From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V8 #124 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 Wednesday, August 2 2006 Volume 08 : Number 124 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] Completely OT [Sandy Smith ] [RS] Defending Paxton/ Great Barrington venue question ["Gregory Dennis" ] [RS] pre-withdrawal jitters [Amy ] [RS] live and what we like [Jim Colbert ] [RS] Act of contrition [Jason Stanley ] [RS] mcD's PHEFFF [sdgold60@optonline.net] Re: [RS] Act of contrition ["kunigunda" ] Re: [RS] pre-withdrawal jitters ["kunigunda" ] [RS] Happy Birthday Rabid Fans [B Gallagher ] Re: [RS] pre-withdrawal jitters [Janet Cinelli ] Re: [RS] pre-withdrawal jitters ["kunigunda" ] [RS] Re: Defending Paxton [Rongrittz@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 07:24:48 -0700 From: Sandy Smith Subject: Re: [RS] Completely OT Interesting article and interesting magazine. Thanks for posting the link. Sandy On Aug 2, 2006, at 5:02 AM, Georgette deFriesse wrote: > The latest Orion magazine has an article about the recuperadas of > Argentina. I'm not surprised that Richard seems to have fallen in > love with Argentina. What remarkable people these one-time laid-off > workers are! > > http://www.orionmagazine.org/pages/om/06-4om/Ballve.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 10:23:43 -0400 From: "Gregory Dennis" Subject: [RS] Defending Paxton/ Great Barrington venue question OK, I can't keep quiet any longer. Tom Paxton is one of the reasons there are all these wonderful little places for Richard and people like him to play these days. After pretty much everybody else flamed out or bailed out, Paxton kept the flame burning for decades after the 1960s folk scare, and he's always done it in style. I've seen them probably half a dozen times between 1970 and today (from San Diego to Aberdeen, Scotland) and he's always been very solid. I saw him a few months ago in Middlebury, Vt. with Eric Weissberg ("Dueling Banjos") accompanying him, and Paxton was both entertaining and musically right there. As for what he's done lately, check out his duet album with Anne Hills, "Under American Skies." Further Richard content: Anybody familiar with the venue in Great Barrington, Mass., which I think is called Club Helsinki? - -- Greg ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 11:42:34 -0400 From: Amy Subject: [RS] pre-withdrawal jitters I'll be attending the show at Madison Square Park...in fact, I delayed my impending move to Michigan by a few days so that I'd be able to catch it. Yes, my friends, I'm leaving New York. I'm moving to Ann Arbor to begin law school (I seem to recall there being a preponderance of lawyers on the list; let's just say I'm doing my part to add to the bottom-heaviness.) And I'm absolutely tickled with the way things have worked out, with one glaring exception: Richard doesn't seem to do Michigan. Or anywhere off the coast, for that matter. I'm spoiled. Every time he heads Stateside I'm able to pull off a show or two. The prospect of three Richardless years makes me pout. Of course, a new album would ease the sting a little, but c'mon. Did anyone actually expect the album this year? I recall him using January or February as a target for release, which told me that we'd be fortunate if it was here in time for the winter solstice. *sigh* So in the meantime it comes down to one last concert in the park. Let's hope he makes it count. I'd be up for connecting with other listers...although at this point I'm kind of content treating y'all as mythical imaginary friends. ;) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 11:53:52 -0400 From: Jim Colbert Subject: [RS] live and what we like > In a lot of posts, > people rave about other artists to listen to, or mention another > artists > they've recently seen and liked. Often I look the artist up and listen > to some songs. I think a lot of times these opinions are based on hearing someone live... it can be a whole different experience, y'know, really cutting through to the heart of the song and the essence of the performer. (Seeing him live years back was really what did it for me with Richard, incidentally. I enjoyed his songs going back to the FF days, but the live performance was what really did it - and STILL does it - for me.) And as Adam (with whom I share some favorites, and disagree with on others!) said, we're all moved by different things in music. My David Olney may be your Dar Williams! Whatever that means... So, who thinks we'll have a new Richard album by Christmas? - -jpc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:51:35 -0500 From: Jason Stanley Subject: [RS] Act of contrition Well said Thomas. The majority of the time someone brings up a new artist and compares them to RS, it seems like I may be on a different planet. The English guy people talked about recently comes to mind. He may have his merits, but RS is in a different league with singing, songwriting and guitar playing. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:53:27 -0400 From: sdgold60@optonline.net Subject: [RS] mcD's PHEFFF why would you eat at McDonalds when the shake shack is in the park. There are plenty of restaurants in gramercy park, union square and chelsea where you can get "real" food for a reasonable price and its not McD not that i have a problem with McD's. i heard Tom Paxton eats there Beware, no restrooms at MSPark.... they will send you to Wendys to use the facilities. there is a trader Joes and whole foods on 14th so walk up and see some the flatiron district... see NY the way it was meant to be seen, on foot... the shake shack has great ice cream too they dont let you bring the chairs on the gravel near the stage ( bob, the moved the stage from when Dar played there) so bring a blanket, chair or something to sit on or you will get dirty.. watch out for the drunks who will surely be there sharon G see you in madison sq park ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 12:12:26 -0500 From: "kunigunda" Subject: Re: [RS] Act of contrition Geesh! No one is doing any comparing, especially not to RS.......what planet is it that you're from? c in kc > Well said Thomas. The majority of the time someone brings up a new artist > and compares them to RS, it seems like I may be on a different planet. > The English guy people talked about recently comes to mind. He may have > his merits, but RS is in a different league with singing, songwriting and > guitar playing. 4 - -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.5/405 - Release Date: 8/1/2006 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 13:28:16 -0500 From: "kunigunda" Subject: Re: [RS] pre-withdrawal jitters Amy sez I'd be up for connecting with > other listers...although at this point I'm kind of content treating y'all > as mythical imaginary friends. ;) There wouldn't be a problem if we all had buttons!!! Amy, have fun in Ann Arbor. For your Richard fix you'll just have to live vicariously through the list like others of us have had to do for so long. At least your stint away is temporary! c in kc - -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.5/405 - Release Date: 8/1/2006 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:40:44 -0400 From: B Gallagher Subject: [RS] Happy Birthday Rabid Fans Sang "Happy Birthday" to Kurt Mazure after an all Tc Carnagy Hall concert some years back. On 8/2/06 10:49 AM, "shindell-list-digest" wrote: > It will be AFTER Richard's birthday.... BUT.... is there any interest in > bring a store-bought ( or homemade, I suppose ) cake with us... and > embarrassing > Richard by singing "Happy Birthday" to him.. in front of the whole crowd? > > I was handed Mr. Jerry Garcia a cake in front of 20,000 people at Roosevelt > Stadium a million years ago ( well OK,,, it was 1973, I think.... ). ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 12:09:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Janet Cinelli Subject: Re: [RS] pre-withdrawal jitters - --- kunigunda wrote: > Amy sez > There wouldn't be a problem if we all had buttons!!! Carrie, that's just what I was thinking! Janet Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 14:28:18 -0500 From: "kunigunda" Subject: Re: [RS] pre-withdrawal jitters Gotta get busy on a design......tomorrow! >> There wouldn't be a problem if we all had buttons!!! > > Carrie, that's just what I was thinking! > > Janet - -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.5/405 - Release Date: 8/1/2006 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:07:29 -0400 From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: [RS] Re: Defending Paxton >> Like John, I'm not a big fan of Tom Paxton. I respect him as an artist and his importance but I don't like him. I, too, would be dissipointed to find a RS show with a double bill like that. There's nothing wrong with that. << Yeah, but consider this: even at this point in Richard's career, there are STILL probably more Tom Paxton fans out there than Richard fans. Meaning that there's a great opportunity for those "old folkies" to hear about our boy Richard. How do I know this? Back in late 1994, I went to see Tom Paxton (of whom I was a pretty big fan at the time) at the Hurdy Gurdy in Paramus, New Jersey. Wasn't familiar with the opening act, but after seeing her, she blew me away so much THAT I DIDN'T EVEN STAY FOR PAXTON. Who was the opening act? Little lady named Dar Williams. 'Nuff said. RG ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V8 #124 ***********************************