From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V7 #262 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 Monday, November 7 2005 Volume 07 : Number 262 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] wisteria, dadgad [] [RS] Wisteria, I do Love that Song [Bart Gallagher Subject: [RS] wisteria, dadgad > Yeah, I agree with Ron. The power of this song lies in its simplicity, > which allows it to resonate with any listener's experience. Yeah, try listening to it after you sold the house you grew up in and that your mother lived in for 35 years for maximum effect... like pushing on a hurting tooth with your tongue, you know it's gonna hurt but you just kinda have to do it. Anyway, I think to this day, this remains my favorite RS guitar intro. (Although there is also something about the slow version of Reunion Hill that I find especially appealing, too.) Course, Sea of Fleur De Lis is also quite nice... hmm... Speaking od DADGAD tuning, saw Jim Malcolm, the lead singer of Old Blind Dogs, do a solo acoustic show Saturday. Entire set was in DADGAD, except for one song he did in open D, or as he called it, DAD-fuhsharp-AD. He had some interesting fingerings that he covered in a workshop earlier in the afternoon. Anyway, if you're a dadgad lad, he's worth checking out live if you get a chance and don't mind music with a Scottish bend. - -jim ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 23:10:44 -0500 From: Bart Gallagher Subject: [RS] Wisteria, I do Love that Song On 11/6/05 8:15 PM, "shindell-list-digest" wrote: > Does anyone have interpretations of this one? It sounds to me like this > couple is looking back at their old house which is now lived in by another > family. Do you think this is written from an older person's perspective, where > they had to move because the place was too big, and they didn't need all that > room? << > > I think you're reading more detail into the song than necessary. Couple > lived in house. Couple creates memories in house. Couple moves from house. > New family lives in house. New family cuts down beloved (although hard to > tame) Wisteria. That's pretty much it. Why they moved is entirely beside > the > point. Aye. I bought SNP for the family we bought our "new" house from, really RS signed it for them. (reference archives whining Bart had no $ to buy guitars after buying Highland Down, he still don't - Colleen wants new vacuum). Well me & The Misses bought this house, see. And it had this big ol' vein, I mean vine - an' it was UGLY, an' was threatenin' my fair daughter's window. Well, I snuck up on it one night with my Poulan, an I cut tat sucker DOWN. I din't care if Lew and Mary (the previous owners, really) begot their first chile up there in the branches. That's one Bush that had to go. Bart Bunyan ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V7 #262 ***********************************