Re: (TV) Richard Lloyd's Village Underground Gig 03/16/01

["J.Germaine" <jpg55@home.com>]

Title: Re: (TV) Richard Lloyd's Village Underground Gig 03/16/01

Great report!!
This West coast guy sure appreciates it!
Jeffrey
> From: Henry17306@aol.com
> Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 18:33:19 EST
> To: tv@obbard.com (TV)
> Subject: (TV) Richard Lloyd's Village Underground Gig 03/16/01

> Hi MM'ers, 
>
> Recovering from last night's show. It was great. Steve Wynn & The Miracle 3 
> opened up for Richard and they were impressive. Good songwriting and pop 
> hooks. Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with Dream Syndicate or most of the 
> West Coast 
> alternative bands from the 80's. Steve got an excellent reception from the 
> audience when his set was over. There will be a new album out next month. 
> Anybody have any 
> information on Steve or Dream Syndicate? How good are they? 
>
> Richard was backed with Chris Butler, Peter Stuart and Bibi Farber. Overall, 
> Richard played very well and was impressive. A lot of guitar attack. I'm not 
> a big fan of the "Covers" album as of yet, just had it a month, but the 
> material live was better than 
> what is on cd. The odd thing was that during and at the end of the show, the 
> audience seemed to give Richard lukewarm applause. I know that New Yorker's 
> have 
> a reputation of being a tough audience, but this was the first time I've 
> experience it 
> in seeing probably 75 to 100 shows (not much, I grant you), but Richard did 
> not deserve such a response. But I'm not criticizing how the audience should 
> have applauded, it did seem to be an honest appreciation, just seemed odd 
> that Steve was 
> honored with the louder applause from my perspective. 
>
> Richard was very friendly on stage and off. He made jokes, had some 
> mechanical problems at the beginning and even threw in "Misty Eyes" during 
> the encore which 
> was not included in the set list. So Richard must've felt happy with his 
> performance 
> and the audience's reaction, I assume. 
>
> The set list reads as follows: 
>
> Talking About Midnight 
> Secret Words 
> The Knockdown 
> Fire Engine 
> Ain't It Time 
> Alchemy 
> She Loves To Fly 
> Murder Boogie 
> Hey Joe 
> Strangestrange 
> Downline 
> Raising The Serpent 
> Submarine 
> Torn Shirt 
>
> Encore: 
> Carousel 
> Sway 
> (Misty Eyes) 
> Good Times / Bad Times 
>
> I even got Richard to autograph my cd and asked him and the possible TV 
> reunion 
> show in NY. He said that it's a possibility that it may NOT happen. A source 
> close 
> to Verlaine told me yesterday that Tom says that a show will happen in NY, 
> but not 
> confirmed yet with date or venue yet. So who knows what will happen in NY. I 
> hoping that it does!! 
>
> Bottom Line: If you get a change to see Richard then do so. 
>
> Anybody from the list also go to the show????? 
>
> Henry