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mad-mission-digest    Wednesday, February 14 2007    Volume 11 : Number 056



                               Today's Subjects:
                               -----------------
  MM: penalized for excess verbiage?  ["Lawrence Israelson" <LarryI@mail2lar]
  MM: Hotel Cafe               ["Lawrence Israelson" <LarryI@mail2larry.com>]
  Re: MM: penalized for excess verbiage?                 [TimSharp63@aol.com]
  MM: RE: Sales                      ["Bruce Greenberg" <Bruce@gdrgroup.com>]
  MM: damn those special characters  ["Lawrence Israelson" <LarryI@mail2larr]
  MM: Thanks Lisa, for the pics.             [Jess <msjessicajane@yahoo.com>]
  Re: MM: damn those special characters  [Mike Connell <ducksoup@quackquack.]
  MM: Pre sale                          ["Jim Murphy" <jmphlbat@comcast.net>]

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:23:50 -0800
From: "Lawrence Israelson" <LarryI@mail2larry.com>
Subject: MM: penalized for excess verbiage?

I posted a (yes, fairly lengthy) report on yesterday's Hotel Cafi show
this morning and it still hasn't "come back" to my inbox. I know I've
been mighty chatty lately--a new Patty album and tickets to three shows
in two states will do that to me--but have I exceeded some sort of
limit?

Cheers,
Larry I in LA


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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:17:31 -0800 
From: "Lawrence Israelson" <LarryI@mail2larry.com>
Subject: MM: Hotel Cafe 

What a privilege to see Patty in such an intimate venue! A wonderful and
interesting evening (and afternoon), but I'll talk about the show first.

Hotel Cafi had a one-hour slot for Patty, with additional acts to follow
(separate admission), so the show started pretty much right on time. The
place was packed, and various club employees mentioned being drastically
overbooked--something like 70 more people than usual, which doesn't
sound too bad until you see the size of the room. I believe the "normal"
capacity is just 200.

When Patty and the band entered, a woman who looked very much like the
actress Gina Gershon (and who I was subsequently told IS Gina Gershon,
so the probability is reasonably high) came in with them and hung out by
the piano just off the front right corner of the tiny stage. The band
included Doug Lancio in his usual spot, Michael Longoria on drums and a
female bassist/cellist/vocalist who was introduced as "Bryn Davies" or
something pretty close.

I know a lot of you like to know what Patty wears to her gigs and,
although I must thank Lisa for sending along those pictures, they don't
really show the lower half of her outfit, so I will try to muddle
through: knee-high cowboy-ish boots and some short black pants that may
have been some sort of culottes but also looked like the cargo pants my
19-year-old daughter often wears (the ones where you can unzip and
remove the lower portions). If any of you can correct or embellish my
feeble description, feel free to do so and rescue me from fashion-critic
hell.

Patty started at the piano with an unfamiliar, slow-tempo song that
others have called "First Star." Based on the lyrics (which regrettably
I didn't even attempt to transcribe), there's a pretty good chance that
is the correct title. She followed with Burgundy Shoes to conclude the
keyboard portion of the evening.

Next was a playful Stay On The Ride, and as she spoke a little about the
genesis of the following song (seeing the circus as a child in Maine),
Bryn struggled to lower her microphone to the appropriate height, and I
believe Doug finally came over and helped her loosen and adjust it. Then
came what I felt was the highlight of the show, a soaring version of
Trapeze with Bryn harmonizing. Simply breathtaking.

After Heavenly Day and Crying Over, she performed an extended version of
Love Throw A Line, opening the song with a first "verse" of "hey,
hey-ey" vocalizing. (There's probably a technical term for what she did,
but I would need to ask a real musician to find out.) Next was When It
Don't Come Easy, complete with a patented broken-string moment that
Patty blamed on "Mercury in retrograde" compounded by the guitar tech
being absent due to "family business."

Next up was a rousing No Bad News that met with thunderous approval, and
Patty appeared quite pleased with the response. She then set aside her
guitar and absolutely nailed Up To The Mountain. Because of the venue's
tight schedule, it was apparent there wouldn't be a long string of
encores, but the band did return for a rockin' version of Getting Ready,
with all four of the players singing and jamming.

That's all I have about the show itself, but I also met some interesting
people while waiting for the doors to open. I'd been corresponding via
e-mail with one of the club's owners who warned me that table seating
was scarce to begin with, and a performer of Patty's stature could mean
that all would be reserved for "industry hotshots" and Patty's
"entourage." Since my wife was expecting dinner and also hates to stand
for long stretches, the pressure was on, so I got there at 2:45 with my
iPod and a "Retrieval Artists" novel. This turned out to be overkill, as
I was alone in line until almost two hours later.

In fact, I was so early that when a van pulled up to drop off some sound
equipment, there was nobody in the venue to take delivery. The driver
introduced himself as "Apache" and we chatted about music for a few
minutes. I confessed to being 98 percent ignorant of jazz, and he
recommended Miles Davis' "Kind Of Blue." He admitted that he knew
nothing about Patty, but he perked up when I mentioned some of the more
famous performers who have covered her songs. (I didn't mention Jessica
Simpson.) He finally tired of waiting and left, warning that there would
be no show without his equipment but promising to return.

About 30 minutes later, Apache's van pulled up again and he showed me
how he killed the time--with a visit to the nearby Amoeba Music, L.A.s
finest record store. Sure, they sell mostly CDs like everybody else, but
Apache had purchased a short stack of *vinyl* LPs, mostly
pre-Frankenstein Edgar Winter that he was highly enthusiastic about. The
venue was still empty, so I stalled him by offering to play some Patty
on my iPod. (I carry a splitter and extra headphones for such
emergencies--wink, wink.) First, I gave him a snippet of Tomorrow Night
to show off Patty's singing. Then, since Apache had mentioned his
admiration for Joni Mitchell and Emmylou Harris, I followed up with No
Bad News (noting its passing similarity to Big Yellow Taxi) and Trapeze.
He seemed impressed, and by this time one of the venue's employees
finally arrived to let Apache make his delivery.

Soon after that, a blue van pulled up with Doug and a few others who I
eventually figured out were the other two band members and Gina Gershon
(or her doppelgdnger). A few minutes later, I heard strains of Patty
rehearsing Someone Else's Tomorrow on piano. I still have no idea what
entrance she used, as I never saw her arrive or leave.

Finally, at around 4:30 I was joined in line by "Kristin," who was
visiting from New York and apparently stumbled across something that
mentioned Patty's Hotel Cafi appearance, and a couple from Burbank,
Mikki Brisk and her husband, Steve. Kristin was hoping for a "drop"
ticket, but the rest of us advised that she canvass the line instead,
and it wasn't long before she found somebody with an extra. Mikki turned
out to be a singer-songwriter herself, with a CD ("Distance And Miles")
and a website  www.MikkiBrisk.com. I
listened to a little bit of "Distance And Miles" on the drive home, and
my initial reaction to Mikki's song Red Boots is quite favorable. The CD
was a gift because my early arrival paid off. It turned out there was
exactly one public table in the performance space, and when the doors
opened, my group of four got it, and we were able to make room for Mikki
and Steve as well. 

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:23:13 EST
From: TimSharp63@aol.com
Subject: Re: MM: penalized for excess verbiage?

In a message dated 2/14/2007 6:25:31 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
LarryI@mail2larry.com writes:

I posted  a (yes, fairly lengthy) report on yesterday's Hotel Cafi show
this morning  and it still hasn't "come back" to my inbox. I know I've
been mighty chatty  lately--a new Patty album and tickets to three shows
in two states will do  that to me--but have I exceeded some sort of
limit?

Cheers,
Larry  I in LA


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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:21:37 -0800
From: "Bruce Greenberg" <Bruce@gdrgroup.com>
Subject: MM: RE: Sales

Not only that, but the Coalition of Independent Music Stores (which
include such great stores as L.A. & S.F.'s Amoeba Records and Austin's
Waterloo Records)listed it as number one this week. 

Bruce 

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-mad-mission@smoe.org [mailto:owner-mad-mission@smoe.org] On
Behalf Of Jim Murphy
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 12:13 PM
To: mad-mission@smoe.org
Subject: MM: Sales

Soundscan reports that CRT sold over 27,000 copies in its first week the
most ever by a PG release

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:10:41 -0800
From: "Lawrence Israelson" <LarryI@mail2larry.com>
Subject: MM: damn those special characters

Looking at my Hotel Cafe report that was just released by our esteemed
listmaster, it seems I shouldn't have gotten cute with the accent marks
and umlauts--every time I did, the words came through oddly misspelled.
Oh, well.
 
Cheers,
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:46:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Jess <msjessicajane@yahoo.com>
Subject: MM: Thanks Lisa, for the pics.

Lisa,
  I was at the show last night but did not get pics, so these are really fun thanks for sending them.  Patty was great last night, she was on fire like you said, really rocked out as she always does.  Her main guitarist Doug seemed to look rather sick, poor guy I felt sorry for him, he played like a champ but he did not look well.  Maybe he just had a really good time the night before!
   
  They are a great duo, but whole band was tight, and the newest member the gal from Nashville who played the Cello, and Bass and Tambourine, was wonderful too!  I enjoyed her as well.
  Well, Patty you did it again, just blew this girl away!
  Can't wait for the rest of the shows.  I wonder if she really wrote "Heavenly day" for her Dog?  I guess we will never really know, but it's such a beautiful song, brings me to my knees I tell you.
  Happy Valentines day everybody!
  Jessica

lisa071573@aol.com wrote:
  hey guys!
(I'm on digest so forgive me if some of this has already been said...)
Patty was on fire tonight at Hotel Cafe!! Here are few pics from the 
show:
http://www.lisa071573.com/patty1.JPG
http://www.lisa071573.com/patty11.JPG
http://www.lisa071573.com/patty3.JPG
http://www.lisa071573.com/patty6.JPG

She started on piano with a song about wishing on a star (First Star?), 
then did Burgundy Shoes, also on piano. Stay on The Ride followed and 
then (in no particular order) she did Trapeze, Heavenly Day, Love Throw 
a Line, When It Don't Come Easy, No Bad News, Getting Ready... I think 
she did Crying Over but maybe I hallucinated that :P oh and the MLK 
song also. Anyway, it was a lovely little show - Patty had Doug on 
guitar, a cello/upright bassist and a drummer all on Hotel Cafe's 
little stage. Apparently the venue was VERY overbooked and the little 
room was packed with people. I taped the show so I'm hoping to get it 
transferred to cd this weekend. Patty seemed to be in a great mood and 
No Bad News really kicked some ass. I'm looking forward to the Wiltern 
show in a month :) I must say, I really love Heavenly Day... she said 
it was a love song to her dog, although she may have been kidding ;)
:) Lisa
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:20:06 -0500
From: Mike Connell <ducksoup@quackquack.net>
Subject: Re: MM: damn those special characters

Lawrence Israelson wrote:
>Looking at my Hotel Cafe report that was just released by our esteemed
>listmaster, it seems I shouldn't have gotten cute with the accent marks
>and umlauts--every time I did, the words came through oddly misspelled.
>Oh, well.

Just to clarify, Larry's post was not help up per his original 
thoughts that perhaps he surpassed some quota on quantity of list posts.


I privately replied to his previous post with this:

>For a variety of reasons, the lists hosted at smoe.org have a size 
>limit for posts. If they exceed that size, it bounces to the list 
>manager for approval.
>When I got home tonight I sent it on.


Mike

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:33:40 -0500
From: "Jim Murphy" <jmphlbat@comcast.net>
Subject: MM: Pre sale

Both Chicago and Boston will have a pre-sale

Vi Theatre Chicago
Internet Presale Info
XRT PRESALE:
Start:Fri, 02/16/07 10:00 AM CST
End:Fri, 02/16/07 10:00 PM CST

93XRT/MGD MUSIC 
PATTY GRIFFIN 
INCLUDES $1 FACILTY FEE 
VIC THEATRE 
3145 N SHEFFIELD-CHICAGO 
WED MAR 28 2007 7:30PM

You will need to listen to XRT for info

Boston the pre-sale is for Patty's fans

Orpheum, Boston, MA - April 20th - Friday.  Planetary Groove will have a 72
hour pre-sale to their mailing list and Patty fans, details to be announced
very soon.

So if I were you I would join the email list of PG and PG and the theatre

Murph

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From: owner-mad-mission@smoe.org [mailto:owner-mad-mission@smoe.org] On
Behalf Of Michael Tatlow
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 1:03 PM
To: mad-mission@smoe.org
Subject: RE: MM: Tour

Thanks for the update Jim, will there be any type of "fan" pre-sale offered.

Michael

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From: "Jim Murphy" <jmphlbat@comcast.net>
To: <mad-mission@smoe.org>
Subject: MM: Tour
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:03:15 -0500

Just so everyone knows since the tour dates have been slow in coming out.
Patty is splitting the two going out first to the west coast and doing the
show which are listed on her website (www.pattygriffin.com) and her myspace
(www.myspace.com/pattygriffin) after the west coast they will take a 2 week
break and then come back and do an east coast swing. So far all that is out
is the New York show on April 19th. There is also a rumor of a show in
Boston on April 20. Where it goes from there you'll just have to wait and
see.

Feb 1710:00P

	Alabama Theatre
<http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show
_ID=12025722&friendid=29134125> 	Birmingham, Alabama
Mar 9 2007
8:00P

	Rialto Theatre
<http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show
_ID=12025640&friendid=29134125> 	Tucson, Arizona
Mar 10 2007
8:00P

	El Pedragal at The Boulders
<http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show
_ID=12025837&friendid=29134125> 	Phoenix, Arizona
Mar 11 2007
8:00P

	4th and B
<http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show
_ID=12188265&friendid=29134125> 	San Diego, Arkansas
Mar 13 2007
8:00P

	Wiltern
<http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show
_ID=12188383&friendid=29134125> 	Los Angeles, California
Mar 15 2007
8:00P

	The Catalyst
<http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show
_ID=12188426&friendid=29134125> 	Santa Cruz, California
Mar 16 2007
8:00P

	Warfeild Theater
<http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show
_ID=12189088&friendid=29134125> 	San Fransisco, California
Mar 18 2007
8:00P

	Aladin
<http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show
_ID=12188459&friendid=29134125> 	Portland, Oregon
Mar 19 2007
8:00P

	Moore Theater
<http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show
_ID=12188591&friendid=29134125> 	Seattle, Washington
Mar 20 2007
8:00P

	Egyptian
<http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show
_ID=12188637&friendid=29134125> 	Boise, Idaho
Mar 22 2007
8:00P

	Boulder Theater
<http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show
_ID=12188666&friendid=29134125> 	Boulder, Colorado
Mar 23 2007
8:00P

	Boulder Theater
<http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show
_ID=12188689&friendid=29134125> 	Boulder, Colorado
Mar 25 2007
8:00P

	Fitzgerald
<http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show
_ID=12188710&friendid=29134125> 	St. Paul, Minnesota
Mar 26 2007
8:00P

	Barrymore Theater
<http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show
_ID=12188739&friendid=29134125> 	Madison, Wisconsin
Mar 28 2007
8:00P

	The Vic
<http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show
_ID=12188754&friendid=29134125> 	Chicago, Illinois
Mar 29 2007
8:00P

	Englart Theater
<http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show
_ID=12188938&friendid=29134125> 	Iowa City, Iowa

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