Errors-To: owner-ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Reply-To: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Sender: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu From: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu To: ecto-request@ns1.rutgers.edu Bcc: ecto-digest-outbound@ns1.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto #445 ecto, Number 445 Thursday, 18 February 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Re: A CELEBRITY IN OUR MIDST.... KKSF, Happy, Record Stores Re: Runners/Save Our Souls Re: Discography equipoisities Re:lax ectopourriirruopotce ::---:: Writing phew... ======================================================================== This digest is a little short, but better to send it out now (i hope) than have grow to be way too big for one digest by tomorrow morning! (which is what I am quite sure would happen :) ecto has been busy and quite wonderful lately!! --jessica ======================================================================== From: meth@aol.com Subject: Re: A CELEBRITY IN OUR MIDST.... Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 21:41:54 EST Hi! <<>> Yep, that was me. I'm still at WESU, but since I had Monday off and Cliff Furnald (whose show you all should listen to whenever it's on, regardless of whether you're in the listening area :) wanted me to do a guest spot, so woj and I trundled down to beautiful (koff) downtown Bridgeport for two hours of unadulterated weirness. And people actually *listened* to that??? I'm sending WPKN a tape, to put myself on their (long :P) list... Cliff will definitely give me a good word, and I would love to be on the air with the potential listenership that station has! Incidentally, the "Happy Rhodes Segues With Anything" set included Runners, Possessed, and Poetic Justice... and was very well received. Cliff was going to call Kevin tonight and tell him to send all 6 albums to the station, because now there are people who really want to play her stuff down there... Mission accomplished. (Yes, I taped 90 of the 120 minutes I was on and have a full playlist of the entire show...) Meredith meth@aol.com ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 15:11 PST From: scottz@gentoo.com (Scott Zimmerman) Subject: KKSF, Happy, Record Stores Vickie- Thanks for answering my Sesame Street question. Have you watched the show yet? This is a children's show that is far and away more sophisticated than most adult shows! Well, at -times- at least. :) I called up KKSF this morning to ask about Equipoise. The person I talked to said that the CD has been added to the library. This means it has received or will receive airplay. The guy on the phone couldn't provide me with any actual track names though. Julianne- There are lots of good record stores in the San Francisco area. However, I haven't been impressed with any local stores when it comes to their ability to stock Happy CDs. I still haven't found Equipoise! I'm just ordering it now... In SF, I do a lot of shopping at the three R's on Haight Street--Rough Trade Records, Reckless Records, and Recycled Records. The only Happy CD I've found at one of those stores is "Warpaint", though. Another good cluster of stores is around Market and Noe--Streetlight, Record Finder, and Tower. A lot of Tower stores are good at stocking Happy CDs. A Tower Records is where I picked up Rhodes I & II, and Ecto. For me, the most enjoyable location to shop for records is on Telegraph Ave. in Berkeley, just south of the UC Berkeley campus. That street has a lot of atmopshere -- certainly more than Haight Street in SF. There's always a large slew of street vendors selling jewelry, tie-dyed shirts, and other assorted cool stuff. And in Berkeley, the sun even shines! On Telegraph, there's Amoeba Records, and Rasputin Records, and a half block down Durant there's Leopold's and Tower. I've seen various Happy CDs at all of those stores. Another Berkeley record store that I like a whole lot is Mod Lang. It's on University Ave--a couple blocks west of UCB. Scott ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 22:17:03 EST From: WretchAwry Subject: Re: Runners/Save Our Souls > Is anybody working to enter the lyrics for the aforementioned two > HappySongs? I almost have the full Equipoise lyrics file composed but > the lyrics for these two songs have not arrived. Ciao, > > -- John I've already started doing these for myself, so I'll just finish and send them on. Vickie ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 23:07:24 EST From: WretchAwry Subject: Re: Discography John writes: > Is there a full Happy Discography available? Or does it as of now only > include her four cassettes, six CDs and two comps? (Klaus told me to > ask.) That's all the official releases. The Bartlett/Rhodes demo would definitely fit into a discography, but only if it were clearly marked "unavailable." After all, the comp CDs are "unavailable" too. Btw, the MIDEM CD has a name and a number. Looking at the spine... Hired Gun MIDEM '93 HGM 12019 "Waking Up" is track 2. In the booklet there's the photo from the cover of Warpaint, the photo without the writing. It's in black and white. The blurb next to the photo is "Hailed as one of the most exciting new independent releases of 1992, "Warpaint" is a brilliant offering. Blending haunting melodies and harmonies, this amazing singer/songwriter with a four and a half octave range has critics and fans raving. Impeccably recorded. the album blends rich synthesized arrangements with lush vocals. Radio airplay continues today as A.G readies her sixth record "Equipoise" for early 1993 release." "Feed The Fire" is track 11. It features the promo shot from last year. There are 3 blurbs on this page. "Rhodes sounds like a cross between Laura Nyro and an African Poetess." Billboard Magazine "#1 phones for 12 or 13 weeks in a row on an artist that nobody had heard of is unprecedented." Mike Morrison WXPN "In May, 1992, college radio station WXPN in Philadelphia, PA USA, started playing "Feed The Fire" from the album, "Warpaint." 3500 pieces sold over the next six months in the Philly market. Airplay continues today as the sales base now covers the entire United States." If anyone's interested, the other artists on the CD are, Benny Weinbeck, Physical Therapy, Noyz, Heavy Metal Horns, Chuck, Karen Goldberg, Fred Jacobs, Craig Peyton and Schwendener & Farquharson. Happy is the only artist with 2 tracks. (yay!) I haven't listened to the CD. Vickie ======================================================================== Subject: equipoisities Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 23:12:52 -0500 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu A few comments/questions I haven't seen addressed (and I'm sorry to say I dont' remember who asked about them...horrible, ain't I?) Regarding drawing accompanying "The Flight": this is the logo Happy drew I'm guessing a year or more ago. It appears on the front of the t-shirt AG sells (which frankly isn't nearly the quality of the ecto T's, which were cheaper...) But anyway. This icon is the body of a dove with the wings of a bat, symbolizing what the count is and what he will become--his duality. "The creatures of the night release him to become the dove again." Today, I think, someone commented on the rather odd line from "I Say": "I pull the bugs from death." I was thinking about that, and the best explanation I could think of was saving 'bugs' (though the image I associate with Happy would be specifically butterflies) from a spider's web. Is this another example of Happy's struggle for equipoise? She does a 'good deed' in saving the bug, yet robs the humble spider of its meal. And now a question which I doubt anyone could answer, but perhaps Vickie will pass it on to Happy 'n Kevin: the ocean between "He Will Come" and "The Flight" is absolutely gorgeous. I remembere the recent posting about Dr. Mountain's nature recordings, and wondered if he had supplied this soundbite... Jeff |Jeffrey C. Burka | "Fairies are the perfect people to do this | |(suffering Bad Grammar) | sort of work. Biologically, their upper | |jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu | bodies are strong enough to wield a pickaxe...." | ======================================================================== From: r.lovejoy1@genie.geis.com Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 23:03:00 EDT Subject: Re:lax Greetings Ectokians! Just thought of a question... Of course, this has probably already been done as I'm rather new here, but I was wondering what our age range was. At the Big concert in Philly (Harrison Aud.), Happy's mom and I were talking about the eclectic mix of the crowd. It seems rather vast here as well! I'm 46, anyone here older than me? Who may be the youngest? Does this matter? Probably not, just curious! Jeff, sorry if I seem condescending at all! I admit to loving a few top 40 songs, sure! I was just reacting to some frustration in trying to turn other people on to Happy's music, finding it odd that many people prefer singers with what appears to me to be less talent. Then again, different strokes for different folks! I never meant to put anyone down! As for my computer, it's a capable 386 pc. The trouble is, I'm on Genie, and they just don't have the ability to cut and paste! Hence, no >>> rehashes. Yup, I guess I could type text all over again, but time is precious! Vickie, please send your mailing address to me by e-mail, and I'll have a Helen Leicht WXPN HappyInterview off to you ASAP! I'm also curious about the BIG NEWS gone and back again. I'm in pretty frequent touch with Susanne, but she always says wait and see when I press her for news and plans, and had indicated some weeks ago the first BIG NEWS, whatever it was, wasn't certain. I'm still hoping to help them with a video of some sort, but things are not certain there either. To those of you in Australia going to the Peter Gabriel show, wow! Enjoy, have fun, and please tell us how it went! Take care everyone, and Happy Listening! Bob Lovejoy ======================================================================== Subject: Re: Discography Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 23:17:36 -0500 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu Vickie sez: >Btw, the MIDEM CD has a name and a number. Looking at the spine... > >Hired Gun MIDEM '93 HGM 12019 Many thanks for the description/quotes. >"Feed The Fire" is track 11. [...] >"In May, 1992, college radio station >WXPN in Philadelphia, PA USA, started playing "Feed The Fire" from >the album, "Warpaint." Is this right? After all, the Philly concert was in *March* '92. Jeff ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 23:27:55 EST From: WretchAwry Subject: Re: Discography > Vickie sez: > > >Hired Gun MIDEM '93 HGM 12019 > > >"Feed The Fire" is track 11. [...] > >"In May, 1992, college radio station > >WXPN in Philadelphia, PA USA, started playing "Feed The Fire" from > >the album, "Warpaint." > > Is this right? After all, the Philly concert was in *March* '92. I know, I know, but that's what it says. Someone forgot to tell them that FTF was the #1 Most Requested song on WXPN in *1991*! This CD is (C)1993, so I guess that even if they knew, they wouldn't want the information to sound too dated. Vickie ======================================================================== Date: 17 Feb 93 15:35:49 EST From: Mike Mendelson Subject: ectopourriirruopotce ::---:: SO ANYWAYS, I loaded my two-tiered CD-player (it's one of those compromises between a single-loader and a changer... you can load 2 CDs at a time, load a new one while the other is playing, program off both of them, do random shuffle on one or both, etc.) with EQP and Ecto and set it on double random shuffle. As a result, I now know why Happy sent you (whoever you are) Ecto as the "pick one any one" disk... because it is a work of genius... it really is. And not just side 2 either. The whole thing is brilliant. I think inspiration-wise and song-writing-quality-wise, Ecto is the best Happy has (and I hate to say it but also will) ever produced. The songs are just that good. It's funny how you listen to an album by an artist and you just know that that was their moment of divine summoning, the collective pull of all their life-experience, their ultimate command of the forces of creativity --- it is smooth and natural and inevitable all at the same time. You hear and you say "yes, I understand, it's obvious now." I **love** EQP and I think it is drawing me to Happy's music in a new exciting way that I was never drawn to it before, but I was just sitting on my sofa listening to some of these Ecto tracks this morning (the random fcn of the CD player really knows how to pick'em!) and I just knew that this was her best her deepest her self her contribution to geohistory. Also, interleaving Ecto and Equo really is nice... they complement each other in a lot of ways. I think Equo is more a follow up to Ecto than it is to Warpaint. But Ecto is still the big one. It is Dreaming in the sense that Dreaming was the big one, the mind-bendingly inspired one from KT. It would be great if Happy reached further and tore looser in the future, but Ecto *is* Happy Rhodes' Dreaming in every other sense. I really am pretty sure now. -mjmlowercasepalindromemannamemordnilapesacrewolmjm- ======================================================================== From: meth@aol.com Subject: Writing Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 22:22:44 EST Hi! This issue has been brought up before, but: I don't have the qualifications Neile has- the closest I can come is an English-teacher mother, a sister who is a professional writer and a B.A. in Liberal Arts and a job in which I do a lot of incidental writing (not to mention posting to these infernal lists :), but: Vickie, some people are writers and some aren't. It's a Something people have, it's a gift, like the ability to write great music or paint beautiful pictures. And you, without a shadow of a doubt, have It. You express yourself with wonderful clarity, when I read your posts I can *see* what is going on in them like I'm watching a video of the proceedings. Your spelling and grammar are impeccable, and your style is very easy to read... not to mention very much _you_, at least as far as I can tell from our few brief meetings. Education means nothing- you're either a writer or you're not (and for proof, I'll gladly show you some of the crap I had to read in college- these people supposedly had PhDs, but damned if I know how they got them). AND YOU ARE. I do hope you do something with it someday that's on a larger scale than this electronic forum. Just my Tuppence... Meredith :) meth@aol.com ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 18 Feb 93 00:06:02 EST From: woj@remus.rutgers.edu (l.l. cool bean) Subject: phew... hello all...quick one since i'm on long distance (for a change). you can add one more sampler that happy's been on to your lists vickie. stereo review (the magazine) has a series called "adventures in music" which is basically a series of really cheap cds. happy showed up on one of them a few issues back - i posted the details when i noticed it in the back of the mag, but i can repost hem if you want (and if i can find the mag that it was in). i don't know which song though i believe that it was from _warpaint_. yay! to all the stereolab talk - _switched on_ is my fave though. _peng_ and _lo fi_ are a bit wanky as far as i'm concerned though. _switched on_ just plain works a lot better. okay, enough for now before the call runs too long. i've got a million digests to catch up on later as well...ack! not to mention *sleep*! woj ======================================================================== The ecto archives are on hardees.rutgers.edu in ~ftp/pub/hr. There is an INDEX file explaining what is where. Feel free to send me things you'd like to have added. -- jessica (jessica@ns1.rutgers.edu)