From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V12 #387 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 Wednesday, February 20 2013 Volume 12 : Number 387 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] round 2 [Bernadette Marian ] Re: [RS] City Winery? [Howie ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:07:30 -0500 From: Bernadette Marian Subject: [RS] round 2 1. Ascent. v. Wisteria Wisteria wins 2. Balloon Man v. I Saw My Youth Today I saw my youth today wins. I have to go with an old favorite 3. Fenario v. Reunion Hill No contest...Reunion hill 4. By Now v. Mary Magdalene No contest again ...Mary Magdalene 5. There Goes Mavis v. State of the Union Tougher choice in that I "like" mavis but SOTU is a "better" song. Going with State of the Union. I drive that stretch of highway a lot and often think of the character "losing his touch" blowing through the tollboth. 6. Sparrows Point v. Cancion Sencilla Sparrows point in an easy decision 7. Transit v. Summer Wind, Cotton Dress This is a pairing that could get me in trouble with listers. I saw RS play Transit the day after he said he began writing it. It was similar but certainly did not progress past about the halfway mark. Sister Maria pulled off the interstate at it's conclusion after a rambling ride through time & space. Today, I think it is a brilliant song, one of his best. However, I have heard it live at every single show since that first time (that translates to at least 25 shows, probably more). I could go about 25 more shows before I hear it live again. Blasphemy, I know. There are too many other neglected songs that don't make it into the set list so i cannot enjoy this one live SO many times. I understand the You Tube issue but still...May hasn't been sung in ages. That said I have "lived" in SWCD. He has almost over played this one as well but I feel I have softer spot for it. So this round I go what I "like" over the "better" song. So SWCD wins it by a nose. 8. Fishing v. Abuelita Abueluta takes this one but not without a knock down, drag out fight. Going for what I perceive to be the underdog and to give the selection committee a pat on the back for giving this favorite a second chance. 9. The Next Best Western v. On A Sea Of Fleur-de-Lis Next Best Western...always loved the line "the preacher is on fire." 10. Money for Floods v. Che Guevara T-Shirt Coin toss but going with Che. 11. Nora v. The Weather Nora takes it uncontested even if I love The Weather 12. May v. Kenworth of my Dreams May by a mile. Kenworth is fun & I have a fond place for it but May is an easy choice. I will add that I can never listen to May without remembering Howie's interpretation. As a newbie lister years ago I read the archives while home sick one day. I laughed out loud when I got to the goats. 13. The Courier v. The Things That I Have Seen Courier for sure but I had to pause to make sure. 14. You Stay Here v. Are You Happy Now You Stay Here gets my vote....sort of for the same reason Transit did not, AYHN is kind of over played. And the duplication of "black & white" never really did anything for me. 15. Waiting for the Storm v. Juggler Out in Traffic Juggler for sure. 16. Arrowhead v. Last Fare Of The Day Another knock down, drag out fight but Arrowhead takes it. As a side note: Because of my intentional listening, my 18 year old son (who has a large collection of "love metal" as opposed to "death metal" music) is interested in learning to play Arrowhead on both bass & drums. I thank The Band, Levon & the Last Waltz for bringing him back to "my" music although Dean Martin & Ol' Blues Eyes had a hand in it too. The content of Arrowhead is as interesting to my son as is the musical structure. My kids have seen RS live many times but I know my son hardly remembers nor was he interested enough to pay attention back then. Another rotation of the circle complete. Bernadette Who is looking forward to seeing RS Thursday night ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:09:58 -0500 From: Howie Subject: Re: [RS] City Winery? At 11:50 AM 2/19/2013, Janet wrote: >Hey anyone go? I was supposed to go but life got in the way! Also, I've been >driving myself crazy trying to remember my first concert. I remember going >with my older sisters to Central Park to the Schaffer Music concerts (anyone >remember them? in the early 70's) but there were quite a number of people that >played there. And for the life of me, I can't remember any names but I >suspect there were some heavy hitters before they got famous. I was just too >worried about getting out of there in one piece! I'd have to pick the first >concert I can remember standing on line to buy the tickets for and that was my >sister's heart-throb Stephen Stills. It also happened to fall on the night >Nixon announced he would be resigning. God I'm old! Lol The Schaeffer Music Festival was amazing - concerts in NY's Central Park at the Wollman Skating Rink. Tickets were one dollar to start in 1968, by the end of the series in 1976 prices skyrocketed to three dollars. If you think the song pairings Ron came up with are, ahem, unusual, how about these shows: Led Zeppelin/B.B. King; Paul Butterfield Blues Band/Jethro Tull; The Doors/Flo & Eddie. Also paired were: Miles Davis/Thelonious Monk; Van Morrison/The Byrds; Canned Heat/Dr. John; Arlo Guthrie/Harry Chapin. OK, let the young'uns back in! - -Howie fessin' up: info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schaefer_Music_Festival ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V12 #387 ************************************