From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V2 #195 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 Sunday, August 6 2000 Volume 02 : Number 195 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Richard's show at the Iron Horse tonight ["Norman A. Johnson" ] [RS] One more Iron Horse Note ["Norman A. Johnson" ] [RS] Re: Iron Horse, 8/5 [Rongrittz@aol.com] [RS] Tom Lehrer ["Norman A. Johnson" ] Re: [RS] Tom Lehrer ["I am the plural, rich snack" Subject: [RS] Richard's show at the Iron Horse tonight Richard returned from Argentina for a weekend to do one show at the Iron Horse and the Newport festival tomorrow. Several times throughout the show, Richard recounted his miserable plane experience coming up. 11 1/2 hours with various lights going on and off, some guy snoring loudly, and a fierce cat locked away in the bathroom bouncing off the walls. My thought was that he should use this experience for one of his next songs, perhaps following Tom Paxton's lead, "Thank you &%X*@ Airlines" Richard's performance was good, but a little off, probably due to the plane trip and the line "I am wretched, I am tired", came to mind. He was not helped by periodic sound problems. Richard was accompanied by Lincoln S. (bass), Denny Mc Dermontt (drums), and Larry Campbell (as Richard said "everything else"). I got to see Denny more this time and he's quite active behind the drums. Larry, of course, was wonderful! The song list was similar to what he did at the Iron Horse in April. "Are You Happy Now?" -- with an even longer than usual story in between. He said that people are disappointed that the story isn't real. "Folk audiences are generally nice people but they really want some real person to be at the receiving end of me venting my spleen" (or something like that). "Kenworth of My Dreams" -- flubbed the "no cause to complain" line. "Fishing" "Mary Magdalen" -- really good, helped out by Larry's mandolin. "Arrowhead" -- fast "Next Best Western" "Reunion Hill" -- slow, but not as slow as it ws in April. Larry on fiddle. "Shades of Gray" -- Richard on guitar and Larry on mandolin jamming at the end. "Confession" -- the opener. Once they got started, it was very good. Larry and Lincoln sung the "Hey Doc" chorus at the end. "Abeulita" "You Stay Here" -- good, but not as intense as I've seen it. "Spring/ Summer Reel" -- again, Larry on fiddle. His part was great! "Wisteria" "Transit" - the closer, with the surreal intro. Richard introduced the song by talking about his days before being a simger/ songwriter. He mentioned that one of the things that bothered him when he was in training to be a priest was that he would have to get up in front of lots of people and talk to them. Kerry recently posted an article about Richard comparing him to Kevin Spacey. I hadn't noticed that before but tonight I did. Norman ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 23:50:04 -0400 From: Jeff Gilson Subject: [RS] Iron Horse, 8/5 Oh, what a night. Late September, back in--er, sorry, wrong song. I just got back (I was walking, you see) from seeing Richard at the Iron Horse. Fantastic show, and no, I don't have a playlist. I also don't have pictures, which is annoying. I had hoped to have a bunch to show you all, but none of them came out on my trusty digital camera that I just bought and haven't really learned how to use yet. I think I needed a slower shutter speed, but I'm not sure. Anyway, the show was really great despite the fact that he dropped lines in a few songs, because every time he felt like he's messed up a song, he'd tell us another story from his flight in. You see, he flew in from Argentina to do this show and Newport tomorrow, and then I guess he's flying back. It's an eleven hour flight. And as he was going through the whole story of it, it was getting weirder and weirder. It started with the reading lights blinking on and off, the brightness of the tv screens changing, and the headphones playing all the radio station at once. Then, at another point, he mentioned that someone had brought a cat onto the plane, and not in a secure cage, and so they had to sequester the cat in one of the bathrooms. He also mentioned that the man next to him was snoring loudly, and there was a group of about thirty dove hunters behind him. It was at this point that he said he was starting to expect Hunter S. Thompson to show up. He also did an extended version of the story in the middle of Are You Happy Now while the band vamped, which was quite hillarious. But the best thing, and completley unexpected by me, was that Larry Campbell was there. It had been my assumption, from what I'd seen here, that John Putnam would be joining him on guitar at the IH, but lo and behold, there was Mr. Campbell (who I'd never seen before; he's quite a striking man, isn't he?) on guitar, fiddle, mandolin (or, as RS put it, "everything else"). The best part of the whole show was his extended intro to Transit, and then the jam at the end of it. They made that six minute song ten minutes long, easily. Another high point was the encore, which was Gram Parsons' Sin City, which is just a great old song. Deb Pasternak opened, and she was good, but not the best I've seen her. I was a little disappointed in her choice of songs, but that's not something I have any control over. She did close her set with My Funny Valentine, though, so I'll forgive the rest. Anyway, enough from moi. 'later, jeff. - -- i will make the lay of long defeat and draw the chorus slow i'll send this message down the wire and hope that someone wise is listening when i go --Dave Carter - -- (an index of free radical activity) http://www.onefreeradical.com/Journal/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 00:00:58 -0400 From: "Norman A. Johnson" Subject: [RS] One more Iron Horse Note Well, it looks like Jeff and I posted simultaneously. >> He also mentioned that the man next to him was snoring loudly, and there was a group of about thirty dove hunters behind him. It was at this point that he said he was starting to expect Hunter S. Thompson to show up. >> Oh, I forgot to mention the dove hunters! That was classic. These guys were from South Carolina or Georgia and for some ritual they went all the way to Argentina to shoot dove. Anyone familar with the Tom Lehrer "The Hunting song" where he shoots "the maximum allowed": "two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow"? Norman ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 23:23:28 -0500 From: Buddy Brannan Subject: Re: [RS] One more Iron Horse Note On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 12:00:58AM -0400, Norman A. Johnson wrote: > Anyone famil(i)ar with the Tom Lehrer "The Hunting song" where he shoots "the > maximum allowed": "two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow"? Yep, got two versions of it: one on a Tom Lehrer CD (I forget which CD, but it's live with a piano) and one studio recording on a Dr. Demento collection. Must say I like the live one better. Heh... There turned out to be a reason Cows were out of season And one of the hunters wasn't insured. Great satirist, Tom Lehrer. I understand he's teaching somewhere in California, or was not very long ago. Looks like I'm gonna have to re-evaluate my opinion of you, norman. Anyone who likes Tom Lehrer can't be all bad. - -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV | And if the ground yawned, Email: davros@ycardz.com | I'd step to the side and say, Phone: (972) 276-6360 | "Hey ground! I'm nobody's lunch!" Voice mail: (877) 791-5298 | --Eddie From Ohio ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 00:37:38 EDT From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: [RS] Re: Iron Horse, 8/5 >> It had been my assumption, from what I'd seen here, that John Putnam would be joining him on guitar at the IH, but lo and behold, there was Mr. Campbell (who I'd never seen before; he's quite a striking man, isn't he?) << I don't know, let's ask Kerry. Kerry, is Larry Campbell a striking man? ;-) RG, who can't BELIEVE that Richard did "Spring" . . . anyone notice what tuning it was in? http://members.aol.com/rongrittz/page/chords.htm ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 00:35:56 -0400 From: "Norman A. Johnson" Subject: [RS] Tom Lehrer Buddy, Yeah, I have the live one as well (somewhere). >>Great satirist, Tom Lehrer. I understand he's teaching somewhere in California, or was not very long ago. >> He teaches part time at UC Santa Cruz. Math for non-majors. There was an article in the Sunday NY Times about him not too long ago. >>Looks like I'm gonna have to re-evaluate my opinion of you, norman. Anyone who likes Tom Lehrer can't be all bad. >> Oh, thanks (I think). Norman ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 00:55:07 -0400 From: "I am the plural, rich snack" Subject: Re: [RS] Tom Lehrer At 12:35 AM -0400 8/6/00, Norman A. Johnson wrote: >Buddy, > >Yeah, I have the live one as well (somewhere). > >>>Great satirist, Tom Lehrer. I understand he's teaching somewhere in >California, or was not very long ago. >> > >He teaches part time at UC Santa Cruz. Math for non-majors. There was an >article in the Sunday NY Times about him not too long ago. I was introduced to Tom Lehrer by my folks several years ago when I started griping to them about new math (new-ew-ew math...it won't do you a bit of good to re-view math...). I was very pleasantly surprised to hear him join Robert J Lurtsema one morning on Morning Pro Musica. That must have been sixteen or seventeen years ago....anyone from the Boston area remember that? Robert J was such a part of my childhood. Oh, by the way, Hi! I'm new to the list, fairly new to Richard's music as well. Longtime 'RSI listener, tho, and I just saw Richard at the Iron Horse tonight. I was the guy sitting on the steps. - --patrick - -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* One for whom a pebble has value must be surrounded by treasures wherever he goes. --Par Lagerkvist Patrick Cahn, and dog Soba too patrick.cahn@the-spa.com ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V2 #195 ***********************************