From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V12 #229 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Wednesday, December 19 2007 Volume 12 : Number 229 * If you ever wish to unsubscribe from this digest, send an email to * jewel-digest-request@smoe.org with ONLY the word * unsubscribe in the BODY of the email * . * For the latest news on what Jewel is up to, go to * the OFFICIAL Jewel web site at http://www.jeweljk.com * and click on "calendar" * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: jewel-digest V12 #___ gives fellow list readers * no clue as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- [EDA] NJC: Dan Fogelberg ["Mike Connell" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:20:21 -0500 (EST) From: "Mike Connell" Subject: [EDA] NJC: Dan Fogelberg This is really weird. Almost as if a virus is spreading. I've been profoundly sad since reading the news Sunday evening of the passing of Dan Fogelberg earlier that day. Having heard his songs early in his career, but not really paying much attention to him, even as a DJ in college in the late 1970s, I "discovered" his work in 1980 through a girl that was renting an apartment from my father at the time. Within a year I had four or five of his albums, including the (then) brand new release The Innocent Age, which to this day remains one of my all-time favorite albums. Sure, many of his hits have a strong syrupy side to them, but they all carry a message we all can relate too (who doesn't shed tears at "Same Auld Land Syne" or "Leader Of The Band"?), however a lot of his work, especially the earlier albums, show a wide range of his music that few really know. So, here I've been, reading many articles about him and his passing at an age (56) that I myself considered old when I was the age of many of you who may be reading this (but now that age of 56 is oh so close to my own), and reading many of the hundreds of messages/replies/condolences/fond memories posted by fans and just people moved by a song(s) of his and there is a strong and VERY inescapable theme among them. That theme being that many people, fans or otherwise, have stated they too have been taken aback and actually shocked by how (also) profoundly saddened the've been since hearing the news, just like me. It's really, really there. As I said above, almost as if a virus is spreading. What is it? Is is that a major part of our youth, a part that represents the softer side, had died anlong with Dan Fogelberg? Is it some near-the-surface depression has been let loose? Both? More? I think it's both for many of us, but in my case mostly another passing of deep and meaningful parts of my youth...the music. I was sad, but not this sad, when Brad Delp (the lead singer of Boston) passed away earlier this year. When George Harrison passed away a couple of years ago. Or when I think of the death of John Lennon in 1980 or Elvis Presley in 1977. It's why Don McLean wrote the early 70s classic American Pie. Rest in peace Dan Fogelberg. Your music meant a lot to more than many realize. Mike ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V12 #229 ****************************