From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V6 #22 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 Monday, March 8 2004 Volume 06 : Number 022 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [JP] Jam ["Ken Stiffler" ] [JP] "Positively Live" Top Ten? ["Ken Stiffler" ] [JP] Guitar ["Ken Stiffler" ] Re: [JP] Jam [WoodellDC@aol.com] Re: [JP] Jam [Jasonburg@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 14:32:36 +1300 From: "Ken Stiffler" Subject: [JP] Jam After a long time of focusing more on good long distance travel music, primarily acoustic music, (as opposed to short distance travel music as exemplified by Deep Purple's "Highway Star" :) ), I've been hitting the "Progressive Rock" history button a lot lately. Especially the Moody Blues and Yes. Especially Yes. I think I'm appreciating "The Yes Album" even more than I ever have before. One of the results is that I've come to the conclusion that I would absolutely love to hear a jam session of Pete Kennedy and Steve Howe. Both acoustic and electric. As a listener, I think that could be some ultimate instrumental musical fun. :) Anyone else think that a PK/SH jam would be highly interesting and entertaining? Even Pete, maybe? Even Maura, maybe? Ken 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: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 14:59:49 +1300 From: "Ken Stiffler" Subject: [JP] "Positively Live" Top Ten? Listening to Positively Live for the first time in, oh, maybe a whole month now. Seems like a big gap, anyway! It took a long time for Positively Live to grow on me. River of Fallen Stars had been my favorite Kennedys CD ever since I first heard it. When I first heard PL, the absence of the electric Byrdish sound meant that it didn't immediately catch my attention. Then I started playing it while driving around on some of my long distance trips. Started really appreciating it while driving around Washington state - still can see the road east of Leavenworth with PL in my ears, thinking "Life is good". (The first Dave and Tracey CD I heard, "Drum Hat Buddha" also caught my attention while driving in WA and the two CDs stayed, along with Kasey Chambers' "The Captain", in the first three slots in my CD changer for about six months of frequent travel, so I closely associate those CDs.) After continuously appreciating it a little more and a little more, it was late in that six month period that PL finally supplanted ROFS as my favorite Kennedys CD. Anyway, listening to it again now, and appreciating it so much, the thought crossed my mind that it surely would be one of my Top Ten CDs of all time. Which got me thinking about a Top Ten of all time list that I sent to someone a few years ago*. So I dug that up to see how my current list may have changed since then. Wonder of wonders! Even PL can't supplant anything in that list! Hard to believe! Hard to believe that I can appreciate any music as much as PL and still have so many other musical experiences to place above it. Fact is, when it comes to music (as in many other things), I am utterly blessed. Ken * FWIW, here's the list: 10. The Roches - We Three Kings 9. Julie Miller - Blue Pony 8. Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children 7. Rare Bird - Epic Forest 6. Gordon Lightfoot - Shadows 5. Nanci Griffith - One Fair Summer Evening 4. Al Stewart - Past, Present and Future 3. Van Morrison - Beautiful Vision 2. Camel - The Snowgoose 1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon 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: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 15:40:23 +1300 From: "Ken Stiffler" Subject: [JP] Guitar Also hard to believe that I'm posting for the third time in one day, but listening to Positively Live after a (brief!) gap, has me thinking a lot of Kennedys-related musical thoughts. :) My guitar playing has improved tremendously in the last few years. Still not up to public performance level, but there are a few things that I would like to think that I actually do reasonably well. Still, it is a tremendous pleasure to (occasionally) listen to some nice acoustic guitar music and realize that it's me playing it! :) It's been a long hard slog. I'm an extremely uncoordinated sort of person with some serious tonal-distinction deprivations. And I still can't sing for sh--! But it's always been fun. And the real incentive to keep at it is that I hear all this music in my head. I've always believed that, if I could functionally/technically create music, that the music was there in my head, ready to burst forth. Go forth and multiply. :) Overflowing, in fact. One of the most interesting things about learning to play guitar, though, is that the things that are most fun to play (and to hear myself play) aren't necessarily the sorts of things that I would choose to listen to someone else do. For example, I'm a much more bluesy guitar player than anyone I enjoy listening to. Odd, ain't it? Anyway, even as a non-professional, playing music is an incredible journey! But, the point (and the point of this post) is that, given the mixture of what I like to listen to, what I hear in my head, and what I actually find it enjoyable to play, it turns out that Shearwater, as Pete plays it on Positively Live is right there with what I would create myself, if I technically could. Which is just ONE of the reasons why I enjoy Positively Live so much! :) As it stands now, my playing can only approximate something that falls somewhere between what I hear in my head and the sort of thing that comes out of Pete's hands in Shearwater. But I keep at it. Maybe someday. :) And this really should be my last post today. PL has ended and now I'm listening to Victoria Williams' "Musings of a Creekdipper". Should be a slightly different distraction. :) Victoria thinks it's gonna rain and I think she's right - eventually. But today is a beautiful, warm sunny day in Middle Earth! :) Ken "Shared pain is lessened, shared joy is increased", so share the pain and share the joy! 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: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 10:21:03 EST From: WoodellDC@aol.com Subject: Re: [JP] Jam Ken wrote, > . Especially Yes. I think I'm appreciating "The Yes Album" even > more than I ever have before. > > One of the results is that I've come to the conclusion that I would > absolutely love to hear a jam session of Pete Kennedy and Steve Howe. > Both acoustic and electric. > - --- Interesting thought. I have heard Yes throughout my life, but never bought anything by them until Philly DJ Ed Sciaky, who is largely responsible for introducing Yes to Philadelphia audiences, passed away a month or so ago. I bought "The Yes Album," and think it is excellent. It's amazing the layers that are there when you give it a SERIOUS listen. I know I've heard "Your Move" a thousand times or more on the radio, but only when I listened on headphones did I hear the faint echoes of "Give Peace a Chance" in the background. I can definitely imagine a Yes/Kennedys blending. Deb === The further in you look, the further out you see... -- Sonia Rutstein === You want a rich experience on this earth, so seek it out. -- Nicole Kidman 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: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 10:34:41 EST From: Jasonburg@aol.com Subject: Re: [JP] Jam In a message dated 3/7/2004 5:49:59 AM Pacific Standard Time, ksls@kmsx.net writes: > One of the results is that I've come to the conclusion that I would > absolutely love to hear a jam session of Pete Kennedy and Steve Howe. > Both acoustic and electric. > > As a listener, I think that could be some ultimate instrumental musical > fun. :) > > Anyone else think that a PK/SH jam would be highly interesting and > entertaining? Even Pete, maybe? Even Maura, maybe? Oh, yeah. I'm a big fan of both. That would be amazing to see & hear. - --Jason 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 V6 #22 *********************************