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SUSANNA:
This picture was taken backstage. You can always tell the
backstage photos by the weird couch - there's always
a weird couch somewhere backstage (she
laughs). The Bangles were in Holland to perform,
but we had a night off and went to see Paul Simon in Amsterdam.
We had loved Simon and Garfunkel, and naturally we also
loved Paul as a solo artist, and we were really happy to
see perform and then go backstage for a meet-and-greet.
This was after our version of "Hazy Shade of Winter"
had come out, and although I don't think we talked about
it very much, I remember he was very sweet, and I'm sure
he was happy the song had done so well. I think it's always
good to have your song covered, but it was a little uncomfortable
talking to him about it, because when Simon and Garfunkel
did the song, it had gone to #17, and the Bangles version
went to #2. You're proud, of course, but you never want
to come off as full of yourself or arrogant you know?
(We
asked if she liked Amsterdam…) Oh, I love
Holland, I absolutely love it! We really got into the Indonesian
food they have there. We have this habit when we're on tour
of going to a restaurant, and then deciding it's the best
restaurant in the world and going to it over and over as
long as we're in town, and there was this one little Indonesian
place right around the corner from the hotel and I think
we ate there at least once every day, maybe more. I know
it sounds silly, but another thing we all liked about that
trip is that they have really great hotel breakfasts in
Amsterdam! On tour, usually you're in such a rush and you
have to grab the little continental breakfast they bring
you, and it's just a little croissant and maybe coffee,
but in Amsterdam we got these great big breakfasts with
all these fruits and cheeses and muesli and everything! Europeans
take their breakfast very, very seriously. We appreciated
that. (she
laughs) Oh! My strongest memory from this
trip is of this big club that we played - we went to the
sound check, and we were working with the monitor man, who
was just this nice Dutch guy, just the regular guy from
the club. He didn't speak a lot of English. And we were
looking over the mixing board and he had our names all written
out next to the dial for each mic, and next to Debbi's it
said "Debbi", and Michael's said "Michael",
and Vicki's said "Vicki", and then in front of
my mic it said…(she
starts to giggle) …"Tweety"!! (Susanna
dissolves in laughter.) Just "Tweety."!!
(we
asked what it meant…) I don't know! I still
don't know!! The guy didn't speak any English, I mean, we
tried to find out why it said that but no one seemed to
be able to figure it out! Of course, then some guys in the
crew started calling me Tweety and it stuck for the rest
of the tour.
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