From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V3 #230 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Saturday, October 30 1999 Volume 03 : Number 230 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- susan at passim -Reply ["Suzanne THIEL" ] passim [PBCoustic@aol.com] Re: susan at passim ["Stephen N. Spencer" ] RE: passim ["Murphy, Steve" ] Re: susan at passim ["Charisse D. Lowe" ] Re: susan at passim [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 08:47:19 -0400 From: "Suzanne THIEL" Subject: susan at passim -Reply My compliments to Paul for a great review. After hearing such stories I am convinced that Susan must be an almost totally different performer when on the east coast. No fair, toning it down for us Midwesterners!! Looking forward to hearing reviews from the future Left Coast performances to see if my theory holds water. HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:16:52 EDT From: PBCoustic@aol.com Subject: passim In a message dated 10/29/1999 1:52:07 AM Central Daylight Time, pkkim@gis.net writes: << now if only she'd perform "I'm in love again" again... >> ...and "Snow White"! Great review of another (obviously) great show, Paul... another Paul HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:17:16 -0400 From: "Stephen N. Spencer" Subject: Re: susan at passim On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Paul Kim wrote: > She had prefaced this little jaunt into the absurd by saying "here's > something that I used to do just for fun"... The first time I ever saw Susan in concert (late June 1994, The Birchmere, Alexandria, VA), she prefaced a cover of Sting's "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You" with just about the same statement. It was a *wonderful* rendition of the song. > I had been thinking before the show that Susan and Sting would work well > together... ... and then I read farther into your message and see *this* -- wonderful! Stephen N. Spencer 614.292.1067 (v) Graphics Research Specialist spencer@siggraph.org 614.292.7776 (f) ACCAD - The Ohio State University spencer@cgrg.ohio-state.edu 614.520.5799 (p) SIGGRAPH Director for Publications spencer@acm.org "After ecstasy, laundry." -- Zen writing "The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky." -- Anne Lamott "What is maddening is the terrible notion that a person's value depends on how important and financially successful they are, and that this is measured in terms of money." -- Tim Berners-Lee HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:27:28 -0400 From: "Murphy, Steve" Subject: RE: passim Well --- this is Just a hunch... but I think she just might perform "Snow White" at the Saturday November 6th show at the Circle of Feinds! Steve - -----Original Message----- From: PBCoustic@aol.com [mailto:PBCoustic@aol.com] Sent: Friday, October 29, 1999 9:17 AM To: believers@smoe.org Subject: passim In a message dated 10/29/1999 1:52:07 AM Central Daylight Time, pkkim@gis.net writes: << now if only she'd perform "I'm in love again" again... >> ...and "Snow White"! Great review of another (obviously) great show, Paul... another Paul HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:33:45 -0500 From: "Charisse D. Lowe" Subject: Re: susan at passim Paul, I love your intelligent and witty reviews. after one of your posts I almost feel as though I sat through the performane! Charisse of Oz - -----Original Message----- From: Paul Kim To: believers@smoe.org Date: Friday, October 29, 1999 1:52 AM Subject: susan at passim >this won't be much of a review. but i just needed to get three things out. > >these three things exemplify why i love susan. Or, what i did on my summer >vacation. by paul kim. > >susan played around on the keyboard she was using that night (a Kurzweil, i >believe), and it was obvious that she had spent some time with it since she >played some licks and sang "Desperadoes" while a programmed track spewed >out the chord changes; and both times she performed "Movie of my Life" she >segued into the songs via some odd little snippets of other things. She >punched up a choir patch and played some of Handel's Messiah, pulled out >some harpsichord to do some Bach, and grabbed some other sounds for other >shenanigans before she started the song. A lot of fun. Oh, and don't mind >her counterpoint at the end of "movie"...it's got nothing on Bach ;) > >Susan showed us what a marvel she is by goofing around at one point (ok, >many points, but i'm just talking about this one point for now) and singing >the 59th Street Bridge Song (feelin' groovy) in a manner that left my jaw >on the floor. She sang the first verse and chorus through normally, and >then, while playing the same chord changes, sang the next verse and chorus >entirely a whole step up. It was perfectly out of key and sounded expertly >bad. She had prefaced this little jaunt into the absurd by saying "here's >something that I used to do just for fun"...which leaves me wondering what >this woman does when she really wants to have loads of fun...be an entire >barbershop quartet by herself? > >Susan pulled out the Pete Seeger/Corinthians tune "Turn, Turn, Turn" at the >end of the first show. She warned us that it would be a little different >than what we might be used to hearing. As she went into the song, I >noticed that it was a little skewed, a little off...i tapped it out, bobbed >my head, conducted the meter, and realized it was in 5...and thoughts from >a couple days before returned to me. I had been thinking before the show >that Susan and Sting would work well together...they both have the penchant >for writing the absolutely perfect pop songs that can range anywhere in >subject matter and style, they both have such unique voices and talents, >and they can turn the usual on its head while taking the unusual and making >it seem normal. Now this. Sting has always taken odd meters such as 5 or >7 and used them in songs without even letting the listener in on the >joke...he makes the normally clunky rhythms work out so they sound blase. >And Susan was able to pull this off with her version of "Turn, Turn Turn". >What made it even more fun was that one of her guitar strings broke so she >had to figure out a way on the fly to get the thing into another >tuning...but she never broke stride in her singing. And while she got the >guitar in tune, playing the bottom two strings as a bass drone-kinda thing, >she asked us to sing along, and then told us with a smile "you know, you're >singing in five....can you feel it?", strumming out the rhythm like a >mischievous little child sharing a secret. ahhh.... > >and of course, i got to see her do La Habanera again. > >and she had a very cool wardrobe. > >and she took requests during the second show. > >and she cussed. > >now if only she'd perform "I'm in love again" again... > >Paul "my cat's sleeping upside down" Kim > > >HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org >Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com > HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 22:06:00 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: susan at passim Hi! Paul reviewed: >susan played around on the keyboard she was using that night (a Kurzweil, i >believe), and it was obvious that she had spent some time with it since she >played some licks and sang "Desperadoes" while a programmed track spewed >out the chord changes; and both times she performed "Movie of my Life" she >segued into the songs via some odd little snippets of other things. During sound check, after she got all the levels figured out (and everyone decided that Grand Piano 2 sounded better than Grand Piano 1 in the space), she started fooling around with the settings, playing a song apropos to the sound each time. I was in pain, I was laughing so hard ... and when she did "Desperado" that time, she actually remembered all the words. :) I don't think she realized that during sound check a house PA monitor was sitting out in the entryway area, so the people waiting in line to get in could hear everything. ;> >And Susan was able to pull this off with her version of "Turn, Turn Turn". >What made it even more fun was that one of her guitar strings broke so she >had to figure out a way on the fly to get the thing into another >tuning...but she never broke stride in her singing. And while she got the >guitar in tune, playing the bottom two strings as a bass drone-kinda thing, >she asked us to sing along, and then told us with a smile "you know, you're >singing in five....can you feel it?", strumming out the rhythm like a >mischievous little child sharing a secret. ahhh.... I'm interested to hear how she'd intended the song to go. Somehow I don't think it was meant to be nearly as mind-numbingly interesting as it turned out to be, once she got that groovin' drone-thang going at the end. Amazing. +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | | *** TRAJECTORY, the Veda Hille mailing list: *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ End of believers-digest V3 #230 ******************************* --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- This has been a posting from the Susan Werner believers-digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe believers-digest" in the body of the message