From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V4 #29 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 Monday, February 1 1999 Volume 04 : Number 029 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Help! Ack! ["Leslie Brown" ] Re: Various Basia 8"X10" glossy pictures available [Dan Tartaglia Subject: Help! Ack! Sorry, this is only marginally Basia related.... Okay, so there's this CD by Inner Shade called Four Corners. Well, at least allegedly, because I sure as &*^% can't find the **^&* (sorry! hee!) I looked through the Incognito archives and someone said it wasn't supposed to be out yet, but no one seemed to clear on it. So, my friends, I ask of you- has anyone seen this anywhere or does anyone know anything about its release?! It's driving me nuts. (If you don't know it's basically Incognito under a different guise, including some of our favorie Basia sidemen) Thanks!!! - --Leslie ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 11:48:22 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Tartaglia Subject: Re: Various Basia 8"X10" glossy pictures available Hi Ken ... just had a chance to look at eBay. I like the third Basia photo kit, 60608297. Aution has ended, is it still available? Please let me have your email so we can talk directly.. - --- Ken Drew wrote: > > Hey guys: > With my new fatherhood now, I must remove and clean up my music stash > thus you can get some of my Basia goodies at . Up for > grabs are 3 different b/w glossy press kit photos. Check them out at: > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=60609239 > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=60609340 > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=60608297 > > Enjoy! > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 08:35:09 EST From: Whipple930@aol.com Subject: MAJOR EBAY WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hello all, I have a little warning for you all. This is Mike M (Mikey Spice) and I have just started to wind up a rather large investigation with the police on a large ebay scam. This looked like a small local thing till I really looked into it. I wont got into the details just suffice to say that this has gone from a $56.00 thing to well over $10,000.00. The FBI and the postal inspectors are doing a lot more Than I did, and I uncovered the scam. I have uncovered 3 different alias names and 3 different false addresses with phone numbers. I don't want to scare you from eBay. It is a great thing and it can work. But, do your homework on the person you are buying from. Get their phone # from eBay. They will give it to you. E-mail to others on the auction if you feel suspicious and see if someone lives close to the seller. See if they will go and check this out. That is how all this got started on my scam. One guy was suspicious and did that. I was planning on just going to see the seller sense he lived less than 6 miles from me and BOOM this thing blew up. So, be careful. So far it looks like all the people involved in this thing are going to get their money back. Just a word of warning. Mike M. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 17:12:56 +0100 (CET) From: Ray Navarra Subject: Would you forgive me? ...eerm... Blame the exams! Awww... Errare humanum est, and "I'm only human... born to make mistakes" so don't you kill me when I tell you... that... the interview _is_ in Machina! I just didn't see it when I was flipping through pages for the first time. Weird? Not so much, when you realise that the only photo is, like, 2"x2" big - or rather small. OK, here comes the transcript. (whoo-whoo! There's much to translate... Please, Leslie, don't compare my grammar to Yoda again, I be say I not professionally translate) BASIA'S COMING BACK TO POLAND 'I care less and less about my place in England, and my heart moves to the Polish home' says Basia Trzetrzelewska. She has just renewed her Jaworzno house and she's visiting Poland more and more often, and we used one of her visits to talk with her about her Best Of album, British music market and her life partner, Kevin Robinson. [Yeah, making her talk bout Kevin _must_ have been hard... R] MACHINA: It's been a rule that the albums with greatest hits include the new, unpiblished before songs. Your album includes 4 new tracks. How have they been made? BASIA: The release of this compilation was a surprise for me, because we are (Basia and her artistical partner, Danny White - Machina) recording a new album. The company wanted to release it in August, but because we didn't make it on time, the decision was made to release the Best Of album for Christmas. I hate the albums like this. In my opinion they have no character and I am not emotionally engaged in this project. Epic, of course with us co-operating, chose the best tracks and we thought that we could add 4 new songs and with this close this part of our career. That's the only reason why I agreed that this CD was released. The song "Angels Blush" was recorded 2 years ago. Sony wanted then to release the Christmas album with the songs sang by the artists, recording for this company. It appeared that we were the only ones who did it on time, so the song had to wait for better times. "Waters of March" was recorded when the Japanese division of Sony wanted to release a tribute album for Antonio Carlos Jobim. The album with his songs, recorded by other artists was to be released for the first anniversary of his death. But again, only a few of the performers recorded their songs. I had great fun, recording this track. I had even come to the conclusion, that I like singing others' songs best. I've only known one other version of "Waters of March", and not the one that Art Garfunkel performed, but the one by James Taylor, I think. The other two songs that were added to the compilation, were recorded this year. "Clear Horizon" was inspired by the experiences of my friend, who had been in a life crisis. I was afraid that he wouldn't survive and, as a kind of emotional help, I wrote this song for him. "Go For You" was written thanks to the title phrase, which I had heard from some girl. M: When you prepare the albums with Danny, you hardly ever use computers. Does the electronic drum programming on "Clear Horizon" mean that you're turning towards the music that Madonna and Cher made this year? B: You're right, we hardly ever use samples, because we like the sound of real drums best. On "Clear Horizon" we had used the programmer [Could you tell me his name? R] who gains great effects with the computer. That's the fast work. We don't have to tell anyone how do we want him to play. We needed to gain the motorical rhythm. Most of the performers work with the computers and it's not only because of the fashion. I was against it for a long time, but finally gave up. It's easier, cheaper, faster and helps you get interesting effects. M: The computer generated sounds are characteristical for dance records. In this moment, the club plays are the landmark of artist's popularity... B: The clubs are a very important part of the musical industry. The song that gets played there, immediately becomes a hit. This happened with last Cher's song, 'Believe'. Despite the fact she's American, Cher lived in England for many years, but she didn't have a big hit here. And 'Believe' hit number one in the week of release. Now Cher, Madonna use the typical club producers. Maybe we should begin to do it too? [YEEES! R] M: In Great Britain the domination of club scene has lead to the decreasing sales of the albums of performers, who used to be big stars; to name only Rod Stewart, Genesis and even Sting. What happened? B: I think that youths started to be more selective. There are artists, whose albums sell very good, and the ones that have suddenly disappeared. On the second side, Lighthouse Family gained the huge popularity, but they play the very traditional pop. It's the harmless music, that you can play while eating lunch or having fun on New Year's day. It's hard to choose something different from today's music. I've started to feel dejected, because there was nothing that would inspire me, nothing new. And suddenly I've heard Catatonia, who have brought back my faith in new music. They proved that you can do something different with heart and affection. I've heard the heartache in those songs; they delighted me at once. M: The crisis hasn't also avoided your productions. "The Sweetest Illusion" was much less popular than the previous two albums, and the concert album "On Broadway" remained unnoticed. B: I hope I'll still function on the world's market, but I stopped worrying about my disappearance. My company, especially the US division, think that people forget about the artists quickly, and such long breaks between the albums, that I make, are deadly. I don't believe this - if the fans are real fans, they will remember about me. If not - tough bananas. Music is still important for me, but my hierarchy of what's important has changed. The most important thing is family, not chasing all over the world something that's untrue. I had decided that I'll be writing and recording when I want to. The album "On Broadway" might have been unnoticed in Poland, but it was liked in the other parts of the world. The title, "On Broadway" was chosen badly. It has created the false picture of the album's contents. We sell many albums in Japan, the Far East countries still remain faithful and recently the new markets have opened for us. For example, the South Africa. We had sold many albums there, but we didn't know that, because during the apartheid all our proceeds went to charity. Now it appears that we are popular there, especially between the black audience. Apart from that, we always get invitations from the South Africa, and we've never been there so far. I'd like to play there, because the audience there knows the music that inspires us better than we do. M: So how do you earn for a living? B: From the proceeds from hit albums. Unfortunately, those resources have decreased recently, because I started investing on my living here, in Poland. I had renewed the family house in Jaworzno. I care about my place in England less and less and my heart moves to the Polish home. I'm planning to build a small studio here, to be able to work in Jaworzno. I'm often looking for the excuse to be able to come here. Despite the fact that my son and my boyfriend live in England, I feel a little lonely there. Mikolaj is 22, he's on the third year of college and has been living alone for three years. Kevin is the popular musician and he's always gone. All of my acquientances are musicians and I don't think it's a comfortable situation. Since the airplane connection London-Cracow was opened, I need only two hours to travel to Poland, and the airport is half an hour from Jaworzno. M: So how come you didn't write any song in Polish yet? B: I'd like to record at least one song in Polish, but I'm always afraid of writing lyrics in Polish. I realise that the Polish market becomes more and more important for me. Recently, when we are getting the statements of accounts from all the countries, Poland is appearing there, at last. For Danny it's a motivation for work for a certain market, because Danny's a businessman - unlike me. I'd like to come to Poland for free, but the other musicians aren't that sentimental with my ideas. If the next Polish tour gets planned better than the latest one, it might become a commercial success. M: Unfortunately, the sales of CDs in Poland have also fallen down recently, which became imminent to all the Polish stars this year. B: Is there a crisis in Polish pop music, really? It's strange. When I was in Jaworzno in November, all the youths from my family, and there're 5 of them, for the first time bought the CDs and they kept playing the Polish songs. [They should check their ears... R] We have Edyta Bartosiewicz, who's writing, definitely, from the heart. Unfortunately, I can also hear there's much copying and when the song is recorded in English, I can't hear the difference between the song and the Western productions. Most of the songs sound like Mariah Carey. I'm awaiting the success of Edyta Gorniak. She's got the great voice, but her songs are, as I said, very similar to Mariah's. M: You've been functioning in a Western market for a long time. Are you trying to use the songs of the widely known, commercial authors? B: I'm saying it for the first time, but the truth is, that I'm always being mailbombed by the American company with all those tapes with the commercial composers' songs - from Diane Warren to Eastwood. Lately, for the first time, I decided to listen to those tapes and I didn't like any of these songs. The pressings are very hard, because the people from the company think that I could sell many more albums, than I actually do. They're not satisfied with one million, they want three. But, because I didn't find any interesting song, the new album will only include our tracks. Well, unless one of our heroes sends me a song. It would have to be Stevie Wonder or Sting (laughs) On the other side, we weren't pressed to work with a commercial producer. Eventually we proposed it ourselves and it had to be our compromise with the company. We thought that we might learn something, because our recordings always use the same tricks, arrangements, solutions and only the influence of our sound engineer suggests something new. I wanted to work with Glen Ballard. It was way before he got successful with Alanis Morissette. He's done the hit album of Wilson Phillips then. I likes his respect for the songs and the use of pop solutions. Unfortunately, he's became so much successful with Alanis, that I can't get him now. M: When we last talked, you were planning to record a song with Steve Winwood. Is it still an up-to-date thing? B: Now there's really a chance to do it. My boyfriend, Kevin, has spent a year touring with Winwood. I've been visiting them often during that tour and I had finally managed to become friends with Winwood. Now he's going to get the proposal that he can't refuse. A few years ago I had sent him a song, that he's never got. I've done this via his brother Math, who works for Epic - he was the one who signed us. Stevie told us that he never got this song. He lives between England and Nashville, where his wife lives. Next year he'll spend in England. He's a farmer, by the way, and he's going to organise jam sessions with, among others, my Kevin, which might make this idea finally come true. M: You've been mentioning Kevin Robinson. Could you tell us something more about him? B: We've met in 1986, during the sessions for my first album. I was with Danny then, but I have to admit that I had an eye on him even then. Four years later, during the promotional tour for London Warsaw New York we were both free and now we're together for over 8 years. Kevin has played on other performers' albums and he's got an incredible gain. He's so popular as a musician, it's hard to keep him at home. He plays trumpet, but he's also an arranger and a composer. It was him who wrote Olive Tree for me and I had to press Danny quite hard to put this song on The Sweetest Illusion. Danny doesn't like it when the strangers mess up with our partnership. Right now, Kevin is recording with Incognito and going to go on three month tour with Simply Red. It's all going so great between us, that, like Englishmen say "if something's working, don't try to repair it" so we don't think about marriage now. He loves coming to Poland and already speaks a little Polish. My family likes him very much. Recently we've been celebrating his birthday here and he was very moved. M: Which changes in Poland impressed you most? B: The quickest ones to see are the changes on the outside. Even my Jaworzno became nicer, while it used to be an industrial hole, dirtied up by the coal mines. [Basia said it much nicer, but I can't really translate it... R] But, most of all, the atmosphere is different. The people are happier, more optimistic. The young people have no complexes. They look at the world in a different way, than we, when we were their age. When they visit me in London, they feel like at home. When I first came to the West, I was panicked. It's so great they haven't got the luggage that we had to live with then. - -*- The translation took me an hour; it's the longest one I had sent so far, I think. The sales in Poland: Clear Horizon has sold only 6,723 copies in December, which makes it number 49 on monthly album sales chart. But, to be honest, even I didn't buy the album so far; there was a flood of compilations in December and I'm still collecting money for Massive Attack "Singles 90>98" box, which costs 60 UKP... (any donations? ;) "Clear Horizon" top position on Radio 3 chart has, so far, been #12 - she had better ones. I'm writing this on Wednesday evening... it's 7 pm, I've spent four hours learning to the exam and I'm destroyed. Zzz... BTW, it's like half an hour past the exam and, to be honest, I don't think I did good :( Lovelove, (-) Ray [::: members.xoom.com/obvious ::: Ray, obviously ::: features my new CD :::] [::: Air discography: members.xoom.com/obvious/airdisco.txt :::] [::: Number 1 this week: Seal "Human Being" :::] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:15:00 -0600 From: Beverly Martin Subject: Re: MAJOR EBAY WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whipple930@aol.com wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a little warning for you all. > > This is Mike M (Mikey Spice) and I have just started to wind up a rather > large investigation with the police on a large ebay scam. This looked like a > small local thing till I really looked into it. I wont got into the details > just suffice to say that this has gone from a $56.00 thing to well over > $10,000.00. The FBI and the postal inspectors are doing a lot more Than I > did, and I uncovered the scam. I have uncovered 3 different alias names and 3 > different false addresses with phone numbers. I don't want to scare you from > eBay. It is a great thing and it can work. But, do your homework on the > person you are buying from. Get their phone # from eBay. They will give it > to you. E-mail to others on the auction if you feel suspicious and see if > someone lives close to the seller. See if they will go and check this out. > That is how all this got started on my scam. One guy was suspicious and did > that. I was planning on just going to see the seller sense he lived less than > 6 miles from me and BOOM this thing blew up. So, be careful. So far it looks > like all the people involved in this thing are going to get their money back. > > Just a word of warning. > > Mike M. Can you give us details regarding the merchandise involved??? Was it Basia stuff? Comics? Music? Other? -- Beverly Martin who always communicates with seller before bidding....! Check that feedback kids! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:34:41 -0600 From: "Don Leuty" Subject: Re: MAJOR EBAY WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Check the feedback. Exercise extra caution when there are low number, and stay away for the ones with negative feedback. Don't get caught up in the +ACI-power trip+ACI- of auctions. A fool and his money are easily separated...even quicker, it is a runaway auction. Keep your objectivity on value. Remember, all hot embers eventually cool. Ebay is a great place to buy and sell. But just like ANY community, there are predators. You must be mindful of your own well-being. - -----Original Message----- From: Beverly Martin +ADw-beej+AF8-martin+AEA-earthlink.net+AD4- To: basia+AEA-smoe.org +ADw-basia+AEA-smoe.org+AD4- Date: Sunday, January 31, 1999 11:18 PM Subject: Re: MAJOR EBAY WARNING+ACEAIQAhACEAIQAhACEAIQAhACEAIQAhACEAIQAhACEAIQAhACEAIQAhACEAIQAhACEAIQAhACE- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4- +AD4-Whipple930+AEA-aol.com wrote: +AD4- +AD4APg- Hello all, +AD4APg- +AD4APg- I have a little warning for you all. +AD4APg- +AD4APg- This is Mike M (Mikey Spice) and I have just started to wind up a rather +AD4APg- large investigation with the police on a large ebay scam. This looked like a +AD4APg- small local thing till I really looked into it. I wont got into the details +AD4APg- just suffice to say that this has gone from a +ACQ-56.00 thing to well over +AD4APg- +ACQ-10,000.00. The FBI and the postal inspectors are doing a lot more Than I +AD4APg- did, and I uncovered the scam. I have uncovered 3 different alias names and 3 +AD4APg- different false addresses with phone numbers. I don't want to scare you from +AD4APg- eBay. It is a great thing and it can work. But, do your homework on the +AD4APg- person you are buying from. Get their phone +ACM- from eBay. They will give it +AD4APg- to you. E-mail to others on the auction if you feel suspicious and see if +AD4APg- someone lives close to the seller. See if they will go and check this out. +AD4APg- That is how all this got started on my scam. One guy was suspicious and did +AD4APg- that. I was planning on just going to see the seller sense he lived less than +AD4APg- 6 miles from me and BOOM this thing blew up. So, be careful. So far it looks +AD4APg- like all the people involved in this thing are going to get their money back. +AD4APg- +AD4APg- Just a word of warning. +AD4APg- +AD4APg- Mike M. +AD4- +AD4-Can you give us details regarding the merchandise involved??? Was it Basia stuff? +AD4-Comics? Music? Other? +AD4- +AD4- -- Beverly Martin +AD4- +AD4- who always communicates with seller before bidding....+ACE- Check that +AD4-feedback kids+ACE- +AD4- +AD4- ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V4 #29 **************************