From: owner-small-repairs-digest@smoe.org (small-repairs-digest) To: small-repairs-digest@smoe.org Subject: small-repairs-digest V3 #228 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 Friday, December 17 1999 Volume 03 : Number 228 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [s-r] [VLSC]: very little shawn content/ november project/ lady jane grey [BigHAIR844@aol.c] Re: [s-r] [VLSC]: very little shawn content/ november project/ lady jane grey [kmcleod@softh] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 12:27:08 EST From: BigHAIR844@aol.com Subject: [s-r] [VLSC]: very little shawn content/ november project/ lady jane grey Happy Holidays Small Repairers! Your M.I.A. List Hostess Here... I trust we had no serious turkey overdoses... and everyone is now preparing for the shopping madness that most certainly accompanies the preparation for the upcoming holiday. I have vowed not to visit any Wal-Mart or Target or Shopping Mall on the weekends from now until after the holidays... It's all ONLINE shopping for me baby. Sorry i have been away... seems like work is swallowing me whole and boo hoo, my request to cut back to part time was recently denied... rats. Ah well... i guess i will just keep at it so as to save my pennies for a rainy day... or for a new shawn CD perhaps?? Sadly, there is no new significant shawn material for purchase that i am aware of... but if you don't have her version of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," that is certainly a must for the holiday. It can be found on her holiday CD, i believe, and on a compilation CD called "A Very Different Christmas." There is a newer Sony Compilation CD that has a shawn track on it; the CD also features Ricky Martin, Babyface, Harry Connick, Jr., Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan, Chapin, et. al. It is sort of cheesy... but a tad of fun at the same time...(Dare i say it? Do i enjoy that Ricky Martin song just a teeny weeny bit?? nah... it couldn't be true...) Shawn's track is written by shawn/doug petty/dan petty and michelle lewis. It's produced by doug who also plays keyboards (you may remember doug as the impetus behind shawn's holiday CD and keyboardist on the small repairs tour). Shawn Pelton plays drums, jack daley on bass, and dan petty on guitars. i must confess that the song ,called "I Don't Need Anything For Christmas," sounds an awful lot like Sunny Came Home. Oh well... i still like it. I don't have any news to report on shawn's present activities, but i do know she is hard at work on the new CD, title unknown, scheduled verrrry tentatively for a summer release. She is, of course, collaborating with our familiar friend, john levanthal... Should continue in the musical brilliance we are used to. AGF says that there isn't much news right now, but they hope to have more news for us after the holidays. For now, attribute shawn's silence to her being hard at work on her next work of art. Those of you in the austin area may be able to catch her on new year's eve on Congress Avenue for a free show downtown, along with lyle lovett and others. I hope to attend, but, alas, must work till 8pm on new year's eve, and 9am on New Year's Day... (am i secretly hoping that computers will indeed crash at the coming of the new year? would kind of be like a snow day from school, ya know? Ask me publicly and i WILL deny it.) So that is the scarce shawn info i have to report... sorry there isn't more. Meanwhile, may i suggest some CDs i have recently acquired...Kim Richey's release, Glimmer, has a catchy single out right now, called "Come Around." I liked it because it sounded like Sunny... and when i looked at the liner notes, i figured out why... Shawn pelton on drums, zev katz on bass (often sits in on shawns gigs when she plays in NYC), and doug petty on keyboards. For you Sting enthusiasts, Dominic Miller lends guitar/mandolin/programming support, and Hugh Padgham produces. I like this CD - wasn't mind-shattering or anything, but it has that "homeless" sound that i enjoy... meaning, it ain't country, or rock, or folk -- i don't know what the hell to call it, except good. :) Kim's voice is soothing, so i like to listen to it when i am just chillin' round the house. give it a try. Lady Jane Grey is next on my list of live music to see... playing soon at a coffeehouse near you, that is, if you live near san antonio... hehehh... They don't have their CD out yet, but they've been in the studio and it's ever so close. I am hoping to see them this weekend at the Espuma Coffeehouse... it's from 9:00-11:00pm and i know it will be a fantastic show. If you didn't know, Lady Jane Grey is fronted by our very own Sarah Martin, aka Bandera199, and husband David, and good things are happening to these two, deservedly so. You can check them out on their website at http://gregcarnesprod.com/. Rest assured, you will hear more from me when their CD is released... so stay tuned. (Can't wait to see ya, sarah and dave!) :) And now for those October Project fans out there... and i know you are there!! Julie Flanders and Emil Adler of the original OP have begat November Project! I want to be very up front about their new sound... if you buy this CD hoping for a continuation of the overall OP sound, you aren't really going to get it. BUT what you do get is the same wonderfully profound lyrics and melodies that we know and love so well from julie and emil. Things have changed, however... they are not better, nor are they worse... they are different, and they are good. The new lead singer is maryanne marino, young and fresh; her voice is strong and a tad more "universal" than mary fahl's... by that i mean... most people upon first listen of OP would either love or hate mary's voice just because it was so unique. I found that people who thought mary's voice was a little strange, would grow to love it eventually and finally admitting that it was perfect for the songs she was singing. This only works when you force, er... i mean... strongly suggest that someone to listen to it over and over... hehheh... as i tend to do. So with one listen on a Top 40 station, OP didn't get much of a chance. With maryanne, i would say that it is much more radio friendly, and hopefully "pop" enough to earn them some radio airplay down the road. That's not to say that November Project is more "pop" necessarily, but, i think that it has more of a chance to get onto radio playlists than OP might have because of mary's vocals. It fits more into that "formula" that we either love or hate. Universal. That's the word i like. The rhythms are a little more "rock" like... (i realize that really makes no sense)... but you still have emil's incredible keyboarding to remind you: "oh yeah... November Project... as in October Project." I do miss the intricate harmonies that are absent on this disc, but i'm telling you, it is still a Turn-It-Up-At-Full-Volume-And-Sing-As-You-Drive-Over-The-Legal-Speed-Limit kind of CD!!! Give it a chance, OP fans... I think you will like it!!! November Project's manager asked me to let you know about their website at http://novemberproject.com. They are playing gigs in the Philly/Washington DC area right now... i would milk a small farm animal to see them live. Go see them and be sure to get the 5-track CD, A Thousand Days, for purchase online. They make lovely holiday gifts. If you need more information on the group, contact November Project List Host, Alan at: alan@novemberproject.com. He's doing great things with that List. Check it out won't you? wow... i have babbled, yes? I shall go now... certain that you all are now convinced that i have lost my mind, and could perhaps be requiring the drugs i dispense as a pharmacist to other people. Hehheh. Worry not, it's just a reaction to the cold here in texas... it's only temporary. ;) Happy Holidays, everyone!! ~jean aka bH Now Playing at maximum volume in a 5-CD shuffle: Loreena Mckennit - Parallel Dreams Clannad - Banba A Thousand Days - November Project Celtic Odyssey Sting - Soul Cages - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:08:46 +1100 From: kmcleod@softhome.net Subject: Re: [s-r] [VLSC]: very little shawn content/ november project/ lady jane grey > Julie Flanders and Emil Adler of the original OP have begat November > Project! Ahhhhh... finally, that clears that up. I saw in an email from Rebecca Martin's announcement list months ago that for one of her gigs in NYC she was being supported by November Project. Given that if I was going to reincarnate October Project thats what I'd be calling it, I wondered... but digging around for info on the net came up with nothing - - spose I could've just emailed Rebecca and asked her, but - to quote Homer Simpson - lord help me, I'm just not that bright. I'm pleased to know now that thats exactly who November Project is.... good for them. Just to link this off-topicness in some very miniscule way back to Shawn for all the purists out there - November Project were supporting Rebecca Martin, who as many of us know has sung backup for Shawn, and also used to be in Once Blue who released one wonderful album, produced by Steve Addabbo who of course worked with Shawn in the Steady On days. There you go, done. And in only two degrees of separation (or is it only one? that always confuses me... do you go by the number of people in between, or the number of lines drawn between the people in between... and if Kevin Bacon's not involved does it still count? and does anyone really care? did i mention i'm just not that bright?) For those of the 99.99% of us who cant make it to Shawn's free gig on NYE in Austin and will be sitting at home watching NYE unravel around the world on TV and waiting to see if anything blows up thats not sposed to - if you see my hometown Sydney, as you're bound to, since we're going totally overboard just to make sure everyone sees us - be sure and keep your eyes peeled for a small but rowdy group of small-repairers on the harbour foreshores to the right of the opera house (or as you may sadly know it, "that pointy building").... we'll try and remember to wave... right team? HA! Sure we will! Our group will comprise approximately one millionth of the assembled crowd so it wont be too hard to pick us out. And when the power grids of the world collapse in a smoking heap, all you northerners will wish you were basking in the summer warmth with us with a nice cold beer in hand... ahhhhhh. Happy Christmas and Merry New Year everyone :) Kat ;) (hoping to God that recent TV ads are not an indication that the smiley face from hell will reappear on the bridge this NYE, altho I'll probably think its funny as hell at the time if it does....) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ End of small-repairs-digest V3 #228 *********************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs-digest' in the message body. 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