From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V5 #111 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 Friday, May 16 2003 Volume 05 : Number 111 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] trade ????? ["Simon URQUHART" ] [RS] My Creepy .02 [RockinRonD@aol.com] [RS] Creepy songs [] [RS] The Tao of Richard ["depaul" ] [RS] creepy songs [Jim Colbert ] [RS] They're creepy and they're kooky ["Gene Frey" ] [RS] New Richard song... [ctoph@onebox.com] Re: [RS] New Richard song... [Rongrittz@aol.com] [RS] Re: Creepy e-mail [Laurel Rezeau ] Re: [RS] They're creepy and they're kooky [Vanessa C Wills Subject: [RS] trade ????? Hi, I'm looking to trade for some live Shindell recordings as Courier has wetted my appetite and it doesn't look like Richard will be touring the UK anytime soon. Have a large Springsteen list and a smaller list containing a variety of interests if anyone is interested. Best Wishes Simon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 06:25:32 EDT From: RockinRonD@aol.com Subject: [RS] My Creepy .02 Perhaps not as creepy as most, but John Prine's "Six O'Clock News" can really make your stomach somersault a bit with the last few lines of the song: "The whole town saw Jimmy on the Six O'Clock news His brains were on the sidewalk and blood was on his shoes." I've been playing this song for at least two decades and I still get the creeps when I sing those last lines of the last stanza. >>shudder<< RegurgitatinRon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 6:59:28 -0500 From: Subject: [RS] Creepy songs Hi all, How about "Psycho Street" from Richard Thompson's Rumor and Sigh? "I Feel so Good" is pretty creepy too. Charlie (=}===# ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 09:35:49 -0400 From: "depaul" Subject: [RS] The Tao of Richard I was just searching through the archives for a Borges poem I posted a while back that I wanted to give to a friend (since I gave the book to another friend a long time ago) The poem about the thief upon the cross. And I saw that I kept referring to him as Barabbas who was, of course, the murderer person who was freed instead of Jesus NOT the thief - who remains nameless - which is sort of an essential point of the poem. (Can't believe you biblical scholars didn't hit me on that one :) Don't know where my head was at that night. it was late. (I know you guys have all just been dwelling on this these past two years ) Anyway, had to set that straight. But I had this sort of fond almost forgotten memory about how "The Ascent" (which is what the poem was referencing) was the song that hooked me on Richard. My friend Otto had been telling me about Richard for a while and he performed "Summer Wind Cotton Dress" (Very nicely too) at an open mike one night, shortly after "Blue Divide" came out, and I thought, O. K. nice...great comet....but....And that was that. Then a week later or so I popped in to help out with a show and Richard's priestly voice singing "The Ascent" was echoing over the P.A.through the empty room (we hadn't set up yet) and I stopped dead in my tracks and literally couldn't move until it was over. I barely whispered to Otto, "Who WAS that." Then, of course, he yelled (Not really. Otto never yells) but in his own emphatic way said, "I've been tellin' you you'd love this guy, etc. etc. Then I had to just sit down and listen to the whole CD....and that WAS that....It occurred to me as I was reminiscing that I've never heard him perform this one. In fact I don't remember seeing it on any set lists - not recently anyway. Wonder if he still does it. Some might consider this one creepy. It's MY Tao of Richard. Shelley Still guitarless : ( ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 10:10:33 -0400 From: Jim Colbert Subject: [RS] creepy songs Creepy songs, eh? The thing that pops first to mind is that hillbilly madman, Hasil Adkins. Um, been years since I listened, but I think the song was no more hot dogs, basically about, well, cutting off your date's head and, uh, she couldn't eat any more hot dogs. It would probably be funnier if it didn't sound like he'd do it. (He also has one of my favorite album titles: What the hell was I thinking.) There was a creepy-ass country song years ago called Psycho, too, but the artist escapes me... Jim ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 14:41:02 -0400 From: "Gene Frey" Subject: [RS] They're creepy and they're kooky Hey you guys, Aside from the most obvoius, Radiohead's stalker-with-a-heart-of-gold-and-severely-low-self-esteem anthem 'Creep,' there is the deliciously creepy 'Preston Miller' by Dave Carter. This appears on no commercially available CD, and I have only heard Dave and Tracy perform it once, at Falcon Ridge in 2001. Isabel, Ron D. and I were treated to an excellent take on this song by our own Ron G. at an open mike preceding a Darryl Purpose show in Centerport, NY on April 5. Ron, do you know when and if this one will see the light of day? Gene F. (Who, in this space many moons ago, opined that the creepiest/scariest song ever was a cover of Leonard Cohen's 'Bird on a Wire' by David Soul of TV's Starsky and Hutch. Which had very little to do with the song itself. But, in the spirit of kindness and generosity, I wouldn't think of repeating that here.) _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 15:39:37 -0500 From: ctoph@onebox.com Subject: [RS] New Richard song... Richard and Lucy played to a nearly full auditorium at the Museum of History and Industry last night, the last of their west coast tour, which started in Homer, Alaska. Richard said that the commute from Buenos Aires to Homer was the furthest distance he'd ever covered for a gig, in fact the "furthest ANY musician has EVER traveled for a gig." They were both in good spirits, expressing remorse over the tour coming to a close. Both were impressed with the sound at MOHAI as well -- Lucy said it was one of the best sound venues she'd ever played. Richard played a new song called "Marching to Fenario", which he said was about a week old. He said it was based on a old Scottish tune (my Bonnie Lass of Fenario?), and that he had unashamedly lifted the fourth verse from the original. Does anyone know anything more about this tune? Great new song with amazing RS flatpicking. He pulled the lyrics out of his guitar case, but barely looked at them -- seemed fairly polished already. Richard's set: Summer Wind, Cotton Dress Marching to Fenario Che Guevarra T-Shirt Arrowhead Gray Green (he dedicated this one to a pregnant fan who came to the show in the early stages of child birth!) Reunion Hill Mary Magdalene* Are You Happy Now* Last Fare of the Day* Transit And, after Lucy's set: Speaking with the Angel* Love Hurts* (interesting encore! Is it very new for them?) * w/ Lucy Kaplansky The encore was a bit unexpected, but overall the show was great! (Dar was in Seattle last week - I was entertaining fantasies of her strolling out to join them for a set!) Christoph ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 15:46:07 -0400 From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] New Richard song... >> Love Hurts* (interesting encore! Is it very new for them?) << Ridiculously old, actually. I've got a tape of them doing the song at the Treestar Coffeehouse in Mt. Kisco, NY, in February of 1996. RG ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 14:23:30 -0700 From: Laurel Rezeau Subject: [RS] Re: Creepy e-mail Coming out of lurkdome to describe the creepy e-mail experience I just had. I had just read the digest that included the comments on, and lyrics for, Sting's song. I deleted that message and the next message that opened was spam that started out with "You're Being Watched!!!" in big letters! - --Laurel On Friday, May 16, 2003, at 01:55 AM, shindell-list-digest wrote: > > In my opinion, one of the creepiest songs ever is Sting's Every Breath > You > Take, especially because so many people interpreted it as a love song - > sounds like stalking to me! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 18:53:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Vanessa C Wills Subject: Re: [RS] They're creepy and they're kooky I heartily, heartily agree. "Preston Miller" is extremely creepy and wonderful. Lord knows I harassed Dave over and over again about when he was going to finish that song. He'd performed an early iteration of it at Falcon Ridge 2000, on the workshop stage during a workshop about songwriting, and that's where I'd first heard it. Then at 2001, I spotted him sometime before he and Tracy went on the workshop stage and asked how Preston was coming, and he announced that he had finished the song! If memory serves, he had finished it in the van that very day, or maybe the day before. Anyway, yes, amazing song. And if we can name entire albums, I'd have to go with Nick Cave's "Murder Ballads." Ain't a song on there that ain't creepy. - --V On Fri, 16 May 2003, Gene Frey wrote: > Hey you guys, > > Aside from the most obvoius, Radiohead's > stalker-with-a-heart-of-gold-and-severely-low-self-esteem anthem 'Creep,' > there is the deliciously creepy 'Preston Miller' by Dave Carter. This > appears on no commercially available CD, and I have only heard Dave and > Tracy perform it once, at Falcon Ridge in 2001. Isabel, Ron D. and I were > treated to an excellent take on this song by our own Ron G. at an open mike > preceding a Darryl Purpose show in Centerport, NY on April 5. > > Ron, do you know when and if this one will see the light of day? ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V5 #111 ***********************************