Re: - Live CD

["chris kemp" <cjkemp@gm...com>]

I was at the NEC in May 1989, and also at that same Irish Centre gig where
they were plagued with technical problems and threw guitars into the crowd.
I seem to remember, for that gig, during Breaking in my Heart, one of the
numerous guitarists had a dwarf sitting on his shoulders and Gerard was
wearing angel wings. Was I high or was that real?

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Kate Kwiatkowski <kmkwiat@ya...com> wrote:

> I interviewed Rodney on the radio here in the States back in '91.
> He brought his guitar and sure enough did some Beatles songs.
> Quite fun.
> Kate
>
>   "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. "
> Mark Twain
>
>
> --- On *Tue, 12/23/08, Paul Vallis <paulvallis@ho...com>* wrote:
>
> From: Paul Vallis <paulvallis@ho...com>
> Subject: Re: [BluePlanes] - Live CD
> To: "Blue Aeroplanes List" <blueplanes@bl...org>
> Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2008, 8:18 AM
>
>
> > Rob:
> > I remember Rodney doing an impromptu version of Tomorrow Never Knows at
> the Irish Centre when there was some equipment problems Gerard announced 
> that
> Rodney could play any Beatles song and someone called out Tomorrow Never 
> Knows.
> he also threw his guitar into the audience at the end only for a roadie 
> to jump
> into the audience to get it straight back.
>
> Me:
> I interviewed Gerard on local radio a few years ago, and he mentioned a 
> similar
> Rodney incident where he'd announced he could play any Beatles song.  I
> think it was at some specific place though, and A Day In The Life was 
> the song
> mentioned.  Perhaps its happened a few times?
>
> > Rob again:
> > Like you my first encounter was at the NEC supporting REM, I didn't
> have a clue what they performed, but was sufficiently impressed to go 
> and buy
> whatever CDs where available the next day (Friendloverplane was all I 
> could find
> and a short wait for Swagger to be released).  Anybody any ideas what 
> songs they
> performed on the tour, I guess Breaking In My Heart was last as they 
> were joined
> by a few extra guitarists (most of REM?).
>
> Me again:
> In the same interview, Gerard said that their record for the number of
> guitarists on BIMH was set at Birmingham while supporting REM - I think 
> it may
> have been 15 and included (I'm going by memory here) Rodney's sister, a
> couple of NME journalists and indeed most of REM.
>
> PV1
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