From: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org (oppositeview-digest) To: oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Subject: oppositeview-digest V7 #78 Reply-To: oppositeview@smoe.org Sender: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oppositeview-digest Sunday, July 10 2005 Volume 07 : Number 078 Today's Subjects: ----------------- OV: Re: oppositeview-digest V7 #77 [Susan Gardner ] OV: Re: Just Thinkin ["Steven & Cindy Meyer" ] RE: OV: Just Thinkin ["Darren Holmquist" ] Re: OV: Just Thinkin [Dave ] OV: reflections at the basilica...6 years ago this weekend ["Leah Schenke] Re: OV: Just Thinkin ["Steven & Cindy Meyer" ] Re: OV: Just Thinkin ["Elizabeth Osborne" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 09:45:43 -0700 From: Susan Gardner Subject: OV: Re: oppositeview-digest V7 #77 oppositeview-digest wrote: oppositeview-digest Saturday, July 9 2005 Volume 07 : Number 077 Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 07:03:19 -0500 From: "mike ." Subject: OV: god bless all UKers My thoughts and prayers go out to all the victims and friends hurt and affected by these barbaric and savage acts. God Bless you in your time of troubles. Yes, yes - my sentiments too... I've been expecting something like this to happen since 9/11, honestly, and while not surprised I am so saddened by its final occurance. London holds a special place in my heart - my first view of St. Paul's Cathedral was as I emerged from the Underground station down the street, that's an image I'll never forget. TTFN Susan ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 15:40:48 -0700 From: Susan Gardner Subject: OV: Just Thinkin Hey, I just was thinkin' about how long I've been a member of this exceptional board, the Opposite View... good grief, I think I go back to 1998 - no, wait, maybe its 1997 because in '98 about 18 of us from OV met for the first DelFest in Chicago! How many other "Old Timers" do we have lurking around here besides me and Ladywiz and Laura?? TTFN Susan ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 15:15:15 -0500 From: "Steven & Cindy Meyer" Subject: OV: Re: Just Thinkin >How many other "Old Timers" do we have > lurking around here besides me and Ladywiz and Laura?? Me . . . I don't know when exactly Darren started this list, but there weren't a whole lot of folks on here when I came on board. I remember Jane, Darren, Laura . . perhaps Ed, Alison, Lori. Darren will know. ;-) Cindy - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Gardner" To: "Opposite View" Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 5:40 PM Subject: OV: Just Thinkin > Hey, I just was thinkin' about how long I've been a member of this > exceptional board, the Opposite View... good grief, I think I go back to > 1998 - no, wait, maybe its 1997 because in '98 about 18 of us from OV met > for the first DelFest in Chicago! > > TTFN > Susan ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 12:41:43 -0700 From: "Darren Holmquist" Subject: RE: OV: Just Thinkin I just wonder how many people I've subscribed, unsubscribed, changed their email addresses, and forwarded their posts for them!?!? Time moves forward no matter what kind of creams you use. Darren >---- Original Message ---- >From: crgsgg55@bellsouth.net >To: oppositeview@smoe.org >Subject: RE: OV: Just Thinkin >Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 15:40:48 -0700 > >> Hey, I just was thinkin' about how long I've been a member of this >>exceptional board, the Opposite View... good grief, I think I go >back to >>1998 - no, wait, maybe its 1997 because in '98 about 18 of us from >OV met >>for the first DelFest in Chicago! How many other "Old Timers" do we >have >>lurking around here besides me and Ladywiz and Laura?? >> >>TTFN >>Susan ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 14:07:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Subject: Re: OV: Just Thinkin I remember the pre-OV days, just a list of CC's! (yes, there was color TV back then) At 34, it's kind of depressing to think of myself as an "old timer" at anything. Dave Sills www.davesills.com www.myspace.com/davesillsmusic www.myspace.com/davesills Susan Gardner wrote: Hey, I just was thinkin' about how long I've been a member of this exceptional board, the Opposite View... good grief, I think I go back to 1998 - no, wait, maybe its 1997 because in '98 about 18 of us from OV met for the first DelFest in Chicago! How many other "Old Timers" do we have lurking around here besides me and Ladywiz and Laura?? TTFN Susan ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 16:32:38 -0500 From: "Leah Schenkenberg" Subject: OV: reflections at the basilica...6 years ago this weekend Not that I'm old enough to pretend that I have enough insight or experience to offer actual reflections that mean anything, but at the Minneapolis Basilica Block Party tonight (with free tickets, as long as Pete Yorn didn't personally kick me in the face, I figured I was coming out ahead), it was my first time back since the show 6 years ago. How lucky I was then, 18 years old, owning only Twisted and Hatful of Rain, not knowing or realizing that seeing my newly declared favorite band would never be possible again in the states, that I left another music festival early and headed down...being nervous to drive in the cities...barely old enough to be allowed inside. And now, 6 years later, watching a capable artist like Pete Yorn embarrass himself with a lazy, out of tune performance, just because the yuppies in the audience only attend overpriced, outdoor shows and don't know they can expect better...I stood on those stairs and thought about how much had changed in this 6 years. That show then seemed like the first of many...that I would be seeing them again, that I would remember this as my first show. I realize now it may be my only show, and with a music promoter for a boyfriend, I now know that talent has very little to do with it. It's marketing, marketing, marketing, and sometimes, you get lucky...with a certain niche that's popular, a certain openess in the market that leaves a void for you to fill. I thought back then that bands were on the radio because they were good. I realize now it's because they traded live studio preformances for ad space, because they came around when there was a need for a three guitar band with a young cute lead singer with complicated hair, because the random song the producer liked was put on a movie soundtrack that suddenly became the greatest mix CD ever produced. I've been introduced to more deserving bands in the last five months then I had ever heard in the time before. It's overwhelming to me. While I wish this band that I love could get it together, they could fill that niche, be what the radio wanted, at the same time, I'm grateful I have them to myself, that I when I did see them, it was at the secondary stage in Minneapolis, off the steps of a beautiful historic building, not having to fight with 14 year old girls for a spot at the front in an overhyped club with mean bartenders wearing too much eye liner. How could I have missed out on Beck all these years? And how is it that everyone else has missed out on Del Amitri? Mysteries, indeed. Or maybe it's the shot of jag I just had... My thoughts and affection to the city of London... lds PS Even without a kick to the face, I barely came out even...he was pretty bad. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 16:22:04 -0500 From: "Steven & Cindy Meyer" Subject: Re: OV: Just Thinkin > Time moves forward no matter what kind of creams you use. > Darren LOL . . somedays I'm surprised I even remember why we're on this list! Del who?? (Should have bought stock in the post-it note company years ago!!) ;-) Cindy ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 22:26:49 -0500 From: "Elizabeth Osborne" Subject: Re: OV: Just Thinkin "I invented Post-Its." (Romy & Michelle) I have been on this list since 1999 or 2000...some might remember me as the stupid arse who tried to be funny and sent a really RUDE post signing off about how everyone on this list were freaks and that Neil Finn/Crowded House's list was SO MUCH BETTER!!! After my post, lots of posts were POSTED and most were really mad at me...it wasn't until then that I met Jane and Nigel and realized that this list, unlike the Neil/CH lists, was made up of many long-time friends and acquaintences, who happened to love the Dels and just happened to become friends (even though many of us have never officially "met") and, therefore, the posts were not just about the band or certain gigs or songs, but about a sort of family...people who appreciate the same AND different types of things at the same time and who can share posts about how a certain song affects them, about hearing a Dels song on the muzak at work, on an obscure radio station, or, as with me, at happy hour just last week! Not many times do I stop the conversation at happy hour to say "Hey! I love this song!" and unfortunately, usually the people I am with don't appreciate it. Here on this list, however, we all have each other to share in those moments. And I for one am so thankful that I was able to be accepted back onto the list with such kindness so that I can be sending a post like this. To friends never seen in person, but with whom we share so much more. Here's to all of us and especially to all of you who have shared intimate posts with me on and off list over the years. We will always have our Dels music but the most important thing is that we can share intimate e-mails ON LIST (unlike some other snobby lists which I belong to!!!) and all of us seem to appreciate it, even if it is "OT". Love to all of you, my fellow Del fans, and much love for the future and I am looking forward to many more posts about babies, bad drivers, failed love, and of course, our beloved Dels. xoxo's and writing as a friend to all of you. Much much love and admiration to all of you!!! Elizabeth p.s. And Jane, I still plan on wedding Nigel once I can actually pull him across the lake! (you hear that, Nigel, you big STUD!??) - ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Steven & Cindy Meyer" To: , Subject: Re: OV: Just Thinkin Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 16:22:04 -0500 > Time moves forward no matter what kind of creams you use. > Darren LOL . . somedays I'm surprised I even remember why we're on this list! Del who?? (Should have bought stock in the post-it note company years ago!!) ;-) Cindy ------------------------------ End of oppositeview-digest V7 #78 *********************************