From: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org (mad-mission-digest) To: mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Subject: mad-mission-digest V4 #101 Reply-To: mad-mission@smoe.org Sender: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk * If you ever wish to unsubscribe, send an email to * mad-mission-digest-request@smoe.org * with ONLY the word unsubscribe in the body of the email * . * For the latest information on Patty's tour dates, go to: * http://www.quackquack.net/patttyg * OR * go to http://www.amrecords.com * then click "tour" and fill in the blanks :) * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: mad-mission-digest V4 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. mad-mission-digest Sunday, April 9 2000 Volume 04 : Number 101 Today's Subjects: ----------------- MM: Patty in NH ["Gary Jacques" ] Re: MM: Patty in NH [Scubagrrl@aol.com] Re: MM: Patty In Lebanon, NH [Redcuillin@aol.com] MM: Patty Freaks go the Distance! [UMCaner74@aol.com] Re: MM: Patty Freaks go the Distance! [runrunrun@dellmail.com] MM: To those w/a CD or know great Folk-Rock females ["Darren Holmquist" <] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 09:11:55 -0400 From: "Gary Jacques" Subject: MM: Patty in NH The Evil one and his wife Sandra just returned from the Patty show in Lebanon N.H. Patty has got a new guitar. A silver electric job that she had a mellow 60's reverb kinda thing happening with. Used it for the opening two songs, Mad Mission and Poor man's house. It was haunting. Did a bunch off the new CD..Perfect White girls, Little God, So Long, Making Pies ..what else..Mountain top, Sweet Loraine, her take on Bob Dylan's Tomorrow & Bruce Springstein ..Nebraska..and Hell I'm so tied I can't remember the rest. Patty looked and sounded great. Hope all that were there enjoyed. 1/4 of the audience got up and left 3/4 of the way through the show. It was a fund raiser..human services..and half the crowd was made up of Rotary club members and their wife. Who had of course purchased the tickets as an obligation. Then left when the wife "Babs" got a little tired they hit the road. YUCK! It made me sick thinking how many on this board have never seen Patty. The good news I moved from row 12 to row 5. It's the little pleasures you know. Peace Evil Gary ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 12:47:08 EDT From: Scubagrrl@aol.com Subject: Re: MM: Patty in NH For those of you who didn't see Patty last night in NH, what a great show. As a resident of the state, I had only an hour and a half drive to make in order to catch it, and it was also my first live Patty experience. She did look great, wearing this shimmery flame colored Hindu skirt thing with combat boots and her leather jacket. The songs I recognized such as Sweet Lorraine, Tony, Poor Man's House, etc., sounded new and fresh somehow. I couldn't have dared to hope she would do Mary or One More Girl, but she did both and made my life complete. All the new songs off her hopefully soon to be coming new CD were also fantastic. Even as I rolled my eyes when she announced a new song inspired by Johnny Cash, I soon strained forward to catch every beautiful word of the song called So Long. I would have to agree with Evil Gary that the PTA people who left the show before it was over missed possibly the best songs done toward the end. She came back on and explained the title of a new song for her encore, entitled Truth number 2. In fact, she prefaced many of the new songs with sweet little stories or anecdotes, and trailed off softly to just sing the song. She talked about her grandmother, her dog and the best part of the show in my humble opinion is when she picked up her mini Casio keyboard, purchased cheaply at a second hand store, and said "Look what it can do." She launched into a quick little disco/rap beat song punctuated by prerecorded dog barks. The smile on her face and the laughter of the audience was priceless. So, I'm rambling I suppose, but I'm still enamored of my first Patty show and quite possibly will be on cloud nine for some time. The only negative thing I could say about the show would be to mention the idiot who yelled out "We are water!" the minute Patty stepped on stage and continued to do so until the end of the show. Patty didn't do the song, and I'm almost glad because that jerk didn't deserve to hear it. Other than that very small thing, the show, Patty and her voice were all beautiful. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 13:07:13 EDT From: Redcuillin@aol.com Subject: Re: MM: Patty In Lebanon, NH In a message dated 4/8/00 1:36:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org writes: > Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 05:18:27 GMT > From: "Mary Abigail Ardini" > Subject: MM: Patty In Lebanon, NH > > Hey Mad Missioners, > > I just got home from the Patty show in NH. I live outside of Boston and it > was a hike up to the middle of nowhere NH, but sooooooo worth it. This was > the first time I have ever seen Patty live. She was amazing. I had so much > > fun. She played a lot of her new stuff that is going on the new album. I > am so glad I got a chanve to see her and I can't wait for the chance to > hopefully see her again!!! > > Mary so having made the trek from boston, what did you think of her new song of the same name? i thought the show was excellent. ed gerhard was also awesome- i hadn't seen him since his hair was short (about 6 years ago). i brought two friends who had never heard patty's music before and after last night, there are now two more patty fans in this world. they were both absolutely enthralled. it's going to be a loooooong summer knowing that the new cd won't be available until fall. (p.s.- thanks for visiting our great state of NowHere) - -reuben ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 19:50:08 EDT From: UMCaner74@aol.com Subject: MM: Patty Freaks go the Distance! Hey guys, Well, I'm writing to give you all a detailed story of my trip to the Lebanon, NH show.. in which Myself, Don, and Karla, along with a friend of mine Corina all made the trip from PA and Maryland to see Patty in beautiful yet COLD New Hampshire! The day started early, as Don left his place in Pittsburgh around 1am (early Sat. morning) and arrived at my place in Harrisburg at 6am. The only way I can start out is saying.. Wow, what an exciting and perfect day! The trip up included a discussion (and a wild idea) of visiting Old Towne, Maine (the town in which Patty grew up). It was about a 180 mile drive from Lebanon, but not really all that far considering the great trek we had already been on. Eventually we decided it was going to cut things close time-wise.. so we had to give up on our idea of stopping by to give Patty's mother an Apple Pie.. :-) Since we didn't go to Maine, we got to the Opera House (which does double duty as the City Hall..) at around 5:15 or so. We had driven by the place about 5 times before realizing that the building that has a sign proclaiming it as being "City Hall" may actually ALSO be the Opera House! All in all, the town was bearing a striking resemblance to the square in Hazzard County. I was fully prepared to duck out of the way of a speeding Bo and Luke Duke speeding by me in the General Lee! Being that "the Dukes" was a show based in the south, It was almost surreal how the center of Lebanon reminded me of the the center city in Hazzard County. When we walked up to the venue, Karla and Corina thankfully took it upon themselves to walk right through the doors like they knew what they were doing. Don and I followed their lead, and as we walked through the doors and into the seating area, Low and Behold, the Fabulous Patty Jean was lugging in her equipment at that VERY moment! She didn't have an assistant or anything with her, so we just stood back (in the dark area of the room) and watched her set everything up... After getting her gear set up, her and the soundguy (who did an AMAZING job by the way) got the sound of her guitars, her $5 Casio keyboard, and her voice down. She sang Boston, Top of the World (the most beautiful Patty song EVER), Night, and that song about driving.. I can't recall the name. She was looking so sweet up there! Since I don't know women's hairstyles too well, you girls that were there can correct me if my terminology is wrong.. but she had her hair pulled back into what I would call a pig tail on each side. She looked like a little school girl up there, SO cute! Her beautiful curly red hair sticking out at the sides.. During sound check she had on these cool brown/beige colored leather pants, with some kind of an oriental looking design on the front of both pant legs around the shins. She was wearing her usual black leather jacket as well. For the show, she changed into a pinkish colored dress, with the combat boots that were described (SEXY), with her hair styled the same way as soundcheck. After soundcheck was over, Karla went down and invited Patty to dinner with us. Patty declined due to having to work on her new songs, as she said "I need to go back and bang on my guitar for awhile". I met Melissa (fellow MM'er) as the show was getting ready to start. I must say that she is a very pretty girl.. I was almost scared to talk to her at first! :-) Then I remembered from emailing and such that she IS a very sweet girl, so I didn't really have to be too scared.. As far as Patty's performance goes, my personal standout performances included One More Girl, Top of The World, and Boston, and the new song influenced by Johnny Cash. Every song was great though, and a really cute moment came when she forgot the lyrics to the Springsteen cover "Nebraska". She just stopped singing and playing, and looked up to the ceiling with one of those *oh my god I can't believe this is happening looks* for a quick moment before the lyrics came to her! It was a typical Patty moment that we have all come to know and love! She also told a very funny story about a new Flaming Red colored guitar strap that she had gotten. I can't remember the exact story (help here Karla and Don!), but it went something like this. A fan in NY gave her the strap. She said that she DID have a pair of shoes that would have matched the strap pefectly.. "but wouldn't you know it, I sold all my shoes, including that pair only a few days before the strap was given to me"! Patty also made a great point to which I think we can all learn from. She was talking about how special great musicians like Johnny Cash are. She commented on how fortunate we are to actually be on this earth at the same time that these people are making such great music. It immediately made me feel VERY lucky to be here now, while Patty is touching all of us with her wonderful music! It also just made me feel fortunate that I can embark on such a journey, and that I have 3 cool people that I can do such things with! I just thought I'd share this comment of hers, since something like that can make you look at the things going on in your life in a totally different light. My day ended today around 9:30 am when we returned home from the show! All in all, it was a 29 hour "Patty trip", and a much longer one for Don and Corina, who must be commended because she's not even an MM'er! Anyway, that's my review! Hope everyone is having a great weekend! Dave.. "a proud member of the Patty Warriors" ***************************************************************** May you dream you are dreaming, in a warm soft bed And may the voices inside you that fill you with dread Make the sound of thousands of angels instead Tonight where you might be laying your head ~~ Patty Griffin ~~ **************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:33:51 -0400 (EDT) From: runrunrun@dellmail.com Subject: Re: MM: Patty Freaks go the Distance! VERY EXCELLENT REVIEW, DAVE!!!!! I thoroughly enjoyed it! You even told us what she was wearing - how totally cool! This is my favorite part: > She > was talking about how special great musicians like Johnny Cash are. She > commented on how fortunate we are to actually be on this earth at the same > time that these people are making such great music. It immediately made me > feel VERY lucky to be here now, while Patty is touching all of us with her > wonderful music! Did she mention Tom Waits???????????? He'd be my hero..............just wondering..... living with ghosts, ((*.*))darcie. - -------------------------------------------------------- Get your free DellMail address at http://www.dellnet.com ------------------------------ Date: 8 Apr 2000 09:00:34 -0700 From: "Darren Holmquist" Subject: MM: To those w/a CD or know great Folk-Rock females I'd like to add the name Mary Lou Lord to that list. Mary Lou is going back to the Indie World after her brush with big business. Timing wasn't on her side for her big time release this time around. She plays around the Boston area alot. If you get the chance, please take it and go see her. Also, I might be interested in doing a track for the covers tape. I'm producing the Tribute CD on another list, and haven't had time to record a track for that one! Peace, Darren ------------------------------ End of mad-mission-digest V4 #101 *********************************