From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V3 #232 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, July 23 2001 Volume 03 : Number 232 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] re:(rs) remember when the music... ["Lea Gavrieli" ] [RS] I'm from somewhere near New Jersey ["Norman A. Johnson" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 06:58:07 -0400 From: "Lea Gavrieli" Subject: [RS] re:(rs) remember when the music... Carol, (and all), I had been a fan of Harry Chapin since grade school, and when he had a date in '79 to play nearby, one of the hardest things I had to do in my young life was decide not to go because the concert was on a Friday night, and I observed the Jewish Sabbath - from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. To their credit, my parents left the decision up to me. The day Harry died, I was working in a summer camp, and when we heard, we were cleaning up from an evening performance of some sort. I just sat down and took out my guitar and sang a couple of his tunes for some of the others there before we were able to continue the work at hand in silence. The weird part was getting it that I was never going to have the chance to hear him play: I had helped myself in the earlier choice by assuring myself that I would have another chance to hear him. Nowadays, (here's the Richard content), I try hard not to let a chance to hear live music go by, though still not attending concerts on the Sabbath, I think I try just a bit harder the other six days. Beyond that, though, there is something divine in the music that touches the soul - something that sparks a connection of everyone on the room who hears it - something that cannot be replicated in recording, no matter how scrupulous the recording standards or how perfect the stereo system. When one person has a gift of being able to express in music and in words things that make us want to, in some way, be better people, it makes us feel more alive, and we take that with us when we venture out into the world. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 20:40:43 -0400 From: "Norman A. Johnson" Subject: Re: [RS] Remember When the Music. I was 15 when Harry Chapin died. I, of course, knew "Cats in the Cradle" but didn't really know his other stuff. Then that day, I hear it on the radio-- Harry Chapin had a fatal accident on the LIE. The radio station played "Taxi". It was the first time I had really listened to "Taxi". From that point, I was a Harry Chapin fan. A good starting place for Chapin music is the 2CD set "Live from the Bottom Line", his 1,000th concert which was a few short months prior to his death. It was released in 1998, I think. Norman ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 21:32:08 -0400 From: "Norman A. Johnson" Subject: [RS] Tune for nowhere, man Lisa wrote: >>I was thinking how MUCh I love "tune for nowhere" which has become an anthem for me in so many different contexts. But then I realized, no need to do it live, because the version on the CD is quite pefect as it is. << Plus the BLUE DIVIDE version has Lucy's harmony, which in my opinion, just adds so much to the song. Norman ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 22:22:24 -0400 From: "Norman A. Johnson" Subject: [RS] I'm from somewhere near New Jersey Elwestrand wrote: >>I have to say that while Richard and Lucy sound great, Sandy is not a song I like much. I don't find it at all romantic. Maybe you have to be from New Jersey ;-)! << That's just it, E, you *expect* too much. ;-) Norman ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 23:40:51 EDT From: TRNMT@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] Remember When the Music. Like Ron, I was listening to WNEW-FM when I learned that Harry died. And sort of like Carol, I had graduated, but from college just about a month before. In a strange kind of coincidence of this remembrance, I was cleaning around our house last week and found an 8x10 photo of Harry at New Jersey Institute of Technology in March of 1980, taken by one of my husband's buddies. Harry and his band were playing there, and some miscreant engineering students had gone out on Rt. 23 and ripped down the Chapin Road exit sign (the vandals!) out around Pine Brook, NJ (which, for the sake of RS content, is sort of near Paterson)to put on stage and was in the picture with him. I'm going to have that picture framed. It was a great concert. After the concert, my then-not-quite-fiance' drove Harry to the airport so he could get to a benefit gig somewhere the next day. It was one of the highlights of Tim's college life (he'd been very involved in organizing the event). I can't listen to Remember When the Music, or for that matter, much of Harry's repetoire, without tearing up ... I am now, thinking about it. Ron may have a point in feeling his music became preachy, but I'm not sure about smarmy...I don't think there was much "false earnestness" in what he did. I think he really knew how to practice stewardship, and in doing so, was an example to us. Nancy (listening to Story of a Life, in her head) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 01:13:40 -0400 From: "Norman A. Johnson" Subject: [RS] Drum Hat Buddha I picked up Dave and Tracy's DRUM HAT BUDDHA at the Borders at the bottom of the World Trade Center right before Lucy's show. It's among their featured albums, meaning you can listen to it in the store. Lucy was great. She played a little more than an hour, several songs from the new album (which is coming out 11 September- EVERY SINGLE DAY). She told the story of getting Richard at the airport to have him play on one of the songs (I think it's "And the angels rejoiced"). Norman ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V3 #232 ***********************************