stoogeaphilia

the stoogeshow at 6th street on thursday was a kinda mixed bag. wizard o' sound andre is still working the bugs out of the sound system, plus i'm still getting used to my spiffy new hughes & kettner amplifinger, so the stage sound was kinda hinky for the first few toons (altho i'm told it sounded just fine out front). all the new songs worked well (we debuted "final solution" and "ain't it fun" from rocket from the tombs / pere ubu and alice cooper's "i'm 18," as well as playing television's "marquee moon" for only the second time live; ray dedicated it to hilly krystal), altho i think the extreme set length was kind of a beating for some of the band boyzzz who had come from earlier rehearsals with other bands. the ex-goodwin fan club president drove all the way from dallas for the express purpose of hearing sir steffin play "marquee moon." also in the house were sam 'n' jeanne, who met at our show a yr ago (awww), a contingent from the haltom city / riverside crew, amy who's been to more stoogeshows than anybody, eric harris, etc. overall, for various reasons, it was less of an out-of-body experience for yr humble chronicler o' events than any of its predecessors save our may '06 rose marine theater stand, but at least we didn't have neighborhood ppl calling the police the way we did at that show. and sir marlin von bungy said we sounded "better than ever," which was very kind. we made enough in tips to cover the cost of replacing jon teague's snare head, which gave out after the very first song. and we're gonna do it again in late november, at venues tbd, with even more new material from the pre-punk 'meercun songbag (suggestions welcome but not binding).