From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V3 #41 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, February 8 2001 Volume 03 : Number 041 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] PublicRadioFan.com [Kerry Bernard ] [RS] Ground Control To Major Tom.. ["Batgirl of the Night" Subject: [RS] PublicRadioFan.com http://www.PublicRadioFan.com A woman on Peter Mulvey's discussion list posted about this site (which was created by her husband) and, I have to say, I'm absolutely floored. It's AMAZING. It's a whole website where you can listen to just about every public radio station in the world. You can list things by country, time slot, program, and lord knows what else. I'm SO not going to get any work done for the next week... Back to playing! Kerry :) =========================================================== Kerry Bernard kerry@younghunter.com Young/Hunter Management 781.643.2773 (ph) Arlington, MA 781.643.0416 (fax) =========================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 14:11:05 -0500 From: "Batgirl of the Night" Subject: [RS] Ground Control To Major Tom.. Greetings Earthlings and fellow Richard listers! I realize this is completely 'off-topic', but I figured since the list is a little slow at the moment this would be the perfect time to share this with all of you. my friend Jerry Francischelli (Dept. of Physics & Astronomy)at SUNY-Stony Brook sent me these rather amazing images. I thought some of you would enjoy them as much as I did. As I gazed at them, for some reason I found myself humming "Calling The Moon". Well, a quote from a very wise philosopher also comes to mind-"Keep your head in the clouds and keep reaching for the stars!" Sorry about that, I just *couldn't* resist. I hope you are all having a *cosmic* kind of day. Enjoy! :) Renee Batgirl Polgar dscully73@hotmail.com Check these out ! 1. http://heritage.stsci.edu/public/2001feb/big.html 2. >The most spectacular space-based image ever? The following Cassini image >was posted to CCD-world*: > > http://www.spacer.com/images/cassini-galileo-jupiter-io-desk-1000.jpg ================= JF's note: The first image is of the Planetary nebulae, M23 taken by the HST (Hubble Space Telescope). And, no a planetary nebulae has nothing to do with planets - -- it is a dead red giant star shedding it's outer layers. The glowing thing in the middle is a white dwarf remnant. The second image is taken by the Cassini spacecraft. It is a closeup of Jupiter (taking the whole screen) with one of its moons, Io, in front of it. To get some perspective, Io is slightly larger than our own moon (diameter = 3630 km). =================================== Jerry Francischelli SUNY Stony Brook Department of Physics and Astronomy Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800 (631) 632-9040 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 15:48:44 -0600 From: "Timothy Bruce" Subject: [RS] "Peppermint Picks" What a concept! A few of the independent singer-songwriters in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area banded up and formed an umbrella organization called "Peppermint" to promote themselves. That's not so unusual. But this excerpt describes a very interesting arrangement by which the artist can earn money recommending other artists' CD's. Read on..... If you're new to this list, here's the deal. Peppermint is your source for CDs and information from these independent singer-songwriters: Brenda Weiler, Peter Mayer, Stuart Davis, John Hermanson/Alva Star, Chris Bucheit, Ellis, Justin Roth, Chris Cunningham, Billy McLaughlin, and Storyhill..... ....Last November, we introduced a new feature: the "Peppermint Picks". We've asked each of the artists to choose a CD that is meaningful and/or inspiring to them and we're selling these CDs. The variety and musical breadth of the Peppermint Picks CDs is an interesting parallel to that of the artists we work with. The response has been very good, especially regarding Neal & Leandra, Mason Jennings, and Richard Shindell. A portion of the income from the sales of each of these CDs goes to the artist who "picked" it, in keeping with the cooperative spirit of Peppermint. For the list of CDs, go to http://www.peppermintcds.com/Picks.html; to order the CDs, go to our online order form or call us at 1-800-633-7020. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 17:12:49 -0500 From: "Batgirl of the Night" Subject: [RS] "Outstanding Night at The Outpost!" Hello everyone! I apologize for my review being a bit late and I hope not to be too repetitive, since I know many of you have already posted/read reviews from the Outpost. I attended the show with a photographer that was asked to take pics. during the show, so we arrived at the church very early-I believe it was about 4:30pm. Well, by 5pm, I was sitting there in the church, watching and listening as Richard sat on the edge of the stage playing around on the guitar and singing bits and pieces of various songs. I was the only person witnessing this(other than my friend/photographer who was in another room setting up and the management/sound crew) so I felt especially lucky. I had the opportunity to see first hand all of the preparation involved before a show-especially when it is being recorded for a live CD. Richard continued playing snippets from different songs and said that he needed to decide what his set list would be. He was joined by an accordion player(Rad?),violinist.guitarist for the sound check. They took turns with a solo on each instrument to test the sound for the best results for recording purposes. Richard left the stage briefly. Then Lucy joined them on stage and sang a series of "La, la, la, la's" to test her microphone,etc. Richard returned, guitar in hand, and joined Lucy for rehearsal. He sang part of "Confession", then "Fluer-De-Lis" with Lucy harmonizing. They topped it off with "Mary Magdalene"-awesome! As I sat there all alone, hearing this sneak peak, I knew it was a very special moment. It gave me chills throughout my body. They also did pieces of "Summer Wind, Cotton Dress", before having a discussion on what they should eat for dinner. Thai seemed to be the preferred food of choice! :) I shall now move onto to the *actual* show, I don't want to bore anyone too much with a million little details. Since I was with the photographer, we sat in the very first row, my legs were literally pressed up against the stage. James Keelahan opened the show with a great set. I heard his version of "Cold Missouri Waters" for the first time-Wow! The crowd really seemed to like him a lot! I was very impressed with his voice and passionate guitar playing. Next Lucy hit the stage, wearing all black except for her blood red, vinyl shoes with matching toe nail polish. She asked Richard to hold her up her shoe so everyone could get a good look and said "Matching toe nail polish, these are the things that matter to me!" She was accompanied by John Harrington on electric guitar. Her set list was as follows(I *think* it's accurate): Small Dark Movie, Written On The Back of His Hand, End Of The Day, I Know What It Is To Be Nowhere(I love this one!), Don't Mind Me. Then she invited Richard to sing with her on 10 Year Night and By Way Of Sorrow. He left after those songs and Lucy went on to continue her set. She told us her tale of her recent UK tour and that Bryan Ferry (of Roxy Music) wanted her to sing with him on his upcoming CD. So within an hour or so she was in the studio singing with him-she had been getting over a cold and he had brought her Riccola cough drops. Lucy joked and said she should have them bronzed. In tribute to him, she sang a phenomenal version of Roxy Music's "More Than This". It was so beautiful! I'm really hoping/wishing that she will record that for her new cd! Next she sang Time To Go, One Good Reason, Turn The Lights Back On, Swimming Song. Richard returned to sing with her on Scorpion, Speaking With The Angel(again-WOW!)It was flawless!! Now it was Richard's turn to shine! He opened with Confession and went on to sing Arrowhead, Reunion Hill, (Blackie Farrel song-? Don't recall the name), On A Sea Of Fluer-De-Lis, Fishing, Wisteria(hauntingly beautiful as always!)-once again-chills! Lucy came back to sing harmony for Mary Magdalene, Summer Wind Cotton Dress, Next Best Western & Are You Happy Now. As he was tuning for Mary Magdalene he said he doesn't even need a tuner, he can just tell if he's in tune by the faces that Lucy makes! It was pretty funny! :) Well he completed his set with Transit. As the clock struck the midnight hour, it was officially my birthday. I turned 28 exactly as the final note of Transit ended! The timing was perfect! As part of his encore he had to sing Fluer-De-Lis a second time due to a technical problem during the recording. Lucy returned to join him for a wonderful rendition of Love Hurts! This was my first experience hearing them perform this. I was blown away! Since I was the photographer's guest/assistant, we stayed after the show and hung out for awhile. I spoke with Richard & Lucy for awhile. Lucy was in a bit of a hurry but I did manage to take a picture of me with both of them, which was great! Richard seemed very relaxed and was as sweet to me as ever. He's just such a terrific person, so down to earth. We chatted about the show, the recording, FRFF, and other odds & ends. Well, that about sums it up, I hope everyone had an amazing time at the show as well. I will post the pics of me with Richard & Lucy when I get them developed if anyone is interested in checking them out. Take care! *still basking in the after glow* Renee Batgirl Polgar :) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V3 #41 **********************************