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 #624 ecto, Number 624 Thursday, 24 June 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Happyvangelizing Today's your birthday friends.... pre-pg-music Flash! cranberries and peter gabri replies Madder Rose Notes Champagne Jam, 6/22/93 PG! Re: PG! ======================================================================== Subject: Happyvangelizing Date: Wed, 23 Jun 93 13:48:50 EDT From: Angelos Kyrlidis Hi, I am pleased to report that a sampler tape I gave a friend of mine here at MIT worked wonders. He not only ordered Rhodes I and II from Newbury Comics, [that's good because they don't stock Happy regularly] but he has worked out 'Noone here' on guitar, and is working on a couple of other songs. He'll soon join ecto, I hope. Other news, well, I'm almost out of here :-). Bob L., could you ask Suzanne if she's interested in sending me a press kit so I can do some official happyvangelizing when I go to Greece next month? Efi has done some work, but it would be nice to have some concrete info on who to contact if interest for distribution arises. Angelos ------- 'My brains fall out, they're loosely wrapped'- Happy Rhodes ======================================================================== Subject: Today's your birthday friends.... From: klaus@inphobos.w.open.de (Cosmic Vagabond) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 93 07:21:07 GMT i*i*i*i*i*i *************** ***HAPPY******* ********BIRTHDAY*** ******************* ***** Ken Kindler ***** *********************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *************** ***HAPPY******* ***HAPPY******* ********BIRTHDAY*** ********BIRTHDAY*** ******************* ******************* *** John M. Wheeler *** **** Teresa VanDyne *** *********************** *********************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ken Kindler Mon June 23 1969 Cancer John M. Wheeler Sun June 23 1968 Cancer Teresa VanDyne Thu June 23 1960 Cancer Dave Torok Mon June 24 1968 Cancer Kevin July 5 Cancer Jim Gurley Mon July 6 1959 Cancer Courtney Dallas Fri July 9 1971 Cat Michael Peskura Sat July 9 1949 HallOfFamer Finney T. Tsai Sat July 9 1966 Cancer Shelly Sun July 10 1966 Cancer Mitch Pravatiner Mon July 14 1952 Cancer John Zimmer Sun July 16 1961 Cancer Cathy Guetzlaff Mon July 18 1955 Cancer -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _____ Klaus Kluge * klaus@inphobos.w.open.de * I'll be here, I'll be (in) Ecto! ======================================================================== Date: 23 Jun 93 14:48:12 EDT From: Mike Mendelson Subject: pre-pg-music I thought that some of the way cool parts of Gabriel's concert were evident before it even started. I believe that the first song that the sound man played after the opening act was Kate's Sensual World, and the 2nd was one of K.D. Lang's new songs. I also really liked the third song, but I hadn't heard it before, and don't know who did it. Did anyone catch it? Heck, if it was my concert, I'd play some Kate Bush too. But seriously, wouldn't this be a phenomenal vehicle to Happy-vangelize? Has PG ever heard HR? I wonder how much convincing (of who?) it would take to have them play, say Feed the Fire as one of the pre-concert songs?! -mjm ======================================================================== Date: 23 Jun 1993 15:04:45 -0400 From: pas@math.ams.org (Paula Shanks) Subject: Flash! The latest from the world of mathematics. On my desk today, Volume 1, Number 1, of The Journal of Fuzzy Mathematics. And of course, it has a BLUE COVER. I thought you needed to know. /Pshanks ======================================================================== Date: 23 Jun 1993 17:30:00 U From: "Christine Waite" Subject: cranberries and peter gabri Subject: Time:5:00 PM OFFICE MEMO cranberries and peter gabriel Date:6/23/93 Hi everyone... Tonight at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, NJ, The Cranberries are in concert with The The. Doors open at 8pm, Tickets are $21.50. They're also playing tomorrow night at the Paramount at Madison Square Gardens in NYC. I don't know if there are any tickets available for the NYC show. I might go to the show and I might not...I'm not feeling too well and I'm also trying to watch my finances.... In other news today, My friend Ian dropped by work and told me that he had a free ticket to Peter Gabriel!!! (one of his friends couldn't go). Well, it ends up that tonight's concert is being postponed until July 5th. (I don't know why.) His concert tomorrow will be tomorrow. Ian's friend still can't go, so that means that I will actually get to see him! The ticket is even a floor seat!!!! *smile* It's going to be at the Meadowlands (where I saw the Grateful Dead with Sting a few weeks ago). Cool, eh!!! I missed Peter while I was in Germany and in England. (Can you believe it Klaus???) *grin* Well, I'm happy... OH, sorry for all the confusion about Ben Elton...I met this guy Terry in London who was from Australia and he was the one who told me he was an Australian author... I stand corrected.... and sorry for not knowing my accents....i.e. The Proclaimers... Well, have a happy night everyone.... Oh, 10,000 Maniacs in Central Park are sold out...I might go hang out near the park and see if I can hear something anyway. :) Later all! Christine :) "What if your perceptions are all wrong?...I wouldn't stop loving you..." -Black Tape for a Blue Girl ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 23 Jun 93 17:26:53 EDT From: goya! Subject: replies mas@cs.bu.edu (Mark Semich) sez: >Lang's new songs. I also really liked the third song, but I hadn't >heard it before, and don't know who did it. Did anyone catch it? i heard it, but didn't recognize the artist immediately. i'm still not sure, but i *think* it was praise. meredith seemed to agree that that was a dis- tinct possibility (she has the album), but neither of us were entirely sure. Angelos Kyrlidis sez: >exact same thing... :-) BTW, was that Tom Petty they played at some point? you bet yer butt. tom petty and prince have one thing in common: they can be both incredibly good and incredibly bad. that song ("learning to fly" i think it was) was one that is the former. pas@math.ams.org (Paula Shanks) sez: >Other favorite artists: Daniel Lanois, Ambitious Lovers, Marshall >Crenshaw, Guy Klusevcek, Carla Bley, Kate & Anna McG., Ry Cooder, guy| guy| yay| yay| polkas from hell| (well, sometimes.) "Dennis G Parslow" sez: >Madder Rose, the opener, is a 4-part group, with 3 guitars and a >drummer, with a female/male combo for vocals (the woman getting any >solo stuff). Heavy guitar stuff. Seems like a cross of PJ Harvey and >(Curve? perhaps older Throwing Muses). they were opening? argh| i might've gone if i knew this. sheesh. madder rose is from the boston area, i believe; guitar-based, but not that heavy on a scale of the beatles to black sabbath - kinda your standard indie guitar rock thang (which usually means a bit crunchier than r.e.m. used to be), but musically more interesting than the majority of that lot. i think they're nifty (peskura, keep your eyes open for this one). robert@deepspace.nj00802.sai.com (Robert Lovejoy) sez: > Dirk, I am very happy you are still with us. Surviving a blowout at 90 >mph entails more than a little luck, and a good deal of driving skill. interesting - i was just talking to a co-worker (who is from belgium) about high speed blowouts on germany's autobahn. he said that a blowout at that speed was a lost cause. i, for one, am happy to hear otherwise (though i do not think i'd recommend anyone to try this at home). in other news, i've been told that the band sun 60 (whom i trashed in a review in these pages not too long ago) really rocks live. apparently, the album is nothing like that they are like on stage (which has been described as wacky and mind-blowing and trumpet-fant (to coin a word)). if i get a chance to see them, i will and will certainly let you all know. . . . +woj ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 23 Jun 93 16:58:15 -0700 From: Michael G Peskura Subject: Madder Rose Well, woj, it is appropriate that you should be mentioning Madder Rose since i just happened to acquire their CD at the local Tower Pulse! sale rack today. I had heard them courtesy of Neile, the Canadian Queen of CD Collectors! They'll Do It Everytime Dept: anyone with a few moments to spare might enjoy the Cloudbusting Controversy winding down in r.m.gaffa. There's life in the ol' newsgroup, yet :) Cheers, Mp ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1993 22:55:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Suspended In Duct Tape Subject: Notes Hi! A few random notes... I do think it was Praise did the mystery song before the Gabriel concert... but I don't know the album well enough to have recognized it for sure then, and I don't remember enough of what I heard to be able to recognize it on the album now. Figures. Angelos' report of PG's voice having problems on Sunday doesn't really surprise me- when he spoke (introducing the opening band and at the end) he sounded even hoarser than usual, and people have been getting nasty\ colds in the Northeast lately. Dennis, glad you enjoyed the Sundays show too. They didn't play long enough for the money, but I got to bed at a reasonable hour, so I can't complain. :} (My boss was happy about that, too.) And I enjoyed Madder Rose, but wasn't overly impressed by them. From what I heard, which admittedly wasn't much, they didn't sound original at all- just your basic College Radio Will Love Us jangly guitar fare with average female vocals. I haven't heard their album yet, though we do have it at the station and I'll check it out next week. (I had it out yesterday and intended to play something off it, but then I got into an entirely different mood, and well... you'll see the playlist.) Next up at Toad's: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, July 13. Yay! Oh- I have 4 free tickets to see Blind Melon, Gravel Pit, The Housebreakers and Grant Lee Buffalo at Toad's Place on Friday, July 9. Interested? Send e-mail, first-come first served, I'll pop for the postage. Next rock: The Playlist That Ate The Connecticut Valley! Meredith meth@delphi.com ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1993 22:58:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Suspended In Duct Tape Subject: Champagne Jam, 6/22/93 Hi! Here we go: CHAMPAGNE JAM 88.1 FM, WESU-Middletown Wesleyan University Middletown, CT Tuesday, June 22, 1993 7-9PM 10,000 MANIACS: "Orange" (Hope Chest) TORI AMOS: "Precious Things" (Little Earthquakes) RAINBIRDS: "Moon" (Call Me Easy...) SHONEN KNIFE: "Twist Barbie" (Let's Knife) PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED: "Rise" (Album) THE SMITHS: "Girlfriend In A Coma" (Strangeways Here We Come) SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES: "Peek-A-Boo" (Twice Upon A Time) BLACK 47: "Funky Ceili" (Fire of Freedom) AIMEE MANN: "Say Anything" (Whatever) THE MUFFS: "Saying Goodbye" (The Muffs) HIS NAME IS ALIVE: "Mouth By Mouth" (Mouth By Mouth) THE JUDYBATS: "An Intense Beige" (Pain Makes You Beautiful) THE MOON SEVEN TIMES: "Sweet Magnolias" (The Moon Seven Times) HAPPY RHODES: "Ashes To Ashes" (HR5) HAPPY RHODES: "In Hiding" (Warpaint) THE STORY: "Grace In Gravity" (Grace In Gravity) TWO NICE GIRLS: "Eleven" (Chloe Liked Olivia) INDIGO GIRLS: "Keeper Of My Heart" (Nomads Indians Saints) FAIRGROUND ATTRACTION: "Moon On The Rain" (The First of a Million Kisses) CRANES: "Underwater" (Adrift EP) STEREOLAB: "The Groop Play Chord X" (Space Age Batchelor Pad Music) BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC: "Lqabblil Insanya" (The Fossil Record) TASMIN ARCHER: "Sleeping Satellite" (Great Expectations) PEACOCK PALACE: "My Suitcase" (Peacock Palace) KIRSTY MACCOLL: "Children Of The Revolution" (Electric Landlady) KATE BUSH: "Night Of The Swallow" (The Dreaming) Next week, if all goes according to plan, I should be able to present the American Premiere of Kate's "Moments of Pleasure", who cares about the sound quality, my listeners have heard much worse. :) Meredith meth@delphi.com ======================================================================== Subject: PG! Date: Wed, 23 Jun 93 23:14:35 -0400 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu Mike and I saw the Secret World tour last night. It was *way* spiff. Papa Wemba opened and they were, um, okay. The music was fantastic, but something about the vocals grated on me. There seemed to be a weird echo, and I wasn't sure if that was an echoing style done by the background vocalists, an effect, or just bad acoustics in the Cap Centre. I think, though that this was the first time I've seen a headliner walk out on stage to proudly introduce his opening act. The inbetweenset music seemed to be the same tape I've heard discussed. For what it's worth, the song order in question seemed to be Tom Petty's "Into the Great Wide Open", KaTe's "The Sensual World" (mmmmh, yes!), kd's "Constant Craving" and then Neneh Cherry's "Acoustic Loneliness" (from _Homebrew_, an album I've plugged many times here, in addition to quoting it in my current .sig). I was very surprised that the final song before PG came out was from _Passion_. I vaguely remember another _Passion_ song during the concert (PG and Shankar, whilst they were putting together the set for "Shaking the Tree"). "Games Without Frontiers" was cool, but the song really sounds better with the repeated "jeux sans frontieres". "Blood of Eden" was amazing; it sounded like the soundtrack version, but I wasn't positive due to Joy Askew's great BVs (at that point, I was in too much ectasy to really figure out what was going on...;-) "Steam" had a cool intro; was this from "Quiet Steam" or something else? "Diggin in the Dirt" was really creepy and warped and twisted. I like that. I heard Gabriel's voice crack very light once during "Shock the Monkey." Barely noticeable; his voice was strong and gorgeous throughout the rest of the concert. This was definitely a Don't Miss kinda tour. BTW, in a weird fit of ectosynchricity, at a little picnic get-together this evening, I heard some cool tunes emanating from the CD boombox and went over to find out what it might be; 'twas David Torn's _Clouds About Mercury_ which I had never heard of before its recent mention in these phosphors. Weird how these things work, eh? 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 | ======================================================================== Subject: Re: PG! Date: Thu, 24 Jun 93 00:25:14 EDT From: Angelos Kyrlidis Jeff writes: >I think, though that this was the first time I've seen a headliner walk >out on stage to proudly introduce his opening act. Well, I agree that it's great that he does this, but then Papa Wemba records for Real World, so he obviously respects him. >The inbetweenset music seemed to be the same tape I've heard discussed. >For what it's worth, the song order in question seemed to be Tom Petty's >"Into the Great Wide Open", KaTe's "The Sensual World" (mmmmh, yes!), >kd's "Constant Craving" and then Neneh Cherry's "Acoustic Loneliness" (from >_Homebrew_, an album I've plugged many times here, in addition to quoting >it in my current .sig). Thank you ! It's actually 'Peace in Mind' :-) Just confirmed by listening to it. I *knew* it was very familiar!! Yet another example of the great taste in music that PG and crew have. They should be on ecto! :-) And they should somehow get their hands on Happy's CDs. >I was very surprised that the final song before PG came out was from >_Passion_. For a moment I was expecting to see Sarah McLachlan come out! :-) >I vaguely remember another _Passion_ song during the >concert (PG and Shankar, whilst they were putting together the set for >"Shaking the Tree"). That was 'Slow Marimbas' from the Birdy soundtrack. >"Games Without Frontiers" was cool, but the song really sounds better with >the repeated "jeux sans frontieres". I will disagree with woj. I *like* the funked up Games without frontiers. I've been playing PoV constantly ever since the concerts for that and for In your eyes. Is that amazing live version available on CD? >"Steam" had a cool intro; was this from "Quiet Steam" or something else? Yep. I wish he had played the whole 'Quiet steam' and *then* switched over to the real thing. >"Diggin in the Dirt" was really creepy and warped and twisted. I like that. Yep. On Sunday he was a bit more playful with the camera, and did a lot of tongue work :-) When is the 'Secret World' video coming out again? :-) >I heard Gabriel's voice crack very light once during "Shock the Monkey." Could this be why he postponed tonight's show in NJ? I wonder... Gotta let go of the memories of this concert. But it will be hard... Angelos 'I walk away from light and sound down stairways leading underground' ======================================================================== 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)