From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V7 #21 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Tuesday, February 24 2004 Volume 07 : Number 021 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [MLL] current tour [Carsten Wohlfeld ] [MLL] Re: Mary Lou Back Seat Driver [Recordings@aol.com] [MLL] re: current tour nyc ["Jill" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 17:04:09 +0100 From: Carsten Wohlfeld Subject: [MLL] current tour hey there, so the boston and nyc shows are over, so why isn't this place buzzing and tons of reviews, setlists, photos are coming in, eh? are you all waiting for the big show in new mexico or something? just wondering, carsten - -- http://carstenwohlfeld.com http://carstenwohlfeld.de "what's wrong with wanting to be at home with your record collection?" ~ nick hornby ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:29:32 -0500 From: Recordings@aol.com Subject: [MLL] Re: Mary Lou Back Seat Driver >"I'm a completely neurotic back-seat driver,'' she says. ``I'm so bad, if anyone is going over 50 and I'm the passenger, I'm like, `Slow down!'< I can attest to this. During the making of GOT NO SHADOW, Mary Lou was kind enough to have lunch with me at Highland Grounds, a few blocks away from the studio. I drove. Highland Blvd is a very busy thoroughfare, and as we reached our intersection I got into the left turn lane. Mary Lou freaked - "OH MY GOD!" - as if I'd just swerved into oncoming traffic. "What?" I said. "That was a legal maneuver!" She kinda peeked out from beneath her arms: "Oh... okay." I felt bad that I scared her, but I guess it's not just me! D ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:01:41 -0500 From: "Jill" Subject: [MLL] re: current tour nyc Carsten Wohlfeld wonders: > hey there, > > so the boston and nyc shows are over, so why isn't this place buzzing [clipped] Mary Lou's NYC performance was plenty awesome, major high; she rocked and was so well-received nobody was talking in the background and it was driving her a little nuts I think that all the attention was so solidly on her. But I can't write about the whole show right now, as there is still something I have to think through. One thing, though, a guy requested an acoustic version of "Backstreet Cinderella" for his friend, who had recently died, and he said it would mean so much to him. Mary Lou seemed to consider it, she bantered with him a little, and then kept not doing it. It was almost as if she wasn't taking him seriously -- I wasn't sure if she heard the part about the "friend who just died" and "it would mean so much." But for the last song before Gingersol came on stage to back her, Mary Lou said "ok, let's see if I can remember this" and she acted as if she had to first dig it out of an old dusty closet. And then she gave the most original, intense, emotionally-stunning, totally brilliant on-the-mark performance of "Backstreet Cinderella" I have ever heard. And it was as if the previous amazing songs that she had played for us so deliciously (many requests) were the delightful lead into this special space of hers, this sudden crescendo moment, this song that totally moved her and all the energy around her shifted to a new dimension, up and up and up. Jill ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V7 #21 *********************************