(TV) OT: Chris Stamey / Yo La Tengo Question

["Casey, Leo J" <Leo.J.Casey@Volpe.dot.gov>]

Can't post just the link itself as requires subscription.

Know some on this List are fans:

(Separate Q:  Can Yo La Tengo fans tell me where would be a 
good place to start with their cds (say, top 3-4)?  [I have cd with 
"Heart in title aleardy]  ?)

Boston Globe
"ARE YOU EXPERIENCED?", Author: JIM SULLIVAN
Date: 02/15/2005 Page: E3 Section: Living 

As coleader of the dB's the seminal '80s band Chris Stamey became 
one of the avatars of what's been called power pop. He's now leader 
of the newly formed Chris Stamey Experience, which plays the Paradise 
Lounge tonight. "I don't want to say anything bad about power pop, but 
it's not really a Beatles thing we're doing," Stamey said. 
"There's a sense of improvisation and guitar fun to it." 

Stamey is touring with drummer Anton Fier (ex-Feelies, Golden Palominos), 
bassist John Chumbris, and former Boston-based keyboardist Tyson Rogers. 
He just recorded a CD, "A Question of Temperature," with members of Yo 
La Tengo and, as they were recording, they found antiwar politics creeping
in. 
"The war and the election were looming large when we got in the studio," 
he said. That's evidenced in songs they wrote and covered, the latter 
including Eddie Harris and Les McCann's Vietnam War-era song "(Let's 
Make It Real) Compared to What." 

During the '90s Stamey produced (Whiskeytown, Le Tigre, Ben Folds Five,
etc.) 
more than he played concerts, but he reemerged last year with the ambitious 
"Travels in the South." He's working on a solo record, "November," and a
dB's 
reunion record. Any fears, at 50, about getting older in a young person's
game? 
No. "My heroes are Stravinsky, Cole Porter, and Debussy, and I don't think 
about age, really. I'm fairly well preserved." 
Furvis opens the 18-plus show at 9. $10

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Always loved Vanessa et co.  Missed their first run through NY because of
things beyond my control.  Finally saw them at the Michael Todd room in the
basement of the Palladium.  Lucinda and her geetar, back in '88, opened.

Some yah-hoos from Athens had a problem with me taping the event.  First and
only time audience objected to someone taping the show.

Anyway, didn't tape the final encore.  Probably Gyrate.

Haven't listened to the tape since then.  But our observation was that
Vanessa was no longer doing lines.

Scott, NYC
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