From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V2 #35 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 Thursday, April 20 2000 Volume 02 : Number 035 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] sunrises and blue pills ["Charlie Sweeney" ] Re: [RS] ... & musical theory ["Susan Koval" ] [RS] Richard on the radio ["Michaela O'Brien" ] [RS] Richard Shindell with a BAND!! [Kerry Bernard ] [RS] sympathy for the Mahoney ["Norman A. Johnson" Subject: [RS] sunrises and blue pills Lisa wrote: > (5) Just wait, some of you young folk out there, as you get older and > everything starts to go, from your head to your toes, you will grow to > appreciate pills of all different colors. By prescription. Of > course!! I just looked and nothing seems to have fallen off, and everything seems to be functioning properly given the abuse to which this old body has been subjected. I went thru the sixties, but I don't remember them. Has nothing to do with age. Seriously, if ya fear growing older, then there is something to fear about that. If you have a positive mental atttitude about life in general, you might still be jamming in bars 'til 2 and staying up to see the sunrise at folk festivals, even if you are decrepitly "over 50". Or so I've been told. As for the pill, if I were a floor trader, the last thing I would be looking for is something to calm me down. And I suspect that Richard wouldn't know one viagra from valium. He is, after all, a songwriter not a pharmacist. Nor is it necessary to assign a specific medication to the blue pill, since it is a metaphor for the instant fix. The protagonist here is into instant gratification. "Who needs all that work". He thrives on the danger, the stress, the aggression of the trading floor, and eschews the possible long term benefits of religious faith and psychotherapy as a relief for his anguished life. But I don't see him on a quest for downer drugs. He needs to "keep his edge" and "pities all the suckers that take too much time to think". A couple of valiums and he'd be one of them, yes? Of course, your mileage may vary. Charlie Sweeney (=}===# Virtual Guitarist-Something Black http://somethingblack.com http://susanwerner.com http://karensavoca.com http://lastgreatkiss.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 08:49:46 -0400 From: "Gene Frey" Subject: [RS] Re: Used Richard Hello all, There is quite a bit of a market for used CDs on Long Island. A lot of people who have their eyes only on the bottom line (notably Garth Brooks) have raised a major stink about artists being deprived of royalties when their CDs are sold and bought used, or traded as Ron G put it (and as I prefer to think of it as well). While the loss of one sale may not affect a zillionaire like Garth, it's probably more significant to an artist like Richard who can only count on 20-25 thousand in sales. I would like to think, however, that the possibility that people would be more willing to try a new artist by risking five or six dollars would appeal to people like Richard and his fans. I have a number of discs that I probably would not have paid $15 for, but did buy for one third of that, and they have become favorites, such as Kate Price, Michael Penn, The Nields, and Steve Forbert, and some classic R.E.M. cover song bootlegs. There have been a few clunkers, but I always enjoy going to my local used shop, never knowing what I'll find. I'm really looking forward to seeing Richard at the Bottom Line. We'll be at the 10:30 show, and happily red-eyed all day Friday. Gene Frey ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 08:45:37 -0400 From: "Susan Koval" Subject: Re: [RS] ... & musical theory Brandy wrote about her difficulties with reading music, although she sounds like she's musically talented. Charlie wrote about how worthwhile it is to learn music theory. It's interesting how different people learn/do things. My husband and I started taking music lessons 3 years ago - guitar for me, piano for him. Neither of us had any musical training when we were kids, so learning to read music is brand new to us. We're both technical, so the mathematical aspects of music theory are very interesting to us. But I am much better at reading music than him, and much better at sight reading (as long as it's not too difficult - I guess I'm an "advanced" beginner). But, I have to have that music in front of me, no matter how many times I've played the piece. My husband, however, is much better at memorizing the music/patterns and can then play without looking at the music. He'll struggle with the reading initially, but then can play without reading at all. And my sister can listen to a piece and then play it by ear (clarinet in high school, piano now), but doesn't find reading music to be as "easy" as I do. Although she's a great player! I guess there are advantages and disadvantages to each "style." But I'm jealous of all you out there who discuss playing Richard's tunes (I loved that story from about a year ago - RonG and Brandt I think - playing all those Richard tunes out in the parking lot before a concert.) But I agree with Charlie about age being a state of mind - you stay mentally and physically active and you stay young - I look forward to still playing guitar and hiking when I'm old (chronologically) and gray! Sue K ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:21:22 -0400 From: "Michaela O'Brien" Subject: [RS] Richard on the radio Heads up about a few radio appearances by Richard over the next week or so: Tue 4/25 @ 3:00 PM -- WFUV 90.7 FM/New York City -- w/ Larry Campbell & Lincoln Schlieffer Thu 4/27 Morning Edition -- WFCR 88.5 FM/Amherst, MA -- pretaped interview with Charlene Scott Sat 4/29 @ 3:00 PM -- WGBH 89.7 FM/Boston -- Richard solo interview Take care, Michaela ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:57:00 -0400 From: Kerry Bernard Subject: [RS] Richard Shindell with a BAND!! PHILADELPHIA CITY PAPER: "Richard Shindell is as witty as he is literate. His ability to embrace the contradictions lurking in his own soul, and those of his song characters, has resulted in tunes that are as memorable as they are melodic." Hey folks, As these RICHARD SHINDELL concerts draw near, I figured you guys might be interested in knowing that the following 4 concerts will be the ONLY shows on this tour where Richard has a BAND! 4/27 The Bottom Line, New York, NY, 212-228-6300 4/28 Iron Horse Music Hall, Northampton, MA, 413-586-8686 4/29 Somerville Theatre, Somerville, MA, 617-628-3390 4/30 Cheney Hall P.A.C., Manchester, CT, 860-647-9824 The band will be the same guys that play on Richard's new CD, Somewhere Near Paterson - Larry Campbell, Lincoln Schleifer, and Denny McDermott. I, for one, am very psyched and will be at The Iron Horse show (can't make it to the Somerville show, unfortunately, or I'd definitely be there, too). Hope to see some of you there! Kerry :) =================================================== Kerry Bernard kerry@younghunter.com Young/Hunter Management 781.643.2773 (ph) Arlington, MA 781.643.0416 (fax) =================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 18:46:29 -0400 From: Katie Mahoney Subject: [RS] Have pity on Katie Hi all! I have a big favor to ask. Charlie wanted me to write to the Bob Dylan discussion list and say some stuff about Richard . . . which is a good idea, since Dylan has such a huge fan base, and there's that Larry Campbell connection and everything. I subscribed about two weeks ago, to get a sense of what its like, and in the process, I've discovered two things: 1. There are apparently no women who subscribe to this list. Or, if they do, they leave the posting to the guys. 2. Everyone is intimidatingly on-topic (we're not on the Dar-list anymore, Toto), and this is *not* a community of people I want turning against me if I post something about a random folk singer probably 99.4% of them have never heard of (for example, their current off-topic thread consists of a heated discussion of Pilate, Jesus, and the KKK). So I'm turning to the Richard-list to beg for mercy. Would ANYONE be willing to post about Richard to the Dylan-list? (Oh please oh please oh pleeeeeease!) On the off-chance that none of you kind and lovely and generous and sympathetic and warm-hearted people want to volunteer to do this, does anyone know any terribly cool (or even slightly cool) RS/BD connections, so at least I have *something* to tell all those Dylan-listers? If you do have any juicy bits of information, it would be GREATLY appreciated. Wussily, Katie ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 18:04:23 -0400 From: "Norman A. Johnson" Subject: [RS] sympathy for the Mahoney Katie bemoaned the difficulties of posting Richard stuff to the Dylan list, asked us to join that list and post, and then finally said: >>On the off-chance that none of you kind and lovely and generous and sympathetic and warm-hearted people want to volunteer to do this, does anyone know any terribly cool (or even slightly cool) RS/BD connections, so at least I have *something* to tell all those Dylan-listers? If you do have any juicy bits of information, it would be GREATLY appreciated. >> prior to that she said: >> (for example, their current off-topic thread consists of a heated discussion of Pilate, Jesus, and the KKK). >> It's not more than a hop skip and a jump from Pilate to Mary Magdalen. You can bring Richard in as another artist who seriously discusses matters of religion in song. The last Dylan that I paid attention to was INFIDELS, which has lots of religious themes. Norman ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V2 #35 **********************************