Not to derail the thread too much, but Yeah that’s very sad about Sheila— she made some pretty great albums over the years...
Though the exaggeration was obviously lost on most people, the thread title is ONE of the greatest tragedies. Not THE.
I just wanted to give people some idea of what an actual "living tragedy" is like - a singer who can't so much as order a freaking pizza without being in agony.
A few years ago they remodeled the bathroom and auctioned off all the signed tiles. The Jack White one got the most money. But yeah. One of the nastiest bathrooms in Chicago. The disinfectant hits you twenty feet from the door.
White Babies live full band 2010 Liz Phair : "White Babies" Live @ Philadelphia (2005) [A.R. 4:3] White Babies 2005 solo acoustic "stump the artist" request version. Liz Phair - Don't Hold Your Breath - 1995 Don't Hold Yr Breath 1995 solo electric Liz Phair - Wild Thing - 2005 wild thing 2005 solo acoustic Speed Racer - Liz Phair, Paradise Boston 12/15/2010 Speed Racer 2010 full band with false start Liz Phair - "Soap Star Joe" (2010-12-13) Soap Star Joe 2010 full band audience request. Also on Exile. At least her fans get new work. They have online apps for pizza ordering now.
For all the grief some people of my generation and older give the current technological world, it's a vastly better place for people with disabilities. Everyone has a way to communicate with text these days, while when I was a kid the only way to make a "phone call" to a deaf person was to call a TTY Operator and have a third party transcribe what you said and read what they typed. It's entirely possible for a person with nearly any disability to earn a living these days. And yes, a singer rendered mute can rebuild her life and become a writer, communicating with her editor and publisher and conduct interviews to publicize a book without ever having to say a word.
Additional information here: Liz Phair: Reissues and Box Sets • 3CD’s – 56 SONGS • AUDIO OF ALL THREE GIRLY-SOUND TAPES RESTORED FROM THE ORIGINAL CASSETTES PLUS THE REMASTERED EXILE IN GUYVILLE ALBUM • BOOK CONTAINS AN EXTENSIVE ORAL HISTORY BY JASON COHEN, ESSAYS BY ANN POWERS AND LIZ PHAIR Compact Disc 1 01 6’1’’ 02 Help Me Mary 03 Glory 04 Dance of The Seven Veils 05 Never Said 06 Soap Star Joe 07 Explain It To Me 08 Canary 09 Mesmerizing 10 **** and Run 11 Girls! Girls! Girls! 12 Divorce Song 13 Shatter 14 Flower 15 Johnny Sunshine 16 Gunshy 17 Stratford-On-Guy 18 Strange Loop Compact Disc 2 01 White Babies 02 Shane 03 6 Dick Pimp 04 Divorce Song 05 Go West 06 Don’t Holdyrbreath 07 Johnny Sunshine 08 Miss Lucy 09 Elvis Song 10 Dead Shark 11 One Less Thing 12 Money 13 In Love w/Yself 14 Hello Sailor 15 Wild-Thing 16 **** And Run 17 Easy Target 18 Soap Star Joe 19 Any In Alaska Compact Disc 3 01 GIRLSGIRLSGIRLS 02 Polyester Bride 03 Thrax 04 Miss Mary Mack 05 Clean 06 Love Song 07 Valentine 08 Gigolo 09 Flower 10 Batmobile 11 Slave 12 Open Season 13 Whip Smart 14 Suckerfish 15 California 16 South Dakota 17 Bomb 18 Easy 19 Chopsticks
Liz had the Girly Sound tapes transferred to DAT in 1995. That DAT was used as the source for Juvenilia.
I know it's silly, but I pre-ordered the triple disc CD set as well as the single disc because I like to have individual titles with original cover art on my shelf.
Just curious -- how long are those first two Girlysound cassettes? Because I'm confused why they are both on double-LPs when they seem short enough to fit on one each. If the goal was to make the LP set too expensive for me, mission accomplished -- I'll be getting the CD version. Also, 10-15 minute album sides isn't my idea of fun, especially when the sound quality gains might not be much on a bunch of 25-year-old cassette transfers.
Anyone manage to get tickets to a show on the upcoming tour? It seems to be booked into tiny places and selling out instantly. Great strategy to annoy the hard core fan base.
As I said, it's the sort of crap record company executives think of as a good idea. "This will build buzz and get everyone excited!" And then they will show up at the venue with a dozen of their closest friends.
The first two cassettes are an hour each; a little too long to squeeze onto two sides of vinyl, but resulting in relatively short sides when spread over four. I think the price for the vinyl box set is pretty reasonable, though. If you order it directly from Matador, it's $74.99, which is less than $11 per LP. It's also going to end up being something of a collector's item, as it's limited to 1900 copies. I managed to get a ticket for the Brooklyn show, but got shut out for the others I wanted to attend during both the pre-sale and general on-sale. Most of the venues seem to be 400-600 capacity -- much smaller than the venues Liz played on the EIG 15th Anniversary tour (or when she originally toured behind EIG in '93 and '94, for that matter). Liz had posted on Facebook that the shows were booked for small rooms as she wanted them to be more intimate, but I think she's seriously underestimated the demand for this tour. I know quite a few people who had no luck getting tickets and are very frustrated by the whole experience. It does sound, though, like there will be another tour in the fall; hopefully Liz will play some bigger clubs then.
I don't think you could get 400 people in the Empty Bottle even if you stripped everyone naked and greased them up.
The Facebook event for the Turf Club show in Saint Paul lists 1700 people as interested in the event. That's just the people who saw the event notice in their feed and decided to interact with the event. There's no way to know what percentage of potential concert goers that actually represents, but it suggests that a venue with a capacity of 1500 should have been booked.
The 2005 acoustic tour started with tiny venues including an impossible ticket 300 seater in Oregon, then had a fall tour. Not wild about her new album(s)/book(s) being further pushed back.
It would be cool if Liz would do something like the Pixies did on a few of their tours, including the Doolittle Anniversary, where they recorded all of the shows with DiscLive and had CD copies available after the show/available to purchase online. Or have one of the shows streamed live or filmed. (Maybe those of you on social media could put this idea out there ) Especially since this will probably be the only chance for fans to hear this material performed live, and the majority of us were not able to score tickets. I had hoped after the Guyville tour in 2008 Liz would reintroduce songs like "Strange Loop" and "Shatter", staples in her early shows, back into her set-lists. I was thrilled that "Nashville" was resurrected on the Funstyle tour; would love to hear more of those deeper cuts on future tours!
Thanks -- and I agree, an hour is too much to try to squeeze onto a single LP. (I have a couple of albums that run 55+ minutes, and they never sound great.)
