Alienation and Despair - Faves
Alienation and Despair - Faves| Volume 1 , Number 6 | Yo La Digest | Apr 4, 1994 |
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there's this really great john davidson book about how to be a professional entertainer. it gives you all sorts of things about footwork and how to pace a set. we don't happen to own that book but we know it's out there ...ira
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here's the latest... tim tim@vestek.com
from: Jeff Economy <economy@mcs.com> Hey Tim-- As for YLT music videos, I saw one for MOTEL 6 a couple weeks ago on 120 minutes. Not too impressive, just shots of the band lip-synching in front of a plain backdrop on a soundstage. Wish they'd let *me* make one for them... Anyway I'd offer to dub it for you but I only managed to catch the last half of it; if I get a complete version I'll let you know. Jeff
from: Andrew Johnston <andrewj@echonyc.com> My girlfriend has forwarded me a few of your YLT newsletters, and I've enjoyed them a lot. In your last one, you asked for information about "low circulation" YLT videos that may be absent from your videography. Here's some info: *Upside Down--a very nice video filmed in NYC's Central Park. It turned up once on MTV's 120 Minutes in the spring of '92 and got a good bit of play on the 'Underground Railroad' alternative video show on Manhattan Cable. 'UR' watchers voted it one of the 10 best alternative videos of '92 *Big Day Coming (noisy version)--press material I recieved from YLT's publicist prior to a band interview I did last october said a video had been made. I've never seen it. *From A Motel 6--directed by Hal Hartley, it turned up on 120 Minutes about a month ago [Are you sure this is hal's work. Ylt Gazzette mentions David Kleiler?] Keep up the good work with the newsletter. I'll email you any further info I turn up on YLT-related subjects...
from: Michael Pemberton <mrpember@gibbs.oit.unc.edu> 'Cast a shadow' was done at the request of a friend of mine, who said he had heard them do it on the radio at point. He's a big Beat Happening fan, if you can imagine that. 'Teenager in Love' was my request. I chatted with Ira for about 15 before the show, and asked him to play it. His eyes kinda bugged out, and then he got a big smile on his face. it seems the Cattle Club show was the first time they played that song, and they'd never really played it since (he said they guested in Cleveland with the person who guested with them on that song in Sacto, and they played the song there). So two years and 1500 miles later some guy comes up requesting it! Kinda threw him for a loop, until I told him I had a tape of that show. I knew from the smile on his face that the song was as good as played. We chatted about various bands, and I chatted with James about the pinball games to be found in town (go figure). Ah well. It really was a great show. Strange ending, though. At the end of the last song (The Stooges cover, I forget the name), Ira unplugged and slammed his guitar to the ground, and stomped off stage like he was real pissed. Georgia and James just looked at each other for a few seconds, quit playing and left too. Then the audience looked around at each other and left. No one knew quite what to make of it. Odd. Michael
EURO-ROCK DEPT. (from ylt gazzette) 18th DYE - a trio from Berlin with whom we toured through the wilds of Europe for a few weeks. They're young and personable, and apt to make th ehsift from gentle songcraft to absolute shrieking hell in the blink of an eye. They have a new EP called Crayon which is a follow up to their fine pop noise dubut Lp, Done. You can write to them and get the CDs but we recommend going off the menu and including a few more bucks so maybe they'll send you a cassette og them doing "Feels Like I'm In Love", "Fragile Stars" or "D", or maybe even a photo of their soundman, Micha. We miss them very much. (18th Dye, Ravenestr. 2, d-13347 Berlin) READING STREET - we played with them in Bordeaux, France. Eric plays guitar, his sister Peggy is the drummer, and their friend Laurent plays bass. It was their first show, and they were just amazing in a sorta Talking Heads '77 as interpretted by the Shaggs way. If Chienne .50 were to weird for you, man, this band is right up your alley. Write them immediately and get their excellent demo tape. (Reading St., 61 rue du Mirail, 33800 Bordeaux France) PARKINSON DC - This handsome quartet hail from Barcelona. Mention the Dream Team around them and they go nuts. Their songs came floating out of the PA like giant airborne whales. who knew you had to go all the way the Spain to find this fantastic Antietam/Hypno/MBV roar? They have a record or two out on Munster Records, but we heartily recommend booking yourself a weeklong vacation in lovely Barcelona around one of their gigs. (c/o La Gloria (Serapi) Solar, Perill 13, Barcelona 08012 Spain) DIRTY BALTHAZARS - we played with them in Brussels. A way punk quintet who tossed in vicious covers of "Time Wont Let Me" and a couple Count Bishop tunes. They played fifteen songs in about 20 minutes and we never caught up to them to get an address or anything. (General Delivery, Belgium) USURA - they broke up before we played with them in Madrid, but some of them stuck together and recruited a few friends to round out the lineup for the show. That night they treated us to pretty melancholyacoustic fog, with a few choice covers mixed in. Their CD, Hake Romana, presents the (pre-split) band in rock mode and it is available from Elefant Records, PO Box 331, 28230 Las Rozas, Madrid Spain.
Tour Dates Mon Apr 4 Bottleneck Lawrence (KS) Wed Apr 6 Reptile House Grand Rapids (MI) Thu Apr 7 Blind Pig Champaign (IL) Fri Apr 8 Lounge Ax Chicago (IL) Sat Apr 9 2nd Story Bloomington (IND) Sun Apr 10 Suddsy's Cincinnati (OH) Tues Apr 12 Rosebud Pittsburgh (PA) Wed Apr 13 Scorgy's Rochester (NY) Thur Apr 14 Woodstock Montreal (Quebec) Fri Apr 15 Zaphod Beeblebrox Ottawa (Ontario) Sat Apr 16 Bogie's Albany (NY) Fri Apr 29 Some College Buffalo (NY) Sat Apr 30 Thread Waxing Space NYC
Contacting the Band Yo La Tengo can be reached at: Yo La Tengo P.O. Box 6028 Hoboken, N.J. 07030 USA
DISCOGRAPHY Yo La Tengo Discography Version 1.16 (*additions and changes) Updated March 8, 1994 Maintained by: Tim McGinnis tim@vestek.com 1640 Golden Gate #4 SFCA, CA 94115 If you spot mistakes or omissions, please send any available information. Brief Discography 1985 7" The River of Water 1986 Album Ride The Tiger 1986 Comp Luxory Condos Coming to Your Neighborhood 1987 7" Asparagus Song 1987 Album New Wave Hot Dogs 1989 Album President Yo La Tengo 1989 Comp Human Music 1990 Album Fakebook 1990 7" Speeding Motorcycle 1990 EP Here Comes My Baby 1991 Album That is Yo La Tengo 1991 7" Walking Away From You 1991 Soundtrack Matter of Degrees 1992 Album May I Sing With Me 199X Comp *Love Is Like A Poke In The Eye With A Stick 199X Comp Mountain Stage Vol 3 199X Comp Ruta 66 1992 EP Upside-Down 199X Comp Freedom of Choice 1992 Comp Delicacy and Nourishment Ernest Noyes Brookings Vol 3 1993 Soundtrack True Fiction Pictures 1993 EP Shaker 1993 7" Shaker (diff version) 1993 Album Painful 1993 7" Big Day Coming 1994 CD Single From A Motel 6 Bootography 5/19/87 Backnang Germany 90 min 11/22/87 Vera Groningen Holland 90 3/3/89 WRSU (int/perf) New Brunswick NJ 20 6/24/90 WXRK NYC 45 8/XX/90 Nerorock Belgium 45 8/16/90 Negativ Frankfurt Germany 135 8/26/90 Slim's San Francisco 45 9/10/90 Liberty Lunch Austin 45 10/1/90 Decade Club Pittsburg Pa 55 1/27/91 Mountain Stage West Virginia 4/26/91 WPRB (int/perf) Princeton NJ 20 5/21/91 VK Brussel Belgium 60 6/29/91 Summer Stage NYC 55 7/14/91 Knitting Factory NYC 45 2/18/92 WFMU (dj/perf) East Orange NJ 270 4/10/92 K-ROCK (int/perf) NYC 65 4/18/92 Cattle Club Sacto Ca 90 5/21/92 Democracy Gent, Belgium 90 6/16/92 Batschkapp Frankfurt Germany 90 7/3/92 Warfield Theater San Francisco 45 4/30/93 The Flood Zone Richmond Va 90 9/20/93 Slim's San Francisco 50 11/10/93 Ralph's Moorhead, Mn 67 1/8/94 Botanique Brussel Belgium 120 2/6/94 Trocadero San Francisco 50 2/19/94 Cat's Cradle Chapel Hill 95 2/25/94 Liberty Lunch Austin 50 Videography 19XX Mouthful of Sweat 19XX The Summer 1/28/94 Conan O'Brien NYC 1992 *Upside Down 1993 *Big Day Coming 1993 *From a Motel 6 Detailed Discography (*additions and changes only). 199X *Love Is Like A Poke In The Eye With A Stick Out The Window Some Kinda Fatigue
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