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Subject: Re: JoJo

James Hepler (hepler@unc.edu) wrote:
: Somnambulist wrote:
: > 
: > What are the other options?

: I'm not sure what you mean.  As far as JoJo, there are a few other venues 
: that would create more revenue, but this is the most intimate.  Dare I 
: say that the Cabaret is the perfect place for him.
: As far as options for artists, I would like to try Vic Chestnut, Eugene 
: Chadborne, Epic Soundtracks, Chris Stamey, John Gillespie, and a whole 
: host of other, smaller (in size only) artists.
: My primary goal is JoJo right now.  I need support from the community, or 
: the Union will lose fat dollars and not ever try to bring people again.  
: We should all be trying to support these ventures, because after all, we 
: are part of a thriving music scene.

: James Hope I answered your question Hepler

sorry tosay that i am no fan of jonathan richman, but for _the modern 
lovers_. wherever the show, i won't be showing.

however, i am all for booking such at the cabaret. i recall sometime, 
probably in 88 or 89, when some few such shows were offered there, and how 
fine a venue it is for such. 

i saw fIREHOSE and screaming trees, up front and in close and, actually, 
at the side, where i saw van conner hoisting up his sagging cut-off blue 
jean shorts over his exposed crack when in between sweaty bass riffs, and 
mike watt stare me in the eyes and go "aaaaggggghhhh," then wink. def. 
one of my near 42 years' top shows. too, was roger manning, all angst and 
protest and inmyface (tho, he was not so angst-ridden as to forgo the 
adoring females, post-performance...) and the damn best show i've seen 
from him out of some three (note: it was the first, and the other two 
never worked as well, so i, became, less, impelled, toward, him.

whatever happened, i've often wondered.

the union cabaret, in those days, was a roughly rectangular space -- as i 
recall, some three times its depth in width -- with a six inch stage set 
squarely in the center of one of those long sides. it was all painted 
black, and all open and level, and had tables at places -- small, round, 
for, say, four or five to sit comfortably -- and plenty of space to stand 
elsewhere, and you could get around the stage to the side on two sides 
(which you cannot do at all anywhere else anymore in ch), and the sound 
system was less distracting for those two shows than any of 
the cradle's or 506's or lixandix's have often been. it was the closest 
to a nightclub ambiance that ch had in those days and, if similar today, 
will still be. it, then, is the place i would prefer to see, now, the 
following upcoming shows: snz's, $2 pistols, soul coughing, combustible 
edison, palace, and, certainly, manning again. i could think of more if i 
could think more at this hour.

if the cabaret is the same, i am all for this. but, i amno fan of jojo, 
so won't go-go to that show, sho'.

but i'll write whatever to whoever i can. solet me know.

-ri

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