From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V6 #59 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 Saturday, March 27 2004 Volume 06 : Number 059 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Re: RS on WFUV ["kunigunda" ] [RS] WFUV interview ["John Fix 3rd" ] [RS] Clark Art Institute show. [Rongrittz@aol.com] Re: [RS] Clark Art Institute show. [Monika Albrecht Subject: [RS] Re: RS on WFUV Wow! Thanks, Pam. I checked the coming up page and it looks like they have other interviews scheduled for the next few mondays. I'll keep checking. > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:27:34 -0800 > From: "Pam Calegari" > Subject: [RS] RS on WFUV > > >>> Do they replay interviews? I checked archives and > it's not there. Is it to soon to appear there or don't they archive all the > interviews? Yes, I'm whining.... Carrie in KC <<< > > "Will the recent Richard Shindell show be archived??" > > Hello Pam -- > > Gosh I hope so. He's just fabulous. > > We rebroadcast a recent interview every Monday night at 8pm, and those > programs automatically get added to the archives. There are more > interviews than Mondays, though, so for some of the 'popular demand' > folks we just add it up there anyway. It takes a decent amount of time > and effort to do, so I'm careful with my requests. But we have been > generally lamenting the Shindellessness of the WFUV Archives anyway, > and wondering which interview to dig up from the past -- so I'd say > that (a) this one's likely to be a Monday night 'Words and Music' > special, and it'd get posted at that point (in the next couple months), > and if it's not, (b) I'll see if we can get it up there anyway. > > The upcoming Monday nights get listed on the 'Coming Up on WFUV' page, > so keep an eye on that for info, and/or do a search for Shindell now > and then and see if it pops up. > > - -- Laura Fedele, WFUV > .................................................. > Laura Fedele, Web Director > WFUV Public Radio 90.7FM > http://www.wfuv.org/ > lfedele@wfuv.org > - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > But then Gene said he had already seen a bit of the show archived . . . ??? > > Pam > > ------------------------------ > > End of shindell-list-digest V6 #58 > ********************************** ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 08:22:57 -0500 From: "John Fix 3rd" Subject: [RS] WFUV interview > -----Original Message----- > > Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:48:30 -0500 > > From: Rongrittz@aol.com > > Subject: [RS] RS on WFUV. > > > > Drats . . . forgot to listen to Richard's interview on WFUV > this morning. > Anyone listen? Any news? Did he sing? Inquiring mimes want > to know . . . > I listened and was trying to rip the show to my PC using Station Ripper (http://www.ratajik.com/StationRipper/). It seemed to be working fine but I couldn't figure out how to stop recording at the end of the hour and ended up erasing the MP3 file. :-( Hopefully WFUV will post it to the archives. my hardware store is an underwriter for WFUV and we're about to sign up for a new contract so I'll try and make it part of the contract. :-) John www.cornells.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 10:59:12 EST From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: [RS] Clark Art Institute show. A friend sent me this review of the Clark Art Institute show . . . ________________________________________ A review of the clark art institute show friday nite....richard was the only act,played about 90 minutes and was worth every dollar.he played just the one guitar,which he retuned several times thru the nite...here is the set list. - -THERE GOES MAVIS...i really love his guitar playing on this one,and the story is great. - -HAZEL'S HOUSE...brand new,and i predict will be a crowd favorite...some great lines in the song. - -CHE GUEVARRA T-SHIRT...long story about the song. - -"SPANISH TUNE"...again, a long story about how he wrote it and what it means...got a big hand when he was done. - -FENARIO...great,great guitar work. - -WAIST DEEP IN THE BIG MUDDY...lots of applause during the song,the crowd was REALLY into this one. - -REUNION HILL...the first of 4 "oldies"...the crowd applauded each one as he started the guitar intro..he seemed really happy with his audience...one of my favorite songs. - -ARROWHEAD...again,great guitar work and a killer delivery. - -SUMMERWIND COTTON DRESS...by request,he said he hoped he would rememer the words,it was his first full show in 5 months. - -NEXT BEST WESTERN...classic tune with no loss of power over the years. - -SO SAY THE WHIPPORWHILL...my favorite of the nite...what a song..a bit alarming in that he said the song is not recorded properly yet,his musicians just can't seem to feel it...someone should tell richard to record it just guitar and vocal...the power of those words will be enough. - -TRANSIT...i was happy he decided to do this one,lots of applause for "ashkroft republicans" - -LAST FARE OF THE DAY....what a set ending tune...standing ovation when he was done. - -AMERICA (encore)...after retuning his guitar TWICE as he struggled for what he wanted to finish with,he sang this one..again,standing ovation when the song was over. i liked the venue a lot...i hope to see richard again at cafe lena if i can get my gig moved 1/2 hour or so...he is worth the effort...PLEASE do yourself a favor: if he is playing anywhere near you,make the effort to go; i think these shows will all be killers. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 11:25:18 -0500 From: Monika Albrecht Subject: Re: [RS] Clark Art Institute show. Hi folks, I'm pretty new on the list, lurker for some time, temporary resident of Massachusetts, and last night I attended the show mentioned above. Thought I just send you a copy of the little report I wrote for a music friend -- excuse my bad English, I'm not a native speaker. Best, Monika I'm just back from the Richard Shindell concert in Williamstown, MA, and totally happy. It was just him and the guitar, but *what a guitar* and *what a him* !! The sound in that 250 seats venue in the Clark Art Institute was terrific (although Richard kept complaining about some strange noise until it got fixed, but we didn't hear that from our seats), he was in great voice (and I think I only tonight realized what a real great voice he has). It's incredible, he gets better and better, I particular thought that when he sang the 'old' songs in today's interpretation. I sat in the second row, just 5 or 6 yards away from him, he seemed totally relaxed and having a great time, chatting between songs (nice sense of humor), and he looks much younger than on any photograph I know (or maybe he looks just as old as he is, in his early/mid fourties). He started out with the new songs, some of them I knew from the radio, others were completely new to me, like Mavis, the Spanish one, and a few others, he also introduced a beautiful very new one of which he said he sang it for the first time in concert the night before. Among the older ones were my beloved Next Best Western, and my beloved Arrowhead, and my beloved Summer Wind, Cotton Dress, and my beloved Transit, somewhere in the middle he sang a Pete Seeger song I did not recognize ("It was back in the summer of 42...", and there was something about "waist-deep in the mud" -- Richard said that was the song Pete was not supposed to sing at a TV show and when he did they cancelled the show). Last Fare of the Day was the last song, then standing ovations (you could tell how much this audience loved him!) until he came back on the stage and kept us in suspense with tuning before he played the first chords of Paul Simon's America! I think I said that I didn't particularly like that one on the McCabe's concert CD, but tonight was different, a perfect last song, and a breathtakingly beautiful interpretation. The colleague with whom I was there followed my advice and bought the "Courier" live CD and we listened to it on our 1.5 hours way back to Amherst (street signs warned us that black bears might cross the road! No kidding, this is Northwest Massachusetts, border to Vermont in the Berkshire Mountains, i.e. the foothills of the Appalachians), so it was also a great ride home. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 12:09:43 EST From: Bobdog25nj@aol.com Subject: [RS] Isabel's Review of NCC Show hello to all: thought I'd a few thoughts to Isabel's excellent review of the Nassau Community College show. though both Richard and Lucy were great... it was a long night...and at times a very frustrating show. And without question, it was one of the nicest and most polite audiences in the history of the universe. the problem with shows off this kind is that they have an odd mix of performers, i mean, Richard and Lucy are both full-time professional musicians, each with more than one CD, and real record companies, and a real fan base of people who are willing to travel many miles to see them play. some of the other "acts" are basically groups of college kids, or people who mean well and sing kinda OK but could never earn a living by making music and selling records. then, at this venue, there was even a third category, The Harlem Blues and Jazz Band, who were great, but is made up of people who used to be professional working musicians but are now "semi-retired". my feeling is that, if you are gonna book this kind of show, you want to make real sure that the "goodwill" of the audience is not pushed too far. at the NCC show they pushed it way too far. a less polite audience would have booed somebody at some point... probably the poets. it was a bit of a stretch to expect a "folk music" audience to accept any left-wing angry obsenity-laced street poetry anyway, but they put the poets up twice...in effect...for two sets. And everybody else got one. i kinda dig left-wing angry obsenity-laced street poetry, and even i had more than my fill. one or two of the poets did seem to have real talent...so it wasn't a total loss. And they were college kids...some of whom might have been reading their poems in public for the first time...which is probably why the audience was so polite. there was also some poor guy who they asked to MC the show... they had him trying to play his guitar and sing songs while the stage hands were moving mike stands and monitors. this was a terrible idea... and was very unfair to him...but i remember thinking at the time that it would make a great scene in a movie... it had a certain "Mighty Wind" quality to it. just before Richard came out, this guy did a song called " Don't Quit Your Day Job", about how people might tell you not to quit your day job if they think that you are not gonna be able to earn a living in the music business... and though there was an obvious thing for someone to yell from the audience...and at this point I had been waiting hours for Richard...everyone was very polite...and nobody yelled anything...but there were a few whispers. when Richard finally came out...this is the audience he faced ( which is why I tried to explain all this up to now). what surprised me is that right away everyone seemed completely happy, and that it was my impression that the majority of the audience had actually come to see Richard. I was a bit surprised...but pleasantly. Probably the mention of the show on WFUV and Richard's morning interview...and maybe even this list had something to do with it. As Isabel said, Richard was great. I especially enjoyed the fact that he invited Joyce Anderson ( a talented violinist and beautiful woman) to play with him. I was close enough that I could see Richard and Joyce looking at each other back and forth the way musicians do. Joyce did a remarkable job of playing along with Richard... and I was bit puzzled at how she did this since Richard uses different tunings and a capo... and back in the day when i played the guitar and tried to play along with someone else, capos and alternate tunings were the kiss-of-death to me. But I suppose Joyce knows what she's doing and can tell what key a song is in by listening to it. seems like a simple enough thing to do... but i never could. when Richard played "The Last Fare of the Day" - a near disaster was averted. his mike cut out - but angels intervened - and it didn't happen till just at the very very end of the song - like the last bit if the last chorus. That was lucky... of all the songs I wanted to hear that night, that was number one on my list. Lucy was great too. And seemed to glow the way new Moms do. I'd post more about it...but I have already gone on long enough. When Richard and Joyce did the Gram Parson's song ( Sin City) ...Richard mentioned that he was sorry that Lucy wasn't there ( Lucy went home to Molly)...and that Lucy would have enjoyed doing a three-part harmony. Joyce can sing beautifully by the way, and they sounded great together. OK...i look forward to hearing about the Peekskill show. bye... Bob Paterson ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V6 #59 **********************************