From: owner-ecto-digest To: ecto-digest@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto-digest V2 #239 Reply-To: ecto@nsmx.rutgers.edu Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, 1 October 1995 Volume 02 : Number 239 The Ecto digest is now being generated automatically. Please send problems and questions to: ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Joseph Zitt" Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 00:11:42 +0000 Subject: Re: my last message On 29 Sep 95 at 18:06, Markku Kolkka wrote: > YES! YES! Moomin books are great, they have a definite fuzzy blue feeling :-) Hmm! I'd bend over backward to find these, but I haven't had the Moomin chance. (*ducking*) - ---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------- |||/ Joseph Zitt ==== jzitt@humansystems.com ===== Human Systems \||| ||/ Organizer, SILENCE: The John Cage Mailing List \|| |/Joe Zitt's Home Page\| ------------------------------ From: Damon Harper Date: Sat, 30 Sep 95 00:32 PDT Subject: moominstuff and piles of 'philes >>> ...for the snark *was* a boojum, you see! >Lewis Carrol, I believe. hmmm... yeah, that fits too i guess :) i was just remembering the snark from the moominbooks, but couldn't for the life of me remember what a "boojum" might be ;) >>i *loved* those books to pieces :) tove jansson (is that right? it's been >>so long) is a great writer, even in translation. > >YES! YES! Moomin books are great, they have a definite fuzzy blue feeling :-) *sigh* i was only ever able to find two or three of them around here... they were among my favourite books as a child. magical in a really spiffy way. fuzzy blue, yes. and interestingly mysterious :) as far as the ecto group name goes, i still like "pile of 'philes" best. one, it sounds neat, and two, it really fits sometimes if you're an inhabitant of the irc channel :) take care damon _/\_ Damon_Harper@mindlink.bc.ca __\ /__ "Doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo, Vancouver, BC, CANADA \ / doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo." |/||\| - The Cranberries, http://www.dfw.net/~soulmate/damon/paukarut.html "Ode To My Family" ------------------------------ From: rlovejoy@netaxs.com (Robert Lovejoy) Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 08:43:10 -0400 Subject: The Keep - fwd. from Kevin News from afar: Hello again, Got a note from Lovejoy this morning alerting me to the fact that Ladyslipper is already advertising Happy's new record in their catalog. He suggested I post some official info regarding the goings on here. The Keep's street date is officially Oct 17th. Promotional copies are slated to go out to radio sometime next week, although we have yet to receive any. I think we'll finally see them on the 2nd or 3rd. I thought it might be interesting to post the actual linear notes from the disc so y'all could see where this record is coming from. It's definately not just another compilation ! It's all unique stuff. The only cut on it that some of you may already have is "look For The Child" from the CD/4. THE KEEP It was the spring of 1991 when Happy Rhodes released Warpaint. Technically her fifth recording, it was however, the first to be mass marketed. This basically meant, servicing radio stations and using independent distributors as opposed to selling copies from the trunk of a car. Warpaint was also our (her) first release on the ever popular CD format. (Our 8-track sales were starting to decline) The appeal and acceptance of a little known artist on an even more little known label was far reaching. Many radio stations took to Happy like stunt ducks to water, embracing her incredible voice, haunting compositions and "right between the eyes" lyric. In fact the album's single "Feed the Fire" was reported by Philadelphia's WXPN as the #1 most requested song of 1991. Indeed ! What was once a small cult following of fans, was rapidly becoming a large cult following of fans. All of a sudden, people from all over the world were wanting to know, Who was this woman ? Where'd she come from ? What has she done ? What is she doing next ? When's the tour ? Who's that guy singing with Kate Bush ? The proverbial "splash " had been made. As with any artist being commercially presented, the challenge of eternal exposure becomes paramount. ("Outta sight, Outta mind") A demand is created for new material, new albums, personal appearences at record stores, radio stations, live shows, solo shows, band shows, and lots and lots of interviews. Meeting this challenge becomes the artist's "new" job description. Probably the best effect of all this commotion is that an awful lot of music gets played. Not just in recording studios, clubs and theatres, but music played at radio stations, cold radio stations, hot radio stations, music played in living rooms, music played with crushed fingers, music played for a guy and his dog, music played for 100,000 listeners, music played on no sleep, music played on too much sleep, music played for people who came to hear someone else. Most of this music gets recorded, but usually it's for a single broadcast or for the sake of posterity. After about 5 years of this however, you begin to notice that there is this pile of tape threatening to move you out of house and home. A wealth of material that was probably heard only once or twice by people who happened to be tuned into a radio or had caught one of Happy's rare live shows. This brings us to the point of this recording. We've been very fortunate to have a dedicated listening audience for the music of Happy Rhodes. We're always asked where people can get a hold of copies of all these unique performances. People who missed a broadcast or are interested in what a 48 track recording sounds like performed with one voice and one guitar. People curious about what Happy sounded like, doing a medley of Yes songs at the group's 1994 New York City convention. What's her trio sound like ? What was that Christmas carol performed on Helen Leicht's WMMR show ? What was her very first recording ? All these inquiries got us wondering if we should go to the "vault" and see if we had enough good material to make an album of interest and merit. What you hold in your hand is the result of that search. We found some pretty rare stuff. We came across recordings once thought to be lost, as well as a few that should have stayed lost. (No offense to Ms. Rhodes, they were technical nightmares). We listened to every tape from every radio station, every recording session as far back as 1984, every gig. Finally we picked out what we thought were the most interesting performances and arrangements. Most of this material is "as is", in it's original state. Some material was too precious to exclude, but didn't make the technical grade. In these cases we opted to rerecord the songs, keeping their uniqueness intact. So hopefully what we have here is a collection of some very diverse and possibly historical musical moments that will sate the appetite for the more rare and intriguing aspects of a very special artist's career. At least to date. This album is a tribute to the thousands of fans and supporters of Happy's music, as much as it is a tribute to the musical brilliance of Happy herself. This is your record, from the vault, from The Keep. Thank you for listening. Kevin Bartlett/Aural Gratification I don't know why it gets all chopped up like this when I paste from MS works ? Sorry. Anyway that's my take on the whole thing. We're very proud of this record and actually quite mesmorized by it's nature. It's truly a vocal showcase, very intimate. Ambient Vol II was just mastered last week and we think it blows Vol I away. I think they should re-edit Blade Runner and insert Happy's cuts into the soundtrack. She's disgustingly good at this stuff. (Yeah like anyone's suprised.) Vol II comes out on Halloween. (not sure if that's appropriate or not, but I gues it's cool anyway). Started my solo album this week, also engineering HR's new record due out Feb-Mar '96. Might do a small tour and some interactive instores for my stuff, but I guess that's another story that probably has no bearing here. That's about it from AG at the moment. I hope this gets to where it's gotta go. Were at AURALG@aol.com if anyone needs us. Thanks for being the world's best support system. I love you all. KB >> RL ------------------------------ From: Philip Sainty Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 03:31:50 +1300 Subject: Re: New Happy CD Phil Clark asked: > I have just seen the new Happy CD "The Keep" mentioned as a compilation. > Does anyone have a track listing and will there be much/anything new on > the CD that Happy had not released before ? And the goddess zgrep, speaking the words of Kevin Bartlett, sourced from the fax machine of Robert Lovejoy, replies: "It will be a compilation of material she has performed at radio stations throughout the country over the past 4 years. This will include solo, duo, and trio performances, including the incredible versions of 4 songs recorded for the Echoes program earlier this year. There will also be some surprises from the Rhodes vol I and II days as well as the famous Yes medley and who knows what else. This album came about in response to the overwhelming number of requests for copies of Happy's radio-only CD-4 released this year. There are a lot of people who would like to have and hear these alternative versions and performances. We're pouring through years of tapes to pick the coolest, most interesting performances for the October album." (No track listing, but hopefully that answers most of your question :) Kevin finished that letter with: "Happy is currently hard at work on an enhanced CD as well as a full blown CD ROM game ala Myst. Creatures abound. Her tracks on the ambient album are stellar and I even heard a few things from the next studio recording for next year. Busy girl." The "enhanced CD" should be something like Sarah McLachlan's "The Freedom Session", I understand (ie. track one being a multi-media computer-based affair, and the other tracks being music as per a normal album.) The game Kevin mentioned also has the potential to be something special, I think! :) Philip _ _ ___ _ _ _ (_ / | / \ |_) |_| | | (_ Philip Sainty (_ \_ | \_/ | | | | |_ (_ ectophil@comp.vuw.ac.nz - -------------------------------------------------------------- "This is where I want to be, this is what I need." --Kate Bush ------------------------------ From: Michael Stevens Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 11:46:16 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: moominstuff and piles of 'philes On Sat, 30 Sep 1995, Damon Harper wrote: > as far as the ecto group name goes, i still like "pile of 'philes" best. > one, it sounds neat, and two, it really fits sometimes if you're an > inhabitant of the irc channel :) I agree, "pile of 'philes" has a great sound to it. For me, though, it will always carry "pyrophiles" as a verbal shadow, sort of behind and to the right. Ach, my misspent youth. You wouldn't *believe* how many birthdays went by before someone finally gave me the little blowtorch I'd been asking for. ;-) - --Michael ................................................................ "Ma-blu-ectric (ma-blu-ectric!) Ma-blu-ectric (ma-blu-ectric!)" Michael Stevens mjs@biostat.mc.duke.edu \ --Cocteau Twins ------------------------------ From: kerry white Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 18:11:42 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: my last message On Fri, 29 Sep 1995, Chris Sampson wrote: > What!? > > >Hi, Sorry, it's Charles Dodgson(sp?) AKA Lewis Carrol. THE HUNTING OF > >THE SNARK, a poem and basis of a cd by Mike Batt. > > I meant the group)... was Rich? Jansen, AKA Mike? Batt.... Help me! Please! I only knew Mike Batt from 6 DAYS IN BERLIN, obscure, then saw his name on a cd, THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK, w/ a bunch of other recognisable names, based on Lewis Carrol's poem. >> T'was brillig and the slithey toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe > > Nonsensical enough to have been Quayle, but way too surreal/hip. From JABBERWOCKY(sp?), a poem inside the story Alice in Wonderland. KrW Let the Wookie win. ------------------------------ From: Mike Matthews Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 00:15:08 -0400 Subject: No birthdays, just a monthly listing - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Marvin Camras Sat January 01 1916 Tapehead Jeanne Schreiter Tue January 03 1967 Capricorn John Sandoval Wed January 04 1967 Capricorn Paul Cohen Tue January 05 1954 Capricorn Tony Garrity Mon January 08 1962 Pool of Life Greg Bossert Tue January 09 1962 OfTheTimes Troy J. Shadbolt Thu January 14 1971 Capricorn Chris Sampson Wed January 15 1964 Void where prohibited Dennis G Parslow Fri January 17 1964 SDCN Ross Alford Thu January 17 1957 Positive Nancy Whitney Mon January 19 1959 slippery when wet Sarah Noelle Pratt Ferguson Tue January 20 1970 Seanympf-Aquarius Terry Partis Sun January 22 1933 Rocker Ilka Heber Mon February 01 1965 Mermaid Bob Lovejoy Sun February 02 1947 Aquarius Diane Burke Sat February 02 1963 slow children Timothy S. Devine Tue February 03 1970 Aquarius Stephen Thomas Fri February 04 1966 Aquarius Doug Burks Tue February 14 1956 Blank Siri Wed February 14 1990 Woof! Jim Sturnfield Thu February 18 1954 Aquarius Juha Kannisto Wed February 18 1970 Aquarius Linda Saboe Tue February 20 1951 aimless Michael Curry Fri February 24 1967 Pisces Paula Shanks Mon February 25 1952 Pisces Brni Mojzes Fri February 26 1965 the vanishing boy Pamela Pociluk Fri February 28 1964 Pisces Tim Steele Fri March 08 1963 Pisces Matt Bittner Thu March 12 1964 Pisces kIrI Hargie Fri March 13 1970 Pisces Bob Dreano Thu March 13 1958 Pisces Randall K. Smith Sat March 15 1969 Pisces Jessica Skolnik March 16 Pisces Alan Sodoma Thu March 18 1965 LuckyLurker Barry Wong Thu March 19 1970 Merlin Graham Dombkins Fri March 19 1965 Pisces Ian Young Wed March 19 1969 Squiggol Jeff Wasilko Wed March 19 1969 Pisces Geoff Carre Sat March 20 1954 Pisces Bob Brown Thu March 22 1951 Ham Valerie Nozick Thu March 25 1971 Aries Jennifer Albert Wed March 30 1966 Aries (w/Cancer rising!:) Warpaint Mon April 01 1991 Brilliant! Shorty Tue April 01 1980 happy cat Michael Pearce Wed April 03 1946 Pegasus Michael E. Bravo Mon April 05 1971 Dandelion Wine Brion McIntosh Sun April 06 1958 Aries David Dixon Tue April 07 1970 Aries Klaus Kluge Sun April 10 1960 Unicorn Steve VanDevender Sun April 10 1966 Racer Art Liestman Fri April 10 1953 Repeat Stephen Golden Sat April 10 1971 Jokey Michael Bowman Wed April 11 1962 Aries Wolfgang Ullwer Fri April 11 1969 Widder Janet Kirsch Thu April 11 1974 Aries Stuart Myerburg Mon April 14 1969 Aries T-Bone Wed April 15 1992 happy cat Jeff Hanson Sat April 16 1966 Aries Michael Klouda Mon April 17 1967 Aries Harry Foster Sat April 21 1956 NiceGuy Angelos Kyrlidis Fri April 22 1966 Taurus Kjetil Torgrim Homme Thu April 23 1970 Taurus Pablo Iglesias Thu April 23 1964 Positive Jeff Burka Thu April 24 1969 GoFlyAKite Christine Waite Tue April 25 1972 Taurus Brad Hutchinson Tue April 28 1964 What sign? Geoff Parks Sun April 30 1961 Taurus Barney Parker Fri May 02 1986 happy cat Gray Abbott Tue May 03 1955 Suprised Tamar Boursalian May 03 Taurus Mark Semich Thu May 06 1965 Yield Joe Dembski Wed May 07 1952 Rumple Richard A. Holmes May 07 Taurus John Warren Mon May 08 1961 Taurus - the Ox Steve Ito Fri May 08 1970 DA Bull... Brian Gregory Thu May 09 1963 Eclectic Kathy Fitzgerald Mon May 11 1970 Lovey Steve Fagg Tue May 13 1958 Nightwol Karel Zuiderveld Fri May 13 1960 Stier Michael Colford Wed May 16 1962 Taurus Christopher Boek Tue May 19 1970 Taurus Lisa Laane Tue May 22 1973 Gemini Jewel Kilcher Thu May 23 1974 The Gem Chandra Sriram Thu May 27 1971 Gemini Urs Stafford Thu May 31 1973 Give Way Perttu Yli-Krekola Thu June 02 1966 Kaksoset Alex Gibbs Thu June 08 1967 Betelgeuse Sonja Juchniewich Mon June 10 1963 Pegasus Joerg Plate Mon June 12 1967 Gemini Chris Montville Tue June 13 1978 Gemini Mark R. Susskind Wed June 15 1966 Gemini Mike Matthews Mon June 16 1969 SAFH Albert Philipsen Mon June 17 1968 Gemini Neal R. Copperman Thu June 17 1965 Gemini Ecto-The Mailing List Tue June 18 1991 Fuzzy blue Tracy Barber Mon June 18 1956 Gemini David Lubkin Fri June 20 1958 OurLady Marisa Wood Fri June 20 1969 Gemini Cheri Villines Sun June 20 1965 Gemini-Pisces Ray Misra Sat June 20 1970 Gemini Nik Popa Sun June 22 1969 Cancer Teresa VanDyne Thu June 23 1960 Cancer Dave Torok Mon June 24 1968 Cancer Ethan Straffin Thu June 24 1971 Cancer Kevin Dekan Mon June 27 1960 Cancer BunkyTom Tue July 02 1968 Cancer Anders Hallberg Tue July 03 1962 Cancer Kevin Harkins Thu July 05 1973 Cancer Laurel Krahn Mon July 05 1971 Cancer Jim Gurley Mon July 06 1959 Cancer Courtney Dallas Fri July 09 1971 Catte Michael Peskura Sat July 09 1949 HallOfFamer Finney T. Tsai Sat July 09 1966 Cancer Marion Kippers Tue July 13 1965 Kreeft Mitch Pravatiner Mon July 14 1952 Cancer John Zimmer Sun July 16 1961 Cancer Dan Stark July 16 Cancer Cathy Guetzlaff Mon July 18 1955 Cancer Vlad Sat July 18 1970 Warning: severe tire damage Jani Pinola Thu July 20 1972 Jonquil David Koehler Mon July 25 1966 Leo Tom Johnson Mon July 25 1966 Leo Alvin Brattli Sun July 27 1969 Lefthanded Christy Eger Smith Thu July 27 1944 Horse Crossing Rob Woiccak (woj) Sun July 28 1968 children at play John Relph Sat July 28 1962 Leo Bob Kollmeyer Wed July 28 1971 Leo Steve Lusky Tue July 29 1952 Bike! Kate Bush Wed July 30 1958 God Chuck Smith Wed July 30 1958 Reboot Yves Denneulin Fri July 30 1971 Lion-Heart 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 Vickie Mapes Wed August 15 1956 WretchAwry 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 Meredith Tarr Wed September 01 1971 Virgo Mary Lou Rowe Sat September 03 1960 Virgo Scott Zimmerman Mon September 04 1972 Virgo Mike Mendelson Fri September 04 1964 Virgo Richard Dean Wed September 06 1967 Virgo David Blank-Edelman Sat September 09 1967 Neon Holly Tominack Thu September 10 1970 Virgo Troy Wollenslegel Mon September 18 1972 Virgo Joe Zitt Sat September 20 1958 Will Hack for CDs Dan Riley Sun October 08 1961 Libra Neile Graham Wed October 08 1958 pen Quenby M. Chunco Tue October 08 1968 Crunchy Frog Mike Garland Wed October 08 1952 Creature_of_the_Night Michael C. Berch Wed October 10 1956 No parking Wolfgang Drotschmann Thu October 13 1966 Waage Brian Bloom Tue October 14 1969 spam Erik N. Johnson Tue October 16 1962 Handle with Care Kim Klouda Tue October 17 1967 Libra Dave Steiner Sat October 24 1959 Scorpio Jessica Koeppel Wed October 29 1969 Scorpio Kathy Clark Sat November 01 1969 Bunnies Katie Dougiamas Sat November 02 1974 Scorpio Anthony Horan Fri November 04 1966 Positive Michael Sullivan Mon November 05 1962 Scorpio Jens Brage Sun November 08 1964 Scorpio Rising Lynn Garrett Sat November 08 1958 Scorpio Sam Murgie Fri November 08 1957 Scorpio Ken Latta Sun November 11 1951 Scorpio Michael Doyle Wed November 12 1969 Scorpio Neil K. Thu November 14 1968 Grocible Dave Cook Mon November 15 1971 Scorpio Jeff Pearce November 16 Orpheus Naama Avramzon Mon November 18 1974 Scorpio Jeff Smith Mon November 19 1962 Crash Kevin Bartlett Fri November 21 1952 Scorpio Claudia Spix Wed November 23 1960 Schuetze Anja Baldo Tue November 23 1965 Garbanzo Tommy Persson Wed November 25 1964 Sagittarius Pat Tessitore November 26 Sagittarius Justin Bur Fri November 27 1964 Sagittarius Sue Trowbridge Sun November 27 1966 Skytten Ward Kadel Tue November 29 1977 Sagittarius Mirko Bulaja Sat November 30 1974 Block Chip Lueck Thu December 05 1968 Sagittarius Ken Hoyme Sun December 08 1957 Sagittarius Jeremy J. Corry Fri December 11 1970 Sagittarius Julie C. Kammerzell Sun December 15 1968 Sagittarius/Scorpio combo Damon Harper Tue December 16 1975 Sagittarius Laura Clifford Tue December 17 1957 Sagittarius Dirk Kastens Tue December 17 1963 Sagittarius Milla Wed December 17 1975 Sagittarius Chris Schernwetter Tue December 17 1974 Sagittarius Uli Grepel Wed December 25 1968 Steinbock Stuart Castergine Mon December 30 1963 You Are Here ------------------------------ From: Neal Copperman Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 14:07:13 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Nova dates Sue directed me to the Heather Nova page (http://www.cs.vu.nl/~epdouden/nova), and it's certainly something worth checking out. There's lots of nice info there, including the below tour schedule and a pin-up page of pix of Heather with fans. Thus far, the only fan is Ilke, but that was fun to look at anyway. In case you missed it before, this is Heather's first US tour and the DC show was excellent. So jump on these if they come near you. NEal (schedule below) September 26 Washington, DC 930 Club September 28 Chapel Hill, NC Cat's Cradle September 30 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse October 2 Houston, TX Urban Art Bar October 3 Austin, TX Electric Lounge October 4 Dallas, TX The Rock October 6 Denver, CO Mercury Cafe October 7 Salt Lake City, UT Bar & Grill October 10 Seattle, WA Moe's October 11 Vancouver Hungry Eye October 12 Portland Satyricon October 14 Sacramento, CA Melarkey October 15 San Francisco, CA Great American October 17 Los Angeles, CA Roxy Theatre October 19 San Diego, CA Brick by Brick October 20 Tempe, AZ Gibson's October 21 Albuquerque, NM Golden Weat October 23 St. Louis The Side Door October 24 Kansas City, The Hurricane October 26 Minneapolis 7th St. Entry October 27 Chicago Metro October 28 Detroit Shelter October 30 Cleveland Odeaon Concert Hall October 31 Toronto Leas Palace November 2 Montreal Club Soda November 3 Boston, MA T.T. Bears (Not sure!) November 4 Philadelphia t.b.a. November 6 New York t.b.a. ------------------------------ From: Neile Graham Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 12:52:38 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Help with Name Well, we're all working pretty hard on the Ectophiles Guide. The As are almost complete, the Bs are starting to appear and even a few Cs. Damon Harper has designed BEAUTIFUL intro web pages, and things are progressing AT LAST. One thing I've been reluctantly (I say reluctantly because I hate categorizing though I also understand how useful it can be especially when dealing with such a mass of information as this is) doing is making genre indexes. I need help naming the "post-pop / beyond-pop / pushing-the-edges-of-pop / weaving a million strands together" genre that includes some of the goddesses (yes there is a goddess list as well) but also includes some lesser-known even to ecto folk artists. I mean those people like Kate and Jane and Happy (and Veda Hille and Susan Court and Sandra Lockwood) who include some pop / ethereal / folk / trad / jazz / blues elements in their music and make a whole new kind of music out of it that doesn't fit into any of those genres. You know, all those people out there who are described as "Kate-like" just because their music doesn't fall neatly into any of the normal categories. I'd like an evocative name for it. I don't want to call it "ecto," because as I see it the whole guide, however many entries we have, is ecto. What should we call it? The other "genre" lists are (of course, almost everyone is listed in more than one): alternative ethereal experimental goddess jazz pop traditional world Can anyone make any suggestions? - --Neile ------------------------------ From: Tamar Boursalian Date: Sun, 01 Oct 95 17:25:55 EDT Subject: Stuff Hi! I just had a really fun weekend with Jens and Per, Meth and woj, Anja, and Mike Curry! We went to see Ani DiFranco Friday night in New Haven. I won't write a real review because probably someone else will, but I'll just say that she kicked butt! She's really amazing, so go see her if you can. Really. Just do it. Other than that, I think we just really ate a lot. Jens--it was really great meeting you and Per, and I hope you have a good trip back. You're not even on your flight yet, I don't think, so you won't see this for a while. Anyway, come back some time! I found a promo copy of Boxing Ghandis' album really cheap yesterday, but I haven't listened to it yet. Thanks to elionwyr@onix.com for the description of them--sounds pretty cool! They're doing the free show this Thursday night, but I don't know if I'll actually make it. I went to see Bowie and NIN a few weeks ago. It was two days after the album came out, so I hadn't heard it yet, and I had no idea about the content. Now I'm going to have to borrow it from my friend and check it out. The show was pretty intense. I like (but don't love) NIN, and I enjoyed their set even though I'm certain there was permanent loss of hearing involved. I won't tell you what I thought was the coolest part of the show in case any of you are going in the future. But there was one really uncool part, and that was about 3/4 of the way through Bowie's set when this asshole in front of me started screaming "You suck! Get Nails back out here! You suck! Get a real job!" Usually I don't let things like that bother me, but this guy pissed me off, so I told him he should just leave if he didn't like it. So he did. I have to admit, the stuff Bowie played didn't knock me out or anything, but he doesn't suck. For all you Annie Haslam fans out there, she's on the Yes tribute album (which is actually pretty good), doing Turn of the Century with Steve Howe. Steve Howe said in an interview that the two of them are recording an album together. I think Happy should have been on the Yes tribute album, but that's just me. :) Okay, I'm done procrastinating for now. Time to go visit my cells. Bye! - --Tamar ------------------------------ From: beach house tiki god Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 18:44:30 -0400 Subject: jens brage tour update "thank god they're gone!" :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) meredith and i just dropped jens per off at newark airport. assuming no delays, they will be winging their way back to danmark within 20 minutes of when i am writing this. they arrived thursday night, got to see a bit of new york city on friday, saw ani difranco live friday night, spent saturday in new haven at tamar's place, and spent a helluva lot of money on cds, electronics and clothing. very pleasant people - glad to have given them a home for a couple days. hopefully, we'll hear from them on tuesday when they get back to work. another point for the ectohostel system! wheee! woj ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V2 #239 ************************** ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu