From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V1 #45 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 Sunday, November 29 1998 Volume 01 : Number 045 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Two comments on Pittsburgh [ThePsyche@aol.com] Re: Pittsburgh newspaper review [SAbrams613@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 09:55:43 EST From: ThePsyche@aol.com Subject: Two comments on Pittsburgh Hello all. First, just a personal point to make about my *cloudy, gray day* comments that were directed at the fair city of Pittsburgh: I grew up in Erie, Pa and for those of you who do not know Erie, it is not-so-kiddingly called *Dreary Erie, The mistake on the Lake*. Erie is known for having more cloudy days than sunny days. ( no doubt due to it's location on the southern side of Lake Erie) so, Pittsburgh, being a couple hours south, well, that cloudy, miserable wetness and grayness just seemed to follow us as we drove south....so forgive the remark, but it fit. Secondly, I am posting a part of the preview of the Gorka Pittsburgh show that was in the local newspaper, InPittsburgh. It really made me chuckle. Let There Be Folk Music Music Preview by Steve Volk Imagine someone who sings with the somber conviction of a bloody messenger from God. Imagine someone who could lend a sense of biblical importance to the directions on a box of rice just by gracing the words, "Let stand for two to three minutes" with his ocean-deep baritone. Now imagine that instead of singing the directions on a box of rice, this angelic creature, this bloody messenger, is singing likes like, "I met her in the summertime/when her/arms/were the color of silence," and imagine that this being records messages, which he calls "songs," and compiles them in great aural tomes he calls "compact discs." Imagine that this spirit's music is generally termed "folkie," and then imagine that in reality he defies categorization. He is not "folkie." He simply is. There is a bit more, but that is the part that I found humorous as well as on the mark. My friend Shirley says that she would pay to see John sing the Chicago phone book! I think she's right. That's that. Happy Thanksgiving. Adios, Bryn ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 18:31:10 EST From: SAbrams613@aol.com Subject: Re: Pittsburgh newspaper review Bryn- Thank you for sharing the Pittsburgh pre-concert review of John Gorka. I really enjoyed the wit (a change from the usual tomes) and thought the reviewer captured part of John Gorka's style very accurately. I hope he read the review and liked it! Barbara ------------------------------ End of good-noise-digest V1 #45 *******************************