From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V3 #230 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 Friday, July 20 2001 Volume 03 : Number 230 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Accidental? I think not.... ["Gene Frey" ] [RS] the lucy factor ["sharon g" ] [RS] Blue Divide ["Sally Green" ] Re: [RS] Blue Divide [Rongrittz@aol.com] [RS] Remember When the Music. [Rongrittz@aol.com] Re: [RS] Accidental? I think not.... [Lisa Davis & family ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 08:39:17 -0400 From: "Gene Frey" Subject: [RS] Accidental? I think not.... Hey you guys, Lisa pleaded: >>Oops. I hate the way when you try to reply to someone's address, despite >>what it says, you wind up pasting in the list address! I don't think you all care what I look like for god's sake, please delete!!<< I have to believe this is somehow related to the 'cover art' thread currently going on. Verrrrryyyy subtle, Lisa. Hey Pat, are there any pictures of Lisa tuning a guitar out there? Gene F. (who is sure that there are no pictures of him tuning a guitar out there, primarily because he doesn't know how to) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 12:53:58 From: "sharon g" Subject: [RS] the lucy factor hey again.. ill ask.. lucy kaplansky was at two of the three shows and sang some of her best harmony.. what songs on the recording have lucy on them.... and i have heard the harmony ... richard did for THE angels rejoiced if you are thinking .. she opens with that and makes it a rockers... that is not what you will hear on this version.. YOU will hear some wonderfull shindell harmonies... you will hear some wonderful kaplansky harmony.. who would thunk she can sing with herself....the only one who can do it better is jennifer kimball.. well and buddy miller.... sharon sharonG I was chasing grace and grace aint so easily found slaid cleaves - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:58:46 -0400 From: "Sally Green" Subject: [RS] Blue Divide Pat Power wrote: >I recall the first time that I saw Richard -- in Ann Arbor, Michigan, at >the Ark -- there was a pause in his repartee (perhaps he was tuning . . . >nah!!) and Sally Green (who was sitting three or four rows from the >stage) and my friend Anne (further back) both yelled "Blue Divide" at the >exact same instant. Richard (and the rest of the room) got quite the >chuckle out of that and, well, he *had* to oblige! Tee hee! I remember this! As I recall, at the time I was trying to learn to play the guitar and Blue Divide was the song I had chosen. It wasn't the easiest one to play, as Richard said when I asked him about it. He suggested Are You Happy Now for ease of chords and timing. That B minor barre chord was HARD at first. Now I have stopped trying to learn to play the guitar and I just play it. I think the whole "trying to learn" thing was psyching me out. Also, I bought a folk-size Alvarez, as I posted a few weeks ago, and the "action" on it is really "nice." (Jennifer told me that, which means it's easy to push the strings down onto the frets.) Anyway, Ron G says on his chord page that Wilder Than Her by Fred Eaglesmith, covered by Dar, is one of the easiest songs to play, which I have found to be true. Anyone know if there's a transcription of "Lucille" out there? - --Sally sallyagreen@hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:20:48 EDT From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] Blue Divide >> I bought a folk-size Alvarez, as I posted a few weeks ago, and the "action" on it is really "nice." (Jennifer told me that, which means it's easy to push the strings down onto the frets.) << I love when Sally gets all "guitar techy" on us. ;-) RG ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 22:51:58 EDT From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: [RS] Remember When the Music. I haven't read a whole lot about it this week, but this past Monday marked the 20 year anniversary of the death of Harry Chapin. It was July 16, 1981. I remember sitting in my bedroom, listening to WNEW-FM, and they played one of Harry's songs, which was pretty strange for a rock station. But then they played "American Pie," and I had the strangest sense that something had happened, something which then became confirmed when they broke the news that Harry had been killed in a traffic accident on Long Island. This morning, when picking through my CDs for something to accompany me on the way to work, I grabbed the Harry Chapin Tribute, a live recording of a gig from 1987, when many of Harry's friends gave a concert in tribute to what would have been Harry's 45th birthday. Bruce Springsteen sang "Remember When the Music," and with this introduction, brought me to tears. _______________________ I remember when Sandy sent me this tape, I listened to it and I said, gee, this is a little on the corny side. And I sat down and I tried to think what the song was about. And I guess there was a time when people felt that music provided you with a greater, oh, a greater sense of unity, a greater sense of shared vision and purpose than it does today. And my generation, we were the generation that was gonna change the world. Somehow we were gonna make it a little less lonely, a little less hungry, a little more just place. But it seems that when that promise slipped through our hands, we didn't replace it with nothin' but lost faith. And now we live in a . . . times are pretty shattered; I got my music, you got yours, the guy up the street, he's got his. And you could kinda sit back and say -- not cynically, but truthfully -- well, maybe all men are not brothers. And maybe we won't ever know who or what we really are to each other. But I think Harry instinctively knew . . . that it was gonna take a lot more than just love to survive. It was gonna take a strong sense of purpose, of duty, and a good clear eye on the dirty ways of the world. So in keeping his promise to himself, he reminds us of our promise to ourselves. And that tonight, alongside Harry, it's that promise that his spirit would have us remember, and honor, and re-commit to. So . . . do something. And may his song be sung. _______________________ I wasn't always a huge fan of Harry . . . I think that later in his career he became too preachy, too smarmy, a little too much a parody of himself . . . letting the stories take precedence over the music. But in listening to those story songs today, I heard a lot of Richard, in the way Harry was able to transport me to other times, other places, other people. And I just wanted to share a little of what I was feeling with you all REMEMBER WHEN THE MUSIC Remember when the music Came from wooden boxes strung with silver wire And as we sang the words, it would set our minds on fire, For we believed in things, and so we'd sing. Remember when the music Brought us all together to stand inside the rain And as we'd join our hands, we'd meet in the refrain, For we had dreams to live, we had hopes to give. Remember when the music Was the best of what we dreamed of for our children's time And as we sang we worked, for time was just a line, It was a gift we saved, a gift the future gave. Remember when the music Was a rock that we could cling to so we'd not despair, And as we sang we knew we'd hear an echo fill the air We'd be smiling then, we would smile again. Oh all the times I've listened, and all the times I've heard All the melodies I'm missing, and all the magic words, And all those potent voices, and the choices we had then, How I'd love to find we had that kind of choice again. Remember when the music Was a glow on the horizon of every newborn day And as we sang, the sun came up to chase the dark away, And life was good, for we knew we could. Remember when the music Brought the night across the valley as the day went down And as we'd hum the melody, we'd be safe inside the sound, And so we'd sleep, we had dreams to keep. And I feel that something's coming, and it's not just in the wind. It's more than just tomorrow, it's more than where we've been, It offers me a promise, it's telling me "Begin", I know we're needing something worth believing in. Remember when the music Came from wooden boxes strung with silver wire And as we sang the words, it would set our minds on fire, For we believed in things, and so we'd sing. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 23:13:51 -0400 From: Lisa Davis & family Subject: Re: [RS] Accidental? I think not.... Gene Frey wrote: > > I have to believe this is somehow related to the 'cover art' thread > currently going on. Verrrrryyyy subtle, Lisa. Hey Pat, are there any > pictures of Lisa tuning a guitar out there? Nope! Because she doesn't know how! She gave up cello in 1981 because she couldn't tune that, either! lisa ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 23:46:46 -0400 From: "Gene Frey" Subject: [RS] Remember When The Music Hey you guys, Ron G. remembered: >>I haven't read a whole lot about it this week, but this past Monday marked >>the 20 year anniversary of the death of Harry Chapin. << There was a long article in Newsday (from Long Island) this week about Harry. As you probably know, Harry died in a car accident on the Long Island Expressway driving to a benefit concert appearance. One of the primary sources in the article was Bill Ayres, a radio host who now has a talk show on WPLJ in New York. He provides big-brotherly advice in a very personal, understanding way. The Hungerthon, which is now run on Infinity network stations all over the country each November, helps raise money for World Hunger Year, of which Bill Ayres was co-founder with Harry Chapin, and is presently Executive Director. I was also reminded of all this in May when I played at a charity golf outing for Long Island Cares, a food bank thay Harry started in 1980. From all accounts, Harry devoted almost all of his time during his last few years to hunger relief and other humanitarian causes. Here is a link to the Newsday story. http://www.newsday.com/coverage/current/fanfare/monday/nd9064.htm Gene F. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V3 #230 ***********************************