Phillip Reid
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| 08/08/2006 12:38 PM |
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Today I'm officially founding the Tift Merritt Screaming Teen Fan Club,
and you heard it here first. We should have t-shirts and be out
of control. Cheers.
Phillip
(age 38)
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gaz50
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| 08/09/2006 6:36 AM |
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great news, send me a tee-shirt, smashin being a teen.
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| 08/09/2006 10:31 AM |
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Count me in! I will be at the show in Nashville coming up on August 28th, and I plan on fainting if she sings Still Pretending.
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Chris McCandless
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Phillip Reid
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| 08/13/2006 7:52 AM |
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Chris, thanks for mentioning SP--actually, before you faint, you must
help the TMSTFC establish an important tradition by repeating the
Memphis incident in which Still Pretending was repeated in the set list
after an audience member met Tift's challenge by placing a bottle--not
just the requested shot--of Maker's Mark on the stage for her.
(Tift recounted this incident--minus the whiskey--for an interviewer
way back in late 04-early 05 as the most memorable moment for her on
the Tambourine tour thus far.) I think this should happen at
every show in which real fans are in attendance. I also think the
bottle should have a tag on it that says "courtesy TMSTFC" and should
be accompanied by a shot glass so that she doesn't suffer the indignity
of having to slug from the neck. Rock on. Phillip
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Phillip Reid
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| 08/13/2006 7:53 AM |
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One of these days I may actually make some--it's definitely been known
to happen here at my place. If I do they'll be hot pink with an
airbrushed portrait of Tift looking beatific with big white angel wings
and a bottle of bourbon.
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admin
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| 08/13/2006 11:00 AM |
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Is Tift a fan of Maker's Mark? I am going to use that in my quest to get her to do a show in Louisville sometime soon. The distillery is about an hour and a half from here and they give tours. My friend works for the company that distributes Woodford Reserve, and that's also a mighty fine bourbon.
I may have a difficult time giving her a bottle of Maker's at the Nashville show. It's at a city park late in the afternoon. They may frown upon the evils of bourbon. However, I can't really call myself a fan if I don't try. |
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TiftheadUK
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| 08/16/2006 4:22 AM |
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Philip,
Count me in too!
My friend are I were considering stage diving at the recent (appallingly quiet) show in Maidstone, but the stage was only 2 inches high and we weren't sure anyone would catch us ....
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Phillip Reid
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| 08/16/2006 4:50 AM |
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Chris, I totally think you should tell her if she comes there you'll
arrange distillery tours for her. She might go for it. And
I look forward to congratulating you for your successful effort to
place Kentucky's finest before NC's finest in the town about which Tift
said, "Nashville scares me."
P
Vicky, at those appallingly quiet shows, it's those of us out there who
give something back that make them bearable for the performer. ".
. . when you give yourself away/to a stranger on the road/who gives you
nothin' in return . . ."
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gaz50
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| 08/16/2006 12:54 PM |
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Next time im at one of her shows , i really must try to do something to make her feel welcome and 'known' so that shes aware there are real fans in the audience. But what.......!
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TiftheadUK
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| 08/17/2006 6:05 AM |
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Phillip,
That's so true! My friends and I do whoop, but we Brits are terribly shy .... (which is why the shows are so quiet in the first place) .... I'll try harder on the next tour!
Vicky
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Phillip Reid
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| 08/17/2006 10:05 AM |
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Can you get Maker's Mark Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whisky there?
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Phillip Reid
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| 08/17/2006 10:09 AM |
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Whoops--that was to Gary's--you set some MM on the stage and my bet is she'll get it (as in, catch on).
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Phillip Reid
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| 08/17/2006 10:12 AM |
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The first time I ever saw her was here in town at the start of the
Tambourine gigs and it was a Christmas charity benefit with just her
and Brad and there was a little group of women over in the corner down
front who were just druuuuunk. And they were giggling and talking
loud and woo-hooing and yelling "where's Zeke?" and everybody was
getting irritated with them and finally Tift was introducing Laid A
Highway and talking about Bynum which is the little town it was
inspired by, where she lived while going to UNC, and when she said
"Bynum" these women just whooped and hollered and Tift goes, "Are y'all
from Bynum? There's, like, not that many people in the whole
town!" and they hollered something else and she goes, "Wait, I
know you . . . oh, y'all are CUT OFF!!!"
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gaz50
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| 08/20/2006 5:49 AM |
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Im not sure if we get Makers Mark here, ill hav a look see if its available, that would be a great show stealer so to speak
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admin
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| 08/30/2006 9:09 AM |
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After the show in Nashville, I gave Tift a small bottle of Maker's Mark and a shot glass (it was also a blatant bribe to get her to do a show in Louisville). She insisted we do a shot together. Who am I to say no?
That picture is my official application for membership in the Tift Merritt Screaming Teen Fan Club.
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filberthockey
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| 08/30/2006 9:41 AM |
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Whom do I need to bribe to get into this club? Do I get a t-shirt? I've been a teenager for going on 42 years now. I've only been a Tift fan since aught-one. I think I've got a picture of me with Tift somewhere, but the top of my head is probably cut off (I've got a pretty big head).
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admin
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| 08/31/2006 9:42 AM |
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I think you either have to bride Phillip Reid, or give Tift a shot of Maker's Mark.
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Chris McCandless
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Phillip Reid
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| 08/31/2006 3:42 PM |
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Oh hell--you're in. I've only been one since aught-four so you're
ahead of me by a good bit, and I started the damn thing. My
twisted upstairs machinery is creaking and whirring on just exactly
what t-shirts I want. I am leaning towards cryptic, so that only
TM or other STFCers will know what the hell they are. Course,
someone might ask, and then we could say, Ah, you must join
tiftmerritt.net to find out . . . heh heh.
Phillip
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Phillip Reid
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| 08/31/2006 3:45 PM |
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Chris, you completely rock like a muh--saw the picture of you, North
Carolina's finest, and Kentucky's finest. You did it. I
shall repeat the tradition on 11/8. We shall keep Tift in
bourbon. TMSTFC forever. (Man this is fun. After a
week from hell, mostly computer-related, it's nice to open this site up
and get some joy out of the little black satanic box. Rock on.)
Phillip
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gaz50
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| 09/01/2006 10:25 AM |
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this is something great youve started, and that nashville pic has made my day. ye know, when i was standin in line last time to speak to her, i was wonderin 'who is the biggest fan here', and if id had a tshirt, well that would have answered it!
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