From: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org (mad-mission-digest) To: mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Subject: mad-mission-digest V5 #103 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/pattyg * 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 Monday, April 30 2001 Volume 05 : Number 103 Today's Subjects: ----------------- MM: Re: mad-mission-digest V5 #102 [Mauseee@aol.com] MM: Patty: Clandestine in Austin, TX [YoMamaaa@aol.com] MM: Re: Patty: Clandestine in Austin, TX ["Gary Jacques" ] MM: Response to Diane [MH ] Re: MM: Patty: Clandestine in Austin, TX [Danalee7@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 12:24:29 EDT From: Mauseee@aol.com Subject: MM: Re: mad-mission-digest V5 #102 I have a friend who wants to sign up for this list...I forgot how you sign up. Can anyone assist me? Michelle ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 13:04:30 EDT From: YoMamaaa@aol.com Subject: MM: Patty: Clandestine in Austin, TX Hi everyone... I'm a newcomer to the list, but wanted to share my recent Patty sighting... I got word of Patty appearing for a couple of songs singing BACKUP for one of her good friends, who is a local artist here in Austin, Mike Fracasso. It was at a small coffeehouse in the quieter Eastside here in the city, and i couldn't believe she was going to appear there. I had no idea who Mike Fracasso was, but was determined to check it out. Sure enough, we arrived, and sitting on the backporch, were Patty and Mike, chatting away. The opening act finished up, and Mike took the stage. He is an acoustic singer/songwriter, who reminded me of a cross between Johnny Cash (because of his style of songwriting) and John Denver (because of his guitar playing style and higher pitched, crystal clear voice.) Now i know that sounds completely hideous, but think of some nice, easy texan folk songs with a touch of twang and Patty crooning in the background. It worked amazingly well. There wasn't a huge crowd there since the show wasn't really publicized as a patty show, so most people let Patty be. She ended up singing on about all the hour's songs except for maybe two, and it was fun. Her harmonies and vocals were brilliant. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 14:17:33 -0400 From: "Gary Jacques" Subject: MM: Re: Patty: Clandestine in Austin, TX YoMamaaa, sounds great. Interesting that Patty is doing this kind of stuff. About as unpretentious as a great singer songwriter can be. On another note. I went and was David Gray in Burlington VT Thursday night. Good show. Also went to see The Pat Mcgee Band at Middlebury College in VT Friday night. Not bad. In search of my next show. Sure wish Patty would come visit her sister in Philly and play some small venue. Ahhhh, to dream. Evil Gary - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 1:04 PM Subject: MM: Patty: Clandestine in Austin, TX > Hi everyone... > > I'm a newcomer to the list, but wanted to share my recent Patty sighting... > I got word of Patty appearing for a couple of songs singing BACKUP for one of > her good friends, who is a local artist here in Austin, Mike Fracasso. It > was at a small coffeehouse in the quieter Eastside here in the city, and i > couldn't believe she was going to appear there. I had no idea who Mike > Fracasso was, but was determined to check it out. Sure enough, we arrived, > and sitting on the backporch, were Patty and Mike, chatting away. The > opening act finished up, and Mike took the stage. He is an acoustic > singer/songwriter, who reminded me of a cross between Johnny Cash (because of > his style of songwriting) and John Denver (because of his guitar playing > style and higher pitched, crystal clear voice.) Now i know that sounds > completely hideous, but think of some nice, easy texan folk songs with a > touch of twang and Patty crooning in the background. It worked amazingly > well. There wasn't a huge crowd there since the show wasn't really > publicized as a patty show, so most people let Patty be. She ended up > singing on about all the hour's songs except for maybe two, and it was fun. > > Her harmonies and vocals were brilliant. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 14:28:29 EDT From: FlamingRed74@cs.com Subject: Re: MM: Re: Patty: Clandestine in Austin, TX Gary wrote: >>Sure wish Patty would come visit her sister in >>Philly and play some small venue. Ahhhh, to dream.>> Here's 1 vote for another 2 shows in 1 week @ the Painted Bride! It's been just over 2 years since those shows.. Since Philly is Patty's favorite city, I think it's time for her to make another appearance (or 2) there. :-) Dave ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 14:35:13 -0400 From: "Jennifer Caputo" Subject: MM: Patty live stuff Hi guys, I have a bunch of Patty tapes that I never listen to anymore... almost all of them have been converted to CD so the tapes are just sitting here collecting dust. Quality varies and stuff... some of it is bad... some is decent, some is great. Anyway, I know there are a bunch of people out there that don't have ANY live patty stuff so you guys are the ones I'm talking to. I'm really bad at these contest type things.. I don't want to say 'the first person to get back to me' or anything.. so, the first person who can find out something about the charity that my family (especially my dad) is involved with will get the whole lot. I just ask that you either send me money for shipping 'cause all this media can get heavy. HOWEVER, if you make a donation to this charity, I will pay for shipping and throw in 2 great quality live Patty CD's. The charity is mentioned twice on my webpage: http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~jcaputo Happy hunting and good luck :-) Jen - -- You get tossed between the wicked and the wonder Suddenly you stop feeling anything at all - Patty Griffin ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 14:28:19 -0700 From: MH Subject: MM: Response to Diane Hello fellow Griffinites- I'm brand-new to the list, only been into PG for about six months and yes Diane I am really frustrated that extraordinary songs like Patty's, performed by such a great singer/guitarist like Patty are sitting on a shelf somewhere because the morons at A&M or wherever don't think PG will be as big as Brittany. NO KIDDING! Any thinking person at a label (ok that might be asking a bit much) would realize that Patty does have an audience and finds more devotees all the time (I know I try to turn on everyone to this stuff), so they CAN make money here, not a lot but they can turn a profit: I am hopeful that soon someone will prove wrong the thesis that all record company people are greedy pigs and get this fabulous music out there, especially for people like me who need it so badly. I became aware of PG when a friend of mine moved back to town after his divorce, we had been estranged for quite a few years mostly because of circumstance not due to any kind of falling out. He brought an MD of female vocalists that he was now into, like Tori Amos, Jonatha Brooke, Cocteau Twins, Sara McLachlan, etc. Also included were "You never get what you want," Poor man's house," and "Tony." I'm totally blown away by these tracks, the great lyrics, the way Patty can turn a phrase and her interesting, unique and impassioned singing. Just those 3 tracks showed me the way that PG can just rip your heart out while simultaneously reassuring you that you're not the only one and that things might work out, she's got such a major cathartic effect on me. I'm not prone to tears, but Patty gets to me the same way Neil Young does and the same way Melissa Etheridge can. So I buy the records almost immediately and again I'm shocked that virtually every tune is great, wow.........I have to put LWG right up with Neil's "After the Gold Rush" and with Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks"--two of my favorites as well as two of the truly great records of all time. Diane said it well, this music reaches out and shakes your core. It still touches my soul even after what must be hundreds of times of listening to these records. Just a side note to you Patty fans who may not be fans of Melissa Etheridge: check out 'Breakdown" it's far and away her best work (when writing, production and feeling collide) and for my money a really great album. There are 4 songs about heartache that will truly "shake your core" be you gay, straight or whatever. I get tears even today from them. Anyway hope this lengthy epistle wasn't too boring. Laters- MH from LA ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 00:01:11 EDT From: Danalee7@aol.com Subject: Re: MM: Patty: Clandestine in Austin, TX Hi - interesting review- wish I was there. Is there any chance that it was recorded? We would all love to hear those harmonies. I love Patty's harmonies on some of Ellis Paul's songs and Julie Miller's "I Still Cry". Dana in Berkeley ------------------------------ End of mad-mission-digest V5 #103 *********************************