From Bob Bannister Sent Thu, Nov 12th 1998, 07:25
Jeff Salamon asks: <can someone remind me of the date/venue/lineup for chain reaction nyc show?> As a contributor to the Voice, you may have had a chance to look at their listings by now (unless you live in Brooklyn and find it too annoying to have to pay for it), but for the benefit of anyone who is interested, the listing says: "Live sets by Scion (Substance's Rene Lowe and Vainqueur's Peter Kuschnerit) and Pole...plus DJ sets by Lowe and Kuschnerit...Call [2121] 631-5848 for location and directions, [Saturday, Nov. 14] at 10." As far as I know (pleased that I just scored _Elevations_ for $10), those credits are backwards - Rene Lowe is Vainqueur so I guess Kuschnerit is Substance. You can get advance tickets at Mondo Kim's for $17 but from what I could tell, you still have to call for the venue - this seems willfully obscurantist - on the one hand, the ticket price suggests that it cost a lot of money to bring these guys over and they need to maximize revenue - on the other hand, the secrecy (they really couldn't find a legal spot?) seems to designed to exclude anyone but the hardest core (you know what riff-raff these gabber kids are) or at worst, it's some phony kind of "faux rave" - trying to stimulate interest by making it needlessly esoteric. I haven't had the impression this was how it was handled at other stops on the tour, but I'll try to be there (Greenwich Village bluegrass festival with Vassar Clements, Tony Trischka and Bill Keith had to be the same day, of course). Bob