From: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org (navy-soup-digest) To: navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Subject: navy-soup-digest V2 #164 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 Saturday, November 13 1999 Volume 02 : Number 164 In This Digest: ----------------- Re: vertigo [Paul Schreiber ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 01:21:58 -0500 From: Paul Schreiber Subject: Re: vertigo Tab Siddiqui wrote: >Julian wrote: > >>Well, just speaking from experience -- after you've played an >instrument >>or been a musician for many, many years, one can pretty >much just >>improvise a lot of stuff on the fly. It seems funny to say >Yes, yes, I know *that* - after years of watching the guys in Fruvous and >BNL improvise complete wordy, complex songs on the spot, I have ceased to >gape at that feat. ;-) Steve Poltz is a master at this ... he'll improvise, make songs up on the spot based on audience members, you name it. >Totally - like James said, there so often instances when after a gig, the >musician will say, "Oh, man, this was wrong, and that was wrong," but no one >in the audience would ever even notice! That happens in most art - for >example theatre, where actors mess up cues and lines but are so >well-trained/rehearsed that they're able to cover it up. Yeah, someone said something to Bev after a recent Cicero show about one of the songs, and i was thinking "really? sounded good to me." I'm just about tone-deaf, anyway. :-) Paul shad 96c / 3B CS / mac activist / eda / fumbler fan of / jewel / sophie b. / sarah slean / steve poltz / emm gryner / / x-files / buffy / dawson's creek / habs / bills / 49ers / t h i n k d i f f e r e n t. "OK, I'm having a Grateful Dead moment here. Bootleg the puppy." -- Joss Whedon, creator of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer," commenting on Buffy fans' tape trading, after The WB decided not to air the season finale of Buffy in the US. (The show aired in Canada.) USA TODAY, June 3, 1999 ------------------------------ End of navy-soup-digest V2 #164 *******************************