Track Listing: 1. Anthem Part Two 2. Online Songs 3. First Date 4. Happy Holidays, You Bastard 5. Story of a Lonely Guy 6. The Rock Show 7. Stay Together For the Kids 8. Roller Coaster 9. Reckless Abandon 10. Everytime I Look for You 11. Give Me One Good Reason 12. Shut Up 13. Please Take Me Home
This album is very similar to "Enema of the State"...Same producer, same slick pop-punk sound, same teenage subject matter, but I like this one a little better...It has a bit of a harder feel...
I can remember cruising around, listening to this in the summer of 2001...It was the last summer I lived in Michigan and the term "Summer Record" still meant something to me...I now live in Arizona and it's always summer here...There's really only two seasons: "Hot" and "Ball-Meltingly Hot." Right now we're in the Ball-Meltingly Hot season...
Pictured above, is a good photo of an Arizona summer...
Pictured above, is a good photo of an Arizona winter...
But yea...It used to be that my listening habits were partially influenced by the climate...For example, I'd spend the cold, grey, harsh Michigan winters driving through ice and blizzards blasting Radiohead's "Kid A," but once the sun started to shine again and I could spend the days at the beach, that meant is was time to bust out "Rock Show." I kind of wonder what my listening habits would be now if I still had seasons...I hadn't thought of that in a long time...I wonder what my winter record would be now...Hmmm...
All I know is that Blink gave me a lot of good tunes that summer..."Everytime I Look For You" , "Give Me One Good reason", "Reckless Abandon"...All great, hooky pop-punk... They also put in quite a bit of more serous material on the album this time around..."Stay Together For the Kids" takes on divorce, and "Anthem Part Two" actually sounds pissed -off about the state of the world...
One notable aspect of this album, is that on its original release, the
CD had different bonus tracks...There was a color-coded sticker on the
front cover, which was the only way of knowing which version you were
getting before you opened the packaging...
I apparently have the "Yellow Pants" version, which has ""What Went Wrong" and "Fuck a Dog" as the extra songs..."What Went wrong is a melancholy acoustic emo ballad that's pretty cool, and "Fuck a Dog" is a similarly acoustic track about...well..fucking a dog, I guess...The kind of thing that Blink normally tosses on as laugh at the end of their albums...I had never heard the other bonus tracks on the other versions, so I'm checking them out on youtube, to see which version is the winner...
The "Red Take-off" version has "Time to Break Up" which is so cool I wish they would have just put it in the regular running order... I would have gladly traded "Take Me Home" for this...The other song on this version is "Mother's Day." I can only describe it as a foul-mouthed, acoustic metal song...Funnier than "Fuck a Dog" in my opinion...
The Green Jacket version has the pretty standard pop-punk "Don't Tell Me It's Over" as the straightforward bonus track and "When You Fucked Grandpa" as the ha-ha song.."When You Fucked Grandpa" is pretty gross, but the section Tom sings is so lilting and heartfelt sounding that I have to admit, I did laugh...
Alright...So Which version is the best? Oooo...This is a difficult choice...Ideally, if there was a version that had all the "straight" songs that would be the one I'd go for, but that doesn't exist, so...
I'm going with the "Red Take Off" version...I think "Time to Break Up" gives it the edge, and "Mother's Day" is somehow the least obnoxious of the joke songs...
So let's check out "Everytime I Look for You" by blink 182...
Track Listing: 1. Dumpweed 2. Don't Leave Me 3. Aliens Exist 4. Going Away to College 5. What's My Age Again? 6. Dysentery Gary 7. Adam's Song 8. All the Small Things 9. The Party Song 10. Mutt 11. Wendy Clear 12. Anthem
I'm going to have to skip "Dude Ranch" for now, since my copy has a big crack in it...Oh well...Was looking forward to listening to it too...
It's actually my favorite Blink 182 album...So I guess I'll get back to it at a later date...
So onto Blink's 1999 release "Enema of the State"...
I thought "Dude Ranch" was a big, slick punk album, but this one is even bigger and slicker...Huge, candy coated pop-punk...And they have the songs to back it up too...While I don't always enjoy this one as much as the previous two albums, I think it's more of a personal preference type of thing...I don't view this a a misstep or anything...I think it might have just been a bit too over-played at the time for my liking...So I don't quite get the same thrill hearing "All the Small Things" or "What's My Age Again" as I do from "Strings" or "Pathetic."
If you're of a certain age, the mere mention of Blink 182 will bring the indelible image of Mark, Tom and new drummer Travis Barker streaking across your television screen daily on TRL...Nestled snugly in-between videos by The Backstreet Boys and Eminem...
"Enema of the State" ended up providing the soundtrack to those heady, pre-9/11, pie-fucking times...
So when they did that Backstreet Boys parody video it didn't feel like the expected punk evisceration of the subject matter...Instead it felt like the kind of careful, gentle ribbing of your co-workers the paid speaker gives at a corporate getaway....So it kind of turns into the kind of record that's really hard to divorce from its era...
It'd be easy to toss this in the bargain bin of history, as a relic from the Class of 99 Smashmouth/Lit/Len era, if the rest of the album wasn't so strong...Those of us paying attention, knew that Blink 182 were ridiculously reliable in delivering the hooks on their albums...You could almost randomly choose any track form their album and it would work perfectly fine as a hit single...They were that on the top of their game during this time...
Listening to this again, I think songs like "Dumpweed', "Dysentery Gary", and "Wendy Clear" still provide the high velocity thrills...And I think they earned those white Backstreet Boys suits with the pop-tastic "Mutt."
Their more serious side is represented by the heartfelt "Going Away to College" and the Emo powerhouse "Adam's Song" which tackles the surprisingly serious topic of suicide...and I'm also pretty sure it's a Mr. Show Reference...So they get extra points there...
"Try try try again
Head first this time
Dive right in..."
Alright, that actually inspires me to stop writing about Blink 182 and watch some Mr. Show instead...But before we do, let's check out "Wendy Clear" by Blink 182...Enjoy...
Track Listing: 1. Carousel 2. M+M's 3. Fentoozler 4. Touchdown Boy 5. Strings 6. Peggy Sue 7. Sometimes 8. Does My Breath Smell? 9. Cacophony 10. TV 11. Toast and Bananas 12. Wasting Time 13. Romeo and Rebecca 14. Ben Wah Balls 15. Just About Done 16. Depends
I usually don't go around telling people I listen to Blink 182, y'know...It's more of a guilty secret...But the Friday Night Record Party blog pretty much means, when it comes to my music collection, there are no more secrets...I'm coming out of the closet, people! I love Blink 182!!
Is it the most intellectually stimulating music ever released? Well, no...Is it partially responsible for how mind-numbingly awful punk music is these days? Well, yea...Doesn't matter...They were an utterly unknown band at the time, who went into a studio and banged out a couple of the catchiest, speed-ball, pop-punk albums of the 90's...These guys seemed to have an unerring melodic sense..No matter how dumb or sophomoric the joke ("Ben Wah Balls" fer example...) they always have a sharp, spirited hook to back it up....The only time I feel they get the balance wrong is the incredibly moronic album-closer "Depends."....God, that song is so unbelievably dumb...Although, I've always got the impression that the last three tracks were intentional throwaways or bonus tracks or something.,..They're all so overly jokey and their titles are printed in a different color on the back cover...
I actually think that later in their career, when they started to drop the jokes, is when they lost their charm... Lines like "A tank of gas is a treasure to me...I know now that nothing is free..." and "There's only so many ways I can make love with my hand..." are sacred texts in the eyes of the Ramen Noodle crowd...
(So many choices...)
So many great songs here...I'll always be partial to the opener "Carousel" and its introductory bass intro...I also love Mark's "Strings" which shows the more straight-faced "emo" element that was always an important element to their sound...But they do it best here, I think....It's really hard to single out high points...The whole thing is so fast and fun, let's just hang out and listen to "Strings" by Blink 182...Enjoy...
Track Listing: 1. Brown Bag 2. Avenue 3. Clover 4. It Means Nothing 5. 9 A.m. Everybody 6. Turn 7. Chicken
I believe I originally got this single at a 90's Warped Tour...I think the band was giving them away in the parking lot or something...That's one thing I used to like about going to Warped Tours back in the day...Coming home with plastic bags full of free shit...Comps, stickers, the Sugar Ray "I Just Want to Fly(swatter) (featuring Shaggy or something...)"...
I haven't been to a Warped Tour since the 90's...For one thing, I live in Tempe, Arizona now and the daily 116 degree temperature in the summer months has essentially turned the event into the annual Heatstroke-A-Palooza...
Plus, look at that line-up! Yuck! To be fair, there's quite a few bands on there I've never heard...Who knows maybe "August Burns Red" is awesome...Here, I'll check it out real quick...
...Nope...Not awesome...In fact it's probably the single most generic fake-metal band I've ever heard in my life...That's the thing...I used to go to the Warped Tour to see Bad Religion...or maybe Avail... There's nothing there for me anymore...I'm an old man now...Maybe I'll check out the " 2013 Werther's Original Fest" or something...
"Now I'm the Grand Dad..."
Anyway, "Lacking" is a 7" ep from what is, I presume, a local band named Blindshot... I can't find any information online about this band at all...I found some ancient website by a Michigan "Ska-Punk band" called Blindshot ( http://blindshot1.tripod.com/blindshot.html ). But the site hasn't been updated in 10 years, and I'm not so sure it's the same band, since this single has no ska on it whatsoever...And I can't imagine a band switching to Ska after 1997...So my guess is that it's a different band...So I don't' know if these guys ever got around to putting out a full length album...I for one would be interested to hear it...
The music is pretty much in line with what I remember about the Michigan punk scene in the late 90's...Sort of a more working class version of pop punk...Definitely rough around the edges, but enjoyably so...
There's some catchy songs here..."Clover" is a shining example of the hooky '97 style pop punk form...God, I wish there was still stuff like this coming out...I would kill to hear a fast, ragged pop punk album again...All I can find these days is watered down emo-mall punk...Sometimes I don't want mall punk...
I mean, I enjoy Orange Julius just as much as the next guy, but sometimes I don't want to punk out at the Mall...Let's punk someplace else...How about some Post Office punk...Or some Jumping Castle punk...Sorry, I can't think straight...That' big frothy photo of the Orange Julius I just posted looks so damn good...I can still remember the very first time I drank one of those things...It took me about 1 second to come to the conclusion it would taste better with rum in it...
Anyway, This Blindshot record is good..I can't find any Blindshot videos to post and I don't feel like
converting the vinyl to digital right now...So instead, I'm posting an old Bill Cosby video I like ...Enjoy...
Track Listing: 1. End of the Beginning 2. God is Dead? 3. Loner 4. Zeitgeist 5. Age of Reason 6. Live Forever 7. Damaged Soul 8. Dear Father
This was a surprise...Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, and Geezer Butler reunite to put out a new Black Sabbath record.. Bill Ward declined participation, so they hire Brad Wilk from Rage Against the Machine to take his place... Brad Wilk does a fine, professional job but it would have been nice to have Bill here, his distinctive, plodding, yet swinging style is pretty key to band's success...
On the whole, though, this record is a lot more successful than I think anyone expected...I was kind of expecting something along the lines of one of the faceless solo records Ozzy has been putting out for the last 20 years...Buzzing guitars...Phoned-in vocals...No sense of history or importance...
Or even worse, I feared it may have something in common with one of those Tony Iommi iterations of Black Sabbath...As you can see from yesterday's post I don't own a single Black Sabbath album that dates past 1983...The last new Sabbath I bought was 1992's "Dehumanizer" Which I no longer own, but I remember the tape was really blue...
I can recall how surprising that album was too...No one was expecting Dio to come back, and neither Sabbath nor Dio had put out anything of note for a few years at that point....But I can recall popping in that blue-ass tape and sitting back while "Computer God' pumped through my speakers and thinking "I wasn't expecting it to work again like this...I mean, it's not 'Heaven and Hell' or anything but it's close enough..."
And that's pretty much what happened when I popped this one in...I wasn't expecting it to work again like this...I mean, it's not "master of Reality" or anything, but it's close enough for me...
It can't be "Masters of Reality"... These guys have aged 40 years since then...But it's still unmistakeably the work of the guys that made that album...Which is more than I can say for "Forbidden"...
or "Black Rain"...
or "Black Rain"...
The opening track "End of the Beginning" has a signature Iommi doom-riff that immediately puts a smile on your evil-loving face....And the smile gets bigger as you're moved through various instrumental sections and the running time surpasses the 8 minute mark...Oh my God...This is the Black Sabbath that I grew up loving...And check out "Zeitgeist"...They might as well have named it "Planet Caravan 2: Battle Beneath the Planet of the Caravans"...But there's something undeniably cool to hear something that sounds like "Planet Caravan" in 2013...
Sure, it's the sound of a great band learning how to imitate themselves to at least give the illusion of recapturing their past glories... But after all that us Black Sabbath fans have been put through we're grateful for the effort...The world needs Black Sabbath...How many Slo-mo Doom metal bands have popped up in the last few years, trying to fill the 70's stoner void the band has left in its wake...The people are starving for this shit...And as long as we're jonseing for it, at least we have the opportunity to get our nostalgic kicks from our original dealer...I think that last sentence was a metaphor or something...
"God is Dead?" is kind of irritating though...
I guess, in the end I can only compare this to last year's "That's Why God Made the Radio" by the Beach Boys...A once great band that seemed to end their discography on a totally unworthy album, gets back together decades later and puts out the final album their legacy deserves...Is it their strongest album? Hell no. But it's close enough...
On that note let's check out "Age of Reason" by Black Sabbath...Enjoy...
Track Listing: 1. Trashed 2. Stonehenge 3. Disturbing the Priest 4. The Dark 5. Zero the Hero 6. Digital Bitch 7. Born Again 8. Hot Line 9. Keep it Warm
This cover is considered to be one of the worst album covers of all time...Man, I can't disagree with this enough...I'm telling you this is my favorite album cover ever...Just looking at that garish red demon-baby against the most purpley purple background I've ever seen, makes me so deliriously happy...I might just write a novel on how much joy it brings me...
I think it has so much impact on me, because I can recall, as clearly as if it were yesterday, my first time seeing this cover...I was probably about 7 or 8 years old, and I remember staring at it with a mix of awe, revulsion and sheer wonder...It was so beautiful..It felt so primal, forbidden and funny...
As for the album itself, this was released after "Live Evil" (which I've never heard, because the thought of Dio singing Ozzy songs is a horrifying thought, for some reason...)....
There was some band dispute (rumor has it over mixing "Live Evil") that resulted in Dio and Vinny Appice leaving the band, and Sabbath replaced him with ex-Deep Purple front-man Ian Gillan. Bill Ward was back also, after sitting out "Mob Rules." The resulting album is a bit of a mess...Sometimes in the best possible way and other times in the worst...
Listening to it immediately after the sleek n' shiny "The Mob Rules" just about spun my head around...The guitars and bass are stirred together into some thick, black soup, the drums sound so over-echoed and lost...Like they're being played from the bottom of the Grand Canyon...But against all odds the muted, sludgy production is a big plus...It sounds so grimy, dank and evil...After the theatrical menace of the Dio years, this sounds a bit like the old black magic they used to summon back in the early Ozzy days...
The biggest problem with the album is that sometimes the band doesn't play to Ian's strengths, and he comes across as either lost or unintentionally hilarious...But that said, I honestly love the blazing opener "Trashed." Easily, one of my
favorite Black Sabbath songs...I think it works so well because it comes
across as the scuzz-rock version of "Highway Star." It's a style that is a perfect fit for both Ian and Black Sabbath...
Really, all of side one is cool..."Disturbing the Priest" starts off with Ian's evil cackles, that remind me of the guy in the local haunted house that's trying too hard to scare you, and comes across as cute instead...But once the song gets going it rules...The odd production was such a smooth fit for "Trashed" that it's easy to overlook it, but on this track things are beginning to get strange...It marks the moment when you have to grapple with the reality of the record..This is where you'll either find yourself sufficiently intrigued to keep exploring or where you're going to shut it off and throw it in the trash...
Good call on not shutting it off...The bizarre "Zero the Hero" is next...The "What's it gonna be Brutha.." chorus summons "The Macho Man" Randy Savage to mind. but the endless lanscape of towering riffs is your true reward...
Toss in some of Ian Gillan's trademark hilariously surreal lyrics and you have a wonderful conversation piece for your Friday Night Record Party....
"Your face-down life ain't so much of a pity
But the luv-a-duckin' way you're walkin' around the city
with your balls and your head full of nothing
it's easy for you sucker but you really need stuffing..."
WTF?
A fascinating side one to be sure...Now what's odd is that I'm scraping to find anything good to say about side two..."Digital Bitch" is good for a laugh but that's about it...One of the worst Black Sabbath songs...I'd rather listen to "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" or "FX' than this...
(I didn't mention it in the "Vol.4" post, but I actually kind of enjoy :""FX"...It seems like it would fit in pretty good at the end of side one of Sun Ra's "Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy"...
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The title track is pretty cool actually...Sounds like one of Deep Purple's more atmospheric epics...Big and icy...And again, the lyrics...
"The grey and plastic retards all floating in circles
And as you taste the fruits of new sensations ..."
When you hear this delivered so emotionally over the chilling,watery backdrop it's so wonderfully surreal...Every time I hear this track it becomes more enigmatic and fascinating...
That said they probably should have ended the album here...Made it a mini-album or something..."Hot Line" is unbearably irritating...All of Ian's faults are on full display here...When he relentlessly pours on that hammy, banshee wail for the last couple minutes of the song it takes all my power to not life the needle form the record and toss it...."WOHHH-HHH-HHH-HAAAA-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-!!!!!"
Your enjoyment of "Keep It Warm" will directly correlate with your enjoyment of Guns N' Roses power ballads...If hearing "Patience" or "November Rain" makes you wanna throw your bra onstage, then you'll probably enjoy this...I'm going to wait until they play "Disturbing the Priest" to throw mine...
...Oh yea, I almost forgot to mention the band's legendary "Born Again" tour...
This was the tour when the band decided to build a replica of Stonehenge for the stage set and dressed a dwarf as the demon-baby...There are two different (and equally hilarious ) takes on what happened....First we have Ian Gillan's side of the story:
"We were
up at a company called LSD (Light and Sound Design) in Birmingham,
and the lighting engineer asked if anyone had any ideas for a
stage set. Geezer Butler suggested Stonehenge. "How do you
envisage it, Geezer?" asked the engineer. "Life size,
of course," replied Geezer. So they built a life-size Stonehenge.
We hired the Birmingham NEC to rehearse in and they couldn't
get these bloody things in there. We opened in Montreal and Don
Arden had hired Maple Leaf ice hockey stadium for a week, so
they shipped the set over there and could still only get a few
of those damn stones up, one each side of the stage, one behind
the drums and two cross-pieces. The album was called Born Again
and had the most vile cover I've ever seen, a new-born baby painted
red with yellow finger nails and two little yellow horns sticking
out of his head.
Now, I've not been able to
remember a single word of any of the Sabbath songs, I don't know
why but they won't go into my head. So I did myself a prompt
book and wrote out the first lines of each song. I don't normally
use monitors but I had two wedges put at the front of the stage
just to hide my book, and I'd practices turning the pages with
my foot at home in the kitchen. No problem. On the last day of
the rehearsal we're wondering what this dwarf is doing hanging
around backstage. When we do the dress rehearsal the dwarf emerges
in a red leotard, long yellow finger nails and little yellow
horns. He's going to be the baby.
Then we hear this horrendous
screaming sound — they've recorded a baby's scream and flanged
it—and suddenly; we see this dwarf crawling across the top
of Stonehenge, then he stands up as the baby's scream fades away
and falls backwards off this 30 foot fiberglass replica of Stonehenge
onto a big pile of mattresses. Then dong, dong — bells start
toiling and all the roadies come across the front of the stage
in monk's cowls, at which point War Pigs starts up. By now we
can see the kids are either in stitches or wincing in horror.
After spending 40 grand a
day to achieve all this, someone had economized by not actually
trying out the dry ice in the afternoon run through. So as I
stride confidently towards my prompt book, not even knowing the
first word of the song, I'm suddenly shocked to see a chest-high
cloud of dry ice is berating me to the front of the stage. So
there I am after this big opening, kneeling down, swatting the
air and trying to read me line, popping my head above this cloud
every now and then. Someone shouted "It's Ronnie Dio!"
Alright..That' pretty great...So according to Ian it was Geezer's fault for saying he wanted the Stonehenge to be "life sized." So what does Geezer have to say?
"It had nothing to do with me. In fact, I was the one who thought it was really corny. We had Sharon Osbourne’s dad, Don Arden,
managing us. He came up with the idea of having the stage set be
Stonehenge. He wrote the dimensions down and gave it to our tour
manager. He wrote it down in meters but he meant to write it down in
feet. The people who made it saw fifteen meters instead of fifteen feet.
It was 45 feet high and it wouldn’t fit on any stage anywhere so we
just had to leave it the storage area. It cost a fortune to make but
there was not a building on earth that you could fit it into."
Either way they constructed a 30 foot tall Stonehenge just to celebrate an atmospheric instrumental that's under 2 minutes long...That's why this album is so great..Ian Gillan's one and only Black Sabbath album is spotty, but
at the same time everything about it is so interesting...
So let's check out "Trashed" by Black Sabbath...Enjoy...
Track Listing: 1. Turn Up the Night 2. Voodoo 3. The Sign of the Southern Cross 4. E5150 5. The Mob Rules 6. Country Girl 7. Slipping Away 8. Falling Off the Edge of the World 9. Over and Over
I ultra-love this album cover...I can still recall seeing it as a kid and finding it so endlessly fascinating...To this day I have no idea what in the world is being depicted but its breathtaking nonetheless...
Supposedly, there's a hidden message that says "Kill Ozzy" at the bottom right hand corner...Somebody else, was so kind to highlight the areas in question...
When I first saw the cover, the "OZZY" jumped right out at me, but the "kill" was a little more of a stretch..The original artists has de-bunked this, saying he created the album art 10 years before Sabbath used it...But I think it's more fun to pretend that the Sabbath-Ozzy break-up got so intense that they openly wished death upon each other on their album covers...
Anyway, I like the Mob Rules" album very much...It follows its predecessors footprints very closely, but I actually like this one a bit more...It feels like the gloves are off...It's dirtier, it rocks a bit more, the songs are catchier, and I also get less of a Advanced D&D vibe, so I think that helps too...
I've always liked side one of this, in particular...Although less-heralded, "Turn Up the Night" is every bit the ass-kicking opener that "Neon Knights " was, and when Dio sings, "It's the sign of the southern croo-o-o-o-o-o-ss..." on the song of the same name, I can't help but involuntarily make the horned hand and nod my head knowingly....
Sure there's the filler-ish atmospheric instrumental "E5150", but I'm going to defend its inclusion for its cool title alone (V is the Roman numeral for 5, the 1 looks like the letter I, and the L is the roman numeral for 50...So, it spells "EVIL", but there's probably no use spelling that out for everyone, cos I'm probably the last person to hear about this) ...Plus, I think it builds anticipation for the title track, which is the best song on the album, and one of my all-time Black Sababth favorites...Although, I'm 100% willing to admit that my admiration for the song is probably heavily tinted by nostalgia...I first heard the song on the "Heavy Metal: Music From the Motion Picture" soundtrack...My Brother had this on cassette and this was another one I was obsessed with...everything about it was great to a young kid...
I think that the shrunken cover of the cassette actually made it more intriguing...I couldn't make out exactly what was going on, but I knew it was awesome...The words "heavy metal" written in metal...A big-titted warrior-woman riding a chicken...A band lineup that featured Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Nazareth, Sammy Hagar, Cheap Trick and Devo?!?! My five year old mind was blown! Just looking at that jpeg above takes me back to 1981 so vividly that I have to look down to make sure I'm not wearing Toughskins...
So yea, I can't help but smile when I hear Dio belt out:
"Close the city,
and tell the people that,
something's coming to call..."
Side two is fine also, just not as many highlights..."Country Girl" always makes me laugh because I can imagine Dio ,dosey-doeing barefoot in overalls with a straw hat and a hayseed in his mouth...And really that's all I ask of a side two...
So. let's listen to "Turn Up the Night" by Black Sabbath...Enjoy...
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Now, I've not been able to
remember a single word of any of the Sabbath songs, I don't know
why but they won't go into my head. So I did myself a prompt
book and wrote out the first lines of each song. I don't normally
use monitors but I had two wedges put at the front of the stage
just to hide my book, and I'd practices turning the pages with
my foot at home in the kitchen. No problem. On the last day of
the rehearsal we're wondering what this dwarf is doing hanging
around backstage. When we do the dress rehearsal the dwarf emerges
in a red leotard, long yellow finger nails and little yellow
horns. He's going to be the baby.
