From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V4 #86 Reply-To: lucy-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk lucy-list-digest Thursday, April 11 2002 Volume 04 : Number 086 In this issue: Re: [lucy-list] Re: Cranky Re: [lucy-list] Singing Along (was Re: Cranky) Re: [lucy-list] Re: Cranky [lucy-list] Boulder CO [lucy-list] Shindell cranky Re: [lucy-list] Shindell cranky ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 08:46:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Gina Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Re: Cranky I have to agree with you. I get very annoyed when people next to me insist on singing, unless it's a sing-a-long. I really had to resist the urge to sing the other night at the Lucy concert, but I did, to be kind to the people sitting around me. However, I have never heard an artist tell the audience not to sing. I think that they should sort of expect it with their "hits." Gina Halesbop@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 4/9/02 8:45:05 AM Pacific Daylight Time, d.m.myers@verizon.net writes: > A friend of mine went to see Rickie Lee Jones and when the audience > started to sing with her during "Chuck E's In Love"...she told them to > stop. She said, "I came here to play, not to hear you sing"! Sounds > a little cranky to me. > > Maybe so, but sometimes I feel like "I came here to hear the artist, not the off-key person next to me sing", so I can see where Rickie Lee is coming from. Sometimes unwanted "audience participation" is just as bad as people talking during a show. Steve Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 08:47:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Gina Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Singing Along (was Re: Cranky) >Take care... and when in doubt... just sing in the car! :) Libby< That is if you haven't locked your keys in it and can't get in the car and are craving cheese because of the frustration of it all. Gina Libby Wiebel wrote: **hanging her head** I have to admit... I'm one of those singer-along-ers... BUT... I've learned an all important skill... to control myself so that no sound comes out of my mouth... unless the artist is expecting to have you sing along. Ahhhh... the lip sync... :) I totally understand how it is annoying to others to pay for a concert... and only hear your "neighbor" and not the artist! Along those lines... I had college roommates once who used to get aggravated with me... when I had CDs on in our place, I used to sing harmony with the artist... not melody. That drove them batty! I wonder what the artists in general think... we've had some examples pointed out... And sometimes the artists _ask_ you to sing... My guess is that while it makes some "cranky" (where this whole thread started) others might think it's cool because it shows you know their songs... and some lesser known artists really get excited to know that there are real people out there behind the CDs that they've sold! One of my favorite CD autographs is Cosy Sheridan's on my "Grand Design" CD cover (btw... I LOVE this album... wow.... highly recommended)... it says... "Libby... thanks for singing along!" As a side note... I've been on a Cosy Sheridan binge lately... listening to her and Lucy nonstop... and just loving it. If you don't know her music... check her out!! Grand Design and Ant-Hymn are great albums... Well all of them are... but those are good starting points!! And... to get some Lucy content in here somewhere... One of the coolest "sing-alongs" had to be Lucy's Birchmere show, several days after 9/11... She told us all... during "By Way of Sorrow"... to "sing along if you know the words"... And we did... and things just seemed OK for a while. Take care... and when in doubt... just sing in the car! :) Libby - --- Tom Joens wrote: > At the same time, certain songs by performers must be sung > along with by > everyone in the audience. As an example, when Steve Earle > sings "I Ain't > Never Saisfied," at least in Chicago, he expects everyone to > sing along on > the chorus, and he always comments on how cool it sounds. > Admittedly, you > don't want to sit or stand next to someone who knows the word > to every song, > and sings along to every song, whether on key or not! ===== - -------------------------- libbywiebel@yahoo.com http://www.libbywiebel.com "We are blessed when we are fallen. We don't always have to rise." - Cosy Sheridan Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 08:50:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Simona Loberant Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Re: Cranky One of my first folk experiences was at festival this summer and a performer who I really like a lot and their road manager said some choice words while on stage moving things around. Of course they had no idea that those of us near the stage heard and would have probably shut up had they known. Plus later that evening that performer didn't do an encore after much applause. I then was getting the feelign that this person was quite rude since I had heard that a friend who had been at a performance a year or so earlier had seen a very surly sort of side to this person. I must say that in subsequent performances I saw a veyr different person, one who is very gracious and friendly. So I chalk up the past experiences and stories to bad days and poor situations. ALthough I would prefer a person who is in front of people to not show their crankiness to me the ticket holder/customer/fan I also know that they are human. I find it hard to believe that richard shindell could be cranky. I've never seeen him live (will soon!) but i have heard he's very congenial. I do know that he lives in Argentina and his wife and children aree there and that there is a very unstable situation there. Perhaps the distance and situation of his family could cause him to show his emotion and show a not so happy side once in a while... totally understandable imho. I personally love being cranky> I am usually cranky between the hourse of eight and five pm and perk right up at five oh one when I run screaming from my office! :-) ~simona Simona L. Loberant http://www.geocities.com/loberant "Every now and then go away, even briefly, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer; since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose power." **Leonardo da Vinci ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:30:29 -0500 From: "Kristen Myshrall" Subject: [lucy-list] Boulder CO Hey guys, Has anyone ever been to Boulder, CO to see a taping of E-town radio program before? Lucy is going to be taping this Sunday and I'm debating on whether or not to make the 8 hour drive to see it. If it'll be a full show I'll probably be there ....anyone else planning on going?? Kristen .Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:55:15 -0500 From: "Tom Joens" Subject: [lucy-list] Shindell cranky - ----- > One of my first folk experiences was at festival this summer and a performer > who I really like a lot and their road manager said some choice words while > on stage moving things around. Of course they had no idea that those of us > near the stage heard and would have probably shut up had they known. Plus > later that evening that performer didn't do an encore after much applause. I > then was getting the feelign that this person was quite rude since I had > heard that a friend who had been at a performance a year or so earlier had > seen a very surly sort of side to this person. > > I must say that in subsequent performances I saw a veyr different person, > one who is very gracious and friendly. So I chalk up the past experiences > and stories to bad days and poor situations. ALthough I would prefer a > person who is in front of people to not show their crankiness to me the > ticket holder/customer/fan I also know that they are human. > I find it hard to believe that richard shindell could be cranky. I've never > seeen him live (will soon!) but i have heard he's very congenial. I do know > that he lives in Argentina and his wife and children aree there and that > there is a very unstable situation there. Perhaps the distance and situation > of his family could cause him to show his emotion and show a not so happy > side once in a while... totally understandable imho. > > I personally love being cranky> I am usually cranky between the hourse of > eight and five pm and perk right up at five oh one when I run screaming from > my office! :-) > > ~simona > > > > I'll be seeing Richard Shindell Friday night at the Old Town School of Folk Music with Kate Rusby (what a double bill!!!), and I'll be able to give a full report on whether he's cranky or not. He should be happy, being married to Lucy and all! I thought having two wives was illegal. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 22:40:16 -0400 From: Tom Neff Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Shindell cranky Richard is a sweet human being. The last two words in that sentence were "human being." Everybody has cranky days. Some people mask their cranky days with a maniacal Up-With-People stage grin. Richard is too real for that. But he is no misanthrope. If you ever see him look glum, tell him you loved a certain song and it really touched your heart, and watch his face. ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V4 #86 ****************************** This has been a posting from the Lucy Kaplansky mail list digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe lucy-list-digest" in the body of the message