From: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org (navy-soup-digest) To: navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Subject: navy-soup-digest V1 #31 Reply-To: navy-soup@smoe.org Sender: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk navy-soup-digest Wednesday, November 25 1998 Volume 01 : Number 031 In This Digest: ----------------- A memorable weekend (Emm, Jess and friends) ["Gian.C." ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 00:35:32 -0500 From: "Gian.C." Subject: A memorable weekend (Emm, Jess and friends) Hello all, first off, sorry to those who are getting this multiple times, damn me and my cross-posting :) and to all you Sarah Slean fans, there is a tad of Sarah content in here as well. I'll begin with saying this, this past weekend was one of the best weekends i've ever had, but i'll just talk about Saturday :) Saturday afternoon was the Northern Sounds concert which included our very own Jessica Weiser, Dylan White from Emm Gryner's independent label, Daisy Dead Records and Rayanne, a very promising young talent and friend. The concert was a success, everyone had a great time, and the musicians were incredible. This was the first time i've heard Jess perform and i enjoyed it immensely, her voice is beautiful and soothing, Rayanne was equally amazing, playing each song with passion, and Dylan along with backup singer Beth(i think) was awesome. Anything i say won't do justice to how these people performed, i hope to see them many times in the future. There was a great turn out at the venue and everyone seemed like they enjoyed themselves. There was also a surprise special guest, although she didn't perform, she was the celebrity sound engineer for the afternoon :) Emm Gryner was at the show to support all artists involved and she was also treated to a cover of one of her songs 'Hook Machine' performed by Dylan and Beth to end the afternoon's festivities to everyone's enjoyment. I'd just like to say it was nice meeting Julian, Greg, Tab and others at the show. After the afternoon's entertainment came the evening's entertainment where i met up with Steve, Jess, and James to see Emm Gryner open for the Philosopher Kings. Emm's performance was incredible, she's actually getting better with each performance if you can believe it, some songs she played were (in no particular order): Hello Aquarius, Acid, Phone call 45, Wisdom Bus, and This Mad (a capella), she dedicated 'The Good You Make' to Steve and I which i thought was very nice of her and also called Sarah Slean out to accompany her with the song, possibly the highlight of the show, and a close second was her cover of 'Crazy Train' by Ozzy Osbourne, she toned it down to a piano ballad and it was amazing, it blew me away at least :) I probably missed a song or two but that's to be expected with my great memory :P After Emm's set i went out to the lobby where Jess was and after awhile Emm came out and we started talking to her, got a few hugs in and made some small talk, after a few songs from the Philosopher Kings, Steve and James came out to meet us all where we were having drinks and just chit-chatting the night away with Emm and Co. All in all it was a great experience, and much fun was had, as the subject says, it was a memorable weekend to say the least :) Jess, glad you had a good time and i can't wait to hear you play again :) Welp, that's all folks, take care, :) - -Gian ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 02:35:36 -0500 From: Steve I Subject: Re: A memorable weekend (Emm, Jess and friends) At 12:35 AM 11/24/98 -0500, Gian.C. wrote: > The concert was a success, everyone had a great time, and the musicians >were incredible. I second that. Jess, Rayanne, Dylan, and Bev were all absolutely fantastic. Emm Gryner did a wonderful job looking after the sound (good thing because James and I had very little idea of what we were doing) All you folks who came out were absolutely fantastic... I thank you all for making out little show a big success! I'm happy to report that we generated over $200 of food and drink sales and collected over $100 to support the artists, just by passing a hat! I should mention that if you liked that show or missed it and would like a chance to see these talented artists, Dylan (and probably Bev) will be headlining a show at Holy Joe's on December 1st, with Rayanne and one other artist (whose name I forget) opening. >This was the first time i've heard Jess perform and i >enjoyed it immensely, her voice is beautiful and soothing, Rayanne was >equally amazing, playing each song with passion, and Dylan along with >backup singer Beth(i think) was awesome. Anything i say won't do justice to It's Bev. Bev also performs with Emm Gryner from time to time. >i met up with Steve, Jess, and James to see Emm Gryner open for the >Philosopher Kings. Emm's performance was incredible, she's actually getting I think that was the best I've ever seen her play! >also called Sarah Slean out >to accompany her with the song, possibly the highlight of the show, I hope this happens again! >close second was her cover of 'Crazy Train' by Ozzy Osbourne, she toned it >down to a piano ballad and it was amazing, it blew me away at least :) Me too! I'll add that it was really cool to finally meet Emm's drummer, Stephen McGrath. What an amazingly talented and cool guy. James and I had to leave to see Danny Michel play across town so we dropped off Jess and booted it to the Reverb where Danny was playing. There we found Sarah Slean, who told us that she'd been really nervous playing with Emm because she couldn't hear herself singing at all. Not bad for a performance completely guided by the physical feel of her vocal cords, huh? Anyway it was a truly unforgettable day. Steve ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 19:55:47 PST From: "Tabassum Siddiqui" Subject: Re: C'est What show... Steve wrote: >charge out of seeing those two guys play with Sarah, especially Kurt >who's a legend around here. Exactly. Sarah seemed so excited to be playing with him. >>P.S. 2 - On an interesting note, actress Patricia Hamilton of "Anne >>of Green Gables" and "Road to Avonlea" fame (she played Rachel >>Lynde) was in the audience last night. She seemed to be a friend >>of Tory's. Neat! > >I wonder if she approved of all the newfangled clothing and drinking >going on. At least there were no puffed sleeves around. ROTFL!! Well, she stayed in her corner and sipped only Coke, I noticed. ;-) But she did seem to be enjoying the music. And who could blame her? - - Tab, who will be posting a review of the weekend shenanigans shortly... ;) >Steve > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of navy-soup-digest V1 #31 ******************************