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good-noise-digest         Monday, May 8 2000         Volume 03 : Number 033



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  Re: Ten Pound Fiddle                                    [SMOKEY596@aol.com]
  Re: Ten Pound Fiddle                                     [ptpower@juno.com]
  Re: Ten Pound Fiddle                                    [ThePsyche@aol.com]

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Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 09:34:51 EDT
From: SMOKEY596@aol.com
Subject: Re: Ten Pound Fiddle

Bryn, I understand your frustration with your friends!  Isn't it a shame when 
you think people just don't "get it"?  But sometimes it takes awhile for a 
certain artist to "click" with people.  I say you should have captured them 
and made them go to the next show with you!   Or give me a call and I'll 
drive up. :-)

SMOKEY
Conquer your fear, and master the game/Life is always and never the same,
Use a little faith to light the flame/And I know you'll connect to you.
Pop the cork, a champagne glass/Raise to the future, drink to the past,
Thank the Lord for the friends he cast/In the play he wrote for you.
        Ellis Paul

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Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 10:06:23 -0700
From: ptpower@juno.com
Subject: Re: Ten Pound Fiddle

Bryn wrote:

<<So, the tone of this post might tell you that I was disappointed a bit.
 I wanted my fellow concert goers to fall for his music the way I had but
I think the difficulty with voice played havoc with that as well.>>

and SMOKEY responded:

<<I understand your frustration with your friends!  Isn't it a shame when
you think people just don't "get it"?  But sometimes it takes awhile for
a certain artist to "click" with people.>>

Judging by the looks on their faces *prior* to the show, Bryn's friends
didn't seem all too thrilled to be there in the first place . . . I don't
think that John's performance  was going to make much of a difference as
to whether they had a good time or not.

By the way, this was the first full-length concert of John's that I've
seen. I first saw him about eight years ago at the Blissfest, a festival
just outside of Cross Village, Michigan and last year saw him as part of
the opening Gala Concert at the North American Folk Alliance in
Albuquerque --a performance which left my jaw lying on the floor!.

So, I heard many of these songs "live" for the first time. On Friday,
"Oh, Abraham" blew me away -- one of John's best ever in my opinion.

I was caught by surprise when he did "Love Is Our Cross To Bear." Fairly
early in the evening, he asked the audience for help in deciding what he
should play next, so he asked, "Slow or fast?" "Slow" was the response,
and John remarked that it was interesting that "slow" beat "fast"; he
then asked for "Old or new" and "old" won out; then "Postive" or
"negative?" . . . "Negative"

When the opening notes were played, the woman with whom I attended the
show (and to whom the song aptly applies) recognized it before I did and
turned to me and gave a knowing, yet wistful look. (Sigh!)

An aspect of the show that I found interesting was that requests from the
audience came very freely throughout the night. Having been to countless
shows at the Ten Pound Fiddle, this was unusual (except, of course, when
a performer has *asked* for suggestions). If I recall correctly, Bryn
started it off asking for the "Body Parts Medley!"

Pat

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Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 17:38:18 EDT
From: ThePsyche@aol.com
Subject: Re: Ten Pound Fiddle

In a message dated 5/7/00 9:09:03 AM Central Daylight Time, ptpower@juno.com 
writes:

<< If I recall correctly, Bryn
 started it off asking for the "Body Parts Medley!" >>

Nope...that wasn't me.  I requested People My Age after John had a memory 
lapse.

I also am the one who yelled "LA VIDA LOCA" in honor of my best friend who 
was not able to be with me...she yelled that out at the Chicago show last 
year when people we hollering out requests.

Bryn, still disappointed but planning her next road trip

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