Dear David...
I'm enjoying the live disc-- hearing these old favorites live is like having you call up on the phone-- so personal and up-close.
I had to smile since for the first time i could make out the background "mumblings" in "All Alone in the Big City." And i have no idea why, but not until hearing this version of "Hey Stranger" did i actually start to fathom a picture of "three hundred thousand men... piled up like driftwood...". the image just never hit so hard before.
OK, a few questions (come on, you know you love to answer them...)
I am trying to visualize your stage show as i listen to this album. Having never had the honor of being in the same enclosed space as you, i have to ask-- do you prefer to stand at the microphone most of the time? Take it out of the stand and sort of pace around? Or get sort of hyper and 'carried away' with the music? Do you tend to gesture a lot and "grimace musically?" (yes, i stole that one from Bloom County.) Or does it depend mostly on your mood that day and the size of the stage/enthusiasm of the crowd?
PLEASE don't take this as an insult, if anything it should make you laugh, but i must ask-- does your throat hurt after you've been singing a few songs? This question is based solely on the observation that MY throat takes a real beating when i try to sing YOUR songs in YOUR style. The other day i almost blew a serious fuse in my vocal chords by screaming along with "Daydreamer" in my car on the way home from work: "she CRIIIIIIIIIIIIED all the way to SAN anTONIO... and she CRIIIIIIIIIED all the DAMN WAY BACK!"
geez did i rip myself up but it was worth it. {how unladylike-- but who cares.} this also happens to me trying to hit the high notes in "swallowed by the cracks" and "good times," also the G-N-S-H-Octopus Blues ("we got NOTHIN'!!!") but those songs just aren't the same if you don't get a little crazed with the way you sing them.
all part of your unique appeal.
honey and tea,
melanie
the live disc sheds light...
T
tamajinn
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Dear David...
I'm enjoying the live disc-- hearing these old favorites live is like having you call up on the phone-- so personal and up-close.
I had to smile since for the first time i could make out the background "mumblings" in "All Alone in the Big City." And i have no idea why, but not until hearing this version of "Hey Stranger" did i actually start to fathom a picture of "three hundred thousand men... piled up like driftwood...". the image just never hit so hard before.
OK, a few questions (come on, you know you love to answer them...)
I am trying to visualize your stage show as i listen to this album. Having never had the honor of being in the same enclosed space as you, i have to ask-- do you prefer to stand at the microphone most of the time? Take it out of the stand and sort of pace around? Or get sort of hyper and 'carried away' with the music? Do you tend to gesture a lot and "grimace musically?" (yes, i stole that one from Bloom County.) Or does it depend mostly on your mood that day and the size of the stage/enthusiasm of the crowd?
PLEASE don't take this as an insult, if anything it should make you laugh, but i must ask-- does your throat hurt after you've been singing a few songs? This question is based solely on the observation that MY throat takes a real beating when i try to sing YOUR songs in YOUR style. The other day i almost blew a serious fuse in my vocal chords by screaming along with "Daydreamer" in my car on the way home from work: "she CRIIIIIIIIIIIIED all the way to SAN anTONIO... and she CRIIIIIIIIIED all the DAMN WAY BACK!"
geez did i rip myself up but it was worth it. {how unladylike-- but who cares.} this also happens to me trying to hit the high notes in "swallowed by the cracks" and "good times," also the G-N-S-H-Octopus Blues ("we got NOTHIN'!!!") but those songs just aren't the same if you don't get a little crazed with the way you sing them.
all part of your unique appeal.
honey and tea,
melanie
I'm enjoying the live disc-- hearing these old favorites live is like having you call up on the phone-- so personal and up-close.
I had to smile since for the first time i could make out the background "mumblings" in "All Alone in the Big City." And i have no idea why, but not until hearing this version of "Hey Stranger" did i actually start to fathom a picture of "three hundred thousand men... piled up like driftwood...". the image just never hit so hard before.
OK, a few questions (come on, you know you love to answer them...)
I am trying to visualize your stage show as i listen to this album. Having never had the honor of being in the same enclosed space as you, i have to ask-- do you prefer to stand at the microphone most of the time? Take it out of the stand and sort of pace around? Or get sort of hyper and 'carried away' with the music? Do you tend to gesture a lot and "grimace musically?" (yes, i stole that one from Bloom County.) Or does it depend mostly on your mood that day and the size of the stage/enthusiasm of the crowd?
PLEASE don't take this as an insult, if anything it should make you laugh, but i must ask-- does your throat hurt after you've been singing a few songs? This question is based solely on the observation that MY throat takes a real beating when i try to sing YOUR songs in YOUR style. The other day i almost blew a serious fuse in my vocal chords by screaming along with "Daydreamer" in my car on the way home from work: "she CRIIIIIIIIIIIIED all the way to SAN anTONIO... and she CRIIIIIIIIIED all the DAMN WAY BACK!"
geez did i rip myself up but it was worth it. {how unladylike-- but who cares.} this also happens to me trying to hit the high notes in "swallowed by the cracks" and "good times," also the G-N-S-H-Octopus Blues ("we got NOTHIN'!!!") but those songs just aren't the same if you don't get a little crazed with the way you sing them.
all part of your unique appeal.
honey and tea,
melanie
