I. In the newest issue of "Acoustic Guitar" magazine -- March 2002, No. 111, pp. 40 ff., Song Craft (department), "Brand-New Day," by Jeffrey Pepper Rogers -- Lucy Kaplansky is quoted as follows:
"I've never come from a traditional folk orientation," says Kaplansky in a phone conversation form her home in New York City. "I was mostly influenced by pop and singer-songwriters. Joni Mitchell was probably the most important influence of my life, and I loved James Taylor and Jackson Browne -- this was in the '70s." The paragraph continues with mentions of the Eagles, Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle and Buddy and Julie Miller. II. RR wrote (in part): >The symbols of Scorpio have a hierarchy, starting with the scorpion, >or serpent, at the first level. The Scorpio ascending to higher >of > >consciousness is symbolized by the soaring eagle. The highest level >of >Scorpio is the phoenix, the mythical bird which flew so high that >it was >consumed by the fire of the Sun and then arose again from its >own ashes. >This is symbolic of the Scorpio need to regenerate itself >through >suffering (and often with what appears to be self-destructive behavior). >Scorpio needs to experience life in all its facets with great depth and >intensity. No other form of experience will do!> I don't put much stock in astrology, but like to read a little about it once in awhile. I, too, am a Scorpio. Elsewhere, I have read about symbols of Scorpio being: Lower, Scorpion; middle, Snake; upper, Eagle; but the schema above says, lower, Scorpion, Serpent (snake) interchangably; middle, Eagle; upper, Phoenix. Between the two, there are four animal symbols. Good to know should I ever want to incorporate them into any kind of artwork. III. Somebody (in preparing the reply, I have already deleted the author's name -- not my intention) -- wrote (in part): >Subject: Re: the wicked, evil, muddy sounding VG-8. > >Hi Mikes. > >I cannot thank you enough for the patches you did for me. (Got more?) >- -A very good 8 should be standard gear for a Joni player. It is >sooooooo, sooooooo cool. You can get a very clean sound out of it, for them >that long for it. There are many guitar sounds programed into the evil >bugger. -I happen to love the chorus effect of Joni's TTT settings. >It's the "sameness" of the sound, and the fact that many of the open >tunings are very similar to each other, that kind of 'dulls' the >recording, not a muddiness. Least not to my ears. I think TTT perhaps >sets a precursor for Joni's BSN. She obviously loves a 'stacked' sound. >The more layered the better. I'm chorus with Joni fever. Perhaps the author is aware the VG-88 has supplanted the VG-8 in Roland's product line-up. Bruce Anthony, the source of three tracks on Covers and Contributions vol. 24, has one, but didn't have it when he recorded those tracks. How do your remarks apply to VG-88? IV. Deb Messling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on >Subject: Sweet unexpected Joni moment > >I book musical acts for my library, and tonight I had the pleasure of >listening to Mad Agnes, a wonderful folk trio consisting of Margo >Hennebach, Adrienne Jones and Mark Saunders (East Coasters, if you ever get >a chance to catch them, DO[)]! The music was just unutterably lovely, and >the crowd was great, and these were musicians that my husband and I >followed around when we were first dating, so the whole evening was sweet >and nostalgic. So, I bought one of Margo's solo CDs, and it's unutterably >lovely, and I get to track 12, which according to the label is the end, but >then there's a track full of silence and then track 14 is an a cappella >version of "Song to a Seagull." Very nice, too. Bob, do you have this >one? > I have heard Margo Hennebach with Mark Saunders (but not Adrienne Jones, and, hence, not Mad Agnes as such) three times, each time at a Delaware Friends of Folk Fall Fling (renamed Delmarva Folk Festival starting in 2000) here in central Delaware. I agree with Deb's assessment, as applied to the duo. I bought a copy, on cassette, of the same album Deb got on CD -- I did not have a CD player at the time -- the cassette version lacks the hidden track, but is otherwise the same. I'd love to have a copy of that track to, in a sense, "complete" my album, so, I hope it will show up on a future Covers and Contributions volume. Or, if it's already on one, I hope that Bob Muller will let us know. Thanks. Tim Spong Dover, Del., U.S.A. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
