RE: Favorite rock n'n roll moment

["michael hanson" <mikechanson>]

..was at Bumbershoot in Seattle in 1995.  Patti was to play in the arena 
Saturday night.  I was there with a group of friends from my work who were 
all at least 10 years younger than me.  It was a hot summer day, and being 
an event spread over the Seattle Center we were forced to pens (beer 
gardens) to have beers.  We were at the beer garden on the west edge of the 
center near the wild card stage.  It was the wild card stage because they 
didn't announce who would be there.  It could be a juggler, comedian, etc.  
I was in the beer garden behind the stage next to chain link fence.  I 
happened to glance up the fence about 30 feet. and saw a woman and a man 
talking to someone to the fence, looked away and thought... she looks 
familar, looked back it was Patti.  She then walked right past me on the 
other side of the fence (about 3 feet). Me being the mature 30 something I 
was at the time, couldn't form words, I stood there making weak noises about 
Patti, Patti.  One of my friends asked what was wrong, and my girl friend 
told them it was Patti Smith. Chad said who's that, Bryan said some singer I 
was in love with.  Just then they announced Patti on the wild card stage to 
do spoken word.  I was ecstatic, my friends left to see the Jimi Hendrix 
guitar competition.  My girl friend and I went to the stage side where we 
were about 20 feet from her, she did some poems and then Tony came out with 
a guitar and she sang a few songs.  It was fantastic.


>From: bibi <fairybiz>
>To: Babel-List <babel-list>
>Subject: Favorite rock n'n roll moment
>Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 14:46:29 -0500
>
>... Was at Carnegie Hall in Pittsburgh a couple of years ago. Carnegie Hall
>had been the venue of my father's band, the River City Brass Band. He was
>the director, the founder, and the conductor. I spent many proud evenings 
>in
>the audience, watching my father conduct the band that he worked so hard
>for, that he loved so dearly. He passed away in December 1994 (although the
>Band lives on).
>Moving forward ten years - December 9, 2004, 10 years and 6 days after my
>dad's passing. Patti's doing a fundraiser for a local Pittsburgh radio
>station at Carnegie Hall in Pittsburgh. She's standing RIGHT WHERE my dad
>used to raise his baton, singing "Mother Rose." I've brought my 10 year old
>daughter and my husband. We watch, transfixed (our upteenth Patti concert,
>Willa's first).... As if that weren't enough, we had tickets to join the
>post-concert reception. There my daughter introduced herself to Patti and
>received a birthday present: a long black shoestring that Patti pulled out
>of her jacket pocket - it's not much, but it's been all over the world with
>me.... What a night.
>
>On 11/19/06 5:00 AM, "babel-digest" <owner-babel-digest>
>wrote:
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> > Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 14:26:53 -0600
> > From: "Becky King" <rlking>
> > Subject: Horses named to Time Magazines Top 100 Albums
> >
> > Listed by decade
> >
> > http://www.time.com/time/2006/100albums/?cnn=yes
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:40:20 -0500
> > From: "Gart, Mitchell" <MGart>
> > Subject: favorite rock n roll moment?
> >
> > I watched a movie last night called After Life.  Here's a review of it:
> > 
>http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19990806/REVIEWS/90
> > 8060301/1023
> > The premise of the movie is that people die, and they are in an 
>intermediate
> > state between heaven and earth.  Each person has to choose one memory 
>from his
> > or her life, and then they will go on to heaven and just take that one 
>memory
> > with them.
> >
> > So I got to thinking about different good memories from my life, and 
>thought
> > about my favorite rock n roll moments.  I think for me #1 would be 
>during
> > Patti's 1995 tour with Bob Dylan.  Patti and Bob had played a few 
>concerts,
> > with Patti opening for Bob each night, but then when they got to Boston, 
>late
> > in Bob's set, Patti came back out on stage and they sang a duet of Bob's 
>song
> > "Dark Eyes".  It was incredibly beautiful and I think if I had to choose 
>one
> > musical moment from my life, that would be it.
> >
> > How about others, what are your favorite musical moments?
> >
> > - - Mitch
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 23:55:04 -0500
> > From: Jonathan Kaye <jk8>
> > Subject: Re: favorite rock n roll moment?
> >
> > my favorite moment took place in 1984. i was going to see r.e.m for the
> > first time at the aragon ballroom in chicago. they opened with the
> > velvet underground's "femme fatale" (which i hate to admit but i wasn't
> > familiar with at the time). it was pretty mellow and an ok, start to a
> > show by the band that would eventually become my favorite. they finished
> > "femme fatale" and immediately segued into "radio free europe" and after
> > the immediate recognition of the song the floor bowed and the place went
> > wild. the feeling of the floor and the entire crowd reacting lives with
> > me still.
> >
> > Gart, Mitchell wrote:
> >
> >> I watched a movie last night called After Life.  Here's a review of it:
> >> 
>http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19990806/REVIEWS/90
> >> 8060301/1023
> >> The premise of the movie is that people die, and they are in an 
>intermediate
> >> state between heaven and earth.  Each person has to choose one memory 
>from
> >> his
> >> or her life, and then they will go on to heaven and just take that one 
>memory
> >> with them.
> >>
> >> So I got to thinking about different good memories from my life, and 
>thought
> >> about my favorite rock n roll moments.  I think for me #1 would be 
>during
> >> Patti's 1995 tour with Bob Dylan.  Patti and Bob had played a few 
>concerts,
> >> with Patti opening for Bob each night, but then when they got to 
>Boston, late
> >> in Bob's set, Patti came back out on stage and they sang a duet of 
>Bob's song
> >> "Dark Eyes".  It was incredibly beautiful and I think if I had to 
>choose one
> >> musical moment from my life, that would be it.
> >>
> >> How about others, what are your favorite musical moments?
> >>
> >> - Mitch
> >
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