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February 19. Helsinki, old student house. 22:50
There I was, front row, middle. 1.5 meters away from suzanne.
Amazing.
Close to the end of the show Suzanne sang the Gypsy.
I just came to think about how totally bizarre situation that
must be for her. A song she wrote in a completely different time and
place. Performing it here on the other side of the world, and people
will sing along... We strangers know each other now as part of a
whole design...
The band rocks! Yes it does. They just do it only on those moments
they are allowed. Suzanne walks to the side of the stage dancing and
they glow. Four (fat) men and a dancing girl!
The only thing that bothers me right now is that tonight there
will be another magical evening and I don't have a ticket.
Well I suppose that's life -the best part is sold out. And I
allready had my share. Tonight is some others turn to stand there and
feel her presence.
To the rest of Europe, if she is coming to your direction and you
don't have a ticket yet: GO! GO! GO!
Suzanne, it is snowing outside right now. That's good, you'll get to
see the second best this part of the world has to offer, the
best being the midnight sun in the summer. That means you'll have to
come back, for who'd be satisfied with only the second best :)
Johan.
From: velpura@sci.fi (Veli-Matti Pura)
(I hope that this e-mail comes to right place, if it isnŠt could you who
read this remail it to Suzanne Vega.)
To Suzanne Vega !
Thanks for the great concert 20.2.1997 in Helsinki Suzanne.
Your concert was perfect but next time you come to Finland i hope you
find a little better place.'
Perhaps in Tampere hall where you was some 5 years ago.
Your music is so good that it deserves good acoustics and a good stage.
I want to thank you Suzanne, for the music you give us. Every song you made
is like a fantastic painting.
Subj: Concert 20th February in Helsinki
Hi everyone !
I was positively surprised by the concert, the show was relaxed, but by no
means "worn out". Suzanne's stage presence was quite amazing and the
voice... Wow!
As for the band, I really liked the way the drummer played.
There was none of the usual "rock-beat", but he really
played interesting backgrounds. I liked the bassist too, it
seemed like he really enjoyed playing.
Bad points ? Well, the mix wasn't always perfect, the synths sometimes
drowned out Suzanne's voice.
I couldn't help wondering, if they could do the songs on 99.9F without
background tapes. I know, the "metallic edge" wouldn't be there, but I
really would have liked to hear them that way. I guess there are a
lot of people, who don't agree with me on this... Anyway, you can't have
it all, I guess.
Anyway, if you have the possiblity to go to see the concert, do it. It's
really worth it.
I joined this list a day after the concert. Too bad I didn't have a
chance to talk to Suzanne...
- Vesa (The tall blonde guy on sixth row, was anyone else there ?) -
Subj: Helsinki concerts
SUZANNE VEGA, 19.2. & 20.2.97 at Vanha YO-talo, Helsinki
Hi! I'm just back from Helsinki and while everything (well, almost) is fresh
in my mind, I'll type it for all of you to read.
I was lucky to see Suzanne on both nights she played Vanha in the center of
Helsinki. Both shows were sold out. I got there early and got a front row
place in the middle on both nights. The couple of hours went by quickly
because I chatted with other fans. I was so close to the stage I was able
to read Suzanne's setlist! I enjoyed both concerts very much! I haven't seen
her live since 1990 when she played last time in Finland.
She told couple of stories; about her being an Avon Lady (before "Gypsy")
and on the first night she told a story that had happened to her during this
visit. She called it "Helsinki-story". I hope I can remember most of it.
She started it by telling how she was having a massage at the hotel
[actually what she said was went somenthing like this "I woke up this
morning...naked...next to a Finnish man] when the guy said to her: "I have
the first two of your albums". Suzanne replied: "Oh, that's nice". The man
added: "On vinyl. I don't like the sound of CDs". Well, Suzanne didn't want
to start arguing with that. The man asked maybe Suzanne could do something,
talk to her record company maybe, about getting her albums released on
vinyl. Suzanne replied that she didn't think the record company would be too
delighted about the idea. Suzanne then asked if he'd like to come to her
show and the man said: "No thank you, the sound sucks at Vanha". Suzanne
said she draw the conclusion that Finnish men are very opinionated and the
women, too! It was funnier when she told it :-) but you won't hear it again
because she said she'll only tell it that one time.
On the second night she recognized a few familiar faces in the audience when
she came on stage and gave a big smile. Me included :-)! Otherwise it was
mostly different audience. She asked who was there last night and not too
many hands rose. The second night went past very quickly and they did an
extra number that wasn't on the setlist; (If You Were) In My Movie. Suzanne
hadn't sung it for a long time so she had written lyrics on the back of a
menu! Before she left the stage after 99.9F_ she gave three bows and a
smile, me included (again!).
Me and my friend decided to wait for a while outside the venue to exchange a
few words. It has started to snow but luckily it wasn't that cold. We
thought we had missed her because one of the crew members said she had left
10 min ago. Well, after a while he said he was only joking...
After some 40min (01.30 AM) Suzanne came out with her husband. I didn't
first recognize because it was dark and I've never seen her in winter
clothes. We exchanged a few words and she said she still doesn't a have new
computer but asked me to say "hi" to all on the mailing list. So, "hi!" from
Suzanne!
T: Matti
SUZANNE VEGA
Stockings
Encores:
*Suzanne on Finnish-TV:
AJANKOHTAINEN KAKKONEN (current affairs program) 18.2.97, 7min
-interview + liveclip with Suzanne filmed 17.2.97 in Stockholm
YLE'S LATE NIGHT NEWS 19.2.97, 2min
-interview + soundcheck footage
JYRKI, MTV3, 20.2.97, 10min
-interview (filmed at her hotel) + liveclips from 19.2.
She said at the moment she would like to have a house where there is a room
with a door just for her. She needs her privacy. She said she enjoyed her
hotel's sauna where she was able to be in peace. By the way, according to
Jyrki's report all the elevators at her hotel were out of order becuse the
whole place seemed to be undergoing some sort of major repair!
*Merchandise available at the gig:
Tour calender 50FIM/~$10
T-shirt 100FIM/~$20
T: Matti
Hi everybody,
just a few impression about the concert in Hannover yesterday (22.2.) for
those, who weren't able to join the show.
She played a good mixture of "old"/new songs. I cannot recall the whole
songlist, but it seemed to be similar to the Helsinki concert, mentioned
earlier on this list. We had a very good time there in the first row
(except for two always something ugly smoking nerds, who didn't seem to be
too interested: "`YOU are a SV fan?" "`No -- do I look like..."
-- Anyway)
BTW: It was very hard to follow her handclaps in "Room Off the Street",
not only because of the difficult rythm, but also because of the _change_
between two. Nevertheless everybody tried to!
I was very impressed by her live performance -- I hadn't see her live yet
-- especially by "`Birthday", my personal 9OoD favorite. After this she
left -- a strong exit.
But everybody was cheering for encore, so she came back -- Three times!
This time, whe she performed "Tom's Diner", the people seemed to have
learned the lesson (see that mail from Belgium), that singing "da da
dada da da dada" with her is welcome. Only when Suzanne hesitates for the
last two line, the two nerds mentioned above tried to impress by shout
out the text (or did Suzanne _really_ forget her lines? I don't believe so
-- and her look at them told me the same...)
So, to whom it may concern: Go see her! (But...who on this list doesn't try to?)
Thanks Suzanne,
Martin
---
Dipl.phys. Martin Schmidt Martin.schmidt@tu-bs.de
"Martin Schmidt"
What amazed me (besides the encores ;-)) was her version of "`Caramel"' --
The sound was very mixed: Good when she was solo, but with the band her
voice was much to silent. And they had very many basses -- a _good_ disco PA.
But IMHO the concert was too short:
I think 1:50 is a bit short for a concert...
I can't wait for the next one! :-)
Best regards
Martin Schr"oder, MS@Dream.HB.North.DE
Hi all !
I just go back from Hannover 10 min. ago or so where I saw Suzanne last
night I I'd like to tell you a little about the concert.
Anyone who is bored of this kind of stories, please take my apologies.
Well, after arriving in Hannover about three hours after leaving Hamburg,
I went to the CAPITOL where the concert took place.
When I arrived at the Venue at 18.00 (concert started at 20.00 with
Richard Julian as special guest : terrific performance indeed), there
were just three people (me and my sister included) waiting in front of
the doors. I walked over to SV's tourbus to maybe see her or anybody of
the band to chat a little but there were only some sound engineers
standing around there, who told me that she was already inside and doing
the soundcheck.
After "Fat man and dancing girl" where the whole audience was dancing
around along with Suzanne, she told us : "I really appreciate it seeing
all of you dancing around improving your dance steps. It's not easy to
dance to my music anyway, ... I know that, because .... I tried it, you
know."
Benjamin
P.S. If anybody reading this mail, has been there in HANNOVER too ,
please let me know it.
This was sent round by Undertow, the Suzanne Vega newsgroup, and so
I read it also.
Just a little reaction from a guy in Holland, hope you don't mind
>I want to thank you Suzanne, for the music you give us. Every song you made
>(Sorry my bad language !)
>Your Veli-Matti Pura
I am an admirer of Suzanne too. Have just listened to 'world before
Columbus'. Suddenly the words really speak to me of a deeply felt love:
-- those men who lust for land and for riches strange and new / they never
will have you
-- and they never know the gold or the copper in your hair, how could they
weigh the worth of you so rare?
This touches me: that in trying to be rich one can be blind to what really matters.
If Finland is only half as beautiful as I imagine, you must be a very lucky
person living there
greetings,
Jan
Hi everybody,
On 24 Feb 97 at 14:02, Benjamin Kroll wrote:
[...]
> that she was already inside and doing the soundcheck. So me and my sister
???
I had the feeling that the concert was _not_ sold out (at least when they
opened the capitol, some people bought their tickets there). IMHO there
were about 300 people?! Anyway.
> Benjamin
ME TOO ;-))))
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Martin
Martin Schmidt wrote:
Thank heavens smoking isn't allowed at the HdK concert room. It was a
great concert yesterday and although I came fairly late (I couldn't miss
the last episode of Babylon 5 and had two phone calls before I could leave)
I had quite a good place, fourth row on the rim.
Richard Julian was much better than the guests of the 99.9F tour...
He said he went around the city during the day and visited Checkpoint
Charlie and the Zoo.
Greetings,
H. Eckert, 10777 Berlin, Germany, Europe
Hi gang,
Suzanne performed yesterday in the concert hall of the Institute of Arts
(Hochschule der Kuenste). To put it in a nutshell: it was outstanding!!!
I arrived 7.30 pm, bought a tour programme/calendar (very nice, around
$12, 2 more than in Helsinki but I think they prefer "round" prices
[DM20] then 100% correct prices [would be about DM17.50]) and got a seat
in 8th row or so. In Europe, most of venues are not seats (as
Suzanne later said: "We've already got used to halls where people are
standing") but this classical concert hall has them. The advantage of
such a classical hall is that accoustics are quite good (in opposite
to that in those former fabrique halls). The hall was filled up to the
roof, maybe 3,000 people but I don't know exactly.
However, Richard Julian started at 8 pm. It's an one-man-one-guitar-
performance. He plays the guitar mainly as percussive guitar, with
finger positions I had never seen before... Sometimes he remind of
the very early Bruce Springsteen, but only sometimes. His songs are
rather lengthy, and if you can't follow the lyrics it might become
a bit "boring", as someone said who reviewed Brussels. But nevertheless
it was a nice performance.
After 45 minutes of RJ and and a 15-minutes interlude to set up the
stage for Suzanne and her band, they began with "Stockings".
But before I begin speaking about the different songs, some words about
the band. I think they've improved a lot since I saw them back in October.
They are now so common with the songs that they have a lot of room to
improvise. Best example is Mike Visceglia (the bass player) who throws in a additional
riff high up the neck at times. Pete Thomas looks quite cool with his
sunglasses but he treats his drums very well (hey, an 8th note bass drum
on Luka!!). Steve Donnelly looks also very unmoved but pulls out great solos in the
improvised/medley parts of the show. And Mr. Froom... couldn't think of
a better keyboardist. And the best of it is that you can see they enjoy
playing together - they have fun.
And Suzanne? Well, dressed in a light blue jacket she looked just fine.
And her aura... well, incredible, indescribable...
So they started with "Stockings" (btw, it was a standard
Gypsy-in-the-encore-set). It was the only song where the mixing was poor:
her guitar and her voice was too low - or the band was too loud. But after
this song the mixing was just fine.
Umm... actually before they began to play there was some kind of intro
music from a background tape. It had percussions like that in the beginning
of stockings and a keyboard melody. I think I've heard this melody before,
either in a film or in another SV song. I'm not sure. I think I'll tell you
later. Especially because MF played this melody in "Birth-Day" later in the
show 3 times or so.
Well, after "Stockings" she became quite talkative. She told us that
she had got used to not-seated venues. And that the disadvantage of
seated venues were that she would be the only person dancing. Then she'd
be very lonely. So she suggested to dance if we want to even if we hadn't much
room.
Then they did "Rock in this pocket". During it, some people stood up.
After the song a security guy asked them to sit down and Suzanne wanted
to speak with him ("Wait a minute") but he went away - "I think the security
guy is very shy!". She was a bit surprised that we had responded so quickly
to her suggestion to dance. But we should feel free to do whatever we
wanted to... to dance... to read (her words!)
"Caramel". "...and long for yoooouuuu".
"Thin Man" with its blues/jazz intro and ad lib solos by SD.
"Casual Match" with PT drum solo intro&outro! Very powerful! And witty:
Pete ended the drum solo with a descending tom tom cascade (or whatever
you call that) then he held his stick above the cymbal as if he would
hit it - but he wouldn't and smiled instead. Imagine:
bum bum bum bum bum bum (splaashhhhhh??) ;-)
"All people who want to dance to the next song... I wish the best luck
in the world":
"Headshots". Groovy.
"Anyone plays poker here?" No. "It's a kind of gambling game. And this song
is about the gambling and risk of romance".
"Fat Man and Dancing Girl" (+Medley). MF with his wind instrument. Suzanne
dancing on the side of the stage (dancing girl). And all this was
really long. Glad it made the way on my tape...
"Neighbourhood girls". This one didn't :(.
"The queen and ..." / "World before Columbus": wonderful and epic
"Room off the street", "Woman on a tier", "Blood makes noise":
"In Liverpool". Perfect pop.
"Luka". Classic and powerful.
"Birthday". That rocked.
"Tom's Diner". With audience (clapping and singing).
"Men in a war". Great.
"(if you were) in my movie". 'We're still trying this out...'
So you see, it was really outstanding. It made my day, my week. I almost
enjoyed the visit at the dentist today, can you imagine?
So long from Berlin,
Erik Pischel wrote:
I second that.
>So they started with "Stockings" (btw, it was a standard
Except for "Woman on the Tier" where I could hardly hear her singing.
>Umm... actually before they began to play there was some kind of intro
AFAIK it's a very classical sort of introduction theme. My school's jazz
group used it too at one of their concerts...
>"Anyone plays poker here?" No. "It's a kind of gambling game. And this song
Yeah, and some stupid guys shoutin back "Skat" :-| As if poker wasn't
known over here even if it might be much more popular in the US.
>"Fat Man and Dancing Girl" (+Medley). MF with his wind instrument. Suzanne
This wind instrument is really great.
While we're at that, I wondered a lot what sorts of devices Steve Donelly
attached to his guitar at some times. They seemed to produce really
strange sounds from the guitar's strings...
Greetings,
Ripley
H. Eckert, 10777 Berlin, Germany, Europe
Well, so what am I supposed to write here ?
It's been 24 hours since you gave a great performance in Warsaw's Sala
Kongresowa (24.02) and I'm still "thinking of your voice".
I would have lied saying that I know your every song by heart but
your music had been sowed in my mind years ago and was hidden deep
inside...until yesterday.
I don't know if you come to Poland again .I don't know if I ever see
you again. I don't dream you'll ever answer my e-mail -my dreams hardly
ever come true (but whose come true,maybe the saints' dreams.No the
saints don't dream- I forgot that.)
Bye
[Note: The last time SV played in a club setting in New York City was about 1994/95 for a show called "In Their Own Words: A Bunch of Songwriters Sitting Around Singing" at the Bottom Line. The performance of Luka from that night, as well as a very amusing story about the real boy named Luka (who was not abused at all and now uses the song to pick up girls!) can be found on a CD called "In Their Own Words: Volume 2", Razor & Tie RT 2824-2. -- Ed.]
Hi Gang!
We are all here in Prague (as you probably know.) My computer stopped
working when we got to England a month ago (which you probably know as well!)
So I am missing all of last month's mail - I have no idea what you have been
"talking" about.
So far we are all in good health (knock wood.) The worst moment
of the tour so far was in Poland when we found out that the
monitor man's baby had died from SIDS [Sudden Infant Death Syndrome]
back in the U.S. We dropped 'World Before Columbus' from the
set for that reason (temporarily.) He had gone home to be with his family.
I saw Hugo in Stockholm - I had not seen him in a while and I was glad he
came. It was probably the show with the fewest people - Helsinki had the most
and I met some 'Undertowers' in the snow after the gig.
I am sorry I have not been able to read what people have been saying about
the shows!
We picked up a little troll in Norway and I keep him in my pocket to amuse
Ruby - We were calling him "Matchee Fram" which was a mis-spelling of MF's
name in a Polish paper - See you soon.
Affectionately yours,
Suzanne
Hi gang,
I suppose those of you who've been on the Undertow for a while now take
this sort of thing for granted, but I want you to know I was just THRILLED
to see a post from our favorite singer. Let me tell you, I was grinning
from ear to ear when I downloaded her post; I showed it to my kids, and
even my teenage daughter (who is typically blase' about such things) was
impressed. Yeah, I know it's silly -- even I thought so at the time, but I
sure enjoyed it.
What a nice thing to do.
I'm so sorry about the family tragedy she mentioned; a close friend of mine
lost her grown son in an accident last year, and I can't think of anything
more horrible than losing a child. It kinda puts things (even music) in
perspective.
Suzanne, I hope the rest of your tour goes smoothly -- I've got a feeling
that Ruby will be getting a lot of trolls in the future (and were they the
little plastic ones with the colored hair, or the literary kind in European
folklore?). Ya'll have a safe trip and get back to the states soon!
---------------------------------------------------------
This is a nice little story...
Today I passed a record shop here in Helsinki and happened to see a small
poster of the Nine Objects of Desire album cover in the window (the same
picture, with Suzanne and the apple). I went in and asked if they had them
for sale, and they said no but that there were some big (like 1 x 1 m)
posters left over (that they'd had up to advertise when the album came out,
I think), and they gave me one for free!!! Makes me believe there's still
some goodness in the world
The moral of the story: The best things in life are free.
For anyone in Helsinki who's interested, the shop was Fazerin musiikki on
Aleksanterinkatu, and it seemed to me that they had at least a couple more
extra posters in the back room. (Of course, if there's a huge demand, they
might start charging for them ;-)
Sarianna (who likes parentheses)
Suzanne is wonderful no doubt and what a cool band! It was hard to find the
ugliest place in the city but somehow they had managed to do it. Poor Suzanne.
andor
On the first day of spring Suzanne Vega came to my home city.
I've been reading other people's stories of earlier SV shows in various places in Europe.
You guys weren't kidding. I'm in love.
Although the place chosen for this special occasion is probably one of the ugliest sites in this city, not to mention the extremely poor sound quality of the hall, I was absolutely destroyed by the sight of Suzanne. The sound quality WAS poor, but I don't think there was a soul there that night who cared the least bit. It was one of the few perfect concerts I have ever seen and heard in my life.
I have to say, I'm not particularly interested in getting back the CD quality sound of songs I already know by heart, but rather always try to get a feel of the personality of the artist/band that I choose to see. Even if a show is superbly organized, produced and performed, the lack of real human presence on stage can really cause a great disappointment for me. Fortunately, this was far from being the case when Suzanne came on stage. Her personality radiated all around the room to every single person from the first moments and lasted for over two hours, even beyond that, as the show wasn't over by the band leaving the stage.
I can hardly recall the songs she played that night. All I did was stand in one place (approximately 3 meters from her) and look at her face during the whole of the show. Actually, 'show' isn't a good word for this, I'd rather call it a 'revelation'. Suzanne Vega appeared in Budapest to show us her beautiful self and lovely personality that was accompanied by her unique and most valuable talent. I did not dance, I hardly clapped, but looked at her eyes and felt extremely grateful for letting us in into her wonderful character. I felt like instead of listening to her songs performed on stage, I was having a beautiful conversation with a friend I had known for years and will love forever. It was really, really wonderful.
She kept looking at the audience as if looking for someone special, and every time she seemed to have found him/her, she gave that someone in the room a lovely smile, which made you feel like she really knew you and greeted you there. It made everyone feel right at home, as if we were the visitors and she was the beautiful hostess to her party that only we had been invited to.
After the 'show' we waited for her by the tour bus and when she arrived she told the 'guards' it was alright for the people waiting to go and talk to her, so we did. I told her it was a lovely evening and my girlfriend gave her a little troll-doll to give to Ruby (so that's at least two she has now). Suzanne and Mitchell Froom told us Ruby will really love the doll, so anyone can feel free to get her some more (I guess), so she'll have a collection of them to remind her of Europe. It was really nice to meet her personally, even if for a minute, but I think anyone going to see her in concert already has the experience to say that they've met her in person.
If you see a poster in your city with the words 'One Special Evening' with Suzanne Vega, you better believe it.
Love,
Attila
Subj: Four (fat) men and a dancing girl!!!
Date: 97-02-20 02:57:44 EST
From: FINELL@penger.helsinki.fi (Johan Finell)
My gilrfriend, standing next to me, told me later that when
Suzanne walked on stage and gave me/us her first warm smile I blushed.
Talk about an intimate concert. At least for me it was just that,
don't know about the rest of the crowd. I wasn't paying them that
much attention...
To: VegaNet@aol.com
Date: 97-02-21 08:52:39 EST
(Sorry for my bad language !)
Your Veli-Matti Pura
(IŠm a old fan of your music from town call Tammela in Southern Finland)
Date: 97-02-21 06:03:35 EST
From: vesku@whiskey.yok.utu.fi (Vesa Siivola)
Date: 97-02-21 13:37:45 EST
From: tmhesa@uta.fi (Heli)
19.2. & 20.2.97
at Vanha YO-talo, Helsinki
Showtime 22.45 / 00.30 the show ends
Rock In This Pocket
Caramel
Thin Man
Casual Match
Small Blue Thing
Marlene On The Wall
Headshots
No Cheap Thrill
Fat Man
Neighborhood Girls
Gypsy (20.2.) / The Queen And The Soldier (19.2.)
World Before Columbus
Room Off The Street
Woman On The Tier
Blood Makes Noise
In Liverpool
Luka
Birth-day
*******************
Tom's Diner
Men In A War
*******************
(If You Were) In My Movie (only 20.2.)
*******************
Gypsy (19.2.) / The Queen And The Soldier (20.2.)
*******************
99.9F
Subj: Hannover Concert
Date: 97-02-23 14:19:29 EST
From: martin.schmidt@tu-bs.de (Martin Schmidt)
We had to wait a while, because Richard Julien started a bit early, so
there was a 30 minutes break, before shecame. (Anyway -- don't things
get better when you have to wait for them? :-)
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Subj: Re: Hannover Concert
Date: 97-02-23 18:41:17 EST
From: ms@dream.hb.north.de (Martin Schroeder)
>just a few impression about the concert in Hannover yesterday (22.2.) for
>those, who weren't able to join the show.
slower and infinitely more intense than the CD version.
It alone was worth the concert... :-)))))))
- entrance at 19:15
- Richard from 19:45 till 20:15
- Suzanne from 20:55 till 22:00
- encores till 22:45
Martin
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. (Oscar Wilde)
Subj: Suzanne in Hannover
Date: 97-02-24 08:11:34 EST
From: benkroll@metronet.de (Benjamin Kroll)
So me and my sister waited one hour, and then the venue was open, and we
went in.
After half an hour or so the Capitol was full of people (1700 maybe more
maybe less) hanging around waiting for the concert to start.
I was really nervous, standing in the middle left of first row waiting
for the concert to start, because it was the first time ever I was going
to see Suzanne live (also it was the fact I am just 17 and got hooked by
Suzanne and her Music just about half a year before).
It really knocked me out of my shoes, when she went onstage.
She looked so beautiful and she was so nice and friendly, she gave a
warm smile to the whole audience.
The concert was gorgeous, Suzanne, her band (especially Mitchell).
She played about 1000 songs or so ;)(can't remember how many actually
maybe 20 or more) and all of them were great, except that the mixing
was bad sometimes.
She welcomed saying "Hallo Hannover !" and admitted that this was the
extent of her German, except "Zwei Bier bitte!" (two beers please).
So the whole evening was gorgeous and all Suzanne singing, dancing,
telling anecdotes, jokes etc.
Yeah, she was very funny that evening.
And we also had lots of fun singing "Tom's Diner" along with her, where
the audience took the "Dib Dib De Dib -part" from the DNA remix.
It was lots of fun this evening, and I think the whole audience enjoyed
as much as I did.
So that was the impression I got from my first SV concert yesterday.
So long !
Subj: Re: Thanks for the concert in Helsinki 20.2.1997 !
Date: 97-02-24 09:49:38 EST
From: janvolkers@digitaal.nl (jan volkers)
>is like a fantastic painting.
That is a fine way of putting it, i couldn't agree more
It is a very clear message and funny too!
>(I'm a old fun of your music from town call Tammela in Southern Finland)
I think those are beautiful names, it's a bit like you are an Indian guru.
They sound mystic to me
Subj: Re: Suzanne in Hannover
Date: 97-02-25 05:07:48 EST
From: martin.schmidt@tu-bs.de (Martin Schmidt)
> waited one hour, and then the venue was open, and we went in. After half
> an hour or so the Capitol was full of people (1700 maybe more maybe less)
> P.S. If anybody reading this mail, has been there in HANNOVER too ,
> please let me know it.
BTW: I saw some people with backstage passes. Anyone here on the list?
How did you get one? What happened there?
\end{curiosity}
Subj: Re: Hannover Concert
Date: 97-02-24 11:21:04 EST
From: ripley@cs.tu-berlin.de (H. Eckert)
>(except for two always something ugly smoking nerds, who didnŠt seem to be
>too interested: "YOU are a SV fan?" "No -- do I look like..."
>-- Anyway)
Ripley
(intl) ripley@nostromo.in-berlin.de (UUCP on home machine)
Alternative: ripley@cs.tu-berlin.de (POP via university)
Subj: Suzanne in Berlin, Germany
Date: 97-02-24 22:35:42 EST
From: pischel@informatik.hu-berlin.de (Erik Pischel)
"Small Blue Thing". As beautiful as ever... as was "Marlene on the wall"
"No Cheap Thrill".
Before the song she told a variation of the rules-story. "I had a baby girl
two years ago. And now our house is full of rules. No dancing. No kissing.
No touching. No singing. These are rules for me and the little baby girl is
very strict. So I enjoy coming out here tonight to sing and dance...".
those numbers rocked. And MF on accordion on "Room off...".
and finally:
"99.9F" the band already started but Suzanne wanted to tell us that
99.9F degree are 38C degree so had to do it during the intro...
Erik Pischel *** Berlin, Germany *** community service at a hospital
for more info see my room page at http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~pischel
Until it fits naturally into their lives,
people will have no use of the net.
Don Norman
Subj: Re: Suzanne in Berlin, Germany
Date: 97-02-25 10:06:37 EST
From: ripley@cs.tu-berlin.de (H. Eckert)
>Suzanne performed yesterday in the concert hall of the Institute of Arts
>(Hochschule der Kuenste). To put it in a nutshell: it was outstanding!!!
>gypsy-in-the-encore-set). It was the only song where the mixing was poor:
>her guitar and her voice was too low - or the band was too loud. But after
>this song mixing was just fine.
>music from a background tape. It had percussions like that in the beginning
>of stockings and a keyboard melody. I think I've heard this melody before,
>either in a film or in another SV song. I'm not sure. I think I'll tell you
>later. Especially because MF played this melody in "Birth-Day" later in the
>show 3 times or so.
>is about the gambling and risk of romance".
>"No Cheap Thrill".
>dancing on the side of the stage (dancing girl). And all this was
>really long. Glad it made the way on my tape...
(intl) ripley@nostromo.in-berlin.de (UUCP on home machine)
Alternative: ripley@cs.tu-berlin.de (POP via university)
Subj: Suzanne 's show in Poland
Date: 97-02-25 19:55:45 EST
From: menios@polbox.com.pl (menios)
You came, black skirt on ,face hmm..? to descibe your face I would have
to use the words my mind doesn't know so...anyway you were looking
very nice (it sounds trivial doesn't it).
Although I sat quite close to the stage I suppose the hall was too big.
Maybe that's why you were approching the edge of the stage trying to
pierce the darkness with your eyes. I think the audience of fifty to
eighty people would be most suitable.Unfortunately I don't live in
New York so I am not able to catch you singing in some kind of club or
stuff like that (by the way - Do you play in clubs ?- I really don't
know that so I'm just guessing you do).In spite of this great number of
people, I belive that everybody(the man in the first row or somebody
sitting far away with binoculars to observe the stage) were feeling
that you were singing only for them. Anyway that was how I felt.
Your voice was that caused that feeling. Soothing my innerself, mild
and delicate and sometimes sad.
It's a pity that time passes so quickly. One day here, another day
somewhwere else and you forget.
Ending this short note I'd like to wish you and your family all the
best ,health and of course happiness
.
Piotr Kaldun
Skierniewice,Poland
Subj: A Letter From Suzanne
Date: 97-02-26 16:58:08 EST
From: VegaNet@aol.com
Subj: Suzanne's Letter
Date: 97-02-27 08:42:17 EST
From: webbjn@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu (Jim Webb)
But the only soldier now is me
I'm fighting things I cannot see
I think it's called my destiny
That I am changing, changing, changing
-------------------------------------------------------
Jim in Music City
Subj: The little things that make your day
Date: 97-02-28 12:22:41 EST
From: Sarianna.Silvonen@trantex.fi (Sarianna Silvonen)
Subj: show in Budapest/Hungary
Date: 97-03-02 13:53:43 EST
From: pandor@mail.matav.hu (Attila Sandi)
Subj: In Budapest 1/3/97
Date: 97-03-02 14:45:26 EST
From: ahalas@terminus.inext.hu (Halas Attila)
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