From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V2 #261 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, September 18 2000 Volume 02 : Number 261 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] TBL: The 10:30 Show [Paul DePasquale ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 01:32:23 -0400 From: Paul DePasquale Subject: [RS] TBL: The 10:30 Show This is my first attempt to take part in this exchange and I'm not sure I know how, but no one seems to have written anything on the second Bottom Line show of Thursday night . All right, it was a Kaplansky-free environment that Big Joe and I entered into, but hey, Ignorance being what it is, we sat up front with a girl covered in "meat is murder" buttons (who smoked. She explained that murdering her own meat was different) and it was not long before we were swimming in sonic Bliss. See above for True Tales of Opening Artists. Wonderful music. There were easy exchanges passed from stage to house, house to stage, that broke down any little icy barriers that may have separated Artists and Audience and by the time our Mr. Shindell was announced we were all in love. How do you describe that? Twenty lousy bucks for the best time of your ....Anyway, Richard and the Shindells enter and hit "Next Best Western" and by the time they get to "Fishing" you know you're in a rare state and you feel bad that the cows are going to die before they hear this man and this band and these songs. Understand, Lucy and her mom are home by now discussing whether or not she was "zippy" tonight, and we are being ROCKED by these men. (Yes, it was an All Male Cast.) No complaints here about loud bands. The sound was perfect, as verbally noted by RS at the end of the show. In fact, I thought it a great treat to hear my favorites being given fresh treatment, with Richard's brilliant vocals integrated into, rather than so much in front of, the accompaniment. Music. You know? Richard allowed as to how great it was to, just every once in a great while, have the Shindells out of their cages and let 'm rip. He didn't say it corny like that, but he said it. We got your "Reunion Hill". We got your "Abuelita"(How beautiful is that song? How gracefully and completely does this artist slip into these people who talk to us through him?) "Wisteria" was once again in full and heady bloom. All Concerned encored with Merle Haggard's "Sing Me Back Home" after we'd been mesmerized, ecstasized and released from somewhere near Paterson: "Transit" is some kind of masterpiece. Do you know many other songs that out and out climax like this one? Not since Saint Theresa! Now, I am not concerned here with accurate lists of songs or people's names. I didn't take notes like the other girl at our table. Not Smoky the Vedge. Another one. But I want to convey the singular, extreme pleasure of attending the second show that night. And I am so fucking pissed that we missed Lucy La K. ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V2 #261 ***********************************