bounced a bit, saying,
"Yeah.  Yeah.  You don't even know what I'm talking about!!"  Throughout the
second set, when I wasn't dancing my butt off, I was laughing my head off.  
What an amazing show!!  Totally Rockin!!  One more note, about the vocal jam,
but it seems important enough that it should be listed separately.  Is that
the right thing to do, or should things be as lumped as possible? -Ellis

Ellis of Lemuria  |/-.   jeg5s@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu  
P.O. Box 3240     |/--/    Charlottesville, VA 22903  
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From: Ellis of Lemuria 
Subject: "white boys attack"?
Reply-To: jeg5s@uva.pcmail.Virginia.EDU
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1992 05:59:58 GMT

The vocal jam following You Enjoy Myself, at the 3-25-92 Trax show in
Charlottesville, VA, had an unfortunate and bizarre effect from some
combination of the bizarre words, vocal overlaps, echoes, and (I presume)
technical toys.  Anyways, there are alot of things they might have been
saying; we came up with "what noise was that?" and "white boys can't rap."  
However, after hearing from 12 different people of their reactions to the
show, and finding that they were standing virtually scattered throughout Trax
(whereas I was staning toward the back and blamed it on echoes), EVERYONE I
talked to thought the vocal jam became, "White boyyyyyz...ATTACK!"  I can
vouch for definite tensions in the back of the room, as I got a set of
seriously ugly stares from two black men who previously had been standing
forward of me and quite comfortable.  Things settled when it became more
obvious that there was confusion.  But 1) what did they say?  2) can there be
(or should there be?) more care taken to avoid dangerous confusions like
this?  3) did anyone else hear anything different?  4) was that (and this may
sound ridiculous, but...) what they were saying?  I expect it was "what noise
was that", similar to other phrases they've used; but I'm not AT ALL certain.
--- Ellis

Ellis of Lemuria  |/-.   jeg5s@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu  
P.O. Box 3240     |/--/    Charlottesville, VA 22903  
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From: Ellis of Lemuria 
Subject: more 3-25 comments
Reply-To: jeg5s@uva.pcmail.Virginia.EDU
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1992 19:01:33 GMT

Oops!! In addition to hair wierdness, there was a bit of wackiness during
Golgi Apparatus when they skipped about 4 beats out of every 12 (?) in the
set non-jam towards the end.  For first time viewers, it probably sounded a
little wierd, but look at the band's faces in any pictures (or memories):
they were LOVING that tease of veterans.  Also, the new song "Never get out
of this Maze" is SWEET!! Which reminds me, after an all-night gathering after
the show (with phishers from New Haven, Poughkeepsie, Durham, and Charlotte),
I had a GREAT othello game with Seth, of Vassar.  It occurred to me, with all
the computer users and college students...well....there seems to be an
intelligence differential not common among many veteran audiences of bands,
so I figure there must be some other Othello players out there.  How about an
Othello round-robin at an up-coming gathering?  -- Ellis

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