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The new, correct addresses are: ** Skyway listserver: majordomo@novia.net ** Skyway submissions, to write to Matt: skyway@novia.net --==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-- // The Skyway \\ Summer 1994 -- Issue #18 May 28th, 1994 (c) 1994 Bastards of Young (BOY/BetaOmegaYamma) Productions --==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-- ** Subscriptions, comments, contributions, anything you want to read: ** --> skyway@phoenix.creighton.edu <-- ** Manager: ** i261%nemomus@academic.nemostate.edu (Matthew Tomich) --==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-- The manager of this list, Matthew Tomich, and the school's facilities that this list is produced from, Creighton University of Omaha, Nebraska, are not responsible for the contents of the following mailing except for that which they themselves have originally contributed. --==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-- "Pizza pizza!" ... what the fuck is that? Two pizzas? May 28th, 1994 -------------- z) The list, bootleg stuff, and plugging up the Kansas City post office. (from M@.) a) HELLO'S! from John Hall (not the guy from King Missile) and Jeff Weiss b) More wordz on this Saturday Night Live/Burt Reynolds thing (from Illona) c) Pete Buck reviews "Let It Be"! (Thanks, Ann!) d) Check this out: REALLY old 'Mats stuff from Greg Sorenson! ---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- Date: Sat, 28 May 1994 23:43:01 +0100 From: Matthew Tomich Subject: One Wink At A Time Clocked in 32 hours this week of grass maintenance and tomorrow I leave for Kirksville, Missouri for my summer research job with my advisor and 24 fuzzy, prepubscent Peromyscus. Hopefully I won't be a flaming car wreck on the side of the road like my friend Katie, even though it seems like I come close everytime I try to drive to Minneapolis! I told yah that the issues would probably be coming out sooner now that it's summer. I don't know what things will be like when I'm in Kirksville, but for now, you're getting another issue a week after the last one. It's about half as long as the average one, but it's coming out three weeks sooner. So wow! The //Skyway\\ now has 229 subscribers! That's more than double what it was this time last year, and the list is about a year and two months old. So is that good? Uh, I dunno! But I'm having fun, soo... Hey, I went to the Goodwill in Kansas City and got a three piece suit for $7! I don't have an occasion to wear it tho'. I think I'll go apply for a job at McDonald and show up for the interview in it...you know, overdress the person that's interviewing you...and ask really intimidating, jerky questions. "Now, uhm, how do I get YOUR job?" Okay, regarding //Skyway\\ stuff...Mr. Bob Fulkerson, to whom I am ever- indebted (at least until I get the bill for the tuxedo rental for his wedding), offered me the option of making this list a moderated list-server type of list. I said, "Well...hey...I'll ask the list and see what they think." This is what's on the table: The way the //Skyway\\ could be run is that people would send in their messages, I would preview it (to make sure it wasn't a subscription request or "Hey, Paul is a fag and you all suck!"). After reviewing the message, I would bounce it to the list server which would automatically mail it out to everybody. This would change the dynamics of the list, I suspect. Instead of being a weekly to monthly digest, it would be a moderated listserver. There would possibly be a digest form distributed, but it wouldn't necessarily be in the form that it is now. The drawback to this is that I think (maybe) that this would heavily detract from the 'intimacy' that (I think) the //Skyway\\ has. Granted, the way things work now, it is a little on the time consuming side and a bit antiquated in its manual format, but I don't mind and I think it adds a bit of personability to what is often automated. Now, this isn't necessarily going to happen. I just now have the option, whereas before I didn't. And I wanted to hear what YOU ALL out there have to say. How would YOU like the //Skyway\\ run? Would you rather get one big 1000 line digest every one to four weeks, or would you rather have a message or two in your mailbox each day? My personal belief, like I said before, is "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." But maybe there's a demand out there for more immediate messages. Just askin'. Another thing that came up: I recently found out about an incident on another list where the band was familiar with the list and found out that there were bootlegs FOR SALE on the list. From what I understand, the band wasn't too happy about this apparent /profit/ generation. (They had no problem with the /trade/ of material, from what I understand.) It supposedly hindered the bootlegging efforts with the band and the sound guy of several list members who weren't even offering to sell bootlegs over the list. So I guess here's the 'official' (I hate that word) thingie for the future: If you're advertising bootlegs, please do not advertise financial dealings in the //Skyway\\. Offers for trade are alright, but copies for cash have been shown to sour relations between other parties and the list. Whew. Got all that administrative crap out of the way. Back to the fun stuff. FUN STUFF TO DO: Hey, remember last issue I talked about my friend Katie that got into a car accident? Well, she's really doin' fine...but her hand is in a cast (right hand, no less) so she hasn't been able to do much. So I figure it'd be fun to flood her (regular) mailbox with letters from strangers. So if you have a second, write a short note (no more than 50 words...the more slack, the better) and send it to her. A Hallmark card is way above and beyond the level of this joke (not to mention uncreative.) Preferably use company stationary, company stamps, company pens, and company time. Feel free to send free samples of stuff or just coupons of your favorite food. Don't even bother explaining where you got the address. Send the above-mentioned trash to: Katie! 3207 NE 49th Kansas City, MO 64119 USA Oh yeah...she's not really that familiar with the Replacements either. So feel free to send her your favorite Replacements quotes, reasons you love the 'Mats, why she should become indoctrinated into the cult of the Bastards of Young, etc. along with your short note. (Don't forget to say "Get well soon!" either.) Oh, and for God's sake, don't even mention my name. Enjoy the sun and fuck it all, M@. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [The following is from the John's responses to the //Skyway\\ subscriber survey. - M@] Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 19:26:37 -0400 (EDT) From: KRUSTY2@delphi.com Subject: Mats survey response 9) Most memorable cover song. I'll tell you here the story of the first time I saw the Mats. It was in 1987, I guess, on the Tim tour. My roommate (a reformed Deadhead believe it or not) had just turned me on to the Mats, and I really didn't know much except Kiss Me on the Bus & Waitress in the Sky. We went to see them at the Channel, a great live music club in Boston. The opening act was Barrance Whitfield & the Savages, a great local blues band. (You may have heard their song "Mama Get the Hammer There's A Fly on the Baby's Head"; they were real big in Europe and got some national exposure for a while). I was pretty drunk, so I'm not sure of the chronology of all this, but at some point in the 'Mats set somebody threw a beer at the band. Paul says "If I find out who did that I'm going to kick his ass!" to which Tommy or Bobby (I didn't even know who was who at this point) say "It was him!" and pointed to some guy in the audience. Then they both jump into the audience, grab the guy, drag him up on stage & made him sing "Iron Man" Then after a while, they are pretty much too drunk to play, are just doing endless cover tunes. Barrance comes back on stage to help them out. He takes the mike and Paul tries to get him to sing "Walk On the Wild Side". Barrance doesn't know the lyrics, so Paul is whispering them one line at a time into his ear. Finally Barrance says, "Enough of this, let's just rock!" at which point they launched in a series of Jackson 5 covers. But one more story. Last Spring: just about a year ago, you probably covered this in Skyway at the time, just before Paul went on tour with his new band, he played a surprise show at this tiny club in Cambridge under the name 'Thadius Moonbeam and the Brothers Grief' or something like that. The Boston Globe spilled the beans the morning of the show so way too many people showed up, but I managed to slide in with two guys i met in line that got in when some music critic friend of theirs showed up. And it was a great show, mainly because it was the first time in years that I could see him in a small club setting and the sound was great. And after show, a bunch of people went in to talk to him in his dressing room and i snuck in with them and briefly met Paul, who didn't seem to psyched being trounced by all these fans and I felt like kind of an idiot groupie of something even being there, but the guy in front of me had Paul sign his shirt, so what the hell...so did I. Anyway, I just joined the internet last week & made some comment to a question on the alternative music group about Dyslexic Heart being the best pop song of all time. I said it was a pretty goofy song, but that Paul had certainly written some of the best pop songs of all time. I asked if there was a 'Mats group anywhere, and magically the next day there was a note from Matt in my mailbox telling me about the Skyway. --John Hall aka KRUSTY2@dephi.com P.S. Q: How many times does Paul say "Hey!" in an average song? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 24 May 94 17:16:59 EDT From: JeffWDTP@aol.com Subject: Shit Hits the Fans Live! Greetings all. i just received my first issue of //Skyway\\ (No. 12) and I thought I would share my first mats experience. The band was touring on Let It Be/Shit Hits the Fans. I was working at an alternative record store when Fans came out. I immediately cracked one open and put it on the store system. The Depeche Mode fans I worked with were not happy. I, on the other hand, had an ear-to-ear grin. The band played one of their Los Angeles dates at the Palamino, a famous country-western club in the San Fernando Valley. My friend and I arrived really early to get good seats (late arrivers wind up on the patio outside). The place was almost empty except for the bartenders, waitresses and a couple of guys sitting at the opposite side of the room talking and drinking. I can't even recall if there was an opening band. When the 'mats came out from the dressing room I realized one of the "men" drinking across the way was Tommy, very under-aged and very drunk. They took the stage, strapped on the guitars and Paul asked the immortal question, "Any requests?" A caucophony of suggestions rained from the mostly male, mostly drunk audience ranging from Ted Nugent's Stranglehold to Black Diamond. I guess you can tell what kind of show this was going to be. It was Shit Hit The Fans live! The show was a collection of covers with the very occasional original thrown in. The highlight was their rendition of "If I Only Had A Brain" from the Wizard of Oz. One fan, seated at the stage kept yelling for U2's I Will Follow. Finally Paul relented under the condition the fan come up and sing the song. The band broke into the song only to discover the fan only new the chorus to the song which he chanted, like a mantra, over and over. Two-odd hours of covers, songs stopping and starting etc. was one of the most fun I have ever had at a show. I did see the band another half a dozen times in venues as small as 200 people up to 3,500 auditoriums. I saw their road manager sing three Alice Cooper songs in a row. He also caught, body slammed and counted out an annoying stage diver who had tormented him the entire show. I saw some of the greatest, most inspired rock in my 31 years and of course, I saw one of the most ridiculous shows ever. I did catch Paul at the Whiskey on his solo tour. He was great. The backing band was a better collection of musicians than the Replacements, but had no where near the character and passion of the original four. Jeff Weiss JeffWDTP@aol.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 22 May 94 19:12:11 EDT From: IlonaAnn@aol.com Subject: Re: SNL and "Burt Reynolds" Hi everyone! When someone yelled out "Burt Reynolds" during the silent part of "Can't Hardly Wait" and Paul cracked up, I wondered if this was an inside joke by some friend or fan. In an interview last year, didn't Paul say he might turn down Tonight Show-type appearances because he didn't want to be on a program where people had come to get Alex Baldwin's autograph? Just a thought. Now my question. Does anyone out there know what Paul said to Charlton Heston at the end of program? Lip readers? Inside sources? Can anybody help? From Heston's eyebrow twitch, I figure it had to be a vintage Westerbergism. Illona P.S. I did hear that Mr. Heston had a hard time remembering Paul's name during rehearsals. Boy, I guess I'm not gonna watch Ben-Hur the next time it's on rerun. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 May 94 09:28:54 CDT From: C533946@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu Subject: peter buck reviews "let it be" I've only been subscribed for a short while, so maybe you've already talked about this, but . . . . I first got into the Replacements after reading a review of "Let it Be" written by Pete Buck (yes, of R.E.M.). Does anybody remember this? I was a senior in high school & got this little magazine with an inane title like "Rock" or something similar. They decided to do a guest review, and Buck gave the album an "A-" -- "minus" only because he knew they could do better. I loved R.E.M., and especially Buck, so I bought the album. Another thing you've probably already talked about is the cover of "14 Songs." You recognize it as a ripoff of old horror filmmaker William Castle's promo for "13 Ghosts," right? I've seen 3 Replacements shows plus I saw Paul in a teeny little university auditorium last fall. He came out and said, "I can shake each of your hands personally" because the teeny auditorium had only maybe 250 people in it, with a much larger capacity. After playing only about 6 or 7 songs, Paul sat down on the drum stand for the next song, had someone bring out a stool to do the next song, then lay on the floor for the next two. The guitarist (can't remember his name) covered "Turning Japanese" while Paul still lay on the floor not doing anything. Then Paul was carried offstage, and the show ended. People thought it was a joke, and someone yelled, "Get off your ass, Paul!" I heard from a hospital employee that he was in one of the local hospitals (Columbia, Missouri) for a few days after that with major back problems. Weird. I still think Let It Be is their best, and (sorry) I really can hardly make myself listen to All Shook Down. Some friends and I made a little movie in college ('85, I think) and used "Buck Hill" as music for the closing credits. Gosh, I hope we didn't violate any intellectual property laws. Thank you for flying Skyway. Ann c533946@mizzou1.missouri.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 22 May 94 22:23:02 CDT From: sorensongreg%faculty%Carthage@cns.carthage.edu Subject: Great show on video, it's all the same, dontcha know... ...or collecting the Mats, part III. I once had in my possession some pre-SNL (hell, pre-Hootenanny) concert footage. I hope someone else has this stuff floating around, otherwise it could be gone forever. Some background: I grew up in Mpls. and caught the scene's all-ages shows from 1984-88. The summer following my senior year of high school, I was dating a 23-year-old who used to be a TV-taping fiend. Her collection included Iggy Pop videos on The Midnight Special, Elvis Costello on the Tomorrow show, Devo appearances on Fridays, and a half-hour Suburbs concert aired on Minneapolis' PBS station. Anyway, the jewel of this collection was a snippet of live Replacements, taken from a local late-night TV show, "Twin Cities Beat." TCB aired Saturday nights on the NBC affiliate right after SNL, and was simulcast on KQRS (and eventually KDWB). They'd show videos of what was popular at the time, and then play stuff from the local bar scene and/vids from more popular local bands. The tape I had showed the VERY young 'Mats singing "Customer" and "Junior's got a Gun." The footage is high-quality (apparently done by the TV station), but ancient. Some Carbon-14 material to help you date this stuff...the tape included ads for: a. Duffy's (eventually became Norma Jean's, which is also now gone), b. "Sweet Potato" (an alternative weekly now known as City Pages), and c. a Sweet-Potato-sponsored concert held at Sam's (now, of course, called First Avenue). So I dubbed a healthy portion of her library before taking off for college, and as summer flings often do, we drifted apart. As you may have guessed by now, the story ends with my coming home for the summer and finding that the tape has been erased. Maybe I didn't label it well enough. Maybe a member of my family secretly hates me. All I know is that tape should never have left my possession. Well, happy hunting. I'm sure that footage is circulating somewhere in the Twin Cities area. PS...in conjunction with the TV show, KQRS cut an album of local music, which I, unfortunately, didn't care about when released. I don't know if the Replacements, Suburbs, Husker Du or Loud Fast Rules were on it, but I do remember hearing a solo track from it on the radio....A guy named Dez Dickerson, who later showed up in Prince's pre-revolution ensemble, and led that lame third band in "Purple Rain." ---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===-- fin. --==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-- || Matthew Tomich || <<>> || || 1111 S. Mullanix #258 || ----> skyway@phoenix.creighton.edu <---- || || Kirksville, Missouri 63501 ||(administrative, contribution, all purpose)|| || (816)-785-5220 ||--==--==--==--==--==-*-==--==--==--==--==--|| || "You are not what you own." || ** Non-Skyway address: ** || || /\\/\\/\ - Fugazi /\\/\\/\\ || i261%nemomus@academic.nemostate.edu || --==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-- "You can't fire me...I quit!" -- (American traditional)