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- From: stringer@acsu.buffalo.edu (Matthew S. Stringer)
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- Subject: Re: What was the requested song at other concerts?
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 20:59:27 GMT
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- mcintyre@sousa.tay.dec.com (Jon McIntyre) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Nov12.170707.16133@ms.uky.edu> jayh@ms.uky.edu (Jay Hofacker) writes:
- >>
- >>In Cinicinatti it was "Electric Avenue."
- >>
- >>They also played a very strange version of "Instanbul." About half way
- >>through, they stopped using instruments, turned the reverb WAY up and
- >>sang REAL SLOW. Beforehand they warned that this was the 'artistic'
- >>part of the show that we had to put up with before they got to the good
- >>stuff.
- >>--
-
- >Hmm. Did Flansburgh sing just the words "Istanbul, Constantinople,
- >Istanbul, Constantinople, Istanbul, Constantinople, Istanbul..."
- >over and over during this part? I heard a tape that was made many years
- >ago that had Flansburgh singing it like that, with no instruments, and
- >experimenting with echo sound effects. I'd be real curious to know
- >if they repeated exactly that at the show you were at.
-
- >Jon McIntyre
- >mcintyre@cronic.enet.dec.com
-
- In Buffalo it was "Sympathy for the Devil." They needed distortion on the
- vocals and apparently didn't have it hooked through the mike, so John Flans-
- burgh turned up his guitar's distortion and volume and sang into the pickups.
- They also did a similar version of Istanbul.
-
-
- Matthew S. Stringer
- stringer@acsu.buffalo.edu
-