From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V5 #68 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 Sunday, March 30 2003 Volume 05 : Number 068 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: [RS] Richard and Tracy at the Iron Horse early show [adam31380@netsca] Re: [RS] KFearly show (was correction and addition to the IH early show) [TRNMT@aol.co] [RS] Knitting Factory 3/29. [Rongrittz@aol.com] Re: [RS] Knitting Factory 3/29. [FJPQ@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 13:18:33 -0500 From: adam31380@netscape.net (Adam Plunkett) Subject: RE: [RS] Richard and Tracy at the Iron Horse early show I was able to attend both great shows at the Iron Horse. Norman did a fine job describing the first show. I absolutely love the new songs - the new album can't come soon enough. :) I know little about the music of Tracy Grammar so sorry about no details on her set. The late set featured the new songs again. It also featured "Reunion Hill", "Next Best Western", "Summer Wind, "Fishing", and "Are You Happy Now?" Great show, great venue...always great shows at the IH. Adam Norman Johnson wrote: >Tracy Grammer and Richard Shindell performed two shows at the Iron Horse. I was only at the first one. > >Tracy's set was first. She opened with "Ordinary Town", the story of a prophet going to a place where he was not welcome, and closed with "Gentle Soldier of My Soul". In between, she performed "I go like the raven" and "merlin's lament". Her bass player took lead vocals for "Gentle Arms of Eden". On that song, he sounded a lot like Dave Carter, maybe too much so. > >She also two unreleased Dave Carter songs. One, which was written in May 2001, was appropriate for our times-- about how war is marketed to children. Very powerful. > >Richard played on a couple of her songs and Tracy played on over half of Richard's. > >Richard's set list: > >Beyond the Iron Gate >Next Best Western >Che Guevara T-shirt (very powerful last verse) >Gray Green >Reunion Hill (Tracy's fiddle!) >Last Fare of The Day >Are You Happy Now? >I Am (also very powerful, I think he changed some of the words) >Transit >Farewell to St. Delores (encore, Dave Carter song) > >Gray Green is an Argentina song. It's about trying to get his kids to sleep like Paul Simon's "St Judy's Comet". They live on the third floor apt by a busy intersection. Richard talked about how there were no stop signs and how people just let whoever is going fastest go by. He also said that the three Marias in the song refer to three stars in Orion's belt - Orion doesn't look like Orion in the southern hemisphere. > >If you are going to request a song, please know the name. Right before he played "Transit", someone shouted out "Blame it on the Moon". They meant "Calling the Moon". Richard said, "That's a good song but I think I'll play one that I actually wrote". > >Norman > __________________________________________________________________ Try AOL and get 1045 hours FREE for 45 days! http://free.aol.com/tryaolfree/index.adp?375380 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 for FREE! Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promos=380455 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 13:44:47 EST From: TRNMT@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] KFearly show (was correction and addition to the IH early show) In a message dated 3/29/03 10:37:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, njohnson@ent.umass.edu writes: > Tracy also played "The Mountain" and Richard and her bass player joined in > for the chants. > > Norman > They did it at the early show at the Knitting Factory, too -- don't know about the late -- but I was so taken by the deep, rich bass of I guess it was Richard's voice. The harmony of the three was wonderful. The show was wonderful, too. Tracy seems so relaxed and confident and her voice seems to only have gotten better. Richard's set was good, too, but he did have a problem with some self-ejecting capos (at least that's what I think happened. We were up in the balcony and I don't see that well). We were treated to Gray-Green, Che Guevara T-shirt and Last Fare of the Day. Also, in no order in particular Courier Next Best Western Are You Happy Now Transit Fishing Cold Missouri Waters Pancho and Lefty Reunion Hill Farewell to St. Delores (encore) As for Tracy, who was warmly received I thought; I thought she received greater ovations than Richard, it included Crocodile Man Ordinary Town Gentle Arms of Eden (Donny singing lead) I Go Like the Raven Shadows of Evangeline (I think she described this as the creepiest song Dave ever wrote) Winter When He Goes Love, The Magician Gentle Soldier of My Soul The Mountain I think I'm missing something there, but ... please someone fill in the gaps - - I know you were there. And Richard did NOT play The Weather at the early show, but the weather was definitely not pleasant for our arrival -- a real down pour. I felt like a wet dog : P and both my sister and daughter's hair had their own zip codes. Great show, though. Nancy ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 14:52:38 EST From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: [RS] Knitting Factory 3/29. >> They did it at the early show at the Knitting Factory, too -- don't know about the late -- but I was so taken by the deep, rich bass of I guess it was Richard's voice. The harmony of the three was wonderful. The show was wonderful, too. Tracy seems so relaxed and confident and her voice seems to only have gotten better. << As far as I recall, Richard's set list for the second set was exactly the same as the first. Random notes: 1. Now that I've heard "Che Guevara T-Shirt" (TWICE . . . take THAT, Pat Power), I can see what all the fuss was about. Simply a stunning song, and one of Richard's best stories, with a wonderful twist at the end. Easy to play, too, and I found myself working out the transcription on the spot. Three simple chords in DADGAD, capo fifth fret. 2. "Last Fare of the Day," which hadn't done much for me in the first show, was simply a tour-de-force in the second show. Byron Issac's bass (he'd shown up very late for the first show, only playing on the last two songs) really kicked it up a notch. I think it's one of Richard's best songs. 3. "Grey-Green" isn't doing much for me just yet. 4. For me, though, the absolute highlight of the night was Tracy's transcendent violin part on "Reunion Hill" in the second show. I've heard Larry Campbell play on this song, of course, but this was simply the most spectacular version of the song I've ever heard. Ever. Tracy's part took what is already just about the most heartbreaking song in the world, and, as difficult as this might be to believe, made it even sadder. In speaking to her afterwards, she said that she even got lost in the moment. Overwhelming. 5. Richard tweaked a word in "Reunion Hill," changing "He might just keep my love in view" to "He might just keep OUR love in view." 6. The Knitting Factory. Ewwwww. 7. Richard was playing, among other guitars, a wonderful sunburst Martin model CEO-4 which he said that he'd recently bought off the shelf at Elderly Instruments. I had a chance to play it for a minute or so, and it had one of the best necks I've ever seen on a Martin. I'm sure more will come to me later, but I'm still getting my brain cells back after having gotten home around 3am . . . RG ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 20:58:07 EST From: FJPQ@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] Knitting Factory 3/29. from Ron G's comments: << 4. For me, though, the absolute highlight of the night was Tracy's transcendent violin part on "Reunion Hill" in the second show. I've heard Larry Campbell play on this song, of course, but this was simply the most spectacular version of the song I've ever heard. Ever. Tracy's part took what is already just about the most heartbreaking song in the world, and, as difficult as this might be to believe, made it even sadder. In speaking to her afterwards, she said that she even got lost in the moment. Overwhelming. >> My personal opinion is that Tracy was luminous....overall....though I have to agree that Reunion Hill was just nothing short of breathtaking and heart wrenching. Tracy, it seems to me, is amazing in that she makes her performance seem effortless.... not that "nailing it" isn't important )I imagine, as it is with most, if not all, artists), but that the music and the lyrics and sharing Dave with the world are fortunately MORE important. She is class....through and through. Her voice last night was even more exquisite (if that is possible) than ever... I continue to be in awe. I expected to be completely depressed..though some of us were a bit weepy through Tracy's set...I was overwhelmed by a sense of everything being as it should be....almost as though everything that has happened over the past several months was meant to happen to put Tracy in the place that she finds herself now and Dave is cheering her on, just as we are :-) Richard was pushing French water...plan on seeing him in some Evian ads in the upcoming months. Also...any indication that he is "pudgey" should be dismissed. That isnt what I was seeing last night. He's got kind of thick neck like Cary Grant.. its all an optical illusion. :-) I don't tend to comment so much on the songs that were actually sung or the logistics of that, everyone else does an excellent job of that. I pick up more on the way things feel. All I can say about the Knitting Factory is, God bless the waitress who asked the sound guy to put the air on upstairs....she's a true angel of mercy :-) As for my hair and the additional space my Sister indicated it took up (and it did) I apologize on behalf of my Niece and myself if we obscured anyone's view of the stage. What can I say...we're prisoners of our hair-do s...or does it just go along with being from NJ? I'm fine with that. Very enjoyble show! Fran ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V5 #68 **********************************