BRAIN: The Surgeons in Raleigh

[Jon Jarrett]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Scruton, Jason wrote:

> I wonder if they would have better luck getting a gig in Mass. version of
> liberal college's  Mecca and Medina: Amherst and Northampton -- the Iron
> Horse is a cool place as a venue itself and for its acts. The Bevis Frond (a
> great gig that! did "Godspeed you to Earth" w/a  wonderful heavy jam ending)
> and Robert Fripp have played there (separately).

        I've seen them do that ending too and it *is* great.

> Of course, you could always have tBS operate in the manner of the
> Steppenwolf album title, "The Brain Surgeons at Your Birthday Party" heh.

        I'm still trying to get to the state where I have enough money
(mine or someone else's) to be able to see how serious Al was when he said
tBS would come to the UK if someone paid the airfares...

> What is probably one of the best things about the Surgeons is that they are
> very willing to shuffle setlists around each tour/gig. Seriously, who would
> have thought they'd do an SFG tune!

        Hmm. Maybe this is just too sneaky but I remember that shortly
before that someone posted an AOL chat with Eric and Buck to the list in
which Eric said they were considering working one of the old tunes up (I
shout for `Donovan's Monkey' :-)), which of course so far they haven't
done. I just wonder if Al saw that and decided he'd beat them to it. If
you were going to do that of course, you'd kind of have to pick the one
that BOC had used for the title of the last album but which isn't on it,
now, wouldn't you?

        I still can't figure out how to arrange CotHM for a three-piece
anyway. I can't see how it works without both piano and guitar lines. I
have too little imagination and no chance to see tBS do it :-( Yours,
                                                                      Jon

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