From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V12 #629 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 Saturday, December 2 2017 Volume 12 : Number 629 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] Richard Shindell Concert [Laurence Krulik ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 14:43:51 +0000 From: Laurence Krulik Subject: Re: [RS] Richard Shindell Concert Thanks for the great write up and videos! On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 08:42 Michael Marmer wrote: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_INBDfM5UI > > We just saw Richard Shindell last night, at Jammin Java in Vienna, > Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C. > > Richard's tour schedule over the years has been limited its seems, so I am > very lucky that he comes to JJ ever November. > > He did say in the concert that JJ is one of his favorite venues. Along > with Club Passim in Cambridge, MA, where he has played 3 nights in a row, > many times. > > The place last night was packed, as it probably seats 200 plus. > > He was solo last night, as sometimes he has Marc Schulman, as I might have > his last name wrong, on electric guitar, who is amazing himself. And > sometimes Joe B on percussion. > > He played a straight set and then with his 2 song encore, the concert was > almost 2 hours. > > He started out with many songs from the new CD, which we have heard over > the years, since he kept promising at each concert, the CD will be out > soon. Well, its been out now for a year, another good CD from Richard. > > He did do many of his classics, as I have posted many videos of Richard > from Jammin Java and the one concert he did in Washington, DC. at Gyspy > Sally's and every time you see Richard in concert, its almost different, a > pleasant night of watching and listening to Richard. > > I have just posted my fifth rendition on YouTube of Richard singing > Transit, as this time, he is using a acoustic guitar, as he adds some > Spanish type of guitar playing to the song, as he is not using a Spanish > Guitar. At the end of the song, he tells, the story on how he had the > melody for this song, no story yet, and he came up with a Ferry boat > captain, who takes the ferry out to sea. So he could not come up with a > way to end the song, as one time he told the story, he said, would he put > in the song, all aboard the ship die? No........ > > Reunion Hill was done on Bouzouki as he mentions how he wrote the song for > Joan Baez, which most of know, for her to put on a CD. But he tells on how > he got the beginning riff, for the song, which could not be done on he > Bouzouki and he got from a Prince song. > > He sang Nora, Kenworth of my Dreams, as some of the older songs. With the > new material, he could not get deep into his catalog, as there request for > songs, like Fishing, Wisteria (A big favorite, that I do have on a older > concert on YouTube, about a home he once owned and the new owners are fans > of his, as he did go to the door, outside of the song) > > But the encore, was 2 songs and of course, he did, Are You Happy Now, > which I first heard on Christine Lavin's CD, she was involved in getting > made, When October Goes. That got many of us hooked on Shindell. > > But he messed up the opening verse, forgot the lines, as the audience, as > usual, in these situations, helped him out, as it was neat to see in a > way. He was not upset at all, he was having a lot of fun, on stage all > night and even more with this mess up. And it turned into a Richard > Shindell Sing A Long, which is something you do not see or hear at Shindell > concert, especially on the chorus. And that actually added more to the > mess up and song. And then the second verse, he needed more help. Very > unusual of Richard, but it was really a fun time for him and the audience. > Richard is just something, no matter what happens in a song, as only once > have I seen Richard forget a line and that was on Wichita, by Gillian > Welch, as he said he did not want to see this on YouTube. Well, it is. > And I told him the next year it was. He did get upset in a way. Oh well, > I think again, it was fine, that he messed up on a song. It made it > memorable, I should of told him. > > But due to the sing a long, during the song, he told of a story of a > concert he did the day after the election of 2016, how the people where > kind of down on the result, and they just needed to sing out with Richard > to get it out of their system, as that was a neat story. > > As Are You Happy Now was the ending song, he got a standing ovation. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2qVixiUPlI&feature=youtu.be > Okay, I have the song posted on YouTube, as he laughs while finishing the > verse, he was having a great time with a great song. > So this was concert number 4 for November, as it started out with David > Mallett, , then Bruce Cockburn, and The Steel Wheels, as I have video of > all on YouTube. We had tickets for Rodney Crowell but the show was cancel > due to illness, as I know he had some back surgery last spring, as I know > about back surgery, having 3, the last was a fusion, not fun. > > So I thought our concerts where done till January, when we see Lucy > Kaplansky, but Joe Henry and Rose Cousins are at Jammin Java, and we got > tickets to see them next week, will be a big crowd. > > Oh, Richard did say that Cry, Cry, Cry who have been touring a bit this > year, as I stole Richard's picture of them from his website, below, will be > touring a lot in 2018. He did sing a song, that they have been working on > in the concert. A new CD in the works? > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T87u5yuUVi8 The song they have been > singing by the Pyschedelic Furs, Ghost in You, as he did a really nice > version of the song. > > Mike ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V12 #629 ************************************