hi ted (and everyone else reading this),
the first small (and free!!!) 'punk' show i ever went to was at the university of hartford in CT somewhere around 1998-2000, and the headlining act (whom i had never heard of at the time) was one mr. ted leo, solo style. i think the show was with lustre kings and v for vendetta. i used to have a tape of yr set that i made with a handheld tape recorder and i listened to it over and over again for two or three years, until someone broke into my car and took everything that wasn't nailed to the dash. i remember you doing some old chisel songs ('it's alright, you're ok' and 'river high', maybe more?) , a bunch of stuff from the tej leo/RX album, and some awesome covers, but for the life of me i can't remember what any of the covers were, except for 'it could all be so simple' by lauryn hill. there was one song in particular that i loved, but my tape was too lo-fi to make out the name of the band, i've forgotten the name of the song, and at this point, really how it went at all. i just remembered that i LOVED it. i DO remember you referring to the band that did it originally as one of the great 'hawk bands. i also remember you almost falling into the hole on the stage several time.
any idea what song i'm talking about??? also, thanks for that show, it changed my life in then-imperceptible ways, but here i am now, a to-the-bone musician playing in more bands then i can count on both hands, and i know that seeing that show is a big part of why that happened.
thanks!!!
-ged-
p.s. saw you the next time you rolled through UHA with the holy childhood and you playing along with that wobbly reel-to-reel and THAT was one of the best nights of music in history. too bad there were only 20 people there.
p.p.s. citizens arrest. \m/
