From: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org (mad-mission-digest) To: mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Subject: mad-mission-digest V6 #169 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 Tuesday, April 30 2002 Volume 06 : Number 169 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: MM: Patty in South Hadley, MA [FoxDugal@aol.com] Re: MM: Top 10 Bands/Artists I Hate ["Sarah Stanley" If anyone managed to catch this show, please post a review to the list...it > was very close to me and I was planning on going but my husband is having > some severe back problems and I didn't want to leave him alone. > > It was a festival, but I believe she was the headliner. I hope it was > great! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 20:04:47 -0400 From: "Sarah Stanley" Subject: Re: MM: Top 10 Bands/Artists I Hate wow, Jennie -- I couldn't have said it ANY better! I am a CRAZY freak for DMB. I just got home from Chicago, as a matter of fact (I live in Detroit), from seeing them this past weekend and it was AMAZING. I have rarely experienced a crowd so full of life and energy and all grooving to the same beat, no matter what each others shirts said or what fraternity they did or did not belong to. I've been to many DMB shows and they only keep getting better. And I'm one of those "I really can't stands frats and sorority" mindset people. Not to offend anyone on this list who are members -- you do your thang, that's cool. ;) >but DMB fans has one of the largest and loyal fanbases out there too. wholeheartedly agreed. comparable to tori's fans (of which i'm also a proud member - an ear with feet, if you will). I've rarely had bad encounters with DMB fans. I mean, sure you get in a room with 20,000 other people and you're bound to find a few nimrods, but on a whole I've had nothing but great times. In fact, after this last show at Allstate Arena in IL, the local radio station was parked in the lot blaring a live DMB show and there were tons of people -- frat boys/girls, hippie chicks/boys, moms & dads with their kids, etc -- all dancing and leaping and singing together in a small little area. we felt (at least to me), bonded together in our love of the music, despite our drastic differences in lifestyle (as would seem by outward appearances only). >I'm really sorry that you're basing your opinion on one of the few bad >experiences I've heard someone have with Dave yeah, at that point in the email i had to just stop and laugh. of course, i've never met dave (who i refer to as 'my husband' ) but of all the interviews i've heard and watched, the countless stories i've heard, the words that he is capable of writing, watching him jam and dance on stage, I'm completely certain that he is one of the nicest individuals one could meet. Along with his band members Boyd, Leroi, Stefan, Carter, Butch and the Lovely Ladies, when present. :) They're a family, you can tell -- and they invite us in to share in their joy.... (sorry i'm getting all sappy, but it's what the band does to me!) >The band has their own charitable foundation, Bama Works that pokes >its >head into the media every once in a while for making a charitable donation. > Dave spent most of his off-time in the fall trouping around >to various >charity concerts: Groundworks, Bridge School (again) and >Farm Aid (where >he's on the board of directors). As of a year or so >ago, Dave still drove >a silver Subaru Outback around Charlottesville. Ben & Jerry's have just come out w/a new flavor called "One Sweet Whirled" based on the DMB song "One Sweet World" and part of the proceeds of the sale of that flavor go to help Greenpeace. Also, out of all the celebrities he's played with, they ain't been too shabby of folks neither. I usually am of the mindset that you are the company you keep. Taking that to musicians jamming together level, DMB has played with Emmylou, Patty, Buddy & Julie, Ben Harper, Bela Fleck, Tim Reynolds, Bruce Hornsby & Bob Dylan to name a few. I'd say take a good long look at some of the lyrics to the songs while you're giving it another chance with open ears. If the groove still doesn't move you, cool -- but I'm not so sure you could dog them for what they're doing. They've got something going on... there's no denying it. :) Well, to me. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ "Come sister, my brother Shake up your bones shake up your feet I'm saying open up And let the rain come pouring in Wash out this tired notion That the best is yet to come But while you're dancing on the ground Don't think of when you're gone Love! love!? what more is there? We need the light of love in here -- Dave Matthews Band _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 18:29:22 -0500 From: "Sean and Rebecca Courtney" Subject: MM: Actual Patty content! Hey everyone, stop what you're doing and go buy the new No Depression. I just got mine in the mail, and there is an 8-9 page spread of Patty and the trials and tribulations of the new record. (It also has good pieces on the two other best albums released this year, Cary Hudson's The Phoenix and Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot). It is so strange. I saw Cary this weekend. I saw Caroline Herring this weekend. I saw Del McCoury this weekend. There are articles on all of them. I think I am being watched. By the way, I also caught Claire Holley for the first time this weekend, and loved her set. I'll post a review later. Anyway, back to Ms. Griffin, here are a couple of quotes found on the ad for 1000 Kisses: "I can't think of a more beautiful singer and better songwriter alive today" - Dave Matthews "I would go anywhere, anytime to hear Patty Griffin sing her extraordinary songs" - Emmylou Harris "I suspect Patty Griffin's songs make most people a little uncomfortable-like they've just walked in on a private moment in someone else's life and they know they should turn around and tip-toe away-but they can't. They make me jealous" - Steve Earl "Her voice is enough to rave about and then there are the songs! It blows my mind that Patty's not already famous." - Lucinda Williams "1000 Kisses is a masterpiece of songwriting and singing, confirming that Patty Griffin is one of the most eloquent and gifted artists in contemporary music today." - Mary Chapin Carpenter np-the Hives ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 18:46:54 -0500 From: "Sean and Rebecca Courtney" Subject: MM: NPC, only Del McCoury, Caroline Herring, Claire Holley, Will Hoge, Big Star, and Cary Hudson content here Saturday was the Double Decker Festival in Oxford, MS, and it was a pretty good one. Rather than giving a review of each and every act that played (www.doubledeckerfestival.com) I'll just say that a good time was had by all. The early stage shows were hit and miss and normal festival fare. Decent blues/gospel, some good folk (my wife and I are now big Claire Holley fans and her set was pretty darn good...have to pick up an album or two), Caroline Herring, another local, added to the folky scene, and there were some "okay" bar bands (Duff Dorough is not my cup of tea, nor is Jerry Joseph but enjoyable in the sense that it was free...I got the feeling that maybe Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons would have been better if I were actually at a bar) A surprise was Will Hoge. I had heard of him/them, but never heard him/them. I knew than Dan Baird played guitar on their first album. They were really refreshing. Will's voice was in the vein of Van Morrison/Elvis Costello/Adam Duritz and the band was a pretty good rock band. They were selling the CDs for $5, and they have a live form the Exit In coming out soon (or perhaps it just came out). I listened to the CD on the way back to Jackson today, and found myself liking it. Dell McCoury had a pretty big crowd, and was just as you would expect. By the time you are 142 years old, you learn how to keep things tight. We left the Del stage early to make our way over the first highlight of the weekend, Big Star. First, the objective info: Alex had problems with his guitar, corrections were made to the volume of John Auer's vocals between every song, and the microphone in front of the bass drum fell over once. Now, the subjective: What a fucking show! I loved it. They played just about everything that you could ask for. I didn't jot down a setlist, but off the top of my head, they played In the Street, Don't Lie to Me, Thirteen, El Goodo (by request), Feel, When my Baby's Beside Me, and more (even a few that are not on #1 Record). They played for about an hour, complete with witty between song banter about the last time Big Star played Oxford Town, including the arrest of Alex and another unnamed Big Star member, both of whom plead out later. Anyway, it was just fantastic to see Alex after hearing/reading so much about him for so long. After Big Star, we crossed the Square for the 150th time of the day to see the Kudzu Kings, favorites of mine for quite some time. Dave Woolworth (bassist) joked that it was the Kudzu King Army, as the 5 man band turned into an 8 man band with the addition of past and current guitarists and sometimes member Daniel Karlish on pedal guitar. It might need be noted here that I went to law school in Oxford and have seen the Kudzu Kings many many times, but it has been a few months since I saw them last. Leading up to the DD Fest show, the Kings had already played two shows in the past 24 hours (Memphis and another festival I think) and there were rumors flying around that founding member George McConnel was going to announce that was joining Widespread panic with his former Beanland member JoJo Herman. Anyway, he didn't announce it, but the rumor is still strong. By the way, the KK played a not-so-great set. After grabbing a bite, and listening to Nancy Griffith for a while, we went to my favorite bar, Proud Larry's to see Cary Hudson. It was a tough call. We knew we would be seeing him this week in Jackson, and had heard that he would be playing in Hattiesburg also, but I was not going to miss an Oxford Cary Hudson show. That meant I had to miss the Posies at Bodega, and the Kudzu Kings at the Library, but so be it. The Cary Hudson show was one of the best I have ever been to, and if Oxford did not shut down the bars at midnight (yes midnight) it would have been THE best show I had ever been to. He played about 90 minutes of new stuff and Blue Mountain classics. I think Al-x has already summed up his current show, but seeing him in Oxford is a treat unlike any other. his whole family was there and he was a man possessed. I always forget how great a guitarist he is, but this show was, as someone said on the way out "Goddamn Rock and Roll!" Go see him, and go buy the Phoenix. It is the best album I have bought in quite a while (and I bought more than one disc last Tuesday, ie.e the day Wilco, Elvis, the Palace, Luna, Chelsea Walls, and Paul Westerberg all dropped albums). I have gone on long enough, but could go on forever....go but Cary's new CD!!! Sean np - Cary Hudson - Butterfly over and over again (it sounds a lot like Hendrix's May This Be Love and that's not a bad thing) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 18:52:45 -0500 From: "Sean and Rebecca Courtney" Subject: MM: Actual Patty Content!!!! Hey everyone, stop what you're doing and go buy the new No Depression. I just got mine in the mail, and there is an 8-9 page spread of Patty and the trials and tribulations of the new record. (It also has good pieces on the two other best albums released this year, Cary Hudson's The Phoenix and Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot). It is so strange. I saw Cary this weekend. I saw Caroline Herring this weekend. I saw Del McCoury this weekend. There are articles on all of them. I think I am being watched. By the way, I also caught Claire Holley for the first time this weekend, and loved her set. I'll post a review later. Anyway, back to Ms. Griffin, here are a couple of quotes found on the ad for 1000 Kisses: "I can't think of a more beautiful singer and better songwriter alive today" - Dave Matthews "I would go anywhere, anytime to hear Patty Griffin sing her extraordinary songs" - Emmylou Harris "I suspect Patty Griffin's songs make most people a little uncomfortable-like they've just walked in on a private moment in someone else's life and they know they should turn around and tip-toe away-but they can't. They make me jealous" - Steve Earl "Her voice is enough to rave about and then there are the songs! It blows my mind that Patty's not already famous." - Lucinda Williams "1000 Kisses is a masterpiece of songwriting and singing, confirming that Patty Griffin is one of the most eloquent and gifted artists in contemporary music today." - Mary Chapin Carpenter np-the Hives ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 23:43:34 EDT From: PokiMin@aol.com Subject: MM: ...DMB 4/28/02 - diamondmask@juno.com wrote about DMB: .....You can catch artists on their bad days as well as their good ones. I seem to remember that WS '99 didn't end on a high note, and I would bet there was some level of stress for the bands. Probably shouldn't judge him on one instance. I'm not sure he's a fad. This is his 4th year playing the Gorge, and he sold out all 3 days in about 20 minutes...... - ---I agree. I too was at Woodstock and there sure was bad energy ALL around. Mean people (and staff), bad attitudes, the heat, the $6 water.... I got tix to one of his shows here in MI. off of the internet and the seats were the worst in the stadium - behind the stage, a made up row of folding chairs, WAY in the back, last row. I was so sad... Then a miracle. Dave Mathews'roadie came up and gave me and 4 friends, second row tickets! "From Dave." ...I've been a fan ever since. Probably wouldn't have seen/heard the music good enough to know how cool he was from those shitty seats... ------------------------------ End of mad-mission-digest V6 #169 *********************************