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

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

How about "Halloween"?

> From: eric s gregory <esgregory@uswest.net>
> Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 17:40:43 -0800
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Subject: Re: (TV) Richard Lloyd's Village Underground Gig 03/16/01
> 
> in response to the dream syndicate question:
> "days of wine & roses", the first full-length & the earlier
> ep with "some kinda itch" are absolutely KILLER....from that
> point on, it's a (not too steep) slide down, tho bright
> points do pop up ("ghost stories" had its moments).
> 
> Henry17306@aol.com wrote:
>> 
>> 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
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