From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V1 #59 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Wednesday, April 8 1998 Volume 01 : Number 059 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [MLL] Boston magazine article [Senorita Raquelita ] [MLL] Boston magazine article part 2 [Senorita Raquelita ] [MLL] Reverb [AWeiss4338 ] [MLL] MLL in Sweden + turntable friends [johang@isp.su.se (Johan Gille)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:27:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Senorita Raquelita Subject: [MLL] Boston magazine article Well, it's not totally on Mary Lou, but it's on her parents and her, pretty neat article from the April issue of Boston magazine, on Boston rockers and their parents..including Dicky Barrett of Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Evan Dando, Juliana Hatfield, Tracy Bonham, Mike GOrdon of Phish, Adam Horowitz, and Mary Lou. I'll just type up the MLL parts... Not all parents, of course, are quick to accept their kids' desire to rock. Mary Lou Lord, indie rock's newest and most promising flavor, paid almost a decade's worth of dues as a busker in the Park Street and Government Center T stations--against her parents' wishes. Lord started out playing for change to feed the meter that provided electricity to the London flat where she was squatting. Then, in 1988, she moved back in with her parents in Salem. The routine was always the same. When Lord would leave the house to play for change, her mother would glance at her guitar, amp, and microphone, and say, "Now, Mary Lou, I don't want you panhandling. It's dangerous." But Mary Lou would calm her by saying she was just going around the corner to hang. Then one foggy New Year's Eve just after midnight, her hair grimy, her face smudged, her hands blackened, Lord trudged home from the bowels of the MBTA, clutching a bag bulging with change. Dorothy Lord took one look at her daughter's filthy but ecstatic face--and another at the bag that was holding more than $300 in change--and said, "Do you need any help counting that?" Paul Lord, a retired firefighter, recalls sharing his daughter's excitement, and his wife's concern, than New Year's Eve. "When we found out she was playing in the subway, I was more happy for her than upset -- but always concerned," he says. "Most of the time I let her make her own way through life. I made sure she got out of high school. We did enough worrying, I tell you. We still worry." Luckily, the Lords no longer need to fret about their daughter playing the subways for spare change: She recently landed a contract with Sony; her singles are getting heavy radio rotation, and MTV is hyping her album Got No Shadow. At a recent record release party at the Middle East, in Cambridge, her parents were front and center. "I was so impressed to watch people watching her," says Paul Lord. "I did a little dance myself, gave her some flowers from the missus and I." These days, Lord's parents keep tabs on her via the Internet by downloading her tour schedule, among other things, with the computer she bought them. "I think my parents get a big kick out of my success and a lot of joy out of it," Mary Lou says. "It's like a hobby for them, instead of golf or bingo." to be continued... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:41:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Senorita Raquelita Subject: [MLL] Boston magazine article part 2 also, Got No Shadow is now #6 on the CMJ charts!! [snip] All that money rolling in often adds another dimension to familial relationships. From what Mary Lou Lord has seen, most rock stars have more financial problems with siblings than parents (though she hastens to add that's not the case with her). "Some people get into a big guilt thing with their brothers and sisters," she says. "If, say, a brother is a complete screwup and wants money for a new transmission, or if someone has become sober and members of their family are not on the wagon, money can be a tough thing, because a lot of us have worked really hard to get where we are. From what I've seen, the general feeling about a family member's success is absolute pride, but some jealousy, with a weird financial twist." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 13:56:51 EDT From: SeanJordan Subject: [MLL] Mary Lou on REVERB... Live Music Show ``Reverb'' Returns to HBO2 Every Sunday Night With All-New Episodes, Beginning April 26 NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--April 7, 1998-- Exclusive Presentation Is First Original Series to Premiere on Network's Second Multichannel Feed Reverb,'' a weekly series spotlighting some of music's hottest artists, will launch its second season Sunday, April 26 (11-midnight ET) on HBO2, the network's second multichannel feed. Slated for 13 hourlong editions, with other new episodes debuting on subsequent Sundays at 11 p.m., each show captures three to five different artists in high-energy live club performances, interspersed with interviews and backstage footage. The series has been shooting on location in music clubs on the East Coast since the start of the year and will continue production through the spring. Reverb'' can also be seen Friday late nights on the main HBO channel beginning May 15. Kicking off ``Reverb's'' second season will be The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Smash Mouth and Save Ferris. Other episodes will feature Bad Religion, Civ, Paula Cole, Kacy Crowley, Alana Davis, The Devlins, Pete Droge, Francis Dunnery, G. Love and Special Sauce, David Garza, Gaunt, Goldfinger, Ben Harper, Mary Lou Lord, Lotion, David Poe, Steve Poltz, Spring Heeled Jack, Chris Stills, Sugar Ray, Todd Thibaud, Third Eye Blind, Jen Trynin and Chris Whitley, with others to be announced. Reverb'' is shot with six cameras. The audio is being mixed by Mr. Colson at Smart Studios, who has worked with artists such as Smashing Pumpkins, Paw and L7, among others. Taped in the nation's premier smaller venues and clubs, which provide a more intimate experience than shows in larger facilities, the series' second season will feature such legendary sites as New York's CBGB's, Roseland, The Fez and Westbeth Theater; Washington's the 9:30 Club; and Philadelphia's Electric Factory. A joint effort of HBO and the Warner Music Group, ``Reverb'' features a wide variety of artists from major and independent record labels. Multichannel HBO -- consisting of HBO, HBO2, HBO3 and HBO Family - -- allows subscribers to choose from different feeds of HBO programming. ``Reverb'' was the first series to premiere on HBO2, which is currently received by more than half of HBO subscribers. As with all other programming on HBO, HBO2 and HBO3, ``Reverb'' runs without commercial interruption. The first season of ``Reverb,'' which premiered in spring 1997, featured an impressive list of artists, including Archers of Loaf, Ben Folds Five, Bettie Serveert, Richard Buckner, Cibo Matto, Dinosaur Jr., eels, Failure, Fountains of Wayne, Gigolo Aunts, Eva Haze, Bill Janovitz, Lemonheads, Letters to Cleo, Melvins, Walt Mink, Morphine, Bob Mould, Pavement, Poe, Railroad Jerk, Reverend Horton Heat, Sebadoh, Duncan Sheik, Jill Sobule, Son Volt, Soul Coughing, Squirrel Nut Zippers and Wilco. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 14:26:13 EDT From: AWeiss4338 Subject: [MLL] Reverb For those that have HBO2 their concert series Reverb will showcase Mary Lou on an upcoming epsode. it is on Sunday's at 11 PM. And from reading the message I have in front of me, regular HBO will start broad casting this series on May 15. Some other artists on upcoming epsodes are Jen Trynin and paula Cole. Andrea ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 22:23:13 +0200 (MET DST) From: johang@isp.su.se (Johan Gille) Subject: [MLL] MLL in Sweden + turntable friends mary lou is getting quite a lot of recognition with the swedish release of GNS. last weekend there was a full-page article in of the larger nation-wide papers, and the new issue of Sound Affects, alternative music mag, she's even on the cover, accompanied by a huge article inside. it made my hardcore alternative (emphasis on 'hard') friend haakan so intrigued he went out and bought it, and if HE could buy it, a lot of people can! now i'm just hoping all this attention will somehow convince her management that a coupla gigs in sweden would be worthwhile... i remember posting a list of what i was listening to as rachel was starting up this list. i don't think there will be any duplicates. here goes, in no particular order, what's been on the stereo this past week. eddie floyd: knock on wood nanci griffith: other voices, other rooms tortoise: TNT duke ellington & johnny hodges: back to back kelly willis: fading fast bruce robison: wrapped beach boys: sunflower aretha franklin: i never loved a man... kevin rowland/dexy's midnight runners sugargliders: we're all trying to get there field mice/northern picture library dusty springfield: brand new me/cameo victoria williams: musings of a creekdipper townes van zandt: our mother the mountain shawn colvin: a few small repairs (thanks again gaye!) able: lost love songs (shameless plug) and, obviously: mary lou lord: GNS (mostly) hope i didn't bore you, but then again they invented the delete button for a reason! johan. ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V1 #59 *********************************