Conference napalm::guitar

    
    Had to check and make sure I was in the right conference...
    
    Anyway, just got this in the mail:
    
    
                         Liberty Hill Foundation
                       Upton Sinclair Award Dinner
                          Honoring Bonnie Raitt
    
                         Thursday May 21st, 1992
               International Ballroom, Beverly Hilton Hotel
            9876 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California
    
                  Cocktails 6:30 P.M.  Dinner 7:30 P.M.
                  Business Attire/Wheelchair Accessible
    
                        Founders Award Recipients
                Robin Cannon, Dave Clennon, Sara Martinez
    
                    Upton Sinclair Award Presentation
                              Jackson Browne
    
                             Dinner Co-Chairs
             Jackson Browne	Daryl Hannah	Hale Milgrim
                 Jane Fonda	Don Henley	Joe Smith
             Danny Goldberg  Kris Kristofferson	Oliver Stone
    
                       For Information Please Call
                         Liberty Hill Foundation
                               310.458.1450
    
    The reservation form allows you to reserve a table (seating up to 10
    people) for $2000.  Individual tickets are $200.  These may be
    deductible on your taxes (consult your accountant).  If I find the
    right date I may actually do this one...I just hope they don't serve
    spaghetti - I lose more ties that way...
    

Bonnie just got a honorary Doctorate from Bezerkley in Boston...

FYI

    Yeah, lessee now... dinner for Bonnie on the 21st? Yep my calendar is
    open. I wonder if Ken will let me use the corporate jet?

	For those of you with workstations and .GIF viewers, I just picked
	up a bonnie_raitt.gif, available at smurf::gifs:

	Sandy

    
    If any of you are going to be in the neighborhood and want to go, let
    me know and I'll add you to the list (as soon as I receive your double
    C note).
    
    Corporate jet?  What, are you on the Sununu plan?
    

    Shame on us for not mentioning her earlier....I'm a fan of her slide
    style.  I stayed up one night to catch her on Carson...she came out and
    played a ballad on PIANO!  ack!  Anyway, she's HOT on the strat!
    
    Steve

    Yah,.. melikes her slide playin' too
    
    							/Bill
    

    > Me likes her slide playin' too
    
    Me too.
    
    I give her the award for "most artistic application of playing out
    of time".
    
    For example, some of the licks on "Thing Called Love" solo sound like
    a bar and a half late, but it just REALLY works like magic.
    
    That seems to be a distinctive part of her slide style.

    
    
                         -< Sorta like Frank Sinatra >-
    
    

    Re: .8
    
    Bonnie copped a lot of her electric slide work from Lowell George of
    Little Feat, who was heavily into New Orleans rhythms.  A prominent
    feature of much New Orleans R&B is a weird time feel (relative to other
    R&B).  Go listen to some Meters albums to hear some really wild licks
    that slide all over the place....the first couple of bars of "Cissy
    Strut" are a great example.
    
    						Brian

    Hey, I not a big Sinatra fan but a big part of his style is singing
    "behind" - that is, sorta starting late and catching up.  And a LOT
    of singers have ripped that off (perhaps I'm mistaken in presuming
    that Sinatra originated that method but...).
    
    Bonnie does the same thing on the slide.

	Bonnie also learned a lot of her slide style from "Mississippi"
	Fred McDowell.  If you've ever listened to him (specially his
	earlier acoustic stuff) he has a very laid back style.  Sometimes
	it even sounded like he was playing slightly out of tune (flat).
	
	_gary

    
    yes, it's called stylistic phrasing - Frank and Tony Bennet were both
    very good, and Bonnie plays very well - she can be as tight as anyone
    in this conference.  And, that lazy type of phrasing requires excellent
    timing to pull off well.
    
    back to our regularly scheduled programme..

    Well,... "tight" is not an adjective I would use to describe her
    sound,.. "loose and easy" seems more like it.
    
    Maybe she can play that tight,. but I haven't heard her do it.
    I wonder if its true that she can play as tight as anyone,...
    supposed we up the tempo a bit,...???
    
    							/Bill
    					

    
    well, i think there is a distinction between loose and easy and loose
    and bad.  However, i'll refrain from naming my prime examples so as to
    not offend anyones taste. Needless to say, blues based music would
    sound a bit insincere if played ala YES or other precision outfits. 
    
    I still recall seeing her open for James Taylor at Sanders theater at
    beginning of April in 1970.  Alone on acoustic, EXCELLENT, 4 encores
    and there would have been more except the "headliner" was waiting his
    turn. 

    
    since the Clapton appearance generated such accolades. . . 
    
    How about that Bonnie Rait on Saturday Night live?  I 
    only caught the first song, but it was _rockin_. 
    
    I mean that band hit hard in the groove right off. And 
    she's like 50 years old or something? Amazing.
    
    Dave
    

    Yeah, she was great.  She plays a mean slide and was in fine form. 
    Don't know who the other guitar player was (just to the right of her)
    but he sure made the most of his 15 seconds!
    
    Later in the show she played a ballad, also excellent.
    
    BTW - She's about 45.
    
    							Marc