From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V3 #231 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Sunday, October 31 1999 Volume 03 : Number 231 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Susan @ Tin Angel (long) [dkaskela ] She does it all... ["Charisse D. Lowe" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 05:32:03 -0400 From: dkaskela Subject: Susan @ Tin Angel (long) Hi all- Just got home from the Tin Angel late show. I'll try to do this as coherently as 3 a.m. allows me! Susan called this show "the insomniac special" and it was a special from start to finish. She opened with a wildly rocking version of "Love Down the Street". After asking if anyone had seen Runaway Bride, and confessing that she hadn't but that "the premise does sound vaguely familiar", she launched into a raucous "Yes to You (Tappan Zee)" where "the Wawa deli of love is open 24 hours a day" with everything you need. She followed this with a discussion of the merits of Wawa vs. 7/11 (which has none!). Saying the peach cobbler had her "racing" she described the evening as "a sort of sine wave where she wanted to start on a high point since it was going right downhill" into the depressing breakup songs which led into "Gotta See the Body". Saying she "would talk about politics, religion, sex...I guess this one fits under Drug Policy" she introduced the next song as something George W. Bush has on his mind, "Fall From Grace" where he should have lied, lied, lied... Switching gears she did her Ricky Martin imitation, her anti-Standard Time/pro Daylight Saving Time discussion leading into the benefits of California weather with "Petaluma Afternoon". Then she sang "Gypsy Lips, Vagabond Mouth" with new guitar sound effects. Saying that "Love can be a pain in the ass, but it's still better than the alternative" she followed up with "Time Between Trains". Asking for audience direction she took a request for "Dow Re Mi", called "tonight a 10 on the strange meter" for any new people who came to see "Susi serious" and then did her Mary Martin impression of a modern day Marie (and yes Meridith, she has changed the one line to "And that will bring us all back down") which warranted a standing ovation. Characterizing herself as "a little wacky...it's Friday night...after midnight" she next played "Jesus Christ, Ain't I Lonely Tonight" inviting us for the second song in a row to "sing along". (Although I hate to start THAT discussion again!!) Then she did an accapella verse of "Crazy"... "if Patsy Cline had been from Philly". Saying she was "not as single as she once was" and now has to "act not so single" she next played "Misery/ Happiness". Moving to the keyboard she was startled when after about 4 notes some of us began quietly clapping for "Why Do You Bother At All". She stopped, asked how we knew it since it was new. She was reminded she had played it last month at Lower Merion. "Did we have perfect pitch to recognize it that quickly?" she asked and then played it for those who hadn't heard it and followed up with "Don't Hang the Moon on Me". This was followed by a long "Movie of My Life" ..."please don't write me into fiction,don't write me into non-fiction, don't write about me at all, don't write a review of this show, don't write a review of THIS show...wait a minute, listen to that, that is pretty good- isn't it...how many people can do that... just ME". She then played with no intro "Much At All/Walk Right Back" during the ending of which you could have heard a pin drop. Moving back to the guitar she played "Standing In My Own Way" to honor an audience request. Following a discussion on why people would actually pay to see her, how good it was to be back in Philly, how lucky she was to have a career; she asked for negative comments and got "The show's too short!" Then she played "Born Too Late" to close the show. The applause was loud and sustained and she finally came back for an encore. Imagine if you can Susan giving us "a little treat... since it Halloween" - her "Monica cigar seduction mime" followed on the guitar with "La Boheme" from Pucini in French in full comic/ tragic opera style! ...after stopping to tell us the reason she "quit opera was that she was scared of the high notes... it was a folk show...couldn't she stop it right there?"...she finished it out and she hit the high notes perfectly. Where else could you possibly get so much for so little as at a Susan Werner show?! Dave HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 10:28:51 -0500 From: "Charisse D. Lowe" Subject: She does it all... I've been singing and listening for some 30 years now, and I think Susan Werner is the finest singer-songwriter in a very long time. Joni is till the queen of my heart, but she could not do what Susan does on stage. I never thought I would utter these words, but Susan is the best of them all. Charisse from Oz 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 #231 ******************************* --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- 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