Sinister: the seconds linger, and the memory remains...

[Ernie Sanchez]

Hello!

My second post.  I’m not as nervous as the first time, and hopefully will 
perform better.  I suppose I should start off by saying that I’m now an 
honourary member of the Wills.  The initiation ceremony was very grueling, 
although a little inappropriate for discussion on this list.    Along with 
Will Salt, I guess that somebody already suggested the name Will Pepper.  
Since Pepper was taken,  in order to not cause any internal conflicts within 
the Wills, I considered becoming Will Paprika, Oregano, Cloves or Parmesan 
Cheese.  Spike thought that Will Cloves would be best.  Although I’m not so 
sure if I like this pattern.  Wouldn’t want to become the subject of 
ridicule from the Rachels and Chrises (plural form?) on the list, who will 
call us the Spice Boys.  That would be nice in a way, as we could adopt the 
slogan “Will Power!”  But if we’re the Spice Boys, perhaps I should be 
Ginger, as I’ll probably be the first to leave the group and embark on a 
solo career of making mixes without the group.  I’m already taking offers.  
Of course Ginger is also a fitting name as there are also the pictures shot 
of me a few years ago.  But that’s another story...

Andre, I enjoyed your New Zealand dream team list, but where is Martin 
Phillips?  He would clearly be the goal scorer on my dream team, as I’ve 
recently become obsessed with the Chills and believe that they are the best 
New Zealand band.

A Los Angeles meetup would be nice, although the Rachels (Cornflake and 
Fruitloop) seem to be in anti-Will mode now.  I haven’t received an email 
from either of them recently.  Perhaps we can get past our competitive 
differences and have a meetup somewhere in LA, dancing the day (and possibly 
night) away to B&S.

Ok, on to my second B&S live review!  Last time I left out a few things from 
the first San Francisco show that I enjoyed.  Stuart requested some audience 
participation, and first asked if a girl that he’d heard that “set her 
nipples on fire” was at the show.  I guess that somebody from the band saw 
this, I don’t know where though.  Since she wasn’t available, he said that 
they’d have to think of someone else.  They asked for someone to help sing 
“The Boy With the Thorn In His Side,” since Stu couldn’t remember all of the 
lyrics.  As mentioned previously, he (Brian) did a wonderful job! They also 
had Rachel Cornflake, very embarrassed onstage but so cute, doing the spoken 
bit part during Dirty Dream #2.  She was great!  Also, an audience member in 
front of me gave Stuart an Oakland A’s baseball cap during the show and 
Stuart shouted, “That’s the team of the workers!” which I thought was fairly 
humorous.  He wore the cap during a song, without taking off the tags.   
Finally, before “Everyday People” was performed in the end, Stevie mentioned 
that the following song to be performed was from the best San Francisco 
band.  The crowd started yelling out band names, and Stevie would reply.  
“No, not the Jefferson Airplane.  Not Green Day, certainly not fucking Green 
Day.” The crowd cheered at Stevie’s jeer, but then he said, regrettably, 
“respect to Green Day.  It’s not that they aren’t any good, it’s just that 
we couldn’t do one of their songs.”  He went on to say  “They’re pretty 
tough guys, Green Day.”  To which Stuart responded, “Eh, there’s more of 
us.” What a nice street brawl that would be!

On to the second San Francisco show.  Overall, the performance was very 
nice, their cover songs were amazing.  Here is the setlist I came up with 
from my recording:
Sunday 9/9/01
1. sleep the clock around
2. there’s too much love
3. the magic of a kind word
4. san francisco (wear flowers in your hair) (scott mckenzie cover)
5.  mayfly
6. jonathan david
7. don’t leave the the light on, baby
8. the model
9. wandering alone (the new “spanish” song sung by Stevie, a wonderful song)
10. billie jean (michael jackson cover)
11. simple things
12. the boy with the arab strap
13. you made me forget my dreams
14. judy and the dream of horses
15. family tree
16. dog on wheels
17. the wrong girl (the previous night, Stevie did the first few lines of 
the song in the style of Johnny Cash, this time he did so in the style of 
Neil Young!)
18. woman’s realm
19. legal man

Another wonderful night.  Stuart complained about his playing football and 
his skin roasting and being sunburned because he was a “pale Scottish boy.”  
Yet he didn’t succumb to audience members’ demands for him to take off his 
shirt and show people his sunburned body.  During “San Francisco (wear 
flowers in your hair)” which was even lovelier than the original (quite an 
accomplishment), Sarah started to throw flowers into the audience.  A few 
members of B&S had flowers in their hair as well.  During Billie Jean, as 
mentioned, Isobel came out with the fake pregnancy ball under her Bob Dylan 
dress while Stevie looked at it and sang “the kid is not my son.”  
Hilarious!  Actually, they had their drum tech, “Mr. Mark McGwire” go up on 
stage before the song to do the Moonwalk.  This segued into the bass and 
keyboard intro for Billie Jean.  As this was happening, I thought that they 
were going to stop, but as the vocals kicked in, the crowd went crazy.  I 
was amazed at how many people knew the song, getting the lyrics along with 
yelling out the vocal “ooh” parts exactly as the original.  Stu seemed 
surprised at this and gave everyone a thumbs up. It should be noted that 
Stevie did the majority of the singing, and Stuart did the “people always 
told me... bit for this song.  Their vocal impressions of MJ were simply 
incredible!  Probably the single most entertaining, best performance of a 
song I’ve ever seen!

This was the first show I went to in which “Mayfly” and “Judy and the Dream 
of Horses” was performed.  Besides one of the speakers being blown out 
during “You Made Me Forget My Dreams”, the sound was perfectly mixed, 
flawless again.  Somebody in the crowd also yelled out “play the Aislers Set 
already,” to which Stevie played the first few bars of “Hit the Snow.”  As I 
was standing two people over from Alicia and Wyatt from the Set, this was 
great to hear.  Overall a wonderful night, a good end to the shows I 
attended.

It’s strange to see how diverse the setlists were.  Although they played 19 
or 20 songs at each of the 4 shows I went to, they only did the following 
songs at all 4 shows:
1. simple things
2. legal man
3. family tree
4. women’s realm
5. the wrong girl
6. the boy with the arab strap
7. jonathan david
8. there’s too much love
9. the magic of a kind word
Still, to only have half of the setlist remain the same over 4 nights is 
incredible and shows what a wonderful band they are.  Most bands, even if 
they have a lot of releases, only practice the same songs and only have 2 or 
3 different songs, and that’s performing only 10-15 songs.  Also, looking at 
the diversity of bands covered throughout the nights showcases  a great deal 
of  diversity.  And to think that they did “Don’t Fear the Reaper” by Blue 
Oyster Cult at the Olympia who but nobody has mentioned it! Attendees of 
shows, please provide us with more reviews if possible!

Ok, this is incredibly long now, good luck again if you’ve read this far.

Cheers,
Ernie (Will Cloves)










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