Dump, Envelope, Harvey Sid Fischer

Cooler, NYC, February 24, 1995

Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 10:37:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Wilson Smith <neslon@panix.com>
To: Chug 
Subject: Dump / Envelope / Harvey Sid Fischer, Cooler, NYC, 2/24

Those who cut out early on Friday after Envelope played missed less than nothing (and that's something); Harvey Sid Fischer managed to drag his joke out for, I'd guess, a solid two hours. Weirder than weird, dumber than dumb, the video that's floating around of him on public access tv doesn't completely capture what we experienced last night (he "rocked," for one thing), but it's close enough. High points:

the Aries Ram song (12:45am?)
shouts of "Georgia Hubley!! Georgia Hubley!!" as Harvey ticked off the list of Pisces (2:30am)
"Talkin bout your Taurus, talkin bout yer bully bully bull..." (2:45am)

I was REALLY impressed with James McNew -- wow. Pop tunes done by a choirboy on top of earnest rhythm guitar on top of distortion. Pretty dang hard to beat, I loved it loved it. WIsh I could decide whether he was covering the Beach Boys when he opened with "I Can Hear Music," or the Ronettes. There's a heckuva lot more Carl Wilson there than Ronnie Spector, though, so I'll stick with my first impression.

I thought The Arnvelope sounded way ragged at first, and was bummed that Gerard pulled his red silk shirttail out before the first song even started (Harvey Sid kept his tux completely on for at least two songs). But Envelope got a little better for me midway thru the set, and the instrumental there at the end was pretty close to sublime.

[We were there for chugster glenn susser's 56th birthday celebration -- happy birthday, glenn!]

Wilson Smith                          Some friends of mine, sick of incessant
New York City                     complaints about my insomnia, laid a bottle
neslon@panix.com                              of valerian root extract on me.
CIS: 70741,422                                                    -- Jon Fine

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