From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V4 #250 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 Wednesday, October 30 2002 Volume 04 : Number 250 In this issue: [lucy-list] benay on my radio Re: [lucy-list] benay on my radio [lucy-list] Aliens abducted me and took me to the Makor Re: [lucy-list] benay's performance Re: [lucy-list] benay's performance Re: [lucy-list] Albany listers (was: benay's performance) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:40:33 -0500 From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] benay on my radio Hey benay... you sounded a bit nervous, i had to kick the staff out of my office so i could hear you.. you sounded smart, just nervous and then i got to hear 10 year night 10am hour.... 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: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 08:17:11 -0800 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] benay on my radio You're kidding...they've played it TWICE already and I've missed it BOTH times??!! (But wow, Sharon---I got you to kick your staff out to hear me? I'm honored...) Well, probably better that I didn't hear it...ignorance is probably bliss in this case. And yes, I probably did sound nervous...in part because the call so I could record it came much later than it was supposed to and I was going to be WAY late for work so I had to say everything right in one take. Also, I'm afraid, as my beleagered high school drama teacher could attest ("Breathe, Benay! BREATHE!"---and that wasn't even when I had a SPEAKING role), I am not exactly a natural performer. So, there goest any furtive plans of mine for a breakout radio career. Guess I will leave the performing to Lucy and all the others who do it so well. But my little radio gig was fun anyway...and at least it's gotten Ten Year Night played twice! Benay ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:55:51 -0600 From: "Timothy Bruce" Subject: [lucy-list] Aliens abducted me and took me to the Makor >>>I have seen lucy sing and richard play and ive seen lucy do the harmony on MM.. was it makor???Benay werent you there?<<< This was one of the LONGEST days I've ever experienced with the July 19, 2000 pre-Falcon Ridge shows at the Makor--a Lucy/Richard double bill--in the middle somewhere. The day I woke up at 5:00 AM to fly to Lucy Land and got a FREE parking spot right outside the Makor front door with my rental car (so I could aimlessly wander Central Park just after a rainstorm before the show). The night I met SharonG for the first time and later spent 45 minute driving aimlessly around her Brooklyn neighborhood at 2:30 AM looking for a parking spot (with Great Scot Dave Mackay). The night I gave a NYC pedestrian a ride home from the show and when she said, "It's just around the corner....take a right at the light" I found myself facing the wrong way down Broadway facing six lanes of hostile traffic! They sure don't make days like that anymore! Darn! While my MEMORY of the show is not that great, a review of the show by Paul Rafanello. (July 23, 2000 in the Lucy stax) stated that Lucy encored in the first show with Mary Magdalene and Richard joined her on harmonies. It seems reasonable to me. Timothy (already scheming to find a way to use his 105,000 frequent flier miles to do another Lucy junket) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 21:35:39 EST From: Pashonfish@aol.com Subject: Re: [lucy-list] benay's performance Ah.... Come on everyone! We know that Benay's performance art is her words right here on our list. I couldn't ask for more. She keeps me constantly entertained and it seems like it's effortlessly. No evidence of nervousness when the lady is BREATH - ing among friends! Sarah ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:41:08 -0500 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] benay's performance > Ah.... Come on everyone! We know that Benay's performance art is her words > right here on our list. I couldn't ask for more. She keeps me constantly > entertained and it seems like it's effortlessly. No evidence of nervousness > when the lady is BREATH - ing among friends! > Sarah *blush* And to think I only had to pay Sarah a SMALL fee for that. :-) Since this lovely subject line has presented itself, and since we do not seem to be talking about LUCY'S performances just now (is there truly NO one from the Albany area on this list???), this might be the time to strike fear into all of your hearts by announcing that, while there are no Bleecker Street bars or tiny stages in my near future, I, Benay Bubar, may soon be attaining...a borrowed guitar. (Lucy-list, collectively, shudders.) No, really! Me! A guitar! The real, non-air kind! (Lucy-list shudders again and emits small, pained whimper.) The vast majority of you can relax because I can assure you that you will never, ever have to see or hear me with said guitar...the whole idea can remain, for you, merely a somewhat frightening fantasy. I have actually never HELD a guitar before, much less attempted to play one, and the likelihood that I would ever do so in front of any audience at all is pretty much nil. (Unless you count the waterbugs hidden in my apartment as an audience---hmmm, me with a guitar might scare them away once and for all!) I will admit that it is cheering to cling to the minor hope that if and when I do pick up the instrument, I will discover some heretofore unknown guitar genius within myself. However, I suppose any probing I may do for hidden musical talent will most likely mirror my unsuccessful lifelong quest for "my" sport---that is, an athletic endeavor at which I might be, if not naturally talented, then at least not a total mess. Having abjectly and embarrassingly failed at all sports I've tried, I am continually forced to refocus my fantasies of athletic talent on activities I have never attempted. Javelin throwing? Pole vaulting? Curling? The list keeps narrowing...but who knows, I could be an as-yet-untested champion at SOMETHING! (Actually, in my defense, I showed some early promise at badminton, pogo-stick jumping, and miniature golf...but alas, never on a competitive level. That is, it was hard to figure out how to compete with anybody on a pogo stick; my preferred method in badminton was to send the birdie sailing lazily back and forth in long, swooping arcs that never exactly got the adrenaline flowing; and I never could locate any high-stakes miniature golf tournaments.) Anyway, the POINT is...what WAS my point?...oh, yes...I figure that before I've managed to completely dash my hopes of guitar success---that is, in that short halcyon period before I've spent enough time with an actual guitar to come to the likely unavoidable conclusion that one such as me should never, ever pick up a guitar (and we won't even discuss singing!)---well, maybe I will manage to painstakingly learn, say, three chords. And that ought to be just enough for me to write a few extremely simplistic, terrible songs that will never see the light of day...but I assure you they will all be nicely rhymed and will feature impeccable grammar! And really, what more could I desire? For now, back to your regularly scheduled Lucy discussions...with gratitude that Lucy managed to discover HER talents with her voice and a guitar! Benay ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 00:10:59 EST From: Fantine729@aol.com Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Albany listers (was: benay's performance) In a message dated 10/29/2002 11:46:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, benruth@earthlink.net writes: > (is there truly NO one > from the Albany area on this list???) I grew up outside of Albany and frequently road-trip from Boston, thanks to the free accommodations available to me, but, having just spent the other weekend in Albany for the sisters Nields, this past weekend saw me at home in Boston. I did, however, see Lucy in Sturbridge Saturday night at Old Sturbridge Village. I'm fairly certain I was the only Lucy lister there, as when she asked if anyone was on her mailing list (her announcement list, not the LL), I was the only one who raised her hand. It was nice to see Lucy again, but the sound was really awful during the first set (they fixed it for the second set, thankfully). Her set list was pretty similar to what she's been performing lately, without any of the piano standards, as there was no piano handy. It was my boyfriend's first real full Lucy concert (he'd seen her throughout the festival season, though), and he enjoyed her too. Peace, Sheila ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V4 #250 ******************************* 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