Asheton Asheton Mascis & Watt – Mean Fiddler 8/12/02

[rambleon]

wow wow wow wow WOW ! this show was so devastatingly good that i’ve been in a great mood all week long !!!! there was so – much – good – stuff to look at … the guys did such a good job … suffice to say the show was just amazing ….

and … i finally got a chance to give my present to j … yeah ! … it was freeeezing in london that night and it was about -7 or 8 C w/the wind chill factor … i think that’s around 20 degrees F … we got there early, but since it was sunday and all the shops close around 6 we decided to wait in the queue (from about 6.30) … there were only about 5 people in front of us, so we were right next to the front door … the doors were supposed to open at 7 (according to the tix and the sign on the door), but they kept us waiting and waiting for what seemed like an eternity b/c it was so cold …

finally about 7.15 this guy walks up to the front of the queue w/ a guitar in a hard purple case … he bangs on the metal doors, a security guy opens up the door and he says in an irish accent that he’s kevin’s (shields’ ?) brother and he has j’s guitar ! … the guy says hang on a sec … and comes back w/some manager type lady … who lets him in … then about 5 or 10 mins later the door opens again and we all are thinking YEAH !! they’re finally going to let us in just as the frostbite is setting in … and out walks j and ron and some other people who i didn’t recognize … one of the guys at the v.front of the queue runs over to j and asks him to sign some stuff … so my husband says go, go, go !! (we were thinking of chucking his present at him just before he started playing or just after — not a good plan, but we weren’t sure what else we could do…) but luckily it didn’t come to that b/c he was standing about 20 yards away … so i scooted over there … nervous as anything … quaking in my boots and praying to god my voice wouldn’t fail me (b/c when i get v.nervous it has a way of slowly getting quieter and quieter until nothing… which is kind of what happened when he played at the metro club and i asked him to sign my cd and i was so nervous the words didn’t really come out in anything but a whisper and eventually he got the idea when i waved the pen and cd in his general direction, but he definitely must have thought i was a retard or something) … anyhow … the reason he stuck around so long is b/c the guy in front of me had a cd cover for every album j’s ever done and then some !! … i’m not sure if he was going to sell these on ebay or if he was j’s biggest fan … but he had a stack of these and j dutifully signed them all w/a squiggly â€

[Eight Ball Joe]

That’s a much better review than mine – listen to rambleon, it’s a much better account.

[AGAP]

Great review Rambleon Pleased you got to give J his gift as well, very cool he was so enthusiastic…

Tshirts for sale were they Tribute To The Stooges Shirts

ps we now have a cool album deal on FreakScene where people can upload pics…FreakScene Album

[Bucky Ramone]

Great story, rambleon!

[FlyingCloud]

hey rambleon, I really enjoyed to read your review – so grapic & full of details
thanks a lot for posting it and sharing that event a bit with us
… great that you finally managed to give J your present & that he appreciated it :aliensmile:

(I enjoyed to read your review, too, Eight Ball Joe, )

[simmons]

An enthusiatic review

Thanks.

[FlyingCloud]

"rambleon" wrote:

… i can never remember things like set lists … you people who remember set lists must have an amazing memory or something b/c once it started it was like a blur …

I don’t have an exact memory for setlists either, there are much too much other tings to concentrate on during a gig than just the sequence of the songs.
But when fortunately some other setlis already exist, I like to compare them with my my memory of the gig and tjat is a good way to go through the gig anew

"rambleon" wrote:

(i forgot to mention the picks that were in there too — some w/bugs on them and others that looked like flying cloud’s spaceman head — oops) …

great presents for J, btw! :aliensmile: :aliensmile: :aliensmile:
fine, that he liked them

[rambleon]

thanks !

yeah … the t shirts are pretty cool … they’re white w/a logo that starts at the top w/2 A’s then an M and then a W

kind of like this :

A
M
W

but all the letters are joined up at their points and in between the A’s and the M there’s a v.simple drawing of an eye w/a blue centre and v-shaped eveylashes and beneath all the letters it says ASHETON ASHETON MASCIS WATT

well worth 10 pounds ! but usually they sell t-shirts at the mean fiddler from the little hole in the wall near the coat room on the way out, so i don’t think most people knew they were actually being sold right next to the stage !

it was lucky that we hung around for a bit and as the crowd thinned we saw the t-shirt guy … i think he was j’s manager or something and he was super friendly and kind of funny … not at all bitter like a lot of t-shirt seller types are (some of them think they’re way cool b/c they’re w/the band – that type of mentality … ok my rant about that is over now )

and thanks for the hot tip on the album … it was flying cloud who 1st pointed it out a few weeks ago … and i was like, whoa ! where have i been ? i never knew it existed … well … it’s my last day of work for 6 days and who knows … maybe i’ll finally get to grips w/my scanner … maybe when the cabin-fever boredom of boxing day sets in ?

[FlyingCloud]

cool t-shirts
thanks for the detailed description

[AGAP]

Those tshirts sounds great, ten pounds is definitely a good price for a collectors item With you on the usual tshirt sellers ego thing, always get a good laugh out of the attitudes

Allison

[Bucky Ramone]

Here are some pictures of the Mean Fiddler gig

This is what the maker has to say about them on the Mike Watt mailing list:

Quote:

Sorry about the pop-ups that’ll appear when you visit it – it’s the
downside of Tripod. I’ve just realised I created my first website on
that space over 5 years ago!

Anyway – 6 photos, which is all I took because I didn’t want to set
off too many distracting camera flashes. The 2 wierd ones of Watt
were using a long exposure and no flash; unintentional, but turned
out looking kind of cool. I wanted to get photos of the guy doing No
Fun and Lou doing I Wanna Be Your Dog, but by then I was being
crushed against the barrier a bit and couldn’t get my camera out my
pocket.

Kenny

[AGAP]

Thanks for those pics J looks like he’s having a great time, wicked moustache on Watt

[FlyingCloud]

thanks for the link, dB
– cool pics, indeed, especially to see Watt’s current moustache style :aliensmile:

[Bucky Ramone]

Uploaded this picture from the Stooges tribute in Rennes to the album section.
Credits go to the Mike Watt mailing-list

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