Andy Lester of The Blurries:
What was the first show that made a major impact on you?
'That would be a show I saw later that summer in 1995. It was a Live/Veruca Salt/ PJ Harvey bill. At the time, I was a fan of the only pop-rock band to ever chart a hit with the lyrics "her placenta falls to the floor." The day tickets went on sale, a friend and I got up at 4 a.m. to camp out at a grocery store on the south side of Milwaukee. Pop-rock music fans don't frequent Ticketmaster outlets on the South side. It was awkward, but we scored fifth row, center. The night of the show, we got there right when the doors opened.
First, Veruca Salt played, which I don't remember, and then PJ Harvey strutted out on to the stage in a skin-tight, purple spandex one-piece leotard with nothing on underneath and proceeded to roar through material from Rid of Me and To Bring You My Love. It was loud and noisy and, at times, barely melodic. It was both rock show and anatomy class with this purple-suited banshee shrieking and writhing about the stage 15 feet in front of me. At the time it was more frightening than sexy, but I knew then that this was rock and roll, much more so than the tripe I was there to see.'
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