From: owner-ecto-digest To: ecto-digest@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto-digest V2 #344 Reply-To: ecto@nsmx.rutgers.edu Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, 13 January 1996 Volume 02 : Number 344 The Ecto digest is now being generated automatically. Please send problems and questions to: ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lcliffor@bbn.com Date: Fri, 12 Jan 96 10:08:31 -0500 Subject: Can anyone ID this band? A friend of mine forgot the name of a band that he wanted to check out - has anyone heard of a band that has 2 female singers that only use organs for instrumentation? Sorry if they've been discussed earlier - I'm about 4 months behind in ecto-mail.... Thanks, Laura ------------------------------ From: VNozick@tribune.com Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 10:27:54 -0600 Subject: Joan Osborne Band Does anyone know if there are earlier Joan Osborne CDs available, before Relish? A coworker brought in a copy of "Soul Show," a live CD by the Joan Osborne Band that he bought at a New York Club several years ago. The sound is _very_ different -- much more soul and jamming, with versions of Crazy Baby and Help Me on it. I'd love to hear more of this Joan Osborne. ==> Valerie BTW, how rare is this CD? I'm tempted already to steal it from him. :) ------------------------------ From: Charley.Darbo@harpercollins.com (Charley Darbo) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 09:16:22 -0500 Subject: eye2eye [reprise] [Third of Three:] Somebody (sorry: I didn't save the whole message) wrote : "Does anyone know what happened to a band called Eye to Eye? . . . really -GREAT female lead singer, whose name escapes me . . . two albums for -Warner . . . Shakespeare Stole My Baby . . . "Nice Girl" . . .songwriting -was shaky . . . what a voice! . . . Anyone know anything about them???" KrW responded: " . . . EP that incl a song called,"Hunger Pains"? . . ." I don't know what happened to them, but I do have those two albums (well, Vickie has my copies). I've never found them on CD, and I've never seen anything since. The first album did have a song called "Hunger Pains," which is a great song and the reason I bought the album, most of the rest of which was less memorable. SSMB was, I thought, a more consistently good album; I especially liked the title track and "TWA Sari." With the exception of "Hunger Pains," which was, oddly enough, reminiscent of Human League, their sound was a spotlessly clean meld of Pop and jazz; a lot of the players were from Toto. (I was not aware of the Steely Dan connections, but that certainly wouldn't be inconsistent with E2E's sound.) I don't remember the vocalist's name, either, but every time I hear Basia, I think of her (after, of course, shuddering). There was always a kind of sardonic surrealism to their lyrics. I'll try to reconstruct from memory: It was a night in my life that I will never forget bluelit by new moonlight. A dream that wasn't a dream, yet it was nothing but that (somethingsomethingsomething) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Well I was in a small hamlet looked a lot like Totnes only the years were fading fast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . It's him, oh Shakespeare stole my baby it's him, oh Shakespeare's here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I'll retrieve my tapes from Vickie (n'est-ce pas?) and write more. And if anybody's seen them, I wouldn't mind tracking them down on disc. --charleydarbo ------------------------------ From: Charley.Darbo@harpercollins.com (Charley Darbo) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 09:09:41 -0500 Subject: PoeRuby [reprise] [I'm reposting the following, because, for reasons I'm not competent to describe, I'm not sure it went through. First of Three.] Chandra asks: "what does poe sound like? what does ruby sound like?" woj responds: ". . . both are coming from the same general place - a - rhythmic foundation from hip hop and dance music, liberally sprinkled - with some ambient, industrial, rock trappings. postmodern dance music? - - - -"poe is softer and she has a sweeter voice than lesley rankine's growl, - -which, at times, you can almost feel the spit from." Here's my take: Poe makes me wonder how Suzanne Vega would have done cast as _Tank Girl._ There's some Sheryl Crow in her voice (thankgod, _only_ in her voice), theres some Waitresses, and yes, some Portishead, but only on a couple songs where the layering gets a bit more complex. I love her lyrics -- what I've caught so far, a any rate -- there's a lot of TankGirly dancing-in-the-face-of-danger pranksterismishness 'n junk. Now, Ruby -- RubyRubyRuby. Will I ever grow tired of this album? Can't see it. The more I hear of it, the less I bemoan DanielleDax's absence (yes, I have the new stuff, but it hardly makes up). Ruby is much more sample-heavy, like Garbage, but is still much more than Garbage. Garbage is to Ruby what Milla is to KaTe: Lots of spirit, lots of potential, but no maturity. I hope Garbage stays together and grows -- they'll be great if they follow, say, the Pranks-to-Commentary example of the Beastie Boys, or the cheesy-synthpop-cookie to Empress- of-the-Universe example of Jane Siberry. --charleydarbo ------------------------------ From: Charley.Darbo@harpercollins.com (Charley Darbo) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 09:13:30 -0500 Subject: god [reprise] [Second of Three:] Vickie writes, re: male ectopians: ". . . Jeff Buckley! (He's _*extremely* ecto!) . . . * Vickie bows to Charley, who will tell you - -all about Jeff." That's quite a tall order. Jeff Buckley is one of my mostest favoritest recent developments on this planet (and not just because he's such a dreamboat [throb]). _Grace_ is one of the most impressive debut albums ever. Everevereverever; it's right up there with _TheKickInside_. First and foremost, there's his voice: He goes where no man has gone before. He starts where his father left off -- treating each syllable as a fresh canvas; as a new plateau; as a bare stage; he's willing to fly around a vowel like KaTe or Happy (more like KaTe, actually: Less diaphragm, more nosebridge/palate resonance) -- but where his father starts at point A and stretches the existing vocabulary to impressive new limits, Jeff goes beyond all limits and invents an entirely new language. The things he does with his voice, in the hands (mouth?) of any other artist would make you cringe: that's how far he goes. But he never, ever looses his footing (lipping?). And he brings to bear a far wider array of influences than any other artist as firmly grounded in the Rock context: Edith Piaf, Robert Plant, MaryMargaret O'Hara, Diamanda Galas, Billy Holiday, Prince, Jane Siberry, Nusrat Fateh Ali-Khan, and on and on and on. He covers Alex Chilton, Nina Simone, and Benjamin Britten, and does Leonard Cohen's "Alleluja" so it stays _done_; no one should ever touch that song again (not even [okay, _especially_ ] Leonard. Though I would like to here Jane's take . . .). And then, on top of all of that, he _r_o_c_k_s___o_u_t_. Lifetime top ten. Top five, easy. --charleydarbo ------------------------------ From: rzeisern@colybrand.com (Rob Zeiser -- HRA - Dallas ) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 96 17:25:15 EST Subject: Boy's I Like To: ECTO, Digest Here are the men and male fronted groups that I would consider myself a fan of: BEATLES, BIBLE, BLACK, BLUE RODEO, BODEANS, BOWIE, BILLY BRAGG, JACKSON BROWNE, BUGGLES, T BONE BURNETT, PAUL CARRACK, CARS, CAUSE & EFFECT, BRUCE COCKBURN, LLOYD COLE, ELVIS COSTELLO, MARSHALL CRENSHAW, CROWDED HOUSE, DEL AMITRI, DEPECHE MODE, DON DIXON, THOMAS DOLBY, NICK DRAKE, ERASURE, PETER GABRIEL, GIN BLOSSOMS, GREENBERRY WOODS, HALL & OATES, JOHN WESLEY HARDING, RICHARD X. HEYMAN, FREEDY JOHNSTON, MATT KEATING, LIGHTNING SEEDS, BILL LLOYD, LOWEN & NAVARRO, NEW MUSIK, MICHAEL PENN, PET SHOP BOYS, TOM PETTY, POLICE, RECORDS, R.E.M., SEAL, JULES SHEAR, SIGHS, SIMON & GARFUNKEL, SMITHEREENS, DARDEN SMITH, SPENT POETS, SQUEEZE, MATTHEW SWEET, TALKING HEADS, TEARS FOR FEARS, TELEVISION, RICHARD THOMPSON, TOAD THE WET SPROCKET, U2, VAPORS, WHO, DAVID WILCOX, XTC, WARREN ZEVON, SCOTT COSSU. I got this from my database of cd's. I didn't even think about vinyl.... ------------------------------ From: Neile Graham Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 10:19:21 -0800 (PST) Subject: anyhowtown Alert! Anyone interested in checking out a Canadian indie band--pretty lively punk-rooted pop, nice female vox, check out http://www.interlog.com/~aht/aht.html There is a sample for the final song in the lyrics list. - --Neile neile@u.washington.edu ------------------------------ From: DrDave56@aol.com Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 13:38:48 -0500 Subject: Concert On February 20th a local bar (Bogies - about 100 seats) is advertising a concert with Edwin McCain. The opening act is going to be Jewel. I guess this is as close to an ecto concert as Boise, Idaho will ever get. David W. Kesner (no I'm not a doctor - just a nickname) drdave56@aol.com ------------------------------ From: lcliffor@bbn.com Date: Fri, 12 Jan 96 13:54:23 -0500 Subject: Cranes video in new movie! I know there are some Cranes fans around here... - ------- Forwarded Message From: lcliffor@bbn.com To: "Living and Breathing" Subject: 'An Eye for an Eye' - Cranes video!!!! Date: Fri, 12 Jan 96 09:50:55 -0500 I'm behind in my list e-mail and don't know if this has been mentioned, but I was shocked last night when I went to see 'An Eye for an Eye', the Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland revenge thriller - Cranes 'Shining Road' video is used prominently at the beginning of the film's climax! Wasn't there recently a discussion about Jim's 'psychotic' drumming or am I misremembering the adjective? The scene in this film would back that up, as Kiefer Sutherland uses drumsticks against his thighs while standing in his room watching this video.... Laura - ------- End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------ From: Kerry White Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 13:37:05 -0600 (CST) Subject: hint Hello, Helpful Hint #0931290413754654983429012390-412735`68235`834180: Pawn Shops: I gotta *bunch* 'o' cds for $4 each! Latest find: Timbuck3 Eden Alley on cass for .50!!! Some PS have lean pickins, but -keep looking- some are chock-full-o-cds! (*No-one* remembers MXYZPTLK?)(Hint: comic book) KrW KNOCK,KNOCK "Who is it?" "It's not the cake!" "Come in." EEEEK!! ------------------------------ From: poe@usa.pipeline.com (paul angelosanto) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 17:14:56 -0500 Subject: Re: for george thanks for looking into that band for me. I'll tell squirte about the LTC thing but he don't have a computer so it won't do him much good (I refuse to clog my email with info about LTC just so he can stalk the singer) that's cool about the cranes thanks and take it easy you gork Ange ------------------------------ From: Dan Stark Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 18:07:58 -0500 (EST) Subject: Innocence Mission in Detroit Hi! It looks like I've probably got an extra (free) ticket to the Innocence Mission show at The Blind Pig this Monday, Jan 15. I'm still pretty new to town and don't know too many ecto fans yet, so if you're in the Detroit area and would like to hook up with me for this show, drop me some e-mail. Cheers, Dan - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DAN STARK 89X / The River dstark@freenet.npiec.on.ca ~\\|//~ CKLW / CKWW -(o o)- Windsor-Detroit - -----------------------------o000o--(_)--o000o------------------------------ ------------------------------ From: 32 flavors and then some Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 20:58:53 -0500 Subject: susan mckeown - ny show from rec.music.celtic: > Irish Voice music critic Brian Rohan in the Jan 10, 1996 issue: > "What about Irish American music? The best release hands-down was >The Chanting House's album, Bones." > Susan McKeown and Chanting House will play an intimate concert at >The Fast Folk Cafe on Friday, January 19th at 7:30pm. Tickets are only >$10. The Cafe is at 41 North Moore Street in Manhattan's Tribeca section. >This is 2 blocks below Canal Street, east of Hudson Street. The telephone >number is (212) 274-1636. any other nyc ectophiles interested? ------------------------------ From: "valerie kraemer" Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 16:05:16 +0000 Subject: Re: Jane Siberry/Nancy Tucker connection Meredith wrote > > Two interesting Jane Siberry notes from the radio today: One, that she sings > backing vocals on a song on David Massengill's new album (sorry, I didn't > catch the title -- I had no clue she was even on the track until the DJ said > she was), and two, I heard a song by someone named Nancy Tucker called > "Everything Reminds Me Of My Therapist" which is a pretty funny takeoff on > "Everything Reminds Me Of My Dog". It's not on any of her albums, and I > didn't catch where the WPKN person got it -- Valerie Kraemer or Binnie Klein, > do either of you know where Ruth Eddy found this? "Everything Reminds Me of My Therapist" is on a fairly recent Nancy Tucker "best of" CD called "Treasures from the Attic." This is a self-produced CD and is available by writing to: Nancy Tucker, P.O. Box 186, Bloomfield, CT 06002. The CD contains a wide range of her music from the kids stuff (and I think she writes some of the most intelligent and funniest children's music there is) to her guitar instrumentals. Valerie Kraemer -- "My apartment is much too cluttered and I need more shelves," Valerie Kraemer ------------------------------ From: mapravat@prairienet.org (Mitchell A. Pravatiner) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 22:44:40 -0600 (CST) Subject: Mini-travelogue I was on the verge of finishing the first edition of this when my freenet timed out on me and creamed the whole thing. Not being in a mood to rewrite the whole thing from scratch, I will limit myself to discussio of the most ectophilically relavant portions. I originally was going to visit New York to see a close friend wo was planning to pass through, but that trip fell through for her when her visa application got mired in the bureacracy. My ticket being nonrefundable, I went anyway. I picked up some good bargains on music: the new CD's by Joan Osborne and Sophie B. Hawkins for $9.99 each. They were out of Alanis Morrissette, but referred me to another shop elsewhere in Greenwich Village that might have it for a good price. I finally found it, and got it for $12.99--still not too bad. Arfuably the high point of my New York stay was calling the offices of Aural Gratification upostate, and getting Happy. She's doing well, likes the Gift and Birthday Project tapes, and was really taken with the street sign we sent her last year. I moved on to Washington to see ectohiles there, and attend a MOO bash. I was met at the station by Beth Perry and Jeff Burka. After dropping much coffee at a coffeehouse/bookstore pending the opening of their favorite Indian restaurant, we had an enjoyable meal at the latter. Taking the subway back to my motel, I promptly caught the wrong train and ended up in front of Melody Records, where I managed to get sale prices on cds by Rickie Lee Jones, the Story, and a local artist whose name escapes me, plus the new Alison Krauss album, which unfortunately was not on sale. The next day, Jeff, Mike Matthews and I (Sue Trowbridge was invited but couldn't make it) ate at a Senagalese restaurant Beth had recommended. Interesting stuff, but as a headge against later stomach upset we then hit the Ben and Jerry's around the corner :-). The rest of my stay in the area was spemnt at the moo bash. I returned home on New Year's and promptly came down with the flu, which kept me home nearly a week. When I finallyt went out, I was browsing in an independent record store in Rogers Park which had some of the stuff I bought on the trip, for even less. The moral: Tourists are suseptible to paying more than hey need to. There's often no place like home :-). Mitch ------------------------------ From: Steve Ito Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 03:45:07 -0500 Subject: Anhai Hi ectophiles, just came across a blurb in a Toronto weekly about Anhai, a Toronto artist whose music woj introduced me to... I typed it out for woj, and decided some of you might also be interested. BTW, do you know how embarrassing it is to be introduced to the music of an artist from your own town by someone from another country? Yeesh. Anyway, a couple of names that stick out from the article: George Koller and Ani DiFranco. - ----transcription begins--- Anhai Abroad Congrats to Toronto singer Anhai, the first Canadian musician ever invited to perform at Europe's oldest music festival, Women in E Motion in Bremen, Germany. [That phrase seems a wee bit exaggerated, doesn't it? As if music festivals in Europe never happened before 1971.] At the moment, she's showcasing along with two kindred local spirits, bassist George Koller [some of you may be familiar with this name because he has played with Loreena McKennitt for years] and drummer Don Kerr. The shows are being recorded for future broadcast in Germany. "The festival has been around for 25 years," explains Anhai prior to her departure. "Being the first Canadian to be asked was quite surprising. They heard an obscure recording from a friend of mine who was passing through and just contacted me. "The festival encompasses a lot of styles. As far as I understand, they just look for fine music. Artists who've been featured there in recent years include Ornette Coleman, Odetta, Jane Cortez and the Firespitters and Ani DiFranco. My impression is that they're out to discover new talents. All I know is I'm happy to be appreciated." When she returns, Anhai resumes work on her debut CD, which -- fingers crossed -- is due to appear in the spring. - ----transcription ends----- Sorry woj, it doesn't say what label the CD will come out on. I'll keep you all posted if I see something new. Steve - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Ito, | "Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who Psychology Dept. | says differently is selling something." University of Toronto | -- The Dread Pirate Roberts Toronto, ON, Can. | ------------------------------ From: ! Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 10:50:59 -0500 (EST) Subject: The Plight of Brenda Kahn (long) Hey 'philes... As I was cleaning up the house this morning a weird thought struck me. It's *so* weird that I think it needs some disclaimers, so here they be: 1) I haven't been here that long, so if this has already been proposed and discussed a long time since. 2) I may be off by an order of magnitude, which would pretty much invalidate the whole concept. 3) It might be that the corporate whores would never consider such a thing, or it would make tax hell for Brenda, or something like that. 4) There are a lot of logistical issues, as well as issues of trust, with what I'm about to propose. I think they are soluble, but I am *not* volunteering to solve them -- there's no way I can commit the time it would take to organize this, although I would do my part financially. Okay, I bet you're all wondering what I've got up my sleeve -- it's simple but weird. My understanding of the universe includes these "facts:" Brenda Kahn owes Sony about $30,000 for tour support. Sony owns the master tapes of Brenda's third album. My suggestion: We pay Sony, on behalf of Brenda, so she can get her tapes back (or at least the right to re-record/perform her songs). We would have to spend an additional couple hundred bucks to draw up an appropriate contract (unless we have a contract lawyer in the house?) We would probably need some sort of escrow account to put the funds in, but I'm not sure why this wouldn't be feasable. I mean, most of us would buy her new album if she put it out right? What's that, 15 bucks? If 200 of us ponied up that much, we'd be there, and while I know a lot of us are not exactly rich, I think there are a few folks here who could help drive the average up a bit. Also, if you people think this is a viable idea, we could hit up the folk-music mailing list and perhaps other places. What do you think? Is this totally loony, or might it work? D'you think there's any chance Sony would agree? __/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\ = ...nous devons cultiver notre jardin... = = INET:dmayowel@access.digex.net AOL:DougMhyphW Compu$erve:102432,355 = = visit the pathetic caverns! http://www.access.digex.net/~dmayowel = ------------------------------ From: "S. Lunsford & T. O'Reilly" Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 12:10:23 +0000 Subject: Steely Danlike thingies Hi there, All this discussion about Steely Dan, Donald Fagen and the like brought up a question: > (Deborah something? Levine?). They did two albums for Warner Is this the one Donald Fagen produced an album for last year? I heard a song on WXPN a few months back that instrumentally sounded just like later Steely Dan, but then a woman's voice came in and they said that it was (someone who I forget) on a new album produced by Donald Fagen. Anyone know who that was? (guess that's not a whole lot to go on, is it?) - -- Todd ____________________________________________________________________ Sage, Todd and the eight feline cohorts: sagetodd@postoffice.ptd.net Not to mention: http://www.dfw.net/~soulmate/ where you can fall in and spend hours. Literally. ------------------------------ From: ! Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 12:40:27 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re:Brenda Kahn Lunacy um, Sue Trowbridge just thoughtfully and gently pointed out a *minor* error in my calculations. sorry, folks... ------------------------------ From: 32 flavors and then some Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 13:32:14 -0500 Subject: Re: Anhai Steve Ito sez: >BTW, do you know how embarrassing it is to >be introduced to the music of an artist from your own town by someone from >another country? Yeesh. it's all neile's fault, as she introduced anhai's music to me, so there's some canadian connections there. ;) >----transcription begins--- > When she returns, Anhai resumes work on her debut CD, which -- >fingers crossed -- is due to appear in the spring. this is excellent news! yay! minor gripe: doesn't her independant cassette count as a proper release? "debut cd" indeed! hmph! woj ------------------------------ From: THE OLIVE-LOAF VIGILANTE Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 17:03:39 -0500 (EST) Subject: sTuff Hi! Thanks to the lovely weather we had yesterday, I took an unplanned train trip home last night. Lacking something good to read, I grabbed a copy of the latest Rolling Stone. There's something inherently bizarre about the fact that the exact same artists showed up in the exact same order in both the "best of" and "worst of" categories of the 1995 Readers' Poll. And the inclusion of Natalie Merchant in the "Best New Female Singer" category could only make me laugh. They did have a little blurb about Liz Phair's new album (and a pretty yummy picture too), as well as a mention of Tori's upcoming album and tour. Whoo- hoo. The interview with Live (who are also on the cover -- Ed Kowalczyk is starting to be cute again :) was amusing. But all in all, I'm still glad I cancelled my subscription all those years ago. "Mainstream" culture (or at least, what the media want us to think is mainstream) basically depresses me. Anyway... Neal chortled: >Too Funny Meredith - Why, I posted about Jane being on the David >Massengill album when she played here in DC. I can't believe you don't >remember. I just assumed you remembered everything ever posted to ecto. Thpth to you, too! Go play in the snow or something. :> Kerry non-sequitured: > Tori "didn't want to record in a 'dead' church" and they had to break >everything down several times for funerals. ?!? That's pretty bizarre. I can't say it comes as a surprise, knowing Tori, but still... Patrick reported: > Haven't seen it mentioned so thought I'd let everyone know that >Joan Osborne is the scheduled guest on Sat. Nite Live this weekend, Thanks for the update!!! >of course next weekend is Tori. Tori will also be on the Tonight Show >with Leno very soon but the date escapes me at the moment(maybe it's >listed on the Late Night Line-Up site. It's also listed in the RDT Update I have right in front of me - she'll be on the Tonight Show February 8. (I see she was supposed to be on Top Of The Pops this past Wednesday -- any UK 'philes manage to catch that?) Valerie Nozick inquired: >Does anyone know if there are earlier Joan Osborne CDs available, before Relish? >A coworker brought in a copy of "Soul Show," a live CD by the Joan Osborne Band >that he bought at a New York Club several years ago. The sound is _very_ >different -- much more soul and jamming, with versions of Crazy Baby and Help Me >on it. I'd love to hear more of this Joan Osborne. There's the "Soul Show" thingie, then there's an EP that she put out a couple years ago called "Blue Million Miles" that just blows everything on _Relish_ away. It's pretty hard to find, though. If we see one anywhere, we can pick it up for you - or you can just come visit us and try to steal ours (yeah right ;). >BTW, how rare is this CD? I'm tempted already to steal it from him. :) As far as I know, Very. Kerry hinted: > Helpful Hint #0931290413754654983429012390-412735`68235`834180: >Pawn Shops: I gotta *bunch* 'o' cds for $4 each! Latest find: Timbuck3 >Eden Alley on cass for .50!!! > Some PS have lean pickins, but -keep looking- some are chock-full-o-cds! I tend to avoid pawn shops for two reasons: One, at least around here they tend to be in pretty seedy neighborhoods, and Two, also around here you're pretty much assured that everything in there is stolen property. It's true that pawn shops are supposed to screen everything they buy against a police list before they put it on the shelves, but it's next to impossible to do this with CDs, since they don't have individual serial numbers or anything. I don't feel comfortable buying something that may really belong to somebody else, but that's probably just me. Valerie Kraemer responded: >"Everything Reminds Me of My Therapist" is on a fairly recent Nancy >Tucker "best of" CD called "Treasures from the Attic." This is a >self-produced CD and is available by writing to: Nancy Tucker, P.O. >Box 186, Bloomfield, CT 06002. The CD contains a wide range of her >music from the kids stuff (and I think she writes some of the most >intelligent and funniest children's music there is) to her guitar >instrumentals. Thanks for the info!!! :) >"My apartment is much too cluttered and I need more shelves," Valerie >Kraemer ... we've said that many times too!!! We need a bigger place. Sigh. Steve Ito reported: >just came across a blurb in a Toronto weekly about Anhai, a Toronto artist >whose music woj introduced me to... I typed it out for woj, and decided some >of you might also be interested. Thanks for the article, Steve! I'm so excited that Anhai is actually getting some recognition, and that she's going to put out a real CD soon! Yay!!! >BTW, do you know how embarrassing it is to >be introduced to the music of an artist from your own town by someone from >another country? Yeesh. :) Hasn't happened to me (yet), but I think I have an idea of how it feels. Doug proposed: >2) I may be off by an order of magnitude, which would pretty much >invalidate the whole concept. Or in other words, by a power of 10. ;> >3) It might be that the corporate whores would never consider such a >thing, or it would make tax hell for Brenda, or something like that. Well, if you receive money as a gift it's not taxed the same way (or at all), right? I am admittedly completely clueless about this sort of thing. >Brenda Kahn owes Sony about $30,000 for tour support. I thought it was $50,000? At least, that's what she said when we saw her... >Sony owns the master tapes of Brenda's third album. Also true. >We pay Sony, on behalf of Brenda, so she can get her tapes back >(or at least the right to re-record/perform her songs). Hmmm... too bad my Lotto numbers didn't come up last night! (Of course, if I ever hit Lotto I'd donate a chunk of funds to Aural Gratification for a promotional and touring budget, but that's another story...) >We would have to spend an additional couple hundred bucks to draw >up an appropriate contract (unless we have a contract lawyer in the >house?) We would probably need some sort of escrow account to put the >funds in, but I'm not sure why this wouldn't be feasable. Well, if you could find a couple thousand people willing to pitch in, it would work. Brenda has been doing various things to try to make the money back, so she may have chipped away at her debt a little bit. The only way to know for sure would be to contact one of "her people" and ask. >What do you think? Is this totally loony, or might it work? Well, yes, it is totally loony, but it's not outside the realm of possibility. You'd just have to find enough people willing to contribute. >D'you think there's any chance Sony would agree? It wouldn't matter to Sony where the money came from. You'd have to deal with Brenda directly, since she's the one who's indebted to Sony. You'd probably have to get Brenda's permission, then start up a "Get Brenda Out Of Hock" fund, provide a P.O. Box to which to send contributions, get the word out everywhere, and wait. And wait. And wait. Good luck! :) +===========================================================================+ |Meredith Tarr meth@delphi.com| |Boonton, NJ USA http://remus.rutgers.edu/~woj/meth/| +===========================================================================+ | "Life is a sleazy stranger and this is his favorite bar" - Ani DiFranco | +===========================================================================+ ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V2 #344 ************************** ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu