From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V2 #68 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 Saturday, May 29 1999 Volume 02 : Number 068 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: John's writing ["Shelley DePaul" ] Re: John's writing ["Steve McGraw" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 19:09:19 -0700 From: "Shelley DePaul" Subject: Re: John's writing - -- On Tue, 25 May 1999 20:43:03 Steve McGraw wrote: >You're probably right about how JG came to write that song, Paula, but if >he's that good, and has never had any direct experience with the subject >matter, then the sky's the limit for him. What an amazing talent! Maybe >someone else on the JG list will come up with a more in-depth answer, but >there may not be one . . . > >Thanks! > >Steve >-----Original Message----- >From: ThePsyche@aol.com >To: good-noise@smoe.org >Date: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 6:25 PM >Subject: John's writing > > >>Steve writes: >> >>> I learned about John Gorka and his amazing music = >>> just a few months ago from a very dear friend of mine on the David = >>> Wilcox list >> >>I thought we got rid of you!!!! >> >>Wonderful post and good questions to which I have no answers....but of >>course, an opinion. >> >>About Campain Trail: I think the biggest strength in John's writing is his >>observant eye. He has a way of taking a person, a situation, a place or an >>attitude and defining it in human terms. Simple, clear, with an economy of >>words. >> >>Politics is messy and convoluted and full of people who are not what they >>seem on the surface. You say and do what others are telling you *the >people* >>want or need or think and in the end, you may lose sight of what you really >>wanted to do, hoped to accomplish and truly believe in. >> >>But....you got elected. >> >>Just my rambling thoughts on a late spring afternoon. >> >>Adios, Bryn > >Regarding Campaign Trail: John wrote this song at a time when his record company at the time was going through a lot of changes, new management, etc. They were making demands he found hard to meet without being artistically compromised, further, he was bound to the contract for at least one more recording. He had been very comfortable with the people he originally worked with but they had gone. So I think he felt that "not much there was his" anymore, and he didn't have much support, or freedom. He was very much caught up in the Politics of the music business. > > Get your FREE Email at http://mailcity.lycos.com Get your PERSONALIZED START PAGE at http://my.lycos.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 22:38:25 -0400 From: "Steve McGraw" Subject: Re: John's writing Thanks, Shelley; I hadn't thought about the fact that JG could be addressing certain "internal political" situations to which he had been exposed, and that's a very good possibility. I appreciate the additional insight! Steve - -----Original Message----- From: Shelley DePaul To: good-noise@smoe.org Date: Friday, May 28, 1999 10:13 PM Subject: Re: John's writing > >-- > >On Tue, 25 May 1999 20:43:03 Steve McGraw wrote: >>You're probably right about how JG came to write that song, Paula, but if >>he's that good, and has never had any direct experience with the subject >>matter, then the sky's the limit for him. What an amazing talent! Maybe >>someone else on the JG list will come up with a more in-depth answer, but >>there may not be one . . . >> >>Thanks! >> >>Steve >>-----Original Message----- >>From: ThePsyche@aol.com >>To: good-noise@smoe.org >>Date: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 6:25 PM >>Subject: John's writing >> >> >>>Steve writes: >>> >>>> I learned about John Gorka and his amazing music = >>>> just a few months ago from a very dear friend of mine on the David = >>>> Wilcox list >>> >>>I thought we got rid of you!!!! >>> >>>Wonderful post and good questions to which I have no answers....but of >>>course, an opinion. >>> >>>About Campain Trail: I think the biggest strength in John's writing is his >>>observant eye. He has a way of taking a person, a situation, a place or an >>>attitude and defining it in human terms. Simple, clear, with an economy of >>>words. >>> >>>Politics is messy and convoluted and full of people who are not what they >>>seem on the surface. You say and do what others are telling you *the >>people* >>>want or need or think and in the end, you may lose sight of what you really >>>wanted to do, hoped to accomplish and truly believe in. >>> >>>But....you got elected. >>> >>>Just my rambling thoughts on a late spring afternoon. >>> >>>Adios, Bryn >> >>Regarding Campaign Trail: > John wrote this song at a time when his record company at the time was going through a lot of changes, new management, etc. They were making demands he found hard to meet without being artistically compromised, further, he was bound to the contract for at least one more recording. He had been very comfortable with the people he originally worked with but they had gone. So I think he felt that "not much there was his" anymore, >and he didn't have much support, or freedom. He was very much caught up in the Politics of the music business. >> >> > > >Get your FREE Email at http://mailcity.lycos.com >Get your PERSONALIZED START PAGE at http://my.lycos.com ------------------------------ End of good-noise-digest V2 #68 *******************************