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Post by eddiejinnj on Jul 29, 2013 16:16:26 GMT -5
hey kev where u been? on hold now for 92y. now that the first tickets sold, I want to find out if linda will be doing any signings at this event. I just wish her whole tour was published so I can make a choice of which one/s I want to go to. will let you all know. eddiejinnj
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Post by eddiejinnj on Jul 29, 2013 16:44:07 GMT -5
well I found out that it is like a 150 seat venue. took a long time on hold but the guy said better hurry this will sell out. I did find out that she WILL be doing signings according to them and I asked are you sure. he said he spoke to the person in charge of the event and that person confirmed it. I suggested she put that on the webpage ad for the event, he said she will do that. so we in. man, i'm going to be nervous. eddiejinnj
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Post by revin2go on Jul 29, 2013 18:05:52 GMT -5
If you all want to meet up either before or after Linda's appearance, I would suggest Brandy's Piano Bar which is within walking distance of the 92Y. www.brandyspianobar.com/
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Post by MokyWI on Jul 29, 2013 18:07:32 GMT -5
If anyone hears of any appearance in Chicago area please post. I live in Madison Wisconsin and realize the closest she most likely would come would be Chicago. I am open to Michigan, Minnisota, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio... Just got a new car so a "Ronstadt Road Trip" would be great. I would even do DC or NYC except I have school and that wouldnt be the wisest use of my time during school to drive that far for an hour event, but wait...It's LINDA RONSTADT'S MEMOIR SIGNING...I have waited for this for at least 20 years...at 200 pages I hope this is not the last we read of her's.
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Post by Ronda on Jul 29, 2013 19:29:06 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2013 19:30:56 GMT -5
If you all want to meet up either before or after Linda's appearance, I would suggest Brandy's Piano Bar which is within walking distance of the 92Y. www.brandyspianobar.com/Thanks for the suggestion, we have some time before the event, so hopefully we can make some arrangement. R
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Post by 70smusicfan on Jul 30, 2013 21:18:26 GMT -5
I suppose everyone knows this, but just in case...Linda's publishing company Simon & Schuster was co-founded by Carly Simon's father.
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Post by erik on Jul 30, 2013 22:00:43 GMT -5
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Yes indeed. And if memory serves me right, they are also owned by the same people who run CBS--which may mean we'll see Linda being interviewed on one of their news magazine shows (60 Minutes possibly?)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2013 6:21:43 GMT -5
A Linda 60 minutes interview would be epic...
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Post by rick on Jul 31, 2013 12:10:34 GMT -5
A Linda 60 minutes interview would be epic... Robert, I am sorry if this has been mentioned before. "60 Minutes" will often do stories / segments to promote books published by Simon and Schuster. CBS and Simon and Schuster are both owned by the same company. Lesley Stahl or Bob Simon or whomever the correspondent will state a disclaimer toward the beginning of the piece about how CBS and Simon and Schuster are intertwined.
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Post by charlotte on Aug 1, 2013 14:56:35 GMT -5
Publisher's Weekly reported that the most read on-line review for the past two weeks was for Simple Dreams A musical memoir. It was a brief but positive review. A lot of "bookers" read the PW newsletter on-line so that should bode well for perhaps a slew of apperances. I would luv a Charlie Rose guest spot.
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 1, 2013 17:32:56 GMT -5
Oh man. I may have to get a tv now.
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Post by reverendb on Aug 1, 2013 19:26:37 GMT -5
If anyone hears of any appearance in Chicago area please post. I live in Madison Wisconsin and realize the closest she most likely would come would be Chicago. I am keeping a keen eye out. I live just west of Chicago, so I am anxious to see if there will be a signing nearby. If I hear anything before it shows up here, I'll post it here and send you a PM just in case.
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Post by MokyWI on Aug 1, 2013 19:35:38 GMT -5
ronstadtfanz, you have to get a TV and cable. I have a feeling there are going to be several TV shows she will turn up on. I am hoping for on Biography Channel. A full 45 minute to an hour segment. Just remember to not take a cable deal like 12 months for such and such, they will bind you to it. That way you could just cancel after all the publicity is through. Do it and watch her not do any TV! I am expecting some suprises.
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Post by 70smusicfan on Aug 1, 2013 21:06:29 GMT -5
I'm in Chicago Area too...
Hopefully those of us who are technically superior (TV w/ DVD) can record LR TV appearances (if any) and make them available here.
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Post by MokyWI on Aug 2, 2013 7:41:50 GMT -5
My first copy of Heart Like A Wheel on LP which I have framed in my music room. <y parents bought the LP for me when I was ten. I am 48 now. MK
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Post by musicaamator on Aug 2, 2013 8:17:57 GMT -5
Man, that would be hella cool if Ms. Ronstadt makes the tv rounds to promote her memoir. I can just see her now being on CBS Sunday Morning, the aforementioned 60 Minutes, and even Rachel Maddow (as I seen her talk to a couple musicians with no talk of politics at all. Lars from Metallica comes to mind as one she did) to mention a few.
I think it would be even great if she sat down with Colbert, but not so good if she was on Hannity.
Glad about the positive reviews on her forthcoming book.
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Post by erik on Aug 2, 2013 8:44:26 GMT -5
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I kind of doubt Mr. Hannity myself...for obvious reasons (LOL).
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Post by Dianna on Aug 2, 2013 22:46:35 GMT -5
she's been on cnn a few times.. maybe piers morgan, he usually interviews a lot of the icons.
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Post by Dianna on Aug 2, 2013 22:49:49 GMT -5
Quote by musicaamator: I kind of doubt Mr. Hannity myself...for obvious reasons (LOL). Yeah.. I doubt Linda would get within 50 feet of Hannity (sorry hannity fans)
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Post by Robert Morse on Aug 3, 2013 10:28:29 GMT -5
Quote by musicaamator: I kind of doubt Mr. Hannity myself...for obvious reasons (LOL). Yeah.. I doubt Linda would get within 50 feet of Hannity (sorry hannity fans) But it would be so much fun watching Linda put Hannity in his place!
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Post by sliderocker on Aug 3, 2013 13:38:29 GMT -5
Yeah.. I doubt Linda would get within 50 feet of Hannity (sorry hannity fans) But it would be so much fun watching Linda put Hannity in his place! True, but as it would be Hannity's show, it's a safe bet he'd find some way to have the final word, and do it in a way in which Linda couldn't rebut his comments. Like all the other talking heads of hate radio-tv, Hannity is so arrogantly sure that he's right and those who oppose him are wrong, that he'd fix it so that those opposed either couldn't rebut his comments or didn't have enough time to offer any counterpoint. Hannity is one of those "conservatives" who think they win an argument when the other side can't give a rebuttal.
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Post by erik on Aug 3, 2013 18:56:42 GMT -5
What say we scratch Mr. Hannity, because it ain't-a-gonna happen? (IMHO)
Personally, though, how any interviews with Linda go would, I think, almost hinge on the interviewers not asking anything personal--which may be a tall order.
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Post by sliderocker on Aug 3, 2013 19:45:55 GMT -5
What say we scratch Mr. Hannity, because it ain't-a-gonna happen? (IMHO)
I couldn't see Linda doing any talk show that's on Fox News, and I couldn't see her doing any of the daytime talk shows. Letterman or the Tonight show (Leno), maybe; the late night talk shows, possibly.
Personally, though, how any interviews with Linda go would, I think, almost hinge on the interviewers not asking anything personal--which may be a tall order.
That, not to mention anything to do with Linda's rock and roll era would probably be off limits. Linda probably would only want to discuss how singing the American standards - the big band songs - made her a better singer. I'd hate to see any televised interview which could rival the Rolling Stone interview from the 90s. That could only put Linda in a very bad light, and I'd hate to see that happen.
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Post by erik on Aug 3, 2013 20:24:53 GMT -5
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I don't know that she'd react badly to any questions regarding the rock phase, especially, if we're to go by what she said at Grace Cathedral, when she mentioned that she still stays fairly close to the Eagles, J.D. Souther, and many of her backup musicians. We may be overstating her supposed "disdain" for that period. If I were to ask her about anything along those lines, I guess it would be as to what extent performing in arenas and stadiums, as opposed to actual concert venues, dampened her enthusiasm for doing rock, whether in the studio or in front of live audiences.
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Post by Robert Morse on Aug 3, 2013 21:27:35 GMT -5
What say we scratch Mr. Hannity, because it ain't-a-gonna happen? (IMHO) Personally, though, how any interviews with Linda go would, I think, almost hinge on the interviewers not asking anything personal--which may be a tall order. Linda will just glare at the interviewer when asked a personal question as she always does.
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Post by sliderocker on Aug 3, 2013 22:03:35 GMT -5
I don't know that she'd react badly to any questions regarding the rock phase, especially, if we're to go by what she said at Grace Cathedral, when she mentioned that she still stays fairly close to the Eagles, J.D. Souther, and many of her backup musicians. We may be overstating her supposed "disdain" for that period. If I were to ask her about anything along those lines, I guess it would be as to what extent performing in arenas and stadiums, as opposed to actual concert venues, dampened her enthusiasm for doing rock, whether in the studio or in front of live audiences. My hope would be that any interviewer would somehow get her to soften her position where she could say it wasn't the music at all but the venues she played that turned her off singing rock and roll. I've gotten the impression in some interviews over the years that she still listened to rock, so I don't think that it's her disliking the music so much as it is disliking her own contributions to the genre. About playing the various venues that dampened her enthusiasm, I'm not sure how that carried over to her recordings as with the exception of Linda Ronstadt, she never released a live album. Linda Ronstadt only had a few live recordings. Her dislike of her own recordings goes back to a period long before she achieved superstar status. Maybe the big band - or her love of Sinatra - made her a better singer in her opinion, but if anything, I'd argue that she didn't become a better singer by singing standards because she already was a good singer. I'd also argue she was extremely young and sang with an innocence and emotion that was missing from her later recordings because she was a more mature, more seasoned pro of a singer. Being more mature, more of a seasoned pro didn't necessarily make her into a better singer because she chose to sing songs from the Great American Songbook rather than from the rock or country songbooks. A more seasoned, older pro can deliver a letter perfect rendition on a song but letter perfect doesn't make it a better performance. Perfectionism sometimes lead to a cold reading of a song, missing warmth and emotion. One reason I think Different Drum remains her song as a singer is because she was all of 20 when she recorded the song. All of the other versions I'm aware of that were released on record were by performers who were far older than 20. When Susannah Hoffs and Matthew Sweet recorded Different Drum a few years ago, Hoffs was close to 50 years of age or past it. Hoffs and Sweet had a good version but their version was just reliving the 60s whereas Linda's in 1967 at age 20 conveyed a young girl who was just starting out in life and wasn't ready to settle down with any man. It was believable because Linda was just a young girl herself. A more mature Linda, could've sung the song but the more seasoned pro she became couldn't have captured that earlier innocence in quite the same way. By the same measure, I think some of the later Linda recordings she could've done in her 20s and she would still have impressed all who listened. But, I think Linda is all too harsh on her recordings, especially the ones that helped put her into the 100 million plus club. Had her recordings been lousy recordings in the first place, I'd say she may have had a case to make that claim but so the recordings weren't perfect. So what? If they weren't perfect, the problem wasn't with the singer or the songs but with the sound and/or the arrangements and production.
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Post by eddiejinnj on Aug 5, 2013 7:36:13 GMT -5
bill maher balanced? he funny and I like him but I can tell his thoughts and opinions in his speech. maybe I need to watch him more but anyway, linda and bill seemed to get along well when she was on amazon fishbowl with ann. so his show would work well for her. eddiejinnj
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Post by eddiejinnj on Aug 5, 2013 7:38:21 GMT -5
also, I just don't see how you can have a musical memoir out of your career and a whole section of it be off limits; no less a period of significant importance. the intimately personal stuff I can see because it does say musical memoir. even if she has issues with that period that is what should be told. the loneliness of the road. big venues destroying the quality of the music. how she got along with the bands during this time, etc. eddiejinnj
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Post by Partridge on Aug 5, 2013 7:56:19 GMT -5
Bill Maher leans to the left. Bill Maher's show is balanced because he always has guests on with opinions contrary to his own. It is never one-sided discussion. It is not Fox. And he has interesting guests. I got the Jesus book by Reza Aslan after seeing that author on Bill's show. Then that author showed up on Fox and they did a hatchet job on him that sent book sales into the stratosphere. I would definitely want to see Linda plug her book on his show. Maybe we should try to generate interest in this appearance with Linda's people.
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