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shindell-list-digest      Tuesday, August 7 2007      Volume 09 : Number 137



                               Today's Subjects:
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  [RS] RE: Parasol Ants       ["Marsik, Theresa" <theresa.marsik@psiusa.com>]
  [RS] Change of Venue            [B Gallagher <bgallagher@envirohealth.org>]
  [RS] Turning Point 7 pm show           ["Isabel Frey" <igak16@hotmail.com>]
  Re: [RS] Re: Turning Point 4:00 pm show  ["Vanessa Wills" <vcwills@gmail.c]
  Re: [RS] Re: Turning Point 4:00 pm show                 [Rongrittz@aol.com]
  Re: [RS] RE: Parasol Ants             ["Vanessa Wills" <vcwills@gmail.com>]
  Re: [RS] Change of Venue                ["kunigunda" <kunigunda@kc.rr.com>]
  Re: [RS] Re: Turning Point 4:00 pm show  ["kunigunda" <kunigunda@kc.rr.com]
  Re: [RS] Re: Turning Point 4:00 pm show  ["Chris Foxwell" <rfoxwell@gmail.]
  Re: [RS] RE: Parasol Ants  [=?ISO-8859-1?Q?john_cl=E9irigh?= <john@johncle]
  Re: [RS] Re: Turning Point 4:00 pm show  [=?ISO-8859-1?Q?john_cl=E9irigh?=]

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Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 07:58:43 -0500
From: "Marsik, Theresa" <theresa.marsik@psiusa.com>
Subject: [RS] RE: Parasol Ants

Isabel wrote: 


>A thief is down, flat on the ground,
>Face on cement, a crowd grows 'round.


No!!! How can it be that Richard misuses the word cement?! Cement is a
powder - it's an ingredient in concrete.  Argh!!!! Now I'm predisposed
to dislike this song.....

<end of rant from a civil engineer>

Theresa

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Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:29:52 -0400
From: B Gallagher <bgallagher@envirohealth.org>
Subject: [RS] Change of Venue

> Every RS show I've been to has been sold out.  Does anyone know what the
> largest audience count is for Richard?  Is it time for him to move to larger
> venues? - Carrie

>  Does anyone else think $45 is awfully steep, even if it is Richard unplugged,
> for last Friday's NYC gig? Geez...it's still folk music afterall. - RonD

Giants Stadium, Pyrotechnics, Taking Folk to a whole new level.

BG

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Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:18:14 -0400
From: "Isabel Frey" <igak16@hotmail.com>
Subject: [RS] Turning Point 7 pm show

Hi Chip.  You asked for the set list from the 7 pm Turning Point show.  I 
know the archives are a little funky lately, so in case you missed my 
earlier post, here it is:

Set list:
1. Che Guevara T-Shirt
2. Transit
3. Kenworth of my Dreams
4. Balloon Man
5. State of the Union
6. Summer Wind, Cotton Dress
7. Sitting on Top of the World
8. Senor
9. Cold Missouri Water
10 Parasol Ants*
11. Get Up Clara (new song about a mule but Richard said it was about
religion.)
12. Juggler - funny, this song was recently mentioned as a new song that
seemed to disappear.
13. You Again
14. Cancion Sencilla
15. Northbound 35
16. Famous Blue Raincoat (We finally got to hear this one live!)
17. Mavis
Encore:  Bye Bye (new song he debuted at the Beatles workshop at Falcon
Ridge) and Wysteria

Isabel

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Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 10:38:22 -0400
From: "Vanessa Wills" <vcwills@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RS] Re: Turning Point 4:00 pm show

<<I find that Mr Putnam overwhelms Richard more than Rad.>>

How so? To me, the main problems with Rad is that he's visually distracting
as he prances around in an offputting manner, and that he can usually be
counted on to hit a clunker or eight. Even when he's playing in the right
key and reasonably stationary, his playing is just so incredibly bombastic.
I always get the feeling that his main goal accompanying any performer is to
prove his own technical prowess, and the sound is secondary. On the other
hand, (again, in my opinion) John Putnam strikes a better balance between of
course presenting his own skills in the best possible light and doing the
same for Richard's music.

- --V

On 8/6/07, Chip Robertson <mrchip@optonline.net> wrote:
>
> It had been a few years since my last Richard show and I was delighted
> that
> he was performing solo.  As much as I enjoy seeing Richard perform with
> his
> musical cohorts (yes, I even like when Rad joins him!  Strangely, I find
> that Mr Putnam overwhelms Richard more than Rad.  Oh well, just my
> opinion.)
> you get the true genius of the man when he's by himself.  It was my first
> time seeing him perform with the Taylor T-5.  A very nice addition to his
> guitar collection.  I've played them in guitar stores and they are a good
> bit of fun.  Here's the best set list I can come up with.  Not in any
> particular order.  New songs may not be correct titles.  Anybody with a
> better list, please help me out :-)
>
> Juggler Out In Traffic
> Balloon Man
> God Meets The Parasol Ants
> Clara the Mule?????
> Fishing
> Mary Magdalene
> Reunion Hill
> Are You Happy Now?
> Wisteria
> Last Fare
> Senor
> Sitting on Top of The World
> Northbound 35
> Mavis
> Hazel's House
>
> As I sat there open-mouthed at the complete package of amazing lyrics,
> brilliant guitar playing and dynamic vocals, I couldn't help but think
> about
> Richard's place in the singer-songwriter food chain.  As a
> singer-songwriter
> myself, I'm usually the last one to rate and rank, but as I watched, my
> overwhelming feeling was that this was truly a man among boys.  He is just
> that impressive.
>
> Anybody have a setlist from the 7:00 pm Turning Point show?
>
> Chip
>



- -- 
"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see
that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."
- --Martin Luther King

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Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:08:28 -0400
From: Rongrittz@aol.com
Subject: Re: [RS] Re: Turning Point 4:00 pm show

>> How so? To me, the main problems with Rad is that he's visually distracting as he prances around in an offputting manner, and that he can usually be counted on to hit a clunker or eight. <<

I recall one show in which Rad attempted to accompany Richard on the song "Blue Divide," and by his playing, you'd think he was hearing the song for the first time.  Absolutely butchered the bridge section (both times), and earned himself quite the Annoyed Glare of Death from Richard.  When Rad knows what he's playing -- and restrains himself from showing off -- he can be pleasant.  That's more the exception than the rule, though.

On the other hand, I saw Kenny White accompany Richard on piano at a Makor show a few years ago. Elegant. Restrained. Beautiful. 

RG 

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Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 11:43:54 -0400
From: "Vanessa Wills" <vcwills@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RS] RE: Parasol Ants

According to the American Heritage Dictionary, at least, the word "cement"
can be used to refer to "concrete."

http://www.answers.com/cement?cat=health

- --V

On 8/7/07, Marsik, Theresa <theresa.marsik@psiusa.com> wrote:
>
> Isabel wrote:
>
>
> >A thief is down, flat on the ground,
> >Face on cement, a crowd grows 'round.
>
>
> No!!! How can it be that Richard misuses the word cement?! Cement is a
> powder - it's an ingredient in concrete.  Argh!!!! Now I'm predisposed
> to dislike this song.....
>
> <end of rant from a civil engineer>
>
> Theresa
>



- -- 
"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see
that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."
- --Martin Luther King

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Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 11:09:00 -0500
From: "kunigunda" <kunigunda@kc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [RS] Change of Venue

I'll attend....if Richard will promise to smash his guitar at the end of the 
show!!!


>
> Giants Stadium, Pyrotechnics, Taking Folk to a whole new level.
>
> BG

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Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 11:12:35 -0500
From: "kunigunda" <kunigunda@kc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [RS] Re: Turning Point 4:00 pm show

> On the other hand, I saw Kenny White accompany Richard on piano at a Makor 
> show a few years ago. Elegant. Restrained. Beautiful.
>
> RG
>
Ooohh...Kenny White would be good.  Too bad Cheryl's got him pretty much 
full time.
carrie in kc 

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Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 11:35:41 -0400
From: "Chris Foxwell" <rfoxwell@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RS] Re: Turning Point 4:00 pm show

On 8/7/07, Rongrittz@aol.com <Rongrittz@aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> On the other hand, I saw Kenny White accompany Richard on piano at a Makor
> show a few years ago. Elegant. Restrained. Beautiful.


By any chance, was Kenny White the piano accompanist on a particular bootleg
of "Kenworth of My Dreams"?  I don't care for that song too much
ordinarily--I don't actively dislike it or anything, just doesn't push my
buttons--but this one bootleg has a very light, sweet, and gorgeous piano
addition that makes the song tons better to my ears.  (I can't even give
details about the recording I'm thinking of, just wondering if anyone knows
if he played with RS on that song at some point.)


- --Chris

- -- 
"We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this
comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love. I
imagine the fish out of water is the only fish to have an inkling of water."
- --J.R.R. Tolkien

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Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:22:17 -0600
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?john_cl=E9irigh?= <john@johncleirigh.com>
Subject: Re: [RS] RE: Parasol Ants

Pavement would fit.  ;-)

Vanessa Wills wrote:
> According to the American Heritage Dictionary, at least, the word "cement"
> can be used to refer to "concrete."
> 
> http://www.answers.com/cement?cat=health
> 
> --V
> 
> On 8/7/07, Marsik, Theresa <theresa.marsik@psiusa.com> wrote:
>> Isabel wrote:
>>
>>
>>> A thief is down, flat on the ground,
>>> Face on cement, a crowd grows 'round.
>>
>> No!!! How can it be that Richard misuses the word cement?! Cement is a
>> powder - it's an ingredient in concrete.  Argh!!!! Now I'm predisposed
>> to dislike this song.....
>>
>> <end of rant from a civil engineer>
>>
>> Theresa

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Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:21:01 -0600
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?john_cl=E9irigh?= <john@johncleirigh.com>
Subject: Re: [RS] Re: Turning Point 4:00 pm show

I think Rad is a great compliment to Jimmy LaFave's band and I've kinda 
hoped that's where he'd stay.

Alas, I've never seen Richard with a band, but some of The Courier is 
busier than I prefer.

Given all the acoustic variances within a particular room, I bet your 
seat and it's relative position to the back-line guitar amps can 
interfere with the mix a fair bit at an RS band show.  Richard is a 
tremendously dynamic player, leaning into and away from his guitar mic 
intentionally to work with his vocals -- if the sound engineer isn't 
paying attention the back-line speakers will be too loud, too prominent, 
when Richard backs off.

john

Rongrittz@aol.com wrote:
>>> How so? To me, the main problems with Rad is that he's visually distracting as he prances around in an offputting manner, and that he can usually be counted on to hit a clunker or eight. <<
> 
> I recall one show in which Rad attempted to accompany Richard on the song "Blue Divide," and by his playing, you'd think he was hearing the song for the first time.  Absolutely butchered the bridge section (both times), and earned himself quite the Annoyed Glare of Death from Richard.  When Rad knows what he's playing -- and restrains himself from showing off -- he can be pleasant.  That's more the exception than the rule, though.
> 
> On the other hand, I saw Kenny White accompany Richard on piano at a Makor show a few years ago. Elegant. Restrained. Beautiful. 
> 
> RG 

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