From: owner-harbinger-digest@smoe.org (harbinger-digest) To: harbinger-digest@smoe.org Subject: harbinger-digest V3 #63 Reply-To: harbinger@smoe.org Sender: owner-harbinger-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-harbinger-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk harbinger-digest Monday, February 23 1998 Volume 03 : Number 063 HARBINGER DIGEST To post, mail harbinger@smoe.org To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe harbinger-digest To get list info file, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info harbinger-digest Today's Subjects: ---------------- (harbinger) no more malboro man [Nanput@aol.com] (harbinger) Washington Post article [Connie and John Groer ] (harbinger) Chapin Theater show [Jimmy Mac ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 08:43:57 EST From: Nanput@aol.com Subject: (harbinger) no more malboro man In a message dated 2/21/98 10:27:32 PM Central Standard Time, robovet@eci.com writes: > Paula has officially banned smoking > from all her future shows! What a breath of fresh air! - ------------------------------ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo-test@smoe.org with: unsubscribe harbinger Please note the new majordomo address To buy Paula merchandise from Paula(!) try: http://pw2.netcom.com/~ilml/pcmerch.html Digest, further unsub and problems FAQ at: http://www.netaxs.com/~jgreshes/lists/harbinger.html For This Fire kinda-lyrics write Riphug@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 11:54:03 -0500 From: Connie and John Groer Subject: (harbinger) Washington Post article Jeepers, I can't believe the goobers at Toad's wouldn't let you near enough to give the Tigerlilies to Paula directly. I'm sure they were gorgeous. Kenn, Jim and any others at Toad's-- you have to come to DC to see Paula. The crowd there was great. I felt so bad for Paula when I read about the loud-mouth Top 40 crowd who would probably be happier with a lip-synch version of the singles. Like you, though, there was NO WAY I could get to the front of the stage. I was way in the back by Phil-- but I could see pretty well and the crowd was very into Paula--even the non-"HIT" songs. BTW - what's the name of the professional sound journal that features Phil? I would love to get one, but I need the name! - ---------------------------------------- This is probably illegal or something, but here's a review of the DC show from the Feb 16 Washington Post: PAULA COLE: BOTH SIDES NOW by Richard Harrington Paula Cole is this year's Grammy dark horse, the first nominee for best new artist since Christopher Cross in 1980 also to be up for album, record and song of the year. The latter two nominations are for "Where have All the Cowboys Gone?", a song as susceptible to misinterpretation as Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA." At a jampacked 9:30 Club Saturday night (the show being filmed by HBO for future broadcast), Cole chose to underscore "Cowboys'" caustic, ironic spin on gender stereotypes even as the song's yearning chorus seemed to undermine it (the middle-finger salute gave it away). Such tensions are frequently evident in Cole's work, suggesting a refusal to be locked into narrow mind-sets or musical straitjackets. For instance, in the fragile "I Am So Ordinary," Cole evoked the ache of running into an old lover and his new girlfriend when it was clear a broken heart's fires had not yet burned out ("She is your Star-Spangled Banner and I am just Frere Jacques"). But while "I Don't Want To Wait" painted a picture of romantic frustration tempered by unbowed hope, such songs as "Road to Dead," "Mississippi" and "Throwing Stones" attested to dysfunctional, contentious relationships: "Mississippi" built from a snappy piano figure to a ranting finale, while in "Throwing Stones," Cole's testament that "now my anger is my best friend" was self-evident in the rolling, from-a-simmer-to-a-boil emotionalism of her singing. Duality was also evident in the small-town childhood memories at the heart of "Happy Home" and "Bethlehem." In the first, Cole recognized the cost of a mother's long-term sacrifices and the "suffocation beneath the facade of a happy home"; the latter son's images were at once bitter and elegiac, a compund of fleeting pleasures and perpetual pressures so intense in a young girl's life that, she confessed, "every day I dream of leaving." In a companion song, "Tiger," Cole assertively and insistently declared, "I've left Bethlehem and I feel free....I've left the girl I was supposed to be" (closing with a little primal barking at the moon). "Happy Home" also had a companion of sorts: "Watch the Woman's Hands" a supplely spun testament to the strength, nurturing, caring and sacrifice by women that too often go unrecognized. A similar sense of sweet compassion graced "Hush, Hush, Hush," an elegy for dead friends. Cole's work is full of self-discovery, not all of it quite so cathartic. "Me" chronicled her journey from the darkness of doubts and fears into the light of self-awareness, its ambivalence--"I'm scared as hell that I'm onto something better"--echoed in the melody's gradual resolution. And "Feeling Fire" (sic) seemed nothing less than a giddy declaration of sexual independence built on sensually rippling grooves provided by her sterling trio: drummer jay Bellerose, bassist Mark Browne and guitarist Kevin Barry. Saturday's concert closed with two intriguing covers: Dolly Parton's "Jolene," refired with the cadences of Cole as a human beat box; and Edith Piaf's signature ballad, "La Vie en Rose," recast as a casually propulsive rocker even as Cole herself reappeared in a blond wig, boa and slinky dress, clearly having great fun at the end of a good night's work. - --------------- The article was accompanied by a head shot of Paula (the same one as on her WB web site homepage) and a caption that said "Paula Cole's concert at the 9:30 club wasby turns ranting and reflective." However, my sister-in-law that mailed me the article stapled this caption to the picture: "Paula was especially glad to see John and Connie Groer in the audience. These, her country friends, inspire her." I personally prefer the caption from my sister-in-law!!! Anyhow, a favorable, but kinda boring review from her DC show. I sure hope she wins a buncha grammies Wednesday, but most of the articles I've read don't seem to have her as a favorite in any category. % Connie Groer % % jgroer@mindspring.com % - ------------------------------ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo-test@smoe.org with: unsubscribe harbinger Please note the new majordomo address To buy Paula merchandise from Paula(!) try: http://pw2.netcom.com/~ilml/pcmerch.html Digest, further unsub and problems FAQ at: http://www.netaxs.com/~jgreshes/lists/harbinger.html For This Fire kinda-lyrics write Riphug@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 01:04:47 -0500 From: Jimmy Mac Subject: (harbinger) set your vcr Tuesday, Grammy Eve 6:00 pm EST MTV Live Guess who? :-) - ------------------------------ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo-test@smoe.org with: unsubscribe harbinger Please note the new majordomo address To buy Paula merchandise from Paula(!) try: http://pw2.netcom.com/~ilml/pcmerch.html Digest, further unsub and problems FAQ at: http://www.netaxs.com/~jgreshes/lists/harbinger.html For This Fire kinda-lyrics write Riphug@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 01:45:25 -0500 From: Jimmy Mac Subject: (harbinger) Chapin Theater show Just got home from yet another top-notch, top-shelf, top-of-the-pop-and-everything else concert given by Paula Cole. A quick observation: I'm embarrassed at how bad the CT (Toad's) audience was compared to the MA one. During the quiet songs, you could hear a pin drop. I even heard someone hiccup! Congrats, Mass, you're the better state when it comes to music. btw, Kenn, Feelin' Love really worked this time...Paula's free-form after Kevin's had the crowd entranced. My, is she gifted! Setlist: Suwannee Jo Happy Home Throwing Stones Mississippi Feelin' Love Me Where Have All The Cowboys Gone? Road To Dead Bethlehem Tiger I Am So Ordinary Watch The Woman's Hands Hitler's Brothers - ------ I Don't Want To Wait Jolene - ------ La Vie En Rose (ooh la la!) I'm out of superlatives, musta been that two hour drive. No hushx3, no Carmen, which was a shame because the nearly perfectly silent crowd would have done them justice. Paula et al really seemed to gel with The Devlins...she came out on stage (with some crew members) to do some way-cool surfer girl dance moves towards the end of their set. Both Kevin and Jay sat in on songs. Then to top it all off, Colin Devlin took the stage, in drag, after Happy Home!! It seemed perhaps a staged "costume fix" by Paula, so Colin could take the stage for some comic relief. He started plunking away at her piano, wearing an evening gown and one of Paula's poofy boas, eventually churning out "I Don't Want To Wait." Paula returned, thanking him, as he pointed out that "yes, even - -he- had hairy pits!" Don't forget, MTV Tuesday (thanks, Phil!). And the winner is..... - ------------------------------ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo-test@smoe.org with: unsubscribe harbinger Please note the new majordomo address To buy Paula merchandise from Paula(!) try: http://pw2.netcom.com/~ilml/pcmerch.html Digest, further unsub and problems FAQ at: http://www.netaxs.com/~jgreshes/lists/harbinger.html For This Fire kinda-lyrics write Riphug@aol.com ------------------------------ End of harbinger-digest V3 #63 ******************************