From: owner-ecto-digest To: ecto-digest@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto-digest V2 #160 Reply-To: ecto@nsmx.rutgers.edu Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, 18 July 1995 Volume 02 : Number 160 The Ecto digest is now being generated automatically. Please send problems and questions to: ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Chandra L. Sriram" Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 17:26:06 -0400 (EDT) Subject: cocteau twins info well, i had more web page fun in search of the alleged new cocteau twins release. here is what the latest update says: * 6/19- Twinlights's release date has been pushed back until September and the album won't come out until Jan 1996. The track on the Judge Dredd soundtrack, Need-Fire, will not be on any single or the new album. ....... *The first EP to be released this year is called Twinlights. It contains 4 acoustic tracks called Rilkean Heart, Golden-Vein, Pink Orange Redd, and Half Gifts. The EP is supposed to come out sometime in July. Rilkean Heart and Half-Gifts will also be on the next album, but will be radically different. The next EP (unknown release date) will contain new versions of "Feet Like Fins" and "Cherry Coloured Funk" along with two other songs from the new album. so there it is. some good news and some bad news, as far as the release date being pushed back. and Judge Dredd?! chandra ------------------------------ From: elionwyr@onix.com Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 17:43:26 +0500 Subject: Happy T-shirt IN> just wondering, what does the hr shirt look like? IN> IN> chandra It's the "bat dove" drawing from "Equipoise," done in blank ink on a grey t-shirt, with "Happy Rhodes" written underneath in lavender. On the back, these lines from "He Will Come" are printed: "The fog breaks and she is there Wandering on the jagged cliffs The fortress comes in view as he descends to meet her kiss Gabrielle dancing on the rocks He will come for you He will come again" There are some lavender accents, anthe Aural Gratification logo is printed in black on the left sleeve. The shirt is made from pretty light cotton - ideal for the current heat waves. :) ------------------------------ From: "JOHN SHEPARD (CALAMARI)" Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 17:54:43 -0500 Subject: It's TOO... D__N... HOT!... :-) From: Christopher Boek >Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 12:15:51 +1000 (EST) >Subject: Shit Hot .... > >Hi people, > >I'd just like to formally apologize for my awfully inconsiderate >remarks about the heat complaints that have passed through here ... > >From the Melbourne 'Age' > > "HEAT WAVE > The death toll from a heat wave in the United States has pushed > past 200, with most of the victims in Chicago" > >Sounds bizarre ... how hot is it over there ??? Obviously hot enough to >make news over here! Heat advisories... lots of outdoor events cancelled... my car _really_ runs lousy... >Chris. From: Nyteshde@aol.com >Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 22:43:30 -0400 >Subject: Re: Subjective voice impressions > >awphili@xs4all.nl said: > >>Did you ever notice a sudden change in the voice of a singer after repeated >>listenings to the same album? It is interesting to know that the voice of >>a singer is actually created by the listener. > >I can honestly say that's never happened to me. I suppose that could be a >thing with me though; I'm a little strange about music. I have a very >detached view of it, I suppose. At least, that's how I usually describe it. I notice changes in singers' voices quite often, but that's partially because the motor in my car's tape deck runs at about 110% normal speed... Seriously, to introduce a tangential thread, how many others hear a singer on the radio, sight unseen, and "picture" them mentally? Not necessarily in any detail, just... hair color? (Lou Gramm, for instance, sounds blond.) I'm not talking about the intelligence stereotypes (dumb blondes) just about the sound. And I'm often wrong. Yes, the sound of a singer's voice depends on the mood I'm in. Or rather, I may find myself mentally comparing a singer to someone, if that someone is on my mind. I hear an awful lot of Stevie Nicks in Joan Osborne, for instance. And Happy, well, I hear _everyone_ in her voice. :-) But I hear Sarah McLachlan in Tori, and Tori in Sarah, and many others in Sarah, and then step back and say "Waitaminnit, that's not what she sounds like!" Remember that, although talent and soul plays a big role in the creation of music, it's largely a perceptual thing. Music begins at the eardrums and goes inward. Before that, it's just physics. Good music is like a Rorschach (sp); each person finds something different, often the same person hearing different things on different occasions, and sometimes to the point where they are actually convinced that it really _is_ different. ("The guitars sound wrong, it's got to be a different recording...") I f we knew how strongly our perceptions get filtered through other things in our mind, we'd probably never trust reality again. >>(If you've ever heard a >>playback of a recording of your own voice, you should know what I mean.) > >I've heard a playback of my voice, and I still don't know what you mean. ;> Well, in my case, that's because recordings of my voice rarely catch that hollow echo from inside my head... :-) Seriously, there's a big difference between hearing your voice through air (and microphones) than hearing your voice through solid bone. Actually, what you hear when you speak is a mixture, of your voice travelling through your head (which is quite loud in my case, due to that sounding chamber where my brain should be) and your voice travelling through the air, coming around your head. Plug your ears and speak, and compare that with a recording of yourself. What you normally hear is a mixture of the two. >>A very complicated process constructs a voice out of an almost random >>bitstream on a CD. I think that if we hear a singer for the first time, >>we tend to synthesize a voice for her out of voices we already know. Later, >>we may recognize the real voice, if that voice is somehow more "pure" or >>"primal" than the other voices we know. (The same can happen with colours.) > >Nope, that's really never happened to me. I have never in my life heard a >voice and thought it sounded like someone else's (well, not unless it >actually *did*, in which case I end up being one of many people who comment >on it). Now, occasionally, a voice reminds me of someone else's for one note, >but that's about it, and that stays consistant for as long as I listen. Like that one note, in Joan Osborne's "Saint Theresa" (sp?) where she sounds _just_ like Sarah McLachlan... but only for one note! >But, if most people do that, it would explain things like... why some people >think Artist A sounds *exactly* like Artist B, whereas someone else doesn't >think so at all... My dad heard Styx' "Blue Collar Man" and thought it was Journey. Go figure. I, on the other hand, heard Styx' "Too Much Time On M y Hands" and thought it was Alan Parsons Project. Whoo. >>This has happened to me with a few singers: early Kate Bush, Jewel and >>recently Susan Aglukark. I think it is because they all seem to have a >>childlike quality to their voices that first attracts the attention of >>the listener, while in fact they are very mature women. Especially >>Jewel can sound very "old" to me now. > >Jewel has a lot of differant voices, I think. The voice on "Foolish Games" Often during the same song. I haven't heard much of Jewel, but in what little I have heard, I've heard maybe four distinct voices. (She could take over Patrick Stewart's one-person Christmas Carol this year, maybe?) >could be someone else entirely, as opposed to the voice on "I'm Sensitive". >FG sounds like a very mature voice, whereas IS seems to be sung by a 12 year >old. From: lakrahn@imho.net (Laurel Krahn) >Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 22:44:41 -0500 >Subject: Re: Shit Hot .... > >At 12:15 PM 7/18/95 +1000, Christopher Boek wrote: > >>From the Melbourne 'Age' >> >> "HEAT WAVE >> The death toll from a heat wave in the United States has pushed >> past 200, with most of the victims in Chicago" >> >>Sounds bizarre ... how hot is it over there ??? Obviously hot enough to >>make news over here! > >I dunno about the rest of the country, but here in Sioux Falls, South >Dakota... we had temps around 105-108 degrees farenheit this past week. Which, counting the comfort factor and heat index, made it 160! >Mainly on Tues-Thurs (which just happened to be the days I was moving from a >third floor apartment on one end of town, to a third floor apartment on >another end of town. No elevators, just lots of stairs. Unair-conditioned >stairs. Ack.). > >Today it was right around 85 degrees. Which seemed downright cool to me >(normally, I prefer temps in the 70s...). > >Best, > >Laurel (lakrahn@imho.net) Krahn >Virtual Home: http://www.iw.net/~lakrahn/ >IMHO Productions-- Internet Consulting & Web Design So, after oppressively hot temperatures (on a routine trip to town, I felt on one occasion like I was going to hit the deck) it rained Sunday night, cooling things down and taking out the power for a good chunk of central Indiana. There are rumors of tornadoes (Dann Kwayl speling?) touching down north of Columbus; I know phones were out ("Holy shit there's a tornad-****"), and the streets in Columbus are still a disaster. Though we were supposed to die _before_ going to Hell, but after weather like this, I'm not so sure. I'm somewhat priviledged, as we have central air at the house, and the school is well air- conditioned as well, but on the other hand, my car ain't, and I spend 1 1/2 hours a day in it. (Well, the a/c does work, but only above 55 MPH...) From: VNozick@tribune.com (Valerie Nozick) >Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 08:23:12 -0500 >Subject: Re: Shit Hot .... > >Christopher Boek asked: >>Sounds bizarre ... how hot is it over there ??? Obviously hot enough to >>make news over here! > >Hot as hell. The bricks on all of the buildings are melting. Ceramics don't melt, they crumble... how bored must I be to correct someone on something like this? :-) >Just kidding. But it was pretty damned hot here. In Chicago, the thermometer hit >106 degrees Fahrenheit, with a heat index (how hot it _really_ feels when you >include humidity) of 125 degrees Fahrenheit. To give you an idea, the hottest I >think I've ever experiences, and I grew up in Southern California and spent >every weekend of my childhood in the desert, was 120. I'm used to living at home, with my grandparents; my grandmother has a condition where she cannot sweat, and is very hot-natured anyway; the house is 70 degrees, tops, and 65 if we let her. >The problem is that Chicago is just not used to weather like this. This is a >city where it reaches at most 90 degrees usually. And that's only for 2 days of >the year. Chicago can handle its cold weather with the best of them, but when it >comes to heat, we're wimps. On the worst day of the heat wave, I had a meeting >that was to take place at a restaurant two blocks away from my workplace. None >of my coworkers wanted to go outside even that short distance -- that's how bad >people are here. > >To give them a break, however, it _was_ like a sauna stepping outside. For the first three minutes or so, after leaving our refridgerated house, it feels good. Then, I get in my car. I don't like leaving the windows down (as if any thief wants a 20- watt Optimus tape deck) and so my car's dashboard thermometer usually reads the same as the heat index. (95 -> 110) And that means the heat index inside the car is... above the melting point of some of the components _in_ the car. >Today it's a nice and normal 85 degrees (with some humidity, but there's always >some humidity out here in the summer). > >Interestingly, what's not being reported is that in one neighborhood in Chicago >(mine, although I wasn't hit), the power went out in the middle of the heat >wave. So from Friday night until Sunday night, no one had air conditioning or >fans in my neighborhood, which is one of the more prosperous ones in the city. >One supermarket lost all of its refrigerated goods, because the power company >kept saying, 'It will be on in a few hours.' Yeah, right. > >==> Valerie > | http://www.columbus.iupui.edu/~jrshepar | IUPU Columbus, Indiana | |John Shepard jrshepar@indyvax.iupui.edu I wanna go to a real school someday! | | Internet is too important to be taken seriously. | Artist, writer, net.loon | | Amiga owner & Sarah McLachlan fan: God help me! |in the making. Finger me &| |"Enrich the soil, no soul no soul" Sarah McLachlan| tell me that you love me.| ------------------------------ From: Robert Lovejoy Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 22:14:32 -0400 Subject: Re: Aural Gratification Summer Clearance! (and update stuff) Hi Folks, Kevin wrote back to ask me to cover a few loose ends for him. First, the space in the address AURAL G@aol.com might cause a problem for some email systems. I've asked him to attempt a new name on AOL that's more net-friendly. Second, he forgot to list AG's snailmail address. It's Aural Gratification P.O. Box 380 Bearsville, NY 12409 Third, the answering machine broke today. He'll get a new one if he can't get it fixed quickly! It might take another day because he just had dental surgery (I've been there!) and is having some trouble communicating. The upcoming technochill albums will be a new experience for me... looking forward to hearing them! Finally, Welcome Back Jessica! *HUG* And while I'm at it, *HUGS* to everyone else on this amazing list! As we swelter here in the USA, I read Phillip's letter about the snow...what a world! Congrats and Happy KateMas to all; sorry I missed all the parties but it sounds like a grand time was had by all. C&V, where did you get your Prism tape? I promise not to tell Kevin. BTW, I probed a little when we spoke and he still seems dead set against us passing that around. Not to open any bad feelings from the past, but I promise to keep gently, diplomatically working to persuade him to allow at least some distribution of that material! Anyway, best wishes to all, and to all a Goon Night! Robert ------------------------------ From: THE OLIVE-LOAF VIGILANTE Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 22:26:33 -0400 (EDT) Subject: more sarah spoilers & random notes Hi! SARAH MCLACHLAN SPOILER ALERT (there's other stuff at the bottom of this post though, so scroll down...) Well, Sarah McLachlan and the Chieftains were even better last night than in New Haven. This time Paddy Maloney joined Sarah on stage to add tin whistle to "Elsewhere" and, spontaneously, "Mary"; and during the final big Chieftains jam Sarah played guitar instead of just standing there, and Ash provided some extra snare percussion. Ashley MacIsaac got his own number during the Chieftains' set too, and it was incredible -- he had the crowd on their feet roaring. However, we were there early enough so we couldn't avoid Ron Sexsmith. Ugh. Mercifully, he only played for 20 minutes. Is anyone going to see this show later on in the tour? If so, if you can at all, please tape it! No two shows are alike, and they're getting better exponentially. In fact, last night was only the second big jam they'd done, because lightning forced them to pull the plug on the Jones Beach show not halfway through the Chieftains' set. And Sarah's just a goddess. :) She had on her silver weird spaghetti-strap dress thing (see her performances on Letterman and Leno from last year) and Birkenstocks. (My dad had thought to bring his binoculars with him, so we got to check out details like that. ;) She was being even more of a frosted flake than usual last night, too, and the results were hysterically funny. She has moved slightly lower in my estimation since she commented how much she loves Ron Sexsmith ("I just want to *hug* him! "), but that's okay. The funny thing is, my parents agree that she's a goddess, too. "Ice" blew my mom away. And of course they really loved the entire Chieftains thing. My dad wants as many tapes as we can give him. I love corrupting the elder generation! ;> My mom is having fun corrupting her 5th graders by playing the tapes I send her during seatwork time, so the cycle continues. Chris Montville, did you make it to the show??? I didn't see any empty seats in the 5th row, so I hope so -- please let me know! SPOILERS OVER :) A note: many of you may be interested in the August issue of CD Review, which contains one-page profiles of Ani DiFranco, Kate Jacobs, and Jill Sobule, as well as reviews of Natalie Merchant's _Tigerlily_ (hated it) and Suddenly, Tammy!'s _We Get There When We Do_ (hated it because the reviewer doesn't like songs that aren't all happy and uplifting-- she agreed with me that Beth Sorrentino sounds like Nanci Griffith channeling Natalie Merchant, but unlike me, said reviewer thinks that's a bad thing), as well as Aimee Mann's _I'm With Stupid_, which is listed as coming out on Reprise. Oops. It's a pretty good review, and after one listen I think I agree with their assessment that it's a little bit *too* quiet. Unlike _Whatever_, this one doesn't have any songs that jump right out and abduct you immediately. Still, if it doesn't hit stores soon the universe will be the poorer for it. And Jane Siberry's new one is farking brilliant. It's going to piss a lot of her fans off, but it will win her many new ones at the same time. WFUV is going to have multiple orgasms over it. Finally, this note: according to Sarah's road crew, who hung out in New Haven Thursday night, Lisa Germano showed up at an open mike night at a small coffeehouse on the Yale campus, played three songs, and left. Further proof that You Just Never Know, Do You? Stay tuned for a long-overdue Klaus... +==========================================================================+ |Meredith Tarr meth@delphi.com| |Boonton, NJ USA finger info at: mtarr@eagle.wesleyan.edu| +==========================================================================+ |"We now return you to your regular time. Please take all of your belong- | | ings in order to avoid a paradox." -- Uncle Bob | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ From: THE OLIVE-LOAF VIGILANTE Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 22:28:39 -0400 (EDT) Subject: klaus Hello again, Due to a string of very bizarre circumstances (woj and I would like to recommend that everyone avoid the Morris Turnpike in Union, NJ during torrential downpours -- as a side note, did you know that Chevy Cavaliers can float?) I'm home today, so I actually have time for replies! Cathy Guetzlaff dusted off her keyboard and contributed: >And I've been fine, just busier than what I think is allowable by law. >Too much to do, not enough hours in a day to do it all. They (whoever >'they' are...) always say that as one gets older, the days seem to go >faster. I'm starting to believe them! "They" = The Bagel People. Glad to hear you're still alive and fine and all that... I was wondering where you'd got to. See any good shows lately? Anthony recommended: >Oh, keep an eye out for something called "Lady Cottington's Pressed >Fairy Book" - its a wonderfully warped book. I second, third, and fourth-through-forty-fifth that emotion. It's just so wonderfully weird -- and the illustrations are worth the price of admission in and of themselves. :) >(Sarah's touring downunder! yaaaaaaaay :) What? When?!? (Crikey, are they *ever* going to leave her alone to do another album???) Mitch commented: >Jewel's segment on _All Things Considered_ just now couldn't have been a >better half-hour of the show than the one it was in, because it was in it >with a report debunking the Carnegie-Mellon study of sex on the net that >was in _Time_ last week. I'm glad somebody's debunking that report. Sheesh. >My interest was piqued, in particular, by her statement that she thinks of >music in terms of colors. Sarah has mentioned the same thing -- when they were designing the lighting for her last tour, she would tell the designer what color the songs were and let him go from there. "Wait" is yellow, "Ice" and "Home" blue, etc. It worked marvelously well. I can see how that would be annoying in a studio environment, though. :) Kevin wondered: > I've been seeing much discussion about IM out here lately > and they sure sound interesting. I think they may be coming > around to my neck of the woods in the next month or so, > (I think someone posted a tour schedule awhile back, I'll have > to look it up) and I'm wondering if some fine ecto-person might > enlighten me as to what their music sounds like. Just a basic > description, bands that may sound similar, etc. And what CD > might be a good starting point to get familiar with them. Karen Peris has a childlike yet rich voice, which overlays acoustic and electric guitars, bass, drums and, on the albums, keyboards. I would say if you like the mellower side of things and voices like Tanya Donnelly's don't send you screaming from the room, you'll enjoy IM. After repeated listens to _Glow_ and a second chance to _Umbrella_ I have to say that as far as I am concerned their eponymous debut is by far their best, but I know my opinion is vastly in the minority... > 10,000 Maniacs - Our Time In Eden > > I had forgotten what a great album this is. I had not listened > to it for quite some time but lately I can't keep it out of the > player. My fave had always been _In My Tribe_ but I'm thinking > that OTIE may have just one-upped it. I'm thinking about getting > Natalie's new one despite some poor reviews I have read. I have > heard the song "Carnival" (?) on the radio now a couple of times > and I like what I hear. If your favorite 10KM albums are IMT and OTIE, then you'll definitely like Natalie's album a lot. You probably won't like the direction 10KM are going in now, though... veronica (who has both a v AND a c in her name) reported: >in Newbury i picked up (what i thought was) a fanzine... a nice-looking >one with decent art direction and layout. as i flipped through it seemed >cool, little interview bits with Mary Karlzen and Jill Sobule, Juliana >Hatfield taking Rorschach tests, and an ad/contest for Jewel's album. >then i get to the back, and d'oh! it's a genuine official Atlantic >Records thang. so it's called Spew, it's put out by Atlantic Progressive >Marketing, and it's halfway between pure corporate and pure 'zine. Then I'd say "Spew" is aptly named. Jens goes on tour! > 24th Sep - 27th Sep: New York Cool! If you need a place to stay just outside of the city, let us know. Albert mentioned: >I found a new artist today that I think I've never seen mentioned on Ecto >before. Her name is Susan Aglukark, and her new album is called _This Child_. >She's an Inuit from Canada, and her lyrics are a mixture of Inuit and English. I saw a video of hers on MuchMusic when we were in Halifax last April, and meant to ask about her here but plum forgot. My assessment pretty much matches Neile's exactly: like Jann Arden, if you're into the top-40 end of the spectrum you'll love her, but if you're not, you won't. I fall into the latter category, but I do agree that she's a hell of a lot more interest- ing than most of the pap on the airwaves nowadays. >Susan Agulark does a knock-your-socks-off "Amazing Grace". That's a big strike against her right there. ;> Richard Holmes noted: >I agree that I like Laura's own songs better than her covers. The >good news on availability is that her booking agent says she still >takes mail order on all her titles, and the money goes to her own >recording company, Octaroon (PO Box 30853, Seattle, WA 98103, (206) >545-7375). That would be Octoroon Biography. Thanks for the info!!! Oh hey -- I forgot to put this in my last note, but does anyone remember Loreena McKennitt ever being on Letterman??? My parents are swearing up and down they saw her a couple months ago on that show, and I don't believe them, but like I said before, You Never Know... +==========================================================================+ |Meredith Tarr meth@delphi.com| |Boonton, NJ USA finger info at: mtarr@eagle.wesleyan.edu| +==========================================================================+ |"We now return you to your regular time. Please take all of your belong- | | ings in order to avoid a paradox." -- Uncle Bob | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ From: THE OLIVE-LOAF VIGILANTE Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 22:31:45 -0400 (EDT) Subject: KATEMAS IN NEW JERSEY Hi! Okay guys, this is the Official Announcement, v.1.1. KATEMAS IN NEW JERSEY! --------- | / Where: woj-n-meth's world o'muzak, Boonton, New Jersey |/ When: Saturday, July 29, 1995, 1 PM til it's over |\ Why: That should be obvious :> | \ There will be tons of music, videos (including some suprises :), and good company. There will also be tons of good food and drink (provided those who are coming pitch in). Got any interesting KaTe paraphernalia to show off? Been dying to test that new recipe for fuzzy blue drinks on some unwitting victims? Got a portable grill lying around the house waiting for a chance to be used? E-mail woj-n-meth with the details of what you can contribute, and we'll let you know what we need. Please send e-mail to meth@delphi.com and/or woj@remus.rutgers.edu BY THURS- DAY, JULY 27 to let us know if you're coming and what you're bringing. We'll send you directions. Boonton is located in north-central New Jersey, about 10 miles north of Morristown on I-287. It is easily accessible by public transportation -- we'll send details as needed. Crash space is available, but *very* limited. Reserve early if you're coming from afar! NOTE #1: We are owned by one cat. This may matter to some people, but I hope not! NOTE #2: When you RSVP, please let us know whether you'd be interested in adjourning to Hoboken to see Boiled In Lead at Maxwell's (much) later on in the evening. Majority will rule, but be warned that woj and meth have already registered two resounding "yes!" votes. :) Don't let another KaTemas pass you by -- celebrate with the pros! :) See you there... +==========================================================================+ |Meredith Tarr meth@delphi.com| |Boonton, NJ USA finger info at: mtarr@eagle.wesleyan.edu| +==========================================================================+ |"We now return you to your regular time. Please take all of your belong- | | ings in order to avoid a paradox." -- Uncle Bob | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ From: Robert Lovejoy Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 22:44:25 -0400 Subject: Re: Aural Gratification Summer Clearance! (and update stuff) On Tue, 18 Jul 1995 THE OLIVE-LOAF VIGILANTE said: >Hi! > >I sent a note to auralg@aol.com (no space) and it seems to have gotten >through -- at any rate, it hasn't bounced back. We'll see what happens. >Are they going to get on ecto now? auralg, eh? Genius! Pure genius! Meth must have writers in her family, 'cuz she has a way with words! Yep, Kev went and got an aol account. He's a bit confused regarding it right now, a rank newbie, but he may subscribe to ecto. He's not sure. He will post directly, eventually, skipping your humble middleman, when he has news for the group. auralg@aol.com - wish I'd thought of that! Robert the unthought ------------------------------ From: jeffy@wam.umd.edu Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 23:40:24 -0400 Subject: auralg FYI, I can confirm that auralg@aol.com is the correct address to use. To be honest, I figured the space in the userid was a typo! In any event, I can go one better than meth's "I haven't gotten a bounce yet" -- I've received a response from Kevin -- and it was within an hour or so of writing him this morning. I've already mailed my check for the CD-4 and the Ambient Vol 1 disc (as well as a t-shirt...I'm sick of being afraid to wear my HTR shirt and having the autograph wear out in the wash!) Jeff (relieved to finally be able to get a copy of the CD-4 which was reported ages ago!) |Jeffrey C. Burka | "When I look in the mirror, I see a little clearer/ | | | I am what I am and you are you too./ Do you like | |jeffy@wam.umd.edu | what you see? Do you like yourself?" --N. Cherry | ------------------------------ From: jeffy@wam.umd.edu Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 23:48:48 -0400 Subject: cool music in cleveland! Last Saturday I was in the Cleveland area for a wedding. On Saturday afternoon, with a bit of free time to blow, my step-mother and I went into a somewhat upscale coffee house in...um...I'm going to guess it was in Solon, but I'm not positive...called Coffee and Creations. As we stood at the counter waiting for our drinks, I recognized the beginning of the second verse of "Fumbling Toward Ecstasy" and of course was unable to stop myself from singing along. A woman on her way out of the joint smiled at me and explained, "Yeah, it's great, isn't it? I was singing along when I first came in too!" So we get our drinks and find a table, and the acoustic "Possession" ends, and I wait with baited ears for the next musical selection, and much to my surprise it turns out to be _Our Time in Eden_. Wheeee! So we finish our caffeine and my step-mom stops at the counter to get some bagels and a drink to take my dad, and I mention to the manager that the musical selections were wonderful. He looks a bit surprised and explains that *his* boss (the owner?) would be very upset if he knew what the manager was playing. Apparently the usual music includes stuff like Sinatra. Eep. So of course Rebecca chips in and sez that the music was definitely wonderful and had made our experience at the place much nicer, so he ought to mention that to his boss. ;-) obHappy: did I ever remember to mention that Carrie Newcomer's album _The Bird or the Wing_ was mastered by Toby Mountain? Jeff |Jeffrey C. Burka | "When I look in the mirror, I see a little clearer/ | | | I am what I am and you are you too./ Do you like | |jeffy@wam.umd.edu | what you see? Do you like yourself?" --N. 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