From: Dufdavis@cs.com
Date: Sat, Jan 8, 2000, 6:08am
To:
RSMko@webtv.net
Subject: A few gratuitous and possibly irrelevent suggestions
R. Stevie -
People sometimes give me suggestions, they almost always don't know what the fuck they're talking about. Out of tact and politeness, I let them ramble, AND there is always an outside chance that one of their "points" can be used in some altered form. So here are some remarks, and please think of these as intended to be positive (and dismissible).
1. How about calling the live group "The R. Stevie Moore Experience"? The
name fits in with the panoply that you offer.
2. The solo acoustic set is neat stuff and I think that it best displays the artist in you - avant folk, stream of unconsciousness, polyrhythmatic vocals.
However, on a band night it would be better to cut that set by at least ten minutes. (Your voice is well heard in the solo set but it sometimes has a hard time cutting through the full band).
3. Band dynamics is something that needs some attention. A little more ear candy would be nice. Not everyone has to play all the time, some of the playing can be sparer. The group is obviously way tighter. The major ear candy component for me was the harmony vocals, it was neat that the Bee's all had mikes.
4. You have a lot of material to choose from, there must be a temptation to include rather than exclude. But I think that the set would be better served if it were shorter (playing to the psychology of an audience). I feel like it gets better as it goes along. In a setting such as Maxwell's, I would have started the full band material with the second set, or some form of it (Thursdays are still a school night). Let less be Moore?
Well, there they are, the thoughts that occur to me, for whatever they're worth. I may well be wrong on most of this but if any of it gives an inkling of an outside perspective then at least I have said something positive.
Duf
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