From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V7 #300 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 Friday, December 9 2005 Volume 07 : Number 300 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V7 #299 [Bruce Righter ] Re: [RS] list [] [RS] Re: myspace [john cleirigh ] [RS] Folkwax.com [Janet Cinelli ] Re: [RS] Folkwax.com [Rongrittz@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 06:23:15 -0500 From: Bruce Righter Subject: [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V7 #299 Ron, I hear what you're saying but figured it couldn't hurt to start a RS group-- http://groups.myspace.com/richardshindell Everyone is invited to join. I just have the skeleton there now, but will flesh things out with pix and info. I would welcome any suggestions. Bruce On Dec 8, 2005, at 4:55 AM, shindell-list-digest wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 09:48:14 EST > From: Rongrittz@aol.com > Subject: Re: [RS] RS on myspace? > >>> Why hasn't someone started a group for Richard on myspace?? >>> Personally, I > don't care for the chronologically-ordered e-mail digest/message > board, > since it CAN be hard to follow any particular train of thought. But > myspace is > organized by threads, so topics on the song "Arrowhead" would all be > grouped > together << > > On a busier list, with multiple discussions going on simultaneously, > there > might be some merit to that idea. But very nature of the light > traffic on the > Shindell-list DOES tend to keep threads together. The last couple of > days > of copy protection posts were pretty much all together. The recent > posts > about "Arrowhead" were pretty much all together. Basically, here, > someone brings > up a topic, we talk about it, it dies out, and then someone starts > another > one. > > Frankly, I WISH this list had the type of traffic that would make an > alternate thread-navigation scheme necessary. I just don't think the > current > traffic warrants it. > > RG > > ------------------------------ > > > > ------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 08:12:43 -0500 From: Jim Colbert Subject: [RS] list > Why hasn't someone started a group for Richard on myspace?? I personally have no problem with the list the way it is. I can't recall every having trouble really following a thread in the, what, maybe 5, 6, or whatever year I've been here. But maybe that's just me. Which seems like a swell seque into saying thanks to Ron and Sally for starting and administrating the list! Jim ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 07:24:50 -0600 (CST) From: Subject: Re: [RS] list >> Why hasn't someone started a group for Richard on myspace?? > >I personally have no problem with the list the way it is. I sgree that the list works fine as it is. One thing I am NOT going to do is to look in two different places for my daily Shindell info fix! Joe ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 12:37:21 -0800 From: john cleirigh Subject: [RS] Re: myspace This seems disrespectful to me. Considering the way musicians have been using myspace, I'd think you'd give Richard the courtesy to do this himself (or *not* do it at all)...I find it especially odd that you've chosen "/richardshindell" rather than some obvious fan-site nomenclature. john On 12/8/05, Bruce Righter wrote: > Ron, > I hear what you're saying but figured it couldn't hurt to start a RS > group-- > > http://groups.myspace.com/richardshindell > > Everyone is invited to join. I just have the skeleton there now, but > will flesh things out > with pix and info. I would welcome any suggestions. > Bruce ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 16:15:13 -0800 (PST) From: Janet Cinelli Subject: [RS] Folkwax.com I was reading this website's review of Vuelta. I was confused about what they said about "Hazel's House." Here's what they had to say: >>At just over three minutes in length, "Hazel's House" is the shortest cut on this collection. Superficially, the setting is New Jersey as a family gathers to celebrate yet another New Year, but in truth it's a finely observed portrait of how such events are filled with short, awkward conversations and ulterior motives. In the closing verse Shindell offers, "And no one seems to know that this is heaven, They say we only know it by and by, That someday all will be revealed, Well, here it is.">> I don't believe this is what the song is about at all! I thought it was a pretty straight forward song about fond memories of visits to his aunt's house. On reflection, he now realizes just how special those visits were. Sometimes it's the simple things in life that mean the most. I just can't figure out how he came to this conclusion. Anyone else agree with this reviewer? Janet Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 22:25:06 EST From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] Folkwax.com >> I just can't figure out how he came to this conclusion. Anyone else agree with this reviewer? << I can't figure it out either. I actually went to Folkwax to read the entire review, and also found this to be strange, in the section about Richard's cover of "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy." >> In the closing line of a few verses Shindell sings "And the damn fool kept yelling to push on," while Seeger's original employed "big fool." Although the song only appeared in the public domain in 1967 during the white heat of the Vietnam War, Seeger's motives as its creator were obvious. As for Richard's motive, once again I'd pose the question is this merely a historical document, or an ageless retelling? << Seems strange that the writer (in my opinion) reads way too much into "Hazel's House," but doesn't grasp Richard's obvious (and ripped from the headlines) motive for singing "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" . . . you know, while that damn fool GWB keeps yelling to push on. RG ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V7 #300 ***********************************