Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!GAFFA.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: Suzanne Vega concert Message-ID: <1990Sep24.172242.7173@caen.engin.umich.edu> Date: 24 Sep 90 17:22:42 GMT References: <9009241635.AA10023@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: Love-Hounds-request@gaffa.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds@gaffa.MIT.EDU Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor Lines: 38 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: rhend@caen.engin.umich.edu (Robert Henderson) In article <9009241635.AA10023@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Love-Hounds@gaffa.MIT.EDU writes: >Really-From: Kenneth Brownfield > > Last Saturday, Suzanne played at the Norris Center (I think!) at >NorthWestern University. > It was a stage on the "backyard" of a university building. There were >approximately 200 people there, mostly on blankets in windy 40 degree >weather. The concert was an hour and a half with two encores (it was _darn_ >cold.) She did seem to cover everything equally, although I would have >preferred more of her earlier songs. It was a nice personal concert. Ours was in the Michigan Theater, which seats about, oh, 700 or so. (A guess.) The length was the same - sounds like we heard the same stuff. > The concert was also free! The intro band was called the "Gravity >Beavers." Odd name, but good band. Their songs were a bit repetitive and >not too engaging, but they were very good acoustic guitar players, and their >songs were good, too. Anyone heard of these guys? They were kindof an >acoustic, slightly folky, REM. Something like that. You lucky bastards! I spent $22.50 on a ticket, and you saw her for FREE? And we didn't even get an opening band! > Suzanne said that someone the night before (or a couple of nights, I >can't rightly remember) danced naked on a table and had to be taken away. >Was that your Michigan concert? And I thought the UofI was wierd. ;-) No, I certainly don't remember seeing that. For a start, there weren't any tables. >8) And apologies for the multiple post, but my system connection bombed on me while I was typing, and I couldn't tell if it had gotten through. -- RobH (or Rob Henderson, if you prefer) rhend@caen.engin.umich.edu We hang on to every line, and walk straight down the middle of it.