Re: (TV) (OT) Gang Of Four US tour dates

[Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com>]

At 12:52 PM +0100 4/14/05, Joe Thornton wrote:
> I spent a vacation in Texas once. I must say that Houston was awful.

I had a good set in Houston (good audience connection, though on 
listening back to the set it wasn't particularly great), but the 
evening did turn weird and dark--the deaf sound guy insisted that we 
stole his poster of Jesus, and he inevitably had the PA cranked way 
too high.  Then one of our other people insulted his microphone, and 
it all went downhill.

> Once I got outside Houston it was great.

Agreed.  I really liked Denton and Austin, which makes for a small 
sample set, but still...

> Houston is where Jandek lives, isn't it?

Yep!  Regrettably, I didn't find out until later that we played less 
than a minute by car from his house.  Not that I would have knocked 
on the door or anything, but it might have been interesting just to 
take a look at the neighborhood.

> But for Maurice's support, I'd have no intention of checking out Jandek.

I'm falling behind--I think I have about half his recorded output 
now.  #40 just came out.  Also, he's pre-announced a gig in London on 
May 22: http://www.musicloversfieldcompanion.org/

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Maurice Rickard
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