From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V1 #30 Reply-To: good-noise@smoe.org Sender: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk good-noise-digest Monday, October 26 1998 Volume 01 : Number 030 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Minneapolis Show [ThePsyche@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 14:09:53 EST From: ThePsyche@aol.com Subject: Minneapolis Show It took me a week to sit down and write this, so I hope it was worth the wait friends. I spent last weekend in Minnesota with friends and family and attended the Red House Records CD release show. It was held in a Community Theater and was actually the biggest Gorka show I have been to. ( 400+) We had front row seats so the crowd didn't impede our view but it was definitely a mixed audience of long time Gorkanatics and first -timers. (smaller venues with die hard fans are still the best) John's performance was wonderful. He always reminds me of a nervous student about to perform a recital when he first comes on stage with his notes and papers. And then he began. His voice filled this hall. First song was Branching Out, one of my favorites and the only Gorka song I can stumble through on my guitar. He did about 1/2 a dozen from the new album including Thorny Patch, When He Cries, After Yesterday ( with his little son squalling almost on perfect cue near the end), St. Caffeine, and Cypress Trees. I love hearing John live and he never disappoints. Where the Bottle Breaks and Gypsy Life are two that really shine performed live and he did them both. But my most favorite moment of the evening was Down In The Milltown performed on piano. It is that kind of song anyway, the kind that makes you stop and listen ever time your CD reaches that track, but hearing him sing it live for the first time was memorable. I have made an observation about John's performance style. I have seen him five times now since January of this year. Prior to that, each time I saw him he really shook the guitar on the end to get that last bit of sound, that last note out of the guitar. Now, he does it rarely, a trademark move seems to have disappeared. It could be that he is now using the new sticky note retrieval system called Notes B Gone which I hear is becoming popular with many acoustic musicians as well as other string instrument professionals. Just an observation. I will try and ask him when next I see him. The evening was worth the 14 hour round trip drive with three kids. Music fuels me and makes the other parts of my life delicious. Go and see him if he makes it to your town, or within 7 hours of your town! Adios, Bryn ------------------------------ End of good-noise-digest V1 #30 *******************************