From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V6 #58 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Wednesday, October 29 2003 Volume 06 : Number 058 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [MLL] Re: jinglejangle-digest V6 #57 ["jennifer allard" Subject: [MLL] Re: jinglejangle-digest V6 #57 Steve, that was a great review your friend wrote. I've been thinking, since I first heard about Elliott leaving, what to say. I still don't have any or many words. I have a lot of feelings because one of my closest and oldest friends left me by taking his own life a few years ago. All I can say is that I know what my pain felt and feels like for losing someone with amazing potential and musical ability. Reading the review, I got a sense of the pain MLL was feeling that night. I think it was a really brave move to get on the stage and sing while trying to deal with such a loss. Most other musicians would have canceled everything for the next couple of months. I guess what I'm getting to is that I am very sorry for your loss Mary Lou. Sorry it took me a bit of time to say it. Much love, Jenn~~~ _________________________________________________________________ Concerned that messages may bounce because your Hotmail account has exceeded its 2MB storage limit? Get Hotmail Extra Storage! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:31:23 EST From: K3285@aol.com Subject: [MLL] Elliott Smith Memorial Concert Planned from Billboard.com - Elliott Smith Memorial Concert Planned Beck, Bright Eyes and Beth Orton are among the artists who will perform Nov. 3 during a memorial concert for late singer/songwriter Elliott Smith. Set for the Henry Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, the event will feature performances of only Smith's songs. Also slated to appear are Grandaddy, Radar Bros, Rilo Kiley, Future Pigeon and as-yet-unannounced special guests. Proceeds from the show will benefit the Elliott Smith Foundation for Abused Children. Tickets are sold out, but donations to the foundation can be sent to The Elliott Smith Foundation, 2658 Griffith Park Blvd., No. 195, Los Angeles CA 90039. Along with the musical performances, Steve Hanft's Smith documentary "Strange Parallel" will be screened. Smith, 34, died Oct. 21 after apparently stabbing himself in the heart. According to a source, he did so using a steak knife at his girlfriend's apartment in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. - -- Barry A. Jeckell, N.Y ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:38:48 EST From: SeanJordan@aol.com Subject: Re: [MLL] Elliott Smith Memorial Concert Planned In a message dated 10/28/2003 4:36:24 PM Pacific Standard Time, K3285@aol.com writes: > Beck, Bright Eyes and Beth Orton are among the artists who will perform > Nov. > 3 during a memorial concert for late singer/songwriter Elliott Smith. Set > for > the Henry Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, the event will feature performances > of > only Smith's songs. Also slated to appear are Grandaddy, Radar Bros, Rilo > Kiley, Future Pigeon and as-yet-unannounced special guests. Am I wrong or was this show already scheduled, with Smith playing, as a KCRW ecclectic evening or something -- Or was he playing on Matt Groening's All Tomorow's Parties and I'm just thinking of that? It's great that they've this will be going to the charity and will be done in his honor; I dont see how they could've done otherwise. THIS CONCERT IS ALSO NOT SOLD OUT -- More tickets will go on sale Wednesday at noon at www.ticketweb.com. Finally, in trying to find the original name of the show, I came across some quotes about Smith's passing at beck.com... "I heard the news this morning that Elliott Smith had passed away. It is a terrible loss for myself and many of my friends, who knew, worked and hung out with him. Needless to say he was one of the best songwriters of our day and a formidable musician. He was also soft spoken, intelligent and extremely humble. He had an acute sense of justice. At one of my shows last year he tried to intervene with security who were harrassing a kid, and was in turn beaten and arrested by them. We know hebs had his struggles over the years and I was heartened by word that he was on an upswing and preparing a new album. We even talked a few times about getting together and making some music when I got off tour. Nobody was to know what would happen, but I am grateful for the times we got to tour and hang out together. He will be missed and the ramifications of his absence will long be felt. -" Beck "I have a good memory of him, from when I recorded a few songs for the xo album: we were at Sunset Sound, and on a break we were playing basketball, and he had all these wigs and costumes. He brought out this pirate hat that somehow had an eye patch built into it. Anyway, we devised a game where we all had to take turns doing a lay-up wearing the pirate hat and patch, and we each had to do our best pirate impersonation while trying to make the shot. It was ridiculous and somehow so sweet! At least he had a light side in there at some point. I'm going to hold on to that image of him hobbling towards the the basketball hoop in pirate garb, shouting, "Ahrrrrr!", and laughing." - Joey Waronker, longtime drummer for Beck. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 00:31:01 -0500 (GMT-05:00) From: Rachel Kramer Bussel Subject: [MLL] Village Voice mention + Elliott tributes Mary Lou is mentioned in a Village Voice recap about CMJ and tributes to Elliott by Amy Phillips: http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0344/sotc.php "Of course, Elliott Smith's death didn't help lighten the mood. News of the beloved singer-songwriter's suicide-by-stab-wound hit Wednesday morning, CMJ's first day, and talk of it dominated the weekend. Memorial signs graced the walls of Irving Plaza Wednesday night, where DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE frontman Ben Gibbard ended a gorgeous, melancholy set by quoting Smith's "Say Yes." Other performers offering remembrances and song dedications included IDA, the KING OF FRANCE, CREEPER LAGOON, TURIN BRAKES, ROB CROW, the LONG WINTERS, and TED LEO, but the most moving tribute may have come from Smith's longtime friend MARY LOU LORD, at Pianos on Saturday. Visibly distraught and constantly apologizing for her absentmindedness, Lord led her band through her angry new "The Stars Burn Out," about "rock stars who die too young." She closed with a beautifully messy solo acoustic version of "Not Half Right," a song Smith wrote for his early band Heatmiser." This is a pretty accurate assessment of her set; the parts with the band sounded really great but Mary Lou just seemed pretty understandably shaken up. The new songs were great though, some she played last time in NYC - "Ron" and another I think. "Stars Burn Out" was really powerful and all too poignant - the refrain goes "Does anyone know why stars burn out" and she said it's about Jimi Hendix and rock stars who die too young. Also, the club canceled the show on Sunday - not sure why - sorry to everyone who tried to go. I thought I was done crying about Elliott's death, but it hits me all of a sudden, like when I read pieces like these: http://www.magnetmagazine.com/home/elliott.html http://margaretcho.net/blog/ (scroll to 10/22) They are both very moving, heartfelt, and will very likely make you cry too. Also thinking about how through Mary Lou I got into Elliott's (and so many others') music, and that I got at least a little bit of comfort by a few people who said I got them into his music. We do still have that, as much as that is not enough, not at all. rachel ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V6 #58 *********************************