From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V4 #104 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, March 21 2002 Volume 04 : Number 104 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Re: here's my order [LBECKLAW@aol.com] [RS] courier sales [jim colbert ] [RS] PC money ["Bill Chmelir" ] [RS] C3 [jim colbert ] RE: [RS] C3 ["Plunkett, Adam" ] [RS] Re: Airplay for Courier ["Theresa Marsik" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 13:43:22 EST From: LBECKLAW@aol.com Subject: [RS] Re: here's my order In a message dated 3/20/2002 1:26:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org writes: > Those of you who didn't > buy your RS discs > as they came out- what order did you pick them up in? Cry Cry Cry. I heard it on FUV and loved it almost immediately. Had not heard of Richard, Dar nor Lucy before I bought this. Reunion Hill. Saw Cry Cry Cry live and kind of dug the one guy in the group, plus "Cold Missouri Waters" had become my favorite Cry Cry Cry SOTW. Somewhere Near Patterson. Saw Richard live and had heard "Confession" on FUV and had to have It. Blue Divide. Saw Richard live and bought this after the concert. Sparrows Point. Bought after being on this List for a few months and figured you all were onto Something. Besides, I felt out of the inner circle without being able to discuss "By Now" with the rest of the class. Courier. By now an older and wiser, not to mention more evolved fan and lister, bought before the unwashed public. When you look at this order, it makes no chronological sense but to me it does make a great deal of emotional sense. Laura ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 13:55:43 -0500 From: jim colbert Subject: [RS] courier sales > I thought you all might like to hear from Sig Sounds World Headquarters on > how the new album is doing. In a word, FANTASTIC! After one month in the > stores, Courier is outselling SNP (Richard's previous best seller), by 30%. Thanks for the update, Jim! Glad to know that "product is moving..." It is a wonderful album, but then, we knew that. But we also know that in itself doesn't ensure sales sucess. (but I am still convinced Courier t-shirts would sell too!) Jim Colbert ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 12:04:17 -0700 From: "Bill Chmelir" Subject: [RS] PC money Jim asked, > So here's one I was thinking about last night. Those > of you who didn't buy your RS discs > as they came out- what order did you pick them up > in? Any particular reason? I first heard Shindell in 1997 when my smokejumper buddy Steve played Are You Happy Now for me on his guitar. Steve's fiance had just broken up with him for a real life "what's his name" and so he was really down in the dumps. His intro was "hey, you want to hear the saddest song in the world". After that Steve loaned me his copy of SP. Other than Are You Happy Now, the music really didn't grab me at first. I figured out how to play AYHN on my guitar and I would play it and my roommates would sing along. One of them had also just broken off a relationship and he would sing it in his nastiest tone "Are You F*#%ing Happy Now". Around the same time I heard songs from RH being played on NPR (KUNC Greeley Colorado) and ran out and bought it. Then in December 1998 I saw CCC in Boulder and bought their CD and Sparrows Point. About a year later I bought Blue Divide. Shortly after that I bought Somewhere Near Patterson a few days after it was released. I picked up the Spring EP a few months later, and late last year I ordered Courier on line along with The Sonora Sessions. Tonm wrote: >Oh Katrin: do you want to deal with this or should I? >How about we emend that somewhat: >Howie is jealous that Joan Baez's cover of (song >title)________________________ >sounds better than his cover of (song title)_________________ ever could be. >Hehehehe. That's MUCH better. >As I always say, it's the rewriting that makes or breaks a piece... >Tom >Dedicated As Ever to Maintaining Joan's Reputation >(and really, I should ask for PR money from her at this point!) I'd say you deserve some PC money if not PR... Bill - --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.330 / Virus Database: 184 - Release Date: 2/28/2002 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 14:08:06 -0500 From: jim colbert Subject: [RS] C3 sI also never bought Cry Cry Cry only because Williams > and Laplansky just arent my cup of tea. Yo Adam- Regardless of your feelings on the females involved, C3 is worth picking up for the Shindell cuts on it, IMHO. That Shades of Gray is still a staple of his live performance sets (as was Cold Missouri Waters until September) should tell you something about the choice of material. I find the song Memphis to be quite nice too. But then again, most of us can't buy everything that might be of interest to us! jpc tossing in two more cents again ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 14:26:00 -0500 From: "Plunkett, Adam" Subject: RE: [RS] C3 It is very true we cannot buy everything that interests us! My logic in not buying is the follwoing: He is one-third of the album. "Mempshis" is a great song; I've seen Richard perform it live. As good a version as I'm sure it is, I can't see it topping the orginal that Cliff Eberhardt recorded. That's nothing aginst RS, it just happens to be a flawless recording. :) That leaves "Cold Missouri Waters" and as much as I love the song, I am not buying it for that song. Hey, I am a poor college student! :) - -Adam - -----Original Message----- From: jim colbert To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sent: 3/20/02 2:08 PM Subject: [RS] C3 sI also never bought Cry Cry Cry only because Williams > and Laplansky just arent my cup of tea. Yo Adam- Regardless of your feelings on the females involved, C3 is worth picking up for the Shindell cuts on it, IMHO. That Shades of Gray is still a staple of his live performance sets (as was Cold Missouri Waters until September) should tell you something about the choice of material. I find the song Memphis to be quite nice too. But then again, most of us can't buy everything that might be of interest to us! jpc tossing in two more cents again ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 13:47:40 -0600 From: "Theresa Marsik" Subject: [RS] Re: Airplay for Courier Jim Olsen wrote: >Usually live albums have a harder time getting airplay, but again >Courier is surpassing our expectations. I occasionally listen to WUMB online, and they have been playing many different tracks from Courier. I checked their archives and I think the most I counted in one day was three different songs from that CD. That's pretty amazing (to me, anyway). Anyway, just FYI. Theresa ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 16:52:45 -0500 From: Samantha Kingston Subject: [RS] I Am > Okay, forgive me if this is a stupid question but I'm fairly new both > to the list and to the wonderful world of Richard Shindell. (E. was > kind enough to invite me into both.) Now that I'm here, I keep > hearing about this wonderful song called "I Am." Everybody talks > about it here. The lyrics are available online. You can even find > the chords. But . . . where is the song? I'd really like to hear > it. Is there a recording anywhere out there? > > Sandy Jim, Unfortunately I think you are right about it not being available anymore. It used to be here http://www.younghunter.com/wnyc.htm however the page no longer exists :( They did say 'limited time only' so I guess they weren't kidding :) - -Samantha ***************************************************** Michaela O'Brien michaela@younghunter.com Wed, 21 Nov 2001 11:04:28 -0500 RICHARD SHINDELL ~ DIGITAL DOWNLOAD FUNDRAISER FOR WNYC (New York City) Last month, after finishing his US tour and before returning home to Buenos Aires, Richard Shindell recorded a song he wrote after the tragedies of September 11th. The song is called "I Am." WNYC, a public radio station in New York City, lost their main FM transmitter and back-up transmitter which were mounted on the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The cost of replacing these antennas is expected to be over $4 million. To raise funds for the station, an MP3 of Richard's new song "I Am" is now available, for a limited time, for a donation of $5. For more info and to purchase the digital download, please visit: http://www.richardshindell.com (go to the "News" section). Thanks for your support, and Happy Thanksgiving, Michaela Young/Hunter Publicity ***************************************************** ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V4 #104 ***********************************