The Ethel Merman Experience opens for the Tubes!

Anita · Post by **Anita** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 9:42 pm

Hi All--
This Sunday my band will be opening for the Tubes at the Castro Street Fair in SF. For those of you within an easy drive of here, it'll be quite a day!

We'll go on at 2pm, main stage at Castro and Market, and we'll be doing classic Hard rock from all eras, with "Ethel" doing her Broadway diva interpretation of such as Led Zep, Nirvana, and the White Stripes. The Tubes go on at 3. Nationally, they haven't been on the radar much since their biggest hits in '83, but in their hometown they'll draw a huge crowd.

And Jadeanne, what will I be wearing? A black floral-print thin-strap dress that I had altered to hit mid-thigh. I'll have a gold belt to keep the belly honest.

Then some beige hose, with fishnets over that--I finally gave in to wearing them. My first try at wearing 3 1/2" black heels; I've worn 2" before this. Top it off with the long black wig, and maybe my silver silk shirt to start off. I'm ready to go!

Since this is San Francisco, we're going to open with the 60's version of "White Rabbit;" then we're going to pound into a more metallic version of the same song to get things going.

The website is www.castrostreetfair.org. Last year you could work your way around to the backstage "corral" to say hello through the fence. Don't know whether it'll be that relaxed this year,

but you can give it a try.
A

Elizabeth · Post by **Elizabeth** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 11:50 pm

Anita,

That is so cool. I didn't even know The Tubes were still around. Sounds like a good time.

Love always,
Elizabeth

Alexandra · Post by **Alexandra** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 1:55 am

I wish I was an "easy drive" from SF! Good luck!

CJ · Post by CJ » Sat Oct 02, 2004 6:15 am

Hi all,

Anita,

I wish both you and the Ethel Merman gang some easy sailing on Castro come this Sunday!

It sounds like it'll be a blast. (Just make sure you don't plan on "covering" White Punks On Dope!)

Love,
CJ

Beauty · Post by **Beauty** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 8:15 am

Hi Anita,

Sounds very cool!

What was the inspiration for going? Why did you pick this event?

Have fun!!

Beauty

LeftyRainbow(SO) · Post by **LeftyRainbow(SO)** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 5:53 pm

Very COOL sweetie!

Good Luck!

Lefty

Jessie · Post by **Jessie** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 7:17 pm

I sorry Anita. Even if I left now (driving I do not like to fly these days) I would not be able to make it. But you go I always like to support all bands of people I know.

Jessie

Here is a

for you anyway.

Jadeanne · Post by **Jadeanne** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 11:10 pm

Anita,

I'm sorry that I won't be able to make from Buffalo for the concert, but thanks for the fashion report - with you wearing such a cool outfit, will Ethel be jealous

?

I remember the Tubes doing an autograph session in a Buffalo mall in the mid/late 70s.

We all hope you can get a few pics to post.

Jadeanne

Anita · Post by **Anita** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 12:37 am

Thanks, gals, for all the encouragement!

I'm putting some last-minute costume pieces in place. Couldn't find the sparkly fishnets down at Macy's, (where I'd gotten them before), and it was too late to go to Nordstrom's.

This will be the second time we've played my original T-girl song, "Bombjam." It's the story of Lea, a T-girl who's out clubbing, and Billy, the guy she runs into. I'm getting a lot of good feedback on this one, and my CD with it is almost finished. After 34 years, it's high time we had an update of Lola and Holly~!

Beauty, I'm not quite sure whether I'm answering your question. here. This is a yearly benefit event, and is run by people close to us. So we donate our time for this one, and in return get good publicity and good will. The Tubes are also donating their time; all they asked for were plane tickets for singer Fee Waybill to come up from LA. One of the original organizers of the fair just died this year, and he was a friend of the Tubes. So their participation is a sort of memorial to him.

Lorna · Post by **Lorna** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 5:10 pm

Sounds like a blast, Anita!!! Knock 'em dead!!

Anita · Post by **Anita** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 1:33 am

It went OK. It was sure fun to watch the Tubes, and they put on a fine show. I got to see Fee Waybill do "Quaa lude" again, after 30 years. (There's at least two generations who don't know what a Qaalude was.)

Our set? The crowd loved it, and our friends thought it was great. I was having enough technical difficulties that it never really broke through to fun for me--I was having to work too hard. Toward the end of the set the cold was really getting to my hands, too. The short dress was WAY too short, but oh, well. I forgot that the stage is really high there.

We have another gig on Friday, and that one will be with my own equipment, on a beautiful indoor stage. So I can have fun there--it'll be a relaxed show.

Jaye · Post by **Jaye** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 1:48 am

Anita wrote:...and my CD with it is almost finished.

I was just about to ask if you had an album we could listen to. It sounds like you have an interesting sound.

Alexandra · Post by **Alexandra** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 2:29 am

Anita wrote: The short dress was WAY too short, but oh, well. I forgot that the stage is really high there.

Good thing you wore underwear!

Congrats and good luck this Friday!

Virginia · Post by **Virginia** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 3:13 pm

Rock On - Anita! and no skirt can be toooo short, honey! Uh ??? you were wearing underware weren't you- never mind, silly question! We all hope you make the big time and then we can say we knew her - when!
Love ya,
Virginia

Rachel Ann · Post by **Rachel Ann** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 1:28 am

Anita, is Vince Welnick back with the Tubes?