From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V4 #212 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 Sunday, September 15 2002 Volume 04 : Number 212 In this issue: [lucy-list] evangeline [lucy-list] Ames, IA show Re: [lucy-list] Ames, IA show Re: [lucy-list] Ames, IA show [lucy-list] I am an IDIOT!! Re: [lucy-list] Ames, IA show [lucy-list] just me tonight [lucy-list] A double review of Lucy (part one) [lucy-list] The Rest of the Story... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 07:13:03 EDT From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] evangeline thanks morten for the review..for me too ..its been too long and will be longer til i see LK again.. timothy..its up to you, MN, MN.. Evangeline is either the Emmy Lou cover or Lucy attempted Mary GAuthiers Evangeline once...or twice ..i think emmy lou wins sharon If your sister or your brother Were stumbling on their last mile In a self-inflicted exile Wish for them a humble friend And I hope someday That the best of Falstaffbs planners Give you seven half-built manors where half dreams may dream without end dar williams ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 14:01:18 -0400 From: "Kristen Myshrall" Subject: [lucy-list] Ames, IA show Hey everyone, Does anyone know the easiest way to get onto the Iowa State campus for the Ames show on Tuesday? I looked on their website but the directions aren't very good. I'm coming up from Kansas and I've got the directions figured out all the way to Rt 30. Which exit should i take off of that? Thanks to anyone that can help Kristen who gets lost everytime she attempts to go to a new place..just ask Libby :) _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 13:52:20 -0500 From: "Larry Kunz" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Ames, IA show For Kristen and other midwesterners: Directions to ISU 1) Go to Google (or others) and search - Iowa State University Map 2) Click on 'Iowa State University-Campus Maps' 3) Opening page has Ames map in upper right corner that can be enlarged 4) This should be a good start 5) ISU campus is located NW of the I-35/US 30 interchange. That interchange is shown on the above map. FYI---I've been to Univ of Iowa (when a buddy was in grad school) but never to ISU. One St Patricks Day weekend we tried to drink all the green beer in Iowa City without success!!! Good Luck Larry (from Birmingham,AL but originally from Ohio) & waiting for Lucy to come to the SE again - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kristen Myshrall" To: Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 1:01 PM Subject: [lucy-list] Ames, IA show > Hey everyone, > > Does anyone know the easiest way to get onto the Iowa State campus for the > Ames show on Tuesday? I looked on their website but the directions aren't > very good. I'm coming up from Kansas and I've got the directions figured out > all the way to Rt 30. Which exit should i take off of that? > > Thanks to anyone that can help > Kristen > who gets lost everytime she attempts to go to a new place..just ask Libby :) > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 14:18:25 -0500 From: "Larry Kunz" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Ames, IA show Additional instructions to ISU 6) Click on 'SE Campus' map near bottom of opening page (Instruction #3) 7) Bottom of this enlarged map shows US 30/Elwood Drive Exit 146 8) North a little way on Elwood (no scale given) is the Visitors Info Booth located near Jack Trice Stadium and just south of Central Campus 9) Do you know the name of the venue? Cheers, Larry - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Kunz" To: Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 1:52 PM Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Ames, IA show > For Kristen and other midwesterners: > > Directions to ISU > 1) Go to Google (or others) and search - Iowa State University Map > 2) Click on 'Iowa State University-Campus Maps' > 3) Opening page has Ames map in upper right corner that can be enlarged > 4) This should be a good start > 5) ISU campus is located NW of the I-35/US 30 interchange. That interchange > is shown on the above map. > > FYI---I've been to Univ of Iowa (when a buddy was in grad school) but never > to ISU. One St Patricks Day weekend we tried to drink all the green beer in > Iowa City without success!!! > > Good Luck > > Larry (from Birmingham,AL but originally from Ohio) > & waiting for Lucy to come to the SE again > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kristen Myshrall" > To: > Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 1:01 PM > Subject: [lucy-list] Ames, IA show ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 15:16:47 -0500 From: "Vosmo" Subject: [lucy-list] I am an IDIOT!! Hello fellow Lucy Lovers: I am getting totally stoked to see Our Lucy in Ames, IA Tuesday, even though it's a 3 hour drive and I gotta work the next day. Meanwhile, I have to confess what a total IDIOT I am and ask for your help. When Lucy was on the Early Show on 3-11, I missed taping it cuz I was on the phone. Then, Kim Jackson from this very list very kindly sent me a copy. However . . . I watched that tape a number of times before fatefully leaving it in my TV/VCR combo. Did you know that if you have a weekly show programmed into a TV/VCR combo, you don't need to take any action like, say, turning off the VCR to get it to record? It's true So, in short, that tape that Kim sent me (I know, I know, I shoulda broken off that tab thing) now has a rousing episode of 24. I've been listening to LOTL over and over lately, and, well, I finally decided to confess my IDIOCY to the board and see if anybody can help me with a copy. (CBS can't seem to find it in their archives.) I'll pay for the tape and postage and so forth. If you would be so kind, please email me off list. That was truly a stirring segment--I still watch the excerpt on the Early Show website, but they cut off the last verse. Thanks, all. Like an idiot, Rick V ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 22:42:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Brian Steffen Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Ames, IA show Kristen (and anyone else going to Ames): 1. Take I-35 north of Des Moines to Ames (about 30 miles). 2. Exit on Highway 30 West (Exit 111, I believe). 3. Exit Highway 30 at Elwood Drive and head north. 4. Take Elwood Drive to Lincoln Way, turn left (west). 5. Go abou a half mile to the Memorial Union (where the Maintenance Shop is located). It's on the north side of Lincoln Way. There's a parking ramp attached to it, so it's hard to miss. 6. The parking ramp is on the east side of the Union. Go in the east door fo the Union, walk through the building to west side and to the lowest level. The M-Shop is right next to the west door of the Union. 7. Try to get there 45 minutes early if you can. The Shop seats only about 200 and most shows such as this fill early. See you there, Brian On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Kristen Myshrall wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Does anyone know the easiest way to get onto the Iowa State campus for the > Ames show on Tuesday? I looked on their website but the directions aren't > very good. I'm coming up from Kansas and I've got the directions figured out > all the way to Rt 30. Which exit should i take off of that? > > Thanks to anyone that can help > Kristen > who gets lost everytime she attempts to go to a new place..just ask Libby :) > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 23:51:06 -0400 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] just me tonight A Saturday spent wandering the city with local friends and their visiting-from-out-of-town friends...Upper West Side, Central Park, Soho, Chinatown, Little Italy (with narrow survival of Feast of San Genaro...a mass of packed-together humanity)...and then the Village. Selected vignettes: - ------------ "This is the Village!" intones Local Friend to the Visiting Friends. "It has some great bars and restaurants and lots of students..." "And Lucy-Kaplansky-My-Favorite-Singer lives in the Village!" Me, of course, unable to leave well enough alone. Blank looks. "But she's in Minnesota right now." (As if this will help.) Further blank looks. - ------------ Dinner, with various and sundry conversations. A song I don't know comes on over the restaurant speakers...my companions identify it as a Bryan Ferry song. With effort, I remain silent. They start discussing Roxy Music. And more about Bryan Ferry. I say nothing. No, I will NOT tell the Bryan Ferry/Ricola story; they do NOT need to hear the Bryan Ferry/Ricola story... "Bryan Ferry has a new album out..." somebody comments. It's involuntary as a sneeze---I can't stop it: "...and Lucy-Kaplansky-My-Favorite-Singer is on it!" (OK, not MUCH on it, but we won't get into that.) Blank looks again. "Lucy Kerplunsky?" says Visiting Friend with some bewilderment. "Lucy Kaplansky." I know this game. "Lucy Kerplinsky?" "Lucy Kaplansky." And so it goes for a few rounds. I never used to think Lucy's name was very weird, but mentioning her within my non-music world often involves pronouncing and repronouncing...either I am a poor enunciator or "Kaplansky" is an odder name than I thought. Having spent my whole life pronouncing and repronouncing both "Benay" and "Bubar," though, I am patient. Visiting Friend ends up with no clue about Lucy's MUSIC, but perfect pronounciation of her name. A lopsided victory if ever there was one, but I am still strangely pleased. - ----------- Cheerful thoughts go out to the Midwest. And I'm not JUST saying Minnesota, for even though I haven't mentioned it myself yet, I'd hate to slight Iowa, especially with Lucy going there next. I've never been to Iowa, though I like Dar Williams's song about it, and I have a lovely blue Iowa shirt courtesy of Suzi, and I dreamed once that I was in Iowa and it was such a realistic dream that I still have a hard time believing it doesn't actually count as travel. Anyway, if Kristen will be in Ames, hopefully we're assured of at least one Iowa review---hooray! Benay who, contrary to all appearances here, really and truly has a full and healthy NON-Lucy life too...it's only when the worlds collide that there's friction :-) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 01:36:00 -0500 From: etimo@usfamily.net Subject: [lucy-list] A double review of Lucy (part one) Before I get started with this, Ill have to tell everyone that I have decide to definitely keep my day job! I am not fit for this work! On Friday night, I settled into my seat only to realize that I had no pen with which to write down the setlist. Then I realized that I had a heavy-point sharpie and a used envelope with me so I used that. It looked after the first set like a series of Rorschach (?) ink blots and I have still not figured out yet what all I wrote down for that first set. Then, when the second set started, I reached down under my seat and the pen was not there anymore! So I tried in vain to use clever little mnemonic devices to remember the set list but, I fell again into the Lucy spell after about five songs, and could not remember a THING from that point on.until the brain clicked-on again while driving home in the dark on the interstate. Saturday gave the opportunity to do things rightI still forgot my pen but one of my companions had one. I wrote everything down: setlists, anecdotes, fashion notes..but when I got home, the paper was not with me anymore! Honestly, I cannot figure this out! But I am duty bound by Benay to charge ahead regardless, even with no notes! Friday was special because I brought my rock-collecting 7-year-old to the show and he had in his mind for several days that he was going to give Lucy some of the amethyst he had found in Canada in late August. I decided to give her a specimen that I had found as well. She said, Oh wow! Did you know it was my birthstone? At the signing table, I asked her to show me what kind of protective footwear she was wearing before signing something for me. Then I handed over to her a flat, perfectly elliptical piece of basalt from my backyard (to sign), saying I think signing rocks is going to be the next big thing! That got a laugh, as did the photocopy of Benays rock signing parody song Broken Toes I gave her at that time. Lucy went on considerably about her fear and loathing of bugs of all types. I dont even like butterflies that much. They may be pretty, but theres still a big bug in the middle! The set lists for both Friday evening in the small town an hour north of here and the Saturdays big city show were surprisingly similar. But the SOUND of the shows was very much different. It is hard to describe what a guitarist like Jon Herrington (or Ben Butler for that matter) brings to a Lucy show: The sound not only becomes much fuller, but Lucy gets more relaxed, more confident, and more rockinsomething similar to the enhanced self-esteem a 98 pound weakling walking down the beach alone gets when he walks instead with a popular and attractive companion. John goes on and off the stage but its clear that the whole show gets a lift. It was fun watching Lucy just close her eyes and hammer out rhythm guitar while following Jons soaring solo flights. This was especially true tonight on Buddy Millers Hole In My Head, which in my opinion should be on her next CD, and the piano-guitar duet she did with Jon on If You Could See. She told the funny story about the Beatles workshop at FRFF when she had to quick think up a different cover because both her and some un-named act ahead of her (The Paperboys) were only prepared to do Ive Just Seen a Face. She continued, So, with like two minutes to prepare, I figured I could try this one.and now Im going to lay it on Jon! (laughter) He just ripped Im Looking Through You. I must say, he is one cool cat and a consummate professional. Both shows began in pretty much the same fashion, with the new Greg Brown cover Small Dark Movie, Written On the Back of His Hand, Dont Mind Me, Ten Year Night, and Guilty As Sin, though not in the same order both nights. Both shows had that Beatles cover, dads Alphabet Song, Land Of the Living, By Way of Sorrow, Loch Lomand, Five in the Morning, Scorpion, The Kid, and the two new songs, I Had Someone, and This is Home. (TO BE CONTINUED) - ------ http://USFamily.Net/info - Unlimited Internet - From $8.99/mo! ------ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 01:42:48 -0500 From: etimo@usfamily.net Subject: [lucy-list] The Rest of the Story... Both shows began in pretty much the same fashion, with the new Greg Brown cover Small Dark Movie, Written On the Back of His Hand, Dont Mind Me, Ten Year Night, and Guilty As Sin, though not in the same order both nights. Both shows had that Beatles cover, dads Alphabet Song, Land Of the Living, By Way of Sorrow, Loch Lomand, Five in the Morning, Scorpion, The Kid, and the two new songs, I Had Someone, and This is Home. Both evenings had a baby grand piano on stage and the numbers she chose were Just You Tonight on Friday night and Hot Burrito #1 on Saturday night and If You Could See on both nightswith Jon duet-ing with her on electric guitar Saturday night. On Friday, she pulled out her new Judy Collins cover, Someday Soon and also did Broken Things. She encored that night with My Name Joe, which strangely enough actually sounds better live solo than the album version does with full productionits certainly more engaging. Other songs she did on Saturday only were Turn The Lights Back On, Goodnight, and Song For Molly, which were the final three songs that night. Lucy did an uncharacteristic thing Saturday night in that she changed outfits at intermission! I guess her NEW pair of brown leather pants (ertrousers) were way too warm up there and she jumped into the hippie-dippy embroidered blue denim jeans she had worn Friday. If you look closely enough, youll see that those jeans have little glitter sparkles all over the legs! My friend Dennis wanted to have Lucy sign a CD Hed purchased so I waited around with him afterward. I wanted her to her sign a photo I had taken of me sitting with the Lucy statue at the Science Museum of Minnesotathe one where Lucy is sitting at her "Psychiatric Help 5 cents -- The Doctor is in booth. (There are over a hundred Lucy statues on display around St. Paul right now to honor the creator of the Peanuts cartoon gang, Charles Shultz) In the photo, I am sitting on a little stool they built into the front of Lucys advice booth. When she saw the photo, Lucy said Wow! This would make a great album cover! (dij` vu?). I got her to sign it, Rx (like a prescription, get it?) Dr. Kaplansky. Lucy has a VERY interesting and funny new story about her mom and dads early courtship days and how many of the mathematicians mentioned in the book A Beautiful Mind were real folks walking through all of their lives back then. The guy mentioned in the first page of that book, George (?) Mackie, was included in a story about the outrageous barbs that mom and dad used to sling at each other. I think I should leave the story for Lucy to tell, however. Tomorrow at 3:00 PM is a quick festival appearance by Lucy in my hometown. The weather looks to be favorable. Sunny and in the mid sixties. Not quite like FRFF in July, but not bad for the here and now! Etimothy in south Minneapolis - ------ http://USFamily.Net/info - Unlimited Internet - From $8.99/mo! ------ ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V4 #212 ******************************* 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