From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V2 #184 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 Saturday, October 25 1997 Volume 02 : Number 184 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Sheet music [jp ] Re: Basia at home, not in concert [roach2@juno.com] Re: Basia at home, not in concert ["Phil Hall" ] Re: Basia at home, not in concert [Jeff Wasilko ] RE: My story..... [Brian Cundieff ] RE: Basia at home, not in concert [Brian Cundieff ] Re: Basia at home, not in concert [Nathan ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 01:30:59 -0400 From: jp Subject: RE: Sheet music Hal Leonard Publishing Company has published two books of Basia songs - one contains T&T and LWNY and the other TSI. You can go to a store which sells sheet music and have them order it. Hal Leonard is a very large international company which should be familier to any clerk at any such music store. Go to one which sells musical instruments rather than to a record store. At 08:50 PM 10/23/97 -0500, Brian Cundieff wrote: > > >---------- >From: Jeff A Hamilton[SMTP:rsystem2@juno.com] >Sent: Thursday, October 23, 1997 04:45 >To: basia@smoe.org >Subject: Sheet music > >>Well, I have most of her sheet music. I can do my best to obtain books of >>her music for you, if you wish. For the most part, solos are in the >>transcriptions. > >Really? I'd be interested in getting my hands on that music, too. >If you could just tell me where to look, I'd be happy to do the >footwork myself. > >Thanks! >-Brian* > > > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 04:09:19 -0400 From: roach2@juno.com Subject: Re: Basia at home, not in concert On Thu, 23 Oct 1997 20:11:02 -0400 "Phil Hall" writes: >> Here's to you, oh one with the velvet voice. I hope someday to see >you >> in concert during this lifetime. >> >> Ed > >Ed it appears to me had Basia a bit LESS luck with T&T she might be >more able to deal with the relative un-success of her subsequent issues. Don't know if I quite understand what you mean there, Phil... could you make that one a little more clear maybe? >As a result, her fan base has been neglected to the point we all pine and >whine about how little we are stroked, despite the $ we throw in her >direction. Hmm... fan base. Is that what we are? Geez, I've seen lounge lizards at the local Comfort Inn who have bigger followings than this. Unfortunate, don't you think guys and gals? I hope everyone is ready to come to grips with the fact that 1998 may actually turn out to be too positive an estimate... or even that the words NEVER AGAIN may come to describe the next Basia album... >Today I see Holly Cole, the OTHER Canadian siren, has released her, >what, 6th album in 4 years or so..........1998 seems so far off.... Any relation to Paula Cole? Or Lloyd Cole? Or Nat King Cole? How many frickin' Coles are there out there? Anyway... Toodles JSL. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 04:15:10 -0400 From: "Phil Hall" Subject: Re: Basia at home, not in concert > > > >Ed it appears to me had Basia a bit LESS luck with T&T she might be > >more able to deal with the relative un-success of her subsequent issues. > > > Don't know if I quite understand what you mean there, Phil... could you > make that one a little more clear maybe? Sorry - I keep forgetting who may be reading these posts....:-] I think I mean that with her most successful album (and I'm only going on those top secret sales figures Roach won't release) being first out of the gate, and each succeeding album achieving fewer and fewer sales (again hearsay on this point) it appears to me our heroine has suffered self-esteem problems and become a recluse, perhaps because she thinks she just don't have the knack any more. The fire having been extinguished, so to speak, by the sheer pain of creating music she may feel is just not appreciated enough to make it worth the effort. I admit I'm grasping at straws here - who the hell knows why she won't do a tribute album, or won't tour the parts of the world she didn't cover (like Latin America, hey?) last time, or just signal to an adoring world she's still alive? Criminy, wouldn't even take off her floppy hat and Groucho disguise at her writing partner's wedding! Some cold water in the face might be in order here (don't sound very much like a worshipful fan here do I?). > > >As a result, her fan base has been neglected to the point we all pine > and > >whine about how little we are stroked, despite the $ we throw in her > >direction. > > > Hmm... fan base. Is that what we are? Geez, I've seen lounge lizards at In your case pal 'base fan' ..... > the local Comfort Inn who have bigger followings than this. Unfortunate, > don't you think guys and gals? I hope everyone is ready to come to grips > with the fact that 1998 may actually turn out to be too positive an > estimate... or even that the words NEVER AGAIN may come to describe the > next Basia album... You may be correct, as you are in virtually every other thing, Jeffy. > > >Today I see Holly Cole, the OTHER Canadian siren, has released her, > >what, 6th album in 4 years or so..........1998 seems so far off.... > > Any relation to Paula Cole? Or Lloyd Cole? Or Nat King Cole? How many > frickin' Coles are there out there? > Holly is her own girl, from way up in the Great White North, packs a trio of jazzy musicians and does a lot of standards and even a tribute to Tom Waits a couple of years back. Not nearly the vocal range of Basia's but still pleasing and a *quite* acceptable stage presence. Also, a HARD WORKER probably because her star hasn't taken off yet . She put out an enhanced CD last year that really corks. Phil ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 11:05:47 -0400 From: Jeff Wasilko Subject: Re: Basia at home, not in concert On Fri, Oct 24, 1997 at 04:09:19AM -0400, roach2@juno.com wrote: > >Today I see Holly Cole, the OTHER Canadian siren, has released her, > >what, 6th album in 4 years or so..........1998 seems so far off.... > > Any relation to Paula Cole? Or Lloyd Cole? Or Nat King Cole? How many > frickin' Coles are there out there? Not related to any of them. However, I think Holly Cole would be a good suggestion for Basia fans. They're not the same, but they are both jazz influlenced... - -jeff ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 00:38:56 -0500 From: Brian Cundieff Subject: RE: My story..... - ---------- From: jason@spindle.net[SMTP:jason@spindle.net] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 1997 22:08 To: basia@smoe.org Subject: My story..... JASON! >It was still the best concert I've ever been to >by far. I've never again seen or heard so much musical talent on one >stage in one >evening. I believe this was probably in 1994 or 1995. I was at that concert!! Didn't know any other people from this area were on the list. Yes, it was a great show. I was sitting on something like the tenth row. Very cool. > Final question: What's the best way to go about getting these 2 >Japanese imports I keep hearing about? Try "Best Buy." I used to see them in the Arlington store. Blockbuster Music might have them too. That's where I got the "Best Remixes II" disc. Speaking of hard-to-find Basia material, I have a copy of a promotional CD called "The Sweetest Interview." In addition to an interview from 1994, it contains a bunch of radio IDs. I saw another one at the same place I got mine. If you want it, Jason, contact me by e-mail and (if it's still there) I'll snag it for you. >DrunkOnLove single, BasiaOnBroadway and a TimeAndTide gold disc). Does anyone know if we might be seeing a "London, Warsaw, New York" gold disc anytime soon? Or ever? >Thanks, >Jason (M; 25; Dallas,Texas) - -Brian* (M; 25; Arlington, Texas) monsta0@flash.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 12:53:52 -0500 From: Brian Cundieff Subject: RE: Basia at home, not in concert - ---------- From: roach2@juno.com[SMTP:roach2@juno.com] Sent: Friday, October 24, 1997 03:09 To: basia@smoe.org Subject: Re: Basia at home, not in concert On Thu, 23 Oct 1997 20:11:02 -0400 "Phil Hall" writes: >Hmm... fan base. Is that what we are? Geez, I've seen lounge lizards at >the local Comfort Inn who have bigger followings than this. >Unfortunate, >don't you think guys and gals? Well, I don't know about that. In 1994, she packed the Coca Cola Starplex (a pretty good-sized venue) in Dallas. I never would've thought of the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex as a Basia kind of town. Surely, she did even better in Chicago, New York, L.A.......? >... or even that the words NEVER AGAIN may come to describe the >next Basia album... NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! - -Brian* ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 10:24:44 -0700 From: Nathan Subject: Re: Basia at home, not in concert Unfortunately our Esteemed Roach(tm) is right. Now class, dredge out your copy of "The Sweetest Interview" promo CD(you know, the one you use for that serious Basia fix) and turn with me now to about track number 8 to hear Basia basically say she won't be doing this forever. > Hmm... fan base. Is that what we are? Geez, I've seen lounge lizards at > the local Comfort Inn who have bigger followings than this. Unfortunate, > don't you think guys and gals? I hope everyone is ready to come to grips > with the fact that 1998 may actually turn out to be too positive an > estimate... or even that the words NEVER AGAIN may come to describe the > next Basia album... > Nathan p.s. Here's a dreary song that could probably describe a few Basia fans: The Smiths "How Soon Is Now?" from the album Hatful of Hollow I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar I am the son and the heir of nothing in particular You shut your mouth how can you say I go about things the wrong way I am Human and I need to be loved Just like everybody else does There's a club, if you like to go you could meet somebody who really loves you so you go, and you stand on your own and you leave on your own and you go home, and you cry and you want to die When you say it's gonna happen "now" well, when exactly do you mean? see I've already waited too long and all my hope is gone ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V2 #184 ***************************