AW: Santa Monica Beach Free Concert / Kathy Smith

["Alice" <alice>]

Thank you once again Paul! Here I sit on the self pissy-pot as you call it,
listening to Supertramp Even in the Quietest Moments, which I haven't heard
for years, and just when I was thinking "ok, I'm weird, I have to live with
that and trust that my destiny just didn't intend for me to fit in, but
there are people like me" I hear "Guess I'll always have to be, living in a
fantasy... from now on". So I just finished writing my heart out and then
decided to read what the Babelistas have to say on this dreary gray day,
with thunder rolling in the distance... and I feel so much better! You are
so right about life being too short. But when you start to make major
changes, it can be so scary und unfamiliar! I just published my first book
and now that it's out am plagued by doubt, enveloped in the misty confusion
of a changing life that I have no clue about, but there is no turning back.
(No, it's not just the book that is causing this.) I also just finished
recording my first CD and am wondering if I not just crazy to do it, but I
don't really have any other choice.

Funny, back when I was 16, Patti's music kept me going and kept me alive.
Now, almost 30 years later, in a slight relapse as to doubts regarding my
sanity, etc. it's an extension of her that gives me strength. Isn't the
power of music just incredible? Thank you, everyone. Sorry if this is a bit
dramatic, sentimental, etc., but I'm having one hell of a day today.

Oh, just so this isn't totally non-PC, I saw Patti and the boys in Munich
and Zurich, and they were fantastic. I was so impressed at her voice and
clarinet playing, and so inspired to think that there is such truth to the
saying: She's not just getting older, she's getting better!!

Best regards,
Alice



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[mailto:owner-babel-list] Im Auftrag von Paul Perner
Gesendet: Sonntag, 19. August 2007 14:13
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Betreff: Santa Monica Beach Free Concert / Kathy Smith

Damn! Patti for free on a warm summer night right on
the beach at Santa Monica. And I missed it. I first 
kissed the woman I would marry on that beach near
the Ferris wheel. We were a typical match: me: half
Hispanic former strung-out street punk - she: beautiful
rich blonde (and bi)  with a palace in the hills. We divorced 
and Saturday I just walked around feeling sorry for my self.
I had no excuse not to go and join the fun and frolic.

Here's one for those found love and/or connection on
some level Saturday. Go for it - full throttle with 
kindness and communication - start a band or write
a poem. Life is too short.

When I was a little pre-drinking age sprout, I used to
go to the free summer Venice Beach concerts in the
early 1970s AD (yes, I'm a carbon dated museum 
piece). A person had the freedom to be a lot freakier
back then in public it seems (like an open-air version
of the expression of the punk clubs of '77, but before
the look and sound of punk). You could just walk up
to a stranger by the water and strike up a spiritual -
philosophical conversation - or just dance without
people thinking you're some homeless psycho.

I saw another singer named Smith there - The Kathy
Smith Band. The sun was setting in the ocean and the
performance was magical. She had that Laurel Canyon,
Joni Mitchell folk rock sound. She had two albums. The
first had a dreamy, apocalyptic song called "The End
of the World." It had a line, "It's the end of the world,
with so many things left unspoken..." (something like
that. Her second album is outrageously rare, but I've
been told it was a psychedelic gem with sitar backing.
I still have her first on vinyl. None of her work made
it into the CD re-release era. I'll buy or trade Patti stuff  
for any Kathy Smith items.

I missed Patti last night just because I needed to be on
the self pissy-pot (I think I walked pointlessly around
the block ten times). So to pay for my sins I'll scoop
out from my hippy child memory a bit of Kathy Smith
style Summer of Love and send it down Babel-list Way.

With blood on the streets of Baghdad and the un-thinkable
possibility of another Republican president.... with 
polar bears stranded on melting ice burgs... with the 
class of CBGBs attending one funeral after another....
Let's not leave anything unspoken. Let's rock and roll.

Paul


> [Original Message]
> From: Li Lightfoot <li_lightfoot>
> Hey Everyone:
>    
>   I saw Patti and the boys in San Francisco and Santa Cruz... I think
these were the best shows in years and years - and I've seen many. There's
something to be said for touring. It's a lot of work but it can pay off.
They were in Europe before the Left Coast shows and this is the first time
they've done that. Usually we just get a short shot at a mini-tour where,
no doubt, Patti is great, but this was astounding!
>    
>   Jackson's a complete chip off the old block(s) and a doll, too! Great
guitar work, if a little bit timid, but who wouldn't be in that situation.
>    
>   Thanks to everyone who posted.
>    
>   Peace and Love from Summer of Love central.
>    
>   LL
>
> "Gart, Mitchell" <Mitchell.Gart> wrote:
>   This sounds like an incredible tour. Wish she had come to Boston. Maybe
this
> fall. Thanks everybody for all the reports.
>
> - Mitch
>
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>
> From: owner-babel-list on behalf of CBM
> Sent: Sat 8/18/2007 4:34 PM
> To: babel-list
> Subject: Setlist from Santa Monica Beach Free Concert August 16 2007
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> Setlist from Santa Monica Beach Free Concert August 16 2007