From: owner-small-repairs-digest@smoe.org (small-repairs-digest) To: small-repairs-digest@smoe.org Subject: small-repairs-digest V2 #79 Reply-To: small-repairs@smoe.org Sender: owner-small-repairs-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-small-repairs-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk small-repairs-digest Sunday, March 22 1998 Volume 02 : Number 079 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [s-r] Re: VH1 & BigHAIR sighting [BigHAIR844 ] [s-r] Don't Tease A Wichita Lineman... [BigHAIR844 ] [s-r] In Concert -- was it good? [BigHAIR844 ] [s-r] Get this girl a Kleenex, please. [BigHAIR844 ] Re: [s-r] Shawn at Colden Center [Rodrigo Gaspar ] [s-r] If These Walls Could Speak [SteadyOnDC ] Re: [s-r] Shawn at Colden Center [ASILCG ] [s-r] Re: small-repairs-digest V2 #78 [Susan Krauss ] [s-r] VH1-Sunday Night [Jim DeFord ] [s-r] Shawn show reviews(long) [GL91297 ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 04:21:44 EST From: BigHAIR844 Subject: [s-r] Re: VH1 & BigHAIR sighting In a message dated 98-03-20 21:58:52 EST, you write: << Hey Shawnsters, the Rock On TV report shows Shawn & Mary Chapin Carpenter on VH1's "Hard Rock Live" this Sun. around midnight (check your locals). It's a repeat apparently. Anyone see it first time around? Good one? -Rob in Portland >> Hiya Rob in Portland! Ya seen any good... ummmmm... fourth row shows lately? ;) hhehhehhh. ("I love you... you love me....") i crack myself up. The Hard Rock Live with Shawn and Chapin really is outstanding. If memory serves, she plays, Sunny, Mona Lisa, Diamond, and, er..... um.... i forget. It's with the AFSR full band lineup... which included steuart smith on lead guitar, kate markowitz on backup vocals, doug petty on keyboard, et. al. But what i do remember is that she sings the incredible duet with Chapin on the Crowded House tune, Four Seasons in One Day. Wowee. There are a few minutes of shawn & chapin goofing off backstage... And, (shawn forgive me) you may get a chuckle out of the fact that i think she was after my title of BigHAIR at that time... it was havin some large tendencies. hehheh. Check it out! :) ~jean, sleep-deprived fool aka bH now playing: sting - nothing like the sun - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 04:44:26 EST From: BigHAIR844 Subject: [s-r] Don't Tease A Wichita Lineman... In a message dated 98-03-21 00:38:59 EST, you write: << 3. If These Walls Could Speak (I've never heard this one. Anyone know anything about it? >> Hey Larry, my Long Island friend! This is a great song off of Cover Girl... written by Jimmy Web, of Wichita Lineman fame. (I have it on good authority that the linemen in wichita hate jokes about that song, right John?) Methinks you could probably dig up a version of Glen Campbell (the Rhinestone Cowboy, himself) singing it somewhere. Oooh oooh... for those of you that don't have Cover Girl, let me retrieve my CD... (as if i have nothing bedda to do at 4:30 in the morning-- Denise! Kat! Where are ya?). Here is what she sez in the liner notes about it: "Glen Campbell made a wonderful and widely overlooked record called _Light Years_ with many Jimmy Webb songs on it. On a plane to Paris in the spring of 1990, i began to listen to a tape John Leventhal made for me. This was the first song on it. There ensued one of those episodes, when you are utterly overcome with such a beautiful, deep sorrow and sense of grief and loss and nostalgia, as though you have an aerial view of your life and can finally achieve an angelic compassion for yourself. Those times are precious -- You can't know when they will occur or you would certainly avoid them. Thanks Jimmy, thanks Glen, and thank you, John." Shawn's version is most excellent. And hearing it live... oooohweee! Tis good. But my favorite from Cover Girl is still "Twillight" by Robbie Robertson. Okay.. enuff of me.... going to bed now. ~jean aka bH still playing, but not for long: sting - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 04:54:42 EST From: BigHAIR844 Subject: [s-r] In Concert -- was it good? In a message dated 98-03-20 15:06:13 EST, John uttered: << Just another reminder that Shawn is going to be on ABC's In Concert this weekend. >> Wouldn't ya know a lightning storm would zap my cable at precisely the time i was expecting to watch this? drat. What did i miss? ~jean aka BigHAIR PS: REALLY going to bed now. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 09:43:42 EST From: BigHAIR844 Subject: [s-r] Get this girl a Kleenex, please. While we are telling shawn stories.... ya shouldn't have got me started...... ;) Nothing will top the audience sing-along of the Foundations hit, "Build Me Up Buttercup", that she did at Toads Place in New Haven a coupla years back... Gerry remembers.... :) and a Steady On Sing-Along in Richmond... Gary? were you singing along? We got to do the backup vocals like the munchkins on the Wizard of Oz. Imagine "Oh-wee-Oh" the munchkin way, and instead sing, "steady on, i go steady on".... hehhheh. luvit. Another of my favorite shawn bits was the emotional (or was it?) rendition of Steve Earle’s "Someday" that i heard in a performance in a small club called Ziggys about 4 years back... She sang it with her usual dramatic flair, (a song that i can kind of relate to being in a small town... ) and towards the end got a little red-faced and misty-eyed. But she never missed a note. By the end of the song, tears were rolling down her cheeks and when she was done, she turned her back to the audience for a poignant pause. The crowd clapped reluctantly, wondering if she was okay. "Was she crying?" we all wondered. There was a minute or two of silence as the applause died down.... what a truly moving moment. Shawn was moved to tears... at least that's what we thought... hehhhhehh. THEN... As she wiped her eyes, she turned back around to the audience wearing a sheepish grin confessing that although it looked as if she was crying, the truth of the matter was that something got caught in her throat, and being a performer she decided to use it to her advantage! Then she proceeded to hack and cough her head off as the audience cheered her quick thinking! She resorted to snorting into one of the flaps of her multi-layered skirt apologizing that “this is not pretty, but sometimes you gotta’ do what you gotta’ do.” The audience didn’t mind and couldnt stop laughing. Kleenex anyone? Anyone? Bodily fluids or not... Ya gotta luv shawn's quick wit! hehhhehheh. I'm done now. :) ~jean aka bH now playing: Animal Logic - Animal Logic II - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 13:28:29 -0300 From: Rodrigo Gaspar Subject: Re: [s-r] Shawn at Colden Center Wa2suh wrote: > > Saw Shawn at Colden Center at Queens College, NYC tonite. There was no opening > act and the concert was on the short side, maybe an hour and ten minutes. > Someone said behind me, "What do you expect for $18 now-a-days." The audio > was beautifully clear, and my friend, who is not a real Shawn fan commented > that he could make out every word. Her voice sounded soooo good. On many songs > she took the opportunity to play around with the phrasing and the notes we are > used to hearing on her recordings. Last summer I saw her with the band and > enjoyed that, but this was really nice, too. My seat was okay, but I used > binoculars a lot. I don't mind holding them, and you can really get into the > concert. > > People have indicated that they would like to hear some stories. So here are > some stories: > She said that some people thought "Get Out of This House" was about Newt > Gingrich. > > She repeated some of the discussion with Rosie O'Donnell's show concerning > baby names. Said her sister gave her a book of baby names.(She related that > the name Marie goes with everything and that will probably be the baby's > middle name). Shawn kind of likes Swanhilde for a first name.(JOKE!) The > other night, when told this, a woman in the audience gasped, "No!" Shawn > asked her what her name was and she replied, "Suzuki." Shawn told her she got > a bad deal there. > > She talked about Wichita Skyline quite a bit. In addition to discussing the > background for the song, which has been discussed here before, she said you > really need to play it backwards at twice the speed while watching the Wizard > of Oz......(ala Pink Floyd). > After singing the song, she asked if any people in the audience were from the > midwest and wondered whether people from the midwest were maladjusted. > > On her last tour after watching a documentary on the Donner Party (Starvation > of the Donner Party crossing the Sierra Nevadas in the California goldrush > days) the band referred to backstage food as "The Donner Party Platter." > > In Shotgun Down the Avalance, she said she had to get her "Slingblade" > imitation out of the way so the audience could enjoy the song. "I'm riding > shotgun down the avalance," "mmmmmmmmmmmmm" (You had to be there to enjoy > the reference). > > The set list included 7 songs from AFSR and 6 other songs: > 1.Someday > 2.Get Out of This House > 3.Trouble > 4.You and the Mona Lisa (She told the Lyle Lovett story re: writing songs > about your kids) > 5. Another Long One > 6. Wichita Skyline > 7. I Want It Back > 8. Steady On > 9. Sunny Came Home > 10. Nothing On Me > > Encores > 1. Polaroids > 2. Shotgun Down the Avalanche > 3. If These Walls Could Speak (I've never heard this one. Anyone know anything > about it?) > > Merchandise on Sale: > AFSR Shirts---$20 > AFSR CD's -----15 > Live '88 Tape------5 > > Larry's vote for Best Song of the Night goes to Shotgun Down the Avalance. > She said that she wasn't going to sing it but the audience demanded it. I > hope you all get a chance to see her live. I'll be rotating her CD's while I > do my taxes this weekend. > > Larry > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub > scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. > tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not > directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I don't know if I'm telling you the obvious, but "If These Walks Could Speak" is a song that marks Amy Grant's transition from Gospel to Pop. It was the third single of her 1989 CD "Lead Me On" and it seems that Shwan somehows appreciate Amy Grant (like me. :)) On another topic: how many Shawn videos are available ? Is there any catalog video tape about her ? It's so frustrating to never have seen a video from her... Rodrigo - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 11:18:27 EST From: SteadyOnDC Subject: [s-r] If These Walls Could Speak <<3. If These Walls Could Speak (I've never heard this one. Anyone know anything about it?)>> This is one of my favorite songs. I remember the first time hearing Shawn sing it and getting choked up. She really has a killer version of it and you can find it on Shawn's "Cover Girl" cd. (It's a Jimmy Webb song) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 15:08:26 EST From: ASILCG Subject: Re: [s-r] Shawn at Colden Center If These Walls Could Speak is off the Cover Girl CD, I am pretty sure! Only a few days til I see here at the 9:30 club! Can't wait! Lisa - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 15:38:08 -0800 From: Susan Krauss Subject: [s-r] Re: small-repairs-digest V2 #78 At 03:30 AM 3/21/98 -0500, Wa2suh wrote: >Saw Shawn at Colden Center at Queens College, NYC tonite. There was no opening >act and the concert was on the short side, maybe an hour and ten minutes. >Someone said behind me, "What do you expect for $18 now-a-days." $18??? Wow. The Warfield tickets were $27.50. That show's 4/17. susan - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 19:31:59 -0800 From: Jim DeFord Subject: [s-r] VH1-Sunday Night Sunday at Midnight ET and PT -- From the VH1 website: Sunday 3/22 Hard Rock Live Hard Rock Live is TV's only weekly live music series. It features some of today's hottest artists performing live in an intimate setting. backstage with Mary Chapin Carpenter song 1 "Passionate Kisses" song 2 "The Better To Dream Of You" song 3 " I Feel Lucky" song 4 "Sudden Gift Of Fate" Backstage with Shawn Colvin song 5 "Sunny Came Home" song 6 "Get out of this house" song 7 "You and The Mona Lisa" song 8 "Diamond in The Rough" Backstage with Shawn and Mary song 9 "Four Seasons in one day" - -Jim - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 00:50:04 EST From: GL91297 Subject: [s-r] Shawn show reviews(long) Shawn show set list(s) March 13th, 14th, 15th, and 19th, 1998 Someday Get Out Of This House(Newt Gingrich reference) Trouble You and the Mona Lisa(niece Lyle Lovett story) Another Long One Tenderness on the block-Friday only Heart of Saturday Night-Saturday only I don't want to live on the moon(1st verse Thurday 3/19 only) Witchita Skyline( Wizard of Oz referance) I Want It Back Steady On Sunny Came Home Nothin' On Me Encore:Friday Polaroids Shotgun(with Slingblade version) Killing the Blues Encore:Saturday Polaroids Don't You Think I Feel It Too? Round of Blues Encore Sunday Polaroids New thing now(she forgot the last verse and needed the crowd's help) Diamond in the rough Encore Thursday 3-19-98 Polaroids-audience sang 1st verse Ricochet in Time This must be the place Well...after a long Shawn fest, I finally found the time to write about the shows. She is very chatty and expect a lot of discussion on this tour, especially about the pregancy and baby names. She said having a baby is a big guest question, "Who is coming to visit? We don't know. How long are they going to stay? Forever." She changes her encores up but the main set list stays about the same. Hopefully it'll change as the tour continues. She was in a very happy mood all 4 nights but the Troy, Sugar Loaf & NYC shows she really shined on her guitar playing and belted on the songs. I had thought I had heard all I could on "Steady On" and "Diamond" but on Saturday & Sunday she mixed up the chorus and really extended the songs into a jam, especially at the end of the songs. She cracks her voice on purpose on Get out of this house during the verse "Go jump in the lake, go jump out the door" which is wonderful to hear. Mona Lisa and Sunny are quite different than when she played with the band and trio and she belts out on the vocal on Nothin on me and I want it back. Friday night at the New London show Shawn chatted about Jodi Foster making it on the cover of People mag and was wondering how the baby was conceived either artificial or natural methods. She preferred the natural or "turkey baster" method as she called it. She said she felt a little spacy at times in her story telling, something she blamed on her pregnancy. She said if anything went wrong, it was all her pregnancy's fault. She's enjoying having a built-in excuse and she's learned a ton from her sister. She was getting used to Anne Eggie's guitar since she had broken hers a few nights before. She loved Anne's so much because Anne made it herself, but Anne said she will be making Shawn one. I almost didn't think I was gonna make it to the Troy show up near Albany New York. I had left around 9:30 that morning and the snow started coming down harder and harder the more north I got on the highway. The roads were quite slippery and the 4X4 vehicles were not making the drive any easier by passing me in my Civic at 1000 miles an hour. Getting off the road to rest I was melt with 6-8 inches of snow on the secondary roads which did not please me. I did wait until the roads were plowed an hour later in order to complete the journey. On Saturday Shawn commented a ton on the Grammies. A guy yelled something out from the audience and Shawn asked him if he's got some Wu-Tang running through him. This led into an ODB(Old Dirty Bastard) story. She has no bad feelings towards toward ODB. She didn't think he looked all too bright talking about his outfit, but the spirit grabbed him. She 1st thought she was in a horrible nightmare, where she really wasn't the winner. John Leventhal thought ODB was praising Shawn and her song because neither of them could hear him from where they were onstage. She said two days later, she and her husband went home, when they arrived, he went in the house and Shawn never expected her husband shout out "Honey, you've got a fax from Ol' Dirty Bastard". She headed in to get the fax. It was handwritten and said something to the effect of "Dear Miss Colvin, I'm sorry to intrude on your moment.. blah blah blah....". Shawn has deemed this a keeper by the way it was signed. She get to the bottom and it says "With Deepest Regret, Ol' Dirty Bastard." On Dylan she commented on the 2 times she had met him, and had been apprevhensive about it since she was told he's quite a prankster. The 1st time in in 1990 when he was sitting between Diana Ross and Cyndi Lauper. (which is just great to imagine) he got up to greet her and as she raised her arm towards him he leaned and instead of kissing her hand he wiped his nose or mouth on it(I couldn't tell which she said.) The second time last month as they got their pix taken together he commented "I've never seen so many famous people in my life" which the crowd cracked up on. On Sunday she was having trouble going to sleep the night before, because there were so many good movies on cable at her hotel. She ate pizza to the Exorcist and was tempted to stay up for the sequel but sleep was calling. On Sunday she didn't want to leave the hotel because they had On Golden Pond, and The Verdict on back to back. She said after the Grammy's it was amazing to hear from some people she never thought she would have again, who said in 1989 or 1990 that she would have been on the forgotten list or have had something tragic would have happened to her.(heaven forbid) She didn't want to stop talking before Nothin on Me and I was in high heaven. Whew. After standing in line for 2 and 1/2 hours for the general admission show to see her Thursday, she sang 1 verse of the duet she did with Ernie "I don't want to live on the moon". She did it to please some idiot who kept screaming Elmopalooza and Shawn sang it if she would shut up afterwards, we all cheered at that. She joked Ernie was professional, humorous. Someone yelled out "was Bert jealous?" and Shawn said Bert and Ernie have a "special friendship" Another person yelled that Bert has a bigger head and Shawn responded "that's not what Ernie says." The crowd hooted and hollared during most of the popular songs so it was quite noisy. Fashion- (all outfits are sleeveless of course) The hair is reddish brown,cut like on Cover Girl, longer bangs though. Friday-long brown and white specked dress that was open, underneath she had on a black leather vest, black jeans and non munster-boot. Saturday- Black and white checkered dress with black jeans and boots Sunday-Long Black dress with black boots. Thursday-Black pilled vest, pink skirt, tan boots Looking forward to hearing the rest of your reviews as the tour continues. Peace, Gerry - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. 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