Re: Subject: [Harp-L] jason ricci @ terra 9/15/05 review

["Blake Taylor" <taylorb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey, you may have missed each other, but at least you were there! Jerks
;)

Yeah, I'm also with Elizabeth on being inducted through 11/11/04. I'd
never heard of JRNB before December. I still remember being annoyed at
how long the first track took to download on my lame dialup connection -
I almost aborted the download but got distracted by something and forgot
completely about it. An hour later, there was the song on my computer,
and the rest is, as they say, an almost unhealthy minor obsession for a
grown professional man............... not since East Cost Summer Tour
'91, and the 9/91 Boston Garden shows, dude!...........

ahem.

Mexicali is still the shiznit, despite all of the recent additions
(let's hear it for Garry, Dave, etc,), though I finally heard the third
cd of Sweeney's Station with Mr. Gussow (I'm nasty). The last track
where they jam together.....OH MY FRIKKIN GOD.........

Right. I have a wife and children and papers to grade. Stop distracting
me, people!

 - Blake

>>> Garry Hodgson <garry@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 09/16/05 8:10 PM >>>
EGS1217@xxxxxxx wrote:

> ....Well Gary, I got home just after 4 a.m. and concur wholeheartedly
--  
> Jason's show was phenomenal, as always.  He gives everything he's got
to  his 
> audience -

he even commented at the end, "that's all i got".  it was plenty.

> and then had to leave for Schenectady to do a Radio program this  
> morning at 8a.m.!  I'm exhausted just thinking about it <G>

they couldn't have left much before 4am (i left about 3:30).  can you
even make the drive from nyc to schenectady in 4 hours?

> I got to spend quite a bit of time talking with Jason and our own
Nicolas  
> Fouquet (Froggy) and the other Nicolas (who are now hanging in New
York) and  
> Harp L'er Warren Bee (who was helping Jason sell his CD's).  We had
another  
> "new" Harp-L'er there as well -  Dan.  

bummer!  i'm really sorry i missed meeting everyone.

> Jason wished you a Happy  Birthday and I 
> looked around to see if you were "in the house" -- but Terra  Blues is
so dimly 
> lit and I had no idea what you looked like since I've only  just read
your 
> previous post (I get them in Digest form and it didn't come  through
until now). 

oh, that explains it.  i thought everyone was just avoiding me.

>  Sorry I missed meeting you-- If you were at the table  with the
taping/light 
> set up - 

i was.  sitting with dave barfield (who taped the mexicali and terra
shows
on the LMA ) and with my brother (for the first set).  

> I was just off to your left against the wall  doing my own digital 
> taping of the show (with Jason's permission).  I've no  idea how it'll
come out 
>   - it's a new camera - and I ran out of  either tape or battery 2/3
of the 
> way through - in the middle of Turkish Coffee,  sad to say.  Aargghh! 


dave taped it, and i taped on minidisc as well.  so we're covered.
look for it on the archive shortly.

> So Happy Birthday a day late and I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to
say  
> hello in person. I'm enormously grateful to you -- 

i'm just glad that JR supports the whole taping thing.  it's a great 
thing.  we get all these great tunes, and hopefully he gets greater
exposure and bigger audiences.

> your first posting of the  
> Mexicali download is what introduced me to Jason Ricci in the first
place.

well, then, it worked.  the whole point is to introduce new people
to his music.

> Next time!

december 1.  you can bet i'll be there.

----
Garry Hodgson, Technical Consultant, AT&T Labs

Your love, your anger, your kindness, your hate.
All of it creates the future for you and your children.
What kind of future are you creating today?
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