From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V4 #128 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Saturday, November 3 2001 Volume 04 : Number 128 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [MLL] Golden Ears re-post [Recordings@aol.com] [MLL] Golden Moron [Recordings@aol.com] [MLL] The Big Bopper's Story [Recordings@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 11:31:36 EST From: Recordings@aol.com Subject: [MLL] Golden Ears re-post Hey folks, I have no idea why my post about Miranda Richards got so garbled in the translation to this list. Bear with me as I try one last time: >Reading the L.A. NEW TIMES today, I noticed an ad for an album by MIRANDA LEE RICHARDS, and the name rang a bell. I found her website and read the bio: daughter of San Franciscan "arty" types, she moved to L.A. in the mid-90's to pursue both a modeling and music career, culminating in the release of her Virgin album, THE HERETHEREAFTER. Her website has an extensive photo gallery: she's a green-eyed blonde, and as you'd expect of a model, something of a looker (though for me she doesn't hold a candle to Mary Lou.) But what does this have to do with Ms. Lord? On June 18, 1997, Mary Lou was playing an outdoor "showcase" for SONY distributors at the Santa Monica Promenade. This was her last night in L.A. after recording GOT NO SHADOW, and the Promenade had been her unofficial busking home for months. I arrived a little late with my wife and baby son to find a large crowd listening to a blonde folksinger with an acoustic guitar - NOT Mary Lou. "My god," I thought, "Mary Lou has spawned an imitator ALREADY!" My wife, who barely tolerates my infatuation with Ms. Lord, thought ML had ditched the gig altogether and happily pronounced: "Mary Lou FUCKED you!" Or so it seemed, as I choked down a messy grande latte I'd purchased for Mary Lou. As my son played in the fountain, the blonde's voice bounced off the pavement. "Wow, I've never played for so many people! And look at all that money!" I didn't much care for her songs, but she sounded enough like Mary Lou that I thought about using her as a "sound-alike" vocalist on one of my recordings as a joke. Just as we were about to leave, Mary Lou magically appeared behind the guitar. "That was Miranda Richards," she said, "and I'm kind of playing A & R person tonight. I'll be giving her my busking pass when I leave, so be sure to come back and see her play." There was another street musician who had attached himself to Mary Lou, selling CDs and dealing with crowd control (there is always a lot of maneuvering for this job.) I ran into him much later and he was still angry about that night: "I thought she was gonna let ME play! At least I would've been better than MIRANDA RICHARDS!!" I watched my video from that evening, and sure enough, there's Miranda Richards hovering around in the background. And once again, my brain reels in amazement that MARY LOU ALWAYS SEEMS TO SPOT TALENT WAY BEFORE ANYONE ELSE. She really SHOULD be an A & R person! I'd need to hear Ms. Richards again to make a value judgement, but I'd say having your debut disc released by Virgin qualifies as SOME sort of success! Dino< ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 11:40:44 EST From: Recordings@aol.com Subject: [MLL] Golden Moron Dang, that's embarassing!! Never mind... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 14:13:59 EST From: Recordings@aol.com Subject: [MLL] The Big Bopper's Story Oh Kevin, that is too damned funny. And all this time I thought Miranda was just some wannabe that Mary Lou took pity on. (I heard she did not make extensive use of ML's busking permit, but this is not confirmed.) I will say that in MLR's bio, neither MLL or Mr. Patey are mentioned (where's the gratitude?), but she does throw around the names of the San Franciscan Comix Underground, notably Robert Crumb and S. Clay Wilson. Proving again the Six Degrees Of Separation theory, I myself got to spend a day with R. Crumb many years ago and also got drunk with S. Clay Wilson, who half-seriously pulled a knife on me. Miranda's bio is actually pretty funny. "Like, I took pot and acid but not too much, because then you wind up like the weirdos in the streets." She says she lived in a tent with her boyfriend in someone's backyard, and her only way out was a ladder, which her boyfriend smashed in a jealous rage. She also uses the "F" word quite a bit, making her sound a lot like someone else we all know... Well, good for her. I hope she's as good as Kathleen Wilhoit, who opened for ML at the Viper and has just released her 2nd CD. ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V4 #128 **********************************