Review - Ray Solo, 11 October, 1995, Galaxy Theatre, Santa Ana, CA

From: Robert Peirson
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 95 09:16:00 PDT
Subject: Review , Galaxy, 10/11

I just can't get enough of Ray, so I went to the second night. I was talking to a guy who worked there and he said Ray got paied $20,000 for the 10/9 show and $12,000 for the 10/11 show. This show was similar with the added treat of Stop Your Sobbing. I was more familiar with the place and was able to work myself down to a seat on the side of the stage. I was under the speakers but had an up close and personal view.

This time the opening act was Daughter V with a female singer and male guitarist. They came on at 8:05pm and were done at 8:27pm.

At 8:46 pm Ray was introduced. He came on stage with guitarist Peter Mathson.

 - DEDICATED FOLLOWER OF FASHION
 - AUTUMN ALMANAC
 - SUNNY AFTERNOON
" . . . Nice to be here again . . . Any Requests? . . ."
 - APEMAN
"Hello from R.D. . . . there's a new Queen . . ."
 - VICTORIA
Book Reading: . . . Grew up ordinary hoping some day to be an individual"
 - 20TH CENTURY MAN
" . . . when I was young I would visit Soho . . . "
 - THE LONDON SONG
Book Reading: As a kid Dave and I would listen to the records our sisters 
had, this one record they had was considered too sexy to play in front of mum . . .'
 - OLD BLACK MAGIC
 - TIRED OF WAITING
". . . Dave bought the green amp that sounded as like a walkman . . ."
 - SET ME FREE
". . . I went to the doctor and was told that my bad back would get a hump 
like an old man I saw if I kept playing football . . ."
 - X-RAY
Book Reading: . . . Dave put some knitting  needles into our green amp and 
we then referred to it as the Fart box. . .'
 - SEE MY FRIENDS
"The girls in art school didn't do much but they looked great . . ."
 - ART SCHOOL BABES
"Mick wanted to joined the group but pointed out he was straight, I said 
we'll change you", told
the story of You Really Got Me intro, Peter does guitar strumming."
 - YOU REALLY GOT ME (Blues style without riff opening)
"Groupies, I find them useful, Anita was 17 going on 30 . . ."
 - SHE WAS REALLY ANIMAL
Book Reading: We were playing in a package with the Beatles . . . John 
Lennon touched his guitar . . . offer a Beatles song . . .  Dave turned up 
the amp and out came YRGM . . . we had up staged the Beatles . . ."
 - YOU REALLY GOT ME (with electric Guitar intro, short version)
"In America they misunderstood the reference to Fag in . . ."
 - A WELL RESPECTED MAN
"When we arrived at JFK I was asked are you a Beatle or a Girl, I thought, I 
said, I am a queer"
 - AMERICANA (or Big Fat Cowboy)
"I wrote a lot on my fist American tour, here is one of them"
 - I GO TO SLEEP
 - TWO SISTERS
". . . Theres a man in America that can help you . . .Alan Klein"
 - THE MONEY-GO-ROUND
"the 60's were a wonderful time . . ."
 - DEAD END STREET
"This is a song about a real Fag and its not a cigarette"
 - LOLA
 - BALLAD OF JULIE FINKLE
". . . When my wife left see took all the records except for our song . . ."
 - TO THE BONE
"The song Days was to be the last of the original Kinks songs, Pete was 
leaving the band . . ."
 - DAYS
 - WATERLOO SUNSET
Book reading: My dad came backstage after YRGM became a bit hit . . . we 
when and had a beer . . .
 - YOU REALLY GOT ME (Reprise)

Ended at 11:53pm

Another great show. This when I heard the new songs I was better able to appreciate them. To the Bone and She Was Really Animal stood out as the best.

Rob

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