From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V5 #81 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 Tuesday, November 4 2003 Volume 05 : Number 081 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: [JP] Halloween at The Point ["Ken Stiffler" ] [JP] The Derry Gig Review Service ["David J Percy" Subject: RE: [JP] Halloween at The Point >>~Rebecca Who wonders if anyone who wasn't at the show actually reads the reviews << Absolutely! When I'm able to get to concerts, I read the reviews to get an idea how much effort I should put into showing up at other shows. When I'm not able to get to concerts (like now), I live vicariously through the postings of others and *****wish***** I was there and look to the day. . . Ken Looking forward to next northern summer when, hopefully, I can attend several shows and catch up on a bit of CD buying backlog. 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: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 10:04:13 -0000 From: "David J Percy" Subject: [JP] The Derry Gig Review Service ~Rebecca wondered: >...if anyone who wasn't at the show actually reads the reviews definitely! seeing TK is a rare event for me; your reviews (and if you we're on the subject, your WA9 reviews) are grand. Far better than just posting a setlist, you manage to convey the mood of the gig and dispense the salient points concisely and with more than a modicum of writing flare. Keep sending em please? DjP repeatedly listening to the sound clip of Stand on amazon.com 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: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 07:37:30 -0500 From: rhiannon richard Subject: Re: [JP] Halloween at The Point I did, I did! - -rhiannon At 01:24 PM 11/2/2003 -0500, you wrote: >~Rebecca >Who wonders if anyone who wasn't at the show actually reads the reviews 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: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 13:10:06 EST From: Nieldsforever@aol.com Subject: Re: [JP] Halloween at The Point In a message dated 11/2/03 11:07:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, catamethyst@hotmail.com writes: > Cone was dressed as Joziah (from Gandalf Murphy and the > Slambovian Circus of Dreams), or rather as Joziah's alter-ego > "Ho-ziah," complete with the hat, the hair, and the moustache > shaved in the middle. Halloween shows like this happen less often than once a year. I'm thinking especially of the Halloween '98 Nields show (at Godfrey Daniels? I wasn't there) where Paul Homlish was Friar Tuck, and Cone was, I don't remember what. I still think of Homlish as Friar Tuck to this day. There's way more to Halloween than just impersonation and funny costumes. It's a chance to grab for the gusto, and it can be a rare chance at that, in our mostly up-tight and drab world in which we live. A particularly memorable Nields Newsletter had Katryna "tooning" each member of the band as some Halloween personage or other, in '96, I think. Hower was the Wolf Man, Chalfant was Dracula, DN was the Mummy in his winding sheet, and Nerissa was a She-Devil, complete with pitchfork and pointy tail. Halloween (and Mardi Gras) can reveal aspects of ourselves that can't be conjured up as astutely in any other way. I thought Katryna's portrayal of Nerissa as a She-Devil was particularly apt and perspicacious. I don't remember who said it - --- Voltaire maybe --- but someone said no one can succeed in the arts if they don't have the devil in them. I think too of the Joni Mitchell song about the midway where she describes someone as playing "like the devil," and then as "an angel wearing wings." This is the sort of thing that can enliven more than just Halloween. It's the life of the imagination in a sometimes dead and deadening world. > Maura and Pete were Anna and Renard the Fox (from "Anna and the > Magic Gown")! Besides the magic gown, Maura was bedecked in a > wig of long "golden locks," a flowery wreath, and copious eye makeup. > I literally didn't recognize her for a minute. And this reminds me of the '97 Transperformance in Northampton where TN "channeled" Fleetwood Mac. The theme that year was the 70's, and TN did "Don't Stop," "Dreams," and (ulp!) "The Chain," so eerily prophetic, in hindsight. That's exactly the sort of thing I mean. *Who* in August 1997 could have seen "The Chain" by Fleetwood Mac as a Nields prophecy just waiting to come true in 2001. No one could have seen that coming, but *unconsciously*, well, let's just say that life is full of strange mysteries like that. But I digress. I saw Katryna dressed as witchy woman Stevie Nicks in the audience area at that Transperformance, with her blond wig on, and *no way* did I recognize her or know it was her until later when TN took the stage as Fleetwood Mac. That was an eerie feeling, knowing that I had looked right at KN earlier, without knowing at the time who it even was. 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? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 13:19:12 EST From: Nieldsforever@aol.com Subject: Re: [JP] The Derry Gig Review Service In a message dated 11/3/03 9:03:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, dpercy@infraactive.com writes: > ~Rebecca wondered: > >...if anyone who wasn't at the show actually reads the reviews > > definitely! seeing TK is a rare event for me; your reviews (and if you > we're on the subject, your WA9 reviews) are grand. Far better than > just posting a setlist, you manage to convey the mood of the gig and > dispense the salient points concisely and with more than a modicum > of writing flare. Great point, DjP. You keep 'em coming, too. "Conveying the mood" of any gig is an indefinable something, not easily taught or captured in words as such. It's way more art than science. My own specialty is much more wound up with the set lists per se. So I'm sometimes something of a bean counter that way. But it's just not as much my cup o' tea to evoke the mood of this gig or that. Besides, a Halloween gig in full costume sort of assures a "mood" unlike your more typical, pedestrian, work-a-day, ho-hum affair, now doesn't it. :-) Nonetheless, I miss hearing from more people on these music lists who are able to do just that, "convey the mood," to round out the story, and help us feel that we're staying in touch that way. 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? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 15:44:55 EST From: Bn2Synthsz@aol.com Subject: Re: [JP] The Derry Gig Review Service And I'm continually amazed at how many of you are able to go out and attend shows at any and all venues. How is it that my life, my children, my job, my garden, my chores, keep me consumed---especially during the weekends???? Maybe when my kids are grown and in college and I'm all alone, looking at my walls and decide that shows in another state are more important than the weeds in my yard, I'll get to go to more shows than I do per year. In the meantime, if I see the Kennedys once or twice a year, I'm happy. 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: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 18:01:23 -0500 From: "Frank Hartge" Subject: RE: [JP] The Derry Gig Review Service Hey, once or twice a year and I would be ecstatic! It's been over three years since our heroes played Ohio! Frank 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: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 18:09:34 -0500 From: "Rebecca Derry" Subject: Re: [JP] Halloween at The Point >Rebecca, you are fairy Rebecca right? Yes, that's right. :] As for making it to a lot of shows, while I'm certainly no Bruce or Cone, Joanne or Lawrence, one strategy that I would suggest is to be 17 years old and work part time yet have practically no regular expenses. Then, somehow convince your father that a 90 minute drive is not so much if you don't think about it too hard. Gordon, thanks for the photo (and twas good to put a face to your name, too). DjP, thanks for your kind words. Love to all, ~Rebecca (aka the violet fairy) Who is in the process of making a Kennedys shirt 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: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 18:24:45 EST From: Nieldsforever@aol.com Subject: Re: [JP] The Derry Gig Review Service In a message dated 11/3/03 5:33:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, Bn2Synthsz@aol.com writes: > And I'm continually amazed at how many of you are able to go out and > attend shows at any and all venues. How is it that my life, my children, > my job, my garden, my chores, keep me consumed---especially during > the weekends???? Maybe when my kids are grown and in college and > I'm all alone, looking at my walls and decide that shows in another state > are more important than the weeds in my yard, I'll get to go to more > shows than I do per year. In the meantime, if I see the Kennedys once > or twice a year, I'm happy. I don't get around like I did 5 or even 3 years ago, when I lived in CT halfway between Boston and NYC instead of half an hour south of Boston like I do now. I'm incredibly grateful TK have been coming up this way more and more for the past 3 years now. As for how I've ever been able to go out so much, I'm certifiably nuts and have a wife who has put up with my addled lifestyle choice and to a very great extent made it possible. I'm so nuts in fact that I've occasionally drawn non-rave reviews as a stalker in some people's minds. Oh well! To paraphrase something Cone once said, there must be a little of the stalker in anyone who would go to as many shows as Cone or I have. But I prefer to view my "nuts-ness" as a *good* craziness, something that can be harnessed for the sake of good, and not just as something that is pathetic and sick, as some have said. :-( 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? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 21:26:30 EST From: Chat3023@aol.com Subject: Re: [JP] Halloween at The Point Are you still wearing a halo? In a message dated 11/3/2003 7:45:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, catamethyst@hotmail.com writes: >Rebecca, you are fairy Rebecca right? 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 #81 *********************************