From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V5 #8 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Tuesday, January 16 2001 Volume 05 : Number 008 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Videotape Trading?? [Kris Richardson ] Susan Rocks the Ark Jan. 13 [ImSerius2@aol.com] Re: Susan Rocks the Ark Jan. 13 ["Ron Rosen" ] Re: Susan Rocks [PBCoustic@aol.com] Re: Susan Rocks the Ark Jan. 13 [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 01 10:22:10 -0000 From: Kris Richardson Subject: Videotape Trading?? Does this go for video as well? I have a copy of Susan's preformance at the Newport Opera House (Newport, NH) from a couple of years ago that our local access channel taped. Technically it's not a masterpiece, basically cutting between two cameras, but it still captures Susan live on video, and I'm willing to bet that there are some on the list who would like to add this to their collection. Is this fair game for trading Charlie? If you give me the OK, I'm willing to make copies for anyone on the list as long as they provide a blank tape & cover postage. Kris >> Folks have requested that tape trading be allowed. Susan and her >>management have given permission to trade tapes with the following >>conditions: > >first, i presume that this refers to the discussion of tape trading on the >list. as many believers (and, no doubt, susan) know, there is a healthy, if >somewhat underground, community of tapers and traders already established. > >second, i assume the same goes for cd-r trades, but what about mp3 >libraries? it's a lot more efficient to make mp3-encoded live recordings >available for download than to be sending cassettes and cd-rs around the >world. > >third, any thoughts from on high with respect to as-of-yet unrecorded songs? > >woj HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:20:23 EST From: ImSerius2@aol.com Subject: Susan Rocks the Ark Jan. 13 Susan Werner and Andrew Kerr, The Ark, Sat. Jan 13 Susan came out with no fanfare to introduce her opening act, a young guy from Chicago (which she referred to as her new adopted home town) named Andrew Kerr. She also managed, in the course of the intro, to slam Santa Barbara, CA, for some reason! Andrew only did 3 songs; I could've listened to more! He was funny, irreverent, and talented. He did a song called 'Ain't it Strange' about how he'd moved from NYC to San Francisco and never thought he'd miss NYC, but did miss it after all. Then he talked of applying for the second Survivor show, and that he filmed a music video for his audition tape, and then performed his Survivor Theme Song for us, which was hilarious. Lastly, 'Saturday Night' ('hanging at Kinko's again), also funny. After a very short break, and the weird experience of having Dave from the Ark bring out Susan's guitar (6 years and 10 shows, this was my first Jane-less show!) out came Susan. In my opinion, it took Susan a couple of songs to hit her stride. The first few seemed tentative. First up, 'Time Between Trains', followed by 'Petaluma Afternoons' (in which she vamped 'you can malign Santa Barbara but not Petaluma*'), then 'LOTGSG'. I will say this about Susan, she never does the same song the same way twice. Definitely true with LOTGSG. I have heard that song at every show I've been to, and each time it has been unique. She put new spins on TBT and PA, too. I warned my friend who was with me for his first Susan Experience, who bought the TBT CD, that he'd find definite differences on the CD tracks vs. what he'd heard that night. Next, and I'm guessing on the title here, was 'Another Shade of Gray' - and this was the turning point - she seemed to gather more energy and just shone on this one, and every one after. Then another guess - 'Too Many Rooms' ? It was a real old-timey, folkie-sounding piece, and it was great. She then did a Mary Gauthier song, perhaps called "Mercy in the Sky", that was amazing. And by this time, Susan was on fire! She rocked on 'Big, Big Car', blew us away with 'Like Bonsai', 'St. Mary of Regret' and 'Misery/Happiness' and then fulfilled our Catholic weekly obligation with 'Ain't I Lonely Tonight?'. Then, the piano cycle, which was perfection - well, it was after they fixed the mike that had fallen into the piano during the first song! If you think Susan makes some interesting faces while she plays, you should have seen her face and expressions each time the piano made this completely discordant sound when the keys hit close to the fallen microphone! So then, a short break to fix the problem, then - perfection! 'Tall Drink of Water', 'Maybe if I Sang Cole Porter' (in which, after 'maybe if I spoke some football', she included a couple of lines of 'Hail to the Victors' - and before which, referring to getting someone to fall in love with you, said 'if you're not thinking it, you're dead!), 'No one Needs to Know', 'Light Sleeper' (new? A GREAT song!!), 'Much at All', 'So Nice to See You Again', and 'I Can't Be New' (another new one? It was awesome!). First encore was 'Standing in My Own Way', second encore was typical Susan, a cover of a song that she puts her own mark on utterly and completely - this time, 'Everybody's Talkin'. Once she got going, she was funny, energetic, and nice - very nice! She seemed happy. Well, except for a slam against Indiana - she spoke of wanting to just remove Indiana from the map, and suture up the empty spot - to go straight from Calumet to Toledo! She also did a little diatribe against cell phones. Ironic, since I had my cell phone on the table, broadcasting the entire show to a fellow Believer in CA, all 139 minutes!! He said at the end that the earth moved for him - literally - 2 earthquakes, one during 'Misery/Happiness' and one during 'Much At All'. After the show, I was able to sneak back to the dressing room (a first!) and say hi - she remembered me and the LOTGSBarbie! - and tell her about the cell phone broadcast and the earthquakes. She really got a kick out it! Any other Believers there? Also, any corrections on song titles would be greatly appreciated, Suzie Tee HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:04:31 -0800 From: "Ron Rosen" Subject: Re: Susan Rocks the Ark Jan. 13 Nice review, Suzie T. Your setlist is just like mine. Listening to a concert by cellphone is not the most outstanding experience in the world; it was hard to hear the dialogue and many of the words, but I did get to experience the whole show. And indeed, my set list indicates that at 9:26 PM est indeed we had a small earthquake here in Pasadena during Misery/Happiness, and another one at 9:50 during Much at All. Susan does indeed move the earth!! So after the show, Suzie gets back on the phone and I tell her about the earthquakes -- which is so perfect for Susan because she loves to rag on places [as Suzie mentioned she ragged on Santa Barbara in her intro of Andrew] -- and Suzie says, "Just a minute, I have to announce this!" At which point she tells her friends about the two earthquakes. I would have loved to see the look on Susan's face when you told her about my eavesdropping and about the earthquakes in LA. "Oh I'm afraid of L.A. and the sun and the wind in my hair I'm afraid of L.A. and the sidewalk cafes and the beautiful view in Bel Air I'm going back to the dark and the cold Back to the business of growing too old I'll be leaving L.A. before I find some trouble again" HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:31:18 EST From: PBCoustic@aol.com Subject: Re: Susan Rocks LOL.... perhaps we're starting a trend with this cellphone concert "narrowcast"... I first did it at a SW show back in '98... PB HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:34:46 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: Susan Rocks the Ark Jan. 13 Hi! >Susan Werner and Andrew Kerr, The Ark, Sat. Jan 13 Now this is a pairing I hadn't thought of, but makes perfect sense. Andrew Kerr is positively hilarious, a good opener to get the audience primed and ready for Susan. (He's part of the "Live From New York" crew that has been touring around for the past year or so.) >Next, and I'm guessing on the title here, was 'Another Shade of Gray' - "Shade of Gray" >Then another guess - 'Too Many Rooms' ? It was a real old-timey, >folkie-sounding piece, and it was great. "Little Yellow House" (she does a "color" portion of the set, which sometimes also includes the song "Blue Guitar") >She then did a Mary Gauthier song, perhaps called "Mercy in the Sky", that >was amazing. That is indeed an incredible song, particularly in light of what's about to happen to us on noon this coming Saturday. I hope Susan records this - she does a great job with it. >She also did a little diatribe against cell phones. Ironic, since I had my >cell phone on the table, broadcasting the entire show to a fellow Believer in >CA, all 139 minutes!! Good LORD. I hope you have a good plan with a ton of prepaid minutes, or that Believer owes you *big*! Geez. +==========================================================================+ | 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 V5 #8 ***************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- 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