Blue Moon vs. Blue Moon

I'm having a Lemmings moment.  I can't decide which version of "Blue Moon" to post from our 2nd Annual Farewell Concert in 1993.  Remember, we did two nights? So, in typical Lemmings fashion, I'm asking you to decide.  

Both of them have pros and cons. To me, the Monday version looks washed out but Tuesday has rougher sound quality. Or as Winthy puts it: "the first one is better musically, but the second one captures that heady mixture of humility, huge ego, self-loathing, self-satisfaction and passive aggression that IS The Lemmings."

Here's version 1 from Monday, April 12th. A solid group effort behind a stellar Winthy.

And here's version 2 from Tuesday, April 13th. Some silliness, but Michael really casts a spell.

Which one deserves to live on the internet in perpetuum to embarrass our great-great-grandchildren long after we jump this mortal cliff? Vote in the poll on the right and share your thoughts in the comments below.

Totie memory: The 2nd Annual Farewell Concert, which Bill subtitled "this time we really mean it", did turn out to be our last full length show as Lemmings. But I remember we actually started rehearsing for a 3rd Annual Farewell. Chuck was in town, visiting from Seattle, so we got together at Wayne's place on the upper West Side to work out  a new arrangement of "I Saw the Light" and a bizarre medley of  the death dirge "Plorate filii Israel" and "Mighty Mouse" which we were calling "Plorate Mouse".

Not Wayne's window

It was a beautiful Spring day. All the windows were open in Wayne's ground-floor apartment, and after singing one of our songs, we heard applause out on the street.  A little crowd had gathered - something like 6 people - but they couldn't see us because of the curtains. So we kept singing and basically did a whole show for this anonymous audience.  We did old stuff, new stuff... we could do anything in the repertoire because we had all the parts covered.  

We never did get around to doing that 3rd Annual Farewell, but we didn't need to. We did it that day for 6 random strangers behind a curtain ("wha-hut?!"), and, in my memory, it's some of the best singing we ever did as a group, ever.  (Good thing there's no tape to prove me wrong.)

Now, watch those Blue Moons and vote and comment. I'm not writing this blog for my health, you know.


[p.s.  The results for the first week's poll are in.  If we ever change our name, the front runner is "Mad About Stu".]