Alice Cooper, meet Woody Guthrie
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gurdonarkWe went to Gopal, an Indian vegetarian buffet, for dinner. Wonderful dishes--never felt the lack of a beef entre. I love the way those metal
plates in places which don't use china have different shapes cut out, presumably to make different food shapes work better. I'm immune to such organization.
We met friends at Uncle Calvin's Coffeehouse, the
Friday night folk show in the basement of the Presbyterian Church in Richardson. We were a few moments early, so we stopped in at Northpark Mall. I picked up Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits
and we laughed and sang along to "I'm Eighteen" on our way to soak up folk. When I was 14, at dances in Gurdon, Arkansas, "Love it to Death" and "Killer" were rivalled only by kids doing the frog to "Superfly" or slow dancing to "Pieces of April" when it came to happening young teen music.
I hadn't been to Uncle Calvin's in years; what a great venue. The opening act was Caroline Herring, who's a country/folk singer originally from MS and now from Austin. She did a song based on the life of a slave mistress who was on the master's arm during his life, but consigned to the fields when he became insane. The song was not preachy or tear wringing. In Texas, we tend to just tell the story--we may tell it a bit tall, but tell it we do. It told the story, and that story was all that was needed. I had to pick up Ms. Herring's CD; thank heaven she was good at opening jewel cases to give me an autograph, as I can never get all that plastique title stuff off the top. The "headliner" was Pierce Pettis, a more "new folk" type from Alabama. His first set was light and amusing, and then everyone went to get tea and cookies from the nice folks who volunteered. His second set, though, was really gripping--songs about home and faith that were spiritual in the right way, never preachy, not dogmatic, not "cutesy". A very good evening. We must do more folk evenings.
On the way home, we sang along to School's Out.
I can still do the falsetto on the chorus.
I fantasized during the folk concert that it would be fun to hear my favorite progressive rock
anthems redone as folk songs, to see if anyone would notice. Then I imagined a much more guilty pleasure, bringing Geddie Lee of Rush, of all things, as my "special guest" at my fantasy Uncle Calvin's Coffee House appearance. I could just hear he and I singing "Lakeside Park"...."Lakeside Park, willows in the breeze/Lakeside Park, so many memories.....and everyone would gather/on the 21st of May/sitting in the sun to watch the fireworks display/lighting candles on the beach/singing songs together/though it's just a memory, some memories last forever"....ahhhh, guilty pleasures...silly folk fanstasies, and a ringing falsetto.....
plates in places which don't use china have different shapes cut out, presumably to make different food shapes work better. I'm immune to such organization.
We met friends at Uncle Calvin's Coffeehouse, the
Friday night folk show in the basement of the Presbyterian Church in Richardson. We were a few moments early, so we stopped in at Northpark Mall. I picked up Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits
and we laughed and sang along to "I'm Eighteen" on our way to soak up folk. When I was 14, at dances in Gurdon, Arkansas, "Love it to Death" and "Killer" were rivalled only by kids doing the frog to "Superfly" or slow dancing to "Pieces of April" when it came to happening young teen music.
I hadn't been to Uncle Calvin's in years; what a great venue. The opening act was Caroline Herring, who's a country/folk singer originally from MS and now from Austin. She did a song based on the life of a slave mistress who was on the master's arm during his life, but consigned to the fields when he became insane. The song was not preachy or tear wringing. In Texas, we tend to just tell the story--we may tell it a bit tall, but tell it we do. It told the story, and that story was all that was needed. I had to pick up Ms. Herring's CD; thank heaven she was good at opening jewel cases to give me an autograph, as I can never get all that plastique title stuff off the top. The "headliner" was Pierce Pettis, a more "new folk" type from Alabama. His first set was light and amusing, and then everyone went to get tea and cookies from the nice folks who volunteered. His second set, though, was really gripping--songs about home and faith that were spiritual in the right way, never preachy, not dogmatic, not "cutesy". A very good evening. We must do more folk evenings.
On the way home, we sang along to School's Out.
I can still do the falsetto on the chorus.
I fantasized during the folk concert that it would be fun to hear my favorite progressive rock
anthems redone as folk songs, to see if anyone would notice. Then I imagined a much more guilty pleasure, bringing Geddie Lee of Rush, of all things, as my "special guest" at my fantasy Uncle Calvin's Coffee House appearance. I could just hear he and I singing "Lakeside Park"...."Lakeside Park, willows in the breeze/Lakeside Park, so many memories.....and everyone would gather/on the 21st of May/sitting in the sun to watch the fireworks display/lighting candles on the beach/singing songs together/though it's just a memory, some memories last forever"....ahhhh, guilty pleasures...silly folk fanstasies, and a ringing falsetto.....
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Date: 2002-04-20 09:31 am (UTC)Nowadays everybody has a website (but I only have a weblog)
Her record company is www.bluecormusic.com; they do a lot of good Texana stuff.
Pierce Pettis probably is well enough distributed to be at CD Now or Amazon.
Re: Nowadays everybody has a website (but I only have a weblog)
Date: 2002-04-20 10:14 am (UTC)well of course
Date: 2002-04-20 10:04 am (UTC)metal is my speciality lolol so to speak. alice cooper? lol dude. he is a blast. i was so torn the night vinnie vincent, after recently having split up from kiss, opened for alice cooper. meet vinnie backstage and get the scoop on the breakup or stay and see alice? what to do what to do? and i though dayton's hara arena had to be even cooler than dayton mall. those were the days. freezing outside forever to sweat to death inside. lollol funny what younger people put up with in the name of "good" music. but it was really fun, just fun of thinking about it now.
i've seen rush a few times too. just fantastic i really enjoyed them even though i saw them in funny venues
Re: well of course
Date: 2002-04-20 10:17 am (UTC)may qualify her.
I used to own 2112 and the Rush live album.
I loved the way on "Something for Nothing" when the band tells the audience "I know they always tell you that selfishness is wrong/but it's for me, not you, that I wrote this song", and the audience erupts in applause, as if Mother Theresa had blessed them. they were a lot of fun before they got so poppy.
I always liked the joke that Frank Zappa produced an Alice Cooper early album because he thought they were the worst band in Los Angeles....