Comments on: LFA LIVE! IWU 1991

By: Serpentuh

Serpentuh — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 03:54:38 +0000

I think it is pretty clear what that means.
People listend to my song and AIDS has all but been wiped out…

By: lfagecko

lfagecko — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:58:38 +0000

Crossroads was pretty clear to me, in terms of its meaning. Use a safety belt or you’re gonna die!? Anyway, I just heard more people are dying of MRSA than AIDS in the USA now, so…. I don’t know what that means.

By: Serpentuh

Serpentuh — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:47:33 +0000

By silly, what do you mean:
- Marcie wouldn’t have “had” me? Because I would like to think otherwise? (& never would’ve while she was with Komodo…that’s just wrong.)
- That CROSSROADS couldn’t have a hidden message? (It’s deeply hidden message was ‘use a condom’.)

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I agree about the TP tape. I have gone through stages where I didn’t like it, but that’s mostly the recording of it, not the songs. I dig Gator’s stuff. I wish I hadn’t tried so hard writing songs like “Crossroads” and “Middleground”. (Although my drum part in Middleground is awesome…listen to the double-bass action!!) I just hear those and think that those songs aren’t/weren’t really me. I was trying to write what I thought Gator or Chopper would write. The only song that reflects who I really am is Hey Bert. [that's just sad...]

That whole album suffers from ‘little brother syndrome’. We could’ve written and recorded the best album in the world, but without Chopper and/or Gila it wasn’t going to be embraced. Their legend at IWU loomed too large.

By: lfagecko

lfagecko — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:00:30 +0000

That’s just silly.

I was listening to Last Train again after Gordon’s little paean to it and it made me reevaluate the whole TP recording. Especially with some of the noise removed, it’s not a bad little collection of tunes at all. I liked Tom’s voice.

By: Serpentuh

Serpentuh — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:28:22 +0000

I found a couple of leads that HAD to be him.
Same name.
Went to Wesleyan while we were there.

I e-mailed him at both different addresses. He never responded.
He either didn’t get them or doesn’t want to talk to me.

BTW-Although not true at all, I found out years later that he thought I was having an affair with his then girlfriend, Marcie. (She told me.) And believe it or not, he thinks the LFA song CROSSROAD was like my secret confession…

By: lfagecko

lfagecko — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:52:14 +0000

Never heard of him.

By the way, has anyone ever heard from Komodo Dragon? I thought we found him?

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:20:12 +0000

ok i remember the fiddler’s name.. it was Eric Hansell.

By: Serpentuh

Serpentuh — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:48:24 +0000

Well, his agent must’ve forgotten about me. I did find Andrew Bird’s myspace page and asked to be linked as a friend. If he says yes, I will ask through the website.

By: Serpentuh

Serpentuh — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:30:45 +0000

I contacted Andrew Bird’s agent and asked her if she would ask him if while he was at Wesleyan if he ever played with a band called Lizards from Afar.
She said it was no problem and that she would ask and get back to me!!
(i’m such a loser…)

By: Serpentuh

Serpentuh — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:48:08 +0000

Unless there is some kind of “power of suggestion” kind of thing happening, I actually kinda remember that. Like it was an unrehearsed thing, he was there and jammed with us.
(I would default to Gator…but he never remembers anything.)