From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V3 #98 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Friday, July 28 2000 Volume 03 : Number 098 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [MLL] santa barbara show [Little5P@aol.com] [MLL] Dino's Post: MLL AT VYNYL [Rachel Bussel ] [MLL] mary lou vs. grant mclennan!? ["Carsten Wohlfeld" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 14:09:04 EDT From: Little5P@aol.com Subject: [MLL] santa barbara show hi - im trying to find out what time the show is tonight and i tried calling the number on carstens webpage, but its the wrong one (805) 965-6281 -- does anyone know anything about the hi-bar, a number or if its really at 1117 state st. and what time shes playing? thanks - email me personally if you have any info little5p@aol.com jen ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:17:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Rachel Bussel Subject: [MLL] Dino's Post: MLL AT VYNYL From DINO: Rachel, can you post this for me? Also, how can I get the mailing list under my new E-mail address? (Recordings is still good too.) MLL LIVE AT VYNYL, Hollywood Okay... I was up 'til 3:00 A.M., had to get up at 7:00, but it was worth it... I haven't seen Mary Lou play in almost two years (and that was with the band - solo, it's been even longer) and my first thoughts were how much more PROFESSIONAL she's become... and I don't mean in a slick, by-the-numbers, Hollywood kinda way - I mean she commands the room through self-confidence and talent and artistry, as opposed to shakey self-confidence and rough-hewn authenticity. Rarely have I been disappointed by her performances, but still, each show has seemed to build on the last one... I told her she just keeps getting BETTER AND BETTER, and I can't say it more simply than that. Also, she played a VERY long, busking-style set (nearly 2 hours with just her and the guitar!) and if I was a little wiped out by the end (I AM 43!) both she and the audience could have easily gone all night. Hopefully someone else kept track of the exact order, but here's her set list (written on a napkin) that I swiped: (Written just as ML wrote them) She's still bewitching She had you Book Ontario St. Swithens (Not played) Western Don't want to Aim Low (2nd fret) Bee 5 (?) Vincent Richochete 2 Boats (not played) Hey Ant Thunder Sinorara (sic) Please Be Figured Bridge (my request) Jingle Jangle New Thing Now Cinderella Camden Diamond ND World By The Time North Country After the show and the inevitable parade of parasites (just kidding - I'm sure these are all very nice people!) ML was very sweet to spend some time with me, even having a friend with a digital camera take a picture of us together (I'll probably never get a copy, but what the hell!). Since she was still awake and we were just blocks from my editing studio, I gave her a tour of Soundelux Inc. (Rachel has been here too), played her a song I wrote with a mention of her in it, ran her some video from when she played the Santa Monica Promenade, along with a sneak peek at the SChwartzneggar film I'm working on (6th Day)... then she was an extremely good sport about leaving a note for my pal Chris ("Hey Chris... you sure missed a rockin party Dino & I had last night in your room! Next Time! See ya - (heart) Mary Lou XO"). I don't know whether ML actually enjoyed her little visit here (it ain't Disneyland!) but it was sure fun having her come up --- something I've always wanted to do. Then she drove me back to my car, we talked a while longer, and then I had to go home so I could squeeze in my 4 hours of sleep... ML is probably still snoozing at the Best Western just down the block, then it's off to Santa Barbara for tonight's show. MLL said she may return to LA in late September, and that she really wants to make a another album of songs (not the lo-fi experiments mentioned earlier) but she's having trouble writing just now... no firm dates on starting the new project either, and it won't be recorded in L.A. Oh, I also liked the opening band FOR STARS - SQUEEZE-like tunes, and the lead singer looked sorta like Brian Wilson - they gave me a free CD too! Dino __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 00:34:23 +0200 From: "Carsten Wohlfeld" Subject: [MLL] mary lou vs. grant mclennan!? Hey kids, Mary Lou *may* collaborate with legendary Go-Betweens frontman Grant McLennan at some point in the future. In a shameless attempt to plug my own mll website, I'll have to ask you to go to the bottom of this page: http://carstenwohlfeld.de/mll/news.html for the full story ;-) smiles, carsten - -- http://carstenwohlfeld.de "i don't care if you're john wayne / i just don't want to take no calls" (little feat) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:21:21 -0700 From: "Dino Dimuro" Subject: [MLL] More VYNYL A couple more observations... Mary Lou was very, very funny at several points during the show - at one point she played a song she'd half-written, then described how a friend pointed out where she'd gotten the idea - "Dude, I know that song!" "We're got tonight... who needs tomorrow... we've got tonight, babe... why don't you stay..." A Bob Seger tune! "That's why I can't write songs - there's too many of them in my head." ML had a blonde "fall" that I at first mistook for her real hair. She also wore these black shoes with MASSIVE 3-inch heels - and she was still tiny! Also tight black pants, a belt I've never seen, and a blue midriff-baring top (Ironically, the same one she was wearing in the Santa Monica video I showed her.) As always, she was beautiful, even if the lighting tended to be a little eccentric (at one point she had bright yellow hair and a blue face.) Since I'd been on such an intense MLL bender from 1995 to '98, it's been a while since I've really been playing MLL's records for pleasure (mostly I've been into the Beefheart GROW FINS box set)... so for me, even though most of the songs were familiar, it was like hearing them all anew... AIM LOW works better for me as a solo MLL tune than on the CD. It actually seems like a better song, not the 2nd rate Nick leftover I suspected it was... concentrating on the lyrics, it works. BRIDGE is perhaps my favorite MLL tune, and she played it at my request, but it was also the song she had the hardest time with (mostly the sliding barre chords in-between the verses.) It was great to hear it, but I have a recording from Santa Monica which absolutely gives me chills... I was also reminded what a fucking BRILLIANT song SOME JINGLE JANGLE MORNING is... the structure of that tune, so deceptively simple, is borderline genius, the way the verses keep changing chords, building and building to a supposed end... "...on a star" - then kicking in with a new, totally unexpected chorus, 'Because I LOOOOVE.... to watch you WALLLKKK...." and then the rockin' chords that underline the sad coda, "...the same WAY." And how many of us can't relate to the sentiments of that song? Before I'd even gotten the KRS single, I wanted to call MLL on the phone every waking moment because "God, I love the way she talks." And the unrequited lesson is so damned stark : "But there's NOTHING I can say to make you feel the same way." Man, that hurts! Sorry to babble, but you can imagine how high I am... Dino ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V3 #98 *********************************