From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V3 #482 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 Saturday, December 29 2001 Volume 03 : Number 482 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Sandy ["Norman A. Johnson" ] Re: [RS] And the standout song is ... ["Vanessa C. Wills" ] Re: [RS] And the standout song is ... [Bill Eley ] Re: [RS] from across the pond ["Vanessa C. Wills" ] Re: [RS] Sandy [Jeff Gilson ] Re: [RS] Sandy [Bill Eley ] Re: [RS] Sandy [patrick t power ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 18:22:28 -0500 From: "Norman A. Johnson" Subject: [RS] Sandy Vanessa wrote: >>IMHO, Sandy is hands-down the stand out track of "Courier." There are lots of reasons for this, but to me, the most important one is the very thing that can make live albums substantively different from studio-recorded discs. << I'm not sure that it's the standout track for me but I am very happy that Richard chose to end the album with Sandy. So who is this Springsteen guy anyway? Sounds like, in the words of Richard's ex-bandmate, he's from New Jersey. ;-) Norman ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 19:32:30 -0500 (EST) From: "Vanessa C. Wills" Subject: Re: [RS] And the standout song is ... "I am a citizen of the moment. I have built my white picket fence around the now." --The Tick On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Lee Wessman wrote: > Another quick observation: Richard sure has great diction when he > sings. There is not a word on this album that can't easily be > understood. He cracks those consonants, as the choir teachers say. > Rather essential, for a story teller. Ha! Someone else who notices such things! And I tell you what--you know who else has excellent diction? Tracy Grammer. I'm serious--I am constantly amazed by the way she pronounces every little word. A prime example of this is "Crocodile Man." love it love it love it. She's right up there, with Richard, on my List of People Whom I Would Gladly Hear Read the Telephone Book to Me. - --V ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 19:38:00 -0600 From: Bill Eley Subject: Re: [RS] Sandy Surely this has been discussed, and I've just missed it, but why did Richard say "This won't be on the Cd", (or whatever he said), and it ended up there? Bill > From: "Norman A. Johnson" > Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org > Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 18:22:28 -0500 > To: shindell-list@smoe.org > Subject: [RS] Sandy > > Vanessa wrote: > >>> IMHO, Sandy is hands-down the stand out track of "Courier." There are lots > of reasons for this, but to me, the most important one is the very thing > that can make live albums substantively different from studio-recorded > discs. << > > I'm not sure that it's the standout track for me but I am very happy that > Richard chose to end the album with Sandy. So who is this Springsteen guy > anyway? Sounds like, in the words of Richard's ex-bandmate, he's from New > Jersey. ;-) > > Norman ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 19:38:59 -0600 From: Bill Eley Subject: Re: [RS] And the standout song is ... Vanessa: Please forgive me. I would *love* for Tracy to read the telephone book to me... Bill > From: "Vanessa C. Wills" > Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org > Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 19:32:30 -0500 (EST) > To: > Subject: Re: [RS] And the standout song is ... > > "I am a citizen of the moment. I have built my white picket fence around > the now." > --The Tick > > On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Lee Wessman wrote: > >> Another quick observation: Richard sure has great diction when he >> sings. There is not a word on this album that can't easily be >> understood. He cracks those consonants, as the choir teachers say. >> Rather essential, for a story teller. > > Ha! Someone else who notices such things! And I tell you what--you know > who else has excellent diction? Tracy Grammer. I'm serious--I am > constantly amazed by the way she pronounces every little word. A prime > example of this is "Crocodile Man." love it love it love it. She's right > up there, with Richard, on my List of People Whom I Would Gladly Hear Read > the Telephone Book to Me. > > --V ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 20:49:42 -0500 (EST) From: "Vanessa C. Wills" Subject: Re: [RS] from across the pond Yes, yes, welcome, Alan! I hope you have as much fun here as I do. :-) Peace, V np: 30 Odd Foot of Grunts (TOFOG), "Gaslight" (Yes, this is Russell Crowe's band, and I am telling you, they are very fun and good! How can you not love in album with lines like "My friends all have babies...so I thought I should too. So I'm strolling through the windows, looking for that womb with an ova view." ;-) ) "I am a citizen of the moment. I have built my white picket fence around the now." -The Tick On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, jim colbert wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Just to say hi to you people of good taste. I look forward to many a good > > chat / posting with you all. > > > > Take care, > > > > Alan Teather in a VERY windy Hartlepool on the North east coast of England > > > > Well, since no one else said it yet...welcome, Alan! > > Have you had a chance to get a copy of Courier yet? In spite of our fanatical rants, ravings, nit-picking, personal likes and dislikes, I believe it's one of the best live albums I've ever owned. Absolutely essential. > > Just let us know if there's any "americanisms" you need deciphered or explained like, er, kicking over porta cans at 4H rodeos or smashing jack o'lanterns or why we don't put the letter "u" in color... > > What else you listening to over in the Lande of Kate Rusby, anyone we should know about? > > Jim Colbert > State College/Bellefonte, PA USA ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 22:26:37 -0500 From: Jeff Gilson Subject: Re: [RS] Sandy At 07:38 PM 12/28/2001 -0600, you wrote: >Surely this has been discussed, and I've just missed it, but why did Richard >say "This won't be on the Cd", (or whatever he said), and it ended up there? If you had the Sonora Sessions, you'd know. ;-} Actually, it was mostly because he didn't expect to get all the way through it, and as it was an encore for the second Emmelin show, he wasn't going to go back and do ten versions like he did for Sonora's Death Row. It surprised everyone (including Richard) when he nailed it. jeff. - -- I'm sitting here in Dallas, a dive in Texas with an ache like a forearm for the spoon I am peeling back the labels I'm spinning empty bottles on the bar lonely litters the room -- Beth Amsel - -- writing by osmosis http://www.onefreeradical.com/osmosis/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 21:53:27 -0600 From: Bill Eley Subject: Re: [RS] Sandy Actually, I've got Sonora - I wondered why he didn't include the version of that song that he nailed on the first try. And, I'm still trying to figure out how he messed up the subsequent versions - I couldn't notice an error... > From: Jeff Gilson > Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org > Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 22:26:37 -0500 > To: shindell-list@smoe.org > Subject: Re: [RS] Sandy > > At 07:38 PM 12/28/2001 -0600, you wrote: >> Surely this has been discussed, and I've just missed it, but why did Richard >> say "This won't be on the Cd", (or whatever he said), and it ended up there? > > If you had the Sonora Sessions, you'd know. ;-} > > Actually, it was mostly because he didn't expect to get all the way through > it, and as it was an encore for the second Emmelin show, he wasn't going to > go back and do ten versions like he did for Sonora's Death Row. It > surprised everyone (including Richard) when he nailed it. > > jeff. > > > -- > I'm sitting here in Dallas, a dive in Texas > with an ache like a forearm for the spoon > I am peeling back the labels > I'm spinning empty bottles on the bar > lonely litters the room -- Beth Amsel > -- > writing by osmosis > http://www.onefreeradical.com/osmosis/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 23:13:23 -0500 From: patrick t power Subject: Re: [RS] Sandy Bill wrote: <> He got ahead of himself . . . The second verse begins: Mescal is free at Amanda's saloon for the boys from the Old Broken O Saturday nights in the town of Sonora are the best in all Mexico Pat ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! 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