Welcome to... _________________________________________________ | \ | S T R A N G E W A Y S > |________________________________________________/ A forum for Morrissey and The Smiths. Volume Two, Issue #7 To post to Strangeways, please send mail to Kevin at kkawado@bonnie.ics.uci.edu. <-----> Sorry for taking so long to get this issue out. Life has been pretty crazy around here. Bob Gaj has offered to copy the Morrissey KROQ concert. If you would like a copy of the concert, please inquire with him. His address is: MKT_RGAJARSK@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu. I haven't had time to copy the tape yet so please be patient. I'm trying to find some stuff to put on the remaining 15 minutes of the tape. Anyway, I should have to tape to Bob after Thanksgiving. =K= <-----> From: Rosenbla Subject: Morrissey in Minneapolis Date: Fri, 8 Nov 91 19:55:46 CST The show was great! It lasted about 80 minutes. He played around 14 songs including one called "We Hate It When Our Friends Are Success- ful" which I hadn't heard before. The rest of the songs were the ones from the first half of his tour. The crowd was a little tame, but a ton of flowers were thrown onto the stage. Many people also got on stage and were welcomed wholeheartedly by Morrissey. He gave a great performance-the singing was enthusiastic. After the show, we saw the car Morrissey was leaving in being chased by about 4 people. It stop- ped about 10 yards away from us at a stoplight, but just as we moved toward it the light changed and it sped off (it was a Cadillac). I think only one person got an autograph. I really wished that I would have won the chance to meet him backstage-KJ104 was giving away that plus lots of tickets-probably why my tickets sucked (22nd row). If anyone has bought or seen that videotape from Dallas, please comment on it. bye. Christine <-----> Date: Fri, 8 Nov 91 22:08:48 -0500 From: Pi Subject: My Home Life News from REM land. Morrissey is good friends with Michael Stipe and was in Athens again just days before the Seattle show I'm told. The rumore in Athens is that he has bought a house here and plans to spend some time in Athens. Its a weird town, so he might feel right at home. Also, just got two Smiths bootlegs straight from their vinyl medium. Both are from their '86 Queen is Dead tour, both OK but not great sound quality, they are called "So This Is America" and "...The Bad Boy From A Good Family." Both are available for copy requests, need 90 minutes of tape each. Have an untitled 1983 bootleg with "Jeane" and "Wonderful Woman", as well as the studio versions of both, and seven tracks from the '88 Wolverhampton Morrissey concert, plus a few more random live and sound check songs including Marr/Gannon whaling on Hendrix's "Purple Haze". Pretty weird. Am willing to trade older stuff for Morrissey bootlegs, "Killjoy" (the Madison Square Garden Show on CD) is going to be available in two or three weeks, just in time for a Christmas present. The guy who has New Orleans tickets in the Orchestra section Pi "When she calls me I do not walk I run." <-----> Date: 12 Nov 91 23:38:08 From: Nicole.E.Nelson@dartmouth.edu Subject: News Flash Truely Disappointed News Flash after driving over two and a half hours to worchester - i learned that the Moz has cancelled the rest of the tour and gone home to england. Words can't express how truely disappointed i was. Nicole I've seen this happen in other people's lives and know it's happening in mine( once again) <-----> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 91 18:13:02 -0500 From: Pi Subject: Tour dates I just heard that the Boston and William&Mary shows were cancelled. Is it true? Also, are any other dates going to be axed, I've got great seats for the New Orleans show and really don't want to miss it. The rumor that Morrissey is buying a house in Athens, GA is still flying out of that town, he has been visiting Michael Stipe of REM again apparently. Pi <-----> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 91 23:37:12 -0500 From: Michael Arras Subject: Morrissey cancels tour! With interview! Morrissey cancelled his Nov. 19th concert at William and Mary Hall because he was "too tired." My local radio station got an person to person interview with Moz. Here it is (no joke, really): Carol Taylor: This is Carol Talyor for Defenistration 895 and right now on the phone I have Morrissey. Morrissey Hello. Morrissey: Hello. C: Hello Morrissey. M: Hello. How are you? C: I'm fine and you are calling us from where? M: I'm calling from London. C: Ok. I have a press release here from Celler Door that says that you cancelled your tour due to exhustion. M: Cancelled my tour to, to exhustion. C: Due to exhustion. M: Yes, yes, yes. Your on [sic], I'm I'm very tired. C: I think that's a crock of... Boulder-dash! C: You're not tired at all. I don't think you're exhusted. I think the reason why you've cancelled your tour is because, I've heard the rumors, I think you're just too damn happy to tour. M: Too, too happy!? C: Too damn happy to tour. M: Well, well Carol you've found me out. C: I though so. M: I am too happy to tour. You can't tour if you're not sad you see. And I'm rather filled with glee. I wake up in the morning I'm hearing birds chirping. I've got friends now. I do have a stich to wear, several stiches in fact. And you just can't tour if you're not sad. C: You know what? I just feel like I'm just going to vomit! I want to know why you are so happy. M: Oh, why I'm happy. Well Carol, everyday is not like Sunday. Monday, for example is for cupcakes I've discovered. Tuesday for scenic walks in the park with Michael. Wednesday is the day I do needlepoint for me Mum. And Carol have you ever tried baking? C: Oh please, please, please, just stop! Look, look, look, ok, so you're too happy to tour. What does that mean for you're recording career? You're going to be too happy to make records! M: Well, first of all Carol, and you know this. I have enough singles and live recordings of everything I've done, both solo and with the Smiths that could be rerecorded in various different orders to keep the record business stocked for the next fifteen years. But the honesty is, I've thought meat was murder. Actually, touring is murder. Unrepressed admiration can really drag one down you know. C: Yeah, I'm like suffering from loads of that right now myself. Look, I don't really want to bother you anymore since you are so damn happy I can't stand to speak with you. M: Thank you. C: I will have no one to make fun of anymore! M: Thank you. C: I'm now very sad. I'll take over for you. I am the one who is depressed. In fact what I'd like to do right now is if you don't mind is play one of you're songs back in the good old days when you were super depressed. In fact I think we're going to play, Heaven knows I'm, I'm... Uhh... M: Heaven knows I was miserable then... C: Morrissey on Defenistration 895. M: Thank you, goodbye! C: Aww, go to hell. Heaven knows I'm miserable now begins... Mike Arras arras@icase.edu <-----> From: Edward Baichtal Subject: Morrissey CANCELS! Date: Sun, 17 Nov 91 23:39:40 PST Morrissey has cancelled his last 11 shows of his tour due to "exhaustion." This has come 10 days after Morrissey invited people at the UCLA show to get up out of their seats and come to the stage, and the 30 or so people got smashed because of it. Tickets for that show sold out in less than 11 minutes and made it the fastest selling show in BASS history. The one in L.A. before, sold out in less than 17 minutes. Anyway, Morrissey does NOT plan to reschedule any of his last dates at this time and somehow, I am not surprised. :)