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| From | jchasin@nyc.rr.com |
| Subject | Re: Continental Drifters, RIP |
| Date | Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:09:39 -0500 |
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I have a personal favorite Drifters moment... first I should mention that my biggest rock crush ever was and is on Vicki Peterson. I went to see them with my wife and former Auditeer Henry Laura a few years back, and after my wife hearing me babbling over Vicki for weeks, and me saying Vicki was my favorite Bangle, and my wife's friend asking incredulously, "Your husband actually lives in a world where people have a favorite Bangle?"-- anyway, after all this we get in, they come on, and my poor lovely wife grudgingly turns to me and says, "She's out age? How does she get her skin looking so good?" (If anyone knows, please write...)
...Anyway, that isnt the moment, but it did happen at that show. After a lovely Vicki/Peter acoustic duet on "Anything," Vicki says to the crowd, "You guys are great, we should come back and do an acoustic show for you." I yell out, "How's Tuesday?" Holsapple cracks up into his mic, repeating the line; while Vicki says, "Tuesday's really not good for us, Monday's better, can you guys do Monday?"
They didn't come back. I got Vicki and Peter to sign Better Days. I was too shy to ask her to sign All Over the Place, to my everlasting regret.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@comcast.net>
> I think you're right about that, Josh. I was lucky enough to see the
> Drifters twice as well -- once at the Double Door in Charlotte,
> N.C., and
> the North Star in Philly. They were amazingly tight each time.
> Once the "Fleetwood Mac" effect set in and Vicki decamped for The
> Bangles,it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that this
> incarnation of the band
> was history. But I'd been holding out hope that earlier members
> might return
> to the fold (as was the case at NoLa's JazzFest a year or two
> ago), and they
> might become a viable operation again.
> A live record would be most welcome as well.
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