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 #987 ecto, Number 987 Sunday, 30 January 1994 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Waiting for the other atishoo to drop and other stories RE: Mike Keneally Jane on the Radio In defense of Catherine Wheel Re: sTuff Re: ectopics, etc... Re: Kate on NPR Re: ecto-babble Catherine Wheel KB Boxed set Re: Catherine-wheel It's about bloody time... Re: Rhodes 2... Re: finally got to hear... Catherine Wheel Re: Kate on NPR Help! Get me onto this crazy thing!! Re: Come on in--it's COOL outside :-) Catherine Wheel God picture Happy Wheel Ecto! Faster than a speeding bullett.... Where to find Happy in the East Bay? (Well... recorded, that is.) ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 16:37:19 CST From: "Sensitive old-age guy [by ecto standards, anyway]" Subject: Waiting for the other atishoo to drop and other stories The last few days, folk_music has run a number of laudatory reviews of recent Four Bitchin' Babes concerts. If anyone's interested in them, I'd be willing to dig them out of the archive. As I write this, _Fresh Air_ on NPR as just concluded a laudatory review of Morphine's album _Cure for Pain_. If this post reaches our California readers --especially our #1 Morphine fan, Angelos--in time to pick up the west coast feed, the feature may be of interest. I didn't know until now that Morphine has no guitars, for instance, using only bass in the area of electric stringed instruments. Friday night and Saturday, the cold I've been nursing for the last week upshif- ted. The drainage from my sinuses began to drain far more freely than it had been, to the extent that I exhausted my stash of servicable tissues on the way into the theater to see _The Thing Called Love_, which got mixed reviews in the local press--thus inspiring me to see for myself in the one week it'll be play- ing. I armed myself with a few napkins from the candy counter, and a couple of brown paper towels from the men's room just in case. The film was well worth the aggravation, an excellent story of aspiring singer-songwriters in Nashville that the studio elected to bury on the theory that it's not sufficiently high- concept to compete with the velociraptors, etc. See it before they succeed. Sunday morning, I began to feel better, though I'm still not recovered. At least I got a title for today's essay out of it. Coincidentally, NPR is now doing a panning review of _Intersection_. Guess that's the one Paramount shoul d really be trying to bury :-). On the way home Saturday, I stopped at Tower to see if they had the issue of Homeground with part 2 of the Happy interview. I looked in the Happy section in the R's, and all they had was one _EQP_. Guess nobody had moved the excess over from the H's yet :-). Jeff burkas: >Jeff >(thinking he ought to do something about this asthma attack and then get >back to the VCR 'cause Aimee will be on O'Brien soon. Caught VW's >performance on Letterman and it was superb (got it on tape, too!)) Presumably, it was indeed manageable with a hit of Primatene, inasmuch as he later reported getting Aimee on tape as well. Jennifer alberts: music that was made! :-) >BTW, Kevin & I are also Southern California residents and we both felt the >earthquake *quite* strongly. =8-O Luckily, I had no damage to my apartment >(I live in Corona, about an hour away from the epicenter), but he only lives >about 15 miles from Northridge and had part of the 9-ft tall wooden fence >around his house fall down (EEK!), plus all of his dishes were broken, his tv >set was smashed and everything else he owns was knocked onto the floor. :-( Somebody should send him a tape of Aimee and Victoria's tubal gigs. Sounds like a jollier way to break in his eventual replacement TV than the continuing news stories about the aftermath of the quake. Besides which, he presumably missed them Friday anyway. Kelly, the first person I've read on this list who actually writes more like me than I do, akaitscoldinpittsburghs: >why did the boston globe article say tori is twenty nine? the us article >said that too. she's thirty, dammit. Maybe they're trying to position her as the new generation's answer to Jack Benny :-). Brni mojzes: >>From: Neal Copperman >> >>Perhaps an Oven Grinder is like an Organ Grinder. Chefs cranking up >> >ack. well, i'm not letting anyone do that to *my* organ... Not to worry. You presumably haven't pulled any Bobbitt's on the women of your acquaintance :-). BTW, Nilsson died of a second heart attack a year after his first one left him too weak to undergo a bypass. Uli waxes epigraphic: >"Ich bin gluecklich verheiratet mit zwei Maedchen und einem Jungen" >- Roman Schedler in Aber Hallo, Jan. 23rd, 1993 I don't know why, but it reminds me of a bit in the film _All the President's Men_ where the reporters keep calling someone in the Nixon White House, and he keeps pleading with them to leave him out of the story, noting that he has a wife, two or three (I forget) kids, a dog, and a cat. Should Tonya Harding be nailed for involvement in the Nancy Kerrigan affair, you think some satirical songwriter could rework "Cornflake Girl" into a comment on the opportunities she lost to get plastered on the front of cereal boxes everywhere? :-) It has occurred to me that if tobacco companies were still going in for celebrity endorsements in their ads, a menthol cigarette which wanted to play up its ease of puffing could have featured Beavis and Butt-head in its campaign, emphasizing the slogan "This Sucks Cool." :-) One can only speculate whether with today's Supreme Court decision, the next great slogan among those who picket abortion clinics will be "Mother of mercy-- is RICO the end of this?" (Ah there, Eddie Robinson :-). ) Mitch ---------------------------- "And why the Brits have rubbers on all their pencils, it baffles me. There's no scientific evidence STD's can be transmitted that way." --James Barrett ======================================================================== From: p.terrell@genie.geis.com Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 03:28:00 BST Subject: RE: Mike Keneally Paul Cohen enthused: >Mike Keneally - Hat > ex-Zappa sideman's wonderful album showing heavy Zappa, Rundgren and > XTC influences. I found it in my local store's $5 "junk" bin. Yes! :-) I second that motion! Another hearty recommendation for this incredible and quirky album! :-) Musically, "Hat" is brilliant and eclectic, ranging from Zappa-esque instrumentals to XTC-like power pop songs, but it's also worth picking up just to read the lyrics and liner notes! ;-) Who else might say in conclusion, "I have to go, there's a spider on the ceiling"? :-) And for all those Toy Matinee fans out there (you know who you are), Kevin Gilbert makes brief appearances on two songs on this album as well. :-) Keneally also occasionally plays gigs around the LA area with Dweezil Zappa's band, "Z". Jennifer ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 09:41:05 GMT From: imy@wcl-rs.bham.ac.uk (Ian Young) Subject: Jane on the Radio Has anyone already transcribed the Jane Siberry that was broadcast on Mixing It, on Radio 3 last night? If not, I'll try to find some time to do it today. It's not particularly long, and it's intercut with bits of Jane's songs (I think it's forgivable for them to not play whole songs; aft trawl, they only get 45 mins a week). Also, Robert Sandall pronounces her name wrongly... strange since Mark Russell gets it right. And they appear to have mislaid some of her albums. Mind you, they don't mention KaTe once (just Joanie Michell & Laurie Anderson). Ian. (bet my nose is bigger than hers :v) ======================================================================== From: p.cohen@genie.geis.com Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 05:01:00 BST Subject: In defense of Catherine Wheel Mike: Sigh. It's a shame you got "Chrome" instead of "Ferment". "Chrome" is a vastly inferior album. It has many moments, but is far weaker than its predecessor. THAT album was in my top ten list of 1992. I might've put it at number one, I played it often enough. Do try to seek out a copy of "Ferment" at least to hear before you dismiss the band entirely. This years trend in rock is to get heavier and Catherine Wheel did just that. Not that "Ferment" wasn't loud, it just had far stronger melodies and vocals. +########################################################################+ +###+ Paul Cohen, Philadelphia, PA +###+ +########################################################################+ +###+ P.COHEN@genie.geis.com +###+ PMCOHEN@aol.com +###+ +###+ 70703.3126@compuserve.com +###+ PMCOHEN@delphi.com +###+ +########################################################################+ ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 12:50:08 +0000 From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk (Steve Fagg's Mac) Subject: Re: sTuff At 11:56 pm 24/1/94 -0500, Suspended In Duct Tape wrote: >Champagne Jam lives! Once again, Sundays from 4-5:30 PM on WESU in Middletown >CT, 88.1 FM, starting this Sunday, 1/30/94. I'll be able to post playlists >again, finally. You're all psyched, I'm sure. :) Great news! Looking forward to seeing those playlists... -- Regards Steve Fagg ( S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk +44-279-402437 ) BNR Europe Ltd., London Road, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9NA, UK *** We tried to add it all up and got merely sunrise. *** *** Try putting that in a letter to someone in exile. *** ======================================================================== Subject: Re: ectopics, etc... Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 07:52:41 -0500 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu Woj quotes me as saying: >>Anyway, I liked >>the Grace Darling stuff, but probably not enough to buy it unless I win a >>lottery or somethin'. And then adds: >hey, i'll buy your copy from you! i've been looking for that album for >a while. "illusionarium" is probably one of the more beautiful songs i've >ever heard. What he left out (or missed) was when I said I had *heard* several albums, not that I had gotten them. Which is to say that I don't have a copy I could sell him. That aside, it's irrelevant, because I've had a policy since '87 of never parting with a CD. It's unlikely I'd actually purchase something so untried that I'd hate the entire album, and if I liked something on it once, I might want to hear it again. I dumped a couple of CDs 7-8 years ago (nothing earth shattering...Patty Smyth's first solo album, and a few others) and I now wish I still had them. There are a few things in my collection that I think, every now and then, that I should get rid of, but I can never convince myself to actually do it... Jeff ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 12:57:12 +0000 From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk (Steve Fagg's Mac) Subject: Re: Kate on NPR At 4:56 pm 24/1/94 -0500, WretchAwry wrote: >NeAl worries about blasphemy: >> I've been thinking of putting the >> old discs in the box and selling off all the doubles to those sad souls that >> have holes in their Kate library. Does this sound sacriligious? > >I personally don't think it's a bad idea... > I don't think messing >with the BS is sacriligous. I regularly play the CDs, and usually put >them back on the shelf instead of back in the box. We got the CDs to >play, not to look pretty sitting there unused and dusty. What she said! The discs ought to be played, IMO. If you won't play them then by all means sell them to someone who will. >We got the >*LP Box Set* to sit there looking pretty, unused & dusty. :-) :-) -- Regards Steve Fagg ( S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk +44-279-402437 ) BNR Europe Ltd., London Road, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9NA, UK *** We tried to add it all up and got merely sunrise. *** *** Try putting that in a letter to someone in exile. *** ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 13:02:03 +0000 From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk (Steve Fagg's Mac) Subject: Re: ecto-babble At 6:53 pm 24/1/94 -0500, WretchAwry wrote: >NeIl sparks: >> Hmm... Just to add more confusion, I always thought a catherine wheel >> was a sparkling spinny firework that one uses on, for instance, Guy >> Fawkes' Day. You know, the round kind that's got fireworks on the >> perimeter of its wheel and so when you light it it spins 'round and >> 'round. >> >> Any AngloEctophiles out there care to comment? :) Yeah! That's a Catherine Wheel alright! It was named after the instrument of torture on which Saint Catherine was martyred. >I think that I have no idea where the name came from, but that you >just gave me a nice visualization. Thanks! > >Vickie > >ps, Twyla Tharp choreographed a piece call "The Catherine Wheel" and >I *think* David Byrne scored it. I've never seen it. Yes. That was David (Talking Heads) Byrne. >pps, nice haul Ilka! Please give Victoria more chances. It's so charming >and can't be listened to or judged by any other artist's standards. Heard >in the midst of all the other stuff you bought, yeah, it's going to sound >strange. Play it sometime when you're feeling silly. (Though, I play it >when I'm feeling down, because it perks me up. I can't listen to Ilka! I second that. Victoria isn't really all that strange at all. The songs are very evocative and, yes, charming. -- Regards Steve Fagg ( S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk +44-279-402437 ) BNR Europe Ltd., London Road, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9NA, UK *** We tried to add it all up and got merely sunrise. *** *** Try putting that in a letter to someone in exile. *** ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 13:07:26 GMT From: imy@wcl-rs.bham.ac.uk (Ian Young) Subject: Catherine Wheel >>>>> "me" == Ian Young writes: me> Who produced Chrome? I forget. That would be Gil Norton[1]...so I blame the band :) Ian. [1] off the top of my head: The Triffids, _Calenture_ The Blue Aeroplanes, _Swagger_ Tribe, _Abort_ Sugar, _Copper Blue_ ======================================================================== From: Tim Cook Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 13:43:05 GMT Subject: KB Boxed set > > I don't think messing > >with the BS is sacriligous. I regularly play the CDs, and usually put > >them back on the shelf instead of back in the box. We got the CDs to Then again there is blasphemy - I threw away the box and the piccies and gave away all the discs except the two I didn't have :-) tim ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 09:32:09 -0500 (EST) From: HOLLY@umbc2.umbc.edu Subject: Re: Catherine-wheel > I'm no expert on the subject, but i believe the name of the Catherine Wheel > comes from the legend of Saint Catherine of Alexandria. A 4th Century > martyr, she was tortured on a wheel and beheaded by Emperor Maxentius > for her teachings. When God struck the spiked wheel and sent it off to > Heaven in flames, the inspiration for the fireworks was born. If Sister Marcellus had told me when I was in the fourth grade that God would take me to heaven on a burning spikey wheel for the mere price of letting myself get tortured for the sake of my beliefs, I might have tried to be a good Catholic girl. Who needs The Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Andersen when you've got _Lives of the Saints?_ :) Holly ======================================================================== From: r.lovejoy1@genie.geis.com Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 11:49:00 BST Subject: It's about bloody time... Prince Vlad - Thanks for your great post on hearing Equipoise for the first time. For me it was Warpaint. The music reached hitherto uncharted depths and heights. So did her voice! I may be off base to say this, but if it's gonna be said this is the best place to say it: to me, Happy's music is the most compelling I've ever heard in this world. The only other composers who can reach anywhere near so deeply into my soul are people like Mozart or Vaughn Williams. So Vlad, welcome. I eagerly look forward to hearing how those other albums effect you! One standard word of caution - don't get another album till you've heard Equipoise to a familiar level, else you'll be overwhelmed! Happy ought to be more famous... +*************************************************************************+ + 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 + +*************************************************************************+ ======================================================================== From: ezust@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Alan Ezust) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 09:40:22 -0500 Subject: Re: Rhodes 2... [In message "Rhodes 2..." on Jan 21, freeform@aol.com writes:] | Hi... | | I would like to know what everyone's opinion of the _Rhodes 2_ album is.. | I just heard it for the first time yesterday, and found that none of the | songs really grabbed me as much as when I first heard _Rhodes 1_. I had the opposite experience, actually. The songs "Come Here" and "One Alien" grabbed me immediately. "Let Me Know, Love" is now one of my all time favorite Happy Songs, primarily because I am finding it "Hard to make emotions turn around, the ones you want lost and never found." Throw in with that, "Not For Me" and "Take Me With You", and I think I like Rhodes II better than Rhodes I! -- | Alan Ezust ezust@{binkley.}cs.mcgill.ca Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |------------- McGill University School of Computer Science ----------------| "Recursion is a lot like recursion, only a little simpler. ...except when prohibited by law." ======================================================================== From: ezust@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Alan Ezust) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 09:49:28 -0500 Subject: Re: finally got to hear... [In message "finally got to hear..." on Jan 24, jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu writes:] | | 1) Opium Den, _Diary of a Drunken Sun_ | | Great album title. Groovacious album. Very crunchy arrangements. | Very pretty vocals. Ethereal at times, more 'rock' at others. Neat stuff. | Wish I had a lyric sheet. | | 3) Big Hat, _Shimmer_ | | Well, no, I didn't hear the whole thing, just the first bunch o' | tracks. That first track (erotomania?) is absolutely incredible. I wasn't | quite as enamored with what followed, but the album is probably worth | having for that one song. And I would guess that the rest would grow on me | quite quickly. I bought both of these discs on the same day, and it was the day AFTER I saw them both live!! Did you have a similar reason for getting them at the same time? Anyway, my fave tracks on Shimmer are: You Lied, Skin, When Did You Stop, Garden of Edith. But the whole album is masterful... Tell me what you think of these 4 tracks though. | | Oh, but one last word. GO LISTEN TO VOLUME II!!!!! I've never really | cared for "The Revelation" (nice lyrics, but the melody line is just too | damned high; it grates on me), but "Let Me Know, Love" is one of the best | things Happy has ever written/performed. In fact, it's one of the best I guess I should've read the follow-ups before posting my own message which says the same thing... duh... -- | Alan Ezust ezust@{binkley.}cs.mcgill.ca Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |------------- McGill University School of Computer Science ----------------| "Recursion is a lot like recursion, only a little simpler. ...except when prohibited by law." ======================================================================== From: r.lovejoy1@genie.geis.com Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 11:50:00 BST Subject: Catherine Wheel Hi all, As one who put Ferment on my DID list, I feel I ought to add my two cents to this thread! Predictably, I really enjoy this band, though I've not heard the new album yet. "Black Metallic" in particular is phenomenal, a real heavy song that manages to be quite ethereal. Cathrine Wheel is a real Guitar Band (tm), full of explosive outbursts and quiet parts. I guess I appreciate their dynamics. While Black Metallic stands above the rest of the album in terms of musical structure, the rest of the songs have an eerie glow about them I find fascinating. I also enjoy the propulsive bass lines, esp. on "Shallow". All in all, it's the most fun I've had listening to loud music recently. I guess it's the old Rocker in me that gets off on this; back in my youth I was fortunate enough to play in a band or three. (This is the early 70's!) I loved the early Blue Oyster Cult albums, and I had the good fortune to jam with some of them back in '74 or so. One of my friends was in a band with them before they were Soft White Underbelly... But I digress! I was just remembering how much more "hard" rock I used to listen to, and how much I now prefer what we like to call "Ectofodder"! Still, Catherine Wheel bridges the gap nicely 'tween the music I loved then and love now. Still enjoying the HBP! Bobo in White Wooden Houses is terriffic! It's wonderful to hear all this great new music. Nadieh was impressive... and we ectophiles are a musical lot in our own right! D2 had a nice piece, as did Dirk, Joe Zitt, Jane Z., and Mike M.- if I missed someone else who had a musical performance on the tape, I'm sorry! I'm glad to hear all of you, and I must respectfully disagree with Joe: If these are home movies, they're not bad! I'm sure Fellini would (and did) approve! My best to you all! +*************************************************************************+ + 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: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 06:55:55 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Lamb Subject: Re: Kate on NPR On Mon, 24 Jan 1994, WretchAwry wrote: > Oh good! Say, you might want to pick up "The Whole Story" which is a > compilation album. She's had 2 albums since then that aren't represented > on TWS, but it gives a pretty good overview of the earlier albums and > will do you until you get around to getting everything else :-). Steve C. Lamb Sysop, Abcb Cafe (916) 363-1424 24/7/356 2400-14.4K v32bis PGP key CRC: 384/6CFEE3 - Insert funny line from KOR here. When I think of one, I'll do the same - ======================================================================== From: ezust@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Alan Ezust) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 09:58:51 -0500 Subject: Help! Get me onto this crazy thing!! [In message "Help...is anyone there?" on Jan 24, ROBNPAM@delphi.com said something like:] | |PLEASE - HELP ME GET BACK ONTO THIS AMATEUR MINDLESS FUCKING TEDIOUS |UNIMFORMED GROUP!! I'VE BEEN TRYING TO RESUBSCRIBE FOR THE LAST WEEK!!! sorry.. couldn't resist :-) -- | Alan Ezust ezust@{binkley.}cs.mcgill.ca Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |------------- McGill University School of Computer Science ----------------| "Recursion is a lot like recursion, only a little simpler. ...except when prohibited by law." ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 16:15:33 +0000 From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk (Steve Fagg's Mac) Subject: Re: Come on in--it's COOL outside :-) At 3:35 pm 19/1/94 -0600, U15289 wrote: >Steve F. leads off his post "Re: Sarah, Jane" : >>The subject always makes me think of Elizabeth Sladen :-) but anyway... >Reading that line made me think of Louise Jameson. Does that mean I've been >reading _Amazons International_ to excess? :-) > >Speaking of which: What's the word across the pond WRT whether the BBC will >ever conclusively cancel or uncancel _Doctor Who_? There has been no definite word. However, it's unimaginable that the BBC would ever make any more under their own name, unless the current trends in UK TV are dramatically reversed. They might sell the rights to an external production company. There have been strong rumours recently that the BBC have been having discussions with a major Hollywood producer with a view to getting a new film made. Steven Speilberg's name has been mentioned, I'm not sure how seriously. The recent 30th anniversary drew more of a response from the BBC than they've shown before in acknowledging the latent interest. But I wouldn't advise anybody to hold their breath waiting for new Doctor Who just yet :-) -- Regards Steve Fagg ( S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk +44-279-402437 ) BNR Europe Ltd., London Road, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9NA, UK *** We tried to add it all up and got merely sunrise. *** *** Try putting that in a letter to someone in exile. *** ======================================================================== Subject: Catherine Wheel Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 12:19:31 -0500 From: lcliffor@bbn.com >>>(a catherine wheel is an instrument of torture; some people find the band >>>to be very aptly named...just ask Mike) > >I'm almost positive that a Catherine Wheel is also those giant round stained >glass windows you can find in cathedral's. I've never understood how the >name came to be used for both. Todays challenge question for ectolinguists? Aren't Catherine wheels also a type of fireworks? Don't you nail them to something and light them and then they spin around shooting off sparks? Laura ======================================================================== From: vnozick@merle.acns.nwu.edu Subject: God picture Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 11:42:33 CST Thanks to Chip, I finally saw the cover of Cornflake Girl, and noticed a difference between the cover picture of God and the cover picture of CG. It seems to be the same picture, but the God cover is cropped higher. I can barely make out a flask in the foreground (In fact,I guess that that was what it was). Just for all you trivia experts out there... ==> Valerie ======================================================================== From: Ethan_Straffin@next.com (Ethan Straffin) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 10:09:51 -0800 Subject: Happy Wheel By-Tor asks: > Can someone tell me where I can get a some Happy CDs in the Bay area? > Specifically, Berkeley? I'll be up there at the end of the week for > interim break, and I think it's possible that some of the stores up there > might be better stocked than those in Sunny So Cal Redlands. =) Ah, so it's "the grass is always greener," is it? I always make a point of music hunting when I'm in So Cal. But anyway, off the top of my head, here are the decent places I know about. (Being from the West Bay, I'm more familiar with the S.F. stores.) Berkeley: Amoeba (Telegraph, near UC Berkeley) Rasputin's (ditto) Mod Lang (University) San Francisco Reckless (Haight/Ashbury -- my favorite in the City) Rough Trade (Haight near Ashbury -- great selection, bad prices) And from the Catherine Wheel Thread That Would Not Die, Ian writes: >>>>>> "me" == Ian Young writes: > me> Who produced Chrome? I forget. > >That would be Gil Norton[1]...so I blame the band :) > >Ian. > >[1] off the top of my head: >The Triffids, _Calenture_ >The Blue Aeroplanes, _Swagger_ >Tribe, _Abort_ * >Sugar, _Copper Blue_ * * two of my absolute favorite albums of the past few years! Wow, I never made this connection. I was thinking of checking out _Swagger_, and this little tidbit just moved it a few steps higher on my list. Ethan ======================================================================== Subject: Ecto! Faster than a speeding bullett.... Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 13:07:14 -0500 From: lcliffor@bbn.com Talk about 'duh'....clueless. Lesson learned - never respond before you're caught up! ------- Forwarded Message Received: from BBN.COM by STAR-TREK.BBN.COM id aa22898; 25 Jan 94 12:38 EST Received: from ns1.rutgers.edu by BBN.COM id aa06560; 25 Jan 94 12:30 EST Received: from STAR-TREK.BBN.COM by ns1.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA18615; Tue, 25 Jan 94 12:29:56 EST Message-Id: <9401251729.AA18615@ns1.rutgers.edu> To: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Subject: Catherine Wheel Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 12:19:31 -0500 From: lcliffor@BBN.COM >>>(a catherine wheel is an instrument of torture; some people find the band >>>to be very aptly named...just ask Mike) > >I'm almost positive that a Catherine Wheel is also those giant round stained >glass windows you can find in cathedral's. I've never understood how the >name came to be used for both. Todays challenge question for ectolinguists? Aren't Catherine wheels also a type of fireworks? Don't you nail them to something and light them and then they spin around shooting off sparks? Laura ------- End of Forwarded Message ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 10:33:10 -0800 (PST) From: Emily Breed Subject: Where to find Happy in the East Bay? (Well... recorded, that is.) On Tue, 25 Jan 1994, Ethan Straffin wrote: > Berkeley: > Amoeba (Telegraph, near UC Berkeley) > Rasputin's (ditto) > Mod Lang (University) > San Francisco > Reckless (Haight/Ashbury -- my favorite in the City) > Rough Trade (Haight near Ashbury -- great selection, bad prices) Plus the Tower Records in Emeryville has several Happy disks (don't remember which ones, though...) -- Emily ======================================================================== 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)