From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V6 #108 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, June 12 2004 Volume 06 : Number 108 In this issue: [lucy-list] Lucy, live! Now, online, from Club Passim!!! [lucy-list] Lucy at Club Passim 6/11-Internet review [lucy-list] and here's why the late notice... Re: [lucy-list] Lucy at Club Passim 6/11-Internet review ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 20:16:41 -0400 From: Benay Bubar Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy, live! Now, online, from Club Passim!!! OK, so I've been derelict in my duties in remembering and reminding the list before the fact (you wouldn't believe the week I've had even if I told you...and later on I might!)...but she's on NOW (8 p.m. EST, Friday)! No video, but there IS audio! If anyone can record, please do: www.clubpassim.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:49:48 -0400 From: Benay Bubar Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy at Club Passim 6/11-Internet review Well, did anybody else hear it? In any case, I'll go ahead and do the review... The venue was Club Passim, in Harvard Square. Quite a crowd, based on the audience noise. Lucy was wearing...well, no way to know, but from her comments one could infer that she might have on jeans (she mentioned that some state---from an Internet search, this turns out to be Louisiana---may be banning low-riding jeans) and a sleeveless shirt (near the end, she showed the audience her muscles). It was almost a two-hour show, with great sound (at least, pretty great over a cable modem!). The set list was as follows: He Thinks I Still Care Written on the Back of His Hand The Tide Five in the Morning Ten Year Night (comment that last Saturday was her and Rick's 16th anniversary) (discussion of Molly, who was asleep at the hotel, and how going on a trip with Molly is like "packing for the space shuttle") The Red Thread Scorpion Don't Mind Me Brooklyn Train (on piano---this was probably, I couldn't help reflecting, the first time Brooklyn Train could be heard live FROM Brooklyn---it didn't exist yet the one time Lucy played here) I Had Something Line in the Sand Ring of Fire (!!!) (tuning, with comment that driving in Boston was worse than driving in NYC) End of the Day (more about Molly---how she's showing signs of "the terrible twos," rocking impatiently in her chair when Lucy doesn't feed her fast enough...but also being incredibly cute, "scooching" down anything that looks like stairs on her backside even when there's only a tiny rise in the ground) This Is Home Land of the Living Willy (on piano)!!! (discussion of how Lucy wrote her first song at 10, then her brother Spike taught her Here Comes the Sun on guitar at 11) More Than This (discussion of her dad, who is now 87) Song About Pi (with mnemonic, which someone in the audience actually asked Lucy to repeat after the song was over!) Guinevere Encore: By Way of Sorrow (mention of Ray Charles's death, and how they had listened to Ray Charles in the car and Molly loved it) (mention of Molly's coming to Falcon Ridge) Encore: Just You Tonight (on piano) It was a lovely show, especially since I could eat ice cream from my own freezer while listening! Lucy sounded very relaxed and kept asking for requests...it was hard to remember that from Brooklyn, I couldn't make any! I tried my hand at psychic requests, willing her to play If You Could See, or I'm Looking Through You, or Return of the Grievous Angel, or Edges (the long shot rarity that I've still never heard), and of course she did NONE of those---but I could hardly complain about all that she DID do! Anyway, I hope you all are still out there, whether you heard this show or not---this list has been way too quiet for way too long! Benay ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 23:12:22 -0400 From: Benay Bubar Subject: [lucy-list] and here's why the late notice... OK, so I'm sorry I forgot to mention the potential (and, as it turned out, actual) Club Passim stream to the list in advance...but hey, you might have been preoccupied too if the following were true for you: 1. You discover mice---plural---in your apartment. You kill two of them, separately, in scenarios too awful to describe on a family-oriented music-fan list. You rapidly transform the place into a shrine to rodent repulsion, a testing ground for every possible means of rodent demise; each re-entry becomes a slow scan of the premises for mouse signs; every sound gains the potential to be a squeak. It does cross your mind to wonder how your Ten Year Night parody, Bug Fear Night, would end up if it were rewritten to involve mice instead of waterbugs (the previous scourge), but you are really too freaked out to even try. (Yes, mice can be cute. But they are cute OUTDOORS, not when they suddenly decide to live with you in an apartment with no interior doors.) 2. During a crazily busy work day, you dash out for a midafternoon snack, dash back, and head up to your 8th-floor desk again, alone in the elevator...only to hear a sickeningly loud grinding, grating noise and feel the elevator jerk to a sudden halt. You push one button and then another, including "fire" and "security"...and absolutely nothing happens. There is tomblike silence. After a few minutes of button-pushing experiments, you progress to pounding and screaming. You wonder whether anybody you work with will realize you are gone. Finally, after what's probably only five minutes of banging and yelling but feels like much longer, the intercom crackles to life and you are told there is a mechanic on the way...driving over from somewhere else. This takes a while. (The mechanic, they inform you, is having trouble finding a place to park.) You wait. And you wait. At long last, after you've been trapped for just under an hour, the mechanic and his cohort slowly jimmy open the elevator door...and you come face to face with their knees, given that you happen to be smack between the fifth and sixth floors. This not being an action movie, you politely reject their attempts to simply haul you out by the arms, so the cohort goes off to hunt down a ladder as you tremulously contemplate what sort of small talk to make with your heroic rescuer, who is aged and balding and looks actually fairly bored by the whole thing (except when he waves the two ends of the thoroughly broken elevator belt in your face by way of explanation of the problem...which, incidentally, leaves you uncomfortably uncertain about exactly what technology is currently preventing you from crashing down five stories to the basement). "Thank you for coming!" you finally gush brightly, as if the mechanic were a surprise guest at a cocktail party you just happened to hold in a stalled elevator. "It's my JOB, ma'am," he replies in a totally flat voice that holds no emotion whatsoever. OK, then. The cohort returns with the ladder not a moment too soon, and you are officially, if inelegantly, rescued. You return to your desk, somewhat shakily...via the stairs...and find that, sure enough, no one quite noticed that you were missing. 3. All of the above occurs within the same week, during which you also happen to be working on the production of three magazines concurrently in those periods when you are NOT trapped in elevators or fighting mice... Yup, I have to say the Club Passim Lucy show was not the foremost thing on my mind this week...but nice to have caught the show at the last minute. Benay (kind of wondering if this list still actually exists or if I'm now just here hallucinating to myself...which might not surprise me that much at this point!) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 20:42:11 -0700 From: "Gina" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Lucy at Club Passim 6/11-Internet review Benay, I think only John Gorka takes mental requests. He encourages them at his concerts. Gina - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Benay Bubar" To: Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 7:49 PM Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy at Club Passim 6/11-Internet review > Well, did anybody else hear it? In any case, I'll go ahead and do the > review... > > The venue was Club Passim, in Harvard Square. Quite a crowd, based on > the audience noise. Lucy was wearing...well, no way to know, but from > her comments one could infer that she might have on jeans (she > mentioned that some state---from an Internet search, this turns out to > be Louisiana---may be banning low-riding jeans) and a sleeveless shirt > (near the end, she showed the audience her muscles). > > It was almost a two-hour show, with great sound (at least, pretty great > over a cable modem!). The set list was as follows: > > He Thinks I Still Care > Written on the Back of His Hand > The Tide > Five in the Morning > Ten Year Night > (comment that last Saturday was her and Rick's 16th anniversary) > (discussion of Molly, who was asleep at the hotel, and how going on a > trip with Molly is like "packing for the space shuttle") > The Red Thread > Scorpion > Don't Mind Me > Brooklyn Train (on piano---this was probably, I couldn't help > reflecting, the first time Brooklyn Train could be heard live FROM > Brooklyn---it didn't exist yet the one time Lucy played here) > I Had Something > Line in the Sand > Ring of Fire (!!!) > (tuning, with comment that driving in Boston was worse than driving in > NYC) > End of the Day > (more about Molly---how she's showing signs of "the terrible twos," > rocking impatiently in her chair when Lucy doesn't feed her fast > enough...but also being incredibly cute, "scooching" down anything that > looks like stairs on her backside even when there's only a tiny rise in > the ground) > This Is Home > Land of the Living > Willy (on piano)!!! > (discussion of how Lucy wrote her first song at 10, then her brother > Spike taught her Here Comes the Sun on guitar at 11) > More Than This > (discussion of her dad, who is now 87) > Song About Pi (with mnemonic, which someone in the audience actually > asked Lucy to repeat after the song was over!) > Guinevere > Encore: By Way of Sorrow > (mention of Ray Charles's death, and how they had listened to Ray > Charles in the car and Molly loved it) > (mention of Molly's coming to Falcon Ridge) > Encore: Just You Tonight (on piano) > > It was a lovely show, especially since I could eat ice cream from my > own freezer while listening! Lucy sounded very relaxed and kept asking > for requests...it was hard to remember that from Brooklyn, I couldn't > make any! I tried my hand at psychic requests, willing her to play If > You Could See, or I'm Looking Through You, or Return of the Grievous > Angel, or Edges (the long shot rarity that I've still never heard), and > of course she did NONE of those---but I could hardly complain about all > that she DID do! > > Anyway, I hope you all are still out there, whether you heard this show > or not---this list has been way too quiet for way too long! > > Benay ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V6 #108 ******************************* 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