From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V2 #139 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Friday, August 22 1997 Volume 02 : Number 139 Today's Subjects: ----------------- roll call [Mike Lapoint ] Re: Back in the Business... [Dirk Pilat ] Roll Call [Dirk Pilat ] Re: Basia Digest Roll Call ["Lars-Ove Karlsson" ] Re: Basia Digest Roll Call ["Vince Mora" ] Basia Roll Call [RastaMan ] Re: Basia CDs [GOODYEARWB@aol.com] Roll Call [winston.walker@wathneltd.com] Re: Basia Digest Roll Call [Phil Hall ] Roll call [Kim Stelmar ] Re: Basia Digest Roll Call [Rich Uchytil ] Roll Call [greyfell@pacbell.net (Stephen Ylvisaker)] Re: Roll Call [Rich Uchytil ] Re: Basia RC list [Dan Tartaglia ] Basia's small world [Dan Tartaglia ] Bronze (fwd) ["Vince Mora" ] Re: Basia Digest Roll Call [Dirk Pilat ] Re:Basia Digest Roll Call [Troels Dahl ] what digest? [Dan Tartaglia ] Re: Basia Digest Roll Call [tneyens@wxc.com (Tony Neyens)] Re: Basia RC list [combee@techwood.org (Ben Combee)] Re: Basia RC list - okay with me [Dan Tartaglia ] Caravan of Dreams [Dan Tartaglia ] Re: Basia Digest Roll Call [mnice@backroads.net] Re: Roll Call ["Don Leuty" ] Subject: Re: Basia Digest Roll Call [steven@telerate.com.au (Steven Malik] Re: Basia Digest Roll Call [Phil Hall ] Roll Call [Ed Cidade ] Re: Subject: Re: Basia Digest Roll Call [Gerald E Hough II ] Re: Basia Digest Roll Call [rrumsby ] re: Basia, who? [Stephen Ylvisaker ] Re: Basia Digest Roll Call [Stephen Ylvisaker ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 00:59:18 -0400 From: Mike Lapoint Subject: roll call Mike Lapoint Rochester, NY Favorite Basia tune: New Day for You Doesn't anyone else like "New Day for You"? It was the first song by Basia I had heard and although I'm crazy about many of her other songs I still like this one best. It's the haunting melody I guess. I had the radio cranked up late one night at work. "New Day" came on and I just dropped what I was doing and called the station to find out who the artist was. Time & Tide is a wonderful album. Basia paints such vivid pictures with her lyrics and the way she sings them! When I listen to "How Dare You" I can realy picture the fire in her eyes! (... Let this be a warning to you ... yea-heh! ...) "On Broadway" is so exciting. I've been to many concerts where the audience is totally into the performance. You come out of the building exhausted, still singing the songs! This concert must have been like that. When I listen to the album I get drawn right into it. I've found that I can't listen to it late at night because I always end up turning the volume higher and higher. ;-) - -- - ----------------------------------------------------- Mike Lapoint mal@FrontierNet.Net Rochester, NY ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 02:23:01 -0400 From: Dirk Pilat Subject: Re: Back in the Business... Hi everybody! Dennis asked: "(Where ARE you, exactly?)" Well, I'm working as a Doctor in lovely Ormskirk, West-Lancashire, UK, = which is about 15 km from the Irish Channel and 15 km over Liverpool in a= = very nice strip of the british countryside. Germany just didin't appeal = to me to work there, so I thought a bit of a change would be nice. As far as Matt Bianco is concerned, there's this new thing called = Altozuna out in Japan, which I ordered via the good old CD BAnzai, so = I'll tell you what's it like when it's here. > "Waters of March". It is a delight. Hope = >you can find a copy over there. Oh, so it exists? Well, I have a version of WOM on the excellent "Red, = Hot and Rio" Album by David Byrne and Marisa Monte (very good artist by = the way, if you're into southamerican pop). Is Mrs. T at last a member on the list? Dirk Dr. Dirk Pilat Ormskirk and District General Hospital, Ormskirk, UK ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 02:32:23 -0400 From: Dirk Pilat Subject: Roll Call Ola! Name: DIrk Pilat, working as a doctor in surgery in Ormskirk, UK, coming = originally from Cologne, GErmany. Well, let's see: First time I heard Basia was 1985: "Promises" was = running in my Discotheque in Hossegor, Southwestfrance every night, and I= = just had to get title and name of the artist, and I have to say, she was = never again as good as on "Time and Tide". Dirk Dr. Dirk Pilat Ormskirk and District General Hospital, Ormskirk, UK ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 08:40:55 +1 From: "Lars-Ove Karlsson" Subject: Re: Basia Digest Roll Call > Who is on the list? Where are you from? Year Basia overtook your life! > Lars-Ove - yet another lurker on the list. I'm from faraway Sweden :-o I first heard Basia when she was singing in Matt Bianco, More Than I Can Bear comes to mind, that must have been in 1984 or something. Bye e-mail: love@iar.se - --- And I won't take no souvenirs No perfumed picture promises Because it's over And I ain't coming back Level 42 - It's Over ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 00:57:03 -0600 (MDT) From: "Vince Mora" Subject: Re: Basia Digest Roll Call > Who is on the list? Where are you from? Year Basia overtook your life! Hi, I'm Vince, and I'm an alcoholic. Just kidding. I'm down in the southwestern USA in Albuquerque New Mexico, been on the list since last September, been on the Net since '89. First discovered Basia in 1987 when TIME AND TIME came out. I was working at a book & music store, popped in T.A.T. in the store's sound system, and proceeded to be blown away by Promises, and then systematically by every other track on the disc -- I went on to collect about 90% of her import singles over the years. So you could say I've been a fan since the beginning. (Well, as long as by "beginning" you're not counting Alibabki, Perfect, or Matt Bianco :) My fave songs are (too many to pick from!): Run For Cover, New Day For You, Masquerade, Best Friends, Ordinary People, Copernicus, Third Time Lucky, The Sweetest Illusion, More Fire Than Flame ... and more. Other groups I adore are: Level 42 (and I have the Web's first L42 Home Page, put up in '94, to prove it!), Moby, The Rippingtons, Koto, Namie Amuro (you saw that right: my tastes go from Britfunk to techno to LA-jazz to electronic to J-pop!) I've seen Basia in concert once, during her 1990 T.A.T. tour when she came to Santa Fe ... a fact for which I get down on my knees and give thanks at every opportunity. :) Still awaiting the return of Roach (I need to give him back his Drunk On Love single!), Vince - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Vince Mora synth@swcp.com USA: 505 332 0139 www.swcp.com/synth - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "I could talk about industrialization and men's fashions all day, but I'm afraid work must intrude ..." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 01:39:40 -0700 From: RastaMan Subject: Basia Roll Call I'm Rick Bryant from Seattle, WA. Basia came to town in 1988 and I heard her interview on the radio. I bought Time and Tide and I've been hooked ever since. The tracks that did it for me are: "Astrud" and "Freeze Thaw" (although there isn't a bad Basia song). I met here in 1990 and I've seen her in concert twice since. I'm looking forward to some new material hopefully in this century! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 07:56:48 -0400 (EDT) From: GOODYEARWB@aol.com Subject: Re: Basia CDs Basia on broadway is a definate must for any Basia fan. My favorite. Willie with two ll's ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 9:44:11 -0500 From: winston.walker@wathneltd.com Subject: Roll Call Hello everyone. Just joined up two days ago. =20 Knew of Basia from Matt Bianco, and my roomate at the time purchased "Time & Tide". Remembered her from Matt Bianco, and gave it a good=20 listen. Liked it, but didn't go crazy until we went to Philadelphia=20 and saw her in concert. Awesome show, and the rest is history. Have=20 all the CD's now, and can't wait for the next. =20 Winston Walker New York =20 p.s. What's up Vince? :-) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 10:45:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Phil Hall Subject: Re: Basia Digest Roll Call Good idea. I'm Phil Hall, living in North Berwick, Maine, USA. Began hearing Basia cuts on the radio in the late '80's, but as I frequently switch from FM to AM did not learn who the artist was for some time. I was intrigued by the level of quality she and Danny achieved, and was not surprised to see them drop almost completely off the airwaves. People here boasting of 'withit' jazz stations broadcasting in their areas could please stop that annoying practice, if you don't mind :) The Boston market seems unreceptive. Ultimately caught her performance in Boston in '90, and again in '94. 'Tho it is truly her music I find most appealing, my wife thinks that if I will go to the trouble and expense of seeing her live more than once, it's her bod that has me hooked. Hmmmmmm....no comment (necessary). Well, Dr. Dirk, glad to see you back. When you set up your office, will your sign read "Dr. Dirk Pilat, MB"? Phil ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 08:08:50 -0700 From: Kim Stelmar Subject: Roll call Hi... kim here... I have been listening to Basia with my friends Rach and Lisa since freshman year in HS... meethinks the first song we got hooked on was new day for you... and "miles away"... I have lots of crazy memories carpooling to school with Basia blasting and other students looking at us like we were crazy listening to something other than grunge or hip hop... I still blast Basia on my commute, tho not as many strange looks.... btw... i am from L.A. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 08:25:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Rich Uchytil Subject: Re: Basia Digest Roll Call Say, is someone keeping track of this roll call and putting together a list? Just curious. And if that person wanted to, I'd let them put my name on some web site somewhere as a member of this list (with a link to my email address). BTW, I saw Basia around '88 when she came to Portland and it was one of the best concerts I have ever been to! She was simply fantastic! My favorite song on the On Broadway CD is Dzien Sie Budzi. I don't know what she's saying, but love the sound. And I'm a HUGE Spyro Gyra fan and it was cool to hear Jay Beckenstein on Yearning. Later! =========== "Let's Document it and call it a Feature!" ============ Richard Uchytil (rich@west.sun.com) Voice: (503) 520-7614 Sun Microsystems Beaverton, OR Fax: (503) 520-7722 Business/Systems Analyst ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 08:39:57 -0700 (PDT) From: greyfell@pacbell.net (Stephen Ylvisaker) Subject: Roll Call Stephen here again. I don't want to sound like I'm bragging, but since people have been talking about their concert experiences, I have to mention this. 1995 the local smooth jazz/new-age station was giving away Basia concert tickets. I had called in and was eligible for her latest CD. Of the 50-100 people that had called in and won, 5 were going to receive concert tickets, backstage passes, her video, and a complete set of her CD's (complete at that time). My mother died, and I had to travel back east for her funeral. When I returned to work, the following week, I was informed the station had called. I called the station and learned I was one of the 5 big winners. I got a date on short notice (my neighbor in the apartment above me), and went. BTW, it was a joint concert with Spyro Gyra as the first band. Both bands were fantastic, and each band was raving about the other band, with good reason. Back stage, after the concert, Peter White, Danny White and the rest of the band were all really nice to talk to, and sociable (even Danny). The sax player had been playing with a bandage wrap on his hand, and we (my friend and I) learned that he was playing with a broken finger. Basia was really nice, making a point to visit with everyone. I had been so busy talking to everyone, I hadn't gotten over to ask for her autograph. She noticed me as she was heading out, and came over to make sure we met and I got an autograph. I'm about 6'1", and she came to just past my shoulder, just about a perfect height. Actually nicer looking in person than on most of her CD photos. It's a special memory of a great concert and great people. Stephen Stephen Ylvisaker greyfell@ccnet.com "You can have everything in life that you want, if you're willing to help enough people get what they want." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 09:22:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Rich Uchytil Subject: Re: Roll Call Wow! What a great experience! I'm really, really jealous. :) =========== "Let's Document it and call it a Feature!" ============ Richard Uchytil (rich@west.sun.com) Voice: (503) 520-7614 Sun Microsystems Beaverton, OR Fax: (503) 520-7722 Business/Systems Analyst > From: greyfell@pacbell.net (Stephen Ylvisaker) > > Stephen here again. I don't want to sound like I'm bragging, but since > people have been talking about their concert experiences, I have to mention > this. 1995 the local smooth jazz/new-age station was giving away Basia > concert tickets. I had called in and was eligible for her latest CD. Of the > 50-100 people that had called in and won, 5 were going to receive concert > tickets, backstage passes, her video, and a complete set of her CD's > (complete at that time). My mother died, and I had to travel back east for > her funeral. When I returned to work, the following week, I was informed the > station had called. I called the station and learned I was one of the 5 big > winners. I got a date on short notice (my neighbor in the apartment above > me), and went. BTW, it was a joint concert with Spyro Gyra as the first > band. Both bands were fantastic, and each band was raving about the other > band, with good reason. Back stage, after the concert, Peter White, Danny > White and the rest of the band were all really nice to talk to, and sociable > (even Danny). The sax player had been playing with a bandage wrap on his > hand, and we (my friend and I) learned that he was playing with a broken > finger. Basia was really nice, making a point to visit with everyone. I had > been so busy talking to everyone, I hadn't gotten over to ask for her > autograph. She noticed me as she was heading out, and came over to make sure > we met and I got an autograph. I'm about 6'1", and she came to just past my > shoulder, just about a perfect height. Actually nicer looking in person than > on most of her CD photos. > It's a special memory of a great concert and great people. > > Stephen > Stephen Ylvisaker > greyfell@ccnet.com > "You can have everything in life that you want, > if you're willing to help enough people get what they want." > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 12:24:15 -0400 From: Dan Tartaglia Subject: Re: Basia RC list Rich wrote: > Say, is someone keeping track of this roll call and putting together a > > list? Just curious. > Actually I am keeping track. A list is certainly in order.. I will send the list out to "basia@smoe.org" when the response slows down. Maybe Ben, or another webmaster, will put it up on the Web. Something like "THE BASIA BUNCH!" Interesting the diversity of the people so far. I love the stories .... keep em coming. As for me ... I haven't been as fortunate as some ... I have not seen Basia in concert. I WILL on her next tour ... shouldn't probably hold my breathe though. Other Basia favorites are Brave New Hope, Prime Time TV, and Promises. I just love her voice! Then again I am a female vocalist type a guy. Top of the list is Basia ... others (not in any particular order) are Janet, Paula, Sophie B., Madonna. Quite a variety huh? All one name artists too ... is there a pattern here? Favorite bands ... Blood Sweat & Tears (met David Clayton Thomas) and Chicago! Dating myself? In between listening to Ms. T on the car CD I have been listening to Yanni lately too. I get Basia's wonderful voice on T&T CD ... then Yanni's intense instrumentals Port of Mystery ... then Brave New Hope .. then Yanni's In My Time ... then Sweetest Illusion .... then London Warsaw - -- Dano. BTW, I won't be online next week ... spending some time in Los Cabo deep sea fishing. I'll catch up with things after Labor Day. Keep this Roll Call going! Dano. __________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 13:32:28 -0400 From: Dan Tartaglia Subject: Basia's small world Jeff Wasilko wrote: > I grew up in Ohio, went to school in Rochester, NY (which is > where I first heard Basia), and now I live near Boston... > Hey Jeff .... like Dennis said ... meet Dan! Lot's in common here ... Basia fan since early 89 .. I grew up (Dutchtown - Italian section of course) and went to school (RIT) and got in trouble (unreleased locations) in Rochester NY (not to be confused with all those other Rochester's). Now I live between a rock and a hard place (Hartford CT and Springfield MA). Now there is a worn out name for a city .. Springfield .. I think every state in North America has a Springfield in it. I'm not far from Boston. I'm about as far from you as I was from Dennis (Buffalo) back in upstate NY. Small world. Jeff ... do you know any radio stations that play our favorite gal? - -- __________________________________________________ Amdahl Corporation http://www.amdahl.com Dan Tartaglia email dmt00@amdahl.com Mkt. Systems Engineer 800 233 8489 x11748 __________________________________________________ "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 12:31:46 -0600 (MDT) From: "Vince Mora" Subject: Bronze (fwd) [This was sent to me when it should've gone to the list -Vince] Forwarded message: >From hough.14@osu.edu Thu Aug 21 07:04:19 1997 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19970821160712.006871ec@pop.service.ohio-state.edu> X-Sender: hough.14@pop.service.ohio-state.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 09:07:12 -0700 To: synth@swcp.com From: Gerald Hough II Subject: Bronze To all, Anyone ever hear any of the songs Basia did when a member of the group Bronze all those years ago? I haven't heard of anyone actually getting their paws on recordings from those days... Also, if anyone knows where I can get a copy of Angels... let me know. - --Jer ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 14:25:35 -0400 From: Dirk Pilat Subject: Re: Basia Digest Roll Call Hi! Phil wrote: >Well, Dr. Dirk, glad to see you back. When you set up your office, will >your sign read "Dr. Dirk Pilat, MB"? Yes, and while I'm doing my examinations, "More than I can bear" or "Just= = can't stand it" will be smoothing out of the speakers... Dirk Dr. Dirk Pilat Ormskirk and District General Hospital, Ormskirk, UK ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 20:35:48 +0000 From: Troels Dahl Subject: Re:Basia Digest Roll Call Hi All! Nice to be here! My name is Troels, and I live in Copenhagen, Denmark! The first time I heard Basia was in a bar around 1990. The CD was LWON, and it imediately started a discussion at our table: "Who is this????" A friend of mine claimed that it was a new Gloria Estefan CD, but finally I just had to walk up to the bartender and ask him. I wrote down the name of the record on a napkin, and went out and bought it the next day. Strangely enough it took me two weeks to realize where I had heard this wonderfull voice before, and finally I looked at the booklet from the first of my Matt B. CD's!! There she was! -and Danny too!!! I've been hooked ever since, and have all the CD's including BOB (What a great live performance!) Talk to you soon Troels P.S. Nice to see some familiar names from the Level 42 digest, and from the new Swing Out Sister digest! Seems I'm not the only one with exellent taste in music ;-) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 15:52:54 -0400 From: Dan Tartaglia Subject: what digest? Troels Dahl wrote: > P.S. > Nice to see some familiar names from the Level 42 digest, and from the > > new Swing Out Sister digest! Seems I'm not the only one with exellent > taste in music ;-) Hi Troels .. welcome, thanks for answering the Basia Roll Call .. especially from Denmark. I just have to ask. What is a Level 42 and a Swing Out Sister digest? Very curious .... Dano. - -- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 15:14:42 +0700 From: tneyens@wxc.com (Tony Neyens) Subject: Re: Basia Digest Roll Call >Hey, let's get something going here. How about starting with a Roll >Call? No wonder I got 77 messages waiting for me when I got back from my three-day "weekend" :-) (I work the usual weekend and have Monday and Tuesdays off.) I'm Tony Neyens, currently living in Madison, Wis. as of July of 1993. I grew up in Le Mars, Iowa, which is about 20 miles to the northeast of Sioux City, Iowa. (Sioux City is located near the intersection of Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota.) I have heard some of Basia's works on the radio from her first two releases, and although I loved the music when it came on, that wasn't quite enough to hook me. (Also I didn't have too much money to buy many records, as well.) I also heard "Drunk on Love" from TSI on the radio when the album came out, but it was one of my former co-workers here, who definately is a big Basia fan (not on this list, though), who brough her CD in at work and played it. After hearing it two or three times, that hooked me to get the cassette version. Since one radio station here in Madison does play her earlier material, it was only a matter of time (and maybe tide) for me to pick up her other albums (LWNY was my second acquasition, then I picked up T&T, so I worked backwards on her main three albums :-). Looking on the internet one day, I wanted to see if anyone did any web pages about here, which led me to BasiaWeb, and eventually this list. Hopefully, I'm not too late in jumping on the bandwagon to see her perform on stage live. (She was touring around here just before I got hooked.) I also went from cassettes to CDs. Actually for four of her albums (Time and Tide, London Warsaw New York, The Sweetest Illusion, and Basia on Broadway), I got both a cassette and a CD. If any of you may want to get a cassette version of the above (if you have a location with just a cassette player), I may be interested in selling the cassettes. Let me know (in private, please.) This list also got me hooked on Peter White. With Basia's work on his latest album, I decided to check it out. One store had a listening station with Caravan of Dreams available, so I started to listen in. Got hooked in just half a minute on the first track! It will be fun to read the rest of your replies (I've read only two so far!) Until next time! Tony - ----- "...using the Handyman's Secret Weapon, duct tape." --Red Green Tony Neyens tneyens@wxc.com -OR- tjn@wxc.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 15:31:53 -0500 (CDT) From: combee@techwood.org (Ben Combee) Subject: Re: Basia RC list There is a web archive of the mailing list at www.smoe.org. I was going to compile a list from it when all the roll calling was over and put it on BasiaWeb, pending list approval. - -- Benjamin L. Combee (combee@techwood.org) ...if the highlight of your day is prowling through signatures looking for pithy quotes or neat phrases, then consider a career with the IRS or NSA... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 16:47:15 -0400 From: Dan Tartaglia Subject: Re: Basia RC list - okay with me Ben Combee wrote: > There is a web archive of the mailing list at www.smoe.org. I was > going to compile a list from it when all the roll calling was over and > > put it on BasiaWeb, pending list approval. Hey Ben .... okay with me! Great idea. Dano. - -- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 16:58:14 -0400 From: Dan Tartaglia Subject: Caravan of Dreams Tony Neyens wrote: > This list also got me hooked on Peter White. With Basia's work on his > latest album, I decided to check it out. One store had a listening > station > with Caravan of Dreams available, so I started to listen in. Got > hooked in > just half a minute on the first track! > Yeah Tony ... me too. I kept anxiously awaiting the coming out of Caravan of Dreams ... because of all the chatter here (thanks Di). Got it soon as it came out. Great CD. Makes me think, I should re-load it back into my car CD. Go figure, a six changer is not enough room. - -- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 97 19:43:31 -0400 From: mnice@backroads.net Subject: Re: Basia Digest Roll Call Hello all, My name is Mike and I am a Basiaholic! Actually, I just "discovered" Basia just a few months ago. The opening of Drunk on Love (therefore the Basiaholic thing!) made me get up out of my chair and start dancing. So I had to listen and find out who the artist was. Just to make everybody jealous, I'm only on my second CD: Sweetest Illusion and Basia on Broadway. It sounds like Time & Tide is the next one to get. Time to head out to the stores here in Greenville, South Carolina and find out what's there! Regards, Mike - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------- mnice@backroads.net - ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 18:46:43 -0500 From: "Don Leuty" Subject: Re: Roll Call >=20 > Name: DIrk Pilat, working as a doctor in surgery in Ormskirk, UK, = coming=20 > originally from Cologne, GErmany. >=20 Hey Dirk, Please accept my very late, but heartfelt congratulations. =20 don ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Aug 97 10:32:07 +1000 From: steven@telerate.com.au (Steven Malikoff) Subject: Subject: Re: Basia Digest Roll Call To: basia%smoe.org@munnari.oz.au (Basia mailing list) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 10:32:07 +1000 (EST) In-Reply-To: <970821000137_431530414@emout08.mail.aol.com> from "ZZsaZZsa@aol" at Aug 21, 97 00:02:33 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 851 Steve Malikoff here, in Sydney, Oz. I must be the only one on the list who has never heard Basia outside of T&T, LWNY and TSI. I feel very envious that all of you have actually been to her concerts. Has she ever toured south of the equator, or had any intentions of doing so? There is inhabited land here :) I first heard LWNY in about 91 or so, then tracked down T&T. A local community jazz station plays the occasional Basia track, but mostly from T&T. I'm also very much a fan of Sade, Matt Bianco, Mellencamp, Cold Chisel, Mike Oldfield, 80's new wave, Bach, Handel, and Nina Simone, amongst others. A quick question: If I have the 3 main albums, is it worth getting BoB? It's an expensive import here (35 AUD, about 26 USD) and if it only has one or two new songs on it, then I'm wondering if it's worthwhile? Steve. steven@telerate.com.au (Postmaster: delivery acknowledged.) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 20:37:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Phil Hall Subject: Re: Basia Digest Roll Call On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Dirk Pilat wrote: > Hi! > > Phil wrote: > > >Well, Dr. Dirk, glad to see you back. When you set up your office, will > >your sign read "Dr. Dirk Pilat, MB"? > > Yes, and while I'm doing my examinations, "More than I can bear" or "Just > can't stand it" > will be smoothing out of the speakers... > > Dirk > > Dr. Dirk Pilat > Ormskirk and District General Hospital, > Ormskirk, UK > > I still think the best cut on their last is 'The Stranger', and still think more than apropo. One thing about MB is their precience - they seem to come up with a direction 'way ahead of everyone else, and get lost in the shuffle. I am intrigued to hear there is a new MB release. This is good. Phil ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 21:59:04 -0400 From: Ed Cidade Subject: Roll Call I don't know exactly when it happened but I began listening to Basia's music on a radio station in New York City, WQCD. They billed themselves as "Cool Jazz" for the big apple. My favorite songs: Prime Time TV and Reward I was stationed at Governors Island, in New York Harbor, but travelled everywhere there was a Coast Guard unit east of the Rocky Mountains. I was with the Inspector General's office at the time. I was very surprised at the number of her fans throughout the country. Once, I had a 2 hour layover in New Orleans and a young woman saw me playing a casette tape of Basia's and wanted to know when and where I got it (Brave New Hope) since it had not found its way to Salt Lake City, UT. I let her listen to it since she had a layover and we became fast friends, corresponding to this day. The only thing I gotta say is, "Where is Basia and when is her next concert tour?........like in task force 451....the world wonders! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 22:44:19 -0400 From: Gerald E Hough II Subject: Re: Subject: Re: Basia Digest Roll Call At 10:32 AM 8/22/97 +1000, you wrote: >A quick question: If I have the 3 main albums, is it worth getting BoB? It's >an expensive import here (35 AUD, about 26 USD) and if it only has one or two >new songs on it, then I'm wondering if it's worthwhile? Personally, I do LOVE Dzien Sie Budzi, and it's only on BoB. And it is a really great live album. But that price does seem a bit steep. I think most stores sell it for under $15 USD here, so you might be able to find a web site that will ship it to you on the cheap. - --Jer ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 11:41:03 -0700 (MST) From: David Cervantes Subject: Re: Basia Digest Roll Call Hi, David here, Phoenix, Arizona, born and raised in San Bernardino, California, the smog capital of the world, birthplace of McDonald's (though the corporation denies it), and Arrowhead water. I first heard the wonderful Miss T in early 1990, when Cruising for Bruising was on the air. The Latin beat hooked me and has never let me go. What's more, the words actually got me, and helped me realize that the relationship I was in with a certain woman was going nowhere. I saw her in concert that fall, with Ottmar Leibert; and again in 1994, with Spyro Gyra, and she was wonderful each time. Funny thing, I say "Basia" and most people answer "What's that?" Yet both concerts were well- attended, everyone dressing to the nines for them. Just by watching her video, seeing her concerts, and reading what everyone says about personal encounters, I know she's the genuine article, someone I'd want for a friend. #################### David Cervantes ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 16:54:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Elfego Alor Subject: Re: Basia Digest Roll Call Hi there, I'm Elfego Alor, from Saltillo, Coahuila (North of Mexico). I first heard Basia in 1990, when I saw her VH1 special. I think my favorite album is LWN, maybe because it was the first album that I owned of any artist.. Songs: Baby you're mine, Reward, Copernicus, T&T, Yearning.. (and I could go on..) I'm also fan of female singers, specially Tori Amos and Enya.. BTW, I'm a software designer and I'm in Dallas now.. Saludos, Elfego ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 23:41:56 -0400 From: rrumsby Subject: Re: Basia Digest Roll Call Well just got back from the *FREE* Peter White concert in City Hall park in downtown NYC, logged on and got the suprise of my life. We had more traffic today that NYC. GREAT. In a roundabout way got into Basia (Phil no comments please), through Al Stewart. As you know Peter White has been associated with AS since 1976. (Yes its 21 years since Year Of the Cat was released). Had followed PW with the AS backing band of Shot in the Dark, and then found out thats PW's brother was in a band called Matt Bianco. From there got hooked on that sweet Polish voice. Favorite *Basia* song. Well presently its Cruising for Bruising (didnt see that mentioned elsewhere), The Brave New World version. Also as I am in the Refrigeration Industry am rather partial to Freeze and Thaw :). As for other musical likes. Well theres Peter White, Al Stewart, Moody Blues, Dave Camp (new album just released), Linda Rostadt, Genesis, Fleetwood Mac (back to the Peter Green days) and the Eagles. Also was at Neil Simons Theatre on Nov 25th 1994. (was it that long ago). bfn BobR (thats with 2 B's 1 o and an R) paterson nj may the swartz be with you ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 21:17:07 +0000 From: Stephen Ylvisaker Subject: re: Basia, who? It's great to see people around the globe reponding to the roll call. I have to echo the puzzlement David Cervantes expressed to people's reaction when we try to tell them about Basia. These are people that supposedly are really into mainstream music, and yet... And. like David, I too have noticed the quality of the people who go to Basia's concerts, and do listen to her. So Alfeg Alor, and the rest of you/us should feel just a little bit about yourselves/ourselves for that. - -- Stephen Ylvisaker greyfell@pacbell.net "You can have everything in life that you want, if you will help enough other people get what they want." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 21:18:44 +0000 From: Stephen Ylvisaker Subject: Re: Basia Digest Roll Call Elfego Alor wrote: > > Hi there, > > I'm Elfego Alor, from Saltillo, Coahuila (North of Mexico). I first > heard Basia in 1990, when I saw her VH1 special. I think my favorite > album is LWN, maybe because it was the first album that I owned of > any artist.. > > Songs: Baby you're mine, Reward, Copernicus, T&T, Yearning.. > (and I could go on..) > > I'm also fan of female singers, specially Tori Amos and Enya.. > > BTW, I'm a software designer and I'm in Dallas now.. > > Saludos, > Elfego Elfego, in a message I sent to the mailing list, I misspelled your name, and I sincerely apologize! - -- Stephen Ylvisaker greyfell@pacbell.net "You can have everything in life that you want, if you will help enough other people get what they want." ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V2 #139 ***************************