From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V9 #24 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, September 10 2006 Volume 09 : Number 024 Today's Subjects: ----------------- JG at McCabe's [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 00:42:51 -0700 From: Subject: JG at McCabe's I have not seen John Gorka in a long time. Tonight was a great night at McCabe's. John was quite animated, in good humor and voice. He said that he was entertaining himself more than he expected and discussed opening a self amusement park so that we did not have to deal with it anymore. Of course we know that half the fun is John's humor, esp. when it is spontaneous. He wore the trademark red and black with black shoes and red shoelaces. He changed at intermission to a grey T-shirt sans jacket. McCabe's is a guitar shop and they have guitars and various other instruments hanging all over the walls and in the concert room as well. He spoke of all the wood hanging on the walls before doing "Branching Out" and described how, as a folk singer, he does a lot of singing in churches and there is always someone hanging on the wall. He did a cute explanation about his capos. He did tons of requests, but also upheld his "duty" to sing songs off the new album. Amelia K. Spicer opened for him and sang with him on a few songs. She informed us that the night before "hoopla" ensued and suggested that it might happen tonight. When it did not and the question was asked where the hoopla was, JG said, that it had occurred, but it was subtle and nuanced hoopla. The JG set is as follows (please excuse me if I blow the titles): "The Way She Kisses Me" (he said to fool the unfamiliar people into thinking that he does upbeat love songs) "Like My Watch" (which he wrote at age 19) "I'm From New Jersey" "Land of the Bottom Line" "Let Them In" on piano "Lightning's Blues" (which is listed on the Pure John Gorka album, but not actually on the CD itself) "Arm's Length" "Writing in the Margins" "Gypsy Life" with Amelia Intermission "What was That" "Amber Lee" "I Know" with a really cute preamble to the song A few notes of "Blue Chalk" and then changed his mind "Morningside" "Unblindfold the Referee" "Broken Place" "People My Age" with discussion of the Spam Museum "I Saw a Stranger with Your Hair" "Road of Good Intentions" "Night is a Woman" on piano "Branching Out" "Three Little Birds " by Bob Marley Encore was "Italian Girls" It was a wonderful show. Gina ------------------------------ End of good-noise-digest V9 #24 *******************************