From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V5 #64 Reply-To: jangle-poets@smoe.org Sender: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jangle-poets-digest Saturday, September 13 2003 Volume 05 : Number 064 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [JP] Kennedys & Tracy Grammer 9/10/03 Iron Horse [Bn2Synthsz@aol.com] [JP] LAST MINUTE GIG - KENNEDYS BACK LESTER CHAMBERS UNION RALLY! [Jangle] [JP] Silent Revolution [Nieldsforever@aol.com] Re: [JP] Kennedys & Tracy Grammer 9/10/03 Iron Horse [Nieldsforever@aol.c] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:44:07 EDT From: Bn2Synthsz@aol.com Subject: Re: [JP] Kennedys & Tracy Grammer 9/10/03 Iron Horse Bruce, You amaze me. I'm pretty much a lurker on the Kennedys and Nields list but...I am most curious how you keep your life going so that you are able to go to all these shows at what must be some distance to you? I am totally in awe of you! I am a single mom with a full-time job and spotty ex-husband participation. But, even so, when I have time "off" I spend it with my kids and in my community. If I'm lucky, I go to about 20 shows per year. Furthermore, I just don't have the bucks to go to shows, even if they're only $15 or so apiece. I stay at home at make sure my kids do their homework and such things...and I tuck myself into bed before 11:00 a.m. Can you tell I'm apporoaching 50 in a couple of yrs? Envy and jealousy talking here. I guess I didn't live my previous life in my hobbit hole the right way. K 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? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 11:12:27 EDT From: JanglePoets@aol.com Subject: [JP] LAST MINUTE GIG - KENNEDYS BACK LESTER CHAMBERS UNION RALLY! Hi, all! Pete & Maura Kennedy here. This just in. Tomorrow (Saturday), we've been asked to back Lester Chambers (of the Chambers Brothers...remember the song, "Time Has Come Today"? That's them!). This is going to be a great event. It's a rally for a union strike at Yale University (home of the Skull and Bones society...do your own research) Anyway, the event is in New Haven Connecticut. Lester plans on singing "Time has come", "people get ready" and others, and we'll do some of our songs with Lester backing us up on vocal and harmonica. 4000 campus workers, including food service, janitorial, secretarial and other workers, are striking because of conditions that will retire them all into poverty. This is happening at a college that charges undergrads 40,000 a year, and boasts a multi-billion dollar endowment! So, of course, our hearts are in this for more than just the music. The event is free, of course. If anyone brings a video camera, please let us know...we'd love to have a document of this gig! Lester is a great guy, and we're going up tonight to rehearse. Hope to see some of you there. Here are more details on the rally itself and how to get there: SOLIDARITY SATURDAY The Labor Movement Goes to Yale! Saturday, September 13, 2003 New Haven Green 12:00 Pizza Lunch 1:00 Rally and March DIRECTIONS FOR BUSES AND CARS From Massachusetts, Hartford, Points North: " Take I-91 South to New Haven, Exit 3 (Trumbull Street). " Go STRAIGHT at the light at the end of the ramp from the center lane. " Turn LEFT at the second set of lights onto Temple Street. (The lights are close together.) " After the second light, at Elm Street, you will be driving through the New Haven Green: BUSES SHOULD DISCHARGE PASSENGERS HERE. Cars should follow this same route. Proceed to the light at the end of the Green and go straight; at the next light, turn LEFT on Crown Street. Then make a quick RIGHT into the parking garage. From Rhode Island, Points East: Take I-95 South to New Haven and merge onto I-91 North. Take Exit 3 off I-91 (Trumbull Street) Follow the Directions above. From New York, Points West: Take I-95 North to New Haven and merge onto I-91 North (Left Exit). Take Exit 3 off I-91 (Trumbull Street) Follow the Directions above. Buses will be directed to parking spaces. Information will be provided to passengers so that they can easily find their buses after the rally and march. 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? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:46:08 EDT From: Nieldsforever@aol.com Subject: [JP] Silent Revolution From slambovia.com. Bruce Johnny Cash joins John, Kurt, and Jimi among the cloud of ghosts. Where are they now? "I hang with them on Sunday afternoons My friends all think I'm some kind of a loony Alone but talkin' strong They think my mind is gone I'm hangin' with an army they can't see..." Joziah and Gandalf Murphy represent an alternate take on what is real. And "good crazy" hardly even begins to do it justice. What is the Silent Revolution? "I hang with John and Kurt and Jimi too With Sandy, Janis, Albert, Charlie, - - the whole departed crew We're sharing all our dreams And we're all coming clean We realize there's so much left to do..." Who are the spiritual mentors or gurus who have made the biggest impact on your own life? And what are we going to do about it? "So we're all instigating Silent Revolution Fashion institutions can't control Yeah, we're all instigating Silent Revolution Me and all the dear departed souls..." Dave Carter is one of the dear departed souls... Warren Zevon is one of the dear departed souls... What have they left us? And what can we learn from their example? "We're shuttin' up and getting small We're tuning into you Won't walk before we learn to crawl This time we want you to get through Cause we need you now, yeah..." Can we get through? Can we get through to the dead? Can we get through to the living? Is communication even possible? And what words or values are worth communicating in the first place? And what does it even matter if we do? "We're hangin' now most every afternoon And mornings, evenings, night times Laughin', singin' like a bunch of loonies Yeah, we're all becoming friends It's an anthem to the end We're trying to teach everyone the tune..." Vibrations in the key of life. There is a lot of background noise and interference that prevents real communication from ever even happening. It's a lot of bullshit, and it's not really real, but our lives are literally saturated with this bullshit masquerading as real life when it's all just total bullshit. Tune out the bullshit and tune in to what's real. It takes some powers of discrimination, and it takes commitment to the vision of what is really real, of what makes it all hang together for you. "Yeah, we're all instigating Silent Revolution Fashion institutions can't control Yeah, we're all instigating Silent Revolution Us and all the dear departed souls." I take the Silent Revolution in dead earnest, no pun intended. It's a revolution that's happening all around, like a kingdom in our midst. We just need to have eyes and ears and hearts and minds --- wide open --- to be able to detect its presence. And we can join in. There's always room for one more convert to the alternate trip to where we're going. They're taking reservations now. You can sign up for the Silent Revolution today. No one can make you --- but no one can stop you either. It's a free ride with a whole lot of friends onboard, friends at home, friends away from home, friends in far-off lands, departed, imaginary, and real. Friends of the Silent Revolution Unite! :-) 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? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 13:18:52 EDT From: Nieldsforever@aol.com Subject: Re: [JP] Kennedys & Tracy Grammer 9/10/03 Iron Horse In a message dated 9/12/03 11:11:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Bn2Synthsz@aol.com writes: > Bruce, > > You amaze me. I'm pretty much a lurker on the Kennedys and > Nields list but...I am most curious how you keep your life going so > that you are able to go to all these shows at what must be some > distance to you? From 1998 to 2000, it was three straight years of just trying to keep up with Cone Head! :-) For one thing, life dealt me a good hand, allowing it to work out that our family moved from Chicago to the Hartford CT area in 1992. Hartford is almost exactly halfway between NYC and Boston, and I was able to cover that entire beat and parts west, south, and north of NYC and Boston (roughly Philly to Albany, with some VT, NH, and ME shows occasionally doable). Moving to the Boston area 1/02 has greatly limited my range, mainly cutting off my western flank almost entirely. I seldom make NYC shows anymore. I had a quasi-religious conversion experience to the Nields on 4/95, and started avidly following that band of Nerissa, Katryna, and David Nields with Dave Chalfant and Dave Hower. I've seen TN about 375 times to date, including the duo of N&K, since the full band played its last show at the New Haven Green in 8/01. I first saw TK at a Nields-Kennedys show at the Bottom Line on 5/96. I loved TK at first bite (and it was a band show with keyboard, bass, and drums!) but my commitment to TN at that time prevented me from following TK as I would have liked to. If life had dealt me a different hand, I'm sure it would have been otherwise. We have only so much control over such things. Cone Head gave me the heads up about both Cadence and Gandalf Murphy, a couple of years ago. :-) When Katryna went on maternity leave from performing, N&K doing their last duo show for a while in New Haven on 3/01, it put my life in a bit of a tailspin. :-) In 4/01 I started avidly following TK. They "picked me up" right nicely from that tailspin I thought I'd been having. :-) Kennedys are "Free" and Nields are "Easy," and together they're Free & Easy. Who ever could have made such a world, so full of wonder, magic, and delight. I'm just trying to enjoy it and grab for the gusto while I still can. Sorry if that didn't completely answer your question. :-) > I am totally in awe of you! I am a single mom with a full-time job and > spotty ex-husband participation. But, even so, when I have time "off" I > spend it with my kids and in my community. If I'm lucky, I go to about > 20 shows per year. Furthermore, I just don't have the bucks to go to > shows, even if they're only $15 or so apiece. I've scraped by as best as I can. > I stay at home at make sure my kids do their homework and such > things...and I tuck myself into bed before 11:00 a.m. You mean PM right? :-) >Can you tell I'm apporoaching 50 in a couple of yrs? Then we're alike in that. :-) > Envy and jealousy talking here. I guess I didn't live my previous life in > my hobbit hole the right way. I know all about envy and jealousy. It has plagued my every step, too, for more years than I care to talk about. It's not good to dwell on the negatives, though. Just concentrate on the positives, and go from there. "Don't want to lay my heart open For the arrow to find the tender spot I don't want to think about what I don't have I want to worry about what I've got..." ("Tailspin," N&K Nields) > K Great hearing from you on the Jangle-Poets, K! :-) Bruce 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? ------------------------------ End of jangle-poets-digest V5 #64 *********************************