From: owner-candle-digest@smoe.org (candle-digest) To: candle-digest@smoe.org Subject: candle-digest V3 #1 Reply-To: candle@smoe.org Sender: owner-candle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-candle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk candle-digest Monday, January 31 2000 Volume 03 : Number 001 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Joy: How'd you discover Joy? [LWirbel@aol.com] Joy: Joy live at Java Joe's [rlewis@adnc.com (Russ Lewis)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 00:12:43 EDT From: LWirbel@aol.com Subject: Re: Joy: How'd you discover Joy? I was driving aimlessly around San Diego in late February (this year) and heard her do a live interview and set on the public radio station, and had to pull off the road in awe. She did a show in early July in Denver and it reinforced why I was so much in awe. I've been prosyletizing her around Colorado, as well as Tennessee and parts of the midwest over the last few months. Turned "Big Daddy" Jerry Fournier and his wife Julie (two of Detroit's finest art bums) into confirmed fans, too. Loring Wirbel Monument, Colo. lwirbel@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:01:17 -0800 From: rlewis@adnc.com (Russ Lewis) Subject: Joy: Joy live at Java Joe's Joy Eden Harrison played Saturday night at the brand-new Java Joe's. JJ's has now moved into an old bar that's a couple of blocks around the corner from the old location. The interior looks nice, with lots of old B-movie posters up for decoration. It seems smaller, but that might just be the lower ceiling. I don't know what the maximum seating is, and when I asked Joe what the maximum capacity was at the old place, he told me, "A lot less than what I put in there." True. Amazing acoustic guitarist Paul Abbott opened the show with his usual display of techinque and restraint. Joy went on with her electric guitar and a trumpeter playing a muted trumpet (very nice effect) and herself on vocals. Her trumpeter played tastefully and with imagination. Joy was in good voice, her vocals silky and sexy, and as usual, she was a vision, this time in her ruffled black bare-backed dress. ("Nice dress," somebody said.) They performed in front of an empty drum kit. Several songs into the set, drummer Jeff Dalrymple arrived in a black and white tuxedo. He just got off a symphony gig that ran way too late, and didn't he have time to change. First time I've ever seen a tuxedo in Java Joe's, that's for sure. Cindy Lee Berryhill joined onstage at one point, looking sensational with her long blonde hair falling over a lacy black dress. Her vocals were wonderful, of course, backing up Joy. But later the whole San Diego chick-rock posse was onstage, with Rick Wilkins taking over guitar and Joy, Cindy, Elizabeth Hummel, and Peggy Watson singing "40 Days and 40 Nights." OK, so maybe Jewel wasn't there. Later, for "Johnny Midnight," Lisa Sanders, Mary Dolan, and Elizabeth joined the star, who also had help on drums and muted trumpet (with plunger). You could't ask for more. After a couple of encores, ending with "Yellow," Joy mingled with family, friends, fans, and well-wishers, signing records and chatting. It was definitely a good 'un. I feel extremely lucky to say I know people like Cindy, Mary, Elizabeth, Lisa, and Joy. Scott Tissue San Diego CA KCR-FM live on-line: http://www.KCRlive.com Bringing you the world's greatest music on the world's worst equipment. * * * Some see things as they are and say "Why?" Some see things as they could be and say "Why not?" Some see things that aren't there and say "Huh?" ------------------------------ End of candle-digest V3 #1 **************************