Milwaukee WI: Eagles Club – November 03, 1994

The Rave/Eagles Club (commonly known as simply The Rave, formerly known as the Eagles Club and Central Park Athletic Club and Entertainment Center or commonly Central Park Ballroom) is a concert venue and landmark in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. ¹

Review on SugarList ²

From: IN%”dpgrove@” 4-NOV-1994 16:06:56.31
To: IN%”sugar@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Subj: RE: Sugar Digest V1 #64

Here are my short quick reactions to the Milwaukee show, and comments in SD #64. of Peter Schulz and Carlson Lori.

The show last night rocked. I have never seen Bob live, had great expectations and all of them were fulfilled. In all the pictures in magazines of Sugar I have seen, they have looked kind of dorky (in a nice kind of way). My example is the Spin article couple months ago, but I think that has something to do with the the use of a wide angle lense. All the picture I have seen have made David Barbe look like a hick, Malcolm Travis look fat and Bob look bald. Except for Malcolm Travis being kind of twitchy when he played, and Bob having very short hair (making him look rather bald) they looked refreshingly normal. Okay so that was a rather pointless bunch of comments, but bear with me here.

The concert was incredible, my only complaint was that they skipped over Slick, After All The Roads Have Led Nowhere (which I have never heard before) The Slim, and What You Want It To Be. Gee Angel was incredible, Mind Is An Island was better than expected, Changes came across really well live. I was very surprised at the number of songs Barbe sang (they all were good live) and the fact that they played just as much unreleased or B-side material as stuff off of Copper Blue or FU:EL. They only played Tilted off of Beaster, and I think they only played it because the crowd had kept shouting out requests for it through the whole show.

Peter Schultz said
>It’s struck me that “The Slim” is a centerpiece of every Sugar gig
>ever done, and is given “center stage” in Copper Blue. Obviously, the
>song means a lot to Bob, probably more that any other song he has ever
>written. It seems to be Bob’s coming-out song, and a song about the
>devastation wrought by AIDS (he noted in an intervire SLIM was an
>early acronym for AIDS). But it seems to be deeper than just that. I
>know this is morbid and prying, is he talking from personal experience
>here? Comments anyone?

First, he didn’t play it in Milwaukee, I don’t know what this means, but… Also Bob has never “come-out” in the connotated sense. So this isn’t really his “coming-out” song. He has said it many interviews that (paraphrased) most everyone his sexuality, but he is not going to declare anything publicly and place himself in a particular group.

Carlson Lori said
>Magnapop was excellent…that female guitarist is insane…i’ve never
>seen a woman wail so hard on a guitar! she was excellent!

I know… I think I am in love, she was incredible.

Well, maybe this was a pointless post, but I have been weeding through pointless posts for about a month without saying anything, so now it is my turn. The night was great, I envy all of you who have yet to see the show, I wish I could go back and live through the night again. Sorry, if there are any inaccuracies, the night is still somewhat of a big happy
haze.

Daniel Grove

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