From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V7 #10 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, April 6 2004 Volume 07 : Number 010 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Kumbyology, Part 2 [ThePsyche@aol.com] sonwriting [ThePsyche@aol.com] Sightings... [Kevin Rent ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 11:46:55 EDT From: ThePsyche@aol.com Subject: Kumbyology, Part 2 The concert in Lombard, Illinois, Saturday evening was wonderful. The Lombardians were smitten I am sure. Justin Roth opened again and I like this guy a lot and can see why he is opening for John now around the country. Check him out if you get a chance at Justin Roth - Official Web Site As was the case in Cedarburg Friday night, John was relaxed, in good voice and besides entertaining us, entertained himself as well. He opened with Like My Watch. He played a lot old stuff and a bunch from the new CD. And, this is going to piss off some of you Gorka purists, it was the first time I didn't have to hear Love Is Our Cross To Bear or Stranger With Your Hair. Now, both of those songs are beautiful and I never skip them when they are in rotation on the CD player, it is just when I go to hear John live, I get antsy, wanting to hear something different from the same old, same old. He did not disappoint in that department Friday or Saturday. There was a wonderful mix of old and new BUT as usual, he played nothing from his series of songs of crime and punishment. In the seven years I have been going out to support John, hear him live, he has never once played any of them. I wonder why. He said once that he was on a hiatus from those songs....hmmmm. In the late 1900's, when we saw him at Rosebud in Pittsburgh, I thought for sure we would get to hear Grand Larceny, being in the town where that song was born, but no such luck. He did, however, play Up Until Then, a cappella when he forgot the chords, which was a request from an audience member. It is still one of my Gorka-highlight moments. I wish he would risk more and trust his audience. He ended this show, as he did the Cedarburg show, with an audience sing-a-long - People Get Ready. Does anyone else hope he records this song? It is a hopeful, emotional song. I am glad he sings it. He was political both nights as well, especially during his introduction to Oh Abraham. Highlight of this concert for me was after the show, talking to John and having him sign my "People My Age" hat. I sometimes feel I am the poster child for that "horrible" song. I hope you all get a chance to hear him live in your part of the world soon. Namaste, Bryn, the music junkie ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 18:17:42 EDT From: ThePsyche@aol.com Subject: sonwriting Something I found today and reminded me of the well written song. Saying so much, with an economy of words. This quote is from Mark Twain: > To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense > the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single > sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody > can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire > of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. > > Namaste, Bryn, the music junkie ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 23:24:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Rent Subject: Sightings... In an introspective and somewhat sour mood on the way home from work tonite after a very long and tiring night, I was sitting listening to "Land of the Bottom Line" on my headset. As the last #52 bus weaved its way through the streets of a sleeping city, I people watched as is sometimes my custom, as I did this a man got on the bus carrying a guitar case and a battered book with random bits of paper coming out the edges of it. The man looked remarkably like Mr. Gorka. As the bus gently coasted towards my stop this man took out his book and began to write as he tapped his case every so often, smiling, and appeared to be humming a tune... He looked quite satisfied with what he was getting on paper. Despite being bothered by my night -- I was then struck by the opening line of Looking Forward: "I never cared about the car I'd drive Or the room I'd sleep or the bus I'd ride Just as long as I could get somewhere And not get hurt I could breathe out there I knew I could be free out there... could be me." As I got off the bus and walked home the 15 minutes, I couldn't help but smile as I sang... "Now you've got every right and reason To be down in the dumps today Aren't you just adding to the problem If you've got nothing good to say." All the best to you, keep and stay well. Kevin in Halifax Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway - Enter today ------------------------------ End of good-noise-digest V7 #10 *******************************