From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V3 #101 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 Tuesday, October 31 2000 Volume 03 : Number 101 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: checking in... [Greg Steele ] Re: checking in... [Martovich@aol.com] Re: The John Gorka Music Page ["Mike Smith" ] Re: The John Gorka Music Page [Mary Sansone ] Re: The John Gorka Music Page ["Brett and Jodi Carter" ] Re: The John Gorka Music Page [SMOKEY596@aol.com] Re: John Gorka Fan check in ["Steve McGraw" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:35:03 -0500 From: Greg Steele Subject: Re: checking in... ThePsyche@aol.com wrote: > > ....forgive me if I sound too much like an online cyber > type chick...but just who is on this list and who (or what) is a John Gorka > fan? I think we did this once some time ago, but it might be nice to do it > again...a sort of age/gender check? Greg Steele, 46 y.o. guy in North Carolina. Been a fan for some years now, but not too vocal on the list. You can find out more about me at my site: http://www.gregorysteele.com I'm married and have a 16 y.o. son, who's a Gorka/Cliff Eberhardt fan as well. I'm just hoping to keep enough real music around him to temper his interest in bands like Insane Clown Posse, Slipknot, and others... > I am on other email lists and I gotta tell you, this one is the quietest. Is > there something to this? Does it say something about John's music that his > fans have not much to say? There are a couple mouthy broads here ( right > Susan?) and a couple active American type guys and then there is the King of > all Gorka fans, Jos in Holland......is that it? Don't feel bad, Bryn, I'm on several other lists similar to this one and they get real quiet too for long periods of time. Once a new CD comes out, things will pick up again. Then again, because I'm on other lists as well, I appreciate not having to wade through a lot of chatty posts that are really more personal in nature like on some lists. I don't know him personally, but John seems to be a pretty private person. He lets his music speak for him and I am not into trying to deconstruct it, or dissect it or whatever. What I really wish was that there was a better way to get people together to PLAY music like his. Here in the backwaters, getting a few players and singers together with any kind of common musical database is nearly impossible. I miss sitting around and trading songs with friends. Boy, this kinda wandered, didn't it? sorry :-) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:10:20 EST From: Martovich@aol.com Subject: Re: checking in... Funny you should bring this up....I was struck by a sudden JG yearning this weekend...so, of course I indulged myself! I am Mary, 39, wife and mother to two daughters--one 6 1/2 going on 30, and a 5-year old....and soon to be mother to a baby boy in February 2001...hmmmm, maybe why that's "Cypress Trees" was a must....LOL. I'm originally from Wisconsin, but have lived in central IL for the past 25 years, and am soooo glad that Fall is finally here! Got introduced to Gorka by some friends who like Venice, Fogelberg, Dar Williams, Lucy Kaplansky, and the like.....I've only had the opportunity to see him perform live once, though.....although the landscape here is beautiful, the music-scape is pretty slim pickin's, unless you love country music...... Mar ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 18:25:22 GMT From: "Mike Smith" Subject: Re: The John Gorka Music Page Mike, near Madison, WI Age: 37 I'm married with two beautiful little girls. Sometimes I'm surprised at the lack of action on the list, but then again not really. Maybe it does have something to do with the main focus, John Gorka. I have a feeling if he were on the list, he probably wouldn't do to much 'talking' either, only if the mood grabbed him. I got hooked on JG when I heard Land of the Bottom Line on the radio when it was a 'new release', and the rest, as they say, is history. I'm not sure what the longest stretch of not listening to his music has been since then, but I would guess no longer than 2 weeks. It's a well that I draw from that never seems to go dry. Mike >Now on to other things....forgive me if I sound too much like an online >cyber >type chick...but just who is on this list and who (or what) is a John Gorka >fan? I think we did this once some time ago, but it might be nice to do it >again...a sort of age/gender check? > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 19:35:39 -0600 From: Mary Sansone Subject: Re: The John Gorka Music Page Mary from St. Joseph, MO. Office manager for a doctor. I'm 47, have a 23 y/o son. Daughter is almost 25, married to a great son in law and they have provided me with the 2 most beautiful grandbabies in the world. Divorced 3 years....during the long, slow, painful process of the divorce I went to visit a good friend in Utah who played JG, (& Wilcox & John Prine). As a teenager James Taylor was one of my favorites so my heart has always been in music that had harmony and lyrics that could tell a story. Have seen JG in Salt Lake City, Manhattan KS, Bloomington IL. Love his music and his style. I really enjoy the fellowship on this list. One of these days I hope to make it to Chicago for one of your house concerts, Bryn. Mary ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 18:52:56 -0600 From: "Brett and Jodi Carter" Subject: Re: The John Gorka Music Page Brett and Jodi from Cottage Grove, Minnesota We're pastor and teacher here, have two kids, 8 and 6, and have been following John Gorka since the beginning. Folk music is the only music we listen to when we're not listening to Tom Chapin, Raffi, Fred Penner, Jack Pearson, the Chenille Sisters and Tom Paxton--just to name a few of the children's musicians (some old folkies too) who dominate our CD player. It's a long way from The Monkees and The Hudson Brothers, but it's a road well traveled. Brett and Jodi ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 20:40:34 -0500 From: John Spies Subject: Re: The John Gorka Music Page Hi All, This is John, 43, from Lapata Maryland, but originally from New Jersey. I've been a John Gorka fan since we were housemates in college at Moravian. He was incredible even then, and it's great to read about how he has touched the lives of everyone on this list. I've only been able to see him a few times live over the years, but one treat has been to see all the fans that come to see him. Keep up the great work with the list and the web page. Thanks all. John ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 21:23:17 EST From: SMOKEY596@aol.com Subject: Re: The John Gorka Music Page Allrighty then, I'm Smokey, 36 years old, female. I live in Bloomington Indiana, home of John Mellencamp, the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research, and, until recently, Bobby Knight. I first heard John Gorka's songs when my brother covered them as he played in a local coffee house. I didn't know whose songs they were, I just knew I liked them. Then I found out who JG was and bought "Land of the Bottom Line" and it went on from there. I've seen John perform just 5 times, but once I got to see him before the show and say something dumb, and once I got him to play "Let Them In" for "Smokey and friends", so I'd say they were quality times. :-) I haven't listened to John in a long time tho, so maybe that's why I, at least, have been quiet on the list. Right now, Don Conoscenti's "Boxes of Bones" has been playing constantly for the past 3 days since I saw him with Ellis Paul Friday night. I saw Ellis on Thursday night too, by himself, and my soul has definitely been restored for a long time to come. Good medicine. :-) SMOKEY For my Best Buddy, Rex "The memory is a useful thing, store the good stuff in the easy to reach places, put the rest in the attic with the cobwebs where it belongs..." - -Ellis Paul ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 23:16:03 -0500 From: "Steve McGraw" Subject: Re: John Gorka Fan check in Thanks, Susan; you and your husband have hit the John Gorka nail squarely on the head; I, too, find it quite difficult NOT to listen to his music. Steve >My name is Susan Finn, I am 48 years old, wife, mother of three, ages 12, 10 >and almost 6 (my Timmie, the light of MY life). I am a transplanted >Californian who has lived in Wisconsin for five years. I am enjoying the >midwest but miss the Pacific Ocean and California eccentrics. I grew up near >San Francisco in the 1960's and have always hung around great musicians. >I am partial to listening only to John Gorka music and by default, whatever >boy bands my preteen daughter brings into the house, although Bryn is >introducing me to new folk music constantly. No one gets to me like Mr. >Gorka's music does, however. My husband says he hooks you with just one song >that is pertinent to something happening in your life at the moment you hear >your first Gorka tune. After that, you just have to hear more. I try to turn >him off, really I do! > >I have been online since 1987 when I got my first home computer and >subscribed to Prodigy, hoping to find what the Internet is now today... > >Now you all now more than you needed or wanted to know about me! > >Susan ------------------------------ End of good-noise-digest V3 #101 ********************************