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Re: immensely generous offer

  • Subject: Re: immensely generous offer
  • From: "Ewan Milne" <emilne@lu...com>
  • Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 02:53:22 -0700
  • Organization: Lucent Technologies
Phill Merchant wrote:

>   On the subject of multi-guitar attack, the encore of "Breaking..."
nearly
> always attracted a variety of friends, relatives, ex-band members, and
> support band staff on stage to pick up a guitar and bash out Verlaine`s
> deceptively simple riff. The opportunity to join the band in this
capacity
> for one gig was even offered in a competition in the Bristol Evening
Post
> (which I didn`t win, damn their eyes!). The most assembled guitars in
this
> way that I saw was about 15-20 at their popularity peak at the old Town
and
> Country Club (now the Forum) in London. However, it was always most
> impressive on the smaller stages (Fleece and Firkin, Mean Fiddler) when
10
> guitarists, bassist, drummer, + Gerard and Wojtek flailing around hardly
> seemed possible.....

Yes, my first live experience of the BAs was catching only the last song
("Breaking In Your Heart" of course) of their support set at an REM gig
in Glasgow in 89. I remember thinking Bloody Hell, there's a lot of people
in this band, and the crowd seemed to be well into them too....then
realising
that all of REM were up there too. I also caught their Glastonbury set in
I
think 93, when the next band on were the reformed Television. No prizes
for
guessing.....

Ewan


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