Re: TAGFest

David,

I was playing with a loud power trio deal for that show... sort of a
Black Sabbath meets Schoenberg thing. I remember we played down in a
ditch next to a little brook that ran in back of us and under a bridge
where I remember seeing a bunch of people when we were playing. The
beer garden was up in back of that performance area on a hill behind
the brook. I'm pretty sure there was always two or three simultaneous
performances.

No microtones with that group (sorry), I think I was playing a black
and red Steinberger... the drummer was a flamboyant type; a really
tall guy who looked like a blonde Ted Nugent but could play any crazy,
mangled rythem I asked.

I can't even remember if it was a good show or not... however, I do
remember getting NO sleep the night before in some cheap NJ dive that
was not ten feet from an all night truck stop!

take care,

--Dan Stearns

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From: "David Beardsley" <db@...>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 7:30 AM
Subject: Re: [MMM] Science friction

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "D.Stearns" <STEARNS@...>
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> > Hey, file this under it's a small world--the Trenton Trenton Avant
> > Garde Festival was one of the last gigs I played before I hung up
the
> > gloves when my son Bryan was born in 1994 (so I guess that
would've
> > been in the late summer of '93).
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> '94 was the first year I had a performance, but I was at the fest in
'93!
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> > I think Wilbo and Bob Jordan were doing most of the booking back
> > then... is the festival still up and running?
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> I think '98 was the last year. The city of Trenton decided to
> hold their own festival at the same place and time.
>
> I thought the TAGFest organization still exists to organise
> yearly George Anthiel concerts, but apparently there's
> an organization called Capital Arts in Trenton that has
> squeezed them out.
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> >Back then they had a
> > beer garden, and things on the whole were pretty wild for
something
> > occurring in the middle of a metropolitan park in broad daylight!
>
> Those were the days....
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