From: owner-sheryl-crew-digest@smoe.org (sheryl-crew-digest) To: sheryl-crew-digest@smoe.org Subject: sheryl-crew-digest V4 #307 Reply-To: sheryl-crew@smoe.org Sender: owner-sheryl-crew-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-sheryl-crew-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk sheryl-crew-digest Thursday, December 13 2001 Volume 04 : Number 307 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [sheryl-crew] OT: Still need a xmaspresent? Or want some new music? ["Bri] [sheryl-crew] The hair thing ["Brigitte (Westland Post)" ] [sheryl-crew] Re: Sheryl on new Beatles tribute album [MisterSmiley69@web] Re: [sheryl-crew] The hair thing [FadedSign@aol.com] Re: [sheryl-crew] The hair thing [XMystery79@aol.com] Re: [sheryl-crew] Re: Sheryl on new Beatles tribute album [XMystery79@aol] Re: [sheryl-crew] The hair thing [XMystery79@aol.com] [sheryl-crew] Re: Part 1 Jeff Trott Article [XMystery79@aol.com] [sheryl-crew] Jeff Trott Article Part 2 [XMystery79@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 10:41:02 GMT From: "Brigitte " Subject: [sheryl-crew] OT: Still need a xmaspresent? Or want some new music? Buy Ryan Adams (ex-member of Whiskeytown) latest album Gold. I totally love it, have been playing it since monday. Benmont Tench (also played some on Sheryl's The Globe Sessions) plays some piano and hammond on it. And Ryan's (not to be confused with Bryan Adams btw) music is very refreshing. Something new but still sounds old. Adam Duritz sings some nice backingvocals. I love the last song on the album. "Goodnight Hollywood Blvd" Perfect bedtime song. "So goodnight Hollywood boulevard, see you soon sometime" And Firecracker: "Well everybody wants to go forever I just wanna burn up hard and bright I just wanna be your firecracker maybe be your baby tonight and maybe be your baby tonight Radio kicks the silence, it's off into your room Kiss me slow and softly make me dream of you" And no I don't get paid by Ryan Adams. Just check out his website: www.ryan-adams.com if you're not convinced yet. He's on the Hank Williams Tribute: Timeless as well btw. Brigitte~* ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:00:08 +0100 From: "Brigitte (Westland Post)" Subject: [sheryl-crew] The hair thing Funny that the hair discussion always generates a shitload of posts.. Is that really all you can talk about? There must be something else.... How about: who do like most in Sheryl's band?? (I don't even know all their names.... oops). Brigitte~* ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 11:20:12 -0500 From: "Mike Sarzo" Subject: Re: [sheryl-crew] The hair thing For some reason, hair always seems to bring about a lot of interest. I'll bite on it for a little while: I like Sheryl's hair when it's longer but then again, I prefer longer hair on women and shorter hair on men. As for band members, I like Jim Bogios... yes, in THAT way... - -Mike >From: "Brigitte (Westland Post)" >To: sheryl-crew@smoe.org >Subject: [sheryl-crew] The hair thing >Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:00:08 +0100 > >Funny that the hair discussion always generates a shitload of posts.. >Is that really all you can talk about? >There must be something else.... >How about: who do like most in Sheryl's band?? >(I don't even know all their names.... oops). > >Brigitte~* "It's not something that you plan/One night in a world of pain/And you finally understand/Not all the king's horses/Not all the king's men/Could put it back together." -- Stevie Nicks _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 17:27:29 -0500 (EST) From: MisterSmiley69@webtv.net (mister smiley) Subject: [sheryl-crew] Re: Sheryl on new Beatles tribute album Then you don't have an eye for talent. He is as interesting as watching a log on stage. Actually the log moves more than him and has better stage presence. From: XMystery79@aol.com Subject: Re: [sheryl-crew] Re: Sheryl on new Beatles tribute album I'm going to have to ask you to not use that kind of language here. I happen to think Eddie Vedder is talented. There are artists I dislike but for the sake of keeping the list peaceful, I don't go throwing my opinion around. It's fine for you to think that way but you could have worded it better and better yet not posted about Eddie Vedder at all. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 20:23:16 EST From: FadedSign@aol.com Subject: Re: [sheryl-crew] The hair thing Yeah, I agree, Jim is a cutie! I really liked Jeff Trott and Todd! I miss them, although her new band is cool, too Keith ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 22:36:04 EST From: XMystery79@aol.com Subject: Re: [sheryl-crew] The hair thing In a message dated 12/12/2001 10:59:44 AM Eastern Standard Time, lois-lane@zonnet.nl writes: > > Funny that the hair discussion always generates a shitload of posts.. > Is that really all you can talk about? > There must be something else.... > How about: who do like most in Sheryl's band?? > (I don't even know all their names.... oops). > > Eh, give them a break...a lot of people just got done with finals and have more time to read and post. I understand your particular frusration because you really try to keep people informed and start discussions, but you can't force things...if people wanna talk about hair, they can be my guest. I think it's boring, but whatever, it seems to be generating some comments. After the recent chats with Tim Smith, Peter Stroud, and most recently Lorenza Ponce, I can't say I have a favorite...love Bogios too (according to Lorneza he'll be back to tour when Sheryl's ready). I'd really hate to see the line up change...they've got some great performers, and they all seem like really down to earth people. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 22:37:31 EST From: XMystery79@aol.com Subject: Re: [sheryl-crew] Re: Sheryl on new Beatles tribute album In a message dated 12/12/2001 5:29:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, MisterSmiley69@webtv.net writes: > > Then you don't have an eye for talent. He is as interesting as watching > a log on stage. Actually the log moves more than him and has better > stage presence. > > Didn't anyone ever tell you not to insult the moderator? Hah...Anyway, I'm not a huge fan of his or Pearl Jam, but the man's talented in my opinion. No need to insult me because you disagree. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 22:41:06 EST From: XMystery79@aol.com Subject: Re: [sheryl-crew] The hair thing In a message dated 12/12/2001 8:24:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, FadedSign@aol.com writes: > > > Yeah, I agree, Jim is a cutie! I really liked Jeff Trott and Todd! I miss > them, although her new band is cool, too > > Keith > Todd has a website listing his current band projects. I was there earlier today, interestingly it said "Formerly the Todd Wolfe Blues Project". I'm not really sure what's going on, but if you're a fan of his, why not check out his website and leave a little feedback? www.toddwolfe.com. I'm not sure what's going on with Jeff Trott, anybody know? A while back his sister posted on the fan forum on Sheryl's site. He did help her mix Kiss that Girl (goodbye). ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 01:17:47 EST From: XMystery79@aol.com Subject: [sheryl-crew] Re: Part 1 Jeff Trott Article >I'm not sure >what's going on with Jeff Trott, anybody know? A while back his sister posted >on the fan forum on Sheryl's site. He did help her mix Kiss that Girl >(goodbye). > Oh Oh I know this one! I meant to post it to you guys and forgot so I'm glad for the reminder. There was a big article in The Oregonian's A&E section last Sunday. I've cut and paste the article below and here's the link as well: http://oregonlive.com/entertainment/oregonian/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_st andard.xsl?/base/entertainment/1007816114422344.xml I live here in Portland if anyone seriously wants his new release early. > > -LeeAnne > > > > The article LeeAnne posted was too long for the server, so I'll post it in 2 halves for everyone. Thanks to LeAnne for digging it up for us. Jeff Trott: Front and center 12/09/01 MARTY HUGHLEY Having turned down a recent offer to play guitar with Mick Jagger, Jeff Trott is happy to keep gigging Monday nights in Portland. That wasn't quite an either/or decision, but it does represent the dichotomy of Trott's career at this point. Trott was inclined to take the touring job with one of rock's most legendary stars until he found out that the start of rehearsals coincided with the due date for his first child. So, since he's still in town, he can maintain his regular weekly gig at the Old Town club Ohm. Even if you haven't heard of Jeff Trott, it's likely you've heard him. Remember the Sheryl Crow hits "If It Makes You Happy," "Everyday Is a Winding Road" and "My Favorite Mistake"? Trott co-wrote those songs and several others with Crow, played guitar on them and toured with her for a few years in the mid-'90s. He's also toured with Tears for Fears, World Party and others, and worked as a producer with Crow and Stevie Nicks. BMI, the performing rights organization, even named him songwriter of the year for 1998, when his contributions helped Crow's "The Globe Sessions" land the Grammy for best rock album. And yet, for all his accomplishments, Trott, still looking boyish at 42, in a sense is just starting out. He's finally taking center stage as an artist and bandleader, and his artistic emergence becomes official, you might say, with the release of his solo debut CD, a treasure trove of psychedelicized surround-sound pop-rock called "Dig Up the Astroturf." He'll hold a listening party Monday along with his regular weekly performance at Ohm. The album's nationwide release actually isn't until Feb. 19. But as a gesture to Trott's adopted hometown, it will be available beginning Tuesday at Music Millennium stores only, and with a special bonus. One of the first albums to be created expressly for 5.1 surround sound, "Dig Up the Astroturf" will be released as a DVD-A, from DTS Entertainment, with added video clips and interviews; the initial release in Portland, though, will come paired with a stereo CD of the album. "When I started on this a few years ago, it seemed like an album with visuals and a really enveloping sound would be the next step, like going from mono to stereo," Trott said. "I think it's important to try to be a pioneer in some small way. Like being the first guy to use an aluminum bat." Trott's beginnings Up to this point, Trott has built his career as a consummate team player. "Even in the fourth grade I was trying to start some sort of collaboration," he said recently, sitting in his Northwest Portland home studio,. His adult music-making was an outgrowth of learning stage production at a fringe theater group in his native San Francisco, experimenting his way from "painting sets and sewing buttons to becoming a junior musical director." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 01:20:18 EST From: XMystery79@aol.com Subject: [sheryl-crew] Jeff Trott Article Part 2 In the mid-1980s, he joined the well-regarded New Wave band Wire Train, which eventually cut an album with producer Bill Bottrell. Some time later, Trott dropped by Bottrell's studio to show off a baritone guitar he'd come across, riffing on a chord progression he liked. At the time, Bottrell happened to be working with Crow, who liked what Trott played so much she completed a song around it after he had left. Later, after Crow's "Tuesday Night Music Club" sold big but led to an acrimonious split with the other players and writers involved, she called Trott to suggest they work together. "We had a real easy dialogue and a relaxed atmosphere in the studio," he said. "And I think that was a relief for her." "He's a great collaborator, and he seems to relate really well to women artistically," said Nashville songwriter Warren Pash, a friend of Trott's from their days in Los Angeles in the early-'90s and later that decade in Portland. "He's pretty generous with his listening. He doesn't try to take things over. He doesn't have much negative to say in a creative situation, and that's surprisingly rare." His first week of writing with Crow yielded three future chart hits, and the relationship has continued to be fruitful: Four or five Crow/Trott compositions are slated for Crow's forthcoming album (some of it recorded at Trott's studio with members of his current band of Portland players). But being a part of Crow's success both precipitated and allowed a change of direction for Trott. "One reason I decided not to go on the road again after recording 'The Globe Sessions' with Sheryl was that I really wanted to get more grounded," he said. "I felt that was an important thing just in terms of becoming a man, accepting responsibility for things. It was time to dig in and work on my home relationship. And it gave me the time to really pursue becoming an artist in my own right. I'd always been meaning to do my own record, but kept getting sidetracked by all these other bands." Familiar with the Rose City and musicians here through spending 1994 in the band of then-Portlander Pete Droge, he moved here about four years ago. "I think Portland is really a great place to woodshed and not get caught up in being part of the big music scene, which is pretty easy to do in Los Angeles." Leading the pack Acclimated to complementary roles, it took Trott a couple of years to learn to build and drive his own vehicle. "That's been the biggest step for me -- trying to find myself as an artist rather than as part of a panel of experts," he says. He's arrived at a sound that takes his knack for understated folk-rock melody and gives it a widescreen sonic treatment full of engaging and telling detail. He talks of belatedly realizing how much he's been influenced by George Harrison, and you can hear it in the slide guitar and Asian instruments laced through "Dig Up the Astroturf" as well as a gorgeous track he produced in this summer's sessions with Crow. He's also grown slowly into his new role as frontman, getting comfortable in front of the casual early-week audiences at Ohm. Although he's played around with shifting lineups, sometimes with trumpet, double bass or female vocals, his band has settled into a core group with Dahlia keyboardist Keith Schreiner, drummer Jeff Anthony, former Calobo bassist Nate Query and Everclear's touring keyboardist James Beaton. After years playing off to the side, he's comfortable standing out front. "I do feel a little like the mad scientist behind the curtain," he says. "Called upon to explain this project, I find it's hard to know what to say. Maybe it's better just to turn on the apparatus." You can reach Marty Hughley at 503-221-8383 or by e-mail at martyhughley@news.oregonian.com. ------------------------------ End of sheryl-crew-digest V4 #307 *********************************