From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V10 #85 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, April 15 2005 Volume 10 : Number 085 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Headphones ["Desianto F. W." ] Re: Hugging an Olive Tree! ["Desianto F. W." ] Basia at the Beacon Theater [Brucecigar@aol.com] Re: Basia at the Beacon Theater [j w ] Re: Basia at the Beacon Theater [Leslie Osborn ] Re: Basia at the Beacon Theater [Leslie Osborn ] Re: OT Cats [PParm16424@aol.com] Another day.... [Leslie Osborn ] Re: OT Cats [Leslie Osborn ] OT: Know your state motto ["Barry" ] Re: OT Cats ["Amy ODonnell" ] RE: Headphones ["Steve O'Hearn" ] Re: OT Cats [Leslie Osborn ] RE: OT Cats ["Steve O'Hearn" ] RE: Headphones ["Jeff Abrams" ] Re: OT: Know your state motto ["Amy ODonnell" ] RE: Basia at the Beacon Theater ["Steve O'Hearn" ] Re: Another day.... [j w ] RE: Headphones [Leslie Osborn ] Re: Know your state motto [Leslie Osborn ] Re: Another day.... [Leslie Osborn ] RE: Basia at the Beacon Theater [Leslie Osborn ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 02:05:50 -0700 (PDT) From: "Desianto F. W." Subject: Re: Headphones IMHO, the black box on the back side of her pants is a transceiver, a transmitter and a receiver in one box. It's quite normal in a live performance since all the personells should be able to communicate among them well so they won't make or at least eliminate unecessary mistakes due to miscommunication. Czesc, Desianto F. W. =============================================== - --- Max Wellhouse wrote: > > Basia and Mark both wore some sort of ear pieces and I could see > Basia had > some sort of black box on the backside of her pants, so I figured it > was > part of a sound system that allowed them to hear each other. The > hearing > protection concept is intriguing as custom molded ear pieces with the > > proper flesh coloring etc and a volume control etc. would be a great > > idea. A deaf musician/singer is....well.... let's not go there. It > was > really loud in Pantages, but since I'm getting deafer by the year, it > is > likely louder to others than me. I see lot's of performers wearing > them and > have for quite some time. I'm waiting for the new technology that > allows > me to stick a $20 bill in a slot and get an hour of Basia singing > live. Or > maybe Paypal would set something up. > > dimwitted Moose and Flying Squirrel __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 02:14:01 -0700 (PDT) From: "Desianto F. W." Subject: Re: Hugging an Olive Tree! If only I lived next to you, I would be able to watch your kittens. If it could be true, we all would have a fellow singer with a stage name Amy DeLa Rossa.... :-) We used to have 6 cats. My mother, brothers, and I love them very much though they would make my father crazy. But now, I cannot have one because my mother has a quite serious ashtma and she should be away from fur or something allergic. So, I have to control myself not to take a cat home whenever I return home from my trip. Czesc, Desianto F. W. ================================================== - --- "Amy T. O'Donnell" wrote: > > Y'all are TOO FUNNY!!! But Desi, who would watch my Kittenz? > > Nah, it's just that someone asked me to sing, and I wanted to have > the music myself. I'll let you know what happens. It may not! > > Amy __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:28:24 EDT From: Brucecigar@aol.com Subject: Basia at the Beacon Theater Nutballs???? I didn't know that nuts had balls....I knew that snowmen had snowballs....hmmmmmmmm Anyway, back to the Beacon Theater. Recently, one of the other members of this august body wrote to say that he never really was much of a MB fan. Though I have never said it before, I too feel the same way. Other than listening to Half A Minute every so often, MB has never had much allure for me, except as a springboard to Basia's solo career. That being said, last nights show at the Beacon reminded me that "Any Basia is better than no Basia". The lady herself was , as one would expect......TERRIFIC as always. She had the same humility I have read about from earlier shows, but was not seen to be crying. I think she is truly beginning to understand that we all still love her, even after ten years. She was the center of the universe last night and she loved it. The Basia tunes , as well as the Basia written MB songs received limitless standing ovations and her voice was right on target, though it did seem like it took a song or two for the sound people to get her adjusted right. There was no question that Basia was the reason that everyone was there, as it should be. There did seem to be a significant amount of taped music added into the mix, though not enough to make Ashley Simpson blush by any means. Also, I could not help but notice the absence of Peter White, whose guitar work was sorely missed. However, the backing vocalists, including her sister, whom she claimed to have dragged out on tour, were outstanding. The real negative to the evening was the fact that, to my surprise, not only was the show not sold out, but I would have to guess that there had to be somewhere around 400 seats open in a venue that holds 2700. Basia even noted that when she thanked those of us"who came". Having been to the Basia on Broadway shows some 10 1/2 years ago, at the Neil Simon Theater, there wasn't an empty seat in the house, the band was so tight and there wasn't an MB to be found. Ah, those were the good old days. I, for one, will hope that Basia returns to her solo career ASAP, brings back Peter White and his guitar and continues making her music until I am old and gray. Come to think of it, I think I already have the gray part worked out. To all of those heading to the Westbury Music Fair tonite.....enjoy the show. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:07:08 -0700 (PDT) From: j w Subject: Re: Basia at the Beacon Theater I think Basia is going to have to make a hard decision. There is little question in my mind that had she done or ends up doing another solo album with proper promotion, she won't be playing small venues with a lot of empty seats. This isn't to say that she should abandon MB and do what the fans demand; if what she's doing now is what makes her happy and fulfilled as an artist and performer, then that fine. I have a proposal. Drop the opening act and make MB the opener. Do an hour of MB stuff, then do an hour or 90 minutes of Basia solo. Everyone's happy, she gets to keep performing with her old friends, they get to attach themselves to her popularity, and the fans get the music that they love rather than the "semi-Basia" material that they are willing to settle for. I can't fathom the MB members resenting this unless they are delusional; the audience was there to see her. - --- Brucecigar@aol.com wrote: > The real negative to the evening was the fact > that, to my surprise, not > only was the show not sold out, but I would have to > guess that there had to > be somewhere around 400 seats open in a venue that > holds 2700. Basia even > noted that when she thanked those of us"who came". > Having been to the Basia on > Broadway shows some 10 1/2 years ago, at the Neil > Simon Theater, there wasn't > an empty seat in the house, the band was so tight > and there wasn't an MB to > be found. Ah, those were the good old days. > > I, for one, will hope that Basia returns to her > solo career ASAP, brings > back Peter White and his guitar and continues making > her music until I am > old and gray. Come to think of it, I think I > already have the gray part worked > out. > > To all of those heading to the Westbury Music > Fair tonite.....enjoy the > show. > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:36:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Leslie Osborn Subject: Re: Basia at the Beacon Theater > I have a proposal. Drop the opening act and make MB > the opener. Do an hour of MB stuff, then do an hour > or 90 minutes of Basia solo. Everyone's happy, she > gets to keep performing with her old friends, they > get > to attach themselves to her popularity, and the fans > get the music that they love rather than the > "semi-Basia" material that they are willing to > settle > for. I can't fathom the MB members resenting this > unless they are delusional; the audience was there > to > see her. Hmmm... I like it! I agree with you-- there's some tough questions that are going to need to be answered when this album/tour runs its course. - --Leslie O. Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:39:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Leslie Osborn Subject: Re: Basia at the Beacon Theater > I, for one, will hope that Basia returns to her > solo career ASAP, brings > back Peter White and his guitar The thing with Peter White was that he decided to do this Jazz Attack (as if) tour that took place at roughly the same time as the MB tour, for whatever reasons he had. http://rickbraun.com/tourschedule.htm Are you feeling attacked by the jazz? whoa! Blargh. - --LO Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 11:42:50 EDT From: PParm16424@aol.com Subject: Re: OT Cats Desianto, I definitely "hear" you about cats. I am a cat lover myself. I grew up with them, and even after marriage, we had one (who found US) for about 4 years, not knowing that my wife was silently allergic. After Kitty, I just could never bring another one into the house. I teach piano in the students homes (mostly in nouveau riche Okemos), and one family had a small all black cat who had 6 front toes on her front feet. Fern and I became friends immediately, either clawing my hand to death play fighting during one brother's lesson or sound asleep on my lap during the other. Then the REAL temptation came much later when Fern became pregnant, and I was offered first choice to her one offspring, who was all black with 6 toes like her mother. Aaaargh! That was a toughie, but in the end, had to do the right thing and decline. Sigh!! Phil P. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:54:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Leslie Osborn Subject: Another day.... ...another email in my BasiaWeb mail saying everything is fabulous except Mark. Sigh. And at least this one was polite, I've gotten impolite ones, let's just say (i.e., that Cleveland review? you should have read it before I edited it) Man... I *like* Mark. But I would be a huge liar if I didn't admit that he isn't the amazing showman. I've been lucky enough to have heard a recording of a show, and it's painfully clear just on audio. And I hate to say that! I love the Matt's Mood album to freaking death, and I think he provides a great counterpoint to Basia on it. And since they can control stuff more in the studio, it isn't so uneven between he and Basia. But live... but it's clear that the singing ability imbalance that we heard on WSAYO has only magnified in the past twenty years. It's not exactly fair, to be beside someone as exceptional as Basia, and to be able to hold your own, but that's the situation as it is: two massive talents and this other guy. Again, I hate to say this... My fear is that she and Danny won't record again, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that, so I'll take her in any context. And honestly I would love to see what another MB album would sound like. But now I have to admit, aaargh, that we either need Basia and Danny back doing "solo" work, or Mark needs to undergo some serious vocal aerobics. I feel like such a jerk, but the truth hurts. - -- Leslie O. "People around the world want the same thing- wanting to love and be loved. The rest is just bulls---" Basia, Melody Maker, 1990 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:55:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Leslie Osborn Subject: Re: OT Cats > (mostly in nouveau riche Okemos) Whoa, Okemos is nouveau riche now? Damn, I have been away for a long time! - --LO Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:42:09 -0500 From: "Barry" Subject: OT: Know your state motto I just wanted to try to bring a laugh to your day. I hope everyone has a good weekend, it looks like it will be beautiful here. I hope it's great where you are too. (Those outside the US may not understand this post, sorry.) Barry KNOW YOUR STATE MOTTO Alabama Hell Yes, We Have Electricity. Alaska 11,623 Eskimos Can't Be Wrong! Arizona But It's A Dry Heat. Arkansas Literacy Ain't Everything. California By 30, Our Women Have More Plastic Than Your Honda. Colorado If You Don't Ski, Don't Bother. Connecticut Like Massachusetts, Only The Kennedy's Don't Own It Yet. Delaware We Really Do Like The Chemicals In Our Water. Florida Ask Us About Our Grandkids. Georgia We Put The Fun In Fundamentalist Extremism. Hawaii Haka Tiki Mou Sha'ami Leeki Toru (Death To Mainland Scum, Leave Your Money) Idaho More Than Just Potatoes... Well, Okay, We're Not, But The Potatoes Sure Are Real Good Illinois Please, Don't Pronounce the "S" Indiana 2 Billion Years Tidal Wave Free Iowa We Do Amazing Things With Corn Kansas First Of The Rectangle States Kentucky Five Million People; Fifteen Last Names Louisiana We're Not ALL Drunk Cajun Wackos, But That's Our Tourism Campaign. Maine We're Really Cold, But We Have Cheap Lobster Maryland If You Can Dream It, We Can Tax It Massachusetts Our Taxes Are Lower Than Sweden's Michigan First Line Of Defense > From The Canadians Minnesota 10,000 Lakes...And 10,000,000,000,000 Mosquitoes Mississippi Come And Feel Better About Your Own State Missouri Your Federal Flood Relief Tax Dollars At Work Montana Land Of The Big Sky, The Unabomber, Right-wing Crazies, and Very Little Else. Nebraska Ask About Our State Motto Contest Nevada Hookers and Poker! New Hampshire Go Away And Leave Us Alone New Jersey You Want A ##$%##! Motto? I Got Yer ##$%##! Motto Right here! New Mexico Lizards Make Excellent Pets New York You Have The Right To Remain Silent, You Have The Right To An Attorney... North Carolina Tobacco Is A Vegetable North Dakota We Really Are One Of The 50 States! Ohio At Least We're Not Michigan Oklahoma Like The Play, But No Singing Oregon Spotted Owl...It's What's For Dinner Pennsylvania Cook With Coal Rhode Island We're Not REALLY An Island South Carolina Remember The Civil War? Well, We Didn't Actually Surrender Yet South Dakota Closer Than North Dakota Tennessee The Edyoocashun State Texas Se Hablo Ingles Utah Our Jesus Is Better Than Your Jesus Vermont Ay, Yep Virginia Who Says Government Stiffs And Slackjaw Yokels Don't Mix? Washington We have more rain than you do West Virginia One Big Happy Family...Really! Wisconsin Come Cut The Cheese! Wyoming Where Men Are Men... And The Sheep Are Scared Joi Stewart Regulatory Analyst 580 Main Street Bolton, MA 01740 Ofc: 781-690-7447 Fax: 781-690-7454 This email and any files transmitted with it are the poroperty of Cingular Wireless, are confidential, and are intended soley for the use of the individual or entity to whome this email is addressed. If you are not one of the named recipient's or otherwise have reason to believe that you received this message in error, please notify the sender at joi.stewart@cingular.com and delete this message immediately from your computer. Any other use, retention, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of the email is strictly prohibited. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- Yahoo! Groups Links a.. To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lathums/ b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Lathums-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 16:04:18 GMT From: "Amy ODonnell" Subject: Re: OT Cats What the heck is Okemos anyway, and what does it have to do with a CAT??? - -- Leslie Osborn wrote: > (mostly in nouveau riche Okemos) Whoa, Okemos is nouveau riche now? Damn, I have been away for a long time! - --LO Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 10:46:10 -0400 From: "Steve O'Hearn" Subject: RE: Headphones Jeff - Thanks for this - I've been looking for a Birchmere review in particular. I'm a DC/Baltimore area local, but have been on extensive biz travel, mostly in the Atlanta/Greenville area. I made special arrangements to be back in town when the Ram's Head/Baltimore show was booked, and just barely got back into town in time to find out it had been cancelled. I *almost* re-arranged plans - again - to attend the shows at the Birchmere this week, but reluctantly decided not to. All to say - I was curious to know how it went. Thanks for the input. Was there much of a crowd there? - - Steve > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-basia@smoe.org [mailto:owner-basia@smoe.org]On Behalf Of > Jeff Abrams > Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 12:54 AM > To: basia@smoe.org > Subject: RE: Headphones > > > > I just got back from the concert at the Birchmere. > Beside the horrible mix (soundman was addicted to reverb in unbearable > quantities), I was dismayed at the reliance on MIDI sequencing/backing > tracks. So much of the music was pre-recorded it was distracting. > I don't see why they needed it with 12 musicians on stage. > The musicianship was fine, however. > They were using in-ear monitors as well, which makes it easier to keep the > volume down on stage. > O2L was beyond boring. Good musicians again, though. > > In all, It was nice to see Basia again. > > --- > > Jeff Abrams > maniac@mazdamaniac.com > > > I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash > is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, > then, when somebody comes up, act like they just woke up and go, "What was > THAT?!" > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-basia@smoe.org [mailto:owner-basia@smoe.org]On Behalf Of > Leslie Osborn > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 9:01 PM > To: basia@smoe.org > Subject: Headphones > > > > I wonder if this something that Basia was talking > about on the Hey Now interview-- she said they were > using a new technology in rehearsals that involved > earpieces. I don't know a thing about this but I got > the impression that the whole band was wired so they > could hear one another and not practice so loudly, > anyway. (the subject got brought up about hearing loss > and safety, and this came up. Probably not making any > sense here. Maybe I need to replay the clip for > myself. ack) > > How this relates to the show context I have no idea, > but thought it may be useful! Probably not though. > > --Leslie O. the demoted one > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:23:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Leslie Osborn Subject: Re: OT Cats > What the heck is Okemos anyway, and what does it > have to do with a CAT??? When I was still living in Michigan, it was a yee-haw kind of town, my friend lived there. Now Phil is saying it is now a nouveau riche enclave which surprised me, is all. Nothing to see here.... - --LO __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:23:18 -0400 From: "Steve O'Hearn" Subject: RE: OT Cats Leslie needs to create http://www.CatWeb.com > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-basia@smoe.org [mailto:owner-basia@smoe.org]On Behalf Of > PParm16424@aol.com > Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 11:43 AM > To: basia@smoe.org > Subject: Re: OT Cats > > > > Desianto, > > I definitely "hear" you about cats. I am a cat lover myself. I > grew up with > them, and even after marriage, we had one (who found US) for > about 4 years, not > knowing that my wife was silently allergic. After Kitty, I just > could never > bring another one into the house. I teach piano in the students > homes (mostly > in nouveau riche Okemos), and one family had a small all black > cat who had 6 > front toes on her front feet. Fern and I became friends > immediately, either > clawing my hand to death play fighting during one brother's > lesson or sound asleep > on my lap during the other. Then the REAL temptation came much later when > Fern became pregnant, and I was offered first choice to her one > offspring, who > was all black with 6 toes like her mother. Aaaargh! That was a > toughie, but in > the end, had to do the right thing and decline. Sigh!! > > Phil P. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:24:35 -0400 From: "Jeff Abrams" Subject: RE: Headphones My replies keep getting lost. Let me try this again. The ear pieces and boxes on the belt lines and back pockets are monitors. The are only receivers and allow each artist to have their own monitor mix and have it at a level that won't fatigue their ears the way an on-stage floor wedge monitor would. They have no transmitting capability. Generally, what is presented in them is mainly their own vocal, followed by the remaining vocals and a touch of the softer musical elements like the keyboards and a bit of the bass. Most of the other instruments (especially the drums) are loud enough on stage as not to require that they be present in the monitor mix. That is all they are for. No transcieving and certainly not "new" technology as has been speculated. In fact, the model they used on Thursday (Shure PSM 600) has been the standard for quite a while. As far as new technology goes for help in their rehearsals and such as was eluded to earlier, the digitally pre-recorded music tracks (MIDI) have been around since 1982. Using software with digital audio capability as well (like Cakewalk, Soundforge or Pro Tools) allowed Danny to cue up a track with a discrete click track for the drummer, some of the keyboard parts and much of the background vocal work. Unfortunately, it tends to make the band a slave to the technology and, when it fails or has a hiccup (as it did twice at the Birchmere on Thursday) it is embarrassing. Long pauses between songs and one even misfiring entirely led Basia to comment "Danny is practicing." Add to that the ineptitude of the sound man at the Birchmere, who didn't seem to know how to utilize the MIDI parts in his mix so he left them sticking out like a sore thumb, and you have a perceptibly "unnatural" performance. It bothered me quite a bit on the songs that used it most heavily. Understand, this is what I do for a living and the bands I work with are almost entirely sequenced using MIDI, so I am certainly not against the technology. In fact, most of what I do couldn't be done any other way because the groups for which I program only have 5 or 6 musicians - only 3 of which have instruments in hand (the others are singing). This is why I find it a bit disturbing for a 12 piece band to rely on pre-recorded tracks. Certainly, the 13 people on stage at the Paul Simon Theatre in November of 1994 were able to produce much of the same music without this sort of crutch. I'd even assert that those performances in "Basia on Broadway" are, in many ways, superior to the original studio work. To see such lame performances from the guitar and bass, to hear the live vocal work overrun by the pre-recorded tracks and to watch the unsurpassable talent of Danny White get subrogated to button-pushing made me very sad and a bit angry. However, I'm sure much of this was based on a business decision. MIDI sequencing allows you to go on stage with fewer musicians and with considerably less rehearsal time. The "BoB" performances featured a trombone player and a percussionist who both had keyboards and filled in much of the textural synth parts. That band was, obviously, much more talented and much more rehearsed. Sorry to be such a downer, but even a day later, I am still a little depressed after seeing Matt Bianco. I really expected more. P.S. - Something more that upset me, though totally unrelated - the audience. Beside the fact that so many people were talking loudly over the music, the entire crowd made it quite obvious that they were there to see Basia and not Mark. Whenever Basia would re-introduce him, the audience was stone silent. Not a clap or cheer in the place. I really felt bad for him. Furthermore, the people there would actually groan and boo when Basia would announce that they were going to do a song off of the new album! P.P.S. - Basia has still got it. She is so charismatic and her singing so svelte that it is intoxicating. - --- Jeff Abrams maniac@mazdamaniac.com I think fooseball is a combination of soccer and shishkabobs. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 16:25:09 GMT From: "Amy ODonnell" Subject: Re: OT: Know your state motto Hey, if y'all want something funnier than that. . .here in Houston there is a commercial running to advertise New Orleans as a tourist destination. I've not seen it yet, but I've heard about it. Shows this couple happily strolling around Jackson Square (in the French Quarter, where most people end up and think they've "seen New Orleans") and are not hassled by kids on skateboards trying to take your money, musicians with their cases open for you to throw change in it, bums whizzing in the street, drunks in various stages of intoxication, and all the other wonderful things you experience when you walk through the Quarter, like portrait artists all over Jackson Square begging to "paint" your picture. THEN--they're in a restaurant with 9 waiters singing and tending to their every need, 'cause they're the only ones in the place. They walk outside and there's a PARADE!! YEAHH!! I want to see THAT New Orleans. But seeing as I grew up in New Orleans and spent many years as an adult there. . .I know that't not what it really looks like. Oh, and the cops don't call you "cher," either--like NYC, you might not like what they call you. And no, there is NOT a Mardi Gras parade every day, I don't care what anybody tells you. New Orlenians do NOT walk around in costume all the time, either, no matter what the Chamber of Commerce says. Okay, I got that off my chest. . .oh, and not everybody from New Orleans is "Cajun," either, including me. Later! Amy - -- "Barry" wrote: I just wanted to try to bring a laugh to your day. I hope everyone has a good weekend, it looks like it will be beautiful here. I hope it's great where you are too. (Those outside the US may not understand this post, sorry.) Barry KNOW YOUR STATE MOTTO Alabama Hell Yes, We Have Electricity. Alaska 11,623 Eskimos Can't Be Wrong! Arizona But It's A Dry Heat. Arkansas Literacy Ain't Everything. California By 30, Our Women Have More Plastic Than Your Honda. Colorado If You Don't Ski, Don't Bother. Connecticut Like Massachusetts, Only The Kennedy's Don't Own It Yet. Delaware We Really Do Like The Chemicals In Our Water. Florida Ask Us About Our Grandkids. Georgia We Put The Fun In Fundamentalist Extremism. Hawaii Haka Tiki Mou Sha'ami Leeki Toru (Death To Mainland Scum, Leave Your Money) Idaho More Than Just Potatoes... Well, Okay, We're Not, But The Potatoes Sure Are Real Good Illinois Please, Don't Pronounce the "S" Indiana 2 Billion Years Tidal Wave Free Iowa We Do Amazing Things With Corn Kansas First Of The Rectangle States Kentucky Five Million People; Fifteen Last Names Louisiana We're Not ALL Drunk Cajun Wackos, But That's Our Tourism Campaign. Maine We're Really Cold, But We Have Cheap Lobster Maryland If You Can Dream It, We Can Tax It Massachusetts Our Taxes Are Lower Than Sweden's Michigan First Line Of Defense > From The Canadians Minnesota 10,000 Lakes...And 10,000,000,000,000 Mosquitoes Mississippi Come And Feel Better About Your Own State Missouri Your Federal Flood Relief Tax Dollars At Work Montana Land Of The Big Sky, The Unabomber, Right-wing Crazies, and Very Little Else. Nebraska Ask About Our State Motto Contest Nevada Hookers and Poker! New Hampshire Go Away And Leave Us Alone New Jersey You Want A ##$%##! Motto? I Got Yer ##$%##! Motto Right here! New Mexico Lizards Make Excellent Pets New York You Have The Right To Remain Silent, You Have The Right To An Attorney... North Carolina Tobacco Is A Vegetable North Dakota We Really Are One Of The 50 States! Ohio At Least We're Not Michigan Oklahoma Like The Play, But No Singing Oregon Spotted Owl...It's What's For Dinner Pennsylvania Cook With Coal Rhode Island We're Not REALLY An Island South Carolina Remember The Civil War? Well, We Didn't Actually Surrender Yet South Dakota Closer Than North Dakota Tennessee The Edyoocashun State Texas Se Hablo Ingles Utah Our Jesus Is Better Than Your Jesus Vermont Ay, Yep Virginia Who Says Government Stiffs And Slackjaw Yokels Don't Mix? Washington We have more rain than you do West Virginia One Big Happy Family...Really! Wisconsin Come Cut The Cheese! Wyoming Where Men Are Men... And The Sheep Are Scared Joi Stewart Regulatory Analyst 580 Main Street Bolton, MA 01740 Ofc: 781-690-7447 Fax: 781-690-7454 This email and any files transmitted with it are the poroperty of Cingular Wireless, are confidential, and are intended soley for the use of the individual or entity to whome this email is addressed. If you are not one of the named recipient's or otherwise have reason to believe that you received this message in error, please notify the sender at joi.stewart@cingular.com and delete this message immediately from your computer. Any other use, retention, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of the email is strictly prohibited. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- Yahoo! Groups Links a.. To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lathums/ b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Lathums-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:30:43 -0400 From: "Steve O'Hearn" Subject: RE: Basia at the Beacon Theater That's a brilliant idea. MB as an opener for B would make smart marketing sense. I do have to wonder, though, if she's dealing with any prima donna attitudes. I don't know enough about the people involved one way or the other, but I spent some time as a professional musician during college and after, and found a disproportionate amount of arrogance in that field. I *also* found a disproportionate amount of humility, too - perhaps music and the arts just brings it out in people, or attracts the more extreme ends of the emotional spectrum - but regardless, I could easily see that she might (a) want to be with friends, but (b) her friends might be a little strong willed on this issue. Who knows. But an MB-opening act for a headline Basia tour would be great. Having said that - I'm sure the reason for the un-sold-out events is simply P.R. She's been out of circulation for over ten years, and there's been no big national American media attention to her 'return'. To top it all off, how many Basia fans ever heard of Matt Bianco, really? Were it not for this listserv, I would never have known the connection. A "Matt Bianco" announcement in a local City Paper may just as well have been some random local band for all I knew. And yet I still listen to TAT and LWNY and TSI and BoB *** all *** the time, more than any other CD's I own, even today. I'm with the National Press Club in DC, and periodically edit the newsletter there - I did our issue just last week, and covered the Angelina Jolie appearance a few weeks before that. The people there who know Basia didn't know she was "back" - so if the media doesn't know, how will anyone else? I know a bunch of fans in the Real World, and have spread the word about this tour, and everyone responds to me the same way - they love her, but hadn't heard anything - ANYTHING - about the tour or the release of M's M. - - Steve P.S. There's an idea ... Matt's Mood ... M's M ... reminds one of M&M's ... which are made by Mars Corporation, within a few miles of my condo in McLean, Virginia ... perhaps the two should team up and release some promotional candies called "M's M" ... course, that would have to just be one "M", then. I guess. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-basia@smoe.org [mailto:owner-basia@smoe.org]On Behalf Of j w > Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 11:07 AM > To: basia@smoe.org > Subject: Re: Basia at the Beacon Theater > > > > I think Basia is going to have to make a hard > decision. There is little question in my mind that > had she done or ends up doing another solo album with > proper promotion, she won't be playing small venues > with a lot of empty seats. > > This isn't to say that she should abandon MB and do > what the fans demand; if what she's doing now is what > makes her happy and fulfilled as an artist and > performer, then that fine. > > I have a proposal. Drop the opening act and make MB > the opener. Do an hour of MB stuff, then do an hour > or 90 minutes of Basia solo. Everyone's happy, she > gets to keep performing with her old friends, they get > to attach themselves to her popularity, and the fans > get the music that they love rather than the > "semi-Basia" material that they are willing to settle > for. I can't fathom the MB members resenting this > unless they are delusional; the audience was there to > see her. > > --- Brucecigar@aol.com wrote: > > The real negative to the evening was the fact > > that, to my surprise, not > > only was the show not sold out, but I would have to > > guess that there had to > > be somewhere around 400 seats open in a venue that > > holds 2700. Basia even > > noted that when she thanked those of us"who came". > > Having been to the Basia on > > Broadway shows some 10 1/2 years ago, at the Neil > > Simon Theater, there wasn't > > an empty seat in the house, the band was so tight > > and there wasn't an MB to > > be found. Ah, those were the good old days. > > > > I, for one, will hope that Basia returns to her > > solo career ASAP, brings > > back Peter White and his guitar and continues making > > her music until I am > > old and gray. Come to think of it, I think I > > already have the gray part worked > > out. > > > > To all of those heading to the Westbury Music > > Fair tonite.....enjoy the > > show. > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Make Yahoo! your home page > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:27:05 -0700 (PDT) From: j w Subject: Re: Another day.... Come on, it couldn't have been as bad as mine. ;) - --- Leslie Osborn wrote: > (i.e., that Cleveland review? you should have read > it > before I edited it) __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:41:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Leslie Osborn Subject: RE: Headphones > Sorry to be such a downer, but even a day later, I > am still a little > depressed after seeing Matt Bianco. I really > expected more. > > P.S. - Something more that upset me, though totally > unrelated - the > audience. Beside the fact that so many people were > talking loudly over the > music, the entire crowd made it quite obvious that > they were there to see > Basia and not Mark. Whenever Basia would > re-introduce him, the audience was > stone silent. Not a clap or cheer in the place. I > really felt bad for him. > Furthermore, the people there would actually groan > and boo when Basia would > announce that they were going to do a song off of > the new album! My God, this is depressing. Not to even mention the band issues. All the help they can get is needed for them right now, and shows like this aren't doing them any favors. - --LO __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:43:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Leslie Osborn Subject: Re: Know your state motto > YEAHH!! I want to see THAT New Orleans. But seeing > as I grew up in New Orleans and spent many years as > an adult there. . .I know that't not what it really > looks like. Oh, and the cops don't call you "cher," > either--like NYC, you might not like what they call > you. It's like the tourism commercials I used to see in Michigan where they'd show a really cool version of Detroit that I wish actually existed. - --LO __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:45:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Leslie Osborn Subject: Re: Another day.... > Come on, it couldn't have been as bad as mine. ;) True-- but you weren't submitting it for more public consumption! :-D - --LO (it still cracks me up, BTW) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:52:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Leslie Osborn Subject: RE: Basia at the Beacon Theater > Having said that - I'm sure the reason for the > un-sold-out events is simply > P.R. She's been out of circulation for over ten > years, and there's been no > big national American media attention to her > 'return'. To top it all off, > how many Basia fans ever heard of Matt Bianco, > really? Were it not for this > listserv, I would never have known the connection. > A "Matt Bianco" > announcement in a local City Paper may just as well > have been some random > local band for all I knew. And yet I still listen > to TAT and LWNY and TSI > and BoB *** all *** the time, more than any other > CD's I own, even today. IMHO, the problems: - --no one knows who the hell MB is, exactly - --their album is proving to be a very very slow burn, as far as exposure, unless you have Sirius! I think if they waited a few more months, this problem would be eased a bit - --their promoters suck big time. There have been so many and if someone can explain more about this, please do, but they all seem like they can't be bothered. - --not to mention this whole Matt Bianco featuring Basia thing is effing confusing to the average person. - --smooth jazz stations are giving less than a shit about it, just like they did TSI. This grinds me to no end. They are too busy playing ancient songs and their chart is full of song that have been on for two years. And Kenny G. > I'm with the National Press Club in DC, and > periodically edit the newsletter > there - I did our issue just last week, and covered > the Angelina Jolie > appearance a few weeks before that. The people > there who know Basia didn't > know she was "back" - so if the media doesn't know, > how will anyone else? Lordy! We ARE hosed! Pessimistically (remember, good tickets can STILL be had in Cupertino!), Leslie O. __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V10 #85 ***************************