From: owner-ecto-digest To: ecto-digest@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto-digest V2 #174 Reply-To: ecto@nsmx.rutgers.edu Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, 31 July 1995 Volume 02 : Number 174 The Ecto digest is now being generated automatically. Please send problems and questions to: ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "The ONLY one..." Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 23:41:45 -0500 (CDT) Subject: unsubscribe unsubscribe #ecto lovey@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu ------------------------------ From: lakrahn@imho.net (Laurel Krahn) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 00:01:07 -0500 Subject: show reviews/literature/misc GoshWow, I had a spiffy weekend last weekend (not to be confused with the one that is currently ending-- tho my time sense is *way* off... I'm also way behind on email, I probably owe a few of you letters...). I was in Minneapolis a week ago for Fourth Street Fantasy Convention-- a small, literary Fantasy convention. This year, it was smaller than the usual 200 people, had 120 folks I think, at a new, very surreal hotel. Guests of Honor were Damon Knight and Kate Wilhelm-- who were lovely and had a great time, from all accounts. I realized I knew probably 95% of the people at the convention, and the rest were very familiar. Cozy. One of the first folks I encountered was Neil Gaiman (see, Tori connection there, this is ecto-related, really)... I hadn't seen Neil for a few months, and I hadn't yet met Maddy (Madeleine Rose Elvira Gaiman, the latest addition to the household... it's been... gosh... well over a year, now) and was surprised that she was riding on Neil's shoulders. I almost said "Who's this" when it hit me that it had to be Maddy and I hadn't yet seen baby pictures nor actually met her. Looks like she'll be walking in no time at all! Wow, time flies. I saw the Fabulous Lorraine (of the Flash Girls, also Neil's assistant) briefly... and Neil muttered about being upset with Emma Bull (well, not really :)) for not being at the con on Friday night as he had a new song for the Flash Girls that he wanted to play for them... Ach well, some other time. Neil was heading off for the big Comic Con in San Diego (How did we manage to schedule Fourth Street opposite the Comic Con two years in a row? Bad bad bad.) early on Saturday. Then I ran into all sorts of folks and the convention was underway... Sadly this year we needed to take time to remember Roger Zelazny, Fourth Street's first guest of honor and a friend to many at the con. He's missed. :( Ach well, literary discussion abounded, as did much silliness. Not too much in the way of music parties, tho Steven Brust and Frank Runyon played music all night Saturday night (well, mostly Steve... Frank kept complaining about lacking a band to play with-- he's played with Cats Laughing as well as Bedlam Union). Steve knows a *lot* of songs. At one point, I was sitting on a couch in the hotel room while Steve played... Jane Hansen was sitting next to me, on the other side of her was Laurel Winter (an excellent short story writer, BTW)... Corwin Brust was sitting on the arm of the couch next to me, but kept kindof falling... So we had him lie across the laps of the three of us and we continued to listen to the music... It was about 3 or 4am at this point, suddenly I squeaked and stammered out to our little couch group (while I pointed at Corwin), "He's resting on his Laurels"... at this point we were convulsed in laughter. When Steve finished his song, Jane asked Steve what his son was doing... Steve wasn't sure... she said the line... the rest of the room broke up... Laurel and I hung out together on Sunday, just in case anyone needed a rest... (Well, okay, it's a silly pun or whatever you call it, but how often do you get two Laurel's in one room? And how often does one rest on them? ) Sunday night brought a larger music party... Steve Brust played some of his songs and some covers... Fred Levy Haskell charmed the crowd with Peter Ostroushko's song "Red Dancing Shoes" (along with other fine songs for sing along music party jams... I can't help it, I like* "Dixie Chicken")... He also did "All Along the Watchtower" with appropriate doumbek solo by Steve Brust and keen guitar licks from editor extraordinaire Patrick Nielsen Hayden. Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden did a gloriously funny song called "Hell Froze Over Last Night" by some west coast group whose name I forget. Emma Bull wowed us with Richard Thompson covers ("Wall of Death," "When I Get to the Border," "Down Where the Drunkards Roll") with Patrick providing wonderful additional guitar. After The Fabulous Lorraine showed up, they did some songs as The Flash Girls (with Steve on doumbek, Patrick on guitar, Lenny Bailes on occasional harmonica). I was wowed. Hadn't really heard the Flash Girls play live in close to a year. and hadn't heard the new material from the new album live like that. Wow. Lorraine's vocals have improved dramatically. Overall, it was wonderful. Clarity of music and vocals and such. Lorraine really hammed up "Girl Needs a Knife" (words by Neil Gaiman, music by the FGs)... they did Todd Menton (and Boiled in Lead)'s "Tape Decks All Over Hell" as a twangy southern blues kindof thing. (Fun!) The version of the instrumental "Heathen Horse" absolutely rocked. It was a fun, small party.. but good quality. :) Monday night there was a benefit concert at a venue in Minneapolis called "Ground Zero"... I'd never been there before and was lucky to find it... I was *so* sleep deprived (maybe 10 hours of sleep total from Friday-Monday night)... Lojo Russo played first (she of Cats Laughing, Gallowglass, and much fine solo material.. also guests on Boiled in Lead's latest)... She's really in the singer-songwriter vein now. Opened with her gorgeous rendition of "Jabberwocky". Then did lots of material from her album "understated"... mellow, pretty stuff. I was in danger of falling asleep, not because she wasn't good, mind you... She ended with a new song, not on her album... called "Flying" which rocked and surely woke everyone up. Crowd was very appreciative. :) The Flash Girls played next... Emma Bull on guitar and vocals, the Fabulous Lorraine on fiddle and vocals, with Steve Brust accompanying them on doumbek. Lojo Russo and Mark Sterling switched off joining them on stage to help out on bass (Lojo doing vocals and mandolin ona couple). The Tor Books crowd was very enthusiastic (I stopped counting how many editors and authors were there at some point... ). There were some sound problems, I'm beginning to think Lorraine has bum pickups on her fiddle... but they were charming... (That's the word Don Keller used, he said they charmed the audience. He's right.) They did lots of songs from the new album, with a few jaunts into stuff from the first album ("Riding the Flame") and the usual one Todd Menton cover ("Sure of Me") thrown in for good measure. I got to hear them play "Amaryllis" for the first time, and I wasn't disappointed. They strung together a lovely medley and I wish I could remember what comprised it... Steve and Lojo were hamming it up and I was really really wishing that kindof a small mixture of Cats Laughing and the Flash Girls could play some gigs... Emma and Lorraine should get Steve and Lojo to play at more shows with them... It's fun. They rocked the house with "Heathen Horse" and then slowed things down to end with Mark Henley's "November Song" (The first time I'dheard Emma do the song with Lorraine in person...). Very nice, longish set. Everyone was happy. SOme folks bugged out to drive back to New York and othe rparts East at that point... I stuck around to hear Bedlam Union (formerly Bedlam or the Bedlam Boys). I'd never ever been impressed by them, but knew they'd undergone some serious lineup changes. Boy was I glad I stayed. Mark Sterling (of the band Morrigan, among other things) plays bass and does some vocals, John Sjogren plays guitar and sings (He was "Willy" in the War for the Oaks movie project, by the way), Frank Runyon plays guitar (boy does he play guitar) and sings, then Mary I-forget-her last name plays fiddle (she used to be with Machinery Hill, I think) and they have an excellent drummer who I didn't know. I was blown away. They did some originals, they did trad songs... the rockingest version of "Queen of Argyll" you'll ever hear. The Lojo Russo/Gallowglass rocking version of "Ride On"... They did "Bungle in the Jungle" of all things. They were tight, excellent musicianship and three vocalists (possibly four, looked like Mary can sing and should have a mic for that purpose)... No longer a casual renfair and bar covers band, they seem on a mission and seem Very Good. Twin Citians should look for them (if you heard them before and were underwhelmed, trust me on this, they're a different band now). I left soon after that, being dead tired, but buoyed up by good music and good conversation... all in all, a good weekend. Took my mind off of other more mundane things. Twin Cities folk (that's Mpls/St. paul/etc) should make note of the fact that the Flash Girls, Bedlam Union, and Lojo Russo are playing at the Fine Line Music Cafe' sometime in August... should be a nifty show. And Bedlam Union has a regular Tuesday night show at someplace called the Ace Bar, I think... (I hear it's kindof a dive, but if Bedlam Union is there, should be worth it.. :) an adventure, yeah...) Lojo plays coffeehouse gigs around the cities and will be at the MN Renaissance Festival again this year. The Flash Girls... don't play as many shows as they should, darnit. Due to busy schedules. I *think* they'll be at the MN Renaissance Festival as well this year... which is much different than their other gigs, but still kindof fun. I'm thinking I may very well make a tape for the tape dubbing project... a mix of all this Minneapolis area music I keep babbling about. Would have stuff by Lojo, Cats Laughing, the Flash Girls, Steven Brust, Boiled in Lead, maybe some Morrigan and Gallowglass, Machinery Hill, Pimentos for Gus, Todd Menton, and other fine folks. Seems a good idea to me... Gotta run... :) Bestest, Laurel (lakrahn@imho.net) Krahn Virtual Home: http://imho.net/~lakrahn/ IMHO Productions-- Internet Consulting & Web Design ------------------------------ From: mcb@postmodern.com (Michael C. Berch) Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 22:44:04 -0700 Subject: Re: the week in replies Laurel Krahn writes: > There's been enough talk about how bad this poor Ron Sexsmith guy is that > I'm curious about him. I don't think I'd stoop to buying any of his > recordings (well, not unless they were darn cheap)... but whenever someone > gets that much exposure for being bad-- I'm curious. This reminds of Sinead O'Connor's 1990 tour, where the much-maligned opener was someone named Hugh Harris, a black singer/songwriter from London. No one could figure out who booked him... there were rumours that Sinead was having an affair with him... people wondered who thought his style of music would appeal to people who liked Sinead's... etc., etc., ad infinitum. Well, anyway, I heard him and was actually pretty impressed, except for the terrible sound board work in the hall (as if they were *trying* to make him sound bad) and when his CD turned up in the "on-sale" bin a couple of weeks later I snarfed it, and play it now & again; he seems to have faded back into obscurity (unless I am way behind in my news here :-)). "Opening acts" are sometimes interesting discoveries. - -- Michael mcb@postmodern.com http://www.postmodern.com/ ------------------------------ From: mcb@postmodern.com (Michael C. Berch) Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 23:13:25 -0700 Subject: Re: Alanis Morissette? (leading to a rant!) Nyteshde@aol.com writes: > >Last night I heard for the first time a song on radio by someone named > >Alanis Morissette (think that's right; I looked it up in the CDnow > >Web pages). > > Yeah, that would be it. ;) Alanis Morissette: recently promoteed to goddess > of music. >:) > > >Her voice sounded sort of like Sam Phillips with attitude, > >and I loved it. > > Does Alanis sound like Sam Philips? Because if so, I've got to run out and > buy Sam Philips stuff right now. :) Well, after a fuller listening (I went right out and got the album) I'd point more in the direction of, say, Nathalie Archangel (anybody remember her?) than Sam Phillips, but I was thinking just sound-of- voice there, not style, so you might be disappointed. Well not *disappointed*, since Sam Phillips is certainly a a goddess in her own right, but she and Alanis Morissette are *really* different in style and tone and songwriting and all that. And who was it... Meredith? ... that was unimpressed? OK, maybe I know what you mean. Possibly the video has something to do with it (I haven't seen it yet), but the feeling I got from the album was that it was *way* overproduced, and that bothered me since I think she is very talented but the album just sounded so ... *L.A.* -- you know, someone gets a reputation as a singer/songwriter, and they do some good work, and sooner or later, get a major label recording contract, or at least an indy with a national distribution contract, and they go to L.A. and record, and they round up the usual suspects as a studio backup band... I don't know their names but they seem to be the same ones every time... and what comes out, though technically excellent, usually loses some of the artist's individuality, and has this really cheesy, overproduced, L.A. feel to it. (It's times like this that one really appreciates Happy's approach, and though it is sometimes frustrating not to see Aural Gratification disks by the dozens in every single music store, staying independent and crafting your own sound and art away from the mass market is, notwithstanding, a *good thing*. And I think the Internet will, in the long run, make this a moot point: with a high-speed music-on-demand service, who needs Tower Records? Or, for that matter, who needs Sony/CBS or BMG? Cool thought.) Maybe I'm just ranting, and I should try to give some concrete examples here, but it's the one negative note to what I thought was a very good, listenable album. And I *do* like "You Ought to Know", in any case, but then maybe I'm just an aficionado of pissed-off bitter ex-lover songs. :-) - -- Michael mcb@postmodern.com http://www.postmodern.com/ ------------------------------ From: "Richard Schellekens AU-FEW" Date: 31 Jul 95 08:34:15 MET Subject: X-pmrqc: 1 unsubscibe ecto ------------------------------ From: Nyteshde@aol.com Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 03:03:45 -0400 Subject: Re: Alanis Morissette? (leading to a rant!) In a message dated 95-07-31 02:56:34 EDT, mcb@postmodern.com (Michael C. Berch) writes: >Well, after a fuller listening (I went right out and got the album) >I'd point more in the direction of, say, Nathalie Archangel (anybody >remember her?) than Sam Phillips, but I was thinking just sound-of- >voice there, not style, so you might be disappointed. Well not >*disappointed*, since Sam Phillips is certainly a a goddess in her own >right, but she and Alanis Morissette are *really* different in style >and tone and songwriting and all that. Actually, I've been meaning to check out Sam Phillips anyway. I asked for musical recommendations on alt.music.alternative.female way back when, and someone suggested her; she sounded pretty interesting. >And who was it... Meredith? ... that was unimpressed? OK, maybe I know >what you mean. Possibly the video has something to do with it (I >haven't seen it yet), The video is pretty bad. :) It's basically Alanis trashing around like a grunge rocker, with her hair in her face and screaming in the watcher's face. But, I do have a soft spot for the video, as it introduced me to the song. >But the feeling I got from the album was that it >was *way* overproduced, and that bothered me since I think she is very >talented but the album just sounded so ... *L.A.* -- you know, someone >gets a reputation as a singer/songwriter, and they do some good work, >and sooner or later, get a major label recording contract, or at least >an indy with a national distribution contract, and they go to L.A. and >record, and they round up the usual suspects as a studio backup band... >I don't know their names but they seem to be the same ones every >time... and what comes out, though technically excellent, usually loses >some of the artist's individuality, and has this really cheesy, >overproduced, L.A. feel to it. Yeah, what you said. :) No, seriously though, whenever someone says an album is "overproduced", I'm left wondering what in the world they mean by that. I never understood, and still don't, what exactly "overproduced" means. So, I may as well ask. WHAT is "overproduced"? >And I think the Internet will, in the >long run, make this a moot point: with a high-speed music-on-demand >service, who needs Tower Records? Or, for that matter, who needs >Sony/CBS or BMG? Cool thought.) Oh my! I hope not! I am not a fan of the idea of living through computers; it freaks me out enough just that computers can respond to vocal commands now! >Maybe I'm just ranting, and I should try to give some concrete examples >here, but it's the one negative note to what I thought was a very good, >listenable album. So, you did like it, you just thought it was annoyingly overproduced? >And I *do* like "You Ought to Know", in any case, >but then maybe I'm just an aficionado of pissed-off bitter ex-lover >songs. :-) It could be. That's probably why *I* like it so much. ;) Anything is a welcome change from the usual sappy "God, I can't live without you" songs. They depress me. - -Nyteshde ------------------------------ From: Michael Matthews Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 03:30:01 -0400 Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ***************** Joel Kenyon (jkenyon@nit.AirTouch.COM) ****************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joel Kenyon Wed July 31 1963 Leo Eli Brandt August 05 Leo Martin Bridges Sat August 08 1970 BigGuy Happy Rhodes Mon August 09 1965 HolyGhost Martin Dougiamas Wed August 20 1969 Positive Tori Amos Thu August 22 1963 Leo Sam Warren Tue August 22 1961 Leo Henk Van Wulpen Sat August 22 1970 Leo Don Gibson Wed August 26 1959 Virgo Marcel Rijs Mon August 31 1970 A rose growing old - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ From: mklprc@teleport.com (Michael Pearce) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 00:46:48 -0700 Subject: Land of the Blind on Web My friends in Land of the Blind now have their own home page. They were going to post it but that would be tooting one's own horn, an act that every chiropractor advises against. So, since I did the scanning and sound editing for them, I can do it. (No financial connection.) It's at http://www.teleport.com/~lanblind. There are two 30-sec excerpts from the CD on there (and damn large .wav files, too!) which I pulled off by first saving the entire song as a QuickTime moov (audio only) and then opening and editing it in SoundEdit 16. More people can play .wav files than QT movies, so that's the reason for the format. There are quoted reviews, comments, scans from the CD covern and performance calendar for Aug and Sept. I would be open to suggestions (and so would they) as to what _should_ be on a useful homepage for a group that would help Netters decide if they want to investigate further. My own home page has a link to Ecto pages and others; maybe we could make the Ecto page a link source to all of the pages related to the ecto-goddesses (which it is starting to be already) while maintaining primary focus on the Hapster, our #1 reason for being here. /^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\ | Please don't add "*@aol.com" to your twit filter. Thank you. | | mklprc@aol.com | "Give them a light and they'll | | mklprc@teleport.com | follow it anywhere!" | | http://www.teleport.com/~mklprc/ | -- Firesign Theater | - ------------------------------>((^o0o^))<--------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: "Matt Bittner" Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 08:12:18 -0500 Subject: Re: show reviews/literature/misc On 31 Jul 95 at 0:01, Laurel Krahn offered: > Then I ran into all sorts of folks and the convention was underway... Sadly > this year we needed to take time to remember Roger Zelazny, Fourth Street's > first guest of honor and a friend to many at the con. He's missed. :( When did he pass on? I had no idea. FYI, I have a copy of the next Alvin Maker tale from Orson Scott Card, which is slated to come out in September. Haven't had the chance to read it yet, but I'm sure it will be grand. I'm waiting to read it until I re-read the first three books. Matt - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Matthew Bittner WW1 Modeler, ecto subscriber, new dad meba@cso.com Omaha, Nebraska "I don't know about you, miss kitty, but I'm feeling a whole lot yummier!" Catwoman, _Batman Returns_ - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ------------------------------ From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 95 22:54:28 EDT Subject: Re: looking for something Jessica asked: >Hi everyone - there's something I've been looking for for a while >now and haven't found any trace of. I had one record store try >to order it for me but they couldn't get it - they didn't really >give me any reason either... > >It's the David Sylvian/Robert Fripp live album "Damage". It's still easily available here in Australia - and in the limited version, too, the one with the gold CD and the squishy outer box and lavish book. - - Anthony - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au Physical mail: P.O. Box 40, Malvern 3144, Victoria, Australia "The red sky was bleeding glimpses of heaven, in sections of seven..." - Rose Chronicles reaching lyrical perfection on "Awaiting Eternity" - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 95 22:49:33 EDT Subject: Re: Fall Down Albert interpreted: >Some time ago, Anthony asked us to keep guessing the meaning of Margot >Smith's songs. I've come up with a new interpretation of "Fall Down". >Actually, this interpretation is not new at all, but just my first >impression when I heard it. I think it is simply a perfect little love >song. It's really obvious, actually, and I wonder how I could have >thought otherwise. OK, I'll try this one out and see how it goes down. Personally, I think you may have hit the nail on the head. :-) >My only complaint about it is that is sounds a bit one-sided or >unbalanced, lyrically, like it is about a competition or something. I guess that relationships often are exactly that, sadly. - - Anthony - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au Physical mail: P.O. Box 40, Malvern 3144, Victoria, Australia "The red sky was bleeding glimpses of heaven, in sections of seven..." - Rose Chronicles reaching lyrical perfection on "Awaiting Eternity" - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 95 22:46:25 EDT Subject: Re: crunchy! woj ectoided: >second, after reading anthony's (horan) post about sybil vane, i picked >up a cut out of their debut for $2. It's already on cut-out? Poor band. It's just been released here. >wow! crunchy! and tasty too! to put >it in comparison terms, think what might happen if tribe, rose >chronicles and t'pau (!) were all mishmashed together and then put >through a food processor. Tribe was another comparison I meant to mention, but for some reason I didn't. :) >vocalist april devereaux sings with a >theatrically intense character and the rest of the band just shreds >through the songs. except for a couple interludes of guitar wanking, >this is a surprisingly involving listen. It's grown on me even more since I posted about it. There are still a couple of tracks that don't do anything for me, but there are also three tracks that make me go "mmmmmm". Crunchiness can be good. :-) - - Anthony - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au Physical mail: P.O. Box 40, Malvern 3144, Victoria, Australia "The red sky was bleeding glimpses of heaven, in sections of seven..." - Rose Chronicles reaching lyrical perfection on "Awaiting Eternity" - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 95 23:01:46 EDT Subject: Re: Margot Smith revisited Albert says: >If I understood what happened correctly, EMI gave Margot a lot of money to >record an album that they never tried to promote. They now own the rights >to it, so she can't release it in any other way. [...] >This behaviour is highly unethical, and I would be surprised if it were >legal. The only logical thing for Margot to do now is to get into the >state of mind she was in when the back cover picture of _Sleeping with >the Lion_ was taken, and sue them! :> :-) I don't know what the terms of Margot's contract with EMI were, but unless there was a clause in there guaranteeing a certain level of promotion, they're in the clear. Do bear in mind that she got out of a debt of almost $300,000 when she left. I can only paraphrase the otherwise quite over-the-top Mr Steve Albini, who said that a record contract is the most grossly unfair contract in the business world. He's right. - - Anthony - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au Physical mail: P.O. Box 40, Malvern 3144, Victoria, Australia "The red sky was bleeding glimpses of heaven, in sections of seven..." - Rose Chronicles reaching lyrical perfection on "Awaiting Eternity" - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 95 22:57:59 EDT Subject: Re: Margot Smith Paul Cohen writes: >>That's the whole point - it would have been easy to promote. For whatever >>reason, EMI never bothered to even try to. And I'm weirder, so nyah. :) > >Well, if she's off EMI, it'd be a great album for an indie to try to >acquire. An indie would probably do a much better job of marketing it. >Especially a Rykodisk or Rhino. EMI still own the album - it cost them close to a quarter of a million dollars, so they aren't going to give it away to just anyone...! :-) Sadly, for the time being, "Sleeping With The Lion" is a dead issue both for Margot and for EMI; I wouldn't discount its reappearance someday, though, and meanwhile, it's still in the Australian catalogue. As for the future... well, wait and see. As soon as I'm allowed, I'll let you know. - - Anthony > >________Paul Cohen________________pmcohen@netaxs.com________________________ > King of Prussia, PA http://www.netaxs.com/~pmcohen/ >ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo talk: pmcohen@slip-91.netaxs.com > - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au Physical mail: P.O. Box 40, Malvern 3144, Victoria, Australia "The red sky was bleeding glimpses of heaven, in sections of seven..." - Rose Chronicles reaching lyrical perfection on "Awaiting Eternity" - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V2 #174 ************************** ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu