From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V6 #301 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, December 3 2004 Volume 06 : Number 301 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Group W Bench [Vanessa Wills ] Re: [RS] Group W Bench [Lisa Davis - home ] Re: [RS] Group W Bench [Lisa Davis - home ] [RS] Re: Group W Bench [Vanessa Wills ] [RS] The Old folks [Norman Johnson ] Re: [RS] Group W Bench [Vanessa Wills ] Re: [RS] Group W Bench [Rongrittz@aol.com] [RS] New "Artists" [B Gallagher ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 22:39:53 -0500 From: Vanessa Wills Subject: [RS] Group W Bench One of the things I love about this list is learning more about music from knowledgeable people whose taste I trust. I've been thinking about "Alice's Restaurant" all day. So thanks for that! I met tonight with a group of students who are organizing a weekly anti-war speak-out on campus, and Arlo's words kept floating through my head, as they did last night when I met with folks to discuss the possibility of a draft. So timely. I do want to say, and not to sound flippant, but I'm actually not sure what's so perplexing about the fact that younger people know less than older people do. It would be sad if this *weren't* the case. And even as a sheer practical matter, I just haven't had the time yet to become as well-versed in folk references as I would like to be. But you guys know that we younger folks on the list are working on it, so don't start bemoaning the state of young folkies in America just yet. Just keep making those references and hinting to us that we should try to be able to *get* those references, and it'll all sort itself out, I promise. :) Ron wrote: <> OMG! *This* from the guy who didn't even know what "Famous Blue Raincoat" was! :-P - --V ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 22:23:53 -0500 From: Lisa Davis - home Subject: Re: [RS] Group W Bench > And, The 1st of December was covered with snow and so was the turnpike from (the town of the 'crime') to Boston. Gee, I hadn't made that connection either. Was it supposed to be a reference, or just coincidence? So how many other people on this list of my age group have played the album "Mud Slide Slim" 50 or more times? This is a test. How much money can we make the under-30s spend scrambling around used record (ahem) stores..... Thanks for letting me back on this list people. Most of you don't even know I was there for several years in the days when Norman and Ron were about the only people. And the woman who started the list. Sorry, if you are here! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 22:55:15 -0500 From: Lisa Davis - home Subject: Re: [RS] Group W Bench >But you guys know that we younger folks on the list are working on it, so don't start bemoaning the state of young folkies in America just yet. Hey, younger folk, what's the point of getting to be old folk if you can't lord it over the younger folk about the things they couldn't have known because they weren't born yet? It's how we cheer ourselves up as we count the wrinkles. That and that fact that nobody actually expects us anymore to look like we would have wanted to look when we were 25 but never did then either! :) Lisa ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 22:53:16 -0500 From: Vanessa Wills Subject: [RS] Re: Group W Bench Oh, yeah--I'm listening to the song right now. :) I have a monthly subscription to Rhapsody (http://www.listen.com). It's the best $9.95 I spend in any given month, I tell ya. Wonderful huge catalog of streaming CDs. Great sound quality. I love it! And actually, I've been using it for the past year as a great, inexpensive way to explore artists whose work I want to understand better. So I guess now it's Arlo's turn. :) - --V ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 23:02:37 -0500 From: Norman Johnson Subject: [RS] The Old folks Lisa wrote: >>"And, The 1st of December was covered with snow and so was the turnpike from (the town of the 'crime') to Boston." Gee, I hadn't made that connection either. Was it supposed to be a reference, or just coincidence?<< I think just coincidence. Stockbridge is on extreme west end of the Masspike and Boston on the extreme east end. Lee doesn't scan as well. Lisa again: >> Thanks for letting me back on this list people. Most of you don't even know I was there for several years in the days when Norman and Ron were about the only people.<< Ron predates me on the list. Pat (who is here from time to time) and Carol (who I haven't seen in the longest time) also predate me. >> And the woman who started the list. << Sally Green. Getting back to the "old folks" of the folk world. Though past draftable age of this war, I was just a child and "way big into raisins" during the Vietnam war era. I didn't even have the cool hippy babysitter. I've learned a great deal about the "old folkies" from this list. Norman ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:30:32 -0500 From: Vanessa Wills Subject: Re: [RS] Group W Bench The truly neat thing, Lisa, is that it really doesn't feel now like you ever even left. So glad to have you back. :) - --V On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 22:23:53 -0500, Lisa Davis - home wrote: Most of you don't even > know I was there for several years in the days when Norman and Ron were > about the only people. And the woman who started the list. Sorry, if > you are here! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 00:08:30 EST From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] Group W Bench >> I do want to say, and not to sound flippant, but I'm actually not sure what's so perplexing about the fact that younger people know less than older people do. << I actually don't find it perplexing, just cute, actually. I mean, "Alice's Restaurant" has transcended the song itself, to be a big part of 60's history, musical and otherwise. But I can understand that those of you who might have been born AFTER (gulp) the 60's (as opposed to those of us born BEFORE -- double gulp -- the 60's) might not have some of those references as top-of-mind as we do. But that sword cuts both ways. I'm not nearly as familiar with current music and musicians as I'm sure some of the younger folks are. Like, I understand there's some singer named Britney Spears. Haven't heard much about her. ;-) RG (who was lucky enough to have a high draft number) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 00:46:10 -0500 From: B Gallagher Subject: [RS] New "Artists" Ron, isn't it Broccoli Spears. At least that's what my kids call her. BG ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V6 #301 ***********************************