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If my memory of her has an expiration date, 
let it be 10,000 years.


 ...Chungking Express,
a film by Wong Kar-Wai

 With the movie out, comes new volume number, yeah!  ISAW is
 playing right next door and I plan to see it on company time.
 And for a movie with alot of Styx-influenced-Icelandic rock,
 checked out "Cold Fever"  (Koeldum Klaka). 



 from: joshua klein <jklein@midway.uchicago.edu>

 Attack on Lounge Ax

 The rendition of Attack On Love, which appears on the Lounge Ax Relocation
 CD, is a live track recorded earlier in the year (November?) at the Yo La
 Tengo/Pasels/Yum-Yum show at Chicago's Cabaret Metro. The version features
 a couple Coctails making some additional racket on sax and theramin. The rest
 of the Tengos are pretty loud as well. Free rock freak out! Still, I find it
 ironic that at least the first half of the benfit CD (whose total proceeds go
 to help Lounge Ax pay off a ton of legal fees and find a new home in Chicago)
 is almost loud enough (Jesus Lizard, Shellac, loud Sebadoh, etc.) to make the
 accusations of noise pollution accurate. Of course, LA is a great club, and
 they're sound-proofed, but I wish there was more stuff like the Tortoise,
 Mekons or Rachel's, or at least a Yo La "song". The CDs for a good cause,
 though, so all should check it out.

 Josh



 from: Jeffrey Castel De Oro @lt;jeffcdo@primenet.com>

 Hello,

 I maintain a Marshall Crenshaw page, and I saw him fairly recently in a Yo
 La Tengo video.  The story dealt with Yo La Tengo opening for the Beatles. 
 I was hoping you might be able to provide me with some additional
 information about this video, so I might be able to provide more detailed
 information on my page.  My page is at 
 http://www.primenet.com/~jeffcdo/crenshaw.htm if you want to check it out. 

 Thanks,
 Jeff Castel De Oro



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 from: BRTONS@aol.com


 Yo La Tengo played their first New York City show in about five months on May
 2 at New York University's Eisner and Lubin Auditorium, concluding for the
 time being their tour of East Coast colleges.  The band, which was touted in
 one local magazine as "the best live band of its generation", performed in
 front of an enthuisiastic sold out crows.  Living up to their reputation, YLT
 played an astonishing set.  The show began with Georgia walking on stage by
 herself, stopping to press foot pedals by the organ and Ira's guitar.  As she
 did this, both instruments began to reverberate, performing a trans like
  loop.  Georgia then sat down at her drums, adding her pounding to this
 programed mantra.  After about a minute Ira and James climbed the stairs to
 the stage from opposite sides, each banging on a marching band drum strapped
 around their neck - all the while the organ and guitar provided the
 boundaries for this pulsating entrance.  Finally Ira picked up his guitar and
 James switched to bass as they went straight into a tear-up version of
 "Sheena is a Punk Rocker."  To my amazement, the band never lost the momentum
 of this startling opening, playing the best set I've ever seen them perform.
 It was a concert where every song is a highlight.  The setlist follows:
     Reverb/Drums -->
     Sheena is a Punk Rocker
     Tom Courtenay
     Decora
     Swing for LIfe
     Flying Lesson - this song is better each time they play it
     
     ?                    - A Dump song sung by James.  James' songs
                              bring out the best pop instincts of the band.
     
     Paul is Dead   - Ira had to practice this one by himself for a
                              minute to get the chords right.
     
     Nowhere Near
     Double Dare
     False Alarm -->
     ? -->
     Big Day Coming -->
     False Ending -->
     Blue Line Swinger - The band never stopped playing during
                             these final five songs.  James switched 
                             from bass to guitar to organ and back to
                             the bass again for a fiery BLS.
     
     ENC:
     ? 
     Drug Test      - As perfect a song as Tom Courtenay.  This
                             was played by request.
     
     Shaker          - A good and slow groove.          

     ?

 If anyone has a tape of this show, please email me.  This show encompassed
 all of the paradoxes which make Yo La Tengo such a great band.  They were
 experimental yet polished, motionless and manic, quiet and loud - a great
 concert.                      


 from: Derek Weiler <d-weiler@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>


 Saw the Yo La Tengo show at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh on the 
 weekend. I thought it was a great set: similar to the stuff they've been 
 doing the past couple times I've seen 'em (Sudden Organ & Blue Line 
 Swinger marathons, etc.), but with a few songs I didn't recognize as 
 well-- new stuff perhaps.

 They were playing under a big carnival tent in the parking lot, and during 
 the set, there were about six projectors shooting various images onto the
 band: Warhol films, MST3K-type McGraw-Hill educational films from 
 the '50s, etc. It was trippy. 

 For the first encore, Ira said something like "I guess it would be 
 appropriate to do a song by the Velvet Underground tonight... here's a 
 song by the Monkees."

 For the second encore, they did the Seeds cover, "Can't Seem to Make you 
 Mine" & had two guys onstage dressed in seersucker suits shaking their 
 money-makers, just like Gerard Malanga at the Factory I guess. It was a 
 stroke of genius.  

 Ira & James seemed very unhappy with the show after... muttered about 
 being "under-rehearsed lately" or something. I thought it rocked tho'.

 BTW, James said he got a chance to see an alternate version of the Kids 
 in the Hall movie with "the unhappy ending": the Kevin McDonald character 
 ends up taking the drug & becoming another zombie.

 As for the Velvets exhibit at the museum, it's mostly old posters 
 advertising gigs, a lot of which are really cool. There's also copies of 
 the MGM contract, handwritten lyrics, and old press kits (the 1969 bios 
 list Maureen Tucker as "the world's coolest virgin" or somesuch, and talk 
 about the group being "astrologically balanced, with two Libras and two 
 Pisces."

 That's all for now.

 Cheers,
 DW.




 check it out, http://www.muohio.edu/~plattgj/ylt/

 he's put alot into this page and it shows.

 thanks glenn!


 New and Upcoming Matador Releases

 
 JUNE 18
 Yo La Tengo  - Ride the Tiger (reissue) LP/CD
 Yo La Tengo  - The President/New Wave Hot Dogs (reissue) LP/CD

 JULY 23
 Yo La Tengo - TBA compilation dbl LP/dbl CD


 from: Tony McCartan <TONY@itd.tv.bbc.co.uk>

 Still wishing and a hoping for a YLT European Tour this Summer.

 Have you seen "Rolling Stone's Alt-Rock-A-Rama" book (Delta)?

 It includes an article by Ira "The Twelve Worst Yo La Tengo Shows"

 Which comes down to:-

 1. Down Under, Boston, June 15, 1985.
 2. Electric Banana, Pittsburgh, December 6, 1985.
 3. Living Room, Providence, Rhode Island, June 27, 1986.
 4. J.C.Dobbs', Philadelphia, August 8, 1986.
 5. Exit/In, Nashville, August 20, 1986.
 6. CBGB, New York, October 17, 1986.
 7. No Bar and Grill, Muncie, Indiana, November 3, 1987.
 8. Dingwall's, London, December 13, 1987.
 9. Theater Gallery, Dallas, February 5, 1988.
 10. Fat Chance, Albuquerque, February 9, 1988.
 11. Lingerie, Los Angeles, February 19, 1988.
 12. Gallery, Normal, Illinois, April 11, 1988.

 Where You There?

 The book also has a nice article by Ira's fellow "New York Rocker" editor
 Michael Hill about the "Music For Dozens" series of gigs organized by
 Ira and Michael at Folk City in 82/84.

 Cheers,
 Tony Mc.



 from: sbraxton@denr1.igis.uiuc.edu (Susan Braxton)

 Heads up for the Black Maria Film Festival (which may be coming to your
 town, if it hasn't already).  It includes a film by Emily Hubley, Her
 Grandmother's Gift, featuring sound by Ira and Georgia.  The traveling
 moderator throws in a tidbit about the Hubley family history.  The Hubley
 film is great, and the show is a really nice collection of animation.
 Susan

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