From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V2 #27 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, April 17 2000 Volume 02 : Number 027 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Warren Zevon [ptpower@juno.com] [RS] In Praise Of Louise [RockinRonD@aol.com] [RS] Pissing/Lucy Show in Pasadena [Elwestrand ] Re: [RS] Pissing/Lucy Show in Pasadena [Vanessa Wills ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 07:07:11 -0700 From: ptpower@juno.com Subject: [RS] Warren Zevon Today's Subjects: ----------------- _SUBJECTS-AUTHORS_ NPR's "Morning Edition" featured an interview this morning with one of my long-time favorites -- Warren Zevon. I'm not sure how long it takes before their shows are archived, but the link to their April calendar is below. Pat http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnps02fm.cfm?mm=4&yy=2000&PrgID=3 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 10:04:25 EDT From: RockinRonD@aol.com Subject: [RS] In Praise Of Louise Today's Subjects: ----------------- _SUBJECTS-AUTHORS_ In a message dated 4/17/2000 4:56:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Charlie Sweeney rightly observed: << One of the most important things you can learn is articulation, something that wind instrument players understand better than guitarists. This refers to the way you enter a note, and the way you leave it and applies to *every* note you play. Do you slide into the note, play it percussively? Do you let it ring, cut it off, bend it up to the next note, then cut it off? >> Amazing that Charlie's post was in this morning's Shindell Digest. Yesterday (Sunday) I hosted a House Concert in my home, presenting Signature Sounds artist Louise Taylor, whose new record, "Written in Red" (produced by Peter Galway) is now finished and will be available late May. I have sat close to some extremely talented musicians in my years of writing about music and going to concerts. But NEVER, NEVER have I seen someone so skilled and adept at blending voice and guitar playing with such grace and articulationas Louise. The sound from her husband's Froggy Bottom guitar was so rich and resonant I had to look to see if she actually was plugged into an amp I didn't know about (she wasn't). But as incredible as that guitar sound was, it was Louise's fingering and fretwork that just had me completely overwhelmed. She plays in a wide range of tunings, including some I never heard of --one of which she admits is "difficult to get into and even more difficult to get out of" --and as a result her movements and positions up and down the neck were complex to say the least. But she also would strum, finger, ring, slide, bend, scrape, pluck, hammer, and pump the strings for effects that seem to italicize certain words and her wonderful voice. The new record has some amazing new songs on it, but one in particular, "His Hands" (written for her luthier husband) has hooks that just pierce your heart. I almost lost it completely, listening to her play and sing this song in my living room. I could say I've yet to see a better woman guitarist anywhere. But the truth is I think she is one of the best guitarists I've seen anywhere, male or female. Certainly her playing is unique and as much a part of her appeal as that sultry voice and intelligent, poetic writing. If you've yet to discover this fantastic Vermont-born woman, who I believe opened for Richard once or twice, I strongly recommend "Written in Red" when it hits the stores next month. Or keep a watch on the Signature Sounds website for when it may be available sooner. And apart from being a masterful musician, writer and singer, Louise is one hell of a great woman. I'm proud to call her a friend. Thanks for letting me go on. But if anyone understands the kind of epiphany that sometimes happens when listening to someone special, you all would. Sigh. RelatinRon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 16:05:15 -0400 From: Elwestrand Subject: [RS] Pissing/Lucy Show in Pasadena Today's Subjects: ----------------- _SUBJECTS-AUTHORS_ Ok, I am really going to let this lie after this, no matter how derisive you all get. I never said that technical music was better or that one should enjoy technical music more. That would be ridiculous. I was simply discussing which type of music and players were more technical and saying that I appreciated the folkies, like Richard, who's playing was more interesting than the three-chord variety (by the way at his LA show RICHARD said he doesn't read/write music in his discussion of trying to remember his melody idea for Abuelita on the plane from Argentina). Thanks to Charlie Sweeney for chiming in that he also felt that technical ability had its merits. Lastly, I threw out Al Di Meola as an example of a strong player. I was surprised to hear some of you attack him. His music is really beautiful and he has worked really hard incorporating instruments and musicians from around the world. While he may have been something of a show-off when he was young (in the 70's when everyone else was showing-off too) his current work is focused on beauty. For those of you who like instrumental music I highly recommend you listen to a sample of two of his albums "World Sinfonia" and "Winter Nights". On this album he worked closely with a group of traditional musicians from South America. It is nothing less than a masterpiece. His most recent, Winter Nights, sounds like nothing else due to his use of an unknown Eastern European musician. On another note, I found it interesting that several of you assumed that I am a man. Because I have a strong opinion on something I must be a man???? Shame on any of you that jumped to that particular conclusion. Lastly, I saw Lucy K on Saturday in a sweet venue in Pasadena. She was extraodinary and really seemed to have a good time, we also got to hear her father play with her. We talked her into two encores and she earned a standing "O". For those of you keeping track she played "Mary Magdalene", "By Way of Sorrow", "Speaking with the Angels" and "The Kid." My highlight was a very stark version, with Lucy on the piano, of "Just you Tonight." The accoustics at this particular venue are some of the best I have ever heard. If any Californians have not been to any of the accoustic music series at the Neighborhood Church in Pasadena, you should really check it out (call (626) 791-0411). ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number - Free Free voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 16:54:05 -0400 From: Vanessa Wills Subject: Re: [RS] Pissing/Lucy Show in Pasadena Today's Subjects: ----------------- _SUBJECTS-AUTHORS_ Hey, Elwestrand, I just wanted to apologize if the responses to your post seemed to be personally derisive--I think we try to criticize ideas here, and not people, and though arguments get pretty heated, I think there really is a general respect for one another. I know it doesn't always seem like that, and I think we've all felt misunderstood at times. BTW, I wasn't really trying to imply that you were an unreliable source on your info about Richard's ability to read music or not--just that I figured I shouldn't dwell too much on that point since I didn't really know it for certain. And now that you remind me, I did hear Richard tell that story about "Abuelita" at a house concert back in January. I hope you don't hold our fiery, argumentative ways against us, it's part of what keeps this place interesting, but I also understand that the posts may have seemed a tad too edgy, including mine. Anyways, I think it's great to have another bold voice mixed into the frey, and I'm sure you'll be questioning our assumptions just as I'm sure you will find some of yours questioned as well. And of course, we all have our love of Richard's music to remind us that we aren't really *that* different at all. Holding out the olive branch, Vanessa BTW, I just finished arranging "Lazy" for three voice parts this morning at 2am. My first arrangement! If anyone wants to play this on the guitar, I *think* I can come up with a chord transcription for it, or I can just send you the parts and it should not be hard to figure it out from there. :-) - -- "The day will begin like any other, another sunrise in the east. It will reach across and touch you like a lover, it will tease you from a dream." --Richard Shindell, "Spring" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 17:50:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Deb Woodell Subject: Re: [RS] Pissing/Lucy Show in Pasadena Today's Subjects: ----------------- _SUBJECTS-AUTHORS_ Vanessa wrote: >I think we try to criticize ideas here, and not > people, and though arguments get pretty heated, I > think there really is a general respect for one >another. - --I apologize, and I hope I wasn't one of those who assumed you were a man. I remember thinking twice about what I wrote, and think I left all personal pronouns out. Deb __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V2 #27 **********************************