From: owner-basia-digest To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V1 #69 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Sunday, 24 March 1996 Volume 01 : Number 069 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Similar sounds Re: Fwd: Re: CD Order Re: Fwd: Re: CD Order Re: Similar sounds Re: Basia's weight is ....+ nose Re: Similar sounds List membership Re: The 1997 (or '98 or '99 or '00 or '01) Tour An Important Note... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J.S. Lohr" Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 01:24:38 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Similar sounds On Sat, 23 Mar 1996, Philip B Hall wrote: > ...the bottom line is that it's damned hard work finding really good music. > That's why Jeff gets so PO'd when SONY jerks around with Basia's releases. Bravo, Phil! Bravo! Take a bow! BTW - for anyone out there who has ordered "the" CD: have you thought about what you're going to do if, for some reason, CD Banzai DOESN'T come through? I mean, there's obviously a lot more riding on this purchase now than there was back when it was just some obscure EP. Plus, now we've got some more possibilities for that "Brand New Single" thingie...hell, it could have unreleased BONUS TRACKS from a damn album that possibly doesn't even exist yet... this is really getting grim. Keep the faith. This is... ============================================================================= Like ohmigod! Roach has a homepage! Find him at the Internet Roach Motel!!!!! ============================================================================= "http://zeus.towson.edu/~jlohr1" Dig up all the dirt on Agitprop's Finest Son, the Net's most famous Roach, and Wal-Mart's Biggest Pain-in-the-ass. ============================================================================= note: the page is unfinished - please excuse some of the cruddy links! -Roach ============================================================================= ...the end. ------------------------------ From: jacki@magicnet.net (Jacki) Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 03:26:32 -0500 Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: CD Order >At 3:07 Uhr 22.03.1996, some lurker called Jacki wrote: Lurker? Lurker??? I've only been here a week... that's doesn't classify me as a lurker yet... does it? I would have spoken up sooner, but all I had to say was "Where can I get a copy of Angels Blush?"... and I didn't want to look really stupid (because I'm sure it's gone around a few times), so I thought I'd wait and see if I could find out for myself in one of these responses. (But if anybody wants to answer that question, feel free) Just how many of y'all are here anyways? Anybody know? And does that number include lurkers or not? Maybe I should ask instead - how many of y'all actually do any writing/posting? >>Now that we all know where you live Dennis... what time's dinner? > >And I always thought that I made the rudest remarks around here... >I was definitely wrong :-) ! That wasn't rude.... just wait until I get pissed off. ;-) Jacki (da Lurker) ------------------------------ From: jacki@magicnet.net (Jacki) Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 03:26:35 -0500 Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: CD Order >> Now that we all know where you live Dennis... what time's dinner? >> >> Jacki >> >> > > OOPS. My wife will be upset if you all come at once. (It's normally 5:30PM >Eastern, - 4:30 Central;) > >Dennis > > Hey... the more, the merrier. Tell her it's a Basia Party, and I'll even bring dessert. Jacki ------------------------------ From: akb02@rs1.rrz.uni-koeln.de (Dirk Pilat) Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 11:59:43 +0200 Subject: Re: Similar sounds At 16:34 Uhr 22.03.1996, Derek Christner wrote: >I was just courious if anyone knew of any bands that have a similar >sound to Basia. I'm not looking for slow sounds like Sade. Rather >fast upbeat jazz pop sounds like Basia! If anyone knows, I'd be >interested in knowing! Thanks! Well, there is Matt Bianco, early "Style Council", Prefab Sprout, Cock Robin, Swing out Sister, early "ABC", good old Donald Fagen, and, most important, Leon Delray.. Dirk Dirk Pilat, Medical Student 7 months before graduation | University of Cologne, FRG Fax: ++ 49221 4201000 | http://www.rrz.uni-koeln.de/~akb02 Member of the Internet Dermatology Society | Maintainer of the Matt Bianco Mailinglist ------------------------------ From: "Dennis J. Majewicz" Date: Sat, 23 Mar 96 07:26:53 -0500 Subject: Re: Basia's weight is ....+ nose > Her height is....Let me see....from her pictures in Basia On Broadway booklet, > i'll deduce that she's about the same height as i am, 175 cm. > And On a second thought, i think i'll reduce her weight to 62 kg to balance her > height. > Yeah, i think those'll fit on her very nicely. > > And you know what? After an exhaustive investigation of her pictures, i think > she's got my nose, > although not very similar. Her nose is a 'greek' type one. To make it clear, > here's her picture in text of her nose, seen from her side: Dody, I'm thinking that you were Basia in a former life! Incidentally, just curious, does the "ID" in your address domain mean Indonesia? Dennis - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dennis J. Majewicz Empire Sports Network majewicz@buffnet.net "On the road to a non-linear, tapeless, DIGITAL tomorrow!" - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: juan paxety Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 07:32:37 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Similar sounds > >BTW - for anyone out there who has ordered "the" CD: have you thought >about what you're going to do if, for some reason, CD Banzai DOESN'T come >through? I mean, there's obviously a lot more riding on this purchase now >than there was back when it was just some obscure EP. Plus, now we've got >some more possibilities for that "Brand New Single" thingie...hell, it >could have unreleased BONUS TRACKS from a damn album that possibly >doesn't even exist yet... this is really getting grim. > > >Keep the faith. > >This is... yes, jeff, i've thought about it and have begun to act. I've been a Jobim fan for many years, so I expect this to be my favorite Basia album. I've begun eating beans and rice and walking to work to save every penny for a summer trip to Japan to buy it. un abrazo, juan con el psyco typewriter ------------------------------ From: combee@techwood.org (Ben Combee) Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 20:23:28 -0600 (CST) Subject: List membership Just wanted to let everyone know that as of last night, the Basia list is 64 members strong. At least 24 members are from outside the US. Greets to you all, Basia fans! - -- Benjamin L. Combee (combee@techwood.org) that public-access-TV-making, video-game-collecting, cryptography-pushing, World-Wide-Web-explaining, fem-music-loving, bad-pun-creating guy in Austin ------------------------------ From: "Dennis J. Majewicz" Date: Sat, 23 Mar 96 21:51:45 -0500 Subject: Re: The 1997 (or '98 or '99 or '00 or '01) Tour > But on the topic of a new tour: maybe we should try to arrange some sort > of mailing list get-together at one of the shows...make it sort of a mini > convention type deal. > This sounds interesting. We should keep this in mind for if and when the tour hits. Of course, you will all have to come to Buffalo! :D - -Den - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dennis J. Majewicz Empire Sports Network majewicz@buffnet.net "On the road to a non-linear, tapeless, DIGITAL tomorrow!" - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: "J.S. Lohr" Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 21:41:31 -0500 (EST) Subject: An Important Note... ...to everyone who ordered a lithograph. If you did, would you please e-mail me directly - I have a question for you (and a little tidbid of information that you might be interested in). Thanks, guys. JSL. ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V1 #69 **************************