From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V4 #88 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 Wednesday, March 13 2002 Volume 04 : Number 088 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Re: Guitar Questions [Tom926@aol.com] [RS] film song selections [jim colbert ] [RS] singer songwriters ["alan.teather" ] [RS] Re: hmmm [LBECKLAW@aol.com] Re: [RS] Re: hmmm [vcwills@princeton.edu (Vanessa Christina Wills)] RE: [RS] Re: Guitar Questions ["Brian Williamson" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 05:40:37 EST From: Tom926@aol.com Subject: [RS] Re: Guitar Questions Well, I thought you all would be the perfect people to ask about with this. My father recently passed away. He left two guitars--a beautiful acoustic Yamaha that I am keeping (musician friends of mine have played it and asked, will your dad sell it?). And, bless his heart, Dad decided he wanted to learn how to play electric guitar (at age 70), bought one and, according to my mom, two small amps. So, two questions for you: - --Regarding the electric guitar: I would like to sell it and the amps. I don't know the make of either. How can I sell them and how would I know what the best price I can get for me mum? - --Regarding the acoustic: now some of you may remember that I had said on here about a year ago, I wanted to learn how to play but thought at age 37 this would be one of those wouldacouldashoulda things. Well if me dad could try to learn to play an electric guitar at age 70, I can learn the acoustic at 37. I don't read music (music labels don't count do they? how about liner notes? I really do read liner notes). The only instrument I have ever tried to play was flutophone in third grade (I still remember the beginning of "Mary Had a Little Lamb": BAGABBB). So, any suggestions on how to start? I have NO money for lessons at the moment. And I would like this to be more than a wall decoration. I live in a tiny studio apartment in Manhattan. If it takes up useless space, then it has to help pay rent...that's my motto. So, any suggestions? I promise to serenade you with the simplest Richard Shindell song as a thank you...Didn't he write "Mary Had a Little Lamb (Who Helped Nuns Change Tires on NJ Highways)"? Thanks! Tom ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 08:20:54 -0500 From: jim colbert Subject: [RS] film song selections Glad to see two of my recommendations made the final cut for the soundtrack promo disc...but more importantly, just a reminder cause sometimes we forget... isn't it really friggin' cool to be involved in things like this and have our input and thought process considered? Boy, I think so. Jim Colbert Bellefonte PA ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:30:16 -0000 From: "alan.teather" Subject: [RS] singer songwriters What happens to a singer / songwriter when they die? . . . . . . . . . . . . .........They de compose of course ;-) Alan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:03:39 EST From: LBECKLAW@aol.com Subject: [RS] Re: hmmm In a message dated 3/10/2002 9:22:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org writes: > On the way home, my sister and I agreed the REUNION HILL is a beautiful > song, but not that it is necessarily anti-war - it demonstrates the pain > of the loss war involves for women - and expresses the longing a woman > feels at the separation better than any other song Funny, I thought exactly the same thing after Joan B. said this at the CT concert on 3/4. I just didn't dare mention my heretical thoughts on this list since I already got some flak after mentioning my confusion when people laugh at "Transit" and "Mary Magdalene" at concerts. AYHN I can understand--it is possibly Richard's most comic song(in a dark way)--but I still feel people laugh at the wrong parts of some songs. Reunion Hill--I find it so stirring and moving, but never really considered it anti-war. More like a widow's wistful yearning and love for her dead husband, who just happened to be killed in a war. But far be it for me to argue with both Joan Baez and the denizens of this list. Never. Laura ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:07:25 -0500 (EST) From: vcwills@princeton.edu (Vanessa Christina Wills) Subject: Re: [RS] Re: hmmm My thoughts? So glad you asked. hehe I would NEVER call Reunion Hill an anti-war song. Talk about missing the point, and/or sticking round pegs in square holes. sheeesh. Transit is funny. Darn funny. Mary Magdalen is funny, but that's why it bothers me. :-) - --V ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:21:22 -0500 From: "Brian Williamson" Subject: RE: [RS] Re: Guitar Questions Tom, You should definitely go for it! I did not start playing until age 40 so you have three years on me! I am not the most accomplished player, but can play well enough to fit it with our folk oriented group. I must admit that I took lessons for about a year at the start. I found that the lessons (they were pretty cheap at $10 per lesson, once a week) did as much to keep me motivated to practice as anything with heavy instruction on techique. I always feared facing my instructor without having done my homework. There are videos available and some good ones at that. To play along with many of the songs you see discussed here you only need to know a few chord structures. If you can stick with learning long enough to learn the "C" "G" and "D" chords you can play tons of songs. Throw in "A" and you can play tons more. I do think that "older" students learn differently than kids. Also some people learn better by watching an example of something demonstrated and then practicing in private, while others do better having someone on hand who can show them specifics and then answer questions along the way. So if you recognize yourself as one of these two types, you can decide on a method accordingly. Above all, my advice is to do it. If you love music, you'll love playing music. Good luck. brian. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org [mailto:owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org]On Behalf Of Tom926@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 5:41 AM To: shindell-list@smoe.org; shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: [RS] Re: Guitar Questions Well, I thought you all would be the perfect people to ask about with this. My father recently passed away. He left two guitars--a beautiful acoustic Yamaha that I am keeping (musician friends of mine have played it and asked, will your dad sell it?). And, bless his heart, Dad decided he wanted to learn how to play electric guitar (at age 70), bought one and, according to my mom, two small amps. So, two questions for you: - --Regarding the electric guitar: I would like to sell it and the amps. I don't know the make of either. How can I sell them and how would I know what the best price I can get for me mum? - --Regarding the acoustic: now some of you may remember that I had said on here about a year ago, I wanted to learn how to play but thought at age 37 this would be one of those wouldacouldashoulda things. Well if me dad could try to learn to play an electric guitar at age 70, I can learn the acoustic at 37. I don't read music (music labels don't count do they? how about liner notes? I really do read liner notes). The only instrument I have ever tried to play was flutophone in third grade (I still remember the beginning of "Mary Had a Little Lamb": BAGABBB). So, any suggestions on how to start? I have NO money for lessons at the moment. And I would like this to be more than a wall decoration. I live in a tiny studio apartment in Manhattan. If it takes up useless space, then it has to help pay rent...that's my motto. So, any suggestions? I promise to serenade you with the simplest Richard Shindell song as a thank you...Didn't he write "Mary Had a Little Lamb (Who Helped Nuns Change Tires on NJ Highways)"? Thanks! Tom ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V4 #88 **********************************