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So who is else is "up" for the ye olde fat bastards of punk. Kosmette and I will be there seeing as I'm aging and widening as fast as them. Darn shame the bondage pants no longer fit…

We will be nude beaching it with people even fatter and older than the Sex pistols audience.

I will be there

Well if there is going to be a wet blanket there, of course I will go.

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I'll be there also. Bought four tickets, and I can't remember for whom, and no one is stepping up to the plate! This is definitely a show folks were intrigued by when first announced, but over time the excitement has lost steam. What the hell, I'm going to have fun (or my best approximation on a Sunday night).

I will be there, and luckily the people who i bought the other five tickets will be there also. :D

So how did we get a wet blanket from the King of Rock, anyway?

;)

Originally posted by bags:
So how did we get a wet blanket from the King of Rock, anyway?

;)

what Elvis got to do with it?


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My bad, Bob Pollard is *my* King of Rock (that's why I don't add the " n Roll," for some reason I think that distinguishes it).

Kink of Rock,

I am sure wet blanket will be delighted…..

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The closer it gets to the show, the more tempted I am to go for the laugh. My fear of them killing the great memories I have of the original punk era has me on the fence though…so I'll probably pass…I am thinking of taking Kathleen to the Furs show though.

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the furs show already happened

Thursday, August 21, 2003; Page C09


Psychedelic Furs

Back in the dark ages of the mid-1980s, plenty of punks dismissed the Psychedelic Furs as just another synthesizer-addled band of pretentious new-wave sissies. It didn't help that the Furs – whose first two albums are, in hindsight, inspired pastiches of David Bowie, Roxy Music and punk – became known for MTV treacle like "Love My Way," "Heaven" and the song that inspired a Molly Ringwald flick, "Pretty in Pink." But even pop treacle tends to sound better over time, and when Richard Butler and company brought the catalogue of songs that make up their dubious legacy to the 9:30 club on Tuesday, I know of at least one aging punk who had, if not a great time, at least a good one.




The band played all of the tunes you're likely to run across on a "Super Smashes of the '80s" compilation, but they also included earlier songs – the marvelously dissonant "Dumb Waiters" and the protest-rocker "President Gas," which Butler, an amiable fellow whose glasses tended to slide down his nose, punctuated with frequent stiff-armed salutes.

The band experienced sound problems, especially during the encore "Sister Europe," but the audience didn't seem to mind, enthusiastically pressing toward the stage to grab Butler's hand and singing along with infectiously vapid (and virtually interchangeable) tunes like "Heartbeat" and "Heartbreak Beat." If Tuesday's show wasn't likely to change anybody's impression of the Psychedelic Furs as a talented band undone by its commercial ambitions, it also drove home the horrifying truth that, no matter how '80s-phobic you think you are, you will move to "Heartbreak Beat."

For some reason I thought it was this coming Tuesday..oh well, no biggie.

I saw the furs 2 years ago at the 9:30 show and they put on a terrific show.
R. Butler had great stage presence and was very entertaining.

Originally posted by G.Love:
I saw the furs 2 years ago at the 9:30 show and they put on a terrific show.
R. Butler had great stage presence and was very entertaining.

I saw that show too, and I agree, it was great..I also saw them at Nation with Echo and the Bunnymen about a year later…Furs struggled on that one and had major sound problems on top of it all.

I was at the show on Tuesday and i agree it was a great show……Along with George Clinton last night.

I saw both of those DC shows as well. The Furs put on a great show; I spaced that they were this week as well (actually, I thought they were *last* week and I'd already missed them). What are you gonna do?

What surprised me at Nation was that I prefered the Furs to Echo. I didn't think that was possible, because I like old Echo songs much more. But, it may also have had to do with the amount of red bull and vodkas I'd had by the time Echo hit the stage. Hell, a gay male friend of mine made out with a woman during Echo – that was one strange night!

Originally posted by bags:
I saw both of those DC shows as well. The Furs put on a great show; I spaced that they were this week as well (actually, I thought they were *last* week and I'd already missed them). What are you gonna do?

What surprised me at Nation was that I prefered the Furs to Echo. I didn't think that was possible, because I like old Echo songs much more. But, it may also have had to do with the amount of red bull and vodkas I'd had by the time Echo hit the stage. Hell, a gay male friend of mine made out with a woman during Echo – that was one strange night!

Didn't you think the Furs were really off compared to the 930 show? I still enjoyed it, don't get me wrong, but they had to quit and end the show halfway through "pretty in pink" because the sound was so bad…it was probably near the end anyway…Echo were much better that night I thought.

I'll be at the Pistols show.

Can I expect some goodies from Anton?