From PackageThf@aol.comThu Nov 2 18:54:47 1995 Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 17:39:00 -0500 From: PackageThf@aol.com To: mransfrd@umich.edu Subject: here's where the strings come in (group 3a) Sorry to take so long, but midterms prevailed again...just a quik comp. of info and questions from the list at large...enjoy: +note: since i'm taking to more and more postings from people on the list, i'm adding the disclaimer that i am reserving my write to edit all posts. (or even to not post a post) if anyone else wants to ask something of the group at large, send it to me and I'll process it through. Just so that i set that straight from the start... +from sunny70@ix.netcom.com: the set that Superchunk played at the Fillmore in San Francisco last Saturday included the following (not in order, I'm afraid) -- What Do I (the first song?), Silverleaf and Snowy Tears, Animated Airplanes over Germany, Throwing Things, Sunshine State, Eastern Terminal, Why Do You Have To Put A Date On Everything, Skip Steps 1 and 3, Precision Auto, Driveway to Driveway, Hyper Enough, Yeah It's Beautiful Here Too, Cast Iron, and they ended everything with The First Part. Yeah, that's about it. (Nothing off Incidental Music, alas -- no Ribbon or On the Mouth or even 100,000 Fireflies -- and no Package Thief or Mower either.) But it was a great show anyway (the Karl Hendricks Trio and the Spinanes opened for them). + from havok@mail.utexas.edu: Anyone from Texas knows about a bad ass Austin band called ROCKETFUEL SODAPOP, a heavily influenced Superchunk/Luna/Yo La Tengo band. They've been playing around the central Texas area for about a year now and include DRIVEWAY TO DRIVEWAY as an encore. See them before their northeastern tour coming up in the winter. Bands like this should be supported and promoted. Keep an eye out for ROCKETFUEL SODAPOP. To my knowledge, they have no commercial releases available but a few live tapes are circulating and are of superb quality. Anyone interested, drop me a line..... + from cebudo@aol.com: an address of another place to get CHUNK shirts - KUNG FU P.O.BOX 28763 RALEIGH, NC 27611 (+dave's note: it's the mail order end of tannis roots productions, the group who also put together the cool "freedom of choice" comp that has chunk doing devo's "girl u want") +the first of 2 from jbeauli@mstar.com: (1:) I bought a copy of "Take the Tube" a few months ago. When I play it on a stereo vcr through a stereo, the stereo sound is really horrible. Is it just my copy, or have other people had this problem? Also, does anyone know which issue of Sassy from a few years ago had the Laura interview? +cool info from mrfulton@halcyon.com: I saw Superchunk in Seattle on the 24th at Moe's. The Karl Hendricks Trio and the Spinanes opened. By the way, the Spinanes drummer's name is Scott Plouf. Scott was just coming down from his sinus infection you mentioned at the LA show. He got up at some point when Rebecca was tuning her guitar and told a story about blowing his nose really hard and having something come out of his eyes. Yikes, whatever... Mac played keyboards on one song. So Superchunk came on at 12:30. Here's what they played (I can't remember exact order or even all of the songs, but...): SILVERLEAF AND SNOWY TEARS, HYPER ENOUGH, WHY DO YOU HAVE TO PUT A DATE ON EVERYTHING, LIKE A FOOL, PACKAGE THIEF, PRECISION AUTO, THE FIRST PART, YEAH IT'S BEAUTIFUL HERE TOO, THROWING THINGS and a few others. They were really on. This was the fourth time I've seen them, and it was the best. Mac had on a madras shirt with a small rip in the back that quadrupled in size by the end of the show. The crowd was kind of weird. Many assholes screaming "fuck you", mostly drunk frat-looking boys. I guess that's supposed to be cool. At some point someone said, "Hey, aren't you guys late for a date rape?" and Laura smiled. ******Mac: "This is a new song" ** No real crowd response ** Jim: "Gee, don't get too excited... Don't come in your pants." ** Laura and Mac smile. ** Jim: "Um, I apologize for talking dirty... I thought I was among friends. I was wrong. Sorry." ******* As they came back on stage for the encore (at 1:45 am): Jim: "I just want to say that normally I would never think of apologizing for anything the band does... that's just not what we're about. But for tonight's show I feel that I really have to apologize for Mac... he's fucking up all over the place and ruining the show." Mac: "Jim's been a little edgy since he found out about me and his mom..." Jim: "Oh, now we're resorting to cheap shots..." Mac: "Hey, she was anything but cheap." *****The first half of the show, people were yelling "turn up the vocals": Jim: "You see the PA? [pointing to the ceiling, and about seven feet behind the front of the stage] That's where the vocals are. Everyone back there can here the vocals, but you get to be near us... the rock stars. Mac can spit on you when he sings." + more show rememberances from SPOLTORECL@dlu.edu: hmm...i can't quite remeber the set list but i can remeber most of the songs...started with eastern terminal...songs included cadmium, the snowy silverleaf song, hyper enough(before they played it mac said that they were cool because this song was played on modern rock stations), iron on ( a drunk frat guy kept screaming CAST IRON CHAIR CAST IRON CHAIR over and over after songs so mac said "do we have a song called cast iron chair?" and then said "oh yeah heres a differnt version of it called iron on" the guy was pissed and then another drunk frat guy kept screaming skip steps 1&3 and kept singin the chorus but with lots of obscenities so mac told him to come up on the stage and sing it so he got up there and was like "say what you f'n wanna say see what you f'n wanna see get to the f'n point your f'n getting to f'n me" and the whole place booed him and mac said "sorry man" they also ended with cool and played question is how fast and then prescion auto for the encore ....at one time in the show people kept shouting song names so mac said "all these requests! look people, i'm just going to have to shut down here" ... driveway to driveway, why do you have to put a date... for tension..some others i can't quite remember since it was like 2 weeks ago ...there wasn't anything 'rare' or anything weird to mention songwise... + a public query from mdst.ger@gloria.cord.edu: i go to college at concordia college in moorhead minnesota. i am a dj at KORD, our local radio station. i am going to see superchunk at first ave in minneapolis, my true home. i hear they are playing with guv'ner and seaweed. who makes those decisions? well, any chance that they would be willing to stop up this way and talk on my show? i know that this is an impossibility, but it would probably biring alot of life back to the scene up here. i would pay them money if they could stop and play a set up here, just for fun. we could give them what they wanted. why does everything cost so much money now a days, what happened to playing on campus, man. well i can dream a little dream. + look for CHUNK guitar tabs in the future (but don't hold your breath) + all the things i've promised in other letters + more q's and a's from the group at large + general miscelany...i have some of it ready already, but i don't want to bog down you guys' (e)mail boxes.