From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V4 #229 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 Saturday, October 5 2002 Volume 04 : Number 229 In this issue: Re: [lucy-list] woman's hour [lucy-list] air guitar [lucy-list] air guitar Re: [lucy-list] air guitar [lucy-list] Re: air guitar ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 05:05:31 -0500 From: "Richard Hill" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] woman's hour From Benay: <<"We'd like you to stick around, Lucy, and join in our discussion of air guitar." Did she really say that, or was I hallucinating? Was Lucy involved in anything else on the show?>> Lucy may have felt that she was hallucinating (that the discussion was taking place at all). However, here's the link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/30_09_02/thursday/info5.shtml ~R. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 08:27:04 -0400 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] air guitar Omigosh...it really WAS air guitar, JUST what I thought! Really, I was fully expecting to be told I just hadn't understood the interviewer's accent correctly and they'd actually gone on to discuss, say, architecture. Or else I thought perhaps there was some little-known, very specialized and sophisticated physical instrument known as the air guitar... But no...the topic was AIR GUITAR, in the very sense I suspected...with Lucy and this doctor of something-or-other and the female air guitar champion of England...for apparently there are really competitions whereby people play imaginary guitars. And, after helpfully establishing that it would not be useful for the female air guitar champion to play air guitar on the radio, as no one would be able to see(!), they actually had quite a serious discussion of guitar-playing, male and female role models, etc...apparently all while Lucy was holding her real guitar and this other woman was holding her IMAGINARY guitar. They even discussed air guitar TECHNIQUE...they all sounded almost perfectly sober about the whole thing, but I was cracking up the entire time I was listening and wondering if Lucy had had any trouble keeping it together. Two thoughts come out of this: 1. Here, at long last, is a possibility for a U.K.-related Lucy intro of 2002. I mean, perhaps Lucy has other ideas, but it's true that some of her best intros have come out of her U.K. jaunts---the Bryan Ferry story, the leather pants/Scotch story---and I'd been wondering what this year's contender(s) might be. Well, here we go. I mean, how often is it that a singer-songwriter goes on a show called Woman's Hour and discusses her own music and then finds herself immersed in a discussion of air guitar? No one would believe it...I sure didn't, until I heard it. I'm not sure what it would make a good intro TO, as Lucy plays ACTUAL guitar for all of her songs, but there must be SOME way to fit it in... 2. Perhaps I have finally found my calling. Here I've been thinking I'm fated to learn to play the guitar eventually through sheer exposure to singer-songwriters...well, perhaps there's no need. My air guitar career could begin at any time...hey, I already have the attire for it (the leather jacket, of course!). Look for my fall tour, coming to a city near you: Benay Bubar, Unplugged---and Un-Instrumented! Benay ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 09:52:46 -0400 From: Donna Myers Subject: [lucy-list] air guitar Thanks for the great reviews and the links to BBC Radio. The segment on the air guitar was hilarious. I'll admit that I used to play air guitar as a teen. I watched my older brother and thought he looked silly. Then I heard Blue Oyster Cult's, "Don't Fear the Reeper" on the radio and I started strumming on my air guitar....it felt reel good!! Maybe I can resume my air guitar playing and get some muscle definition in my arms. Donna ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:49:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Deb Woodell Subject: Re: [lucy-list] air guitar The dictionary of choice for the Associated Press Stylebook is the Webster's New World, 3rd College Edition, which is what I use at work. Just to show how air guitar has permeated our culture, the term is in that dictionary! I believe in being a versatile musician, so while I play real acoustic guitar, my air guitar is electric. Deb ===== You can take the rock band away from the girl and think you've tamed her. But, she'll just pick up an acoustic, give you that innocent little girl grin, quietly laugh and say? "Nevah!" New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:50:58 -0700 (PDT) From: simona loberant Subject: [lucy-list] Re: air guitar There are a whole host of air instruments. For instance I once saw someone playing an air cello. It has to be among the weirdest things I've ever seen. This guy had a real cello bow at the ballet and sat on a small folding stool in the aisle of the balcony where we were sitting. He then proceeded to play air cello througout the entire performance of Romeo and Juliet. From what I could see he seemed to be very good at air cello. I wonder if he has a real cello to go with the bow! :-) I'm a good air violin player, but my bow is also made of air. I only use a real bow when playing real violin.... I think using the bow on an air violin would just be tempting fate to poke my eye out. ~simona New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V4 #229 ******************************* 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