From Brian34295@aol.com Sun May 10 17:06:45 1998 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id RAA79304 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 17:06:44 -0700 Received: from imo29.mx.aol.com (imo29.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.73]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.09) with ESMTP id RAA19471 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 17:06:43 -0700 Received: from Brian34295@aol.com by imo29.mx.aol.com (IMOv14.1) id 4DVRa02463 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 20:06:01 +2000 (EDT) From: Brian34295 Message-ID: <4ffea7fb.355640eb@aol.com> Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 20:06:01 EDT To: failure@u.washington.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: semisonic Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 170 hey..... i was at the semisonic show, too....you're talking about the show at the brewery, right?... i was going just because i heard matt pinfield say on "120 minutes" a week or two ago that they were a really great band that has not gotten the attention that they deserve. i actually hated that "closing time" song, but i went anyway because it was only seven bucks in advance, and my girlfriend likes them.... they gave a great performance. i won't go on and on about them here, but i recommend that people go to the show when they come to your state. now i actually like "closing time"...it's a lot better live. the lead singer was a first class entertainer and he knew exactly how to get the crowd goin'.....especially with that "pleasure" song and the song they played before "closing time"...i forget the name...but he had the whole crowd involved in a few songs.... if anyone was there, i was the guy in the front row all the way to the left of the stage with short brown hair, a white V-neck abercrombie shirt w/green stripes, and abercrombie carpenter jeans.....my girlfriend had short blonde hair, a short red mossimo shirt on, and jeans.... out... aggravated specimen.... http://members.aol.com/brian34295/index.html p/s: the opening band, collapsis, kicked much ass....they reminded me of a mix between better than ezra, semisonic, and a slight touch of REM....they sound like they might make it big in a couple of years....check 'em out.....i got the setlist...yeah'.....plus, i think they're from charlotte.... << does anyone out there like semisonic? i just went to see them tonight. i was blown away. "closing time" is a real good single for them, i know. their live show is real good, for those who appreciate the live show. i have to say that their technical expertise reminded me greatly of failure's live show. >> .