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 #644 ecto, Number 644 Monday, 12 July 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Deep notes WOMAD in Chicago What must be done Re: Yyapdph Athrib! change of address More Bass! One side and the other DIDs man bites dog Re: Catching up Sweet Relief Chuck Brodsky LA Ectophiles, please read this message ... Re: Why Rhodes I Is A Divine Album Track 6? ======================================================================== Subject: Deep notes Date: Sat, 10 Jul 93 13:15:18 EDT From: Angelos Kyrlidis Hi, Yes, it's time for another shameless plug. If you have a fondness for deep notes and like the bass guitar and the baritone sax and deep male vocals *run* to your record store and get yourself Morphine's 'Good'. Morphine is a Cambridge-based trio comprised of members of Treat her right, which has the most unique band sound I have heard in a long time. I have mentioned their music here before, but I saw them live last night and they were *so* good that I had to mention them again. Their songs are all quite simple, being based on bass/sax/drums, but have a great sense of rhythm and moodiness. They have just signed a worldwide deal with Rykodisc, and have finished the mastering of their second album called 'A cure for (something-I forget), which will be released soon. Ryko will re-release Good later this year, and I bet that they will become *huge*. One might feel that these three instruments can get pretty boring, but these guys are so good musicians that they always find twists to the music to make it constantly interesting. How many of you have seen someone play two saxophones at the same time? Or heard a two-string bass sound like instruments you haven't even imagined? :-) Seriously, check them out. They are *amazing*. Angelos 'I can tell you taste like the sky cause you look like rain'-Morphine ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 10 Jul 93 12:58 CDT From: chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (chris williams) Subject: WOMAD in Chicago This appeared on the TicketMaster system at 10:00 AM (CST) this morning: WOMAD - Peter Gabriel, World Party and many, many, many more Sept. 11th from 1:00 P. M. on World Music Theatre [Chicago area outdoor theatre] [Likely guests include Sheila Chandra, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and others.] Too cool! WOMAD! Not just in America, but in my own town! Chris Williams of Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (his) vickie@njin.rutgers.edu (hers) katefans@chinet.chinet.com (ours) ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1993 14:52:38 CDT From: Subject: What must be done Bob says: >For the Birthday Project >I've been considering sending something from an old demo I made years ago, >or maybe some Gentle Giant. Tough decision. Anyone else posting their >ideas? The important thing, needless to say, is not so much that you _post_ your ideas on what to contribute to the HBP, as that you _send_ your tapes of them to Doug. Mitch -------------------------- "Cut the crap and make it happen Giving can be fun." --Tom Robinson Band, "Bully for You" ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 10 Jul 93 14:21:00 PDT From: tsai@ikos.com (Finney T. Tsai) Subject: Re: Yyapdph Athrib! Hiya! Vickie, :> (Finney, I still haven't found Lisa, tell me how truly wonderful it is) Well, I am ashamed to say that I haven't bought Lisa's new album yet. Too busy with the project... o well. I got several reviews and most pointed out that Lisa's second album was very different from her first one. The first one is much like the memories of her girlhood, but the second one is basically the sound from a tortured diary... Yes, she has had a tragic marriage. Later today I may go to Tower to pick it up if I can finish the current program soon. I may post what I feel after I listen to it. Sure, if I have time. :) Oh. Is there anyone like the new Aimee Mann? DIV's: :> Fitzcarraldo :> Burden of Dreams Wow Vickie! I don't know you are also a fan of Herzog! I like his movies so much; I was even trying to put Fitzcarraldo in my DIV list! How about other Ectophiles? BTW, Vickie, have you seen his "Even dwarfs started small" and "Woyzeck?" :> Dersu Uzala And you like Kurosawa too! -finney ======================================================================== Subject: change of address From: klaus@inphobos.wupper.de (Cosmic Vagabond) Date: Sat, 10 Jul 93 22:52:44 GMT Hi Ectophiles! Just a short note to let you know that Claudia and I will now be reachable under a new e-mail address. The old address will still be valid for a week or two, but please use the new one as soon as possible. We, the Wuppertal sites, have now registered our own domain. So it's now: klaus@inphobos.wupper.de claudia@inphobos.wupper.de All the best... ... Klaus. _____ Klaus "Cosmic Vagabond" Kluge --*-- klaus@inphobos.wupper.de If you catch me in the mood, I'm your sister, mother, beast or lover possibly you'll find me inmidst this multitude. -Dob Russkin- ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 10 Jul 93 19:40 EDT From: robert@deepspace.nj00802.sai.com (Robert Lovejoy) Subject: More Bass! Regarding Bass Notes of Doom: There are some wonderfully signifigant Bass Moments in Enya's "Watermark", particularly the first song. Today in listening to music we had the stereo cranked. After "I Say" I had the urge to hear "River Deep, Mountain High" by Tina. It's a wonderful recording, especially loud! Recording technology has made incredible advances in the past few years. Albums today are noticably superior in realism. Whoever was responsible for this has my thanks. Oh, bass notes: The 13th floor elevators had a good bass note on one of their albums...Blue Cheer...Marshall Amps and Fender Precisions... Pedals (Genesis has some great pedal work: "Squonk" et al.)... I love bass! Bob the bottom-feeder ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 10 Jul 93 18:14:26 -0700 From: Michael G Peskura Subject: One side and the other One Side Thank you all for the warm birthday wishes. I celebrated a quiet night, dinner with Susan and a couple other close friends. But a cake and a hug must go to someone else: i know Courtney Dallas has not been in our village for some time, but we share the same birthday, so if i may: i*i*i*i*i*i *************** ***HAPPY******* ********BIRTHDAY*** ******************* meow ****** ***** *********************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- What a wonderful group of people you all are. May our tribe increase. The Other Side A rewarding part of a gathering like this is that sorrow can be shared as well as the celebrations. Shortly before my birthday, a strong young woman was murdered somewhere in our city. Mia Zapata was the singing member of a local 'punk' band which call themselves The Gits. I feel very old today. And i know i've been dimished a bit more by this death. I never met Mia, but the band's CD 'Frenching the Bully' was one of my favorite recordings of the past year. The Gits perform songs of anger and frustration. I was playing a tape of their music along with some Big Black in the car this morning when i suddenly realized my eyes were filled with tears. I don't do a lot of crying. This loud, angry music seems all too appropriate to the occasion. I believe this noise is the closest thing we have to the blues in these times. I don't think i was crying only because of the sorrow i felt about Mia's death; i think i was crying for all of us in this world. I thought you should know about her. Mp ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 10 Jul 93 10:13 MET DST From: uli@zoodle.robin.de (Ulrich Grepel) Subject: DIDs Dirk says: > If it depends on the weight that one only can choose ten albums, > then I would throw away the jewel cases and take 50 CDs with me :-) Well - then I would definitely go with Scoopman tapes. Scoopman is a digital tape with the DAT longplay format (12 bit nonlinear 32 kHz stereo) and the tapes are SMALL. 25 mm x 20 mm x 4 mm. Imagine how many of them you could put into a jewel pack. You can get four or even six of them into a matchbox. With plenty of air left. Oh, there are Scoopman tapes with 120 minutes running time. My DIDs? I'll try: (no particular order) 1. Kate Bush - The Dreaming 2. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love 3. Kate[Stopit, only 10 disks!]^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h 3. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes 4. Happy Rhodes - Ecto 5. Sarah McLachlan - Solace 6. Loreena McKennitt - The Visit 7. Mari Boine Person - Gula Gula 8. Bobo in white wooden houses - Bobo in white wooden houses 9. Nina Hagen - Nina Hagen Band 10. Mouth Music - Mouth Music (I do not (yet) own this one, so there's a reason not to be sent to the desert island yet. Like the guy before execution wanting to go to university before being executed.) Well - might be different next time, though. Bye, Uli ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 10 Jul 93 23:36:47 EDT From: mojzes@monet.rutgers.edu (brni) Subject: man bites dog hi there, before i pass out from exhaustion, i thought i'd warn you about the film i just watched. it was called "man bites dog", is french (so it must be good :> ), and is definitely *not* standard ecto fare. if you are sorta squeemish about violence on film, and etc, don't, i repeat, don't see this movie. if you liked "a clockwork orange" but want to kknow what it would be like if alec was as violent as arnold schwartzenegger, see it. all the violence of an arnold film, but without that pinball/video game/operation desert storm feel to it. its a movie about the media and its effects and motivations as much as it is about violence. g'night brni ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1993 18:08:30 +1000 (AEST) From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: Re: Catching up In apana.lists.rec.happy-rhodes, article <2c3d4cf0@deepspace.NJ00802.sai.com>, you wrote: > Anthony: I called Susanne and left a message askung the status of her > Australian promotions. I should think personally that if she doesn't > get back to you in a reasonable time that it couldn't hurt anyone to > at least hear some Happy. Perhaps a small sampler... I don't know. > I'll try to call again today. Watch this space for details... That's what I'd originally planned to do (I was actually going to give Mushroom a DAT of Equipoise and had prepared a typeset sheet detailing who Happy was etc etc) but held off when it became apparent that Susanne wanted to send press info and CDs instead. Maybe if she gets that material to me, I could take it in myself and in that way get to plug Happy directly; that way, too, I can keep in contact with them and hassle them until they relent. I can be very convincing... :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "Not everybody likes me, but I don't like everybody either!" - Ilka Heber ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Subject: Sweet Relief Date: Sun, 11 Jul 93 16:55:02 -0400 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu Vickie (and others), you may be pleased to know that I heard the Pearl Jam track from _Sweet Relief_ on WHFS this afternoon! Unfortunately, I had no idea what it was, or I would have paid more attention (I was puttering around the kitchen, with the radio as background noise...) before the DJ back-announced it. The back-announce was pretty complete. The DJ explained that it was a cover of a Victoria Williams song, a great songwriter who'd been stricken with MS. He noted that she sang alongside Eddie Vedder on the track. He said that the album was a benefit and included the snippet that VW didn't have insurance (though he didn't quite explain that the fund it benefits is not only for VW...). He noted that VW was more of a folky singer, but still way cool, and that the benefit album is really great with all sorts of amazingly cool people on it. Obviously, that's all paraphrased and not particularly in the order in which the DJ talked about it, but hey, I was pretty impressed with the whole thing. Now if only I could get 'em to play Happy too... Jeff |Jeffrey C. Burka | "When I look in the mirror, I see a little clearer/ | |SAFH Lite [tm] | I am what I am and you are you too./ Do you like | |jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu | what you see? Do you like yourself?" --N. Cherry | ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 11 Jul 93 17:32:36 PDT From: dixon@physics.berkeley.edu (David Dixon) Subject: Chuck Brodsky Hi folks, A local folksinger I know is going on tour this summer. His name's Chuck Brodsky and he's REALLY good-- some of his songs are very, very funny and others are quite serious. Nice guy, too. If you can make it to any of the following venues, then make it. You have no choice in the matter. Chuck Brodsky Tour Schedule --------------------------- August 6, Painted Apple in Victor, ID August 7, Cafe Haven in Orem, UT August 12, Acoustic Music Revival in Denver, CO August 14, Java Gaia in KC, MO August 15, Java Joe's in Des Moines, IA August 20, 2 Way Street Coffeehouse in Downer's Grove, IL August 21, Front Porch in Valparaiso, IN August 28-29, Philadelphia Folk Festival, Philly, PA September 8, Tin Angel in Philly September 10-12, Passim in Cambridge, MA September 13, Cantab in Boston, MA September 17, Coffeehouse in Stowe, MA September 18, Craftsbury Inn in Craftsbury, VT September 25, Williston Coffeehouse in Williston, VT September 29, Naked City in Cambridge, MA September 30, Folkway in Peterborough, NH October 2, Speediest Printer in Town, Hartford, CT October 3, Cafe Lena in Sarasota Springs, NY October 15, The Book Mill in Montague, MA October 22, Minstrel Coffeehouse in Basking Ridge, NJ October 23, Postcrypt Coffeehouse in NYC October 24, The Cherry Tree in Philly He gets around, no? D^2 "I was doing a gig here one night, everything was going alright, My friend John over there was doing sound. Oh, then he went and turned up the bass, Lost control of the muscles in my face... 'John, why don't you just turn the treble down?'" - Chuck Brodsky ======================================================================== From: boek@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Christopher Boek) Subject: LA Ectophiles, please read this message ... Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 11:27:33 +1000 (EST) Are there any ectophiles who live in LA ??? I haven't heard from anyone since I sent out my last message. Oh well. I'll just have to go to Disneyland on my own ... :):) Chris. -- | ||| ||| | ||| ||| ||| | ||Christopher Boek - boek@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au | ||| ||| | ||| ||| ||| | || Dept Elec Eng Univ of Melbourne Australia | | | | | | | | | / "Anybody remotely interesting is mad in |___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___| \_/\_/\_/\_/\__/(:*- some way or another" ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 10 Jul 93 21:57 MET DST From: uli@zoodle.robin.de (Ulrich Grepel) Subject: Re: Why Rhodes I Is A Divine Album > Hee hee. It's not as doom-ish on my system - my speakers are blessed with > passive subwoofers, which means that it's the *really* low bass notes that > make things move - I have to adjust the upper bass response to compensate > for the sub bass content. That note in the middle of "Cohabitants" is, > honestly, one of the bestest bass notes ever commited to tape. My house is > currently three streets away from where it was last week, and at this rate > I'll be in Seattle by Christmas. Hope the house floats. :) Is that what you call travelling for a year? ;-) [personal side-joke] You should try Sarah McLachlan's 'Back Door Man' (Solace). The beginning is just ,, /\ /\ /\ || \/ \/ \/ ||/|, /'\\ /'\\ /'\\ \\/\\/\\ \\/\\/\\ }{ }{ }{ || || || || || || || || || || || || || || \/ \/ \/ || |' || || || || || || || || || || || || \\/ \\,/ \\,/ \\,/ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ <> <> <> bye, Uli P.S.: You might also try the CD with Carmen and Peer Gynt from Telarc Digital (Leonard Slatkin / Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra). Tracks 3 to 5 are getting softer and softer and softer, and then, the beginning of track 6. Good for waking up the whole street... ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 12 Jul 93 08:05:18 +0100 From: Terry Partis Subject: Track 6? Has anyone else listened to track 6??? on HP5?? It sounds like Happy saying "Hey Pat.........Never mind......I don't wanna bug ya!! HP5 usually stops at the end of track5, but I asked my CD player to go to the next track and that's what appeared on it. Its possible there may be more later on on that track!! Peace Terry === Only in your eyes lies your soul ========================= Happy Rhodes === _ __ Jolly Hockeysticks _ __ / `-' ( ,,, / `-' ( ,,, | I I ||||||[:::] Terry (Tel Boy) Partis | I I ||||||[:::] \_.-._( ''' (tgp@ukc.ac.uk) \_.-._( ''' With a smile and a song - I'm HaPpy Let me sleep awhile and dream of Avalon and the Beltane fires.................. ............................................our souls entwined for all eternity ======================================================================== 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)