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Six songs: JCR RIP
Mar. 13th, 2006 12:20 pmAdded Jolie Rickman to the wall of dead guitarists.
It doesn't help my mood either that she died almost 13 months ago, and I didn't know about it until today. I'm quite sad, actually.
I met her at a birthday party for my-then manager at the Medicine Hat on Alberta. She was performing that night. Of course none of us party-goers knew that. As the night wore on, I was more into the music than I was into the party, despite people shoving beers and mixed drinks in my hand.
What impressed me was that just by herself, she played like a one-woman Violent Femmes. her warm-up was the intro to her song "Mockingbird" From there she kept up the energy for the next two hours (with a short break).
After the show, I went up and had a conversation with her about our musical backgrounds: we were both from Chicago, doing the DIY thing. She moved out east to New York, working with Ani D and working on social causes. We talked about perceptions in music, especially her song "Chicago" and the implications of prejudice, fear and racism.
Jolie told me that she was touring across the US on her dime and the shows were basically paying her way to promote her music. I gave her a $20 and asked her to give me two of her favorite albums. After some hesitation, she presented me with Suffer to be Beautiful and Sublime Detonation
An in memorial video is posted at http://www.snowshoefilms.com/music.html Seventh down.
So why am I talking about this? Guilt. I promised her a copy of Pearls when I was done with it. Today, I just remembered of my obligation and looked her up, searching for an address.
Bitchcakes.
It doesn't help my mood either that she died almost 13 months ago, and I didn't know about it until today. I'm quite sad, actually.
I met her at a birthday party for my-then manager at the Medicine Hat on Alberta. She was performing that night. Of course none of us party-goers knew that. As the night wore on, I was more into the music than I was into the party, despite people shoving beers and mixed drinks in my hand.
What impressed me was that just by herself, she played like a one-woman Violent Femmes. her warm-up was the intro to her song "Mockingbird" From there she kept up the energy for the next two hours (with a short break).
After the show, I went up and had a conversation with her about our musical backgrounds: we were both from Chicago, doing the DIY thing. She moved out east to New York, working with Ani D and working on social causes. We talked about perceptions in music, especially her song "Chicago" and the implications of prejudice, fear and racism.
Jolie told me that she was touring across the US on her dime and the shows were basically paying her way to promote her music. I gave her a $20 and asked her to give me two of her favorite albums. After some hesitation, she presented me with Suffer to be Beautiful and Sublime Detonation
An in memorial video is posted at http://www.snowshoefilms.com/music.html Seventh down.
So why am I talking about this? Guilt. I promised her a copy of Pearls when I was done with it. Today, I just remembered of my obligation and looked her up, searching for an address.
Bitchcakes.
