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jangle-poets-digest     Thursday, October 26 2000     Volume 02 : Number 062



                               Today's Subjects:
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  [jangle-poets] Re: jangle-poets-digest V2 #61           [Pmkennedy@aol.com]
  [jangle-poets] Helloooooo                     [owner-jangle-poets@smoe.org]
  Re: [jangle-poets] Helloooooo  [rhiannon richard <rcrichar@bulldog.unca.ed]
  Re: [jangle-poets] Helloooooo            [nell <ashatche@bulldog.unca.edu>]
  Re: [jangle-poets] Helloooooo                            [Jupitr12@aol.com]
  Re: [jangle-poets] Helloooooo  [rhiannon richard <rcrichar@bulldog.unca.ed]

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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:31:10 EDT
From: Pmkennedy@aol.com
Subject: [jangle-poets] Re: jangle-poets-digest V2 #61

Dear Jangle Poets,

Hi, from The Kennedys (Maura typing).  We wanted to tell you how touched we 
were to receive THE BOOK at the Connecticut Audubon and how much we love it!  
Sheila might have told you all that I cried when I read the note from Groovy 
the fish!  Actually, the whole thing brought me to tears of joy!  Pete and I 
are just so amazed that you all did this for us.  For those of you who may 
not have seen the book itself, it's a beautiful pulp and leaf scrapbook, 
filled with wonderful messages.  

Thank you to all the listers who sent their best wishes for our sixth 
anniversary!  It was great to see so many of you this past weekend too!  
(Conehead made all three shows, and Sheila made two!) We had a great time 
playing with the Nields duo, and again, we thank you all for making that show 
happen!  As you know, if not for this list, we would have been playing in 
Providence, unaware that the Nields were only 15 minutes away.  Instead, we 
had a great time playing at the first-ever Nields/Kennedys all-duo show!  We 
feel very fortunate to have friends like you all!  Peace, Love, Harmony, Good 
Vibes 

Pete & Maura

Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/
Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy
merchandise...what more could you ask for?

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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 22:10:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: owner-jangle-poets@smoe.org
Subject: [jangle-poets] Helloooooo

Hi.
DjP here.  New addition to your little enclave (if you'll have me).  
Just thought I'd drop you a quick one to introduce myself and tell you 
why I'm here.

My name is David, but mostly I just go by DjP, not for any reason of 
hipness or the desire to have a trendy 'net name; it's what people call 
me.  Really - "deejaypee", some folks have even contracted that to 
"duyup".  Anyhoo, I digress.  I live in Sydney, Australia (for the last 
five years), but am originally from Newcastle-upon-Tyne in England.  
Music that's getting a lot of CD time with me at the mo ? Dar - Green 
World; Nields - Play is back on heavy rotation after a big hiatus; Dan 
Bern - 50 Eggs; The Wallflowers - Breach - not sure about this yet.

I'm prolly what you would call a *bad* Kennedy's fan because I am the 
proud posessor of a solitary Kennedys album - Evolver.  I was 
recommended the Kennedys by multiple folk on the wild and crazy Nook 
just round the corner - I suspect many of them are here ?

The reason I'm here is threefold: firstly I'm a big fan of Evolver.  I 
bought it in NYC in April this year and was fair blown away.  There's 
not much I don't like about it and heaps that I do.  It's not often that 
I become so enamoured by a band so quickly (those Nields being the other 
recent notable exception).  I can chime in with my 2c on Evolver, but 
I'm guessing you've done that one to death n'est pas ?

My second reason for foisting myself upon you is to find out "where to 
from here?".  I'm acutely aware that Evolver is "a different kind of 
music from the Kennedys" so I'm a bit worried that I won't be able to 
find another of their CDs that I like as much.  I've only ever seen the 
covers on the 'net - record stores in Oz don't carry that sort of thing! 
So any recommendations for my next Kennedys record will be most 
appreciated.

Thirdly I'm here because of the boundless enthusiasm, fine spirit and 
wonderful erudition of the list owner Sheila.  Her Nook posts are mostly 
always worth reading and she made me laugh out loud t'other day with a 
comment about this list:

"It is a quiet list....we seem to post when we have something to say and 
if we don't, then we post to the Nook"

Hopefully I won't get you in too much troub by posting that here Sheila. 
;-)

So this has turned into a bit of an opus.  Well done to those still 
reading!  I'm prolly going to be a *bad* jangler too - I can't give 
concert reviews particularly (they don't come to these parts you know) 
and I'll pretty much always get records after you chaps.  Oh well, if 
you'll have me I'll be happy to chime in with whatever Kennedy related 
shtuff I can.  I've got heaps of questions, but I'll save them for 
another day.

My Kennedy contribution for the day is that Pick You Up is on liquid 
audio at:

http://liquidaudio1.m0.net/m/s.asp?H2371840430X891955

Cheers and take care,
DjP

Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/
Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy
merchandise...what more could you ask for?

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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 22:59:59 -0400
From: rhiannon richard <rcrichar@bulldog.unca.edu>
Subject: Re: [jangle-poets] Helloooooo

At 10:10 PM 10/25/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I'm prolly what you would call a *bad* Kennedy's fan because I am the 
>proud posessor of a solitary Kennedys album - Evolver.  I was 
>recommended the Kennedys by multiple folk on the wild and crazy Nook 
>just round the corner - I suspect many of them are here ?

Hiya DjP!  I'm not sure there is any such thing as a "bad" kennedys' fan.
So far I've never met one I didn't like!!!  And yes, we nookers are here!


>My second reason for foisting myself upon you is to find out "where to 
>from here?".  I'm acutely aware that Evolver is "a different kind of 
>music from the Kennedys" so I'm a bit worried that I won't be able to 
>find another of their CDs that I like as much.  I've only ever seen the 
>covers on the 'net - record stores in Oz don't carry that sort of thing! 
>So any recommendations for my next Kennedys record will be most 
>appreciated.

My recommendation would be "life is large"... It has a good kennedys
mixture.  "Angel Fire" is the most "folky" album... and was my first
Kennedys CD.  "River of Fallen Stars" is a really really sweet album, and I
love it dearly... but I still say start with "life is large".  It's got
folk, pop, rock, and everything in between.  And it's a whole lotta fun!
And they are going to have a new album sometime in the early spring, called
"Galaxy Express"!!!!  YAY!


>"It is a quiet list....we seem to post when we have something to say and 
>if we don't, then we post to the Nook"

This is the truth!!!  There's a lot less random stuff posted here than on
the nook.  For example, we've never had a whole thread on porn names (which
I think i might have started over there...oops!).  But we are still easy
people, because life is large, and we are most definitely... groovy.

So, welcome DjP to the world of Janglers!  We're fun, I promise! :~)

- -rhiannon
oh yes... and to be on this list, you must be aquainted with my (and
nell's...she's also on the list) fish, groovy.  He says, "nice to meet you".

    ----------------------------------------- 
 "once in a while, you open up just like a child
          and see things fresh and new.  
    I wish this for you, I wish this for you."
                        --Victoria Williams
            --------------
    http://www.unca.edu/~rcrichar/index2.htm
      sporKnight on AOL-instant messanger
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Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/
Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy
merchandise...what more could you ask for?

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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 23:01:44 -0400
From: nell <ashatche@bulldog.unca.edu>
Subject: Re: [jangle-poets] Helloooooo

welcome djp!!!  i rather enjoyed your letter..it was long and interesting.
i thought i'd help ya out...if i could....with the album thing. the first
kennedys song i ever heard was "just like henry david" from the album
angelfire...and i fell in love with it.  it was on a mixed tape that my
friend rhiannon gave me.  then i saw the kennedys in concert for the first
time, and fell in love with them, and i bought the album "life is
large"...and i fell in love with that. it is a very happy, poppy cd that is
lotz of fun to listen to anytime.  it is still probably our favorite
cruising music (including the part where we turn the radio up really loud
for the lines "when you cruise the drag, your stereo could wake the dead")
and one of our favourite road trip cds.  we usually dont even mind when it
starts playing over again...we just go with it!  itz great fun to listen to
it, and i love it.  that was back last aprilish...then this septemberish i
saw them again and bought "river of fallen stars", and "evolver".  i love
the both.  evolver is definetely not like any of the other cds in some
respects, but if you know and love the kennedys music as it is, then you
somehow realise that itz all the same, and it all rocks, and itz all just as
fun, even if some of it is slower or more laid back.  it is all great.  i
dont know whether that has helped at all, but i guess what i was trying to
say is that life is large is a great cd to start with or to continue with if
you already have evolver, and it is usually what we recommend to first time
kennedys buyers.  i have some friends that saw the kennedys with us, and we
told them to get life is large, and they were very pleased..and want more
kennedys music.  anyway....i babble.....welcome, and we love you!  and
groovy (our fish) says hi, and to listen to "good morning groovy" because
that is his song and he likes it.

peace

me


Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/
Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy
merchandise...what more could you ask for?

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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 00:04:10 EDT
From: Jupitr12@aol.com
Subject: Re: [jangle-poets] Helloooooo

Greetings David!
It's nice to hear from someone new (and that's probably what all the other 
Janglers are saying about me too!)  I've been pretty silent out here in 
cyberspace, but I definitely love to read all Kennedy's Lister's 
contributions.  I praise Sheila for her undying enthusiasm and for enabling 
this whole list to happen.  
Anyway, my album recommendation is their first, River of Fallen Stars.  And 
now that you've gotten recommendations for every album by now, we're probably 
not helping the situation!  But I first heard the Kennedy's when they came to 
play at my college back in gosh....1996 I think or was it '97?  But there 
music was instantaineously the kind that sends chills down your spine and 
brings a tear to your eyes, and those songs were off of River of Fallen 
Stars.  Still my all-time fav album.  Still has the same effect!
So, there you go!   Oh, and speaking of "there you go"  I once co-wrote a 
song with The Kennedy's entitled "There You Go."  They had come to 
Manhattanville College as Artists in Residence, and I attended a song-writing 
workshop w/ Pete and Maura, and one other student showed up.  It was such a 
great experience.  
Then we even got to join them onstage that night and perform our song!  Pete 
and Maura have such big hearts and are awesome 'cause they are so into the 
"kids" if you will.  I was reminded of that when I heard how they "adopted" a 
bunch of underage college students for the night, so they could get into the 
venue.  How cool is that?!
Anyway, just a little tid-bit there.  I can sometimes ramble.....
Keep on postin' all you guys!  You're quite entertaining!
Later-  
Melissa

Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/
Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy
merchandise...what more could you ask for?

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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 00:40:59 -0400
From: rhiannon richard <rcrichar@bulldog.unca.edu>
Subject: Re: [jangle-poets] Helloooooo

heehee. I still call them Mom and Dad occasionally (okay, not really... i
bet it would look really weird if a 19 year old went up and called them
that!)!

Oh, and I second Melissa's praise of Sheila... she does such a GREAT job!!!
 YAY for SHEILA!  

 :~)

- -rhiannon

At 12:04 AM 10/26/00 EDT, you wrote:
> I was reminded of that when I heard how they "adopted" a 
>bunch of underage college students for the night, so they could get into the 
>venue.  How cool is that?!

    ----------------------------------------- 
 "once in a while, you open up just like a child
          and see things fresh and new.  
    I wish this for you, I wish this for you."
                        --Victoria Williams
            --------------
    http://www.unca.edu/~rcrichar/index2.htm
      sporKnight on AOL-instant messanger
   ------------------------------------------

Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/
Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy
merchandise...what more could you ask for?

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