From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V11 #15 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 Sunday, February 5 2006 Volume 11 : Number 015 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Donald Fagen's new stuff ["Leslie O." ] OT - Aimee Mann [JPovlock@aol.com] Re: OT - Aimee Mann ["Leslie O." ] Re: OT - Euge Groove [PParm16424@aol.com] Re: OT - Chuck Prophet ["Barry" ] Re: OT - Euge Groove ["Leslie O." ] Re: OT - Heather Headley ["Leslie O." ] What songs would you like to hear Basia cover? [J3SITE@aol.com] And a bonus OT- Neil Diamond, of all people ["Leslie O." Subject: Donald Fagen's new stuff Since most of this list as well as the subjects of this list are such big Steely Dan/Donald Fagen fans, get this: apparently Donald Fagen is going to tour the US *and* a new album, Morph the Cat, is due in March. Whoa! I had no idea until someone on B2 posted about it. http://www.donaldfagen.com Wish I knew if I'll be here in Detroit or back in the Bay Area by then.. would love to see him! Should be good. I hope the tour goes to London eventually, so a certain vocalist, keyboardist and trumpeter can see him live ^_^ The song that launches when you dial up his site is now lodged in my head, haha. - -- Leslie O. www.basiaweb.com / www.gruentransfer.com "Richard Hamilton is just ridiculous!" - Fred McLeod, FSN's Pistons announcer Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 17:10:03 EST From: JPovlock@aol.com Subject: OT - Aimee Mann A couple nights ago I saw Aimee Mann perform here in Buffalo. She put on a good show. She is a real "folkie", doing the singer-songwriter routine. She plays the guitar quite well, and she had two other musicians with her. She was enjoyable. But I gotta tell you about the opening act. Has anyone ever heard of Chuck Prophet? I never did, but let me tell you, he was terrific. I looked him up at Amazon, and he has recorded four CD's. He is also a singer-songwriter. He played a fairly clean electric guitar the whole night, and boy does he have some great licks on the axe! He sat on a chair for the whole show using two microphones - one was for his normal singing voice, the other had a "fuzzy" sound to it. That was a pretty cool effect. Funny how I walked out that night thinking Aimee was good but Chuck was DAMN GOOD! Jim P. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 15:58:13 -0800 (PST) From: "Leslie O." Subject: Re: OT - Aimee Mann > But I gotta tell you about the opening act. Has > anyone ever heard of Chuck > Prophet? I never did, but let me tell you, he was > terrific. I looked him up at > Amazon, and he has recorded four CD's. Yeah, I didn't know him by name but I've heard him a lot on KFOG and Sirius' Spectrum, particularly "You Did" and "Just to See You Smile". Maybe it's just me, but I hear a little Zevon in his tone and delivery, just a bit. It's a good thing. - -- Leslie O. www.basiaweb.com / www.gruentransfer.com "Richard Hamilton is just ridiculous!" - Fred McLeod, FSN's Pistons announcer Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 23:20:54 EST From: PParm16424@aol.com Subject: Re: OT - Euge Groove Whilst we are OT, anybody else blown away by Euge Groove? If you like saxophones and funky beats (like I do) you will "groove" with him. (Steven Eugene Grove) I bought "Just Feels Right" a few weeks ago, and can't get enough of it! :) Phil P. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 20:15:34 -0600 From: "Barry" Subject: Re: OT - Chuck Prophet I don't know Aimee Mann, but I do know Chuck Prophet. I have some of his music, and it's awesome. I have no idea when or where I discovered him (same as Basia and most of the lesser known artists that I like). But when I did, I knew I had to hear more. Barry "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 20:37:27 -0800 (PST) From: "Leslie O." Subject: Re: OT - Euge Groove > Whilst we are OT, anybody else blown away by Euge > Groove? If you like > saxophones and funky beats (like I do) you will > "groove" with him. (Steven Eugene > Grove) I bought "Just Feels Right" a few weeks ago, > and can't get enough of it! :) I found the interludes a lot more interesting-- and funky-- than the actual songs on that album. It's okay, but it's general smooth jazz fare to my ear. Though he does get propers for being from Tower of Power. I also saw in the iTunes Music Store blurbette that most of Just Feels Right uses only pre-1976 gear? That's pretty interesting if it's true! His first album Livin Large has a nice urban roll-through-the-city vibe to it-- or at least any time I heard a song from it I wasn't opposed to it. Though they played XXL every five minutes, it seemed, on Sirius for a while ;-) - -- Leslie O. www.basiaweb.com / www.gruentransfer.com "Richard Hamilton is just ridiculous!" - Fred McLeod, FSN's Pistons announcer Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 20:43:31 -0800 (PST) From: "Leslie O." Subject: Re: OT - Heather Headley While we're on a kick here, anyone for Heather Headley? After hearing the occasional song that makes me stop and pause hardcore for several months now, I'm about a stone's throw from getting an album. She's basically soul, but apparently comes from musicals. It made sense when I heard that, 'cause she really seemed to be *feeling* some of the songs, in a dramatic sort of sense. In a good way. (Hey, I've been laying out sudoku puzzles for the last three hours, that's the best description I can muster ;-) ) - -- Leslie O. www.basiaweb.com / www.gruentransfer.com "Richard Hamilton is just ridiculous!" - Fred McLeod, FSN's Pistons announcer Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 23:50:09 EST From: J3SITE@aol.com Subject: What songs would you like to hear Basia cover? I was just listening to kd lang's "Constant Craving" and I thought, "I'd love to hear Basia do that song." What songs would you like to hear covered by Basia? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 20:53:31 -0800 (PST) From: "Leslie O." Subject: And a bonus OT- Neil Diamond, of all people My brother gave me his new one, and it's very very good. Almost the same, production-wise, as the last Johnny Cash album, except it's all original songs. But the approach works, he sounds rrreal. Current inescapable single: "I'm Sprung," T-Pain. Go vocoders! I didn't want to like this song, 'cause it's ridiculous. But man, the dooo doooo dooooooooos did it. Anyway... more puzzles for me. Grrroan... - -- Leslie O. www.basiaweb.com / www.gruentransfer.com "Richard Hamilton is just ridiculous!" - Fred McLeod, FSN's Pistons announcer Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 21:11:33 -0800 (PST) From: "Leslie O." Subject: Re: What songs would you like to hear Basia cover? > I was just listening to kd lang's "Constant Craving" > and I thought, "I'd love > to hear Basia do that song." > > What songs would you like to hear covered by Basia? "Show Biz Kids." Just because it would be hugely entertaining to hear Basia sing, "You know they don't give a fuck about anybody else." But seriously, while I'm more a fan of originals, I could live with a Steely Dan or Donald Fagen song. Though the *ultimate* would be Basia singing backing vocals on an actual Steely Dan song. For real. Maybe Stevie Wonder again. "Another Star" would make sense. "I Believe When I Fall In Love It Would Be Forever"? "Overjoyed"? The thing is, everyone and their uncle covers Stevie, so it'd be preferably a song not so well known. Though the ultimate would be Stevie singing "Say The Words." I was thinking this on the way back from the hospital the other day. It would be sweetass, admit it. ;-P And of course there is the unlikely cover-- a song done in such a radically different way than the original that it makes one take pause. Not sure what that would be for Basia, but I'd love to see people knocked on their ass by something unexpected and learn it was her doing the knocking. Vocally, of course. - -- Leslie O. www.basiaweb.com / www.gruentransfer.com "Richard Hamilton is just ridiculous!" - Fred McLeod, FSN's Pistons announcer Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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