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Volume Two, Issue #6
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From:
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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 11:34:48 1991
Subject: Mozz?
from: nijmeh%
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Morrisey!! Finally have gotten onto a list....
I'm a big Smiths/Morrissey fan, up here in Toronto, Canada.
Ummm.. lets see, I was unfortunate to have never seen the Smiths live,
BUT, I did catch Morrissey during the summer (Kingswood Music Theatre)
and the show as incredible. Short, but nonetheless it blew me away.
I have managed to pick up a couple of bootlegs of the Kill Uncle tour...
The Toronto Show, and a Paris FM Broadcast in April (Amazing Sound
Quality) as well as a couple of Smiths Bootlegs, I got off of a
friend.... One in Liverpool 1982, and a couple more from a few stateside
shows (Irvine Medows and another one...)
Ok... I've been hearing about Morrissey playing a few shows here and
there, and our radio station up here says that he is more or less booked
for a certain venue, but it all hasn't been confirmed.
What's this tour all about? Just a continuation of Kill Uncle? And, I
also read from the few messages, that he's playing 'college' type
venues......eeck, geez, the chances of getting tix would be more or less
impossible.... his show back in July sold out, about 15,000 people, and
there were still a lot of people who wanted to go, but the tickets had
been taken up. Hmmm.. gotta wait and see.
Anyways... if you wanna leave me mail or whatever, feel free to do so.
Later..
-gABE
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From: Edward Baichtal <
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Subject: Morrissey in SF?
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 91 9:36:54 PST
Well, some singers just never get it right. When he came to Berkeley he
said "Hello San Francisco" and when he came to Mountain View, he said
"Hello San Francisco." But he really came to the Shoreline Amphitheatre
this time in Mountain View, and a lot of people in the crowd
shouted back Mountain View.
It was a much better show this time around. Lots of people got to jump on
stage and hug/dance/bow/etc. with/to/for Morrissey :) He played more songs
from "Viva Hate" than he had before, so that made the show even better. He
played two new songs. "Passionate Love" and "We Hate it When Our Friends
Become Successful." For some reason people were telling me that the last
song there was about Johnny Marr. I thought it was about himself (as usual).
But "We Hate it..." also had a part in it which was exactly the same music
as "Our Frank". And in the last encore, he came out and played about five
seconds of "Cosmic Dancer" and on the first line when he said "twelve",
Morrissey started choking and they went into "Disappointed." In this song they
just abruptly ended and walked off the stage when Morrissey said "...this is
the last song I will ever sing", and it ended.
His old program, as well as his new program were both on sale. In the new
program it lists a Japanese CD you can buy that has a collection of some of his
recent singles on it. Also a new video which has 17 songs on it that were
all recorded in Dallas, TX. So I wonder now, if MTV ever did that show on
Morrissey and if it will be different from the live video coming out? Because
the live video seems like it will all be from Dallas, TX. and not include the
Bowie/Morrissey performance that NME reported it would. The program did not
have a track listing for the songs though. And if anyone wants a song list
from the Shoreline show, I can mail it to you.
An extra note: At this show, I noticed that Morrissey didn't want the flowers
he was having thrown or handed to him. If he'd get one, he tore the petals
off and threw it back. Someone tried handing him a bouquet of flowers towards
the end, and he said "Aaahhhhhh..." and then stuck out his tongue (and made
some vile sound) and pushed them away. He also wore a shirt in the new program
that had a picture of Oscar Wilde and said "Smiths is Dead" over the picture.
Well, with his popularity now, and Electronic being cancelled because they
were on the same night he was going to be on, I definitely feel he doesn't
need to hold onto The Smiths anymore to help mold his image or anything of
the sort. But it doesn't mean I'd hate The Smiths now with him, or even
embrace Nashville (country) music now because he has done so. Yes, his
opening band was from Nashville (The Planet Rockers).
AND if anyone wants to know some of the lyrics to the new songs, my friend
wrote the majority of them down, and I can post them on request.
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Subject: Strangeways: Morrissey-bashing...
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 91 23:12:28 -0500
From:
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[email protected] (Steve Yockey) writes:
> Subject: videos
>
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> I thought I'd take time out to describe a morrissey item that came
> into my possession:
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> Morrissey at Madison Square Garden, NYC 7/13/91 VHS Video
>
> About 1 hr of the MSG show. Amateur shot by an audience member.
> Very shaky... sometimes its takes the cameraperson quite a while to
> actually find Morrissey on the stage. Pretty interesting, though, when
> the camera finally finds Morrissey. A couple people make it onto the
> stage. And the band members destroy their guitars and each other.
> Tons of fun. My copy is 1st generation so it looks pretty good. Hi-fi
> stereo, but don't let that fool you into thinking it's particularly good
> sound. Sound is pretty mediocre.
I can believe that the sound is mediocre. I was there, and the sound
was mediocre live. The instruments suffered a bit from bad mixing
and way too much volume (especially on the guitar). However, the
real problem was that Morrissey's singing simply wasn't very good.
_Rank_ should have prepared me for mediocre sound, but I somehow
expected a better live performance from someone whose studio works
have such talented vocals. I also expected Morrissey to take his
music seriously, and I was truly disappointed. Maybe I'm being a
bit too demanding, but I think Morrissey's stunts like singing while
standing on his head and throwing his shirt to the screaming crowd
trivialized songs with rather serious lyrics. "Some people have
got no pride; they do not understand the urgency of life," indeed.
Of course, we *are* talking about a man who writes with a profound
sense of insecurity and humility but releases a single that includes
ten minutes of recordings of people calling KROQ and screaming about
what a !$%%@$# genius he is, so I guess it's unreasonable to demand
consistency.
-Brian
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From:
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Subject: Concerts, bootlegs, and other fun stuff
Well, after the fiasco at UCLA, Morrissey finally came on stage in
Santa Monica to thousands of screaming fans. Apperently a riot broke
out at the UCLA show when Morrissey got mobbed by thousands of fans
after he said something about letting people onto the stage. He had
to leave after only five songs and the rest of the show was cancelled.
If anyone has any more information about this, I'd love to hear it.
Most of what I've heard is just heresay :-).
The Santa Monica show was outstanding. It was so much better than the
Pacific Amphitheatre show earlier this year. Unfortunately it was in
a very small 'pit' auditorium so there was no seating. Once the concert
started, a number of people were passing out due to the heat and pressure
in the room and a number of paramedics were on the scene as we were leaving.
It even made the evening news :-) (my friends at work knew more about what
happened outside the auditorium than we did :-) ). Anyway, it was well
worth the effort to get tickets. I also noticed that he played a lot more
songs and they were not all from _Kill Uncle_. I think he only played
about 5 songs from that album, so a lot of 'classic' songs were also
in the itinerary.
Michael was asking for concert dates so here they are...these are from
the program that was for sale at the concert. Of course it's probably
too late to get tickets for these shows, but you might get lucky :-).
7 November Minneapolis Northrop Theatre
8 November Chicago University Pavilion
11 November New York Nassau Coliseum
12 November Worcester, MA Centrum
13 November Albany, NY TBA
15 November New York TBA
16 November Philadelphia Spectrum
17 November Washington DC Patriot Centre
19 November Williamsburg, VA University
20 November Chapel Hill, NC Dean Centre
22 November Birmingham Alabama Theatre
23 November New Orleans University
25 November Lakeland, FL Civic Centre
26 November Miami TBA
That's all I know :-). Anyone know of any future plans for Morrissey?
According the the program, there should also be a Japanese compilation
CD called _My Love Life_ that has the last two singles compiled on it
(kind of like the _Interesting Drug_ japanese CD). The local importer
near me said they didn't know when it would be coming in.
Finally, I just finished taping KROQ's broadcast of Morrissey's concert
at Hammersmith Odeon (London) on 4 October 1991. It's a nice, long
concert totaling about 80 minutes or so. Unfortunately, it has all the
KROQ promos in it, but other than that, it's great.
I don't have the time or means to copy this tape just yet (maybe around
Christmas time). In the meantime, if someone offers to copy the tape
and distribute it, I'll send it to them. Want to volunteer again, Dan?
I'll post the song list in the next issue...I'm compiling it right now.
Well, I think I've talked long enough. Time to get some sleep.
=K=
