shoulda taped....if ur gonna get busted might as well do it for something
eternal....
tom w
np: afx - live in oz 1997
On Sun, 14 Sep 1997 18:37:22 -0500 Rusty Householter <aphex@mtco.com>
writes:
quoted 184 lines At 11:01 AM 9/14/97 -0500, you wrote:
>At 11:01 AM 9/14/97 -0500, you wrote:
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>just saw aphex twin last night at the vic theatre in chicago....
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>ill cut right to the chase:
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>first act - linoleum. less then impressive couldnt
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>understand much of what the singer was singing, but she was pretty...
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>Linoleum was terrible. British(?) grunge at it's worst. I heard
>cries
>of "Go back to Ohio" from the crowd at a silent moment.
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>second act - sneaker pimps. better then linoleum, i started to move a
>little bit
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>with the rest of the crowd but none the less I was still feeling
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>uninspired. bring out twin I remmember thinking....
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>Sneaker pimps, not my bag o' tea. Good visuals though, they should
>have
>just played the CD and put up the visuals cause I couldn't understand
>what the lead singer was singing.
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>third act - dj luke vibert. spining some good d&b tracks that got
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>the crowd a *little* more excited.
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>Vibert was the dj the whole time, not the third act in order per say.
>Good though.
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>finally twin. first track i didn't recognize...the crowd was warming
>up
>to the tunes....
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>after about 10 minutes of aural confusion...out comes something
>familiar
>(cant recall trak)
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>I think it was "Inkey$". Most of that first 10 minutes (mostly
>fiddling
>about) and some other parts sounded like variations of that song.
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><excerpt>the bears come out bouncing and humping and the crowd loves
>it....
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>Not only the bears but that woman who came out and jumped on the
>bears.
>Who was she? It was quite weird since I haven't heard any Aphex
>reviews
>that said she'd come out and get into the act. She also played with
>Richards dangling leg, he smiled. Girlfriend possibly?
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><excerpt>richard was on for only about an hour...i remember hearing
>only
>about 3 or 4 traks that
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>i recognized. his last trak didgeridoo finally got everyone moving,
>but
>it was over by then.
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>richard leaped of his couch without a word and was gone, we all
>pleaded
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>The crowd was clapping in time to the drum machine handclaps on
>"Digeridoo" which I kind of thought was annoying.
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><excerpt>for an encore
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>but never got one.
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>He's a bastard ain't he? I think he probably heard something about it
>being a rock show standard in the Midwest or America for that matter
>to
>give an encore, he just refuses to follow the rules I guess.
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>after the show a group of us waited outside his bus. he came out,
>signed
>albums etc.
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>my brother even got his aphex logo tattoo signed....
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>after getting my ticket stub signed i shook his hand, and thanked him.
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>we all went home in wonder about meeting the twin....
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>That's cool. I left promptly because I had a run in with Security
>before
>the show started. They busted me for taking in bootleg shirts, in
>their
>reasoning that I had the potential to sell them inside for profit.
>Lost
>$50 in shirts (5), nice shirts too. Almost got hauled to jail too,
>got
>threatened by them and also verbally assulted by security for being
>from
>south of Chicago (Eureka to be exact).
>
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>I guess the sex pistols said it best "No fun in the USA" Richard's
>set
>was cool though. No streaker though, probably a security concern. :
>P
>I hear the streakers name is Matt Jones, and he works at Rephlex, I
>previously saw him chatting up Luke in the dj booth er...box. He's
>got
>some stuff coming out. He's also recently been seen at a Rephresh gig
>asking everyone "Has anyone seen my hard on?" Had a right good time
>though. I just hope I won't get hauled away to jail later for
>attempted
>selling of my shirts.
>
>
>I vow to never go to the Vic again nor listen to Q101 (the guy from
>Q101
>was the one who asked for a shirt), I hope all other IDMer's join in a
>similar boycott. They just can't get away with shit like that.
>
>
>Rusty
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