[mod.music.gaffa] review/redundancy

Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (04/14/87)

Really-From: hsu%uicsrd.CSRD.UIUC.EDU@a.cs.uiuc.edu (William Tsun-Yuk Hsu)



Re: IED's recurrent thought
Just for the record, if IED posted that in rec.music.misc, his ass would have
been flamed so bad he could bring Lake Titicaca to a boil by sitting in it...

SNAKEFINGER's VESTAL VIRGINS/SHARK UNDER TOE in Champaign

Shark is a local 4-piece with sax/flute. A few neat songs, excellent Stones
cover, funky bass, not terribly special but worth watching.

I can't get too excited about Snakefinger's records, but he is great live.
(We got yelled at for wandering in during the sound check, but hey, the
club was open then.) Vestal Virgins is Eric Drew Feldman on keyboards and
sampling thingie (emulator?), John Ryan on drums and Ben Guy on bass. Very
tight, great playing of fairly complex pieces and Snakefinger's occasional
snide remarks were hilarious (even an obligatory Oral Roberts reference).
Started with Yeti, Who Are You, some wild blues-flavored solos that got
a little long near the end, and lots of the quirky, humorous material
that's his trademark. 

(They did a version of the theme from Fellini's 8 1/2 that's also on the
album during the soundcheck, but didn't play it later on. Sympathies to
John and everybody else who missed it. :-))

Bill