From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V3 #214 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, October 2 1998 Volume 03 : Number 214 Today's Subjects: ----------------- A Basia Birthday Tale ["Leslie Brown" ] That musical diversity thread... ["Leslie Brown" ] Re: A Basia Birthday Tale [jp ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 07:31:24 PDT From: "Leslie Brown" Subject: A Basia Birthday Tale Last week I hooked up the ol' turntable after a year or so of non-use and played some of my accumulated Basia items (40 oz. of Love, anyone? LOL) when I came across a recording of the "Countdown America" from May 18, 1990 (hosted by Dick Clark, who really bugs me...) featuring Basia (and Danny) as guest artist. In the snippets of interview she told the story of how New Day For You came to be. (If this is old hat to you, sorry) Peter Ross actually wrote it for her for a birthday present as a poem, not a song. Apparently she was a little bummed about life and he wanted to cheer her up. In the lady's own words, she wanted to turn it into a song, "because of the message in it, so many people can relate to the story, so when Danny came up with the musical idea for it (Danny agrees in background), rhythm and chords- which, I felt it was perfect ('yeah', says Danny) and I came up with the melody and that's how it happened. You know, it's such a very, very close to real life song only because it was about me, somebody else's words about me, that it was quite difficult to sing it at the beginning live (does a shivering sound) It really gave me chills! But after a few tours, I got used to it! (laughs) Of course in typical Basia/Danny fashion, they're interrupting each other and in perfect agreement. You can tell they've worked together for so long. (In Sweetest Interview, I just wanted them to LET EACH OTHER FINISH! ) Anyway... I'm under the impression that Basia was actually born in 1959- that's a date listed somewhere I think, and if you track her given age in printed interviews, it matches up. I was pretty disgusted when that one music guide (was it Rolling Stone?) printed 1956- no way did she appear to be that age. Proofer sleeping on the job! Hoping someone hooks the birthday girl up with champagne and profiteroles, Leslie marzenia@hotmail.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 08:12:02 PDT From: "Leslie Brown" Subject: That musical diversity thread... >I remember an ex-boyfriend commenting thusly when I admired a Living Color >song on the radio: "You don't like THEM!" And what would YOU know about >it, I thought to myself. See, he associated me strongly with Jane Siberry, >whose quirky-folksy style is SIGNIFICANTLY different from Living Color. He >refused to accept the combination; not surprisingly, that relationship >didn't last long. Very true, Meg. I liked the ex-boyfriend music story because I have been through a similar situation. My "alternative" -programmed ex completely didn't understand why I liked "all those weird people" because "all the best music is done by people that play what the people like" AKA what sells. (He really liked generalization, eh!) Pretty ridiculous, but there are so many people out there that prefer to be spoon fed their culture instead of discovering it for themselves, and the music industry caters to that so well (at least the numbers driven portion of it). Such a culture fits in the idea that everything needs to be pigeonholed to be valid, and whatever doesn't fit is cast to the side. Anyway, I took big offense at his remark, because it totally disregarded ability- you have these chord-or voice--challenged bands/singers that hit it big for ten minutes (then usually fade as quickly) while musicians that have studied their craft and worked on improving their ability for years are in the shadows (or, like Basia, a darling as long as she stuck to her formula, and then ignored when she dared to grow as an artist-except in Japan.) Additionally, I do think one can tell a lot about a person by their musical taste/CD collection- how open they may be to something new and different and how diverse they are as people. The fact the we are all on this list certainly shows our diversity as lovers of good music. Thanks for the great food for thought, Meg & Ashoke! - -Leslie who not only digs Basia, Incognito and Peter White, but also the Beasties, Cibo Matto, KMFDM, Tricky, Cornershop, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Stevie, Marvin, Astrud, Front 242... and really lovin' the Vision of Escaflowne (Japanese anime) soundtrack done by the Warsaw Philharmonic.... ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 11:20:06 -0400 From: jp Subject: Re: A Basia Birthday Tale >I'm under the impression that Basia was actually born in 1959- that's a >date listed somewhere I think, and if you track her given age in printed >interviews, it matches up. I was pretty disgusted when that one music >guide (was it Rolling Stone?) printed 1956- no way did she appear to be >that age. Proofer sleeping on the job! > >Hoping someone hooks the birthday girl up with champagne and >profiteroles, >Leslie >marzenia@hotmail.com > And the Associated Press picked up the 1956 date and report it every year. It looks like UPI has it wrong, too. I'll have to write a note to Helen Thomas. un abrazo, juan ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V3 #214 ***************************