From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V2 #18 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Thursday, April 13 2000 Volume 02 : Number 018 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] Waiting for the Storm [Howie Lyhte ] Re: [RS] ellis paul story [Lee Wessman ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 22:01:09 -0400 From: Howie Lyhte Subject: Re: [RS] Waiting for the Storm At 06:02 AM 4/12/2000 -0400, Jeff wrote: >Would anyone out there happen to have the chords for Richard's song Waiting >for the Storm. I love the mandolin part (Im partial to Mandolins since I play >one), but the harmony is also wonderful. And by the way, what exactly is the >song about? I think I can sum it up in three words: suicide by hurricane. - -Howie - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Academic training was instrumental. You have to understand the language of society before you can start stretching and subverting it and ripping and tearing it and burning it and watching the plastic drip on the ants." Mark Pauline ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 21:16:50 -0800 From: Lee Wessman Subject: Re: [RS] ellis paul story So I gotta tell an Ellis Paul story, after seeing the stuff from the Ellis list. I went to see Ellis a few years back at the Palms in Davis, Ca., a great little place. It was after his first album, and I got there early even though I knew there wasn't likely to be much of a crowd. So I go in about 90 minutes before the show and Ellis is sitting on stage with his guitar in his lap. "How ya doing?" he says and I say I'm doing swell. "Do you know anything about acoustic guitar pickups?" he says. And I say yeah, I do. So we start working on his guitar, trying to get the pickup to function. We're chatting and he's just a very easy-going guy. Then he restrings, and he puts it in an odd little tuning, DADEBE, and asks if I ever use it. And I say yeah, I do. Now this is pretty swell because that's a very unusual tuning and I've never come across anybody else who uses it. (I got it from a John Hiatt interview.) And so Ellis shows me this song he's been writing in it. And then he hands me his guitar and says, "do you write any songs in it?" And I say yeah, I do. And so it goes, and we're just having a swell time there on the edge of the stage at the Palms, sitting and passing the guitar back and forth, playing tunes. And then, all of a sudden, we realize the audience has arrived. As it turned out, there were only about 15 people there that night, and we never got the pickup working, so he just remained sitting on the edge of the stage and played without any amplification. A long, magical, house-concert kind of evening with a truly gifted songwriter who is as nice a guy as you'll ever need to meet. As I'm sure a lot of you know. - --lee ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V2 #18 **********************************