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By: Da Sissop
Date: 8/8/99 8:44:58 AM
# Replies: 19
Okay, I mentioned I've got this new car, right?
So Jay, you remember Jay, right, so Jay alerts me to the fact that Robyn Hitchcock is touring with the Flaming Lips, and although they aren't coming to Houston, they will be in Austin at Stubbs BBQ on Saturday (yesterday). Now I like Robyn Hitchcock and barbeque, and I figured, what the heck, this would be an opportunity to test out the new car's impulse support system.
So we hop in the car, drive and drive and drive, and we arrive at Stubbs BBQ. Yay, the show is not sold out! We pay our 17 bucks per ticket, and then we see that there are like 5 or 6 bands on this little mini-festival, and Robyn Hitchcock is scheduled to play from 9 to 9:30. Oh great.
So this mini-festival is apparently the brainchild of Wayne Coyne, the frontman/madman behind the Flaming Lips... (frontman... behind? er..anyway...) and his Concept du Juor is that they are distributing little FM radio Walkmen so you can listen to a broadcast of the show in stereo and any subliminal messages they may plant, and it's supposed to be a much more personal experience. Okay fine. They still have big booming amps, so you don't *need* the radios, but it was an interesting touch.
So the first band is setting up, they're called ICQ, no, sorry, it was IQU, consisting of an upright bass, a keyboard, two turntables, and... Homer, are ya paying attention?... a theremin. I began to think that maybe this trip wasn't a waste after all. Well, the band played, and they sucked. But still, the theremin was cool.
Second "band" was a guy named "Sonic Boom". Again, my spirits were lifted as I saw him setting up his equipment, which consisted of several "Speak N Spell" and "See N Say" machines all wired together. But again my hopes were dashed as he proceded to generate 20 minutes of rumbly noise, with not one recognizable utterance like "the cow says moo."
So then Robyn Hitchcock comes out, and plays a mostly-solo, mostly-acoustic set, and I guess because of the rushed nature of the show he didn't have much of his trademark introductory storytelling between songs. It was just okay. He did close his set with a fairly spectacular Syd Barret Pink Floyd song, with the ICQ keyboardist and the Speak N Spell noise guy accompanying.
We debated staying for the Flaming Lips, but we woulda had to wait through one more band, Sebadoh, and we figured it would be safer making the drive back to Houston if we were more or less awake.
And then we were back in Houston by 12:30.
Response #1
By: sooz
Date: 8/8/99 6:45:29 PM
You were in Austin and didn't acll us for beer? Please explain how this can be forgiven.
Besides, we're gonna buy a theremin.
Response #2
By: Da Sissop
Date: 8/8/99 9:15:40 PM
Okay, it's inexcusable, and I'm sorry, but it was an impulsive kinda thing. We went, we got there at showtime, and we left in time to be home for the late rebroadcast of the local news.
But I will come back again. Especially if you've got a theremin.
Response #3
By: Jerichos Burlap
Date: 8/8/99 9:40:53 PM
I felt it was rather thoughtful that Fang didn't mention the BBQ. To a transplanted Texan, eating this Kansas City style stuff is hardly bearable. If any of you (from Texas) ever have to pass thru Springfield, MO, I'll pay top dollar if you bring BBQ. Any time, night or day. Honest.
Response #4
By: sooz
Date: 8/9/99 10:01:10 AM
Omigosh, JB. I was in Springfield last week. No foolin'. Damn.
Response #5
By: Roxanne
Date: 8/9/99 10:42:50 AM
*droooool*
Texas BBQ...god, I miss it! I feel your hunger pains, Burlap, there ain't no decent BBQ in North Alabama, either!
Response #6
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 8/9/99 11:23:58 PM
I've always heard what good BBQ they make in Kansas City.
What's the deal?
Response #7
By: Jerichos Burlap
Date: 8/10/99 4:43:54 AM
KC-style BBQ has way too much mollases. I would be suprised if the sauce wasn't just mollasses, ketsup and a dash of cayenne. To me, its like having candied beef. I suspect the people who told you it was good were either brought up on it or something similar, or were sugar freaks. I am not a crusader about much of anything; I'm happy for eager BBQ consumers anywhere, but I do miss Texas beef-critter BBQ very much.
Response #8
By: Roxanne
Date: 8/10/99 5:42:44 PM
*BEEF* BBQ! Wow!
Here, it's pork as far as the eye can see! Blech.
*suddenly homesick*
Response #9
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 8/10/99 8:29:34 PM
That's a lot of pork...
I had really good BBQ in KC, at the 'Hello, can I help you?' place. I can't remember the name, but their gimmick is that they actually ask if they can help you. Which I thought was wierd, since I expect to be helped anyway at restaurants. The BBQ was really sweet and tangy. I think I liked it a lot because I've been eating too much steamed tofu.
Response #10
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 8/10/99 8:32:27 PM
Oh yeah. Theremins. Speak 'N Spells.
Durn. I was going to offer a link to roet's Speak 'N Spell page, but he must have taken it down.
Response #11
By: Da Sissop
Date: 8/10/99 8:36:22 PM
"Four... oh... four...."
Response #12
By: Jerichos Burlap
Date: 8/11/99 5:12:46 AM
to Sooz [with forlorn, abashed look]:
Sorry I didn't acknowledge your post. What an animal I've been. I was so busy trying to be 'one of those guys who knows lots of stuff about foods & beverages' (I don't spell French words, sorry), that I just zoomed on. AND just after Fang coming to Austin without calling you for a brew or two. (Sorry Fang, I'm tyring to lather up my guilt here, man.) Damn, I'm running outta options. Should you happen thru again, and deign to stop, I'll buy the Shiners.
Sackcloth and Ashes
Response #13
By: sooz
Date: 8/11/99 1:48:36 PM
Tee hee. I left the message after I got back to Austin, JB. If we venture that way again, though, I won't hesitate to let you know.
Now, get up. Groveling is so unbecoming.
Response #14
By: Jerichos Burlap
Date: 8/11/99 3:25:38 PM
Yip! [great sigh of relief]. If worse came to worse, I woulda waited till Friday, then blamed Fang for deleting my lovely post to you.
Response #15
By: Fierce Pancake
Date: 9/7/99 10:42:34 AM
[sigh] I really wanted to go to that, I've been a Robyn Hitchcock fanatic for a decade now. The cheek not to come to Houston! I haven't seen him live since around 1992, and STILL haven't had the luck to see a screening of Johnathan Demme's recent film, Storefront Hitchcock.
Actually I think I ended up going to the Ale House that night and caught a pretty good local act, Romeo Dogs. Certainly not the hero worship that would have ensued had I basked in the glow of Robyn, but fun.
Sebadoh are pretty good though, and you may have enjoyed them had you stuck it out. It's Lou Barlow's band post Dinosaur Jr.
Response #16
By: Tess Trueheart
Date: 9/11/99 12:22:33 PM
Fang..we found and watched that Zsu Zsu's Petals tape you gave us oh so long ago. Just a reminder da da da da..
Response #17
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 9/12/99 10:53:51 AM
Tess: "Fang..we found and watched that Zsu Zsu's Petals tape you gave us oh so long ago. Just a reminder da da da da.. "
I WANT A COPY OF THAT TAPE!!!!
I have been after fang for the LONGEST time about that!
Response #18
By: Tess Trueheart
Date: 9/12/99 11:57:54 AM
Hmm..well talk one of the guys here into making you a copy, cause just like disky thingys, repeat tapey thingys are all just that to me.
It could be a snerd project?
Response #19
By: Ralf
Date: 9/13/99 5:45:48 PM
Mmmmmmmm. Quicktime Snerd.