Subject: Depot Issue 101 Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 15:08:47 -0400 From: gk764@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike Brown) Depot Issue 101. July 19, 1996 Current # of subscribers: 125 +++ psychodots +++ Subjects in this issue: RE: Depot Issue 100 (!) Dot/raisin covers Newspaper article Cruel and unusual punishment i woke up - issue 100 Concert Dates Date: Fri, 12 Jul 96 15:47 EST From: Phillip Samson <0005083314@mcimail.com> Subject: RE: Depot Issue 100 (!) Hi Mike: Congratulations on making it to #100! The Depot is the greatest! As another east-coaster, I'm definitely suffering from withdrawal; I think the last dots show I saw was in the spring of '95 in Chicago. I'm going to be in Chicago in early Aug. (8/8-11). Does anyone know if the dots intend to have a Chicago show on that weekend? Can one of you ask them for me? ;) Like my other Boston-based dot-head, I'd love to do a roadtrip, but I don't know if I can get away for the needed time. C'est la vie. Thank you all for your continued posts. I especially liked reading about the Bridget/Chris show at Allyn's. Keep'em up folks...it's the only way I'll hear about the dots. I patiently await issue 200 now! Phil psamson/west@mcimail.com "...all these things I ain't got/None of the above" -- Bears +++ psychodots +++ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 23:35:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian C. Sempsrott" Subject: Dot/raisin covers Hey ya'll, My band just started playing 'Mattress' and it's really a blast, which got me to wonderin' if there are some musicians out there who would be interested in getting together to play Rob-Bob-Chris-Bam-Rick songs? Brian "Rimshott" +++ psychodots +++ Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 08:31:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Beshuk Subject: Newspaper article Here's another newspaper article for youse: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cincinnati Post, 6/30/87 THE BEARS Local band makes good - and better and better The Bears are rapidly clawing their way to the top. The Cincinnati-based rock 'n' roll band, made up of guitar whiz Adrian Belew and former Raisins Rob Fetters, Bob Nyswonger and Chris Arduser has been garnering raves for its debut LP and concert appearances. The band is well on its way to becoming the biggest rock group to come out of the Cincinnati area since Pure Prairie League's early-'70's glory years. "The Bears", released May 4, has sold almost 27,000 copies; locally, it's been outselling such big names as U2. And sales are increasing as the Bears promote the LP the old-fashioned way - with a national tour of concert clubs and small theaters. The nine-week tour has taken the band to the Hollywood Palace, Chicago's Park West and New York's Ritz, three of the premier talent showcases in the country. Thursday and Friday, the Bears come home, ending their tour with a two-night stand at Bogart's, the site of their November 1985 world premiere concert. Belew has long been one of rock's most in-demand session players. His guitar synthesizers are heard on records by Paul Simon, Cyndi Lauper, Talking Heads, David Bowie and Frank Zappa. But he gave up his high-status, high-paying session gig for the Bears, a band that is as much a group of friends as it is a musical entity. Amidst a flood of favorable reviews, airplay on some of the country's most influential radio stations and mounting record sales, the Northern Kentucky native can hardly believe his gamble is paying off. "It worked", he said in a phone interview from New York. "All the things that we discussed so thoroughly, and all the things that we put our hopes on, have worked so far. And the band still loves each other, so the internal things are really happening as well." The other band members are just as pleased. The Bears are starting to be recognized as a band and not merely as Belew's accompaniment. The duet harmonies of Belew and Fetters - inspired, like much of the Bears' sound, by the Beatles - and the band's hypnotic instrumental interplay were conscious attempts to create a band signature. People are catching on, said bassist Nyswonger. "The promotion for this tour is pretty much always 'the Bears'," he said. "On the first couple of tours it would just say 'Adrian Belew'; and that was it. It made you feel like you were spinning your wheels a little bit." "I think New York is kind of slow to catch on to new things," said Belew's co-guitarist Fetter. "They get so much information, and brains are only so big, even in Manhattan." "Playing New York before, we were pretty nervous before the show," Fetters said. "Before this last show, it was, 'Come, let's do it.' And it was really good - a tough New York crowd, and we got three encores." The Bears also have won the attentino of their record company. "The Bears" was released on Primitive Man Recording Co. (PMRC), a small new label started by IRS, the company responsible for such new-music acts as the Go-Go-s and Timbuk3. As IRS grew, it began losing touch somewhat with rock's cutting edge and so started PMRC to get back. "The Bears" was the new label's first album. With a surprise hit on its hands, however, the better-equipped IRS has taken over the album's promotion, and even MCA which distributes the label taken an interest. With corporate support, there are now plans to make a video of "Fear Is Never Boring." That song, a local hit for the Raisins a few years back, has been receiving the most national airlplay. Oddly, the only place where there doesn't seem to be much Bears radio activity is Cincinnat. WEBN briefly played "Superboy", and the other songs on the LP are getting some exposure on the smaller alternative-rock outlets like WOXY, but out-of-town radio play has far outstripped local support. But that's just business-as-usual for the local radio scene. When Cincinnati's Midnight Star first hit the big time with "Freak-A-Zoid," it was a Florida radio station that 'broke" the single. Local stations waited until it was a national hit before they began playing it. No one in the Bears is surprised that the same thing seems to be happening to them. "Cincinnat is not, in the radio world, a 'breaker' market," Belew said. "There are certain areas - Boston, San Francisco, L.A., Chicago - certain stations that break records, they set new trends." With many of those stations airing "The Bears," the band could become one of those trends. Right now, though, the Bears have a lot of work ahead, touring, working the promotional circuit and trying to establish themselves in a business where the ratio of failure to success is nothing short of terrifying. Still, Belew regards the future with guarded optimism. "In a way you feel like, 'Wow, we're just on this great big treadmill like everybody else is on.' But mostly, I feel like things we're doing now, we'll only see the results of those things later. "It's very gradual, but everyghtng is going real well. I think there have been a lot of really good pleasant surprises." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pete +++ psychodots +++ Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 20:38:34 -0500 From: dha@panix.com (David H. Adler) Subject: Cruel and unusual punishment In Depot 100, we saw this : >From: "J. Milo Lanoue" [snip] >those of us who are limited to one, maybe two if the wife let's us, dots >shows per year. My last was last May, that would be 1995 folks. We're >suffering Oh, yeah? All I can say is try living here in NYC, where the *only* time (that I know of, anyway) that we've had the 'dots was when Adrian last played the Bottom Line, when "Here" came out. *That's* suffering (sigh). +++ psychodots +++ Date: 19 Jul 96 09:30:26 EDT From: "W. Kevin Pape" <76371.1762@CompuServe.COM> Subject: i woke up - issue 100 yes, you did get the title right, jeff. it's not new, but it hasn't been played out in awhile. The blankets have played it a few times. Lora +++ psychodots +++ From: Mike Brown (gk764@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) Subject: Concert Dates If you know of a show date not listed, band or solo, *please* send in a notice. Send in those concert reviews. psychodots Fri. July 19 Butchertown Pub - 1335 Story Ave., Louisville, KY 606-583-2242 Sat. July 20 Shady O'Grady's Pub - 9443 Loveland-Mad. Road, Cin, 513-791-2753 Sat. July 27 Ripleys - 2507 W. Clifton Ave., Cincinnati, 513-861-6506 Fri. Aug 2 Canal Street Tavern - 308 E. First St., Dayton, OH 513-461-9343 Graveblankets Fri. July 26 York Street Int'l Cafe - 738 York St., Newport, KY 261-9675 Rob Fetters Fri. July 26 York Street Int'l Cafe - 738 York St., Newport, KY 261-9675 (opening for the Graveblankets) Adrian Belew (with some other band :-)) North American dates: July 24: Hard Rock Cafe, Las Vegas July 26: Greek Theatre, San Francisco July 27: Greek Theatre, Los Angeles July 30: Summer Pops, San Diego Aug 2: Metopolitan Theatre, Mexico City Aug 3: Metopolitan Theatre, Mexico City Aug 6: Monterrey Amphitheater, Monterrey Aug 24: Paramount Theater, Asbury Park, NJ H.O.R.D.E dates: Aug 8: Sandstone Amp., Kansas City, KS Aug 9: Riverport Amp., St. Louis Aug 10: Starwood Amp., Nashville Aug 11: Riverbend, Cincinnati Aug 13: Starlake Amp., Pittsburgh Aug 15: Great Woods Center, Boston Aug 16: Randalls Island, New York Aug 17: Option 2nd New York show Aug 18: SPAC, Saratoga Aug 21: Meadows Music Theatre, Hartford Aug 22: Portland, ME Aug 23: Hershey Park, Hershey, PA Aug 25: Meryweather Post, Columbia Aug 26: Mann Music Centre, Philadelphia (These last two shows may switch.) +++ psychodots +++ End of Depot 101. 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