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Re: Over-The-Rhine Digest V2 #886
OtR played good music on Saturday.
Amy Smiles wore a velvet dress. She was a walking U2 reference, but I
don't know if she knew it.
Later, at Kaldi's, we rumbled with 750 people, throwing punches and
bottles and glops of hummus until we could get a couple of tables at the
back.
Maybe it wasn't quite such a desperate fight. I'm not saying. I want
you to think I'm a tough guy.
On that note, Ysoi is just kidding when she says:
>Fred, you're absolutely adorable. I'd trust my children to you. Wait-- I
don't have any. >Well, you get the picture.
'Cause I'm *mean*, dude. I'm a monstrous visage movin' forward crowdwise
hide yer kids and click them locks and run, bubba!
Or not. :p :)
I think you're cool, too, Miss Ysoie.
At Kaldi's, Zach and Jeff and Amy and I talked about anarchy and
socialism and dropping out and not dropping out and social activism and
order and what it all means to the way we touch the little worlds that we
can touch. And I mention this because . . . when I saw VOL recently at
Taylor, he said, "Over the Rhine will be here in a few weeks. I always
feel bigger inside after I hear them play." And maybe I should give OtR
credit for the expansive thoughts inside us . . .
Leo's Valentine. The thing that was so cool is that Leo had those
glasses on and was trying to squint and read and rhythm out the words
like a hepcat all at once. And everybody was smiling onstage. And
laughing, laughing, laughing. It was like they'd brought out their dad
or their cool weird uncle to hang with 'em, and usually he just watches,
but tonight he's cutting loose, only when he cuts loose he still looks
like cool Uncle Leo hovering above all this with a funny grin on his
face. Everytime Terri or Karin would do one of the vocal swoops and
echoes that go with the song, it was like Leo didn't expect it, and he
seemed just, you know, super pleased and thrilled to have his reading
echoed by those beautiful voices--as who wouldn't. So the big thing that
made this little musical event special was the cuttin' loose joy of it.
The spontaneity of it, because, like Linford said, they had no idea what
it was going to be like until it happened. And suddenly I was hanging
out in the practice room, just watching the band dig its own silly,
gorgeous grooviness, and there you have it. A mini review. Oh, and Leo
improvised something about crustaceans, which is about as wonderfully
random as you can get. If they recorded this, it is the perfect sort of
thing to have end up on a new fanclub album. And I have a title for that
album ready. First there was "Besides," of course. So the second one
should be, "And Another Thing . . ." Although, "There's One in Every
Crowd" would be good, too.
Oh, has anybody mentioned the little "what about the album?" exchange
with the crowd? Linford totally tried not to hear the question, then he
gave us a shifty-eyed response of "in a few months" or something. Which
is okay. So: in a few months.
Ummm.
Karin's wardrobe: A+. I mention this because sometimes I question her
ability to play quiet music loudly in the clothes she wears out onto
stage. I've seen some little suit-like things, and those concerts are
always quieter. I mean, I'm not saying she looked bad ever (uh uh). But
sometimes she seems more ready to rock with furious quietude. Erm.
Yeah, the drummer seemed okay-not-great, but not distractingly anything,
and he did a fine job. I imagine it's cos he's new. Jack struck me that
way two years ago. But who is this cat? What was his name? Who's he
played with? Somebody should do some research.
Diggity.
That's all. Time for the boy to work.
Fred
np: Big Head Todd and the Monsters: Sister Sweetly
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