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Edit out anything you are not referring to. mad-mission-digest Tuesday, June 22 2004 Volume 08 : Number 162 Today's Subjects: ----------------- MM: Aladdin / Portland 6-20-04 ["Donald Henn" ] MM: Fillmore / San Francisco 6-18-04 ["Donald Henn" ] MM: A wounderful Father's day evening in Portland ["Roy Larsen" ] MM: LOVE FROM MY LIPS [sandra campagna ] MM: RE: LFML 1 & 2 - OFFER CLOSED ["Maggie Reidy" ] MM: love from my lips CLOSED [sandra campagna ] MM: LFML 1.1 and 1.2 ["Bill Dierolf" ] MM: Little God on Radio Paradise? [Pamela Pollock ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 03:12:47 -0400 From: "Donald Henn" Subject: MM: Aladdin / Portland 6-20-04 Hot off the presses. Show finished about 1/2 hour ago.Got up at 6 am in LA , & started for Portland after the SF show. After 2 cat naps in the car , got into Portland around 6 pm the next day. Realized that I tend to relax once I get off of the interstates , & that was probably the reason for my recent close calls. Have to resist that in the future. Instincts are still good tho , or they would have been accidents instead of close calls. Roy Larsen saw my Flamers , & introduced himself & his group , including 2 of his daughters. Lively discussion of all things Patty ensued. Front row center this time. Set list : Standing Love Throw a Line Top of the World Making Pies Icicles Chief Kite Song / piano / Doug Take it With Me / ( Tom Waits ) / piano / solo Cold as it Gets / solo Moses / solo Mother of God / piano / Doug Long Ride Home / Michael L. Useless Desires Go Now Perfect White Girls Truth # 2 Mil Besos When it Don't Come Easy Encore Birds ( Neil Young ) / piano / Craig / Doug Mary Standing was as good as as it gets. LTAL & Icicles also get top grade. Chief was better than usual as Patty got into it so much , that when she played the strong guitar as she finished the " fly " line , she actually jumped off the floor a few times. When she introed Icicles after MP she said she was going from a " speedball " to a " downer ". Hmmm... Methinks Patty is a tad too familiar with drug terms. Loved the Kite Song , & had to squelch my disappointment with no MOG to try to enjoy Take it With Me. Still don't rate it high among the piano songs , although it is a great love song , lyrically. Fortunately , Patty broke a string during an excellent version of Moses , & went back to the piano while her guitar tech made it whole again. She just pulled the string off , & finished w/o it. Everything after the solos were top notch , except that her voice seemed overwhelmed by the music on PWG & Truth # 2. Noticed that volume drops off quickly when she's not close to the mike , & that may have been the problem. Still like Birds , but again , not among my fav piano songs. Mary was as good a version as any on the tour , & Patty seemed more into it than usual. Maybe b/c she wished us Happy Father's Day , & said she didn't have any father songs , so she'd play a grandmother song for us. Mad Mission was on the set list but I guess she dropped it when MOG was added , & the crowd dropped off quickly when the music came up , so no 2nd encore. I think she almost forgot a line on TIWM , b/c at one point a little half-word came out of her , & she had that broad smile she gets when she makes a mistake , but she came up with it fast enough that I may have been the only one to notice. Had a problem with her earpiece when she was sitting down for MOG , & mentioned it , adding that sometimes she gets messages from outer space on it. " Only good ones " though. The one constant on the tour so far has been Patty's red heels. Every concert. Someone mentioned them , & she discussed her addiction to shopping for shoes , saying that the red shoes have helped her resist it b/c she likes them so much. Well , the hard part is over for me now. Seattle is less than 200 m away , then a leisurely drive back home with no deadline pressure. Me and my red shoes Nothing can please us Patty Griffin " Flaming Red " Don ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 03:25:24 -0400 From: "Donald Henn" Subject: MM: Fillmore / San Francisco 6-18-04 MMers , Another great review & piece of writing by Jerry Skomer , who's having " technical difficulties " with MM. Don Patty at the Fillmore  June 18, 2004 After standing in line for hours, and meeting the peripatetic Don Henn and chatting with him for hours (!), we finally made it into the show. And because the Fillmore is a venue with very few seats, we decided to make a beeline for the balcony and the best seats in the house. As the show started I began to realize that the sound in the balcony sucks, and I headed for the floor and had to stand in the back of a crowded room. But this was infinitely preferable than hearing Pattys voice being washed out by the poor acoustics upstairs. This show was completely different from Pattys recent visit to the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley. For those of you who are interested in reading or re-reading my review, its posted on the Time Does the Talking website under its own category in the In Concert section. At the Fillmore, Patty was obviously stoked to be there and said she and her band had been looking forward to the SF gig for weeks. Even at the Singer/Songwriter tour, Patty mentioned that San Francisco is one of her favorite cities in the world, and it appears to be more than just the usual thing a performer tells a crowd. This night she again and again reminded the audience of her special feelings for the city and often clapped her hands to show her appreciation. The audience, in turn, roared their appreciation for her throughout the night. There is an air of informality to Patty that just makes you LIKE her. Elana (my partner) says that Patty has remained outwardly humble despite her growing success and rabid adulation from her fans and peers. To see her slough off the trappings of rock stardom is endearing in the extreme. Though I wrote earlier that Patty maintains a mystery while being awkward and down-to-earth, she continues to be unaffected. And her music is merely a blend of these traits. Her music and band is not the tightest you will ever hear, but it is hugely effective. There is a joy and abundance to her music  the show was over two hours and was well modulated between soft solos and uptempo songs. I have said this before, but it bears repeating: of all the performers around, Patty covers the most turf the best. It may sound silly, but shes the one you would want to play at your backyard barbeque! At Pattys previous visit a year or so ago to the Fillmore, I felt she was a little in awe of the Fillmore and its place in rock history. This time she took the stage, full of confidence, knowing that she more than belonged there. Patty mentioned that she was actually relaxed and moving slowly. Elana said it appeared as though Patty was enjoying her own party. I liked that image. It also was fun to see the Fillmore staff handing out posters after the show with Pattys name as the headliner. She has more than arrived. The choices of songs spanned her recording career and she added two covers  one by Bessie Smith and one by hometown boy Neil Young. Rock critic Dave Marsh once said that when Patty does a song by someone else, she makes it hers. I dont know about the Bessie Smith cover (which was great), but I can say eat), but I can say as a Neil Young fan that Pattys rendition of Birds was extremely moving and extraordinarily well done. For those of you who do not know Birds, it is heart breaking and melodically and lyrically beautiful. In some ways, the song is so poignant that in lesser hands it would have fallen flat, but under Pattys stewardship, she sailed effortlessly to and straight through the songs essence. A truly wonderfully uplifting moment in a concert full of such moments. And I guess this is what amazes me the most. Patty continues to operate at such a high level. She never really falters, even when she reinterprets her classic tunes such as Blue Sky. (Don Henn would wholeheartedly agree with my first statement but take issue with the second!) What other artist is consistently rolling out great CD after great CD? I cant really think of any one else on the current music scene. And for those of you fortunate to have heard Perfect White Girls from Silver Bell, you are probably impressed with the present spin Patty is giving it. The song was fresh and alive. The concert was alive and fresh. Doug and Michael were their usual standout selves. And the mischievous percussionist was delightful in the way he crouched below Patty to accompany her brilliantly on Long Ride Home. Patty ended the first encore with a nice touch  she waved goodbye to the crowd as she sang the final lyrics of Blue Sky, that I doubt I need to tell you is a string of goodbyes. She smiled and looked truly happy and left the stage. Of course, given all of the mutually expressed love between performer and audience, the crowd wasnt about to let her get away so easily. Stomping and shouting ensued until Patty reappeared to sing Ten Million Miles. The song is truly a lovely way to send people back into the night and their lives. We are seeing an artist at the top of her game. Let the world know about this, and perhaps awash in the glow, we can achieve a modicum of perfection if only for a moment. Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 01:34:43 -0700 From: "Roy Larsen" Subject: MM: A wounderful Father's day evening in Portland Happy Father's Day! I hadn't realized it until early this week that I'd be sharing Patty with two of my daughters on Father's Day. I had gotten the tickets so far in advance, I just didn't make the connection. What a wonderful treat. After a great BBQ and some home brews (I'm a home brewer - this is Portland, OR after all...), we headed out to the Aladdin in an attempt to get an early place in line. (It's a general admission venue.) Doors were at 7 for an 8 o'clock show so we thought being there at 6 would be about right...... Wrong. The line was already wrapping around the corner. As we're walking the line, I noticed some flaming red boots stretched out from a gentle looking guy sitting on the sidewalk against the building. "Don?" He stood up and extended a hand confirming that I was greeting our own Patty wanderlust, Don Henn. After some chit-chat, he graciously allowed us to join him enabling us to significantly improve our theater seating possibilities. The irony was that I had hoped to get there early enough to offer Don a place at the front of the line. I'd obviously underestimated the Patty Faithful here in Portland. My girls happily held our place while Don and I went to the establishment next door to quench our thirst in this warm Portland evening and to exchange thoughts on retirement plans, travels, and of course, Patty. When the doors opened, me, my girls, and their friends (all Patty converts of mine) got great seats a few rows back from the stage while Don chose to sit right up front. I was both curios and anxious to hear Craig Ross. His music is actually pretty good, but his singing/mixing style leaves you straining to hear the words. Was that the same for other shows of his too? The crowd always gave him generous and polite applause after each song, but the background conversations got louder and louder with each song too...... Then came Patty. The theater was very warm and she made note of it, but it did not dampen the performance or her spirits. I'm sure Don will post a set list, so I'll just say the following. This is the third time I've seen Patty live. Once before with the 1,000 Kisses tour and then with the Songwriters tour. This show was simply head and shoulders above the others in terms of her stage presence and attitude. She was smiling through many of the songs, and as others have noted, was performing with a self-assured confidence that was down right sexy. Patty never appealed to me that way before. But tonight, see was gorgeous in both body and soul. See had the aura of someone who *believes* they have arrived. And I think another adoring sold out audience confirmed it. I'd also like to acknowledge the contribution Doug Lancio makes. Being a guy who likes his singer/songwriters as unadulterated as I can get them, I had underestimated how much texture and nuance Doug brings to the table. I was really zoning in on Doug's guitar work tonight and want to give a heart felt "Thanks"! Oh, and one last thing. I was sitting next to a guy who recorded the show. I never saw him check his audio levels, but he looked like he knew what he was doing.... ;o) Anyway, he's a list lurker so once he gets back from a vacation, I hope we'll be able weed out this show. Enjoy the show in Seattle Don, then a safe and leisurely journey home. It was a pleasure to me you. Roy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:46:49 -0500 From: "Maggie Reidy" Subject: MM: LFML 1 & 2 Thanks to Gillian, I just got my LFML 1 & 2, and would like to offer them up for re-weed to the first 3 folks who email me back with their address. If you would like to send B&P that would be cool - if not, I will send them out. thanks Maggie ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:12:21 -0700 (PDT) From: sandra campagna Subject: MM: LOVE FROM MY LIPS another thanks to gillian....i have love from my lips 1 & 2 and will send out to the first 3 people who email me with their address. if you don't hear back from me....my quota has been filled. thanks to gillian. Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:12:41 -0500 From: "Maggie Reidy" Subject: MM: RE: LFML 1 & 2 - OFFER CLOSED I have my three that will re-weed. Please look for them to re-offer. thanks - -thanks again to Gillian ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:28:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Duff Martin Subject: MM: the beginning heyya'all I might still know some of ya from the Jewel list back in the day. Well, even after Jewelstock I still wasn't that big of a Patty fan...until I stumbled across a tape someone somewhere along the line sent me. (then i promptly lost it) but it was an interview at least from '96. Anyway, I also met this great girl (my gf now) and she helped me relisten to some CD's. Then I moved from Kansas to Humboldt County (N.CA) and I'll be seeing Patty at the Mountain Winery near SF Sept. 2nd. That's the condensed version. duff New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:20:23 -0700 (PDT) From: sandra campagna Subject: MM: love from my lips CLOSED i took what i could.....so there should be a couple others re-weeding the weed. thanks. New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 20:36:17 -0400 From: "Bill Dierolf" Subject: MM: LFML 1.1 and 1.2 Thanks to Gillian I can offer the Love From My Lips Vol. 1.1 and 1.2 to the first three who send me their mailing address. bilbo ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:05:47 -0700 From: Pamela Pollock Subject: MM: Little God on Radio Paradise? Hi All- I often listen to radioparadise.com. It's an awesome station. Artists like Patty, Shawn Colvin and Julie Miller, to name a few, are in heavy rotation. This morning the played Little God. I was quite surprised. I went to the playlist and clicked on the song, which brings up a message board to discuss the song. Someone expressed surprise that they played it, and someone else said that it was ok. The exact quote was: No trouble, and no worries. Patty herself has given her okay for the non-commercial circulation of some of this unreleased material. Anyone else hear Silver Bell material broadcast over the airwaves (Internet or otherwise)? I'm just kind of surprised! BTW, people on the board seemed to love it! The board link: http://radioparadise.com/modules.php?name=songinfo&song_id=34628&title=Patty+Griffin+-+Little+God ------------------------------ End of mad-mission-digest V8 #162 *********************************