Errors-To: ecto-owner@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 #955 ecto, Number 955 Thursday, 6 January 1994 Today's Topics: *-----------------* The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovejoy eep eep eep!!! Compact Disc Connection (CDC) Re: hymn to her Frozen Puddles Re: Frozen Puddles Re: The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovejoy Maestro's Last Show -- CHICAGO A good consumer Ectopost lite :-) Northern Exposure Re: Midge Ure Re: revelations of the bizarre variety Re: Steve Kilbey and the Church Re: area/the moon seven times ======================================================================== From: r.lovejoy1@genie.geis.com Date: Thu, 6 Jan 94 01:58:00 BST Subject: The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovejoy Greeting: Just a quick note tonight to thank everyone for posting their Top Ten lists. Ecto is and has always been a great place to find out about new artists and new music. I'm old enough to remember when radio served that purpose, back before corporate bottom liners began to focus more on ratings than service. But I digress. I joined this list because of Happy Rhodes. Few other artists have ever reached so deeply into my soul. Now I have been exposed to so much other wonderful music, artists and songs which I would never have heard but for all of you fuzzy blues. So I just wanted to say Thanks, everyone, for making ecto such a great part of cyberspace. I spoke to Susanne yesterday. The unofficial word is that we can expect a new album from Happy this year. They're hoping for summer but will be happy to have it finished before Christmas. By the way, Susanne really appreciates all the help we have given her. Mitch, especially, has been a veritable wellspring of useful information, but there are quite a few others out there that have also fed the fire! BTW, Vickie - any luck telnetting to holowhatever for a CDC contact? OK, time to send this thru the wire. Again, thanks to everyone for making ecto such a great place! Bob the Constantly Amazed +*************************************************************************+ + Robert Lovejoy + I've got a letter here postmarked Deep Space + + Deepspace + -The Firesign Theatre + + Cherry Hill, NJ + But baby I'm here and I've been quite an + + r.lovejoy1@genie.geis.com+ Alien too... + + kdvn07a on Prodigy + -Happy Rhodes + +*************************************************************************+ ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 5 Jan 94 22:11:52 EST From: woj@remus.rutgers.edu (mindswept) Subject: eep eep eep!!! just got wind of this important news - phillyphiles, tune your radios! >Date: Wed, 5 Jan 94 17:10:11 EST >From: pirrung@nadc.nadc.navy.mil (G. Pirrung) >To: folk_music@nysernet.org, radio-concerts-urgent@cook.albany.edu >Subject: World Cafe > >World Cafe, APR > >Thursday, January 6 >Irish Music, featuring Mary Black and Eleanor McEvoy performing in-studio. > >Friday, January 7 >In Studio Guest, Kate Bush > >These are the dates that WXPN, 88.5 FM in Philadelphia, will broadcast >the shows at 10 AM and 8 PM. Check your local APR affiliate for >times in your area. > >-Jerry > ======================================================================== From: Tim Cook Date: Thu, 6 Jan 94 08:32:03 GMT Subject: Compact Disc Connection (CDC) Bob mentioned about Telnetting to Holonet to access the CDC database. All you have to do is telnet to 157.151.0.1 and enter "CDC" at the prompt % telnet 157.151.0.1 Trying 157.151.0.1 ... Connected to 157.151.0.1. Escape character is '^]'. HoloNet(SM) -- A service of IAT HoloNet Member Name (Non-members type "guest"): cdc I've ordered quite a few CDs from them. I tend to order in pairs as the minimum airmail of $9 is good for two CDs. They usually take a couple of weeks to send the stuff. No complaints so far! tim ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 6 Jan 94 08:06:16 -0500 From: Mike Matthews Subject: Re: hymn to her Neal gushes: >thankyouthankyouthankyou - I felt if it went on for another 3 seconds >I could have gotten it. I've got that on tape and really need to turn >it into a cd some day. Sounds like a form of modern alchemy, doesn't it? Mike ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 14:41:56 GMT From: imy@wcl-rs.bham.ac.uk (Ian Young) Subject: Frozen Puddles Ok, so I should post this to alt.folklore.science or something. I probably will. I've just go my pix back from processing (they've actually come out pretty well, I think)... One of them is of a frozen puddle (taken at about 8:30am last Saturday) that I was intrigued by. What's odd about it is that there's a spiral line of darker ice in the surface (anticlockwise from the outside in, going through about 5 complete turns). I'm pretty ugly sure it's natural, but I can't for the life of me work out how you'd get a spiral rather than concentric circles. Any ideas, anyone? Ian. ======================================================================== From: Tim Cook Date: Thu, 6 Jan 94 14:49:50 GMT Subject: Re: Frozen Puddles > outside in, going through about 5 complete turns). I'm pretty ugly ^^^^ Freudian slip!! :-) ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 08:53:23 -0800 (PST) From: Emily Breed Subject: Re: The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovejoy On Thu, 6 Jan 1994 r.lovejoy1@genie.geis.com wrote: > I spoke to Susanne yesterday. The unofficial word is that we can > expect a new album from Happy this year. Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > BTW, Vickie - any luck telnetting to holowhatever for a CDC contact? Well, I'm not Vickie (but I play her on TV? Er, no....) but I've used CDC a couple of times. Haven't ordered anything yet, but play to in the next week or so. Their catalog seems fairly extensive, although they don't have some of the even-less-well-known ecto recommendations. I've been thinking about dropping them a line asking about this. Since they don't actually keep these cds in stock (I believe they order them from the manufacturer/label/whoever when they get an order), it seems to me that the only inve$tment required on their part to carry someone obscure would be a few bytes of info on the catalog. That said, at least on CDC I didn't have to deal with "Frank who? Frank Lesser? Never heard of him." (No, Frank *Loesser*, and why am I not surprised...) Yours, Emily ======================================================================== Date: 06 Jan 94 12:10:12 EST From: Mike Mendelson Subject: Maestro's Last Show -- CHICAGO This message goes out to all Chicago ectophiles and anyone within a 200-mile radius... Maestro Subgum and the Whole will be performing their final concert ever with the current line-up on Saturday Jan. 15 at the Empty Bottle near Western and Chicago (?). It's a new place and Bob the trumpet guy said it's kind of like the Lounge Ax. I would sincerely urge and encourage anyone who can make this show, even if you've never seen or heard this group, to try to go, because after Bob and Clem leave the group, it will be drastically changed and they'll stop doing alot of the old songs. They are very offbeat, upbeat, downbeat, heartbeat, bananabeat, beattheclock, beatjuice (and I really am serious when I say that the lead stage persona, Bo, really does talk like that -- it's something you just have to experience -- vocal gymnastics he calls it) and they must be seen live, period. I am going to buy a few extra Lost Lost Lost CDs if I can, because I know that when more people have heard this music (i.e. ectopeople) they will be in big demand. If you need more details on the show, send me mail or check the Reader next week. I would think of taping the show but I have no good equipment for that. And, since this is a group largely devoted to female artists, I will add that they have an *amazing* female vocalist/flutist/song-writer named Jenny Magnus, who herself is worth the price of admission to see and watch and listen to. The rest of the band, however, is very great. I will say no more until next week when the show is more imminent. It will be a sad sad sad day in chicago and the world when this band is lost lost lost forever indeed. They are so original and such a treasure. It makes me very sad. Last night at Schubas, they looked pretty sad as well (esp. Jenny). Oh well, life must go on. -mjm ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 6 Jan 94 12:22:16 PST From: dixon@physics.berkeley.edu (David Dixon) Subject: A good consumer Well, I'm back! Back from the wilds of Wisconsin, back in my element at last. :) But I managed to drown my sorrows in CD purchases at least... Cowboy Junkies, _The Trinity Session_ Talking Heads, _Sand in the Vaseline_ Kate Bush, _Never For Ever_ (yes, finally) Chris Spheeris, _Culture_ Jim Chappell, _Over the Top_ Amy X Neuberg, _Songs 91 to 85_ Utah Saints, _Utah Saints_ Moby, _Move_ Victoria Williams, _Happy Come Home_ (for eight bucks!) Plus, Emily bought me the Eno vocals box set for Xmas (what a sweetie!) I think my plastic is all worn out. :) D^2 (who just got his fishing pole in the mail the other day :/ ) ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 16:25:37 CST From: Subject: Ectopost lite :-) This seems to be an unusually light day on ecto; this post will be in keeping. Glad to finally find about "Hymn to Her" on _Northern Exposure_. As I watched it the other night, it occurred to me that Kate's "The Kick Inside" would also have been appropriate to that particular episode :-). I got some junk snailmail yesterday from Jim Gierach, a candidate for governor of Illinois. On the back is a picture of him, his wife, and their dog, which is captioned "Jim, Missy and 'Happy the Horrible.'" I'm of two minds whether this qualifies Gierach as the official gubernatorial candidate of ecto, as well as whether it qualifies Happy the Horrible as the official candidate's dog of ecto :-). It just dawned on me this minute, BTW, that I've never seen a candidate's cat depicted in campaign literature. Go figure. Happy birthday to _World News Now_, easily the best thing going on late night TV these days. Mitch ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 06 Jan 1994 20:59:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Suspended In Duct Tape Subject: Northern Exposure Hi! Yes, that was Chrissie Hynde warbling out the first verse of "Hymn to Her" at the end of Northern Exposure Monday night- it's the only worthwhile song on _Get Close_ (the album when she chucked the band, then quickly learned the error of her ways and managed to get them back for the tour). Did anyone else think the scene with Shelly, Queen Victoria, Olympias, Mother Nature and Medea in the woods was the most painfully funny thing you've ever seen? It was the most brilliant moment television has seen since Chris tried to fling the cow. "Don't mind Olympias, hon. She's been in a bad mood for 2,000 years. Alexander was a problem child." Bwahahahahahaha!!! I was shrieking with laughter so loud, I woke up my roommate upstairs. Oops, time for Seinfeld... gotta go! Meredith the television addict meth@delphi.com ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 7 Jan 94 05:20:55 +1100 From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: Re: Midge Ure In apana.lists.rec.happy-rhodes, article <01H7AMMRNG0Y0004KD@PLAINS.UWYO.EDU>, you wrote: > Gee, Anthony, I feel really bad that you never had the chance to see Ultravox > live... By an amazing coincidence, I happened to be listening to Ultravox's > _Rare Volume One_ (very cool CD of b-sides off of _Vienna_, _Rage In Eden_, and > _Quartet_) when I read that. WHAAATTTT? When did this get released? IwantitIwantitIwantitIwantit! :-) Details, please; label, catalog number, country, people willing to find me a copy... :) Ultravox did some great b-sides, many of which have always been hard to find even on vinyl. Hey, has it got "Herr X" on it? > I've gotten backstage a couple of times and met him. I can't express in words > what a nice guy he is; some friends of mine and I had fun peppering him with > questions, and he posed for pictures, the whole deal. (now if I could only meet I met him when he toured here and I interviewed him for my then-radio show; he was out here promoting "The Gift". I concur, a really really nice guy; after the record company told me not to ask about Ultravox or Visage, I decided to ask Midge if he'd mind; he looked delighted to not have to talk about Band Aid for a while! :-) And it's not every day you meet an incredibly talented and famous person for an interview and find yourself directed to poolside at the hotel to find said famous person wearing a dressing gown, slippers, sunglasses and nothing else. AND he's shorter than me, too :-))) > p.s. note to all ectophiles: though Ultravox and Midge Ure have done some > wonderful stuff in the past, I highly discourage anyone from purchasing > _Pure_. It's awful. (everything else Midge's done is consistently > wonderful) I thought his previous album was pretty execrable as well.... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "I kind of feel like I'm Metallica..." - Tori Amos on the perils of long tours, November 1992 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 7 Jan 94 05:29:25 +1100 From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: Re: revelations of the bizarre variety I seem to keep following things individually today, which is unlike me. But it's 5.30am, and my groovy umbrella story is going to have to wait until tonight. :-) Meredith says: > I loaned a tape of the most recent Champagne Jam to one of my co-workers, who > is a child of Top-40 culture (she's going to see Rod Stewart in concert next [...] > attention to much else, but she did know that she thought Margot Smith and > Ashley Maher were awesome, and where can she find their albums? :) Hahahahaha.... :-) Margot's first ValleyGirl fan... :^) Like, wow.... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "I kind of feel like I'm Metallica..." - Tori Amos on the perils of long tours, November 1992 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 7 Jan 94 05:34:07 +1100 From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: Re: Steve Kilbey and the Church Oh, this really isn't me - four posts in one session! Sorry. Back to Reader's Digest format next time... In apana.lists.rec.happy-rhodes, article <9401050203.AA11857@relay2.geis.com>, you wrote: > > Steve Kilbey isn't so much _with_ The Church as he *IS* The Church... > > OK, Anthony, being one of the biggest Church fanatics on the planet, I feel > the need to respond. No, Kilbey isn't the Church. He is the most important > part of the Church, but after listening to the solo works of all concerned, I actually meant that as a kind of ironic/joking remark. :) Mind you, I still think describing him as being *with* The Church is a little rough...! > of Kilbey, Wilson-Piper, and Koppes (though it seems we may soon find out > what a Church sounds like without Koppes). None of their solo efforts stand > up to the Church's works. Though there are many great moments, they prove > (as often happens) that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. I actually disagree - I think many of Kilbey's solo efforts have outshone much Church material. The "Narcosis" EP being a good example. Oh by the way, while I'm on the subject - is The Church's "Seance" on CD in the US or the UK, anyone? It's the only Church album I've never seen on CD... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "I kind of feel like I'm Metallica..." - Tori Amos on the perils of long tours, November 1992 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 7 Jan 94 05:02:28 +1100 From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: Re: area/the moon seven times In apana.lists.rec.happy-rhodes, article <199401052113.NAA05190@mail.netcom.com>, you wrote: [Stuff for trade deleted] > Let me know if anyone in interested in any of these things. > (I'll trade for new Sarah or Margot Smith if ya want ;) ;) ) And where were you going to get the Margot Smith CD from, he wonders... :-) (__==__) (oo) ( Burp.) /-------\/ -' / | || * ||----|| ^^ ^^ :-) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "I kind of feel like I'm Metallica..." - Tori Amos on the perils of long tours, November 1992 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== 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)