From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V8 #140 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, August 17 2006 Volume 08 : Number 140 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Re: Nora Nora Fo-Fora [DrTobs@aol.com] [RS] Re: Arrowhead. [Rongrittz@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:15:54 EDT From: DrTobs@aol.com Subject: [RS] Re: Nora Nora Fo-Fora In a message dated 8/16/2006 12:19:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org writes: Hey you guys, Toby wrote: >>I asked him to play "Nora," and he said he would. He was almost done his >>set and hadn't played it yet, but a little prompt from quiet little me, >>and he played it-saying how flattered he was that someone named their dog >>after the main character in one of his songs! << Hmm... maybe we should have named our cat 'Weather.' Gene F. Doh! Now you said it Gene! No one requested it :( I forgot to mention that Richard spent a bit of time explaining Last Fare of the Day. I know last year there was great debate on the list about the song. Richard clearly said that the song takes place a week or so after 9/11 and the first couple has been to the city to look for missing loved ones. All they wish is for the taxi to take them home, and the radio is turned off because of all of the horrible news. He talked about how rainy it was (yes, Gene, the weather is an important part of that song!). The second and different couple is outside of St. Lukes hospital (not the church as I think someone proposed), and now there is a terrible drought-again the weather!!! He pretty much explained the whole song. As Sharon said, it was a very relaxed show-I have seen Richard there, I think, every time he's been there (5 or 6 times) and each time he's great. Last year there was a rain delay, but he picked right back up. He was cracking himself up, making jokes about requests-starting to play one and then saying, no, I'm not going to do that one etc....Besides, he really liked my puppy :) Toby ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:48:10 -0400 From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: [RS] Re: Arrowhead. >> One of my favorite Shindell songs and the one that made me search him out after hearing it on FUV for the first time. But man, did he really struggle through it tonight. Missed a whole verse. << I've often wondered what it is about "Arrowhead" that makes it the song that I swear I've seen Richard mess up more often than do correctly. The thing I've seen him do frequently is mis-match the first and last lines of a particular verse (which as we know, should be identical). Don't know if it's a lapse in concentration caused by having done the song a bajillion times, the fact that the verses don't really run as a chronological story and therefore it's easy to do them out of order, or what. But after, well, a whole lotta shows, I've almost come to look forward to seeing what the glitch-du-jour will be. Still love the song to death, though, particularly the amazing fills and stuff he does without a flatpick. RG ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V8 #140 ***********************************