From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V3 #225 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 Thursday, October 15 1998 Volume 03 : Number 225 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Promos and November release dates [combee@techwood.org (Ben Combee)] BasiaWeb pics and discography info ["Leslie Brown" ] Hopefully this helps someone... ["Leslie Brown" ] THE COPERNICAN CHRONICLES: The joy in your heart... ["Ashoke S. Talukdar"] Basia Playbill etc. [Jan Johnson ] catalog [tom@inetnebr.com, kelly&jordan ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 05:52:04 GMT From: combee@techwood.org (Ben Combee) Subject: Promos and November release dates Leslie Brown writes: > hair and all (she aged much better) but still interesting. Ben- if you > want the smaller pics for BasiaWeb I'll definitely send them. I'm sure > you guys would find them interesting. YES!!! I love getting these obscure Basia items... I still need a good scan and some info on the "Save Doctor Who" album to which she contributed with Matt Bianco. > Speaking of the whole collection angle, is anyone interested in a new > discography? Personally for me the old one is helpful but I somehow keep > finding these items not listed, or these mistakes in the original one > from 1996. Not to mention the stuff that has come out since then. If > there's an interest in this I would be happy to work on the update. > Since I don't know if just taking the Roach copy and adding on it would > be the best thing to do ethics-wise (any opinions on this?) I was > thinking that if the collectors on the list got together their lists and > sent them to me, we could very well come up with a pretty complete > version. Anyway, let me know what you think. I think at this point, revising and extending the Roach list is our best course of action. While he did the original work, I doubt he will ever extend it... as long as we leave him credited as the original maintainer, we should be OK. If you want to take this on, it would be very appreciated. - -- Benjamin L. Combee (combee@techwood.org) PS: <53706f6f6e21> 48 /Helvetica findfont scalefont setfont show showpage ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 05:53:00 PDT From: "Leslie Brown" Subject: BasiaWeb pics and discography info >YES!!! I love getting these obscure Basia items... I still need a good >scan and some info on the "Save Doctor Who" album to which she >contributed with Matt Bianco. Cool-I'll scan the pics in this weekend and email 'em to ya. LMK privately what format, etc. you prefer. If you have that 'Doctor Who' stuff wiht you but you just need a scan, I have access to several scanners, so if you want a scan, I can hook you up. >I think at this point, revising and extending the Roach list is our >best course of action. While he did the original work, I doubt he >will ever extend it... as long as we leave him credited as the >original maintainer, we should be OK. > >If you want to take this on, it would be very appreciated. Cool- I'm ready to go ahead with the project then- if you have a collection-especially if you have stuff not on the original- send me the info in the same basic format as Roach's. (You can skip any obviously common release) I'll just keep compiling 'til we get something a bit more complete. Bring it on! Leslie marzenia@hotmail.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 06:04:26 PDT From: "Leslie Brown" Subject: Hopefully this helps someone... ... but this weekend I went to the Tower Records in Ann Arbor (Mich.) and they had a copy of the gold foil stamped Japanese Best Remixes I and a copy of the Third Time Lucky UK single. So if you're in the neighborhood... - -Leslie (really liking the Pizzicato 5 imports they had, but $35???) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 13:33:17 -0400 From: "Ashoke S. Talukdar" Subject: THE COPERNICAN CHRONICLES: The joy in your heart... Time to trudge through the illectual corpses from a gruelling two weeks. Some things to catch up on... I had the immense pleasure of meeting one of the list memebers - Joanna Lee. Joanna is from the San Francisco area in sunny California who, if you remember, joined the list a few weeks ago. She was in Cleveland for a conference that her company helped organize and we had a delightful conversation about life and Basia, over an equally delightful dinner of sushi. Joanna is also in the process of putting together her contribution for the Basia Book (HINT! HINT! to the rest of you); I have read the text, now she will do the layout. Thank you Joanna! Secondly, after many years of ardently searching for the perfect profiterole, I finally came close last Sunday. The conference that I was attending here in Cleveland had a gala at the somewhat famed Rock and Roll Hall of Fame here in town and there was more pastry there than I new existed. Who would have thought that after going all the way to NYC for a good porfiterole, I would have it here in Cleveland! A new friend, sushi, Basia and profiteroles - all in all, an excellent weekend. ________________________________________________________________ I have to say that when I saw the words "release dates" in Leslie's e-mail, my heart almost stopped. I suppose that, even though I was doing a good job of not getting too impatient about a new album, it still has a firm hold of some section of the back of my mind - something not unlike hearing your name mentioned in a crowd. In any case, it got my attention and got the wheels of hope rolling once again. I have to reflect with some newfound nostalgia about this list which I joined less than six months ago and I am already so glad to have run into such wonderful folks as Joanna and Meg (who, I think should write WAY more often than she does). It is also a blessing to be able to stay abreast of all the latest Basia news. What all of this often hides is the wonder of this unique venue that the internet provides for us so that we are able to weave into the tapestry of life, an incredibly diverse pattern of designs sewn together my many more talented fingers than would otherwise be available. As with many things, we do often tend to overlook that which we begin to take for granted. And this would indeed be a great opportunity to thank folks like Ben and Jeff, and many hundreds of others, whose efforts are keeping this wonderful electronic community alive and thriving. This is also a testimony to the songs of Basia being less a matter of words and tunes, and much more of spirits, hearts and souls, hers as well as ours, and the joy that remains therein, waiting to be unlocked by some magical charms - be they Basia's voice, Neruda's poems or Meg's word-painting of a fall day in Chicago: "It is, without a doubt, my favorite season. I still marvel at the tree tops, which are capped with color and nearly sparkle in the morning sun. This is when Kinnin and I go for walks, collect leaves, and iron them into collages between sheets of waxed paper, as I did when I was young with my mother. Also, pumpkin carving season is upon us, and we are preparing for Dia de los Muertos with little sugar skulls from the Mexican Fine Arts Museum in Pilsen. It's a bewitching time of year, to be sure!" Meg Evans 10/14/1998. This IS the joy that we bring to each other's hearts, and may it continue for many more days too come as we all wait patiently for the new album from dearest Basia. Regards, Ashoke. ________________________________________________________________ Ashoke S. Talukdar | When the darkness takes you talukdar@morph.ebme.cwru.edu | with her hand across your face Home : 216-381-5872 | Don't give in too quickly Imaging Lab : 216-368-8812 | Find the things she's erased MetroHealth : 216-778-8987 | Find the line, find the face Pager : 216-670-5872 | Through the grain... Cellular : 216-317-7079 | Fax : 216-368-4969 | Suzanne Vega ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 18:12:26 +0100 From: Jan Johnson Subject: Basia Playbill etc. Ok, ok I admit it. It was ME that bought the Basia Playbill. And many apologies to Bev, who I know was also bidding for it!! And I bought the sheet music too, not that I'm musical or anything but it was only about $1.00 and the picture sounded rather fun. I didn't bid for the concert ticket. I'm not quite that sad and anyway, I intend to have one of my own one day! **grins** I'm going to frame both the playbill and the sheet music, but before I do everyone will get a full report of the contents of the playbill and a chance to download scanned pics etc. if they want. BUT you will have to wait until after Christmas because I get all my stuff sent to an address in the States and I won't be out there again until Christmas to bring it all back!! Thanks to everyone who mailed me about VHS-PAL to VHS-NTSC video conversions. I've now found a nice UK firm recommended by an American member. They copied my 'Father Ted' videos no worries, cheaply, quickly and with no fuss and returned them to me by Recorded Delivery within 2 days. Thanks, Steven!! Jan (Who STILL thinks that noise right at the end of 'From Now On' sounds like a muffled road drill **mutter, mutter**) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 17:42:17 -0600 From: tom@inetnebr.com, kelly&jordan Subject: catalog Leslie sez; "Speaking of the whole collection angle, is anyone interested in a new discography? Personally for me the old one is helpful but I somehow keep finding these items not listed, or these mistakes in the original one from 1996. Not to mention the stuff that has come out since then. If there's an interest in this I would be happy to work on the update." Tom sez; Another fine idea here. When I stumbled on to this list in early '97 and found Mr. Roach's 12 page list of all the recordings that were released I was amazed at how many releases and re-releases and remixes that exist. Basia and Danny White have a large catalog of music. I have about 25 cd's, a bunch of 7" 45's and 10" & 12" vinals. Hell, bootleg Basia even exists! I think it's a great idea and I'll help, I can say that most of all the stuff I have can be found on the "roach list", but i'm pretty sure that his list needs to be updated and since Roach,, well,, some of you know,, he does'nt have much to say anymore. Bummer. One of the rarest records I have is the Epic release "BASH QT4". It is a british 10" white vinal 45rpm record with "Promises" and "Give me that" double grooved on the A side. Double groove reords have two parallel tracks each one containing a different song. So when you plop the needle down onto the record you never know which song you will end up hearing. pretty cool, but was it worth 20 buck? does anybody else have one of these????? Tom ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V3 #225 ***************************