From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V3 #352 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, October 11 2001 Volume 03 : Number 352 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] For Jim (Casey) Colbert...and now, back to the countdown ["Gene Frey] [RS] Re: I'm shocked, shocked! [LBECKLAW@aol.com] [RS] Re: Three RS Songs [L8NiteBluz@aol.com] Re: [RS] Re: I'm shocked, shocked! ["Kristen Myshrall" ] Re: [RS] Re: Three RS Songs ["Kristen Myshrall" ] Re: Re: [RS] Three [Elwestrand ] Re: [RS] Three ["Candy Funston" ] Re: [RS] Three [TRNMT@aol.com] Re: [RS] Three [Vanessa Wills ] Re: [RS] Three [Joe Lanzalotto ] Re: [RS] Three [TRNMT@aol.com] [RS] Three . . . seriously. [Rongrittz@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 09:44:13 -0400 From: "Gene Frey" Subject: [RS] For Jim (Casey) Colbert...and now, back to the countdown Hey you guys, Jim from Pennsylvania (where they eat scrapple on toast) Galluped: >>But in general, off the top of your head, what 3 songs would you use as an >>introduction to Shindellism? << Curse you, Jim, for making me choose. However, one must be brave, so here goes, chronologically: Sparrows Point The Next Best Western Wisteria Don't you hate it when people are asked to name a top three, or five, or something, and they are too wishy-washy to just name as many as they are asked to, and end up slipping in the names of songs like May, Nora, The Courier, Fishing, and Reunion Hill? Boy, I hate that. Gene F. (who does not eat scrapple on toast, but is a sucker for an egg sandwich on a poppyseed roll) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:07:09 EDT From: LBECKLAW@aol.com Subject: [RS] Re: I'm shocked, shocked! Jim Don't tell anyone, but I'm too on "digest" version. My short attention span requires it. Not to mention the fact that I think the unannotated undigested e mails would probably overstimulate me. But since when does being on the short list disqualify you for being a VSF? I third the motion. On Digest List and Proud of it, Laura ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 16:26:36 EDT From: L8NiteBluz@aol.com Subject: [RS] Re: Three RS Songs 1.) Wisteria 2.) Memory Of You 3.) By Now .....geesh, picking only 3 is not an easy task!! Mark ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 17:08:16 -0500 From: "Kristen Myshrall" Subject: Re: [RS] Re: I'm shocked, shocked! Oh yeah...well I'm on both...what does that make me??? Kristen - who's too damn lazy to uns*b from the digest - ----- Original Message ----- From: LBECKLAW@aol.com Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 11:19 AM To: shindell-list@smoe.org Subject: [RS] Re: I'm shocked, shocked! Jim Don't tell anyone, but I'm too on "digest" version. My short attention span requires it. Not to mention the fact that I think the unannotated undigested e mails would probably overstimulate me. But since when does being on the short list disqualify you for being a VSF? I third the motion. On Digest List and Proud of it, LauraGet more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 18:06:38 -0400 From: Elwestrand Subject: [RS] Three Three as an intro: Are You Happy Now - Richard's humor Fishing - great storytelling and character development Fleur de lis - Spirituality, Magic, Angst I think these three would do a good job of showing several sides of Richard. FDL would be mandatory on my list but the others could be switched out with Nora, You Again, Ascent and many others. I thought of you all recently. I got to drive 80 East over the weekend - not anywhere near Patterson, in Nevada. Also got to stop and ask directions at a whorehouse, but that's a whole other story involving rock hunting, old timers, turquoise mountains, petroglyphs and my very uptight conservative father on muscle relaxants! Take Care, E ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 17:12:45 -0500 From: "Kristen Myshrall" Subject: Re: [RS] Re: Three RS Songs hmmmmm.... 1. Next Best Western 2. either Confession or Are You Happy Now (depending on the day) 3. either Wisteria or Castaway my god that was the hardest thing i've had to do in weeks....after that my biometry should be a piece of cake! KristenGet more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 18:34:23 -0400 From: patrick t power Subject: Re: [RS] Three Elwestrand wrote: <> I've been thinking that *despite* my or anyone else's disinclination to include "Are You Happy Now" because it's been run into the ground (read: played so often), I would have to put that one on my list as well. Not only for the humor but because I happen to think it's a *perfect* song. The ending, while funny, is also perfectly biting. "On A Sea Of Fleur-de-Lis" is also a given for me. I've never detected that much angst in the song, but indeed its spiritual, magical nature is compelling. For a song that has so much room for interpretation (and therefore extremely vague) it has amazing power. "Fishing" would also work for me, although I think that "Next Best Western" and "Wisteria" and "Reunion Hill" and "Nora" and . . . would neatly fill the bill. Pat (who just saw Peter Mulvey again the other night -- he just gets better and better!!) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 19:58:52 -0400 From: Elwestrand Subject: Re: Re: [RS] Three Pat wrote: > > "On A Sea Of Fleur-de-Lis" is also a given for me. I've never detected > that much angst in the song, but indeed its spiritual, magical nature is > compelling. For a song that has so much room for interpretation (and > therefore extremely vague) it has amazing power. > The angst I see in FDL has to do with the longing of the speaker. Too me he seems to want an actual spiritual experience and is no longer moved by a 2000 year old rumor of someone else's spiritual experience. To me he seems tired, frustrated and a bit desperate. When he asks Mary to "give a damn," I have to interpret that as fairly bitter. Pat - I wonder what you see in the song if you don't feel the angst. What does it make you (or anyone else) feel? I love other people's interpretations - they often change my own. E ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 19:34:37 -0700 From: "Candy Funston" Subject: Re: [RS] Three My picks for the three songs.... A Tune For Nowhere Waiting for the Storm Kentworth of My Dreams Why is it that I always seem to pick songs that no one else does.... Anyway, they are my favorite this week. Candy ps Had some excitement the last few weeks. My mandolin developed a crack on the neck (never a good sign) and I had to replace it. I tried to go to several different places, but the first place I tried had an used Epiphone for 240 bucks. I tried all the ones that had in the store, and then I bought the Epiphone. OH MY GOD, you guys were right. Buy as good of an instrument as you can when you are learning. My first mandolin was so cheap compared to my new one. I now love to play and can pick up new songs faster because I don't have to press so hard next to the fret to play the notes. I'm a happy camper now... New song of the week... (Thirty Bad Summers in) Tillman Co. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 21:17:47 EDT From: TRNMT@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] Three Ugh...three. Is that a significant number or just a measure of how lightly we can travel? Anyway, at the moment: You Again Reunion Hill Out Beyond the Iron Gate (the slow version on the 3x2) Nancy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 21:35:26 -0400 From: Vanessa Wills Subject: Re: [RS] Three Three... Memory of You Fishing Are You Happy Now? (for the reasons Pat mentioned. It is, in all honesty, a perfect song. Sure, it gets the heck played out of it, but ) TRNMT@aol.com wrote: > Ugh...three. Is that a significant number or just a measure of how lightly > we can travel? > > Anyway, at the moment: > You Again > Reunion Hill > Out Beyond the Iron Gate (the slow version on the 3x2) > > Nancy - -- "I still confuse mowing down with getting through." -Jeff Lang, "throw it all," from _Cedar Grove_ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 21:42:44 -0700 From: Joe Lanzalotto Subject: Re: [RS] Three Summer Wind Cold Missouri Waters (okay, I'm cheatin'...I do it all the time) Arrowhead Joe ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 22:06:14 EDT From: TRNMT@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] Three vcwills@Princeton.EDU writes: > Three... > > Three, as in three manual theatre organ console, which this Rick Shindell guy is pictured playing. Okay...who is this hotman1 on ebay who is out-bidding me? Gene? Ron? <> Nancy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 22:17:23 EDT From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: [RS] Three . . . seriously. OK . . . for me, I think picking three songs that would be a good introduction to Richard for a newbie is very different than picking my three favorite Richard songs. My personal three favorites are: The Courier Reunion Hill (the live slow version, NOT the version on the CD) Wisteria But I think I speak for many folks when I say that it was the "accessibility" of songs like "Are You Happy Now," "Kenworth" and "Summer Wind" that got us interested enough to give some of the "deeper" songs a chance. I mean . . . "Courier," "Fleur-de-Lis" and "Sparrows Point" did NOTHING for me in the beginning. "AYHN" and "Kenworth" got me over the hump . . . until I realized what this guy was really about, and now I find songs like those two to be very UNLIKE what I consider a quintessential Richard song to be. So if I was trying to get someone into Richard, I'd probably pick "AYHN" and "Summer Wind" and -- probably not "Kenworth," for fear of it sounding too "country" -- so I'd go with "Next Best Western" as the third. I think. Hey . . . who all's going to the cabin concert next week? RG ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V3 #352 ***********************************