From: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org (mad-mission-digest) To: mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Subject: mad-mission-digest V6 #244 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.pattygriffin.net/PattyInConcert.html * OR * go to http://www.atorecords.com * . * 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 V6 #___ gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. mad-mission-digest Thursday, June 27 2002 Volume 06 : Number 244 Today's Subjects: ----------------- MM: Re: Patty at Villa Montalvo and, God h elp me, Gary is right ["V Chen] Re: MM: Patty at Villa Montalvo and, God he lp me, Gary is right [LouAnn ] Re: MM: Burning Patty tickets ["Karla Frisco" ] Re:MM: AOL: Sessions [Jon Schneider ] MM: Patty at Jamfest [Jon Schneider ] MM: PATTY IN NYC [Kaycee973@aol.com] MM: Thaniks for the Harrisburg Reviews! [Jerry Skomer ] Re:MM: Pittsburgh possible extra ticket [Jon Schneider ] Re: MM: Patty at Villa Montalvo and, God he lp me, Gary is right [Flaming] Re: MM: Thaniks for the Harrisburg Reviews! [FlamingRed74@aol.com] Re: MM: Patty at Villa Montalvo and, God he lp me, Gary is right ["Lori ] MM: FW: Patty at Villa Montalvo and, God he lp me, Gary is right ["Matthe] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 20:18:38 -0700 From: "V Chenevey" Subject: MM: Re: Patty at Villa Montalvo and, God h elp me, Gary is right <<>> Amen. Life's all about priorities. Peace, Victoria ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 21:28:13 -0500 From: LouAnn Muhm Subject: Re: MM: Patty at Villa Montalvo and, God he lp me, Gary is right I cannot imagine a better time than taking his > free tickets and going to see an artist who is "singing for the ages." Sure > there are always practical concerns, but it seems that too many of us use > practicality to justify decisions that prevent us from "taking flight." True. I could have hijacked an airplane, or robbed a bank, or perhaps carjacked somebody. New jobs are easy toi get, and my kids probably wouldn't mind the foster home. What was I thinking? LouAnn ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 07:45:48 -0400 From: "Karla Frisco" Subject: Re: MM: Burning Patty tickets Oh God Gary, you did it again!!!! You are so evil......Keep the posts up, you crack me up! Peace, Karla - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. Click Here ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:59:20 GMT From: Jon Schneider Subject: Re:MM: AOL: Sessions Thanks for the headsup. Although the songs had poor sound and the video was virtually useless, the interview was one of the best I've heard. Just so you know, you can find it at aol keyword sessions. If anybody wants the specific link and I'll try to get it. Jon - ---------- Rockerpgh@aol.com writes: From: Rockerpgh@aol.com To: mad-mission@smoe.org Subject: MM: AOL: Sessions Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 00:10:53 EDT Don't forget to catch Patty on AOL Music: Sessions@AOL There is a "concert" with four songs and an interview. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:29:28 GMT From: Jon Schneider Subject: MM: Patty at Jamfest There is going to be an incredible festival in Louisville, KY Sept 20-22 which will include: Delbert McClinton, Richie Havens, Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Alison Brown, Buddy and Julie Miller and most importantly Patty Griffin and many others. Patty is headlining on Sunday Sept 22 probably around 5:30 p.m. Tickets will be available thru ticketmaster on July 20. I'll let you know when I get more details. Jon ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:45:57 -0400 From: Kaycee973@aol.com Subject: MM: PATTY IN NYC HOW DO I GET TIX? I FORGET THE NAME OF THE PLACE THAT ADVERTISED IT..... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 09:00:14 -0700 From: Jerry Skomer Subject: MM: Thaniks for the Harrisburg Reviews! Don, Dave, everybody: Hey, it was great to read everyone's reviews of the Harrisburg concert. Sounds like a good one. (Actually, I would be interested to know if anyone has ever seen a "bad" Patty Griffin concert?) At any rate, loved the nuances to be gleaned from the different perspectives. The details were delicious. Thanks a lot. Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:08:08 -0400 From: Scott Antall Subject: MM: Pittsburgh possible extra ticket I MAY (and I do stress the word MAY) have an extra ticket to Patty's taping of the World Cafe in Pittsburgh on Saturday. The show is at 4:00 and I think we have to be there no later than 3:30. Anyone interested? or should I burn it! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 16:15:36 GMT From: Jon Schneider Subject: Re:MM: Pittsburgh possible extra ticket Go ahead and burn it. There aren't any REAL fans in this group anyway. Jon - ---------- Scott Antall writes: From: Scott Antall To: "'mad-mission@smoe.org'" Subject: MM: Pittsburgh possible extra ticket Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:08:08 -0400 I MAY (and I do stress the word MAY) have an extra ticket to Patty's taping of the World Cafe in Pittsburgh on Saturday. The show is at 4:00 and I think we have to be there no later than 3:30. Anyone interested? or should I burn it! ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:21:28 -0400 From: "* Darcie *" Subject: MM: Blue haired grrl on Hbg. 'Da Burg. What can I say? Patty was at her HIGHEST that night. My favorite part was when she said "...old guitars have songs in them waiting to come out..." Such a beautiful comment. Speaking of beautiful, did she not look GORGEOUS? Like a beauty queen. I was at work that day and saw on the calendar there was a full moon supposed to happen that everning, and it was cool she noticed as well. Let me tell you all, such beautiful acoustics that she could play SOOOO lightly on the strings and it would come thru perfectly balanced with her voice. The Moon's Gonna Follow Me Home - how about that shit!!!!! Wow. I got at the Whitaker at like 4:30pm and around 5 heard her sound checking in the dressing room, so I ran up to the tip top balcony (me and my bud kristin, the chick selling merch for me that night) and heard Chief, Rain, Truth #2 and Goodbye. And then my heart starts beating a million miles an hour... She's very funny too. Very quiet when you meet/talk to her, but around the band and whatnot very comfy and funny. Love that band, like a mini orchestra. Was a pretty easy going night you know. The Whitaker takes very good care of their artists and audiences. Had flowers in the dressing room but no clock which pissed me off a *little* because I didn't finish the set then until 10 minutes before I went on. Trying to yank tights on 15 minutes before I went on, that's a funny sight. Me finally fully dressed, enter - House, (my bass player and bestest friend) he's like dude I'm so nervous for you. Thanks. Made me feel sooo much better. He was shaking I was shaking...we were all shaking.... Hell half that crowd knew me and I think they were all shaking too. But anybody that knows me knows I LOVE Patty and were very kind to me onstage. Thought I tripped on two cables when I walked out. Patty didn't see my show but the majority of her crew did. Her guitar tech picked up my stuff off stage too. :-) With me, I can be singing, and have no clue what my hands are doing, so Orphan was all crazy. Had to tune though so I did to make sure all was straight....hate outta tune geetars.... Maybe shouldn't have started with One Big Line but I did anyway.... Bottom line, I had the time of my life. I huge performance for me and something I had wanted to do for years. Finally. I still can't believe I did it. And sold alotta CDs too! Thank you all for being so patient and polite to me. It means so much. Meeting Patty was wild too. Got shuffled off into her dressing room where she's chillin drinking a glass of wine... And we took a few pictures, and I told her how much her music and her words mean to me, and that she's done alot to teach me just by reading her words. I told her I hope one day I'm able to put thoughts into words and words into music like she does. She was very cool. Even commented on my Summer Santa necklace. :~) It was a dream come true... Later than night half her band hung down at Epic (cool place), and she had dinner at the center city G Man. See that? Even took a little HBG into her system. What a great show. What a great night. Maybe next time. I'm sure she enjoyed herself that she will come back to the Whitaker. Lets hope soon!!! Thanks, ~darc http://www.darcieminerband.com p.s. "....i wish that you could see me when i'm flying in my dreams..." hey - that was me monday night!!!!!Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:26:04 EDT From: FlamingRed74@aol.com Subject: Re: MM: Patty at Villa Montalvo and, God he lp me, Gary is right lmuhm@unitelc.com writes: >True. I could have hijacked an airplane, or robbed a bank, or perhaps >carjacked somebody. New jobs are easy toi get, and my kids probably wouldn't >mind the foster home. What was I thinking?>> Ok, I normally don't weigh in on things like this because it's none of my business, & I stay out of things like this, but.. No one told anyone to rob anything, hijack anything, or send kids to the foster home to make a Patty show. What they were referring to is making a sacrifice to please yourself once in awhile, instead of taking life so seriously & never doing anything you want because of "more important responsibilities". The person that said people should make a sacrifice to go hear Patty sing for the ages was probably referring to someone who actually has days off work here or there. Mabye someone who doesn't work every hour of every day, someone who could find a babysitter for an evening, and treat themselves to free tickets offered up by a generous person on this list. Everyone has responsibilities. Some more than others. I don't see the problem, and can't understand why people have to bitch about Gary, Don, or myself going to see Patty play 30 times over the past 27 days if that was the case. It's our life, and 99% of the people here love the reviews. I know people on this list who have huge responsibilities, yet made immense sacrifices to make it to just a single Patty show that was half the east coast away. This does not make this person a better fan than anyone else, but sometimes it DOES get old for everyone here to have people bitching about never seeing Patty, yet those people are not willing to leave their own front porch to see her play.. This does NOT include our European friends, as I do have sympathy for them. Now, there are also people out there that simply don't have the means to go. Whether it be money, family problems or whatever.. family always comes first... and I can sympathize with them for simply not being able to go. Some of those people have posted saying they live vicariously through the reviews of those who are so generous to post here. What I'm saying is.. this was totally taken out of context. What the original poster was doing was encouraging someone to possibly find a babysitter for a night, or leave your responsibilities behind for a few hours & check out the greatest singer/songwriter of our time. When you're 30 years older and looking back on your life, you'll be glad you didn't pass up that one opportunity to see something special. Dave ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:43:35 EDT From: FlamingRed74@aol.com Subject: Re: MM: Thaniks for the Harrisburg Reviews! Jerry, Thanks for the kind words. Every time Patty takes the stage, it's magical. Monday night was just a little bit better than usual. Pristine venue, GREAT mix, enthusiastic crowd, incredibly talented opening act, and Patty in absolutely rare form. There was one Patty show that I went to that I was quite disappointed in. It was the FR tour, & She was opening this little festival thing in Baltimore. It was listed as her "full band", which was the case... but instead of the normal "rock band" she played with tuned down electrics guitars, & sometimes just switched to acoustic guitars instead. The sound was awful. She only got to play about 7 songs, and I'm serious.. you could not hear her voice AT ALL for the better part of 4 full songs. I was sitting there like.. "Uhmm.. did she lose her voice or is the sound man just stupid & thinks this is an instrumental ONLY band??" LOL I've been to 28 Patty shows, and this was the ONLY one that I've ever thought was a disappointment.. but no, I did not regret going. Those 3 songs that sounded great were well worth the drive to Baltimore! Dave ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:50:23 -0400 From: "Lori Garvey" Subject: Re: MM: Patty at Villa Montalvo and, God he lp me, Gary is right RIGHT ON MY BROTHER! - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Cc: Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 6:26 PM Subject: Re: MM: Patty at Villa Montalvo and, God he lp me, Gary is right > lmuhm@unitelc.com writes: > > >True. I could have hijacked an airplane, or robbed a bank, or perhaps > >carjacked somebody. New jobs are easy toi get, and my kids probably wouldn't > >mind the foster home. What was I thinking?>> > > Ok, I normally don't weigh in on things like this because it's none of my > business, & I stay out of things like this, but.. > > No one told anyone to rob anything, hijack anything, or send kids to the > foster home to make a Patty show. What they were referring to is making a > sacrifice to please yourself once in awhile, instead of taking life so > seriously & never doing anything you want because of "more important > responsibilities". > > The person that said people should make a sacrifice to go hear Patty sing for > the ages was probably referring to someone who actually has days off work > here or there. Mabye someone who doesn't work every hour of every day, > someone who could find a babysitter for an evening, and treat themselves to > free tickets offered up by a generous person on this list. > > Everyone has responsibilities. Some more than others. I don't see the > problem, and can't understand why people have to bitch about Gary, Don, or > myself going to see Patty play 30 times over the past 27 days if that was the > case. It's our life, and 99% of the people here love the reviews. > > I know people on this list who have huge responsibilities, yet made immense > sacrifices to make it to just a single Patty show that was half the east > coast away. This does not make this person a better fan than anyone else, > but sometimes it DOES get old for everyone here to have people bitching about > never seeing Patty, yet those people are not willing to leave their own front > porch to see her play.. This does NOT include our European friends, as I do > have sympathy for them. > > Now, there are also people out there that simply don't have the means to go. > Whether it be money, family problems or whatever.. family always comes > first... and I can sympathize with them for simply not being able to go. > Some of those people have posted saying they live vicariously through the > reviews of those who are so generous to post here. > > What I'm saying is.. this was totally taken out of context. What the > original poster was doing was encouraging someone to possibly find a > babysitter for a night, or leave your responsibilities behind for a few hours > & check out the greatest singer/songwriter of our time. When you're 30 years > older and looking back on your life, you'll be glad you didn't pass up that > one opportunity to see something special. > > Dave ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:57:49 +0100 From: "Matthew Smith" Subject: MM: FW: Patty at Villa Montalvo and, God he lp me, Gary is right There is the small matter of being the wrong side of the atlantic. I am a jobless postgraduate conservation student and so have nethier the time nor the money to go chasing Patty, or anybody else, around the USA (Unlike Don; Are you A trustafarian or something Don? Or just stinking rich and retired?) Some of us also have a life to get on with, so we can eventually pay for the CD's and concert tickets. EM - -----Original Message----- From: owner-mad-mission@smoe.org [mailto:owner-mad-mission@smoe.org]On Behalf Of Jerry Skomer Sent: 26 June 2002 17:48 To: 'mad-mission@smoe.org' Subject: MM: Patty at Villa Montalvo and, God help me, Gary is right One more thing: As much as I am sympathetic to those of you who complained about Gary's exhortations about getting out to see Patty, I have to say I agree with him. (And we all knew he wasn't really going to burn the tickets, didn't we? Indeed, he gave them to Don to give away.) But his point stands. A person can spend a lifetime making excuses why s/he didn't do something they really wanted to do. I cannot imagine a better time than taking his free tickets and going to see an artist who is "singing for the ages." Sure there are always practical concerns, but it seems that too many of us use practicality to justify decisions that prevent us from "taking flight." As trite as it sounds, life is short and what do you want to remember when you die--one more thing that you did on a dreary work week, or some adventure you took, pursuing the sweet sounds of one of the best singer/songwriters in America? Again, every person has a specific situation that may have prevented taking him up on Gary's offer, but he's right: If you want something enough, you can make it happen. It truly is a matter of desire. Jerry ------------------------------ End of mad-mission-digest V6 #244 *********************************