From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V3 #274 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 Monday, August 20 2001 Volume 03 : Number 274 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] comments on Richard's long island show (16 August) ["Vanessa C. ] [RS] Turning Point 8/18 -- A Tune For Nowhere ["margaret clark & steve tr] [RS] wisteria etymology [Howie ] [RS] WRSI is still out there ["Norman A. Johnson" Subject: Re: [RS] comments on Richard's long island show (16 August) Geez. You miss one show and it happens to be the first time Richard has picked up an electric guitar in front of a crowd in over twenty years?! Allow me to sulk, now. ;-) Peace, V "If your mirror has a monster in it, do not shout, This kind of situation does not call for freaking out, And do nothing that you would not want to see him do, Cause that monster in the mirror, he just might be you." --Grover Monster, "The Monster in The Mirror" On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Norman A. Johnson wrote: > I was also at Richard's LI show. In a word, it was sublime. It made me > remember why I like Richard's music so much. And it was free!!! > > The highlights for me were (1) "Nora" (In case you didn't know, I love that > song), (2) The new song.. will this one be called "love"?..., (3) > "Transit", his performance on that was the best I've heard yet, and (4) > "Confession". > > "Love" and "Mary M." done on the electric guitar. Richard mentioned that he > last played the electric guitar in public sometime around 1980 when he > played with Gorka in college. > > Someone asked for "Calling the Moon". Richard said "I can't do that one. I > might mess it up". Lots of calls for "Lazy", I guess Richard wasn't. A > couple calls for "Cold Missouri Waters" and I think Richard said he would > get to it(he didn't). The encore was "Wisteria". > > Richard also confessed to being a Yes head in his youth. > > Richard called "Willin", the best trucking song he's heard. Then he said > something like "Now, I'll be foolish and follow it with my own trucking > song (kenworth)". > > "Arrowhead" was played moderately quickly, "Reunion Hill" moderately > slowly, not as slow as he's done it of late but slower than on the album. > > Thanks RonD for the publicity and whatever else you did to bring in > Richard. Thanks Gene and Isabelle for the ride back to the train station. > > Norman ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 19:55:50 -0400 From: "margaret clark & steve trozinski" Subject: [RS] Turning Point 8/18 -- A Tune For Nowhere Being the chronic list-lurker I am, I was surprised last night at the 10pm Turning Point show. Richard was in a great mood, and asked for requests, so I figured, what the heck, he'll never play it anyway, but I shouted "how about A Tune For Nowhere?" I don't shout well, but I guess he heard me. He thought for a second, then said, "we have a winner". Lincoln shook his head, having never heard the song. So Richard ran through the chords for him, turned back to the crowd, and said "I trust him". And he played a beautiful version, sort of in the same tempo as his slowed down Reunion Hill, really emphasizing the vocals. And I was happy. After the show, Richard said he hadn't played it in "forever. I never play it." I'm afraid I didn't impress him with my banter, as I really didn't know what to say next. But in the car on the way home (90 minutes worth), I couldn't stop thinking that if he played ATFN, then why not You Again, or many of the other gems he rarely plays? Maybe he is putting some of these back into his mind after a long absence? Well, back to lurkdom, at least until next Friday's week's TP show. Steve T ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 23:20:40 -0400 From: Howie Subject: [RS] wisteria etymology For the origins of "wisteria" (and why a recently discovered dinosaur was named "knopflerii"), point your browser to: http://www.takeourword.com/page1.html - -Howie stretching the bounds of on-topic ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 00:02:38 -0400 From: "Norman A. Johnson" Subject: [RS] WRSI is still out there With everyone lamenting about the changes and feared changes in WFUV, I just wanted to say that WRSI (of "Are You Out There" fame) is still... well... "out there". Just earlier today, I heard *in succession* something by Kate Rusby, Richard's version of "Shades of Black, Shades of Blue" (!) and Dar's "It happens everyday". Norman, who wishes WRSI would get live streaming going again. ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V3 #274 ***********************************