From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V9 #104 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Thursday, June 3 2010 Volume 09 : Number 104 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] emerson documentary [Tom Marcinko ] [loud-fans] Swami sees one Loudfan running down to the bookstore for a copy... [Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] emerson documentary Sorry I missed it, Jen, but I did read your review just now. Every musician/group should have such a knowledgeable and appreciative listener, really. Loved the fotos. Wish I could have been there. ELP was my first real rock concert: Pittsburgh, Civic Arena, must have been the "Trilogy" tour. The whole aging-artist thing: Well, what's the alternative? Performers in other genres rock (or country, or jazz) till they drop. T On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Jenny Grover wrote: > Tom Marcinko wrote: > >> Thanks! >> Don't think I ever heard from you about the concert, but my internets have >> been very touch & go. How was it? >> >> > > I did post, so your web must not have been webby enough at the time. The > concert was wonderful, and very moving at times. The new arrangements bring > out different facets of the songs. A few have taken a more wistful turn, > like "I Talk to the Wind", "From the Beginning", and "Lucky Man", largely > thanks to Keith, who has added new piano melodies to the former, and lengthy > piano intros to the latter two. If you poke around on YouTube, there are > clips from various shows on the tour. You can find most, if not all, of the > setlist amongst them. I put a review and some pictures up here: > > http://www.toneandgroove.com/live/live.html > > As for meeting the guys, I had no trouble at all talking to Greg (finally > got a good look at his tattoo and asked him about it), but with Keith, > especially sitting shoulder to shoulder with him on the tour bus couch (!), > I was pretty dumbstruck. I really very rarely get starstruck, but it was > just way too huge a moment. I had been going to ask him a couple of things > but they just completely flew out of my mind. Didn't help that when I > walked up the steps into the bus (and none of us had expected the M&G to > take place on the bus) and turned, I found myself directly face to face with > him. That was more than a little startling. Very warm, pleasant, > down-to-earth guys, both of them. Keith's the quiet type, but Greg loves to > tell stories and I think would be happy to go on doing so all night. I had > Greg sign my ticket and Keith sign my Piano Concerto No.1 sheet music book, > have several very nice photos with them, made some new friends at the show, > and sure never expected the individualized time and attention we got at the > M&G. Keith Emerson -- best handshake ever. Period. (And he called me > "sweetheart"). > > Jen > - -- http://tomaq.livejournal.com/ http://www.facebook.com/tom.marcinko http://twitter.com/TMA7 http://blip.fm/the_night_manager http://www.last.fm/user/OurGame http://delicious.com/marcinko http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2976910 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 14:29:16 -0700 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: [loud-fans] Swami sees one Loudfan running down to the bookstore for a copy... http://www.salon.com/books/memoirs/index.html?story=/books/int/2010/06/02/belinda_carlisle_lips_unsealed Wait a minute, she's knocking new music--make that two Loudfans. Me, I'm holding out for Rick Springfield's tell-all... Andy Something about that "Snake in the Bed" song sounds like the snake in question was more literal than metaphorical. It's actually 100 percent true. I was at Georgia Southern [University]; I was sick, I was sleeping downstairs on a foldout couch-bed and I thought I would catch up on some schoolwork. I had my backpack sitting by the sliding glass doors in our little condo and I went and dumped my whole backpack out on my bed. I was laying back, sorting through folders, and this little black thing went wiggling down my leg. I completely freaked out and ran and got the neighbor. He was a big old strapping country boy and he was such a wimp about it. We both ended up taking the sheet out and shaking it out. But I actually wrote the song after watching Bush's State of the Union address in 2005 or 2006. It's somehow metaphorical; I don't quite understand it myself. Something about watching George Bush address the nation made you think of a black snake in the bed? It just seemed like there was some trickery going on. [--country singer/songwriter Elizabeth Cook, from an interview by Amy Benfer at http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/2010/05/25/elizabeth_cook . Ms. Cook's new album WELDER, featuring "Snake In The Bed," is out now.] ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V9 #104 *******************************