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Too Much Fighting on the Dance Floor

I'm sure that there will be lots of books remembering 
Jerry Garcia, but Harrington Street is the only one 
penned by Jerry himself. I just wish he could know that 
he's a Book of the Month Club selection. I like to think 
he'd be pleased. 

...Tracy Brown
BOMC Editor in Chief

 From: bobm@acs.bu.edu
  
 Article on the Hubleys


 If anyone's interested, the Christian Science Monitor on Friday November 24
 ran an intersting article on Faith and John Hubley, Georgia's parents, the
 Oscar winning animators. 

 No mention of YLT, but "Georgia, an alternately solemn and giggly
 four-year-old, morphs into a princess, a toothless old lady, and a
 Chagall-like floating bride."


	Bob


 From: John.Walston@mail.cc.trincoll.edu (John Walston)


 Hey everybody:
        My name is John and this is my first post to this cool list.  I've
 only been listening to YLT for under a year, but I own all seven albums,
 plus some rare stuff like "Bisexual Boogie" off the Tom Courtenay 7".  I'd
 love to trade for some live YLT with any of you bootleggers out there, I
 don't have any live stuff by them but I have around 20 good boots by other
 bands.  Anyway, I missed my chance to see YLT last month in Amherst when my
 friends car failed to start, so I hope they come back around Boston this
 summer.  I've been playing guitar about five years, and I can figure out
 most of the chords to any YLT song if anyone is interested in me posting
 them to the list.  I've already sent one song in to the guitar archieves,
 I'm sorry it got messed up when I mailed it to them.  I hope you were able
 to comprehend it.  I can wait for the next digest, and I hope those concert
 reports keep coming in.  Later.

 John Walston                                    Min oc minoc
 Trinity College



 From: Paul Hilcoff 
  
 _Milk_


 I haven't seen the 'zine described below so I can't say if it's any
 good or not, but I thought its existence might be of interest here.
 I half quote, half paraphrase a post to another mailing list:

 The latest _Milk_ (#13) contains interviews with Jawbreaker, Jonathan
 Fire*Eater (Gerard's favorite band!), Son Volt, Boss Hog, Monomen, Yo
 La Tengo (kinda dumb and short interview, less than they deserve, that's
 for sure), Stereolab (did everyone here know that Dave Pajo has joined
 Stereolab for touring?), Air Miami, Stiffs...

 You may obtain by sending $1 or 3 stamps to:
  
 Milk Magazine
 4220 N. Ardmore Ave. 
 Milwaukee, WI 53211

 Paul Hilcoff
 plh@swl.msd.ray.com
 ---
 NP:  Miles Dethmuffin S/T EP



 from: alt.music.independent riotboy@nwu.edu

 cub play Hoboken New Year's Eve!


 In article <4c5rou$n2c@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, gtwelve@aol.com (GTwelve) wrote:

 > Mint Recording Artists CUB are playing on what may certainly be the best
 > New Year's Eve party in North America. Check this out: Sunday December 31
 > at fabulous Maxwell's in Hoboken New Jersey USA, it's three of the hottest
 > bands of 1995 on one bill... SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS, THE MUFFS and
 > CUB!!! Fans within a 1,000 mile radius should not miss this one!

 Hey there,
   I drove out there for this show, and it was sold out... looked like a
 big industry fest to draw major-label attention to the Cubsters... kinda
 yucky.  I hung out for their sound check and saw four great songs ("Pillow
 Queen", "Exit", "Ticket to Spain", and a Sicko cover by Robynn).  I was
 bummed though, 'cuz I couldn't get into the show and felt a creepy
 corporate rock sensation overcoming me. Luckily, though, all was not yet
 lost.  A friend of mine tipped us off to a "rumored" Yo La
 Tengo/Sleepyhead show at Two Boots Pizzeria in Alphabet City, Manhattan. 
 It was so much fun!  Yo La Tengo did all new wave covers (e.g. "I Don't
 Mind", "Turning Japanese", "Pretty in Pink") and Sleepyhead did a lot of
 their 7" B-sides.  And it was only $5!  Much more fun than the whopping
 $25 Cub show.  Mostly teens listen to Cub and the Muffs - how punk rock is
 a $25 champagne dinner?  Fuck it.  I'm just bitter and disappointed, but I
 did have a great time, so it was probably for the better.  I even got to
 talk to Amelia Fletcher for the first time, 'cuz she was at the Yo La
 show.  And that was a heavenly dream come true.  Ah pop... some heroes
 fall and others remain cool.                   
                                          Dave

 ps.  check out my Cub web page - still eating up disk space - yippee!

 -- 
 Dave Knapik
 riotboy@nwu.edu



 From: IKEDA Yuri 
  
 #56



 I bought the magazine "remix" #56.  This issue have pages of  
 "'95 Best Disc" of several music genre.(tecno, hip-hop, etc) Their Best 
 10 of Rock.  1-G.Love&Special Souce, 2-Money Mark, 3-Chemical Brothers, 
 4-YO LA TENGO, 5-Dub Narcotic Sound System, 6-The Charlatans(uk), 
 7-Sportsguitar, 8-The Flaming Lips, 9-OST, Kids, 10-Reef (i omitted the 
 album titre since each of them released one album, maybe.  and they are 
 not only chart, but very short comment added to each disc...about YLT- 
 Masterpiece-noisy&drifting/floating. we're waiting for thier show in 
 japan-, sorry for bad trancelation.) i've heard only 3/10. It is 
 regrettable  that they did not select Sea&Cake or Rhonda Harris... 
 anyway,  it is strange chart, i think.   Many music magazine in Japan 
 will  select Oasis, Blur or so. Thanks.
                                                        Yuli Ikeda


 From mclaren@cnct.com Thu Jan  4 08:27:22 1996

 //www.panix.com/~neslon/music/faves/


 Hey, I found your Yo La Tengo Digest stuff while playing around on 
 the web. If it's okay by you, we'll link to it on the Matador web 
 site, which isn't up yet but will be up some time late next week 
 (http://www.matador.recs.com),

 thanks,
 Carrie


 Ylt/Dump

 Tim,

 I just came across this on the web, while I was looking for Yo La 
 links that I could put in my site.

 What is this digest?  Is it just culled information from various 
 sources?  Or is it a "Yo La Sanctioned" digest?  I am asking this 
 because I have seen their newsletter that they circulate at shows 
 and I don't remember its contents resembling this stuff at all.

 Is is a labor of love or a love of labor?


 todd

 p.s.  saw DUMP in nyc last night.  talked to the very shy, very 
 cordial James McNew after the show, who said he will probably never 
 play again.  Easy to say after that show.  (not a lot of love in the 
 room, if you know what I mean--plus, he had to open for Magnetic 
 Fields, who have a very loyal, very single-minded following, I 
 think)


 from: Tony McCartan 

 Some pathetic request re the Yo LA Digest



 Hi Tim,

 Not much to report.

 I sent a letter to YLT  for "Yo La Gazette" #5 and got a card back from Ira 
 saying that they've run out of #5 and #6 (and don't even have their own 
 copies). Could anybody out there in Digest territory send me a photocopy of
 5&6? I could trade for a cassette of YLT at the Botanique, Brussels (9/17/95)
 which just came my way.
 Nice gig, with Ira commenting at one point:-
 "I met John Cale once.
 I gave him a copy of Fakebook.
 I'm pretty sure he never  listened to it.
 He took it - it was like  - like he could hardly say thank you.
 It was like - looking right  where is the nearest garbage can.
 I was kinda crushed.
 We got over it
 I got over it".

 By the way Ira also mentioned reading Yo La Digest #9.
 
 Looking forward to YLD #10

 Tony McCartan.


 The following was originally published in Wind-Up Toy #3, not the 
 Yo La Tengo Gazette, but we're putting it up anyway.

 A Conan O'Brien Story

 by James

 "Coming up tomorrow night, we'll have Gregory Harrison, actress Martha 
 Plimpton  and musical guest..." (pause, he squints slightly at the card 
 and then he goes  for it!)..."Yo Lo Tengo!"

"DOH!" I said. I had stayed up late to watch Conan O'Brien announce our
 appearance on tomorrow's show, all wide-eyed and excited, and now, all 
 of a sudden, I was furious. Fuck him! I don't want to be on his stupid 
 show now, I thought. I rolled for a while until my unflappable self 
 returned. He's got a lot on his mind. Of course he does. Tomorrow's another 
 day. You betcha.

 NBC sent a limo out to my house in Brooklyn to pick me up. It was snazzy.
 I got to the GE  building and went to the information desk. They sent me 
 to the security desk by the elevators.  Hi, I'm a guest on Late Night with
 Conan O'Brien." I beamed. The woman at the desk ruffled through some papers
 and snorted. "Okay, go on up, I guess." Man! I coulda been anybody -- some
 bomb-wielding Blossom-obsessed lunatic -- and they just put me on the 
 express elevator to the 6th floor. Maybe this is NBC's way of dealing 
 with the controversy over the show? Let anybody go up there, hope somebody
 offs him, then cancel the show? There's job security for ya.

 We were there early, about 1:30, and we set up and ran through our song a
 dozen or so times to  get sound and camera stuff worked out. We arranged
 for "The Tower" (an animated film by Georgia  and her sister) to be shown on
 the Chroma-Key behind us. Then we were done. We say around for a long time 
 in our little room.

 We saw Conan walking around in various states of made-upness. We were watching
 our monitor, as the show's lovable sidekick Andy Richter was rehearsing some 
 comedy via satellite from the Super Bowl. He was cursing and being funny and 
 we were enjoying it. I turned to see the Big C. walking down the hall toward 
 us -- I made my move. "Hey, is Andy going to curse like this during the show?"
 I asked him. He stuck his head in our room, chuckled and made a joke. Then he 
 said "if this satellite hookup thing doesn't work, the whole show's going into 
 the toilet." Then he left.

 The seconds crawled by, the show was running an hour late. Our friends all 
 came trickling into our dressing room -- security is still job one here at 
 NBC. I told Gerard I'd give him $20 to tell Gregory Harrison how great he was 
 on "BJ and the Bear."

 I guess at some point the show started. I liked the intro, our little 
 disembodied heads floating across the screen. I was happy. Too bad, the show
 was awful. Gregory Harrison? How's he going to get things off to a rockin'
 start? Certainly not by telling that story about his daughter going to the 
 dentist. (The broadcast edited out his vile comment about Jennie Garth.) 
 Zzz... Who's Martha Plimpton? Sheesh. You know, I should say that I'm 
 really on Conan's side. I know he can do SOMETHING funny. I'm waiting. 
 I'm confident.

 Then all of a sudden we were on. Then we were done. That's it.

 I guess it was ultimately a positive experience but it was disappointing that
 we didn't get couch; he didn't even come over to us after our song and do the
 handshake or anything. It was just "OK, put the rock band back in their box 
 and ship 'em off." Not even Max Weinberg said hi to us. In fact, except for 
 two nice stage guys and the very helpful woman mixing us, nobody did. It was 
 kinda nuts and disorganized, but it was fun, it was, I gotta admit. I had fun.

 Epilogue. One of the stage guys arranged to use "The Tower" to show behind 
 whatever other bands appear on the show. A few weeks later we tuned in 
 to see it shown behind maybe the worst band in the universe, some 
 Canadian shmoes called Barenaked Ladies. We took it as a slight to "The Tower,"
 to Emily and Georgia, the entire Hubley family, and art in general.
 
 Wind Up is available from Liz Clayton, P.O. Box 7122, Ann Arbor, MI 48107).
 The issue this originally appeared in, #3, is sold out.


 from: "Newman, Lori" 
 
 Please include me on your YLT Digest emailing list.  I live in San Diego CA,
 and my husband and I have seen shows here and in LA, so naturally any concert
 info. for the West coast would be appreciated.  For that matter, any info. for
 East coast shows would also be nice -- friends in PA, NJ, NY are fans, and we
 may be moving back East soon ourselves.  Sorry bout the rambly personal spiel.
 
 Also fyi, a show about 6 months ago at the Alligator Lounge in Santa Monica 
 was fantabulous, and coincidentally, Yo La Tengo were the performers.  I
 thought the show in San Diego the night before was good, but Ira informed
 me that the band did not get a good "vibe" from the crowd -- "vibe" -- those
 whacky musician folk!  To me the crowd was typically San Diegan -- instead of
 the music, consciouses were focussed on maintaining a smooth, even burn on
 clove cigarettes while nonchalantly judging retro footware, secretly wishing
 they were in LA, wondering who the overly expressive guy behindthe
 unpretentious new wave organ thought he was.  At least two Pennsylvanians in
 California saw it that way.   

 A response to these requests would be great.  Ain't technology neato?  
 My email address is:  lnewman@acad.com 


 Thanks, 
 Lori Newman 


 from: KPSNET1!KPSGPO!vpu@kpsgroup.attmail.com (Purnell, Vernon)
 
 Eleanor Bron


 I'm thoroughly enjoying all the back issues of YLD.  I read some discussion 
 of "Tom Courtenay", and thought I might could shed some light on verse 2, 
 which is as follows:

 I spent so much time dreamin' about Eleanor Bron/
 In my room with the curtains drawn/
 Seein' her in the arms of Paul/
 Saying, 'I can say no more.'

 Eleanor Bron is a British actress whose fame quotient is about on par with 
 Tom Courtenay.  She was recently seen as Patsy's mother (in flashbacks) on 
 "Absolutely Fabulous", but she may be best remembered (by Ira, at least) for 
 her role in the Beatles' movie HELP!  She played a member of the cult that 
 was after Ringo's ring.  She was dispatched to obtain it, but she of course 
 ended up falling for them (Paul in particular).  She warned them of the 
 cult's plans, and would punctuate  her warnings by saying, "I can say no 
 more."  This strengthens the video's Beatles theme, and also sort of 
 foreshadows "Paul is Dead".  One might speculate that HELP!  is for Ira what 
 BILLY LIAR is for Georgia (see interview w/Ira in YLD vol. 2, #8); throw in 
 the final lines of the song ("I was thinking about the way things were / I 
 was thinking about the way things are", I believe) and ... y'all can 
 probably figure it out from there.

 Received the discography and was curious about a single called "This is Art" 
 -- what is that all about and where might I find it?  Any ideas where I can 
 find "Dreams" and "Happiness is Dry Pants?"

 One final query:  how does Ira feel about letting fans videotape a show? 
 Anyone tried it?  (Note to Tim:  if you have any response to this, please 
 forward ASAP, as I'm seeing them in 2 days and would like to tape the show 
 if Ira's not opposed.)



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 Tour Dates
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 2/1 Rubb             Tampa, Fl
 2/2 The Point        Atlanta, Ga
 2/3 Mercury Theater  Knoxville, Tn 
 2/8 Front Room       Amherst, Ma

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