[Leica] [IMGs: Yo La Tengo in WFMU's Studio A, 5 March 2010]

[jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore)]

I'm very, very annoyed.  I sent the appended message last night at
6:40 PM, thinking that any LUG folk who cared to tune in and listen to
the referenced radio show at 9PM should get the note in a reasonably
timely fashion, but the entire email seems to have disappeared into
the ether somewhere between my computer and the LUG list.  At least I
never got the copy I usually get back when I post stuff.

Ah, well.  This year's show's already happened (and they rocked the
house), but I hope some people enjoy the pictures from last year.  I
should have this year's posted in a day or three.

----- Forwarded message from Jeff Moore <jbm at jbm.org> -----

Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 18:40:52 -0500
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Subject: IMGs: Yo La Tengo in WFMU's Studio A, 5 March 2010

I remember someone on the LUG asking, must've been over a year ago, if
I had any photos of Yo La Tengo...  at the time, all I had was a few
pictures of Ira Kaplan solo.  But now, fresh from my archives and
just in time for the event to be repeated, I present:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/sets/72157626192618008/

It's fundraising Marathon time again at the world's finest freeform
radio station, WFMU.  One thing which has become an annual tradition
is for bigtime band Yo La Tengo to spend an evening in WFMU's studios,
playing requests from listeners who pledge at least whatever amount
the station has chosen that year as worthy of a song.  And those guys
have a remarkable ability to put together covers of songs you wouldn't
necessarily expect them to know!

It was a great musical event last year (quite frankly, more
interesting to listen to than to look at in my photos), and TONIGHT,
March 4th, they'll be doing it again - from 9PM to midnight,
US/Eastern.

It's free to listen, although the more people who get caught up in it,
pony up a few bucks, and make the band play something for them the
better.  While it isn't absolutely guaranteed that your song will be
played - it might be that nobody in the band knows it, or you may have
made your request so late that there's enough of a backlog to carry
then through the end of the show - their success rate has historically
been high.

http://wfmu.org/

And this is something you have to listen to live.  While nearly
everything WFMU broadcasts is archived for later playing on demand,
this show won't be in the archives.

 -Jeff

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