From: owner-ecto-digest To: ecto-digest@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto-digest V2 #364 Reply-To: ecto@nsmx.rutgers.edu Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, 27 January 1996 Volume 02 : Number 364 The Ecto digest is now being generated automatically. Please send problems and questions to: ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Chad E. Lundgren" Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 01:48:43 -0600 Subject: Lots of stuff... 'Lo all, I'll make a post now that's directed towards ecto related stuff instead of just a greeting. On the Tori front: I absolutely love BfP! My standouts are Professional Widow and Hey Jupiter, but I love them all. I like the sense of continuity that this album has. I'm still trying to piece the specifics of the story together though. As for the photos, nothing quite phased me in the content, but then again I don't get bowled over by pictures (voices tend to melt me though). As for the front cover photo with Tori and a gun in front of a shack full of boys, I thought this was a direct reference to the title of the album. Pele is supposed to be a goddess residing in a volcano (don't crucify me, I know I've probably bastardized her identity, butit's kinda sorta close....maybe) and Tori is guarding the prospective sacrifices (the boys) awaiting theire trip up the volcano. I'm probably off a bit, but I'm too old to care (age 22). All the CD's that I picked up in my interim days away from Ecto, but without whom I wouldn't have bothered.... Jane Siberry _Maria_: I love the way that her voice mixes with the jazz backround. Smooth and sultry with a muted trumpet in the background on "Honey Bee". I lyle lovitt. Although my heart still leans toward her epics a la "Oh My My". Wow! Jewel _Pieces of You_, Save the Linoleum: I bought the latter first and the former second and little lambs eat ivy, but I digress. Although I loved "Who Will Save Your Soul", songs like "Race Car Driver" and "God's Gift to Wo men" took some getting used to. After four months of have StL and learning to love it, I bought Pieces of You. Oh....my .....God! I love this album!! In "A drian" you can almost hear her heart break as she's pleading with him to wake from the coma. My brother thinks I'm sick for deriving pleasure from this emotion that she puts out, but I can't help it. Everytime I hear it I get the shakes (not due to lack of medication). Aimee Mann "I'm With Stupid": My little brother bought "Whatever" and it was a great album. So much so that I was prompted to purchase the UK version of the album three weeks ago at twice the price instead of waiting for next week's US release date. I'm glad I was impatient. This is really good. The song that won't get out of my brother's head is "Superball" although he doesn't know why. My favorite is a tie between "Amateur" and "Frankenstein". Watch out for these ones when it comes out soon. Heather Nova "Oyster":YEEEEEEAIIIIIIOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!! Nuff said. All in all, that is why I love this group so much. Opportunities for great CD purchases would've been missed if not for you guys. I will be seeing Jewel play at Shank Hall in Milwaukee a week from Thursday for sure. I can't wait. On a sad note, one of my favorite comic book series will be making it's final appearance on the racks in the next few weeks. Goodbye Sandman. I'm sure Neil will resurrect you someday, much to my delight. See y'all later! Chad ------------------------------ From: "Chad E. Lundgren" Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 01:52:17 -0600 Subject: World Cafe Mailing List? 'Lo all, was there a mailing list for lineups as far as Wolrd Cafe broadcasts were concerned? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Chad ------------------------------ From: Paul Cohen Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 02:58:27 -0500 Subject: Re: Melanie >Anybody remember Melanie, the singer of Candles in the rain, Brand New >Key, and Ring the living Bell etc.? I heard that she put out a new >album a few years ago. Has anyone out there heard it? Yup. That'd be "Freedom Knows My Name" from 1993. A pleasant album, nothing earthshattering, but kinda nice to hear her voice again after a 10 year absence. Hubby Peter Schekeryk once again produces and her now-teenaged kids are on it. She's still a hippie. ____Paul Cohen______________King of Prussia, PA___ ____pmcohen@netaxs.com___http://atonce.com/pmc/___ ------------------------------ From: ariel_b@pipeline.com (Ariel Brennan) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 03:49:40 -0500 Subject: Re: Accessible? Oooops, sent this directly to Sage by accident. Wooopsie. On Jan 25, 1996 11:09:48, '"S. Lunsford & T. O'Reilly" ' wrote: >I liked both of her other albums quite a bit, although I can't stand >either the pictures of her or watching her in person (yeah, I'm one >of those people who thinks she's a leetle too impressed with herself) Just wondering about this "too impressed with herself" thing. Where did this impression come from? I've never gone to a concert, but I've seen snips and interviews and read interviews and stared at her pictures, and I've never gotten the impression that she was too impressed with herself. So, what do you mean by that? >1) What makes an album accessible? Hmmm... that's one question I can't answer! Heh. I mean, when people say it's inaccessible, I know what they mean, but I've never tried to put it into words... I guess accessible music would basically be music that's easy to get into and like with one or a few listens - the most listens it takes to "get into" (if you ever do), the less accessible. >2) Who would you name as an inaccessible musical artist? Kate Bush, Dreaming Era, is WAY inaccessible. For me, Under The Pink was inaccessible, and it remains my least favorite favorite albums (which is to say I love it, but of the albums I love, I love it the least, I guess). Ariel - -- "But now I've got to worry, 'cause boy, you still look pretty when you're putting the damage on." - Tori Amos - -- "But now I've got to worry, 'cause boy, you still look pretty when you're putting the damage on." - Tori Amos ------------------------------ From: ariel_b@pipeline.com (Ariel Brennan) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 04:00:45 -0500 Subject: Re: ectori On Jan 25, 1996 20:08:00, '32 flavors and then some ' wrote: Re:The pig picture >hmmm. i find this photo intriguing...not as much for the pig or tori's >open shirt, as for the look on tori's face. there's longing, melancholy >reflection in her face that draws my eyes away from her chest and out >the window to her right. My eye is immediately drawn to her face. She looks so sad. >first of all, why is anyone describing this album as "inaccessible"? I have no idea! I think it's one of the most instantly likable, ie, accessible, things I've ever heard in my life. Absolutely beautiful music, gorgeous voice, provocative lyrics... >second, i don't think this record can at all be described as tori's >"the dreaming". yes, she's doing some odd things here and there and, >yes, there are some differences between this record and her previous >ones, but the gap between _under the pink_ and _boys for pele_ is >nothing like the jump from _never for ever_ to _the dreaming_. i just >don't see it at all. Well, I'm kind of caught in the middle here. I can understand people calling it Tori's "Dreaming" (and in fact, that was my first impression, as it doesn't sound, to me, even vaguely like her old work), but on the other hand, I agree that it's not as big a leap. So maybe it's... uh... half her dreaming? I dunno. :) >fourth, what's the big hang-up that folks (reviewers mostly, but some >lay listeners as well) have with the lyrics? i understand that most >people focus on lyrics as opposed to music (as i do) and that finding a >connection to the words is often key to liking a song...but the phrase >here and there that i've caught, while cryptic, aren't utterly opaque. Which is my exact impression. I think the songs are pretty clear, in general meaning, and that many of her metaphors are pretty clear too. So I don't understand all the confusion over the meanings of the songs. There are some particularly thick moments, yeah, but 90% of the time you at least get the drift, and 50% of the time, I can understand *exactly* what she's talking about. >i wasn't at all excited or looking forward to this album. that is not to >say that i was dreading its release - i was just rather neutral on the >whole concept. I've been biting my nails for two months, hehe. :> Even more so since the release of the CALS single. Ariel - -- "But now I've got to worry, 'cause boy, you still look pretty when you're putting the damage on." - Tori Amos ------------------------------ From: ariel_b@pipeline.com (Ariel Brennan) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 04:40:57 -0500 Subject: Re: toribabble (longer than you'd probably like :) On Jan 25, 1996 23:37:44, 'MATH TRIED ERR ' wrote: >Wow. I shoulda known a new Tori album would get all of ecto a-buzzing. :) Incredible, ain't it? Heheh. >(If anyone wants to viciously slag Tori and the album, get thee over to >love-hounds/rec.music.gaffa -- sheesh! :P) Are they doing that? >I have now had several more listens to let things sink in further. Interest- >ingly enough (to me, anyway) my first impressions haven't really changed all >that much. I still think it's one of the best albums I've *ever* heard, and >I'm still in such a good mood over just how good it is! Ditto. My first impressions have just gone up (my first thought: Good gods, that woman is brilliant. My second thought: Good GODS that woman is INCREDIBLY BRILLIANT!) But, I'm biased, so here's an official Objective Opinion: My father was visiting today, and I was playing BFP, of course. He told me I need to listen to more upbeat music, but that the album was absolutely beautiful. He said Tori has "the voice of life", and that, if he didn't think he'd get depressed listening to her, she'd be one of his favorite artists. He then read the credits and, upon seeing that Tori wrote all the songs herself, said that she's brilliant. My mother later agreed with that particular assessment, saying she was, indeed, a musical genius. >I'll chime in with the "you gotta give it a chance" crowd here. I was >discussing BfP with a fellow rabid Tori-fan friend last night, and he >noted that no matter where you are in the album, you're never far from one >of the very best tracks thereon. Hehehe, I'd go so far as to say that nearly every track is one of the very best tracks thereon. Well, the whole album is brilliant, the arrangements stunning, and gods, that voice... >I hope she sticks with the harpsichord for a few more albums to >come (as opposed to the now-you-hear-it-now-you-don't foray into prepared >piano) -- there's LOTS more she can do with it, I'm sure. I kind of miss the emphasis on her piano, actually. My only complaint, but it's not really a complaint per say. >I'm starting to pick up little bits of the "novel", but she's still totally >losing me after the "Agent Orange" segment. Really? To me, the songs after Agent Orange are the most understandable, especially Doughnut Song and Putting The Damage On. Well, okay, I'm lost on In The Springtime Of His Voodoo. :) >It's like neither. Well, there are some songs that pack the emotional punch >of _LE_, but I don't find much of anything _UtP_-like on it at all. I can say it's kind of quiet like UTP, but that's about the only thing they have in common. >The very thought of disturbing the track order gave me a chill -- that would >be like rearranging the chapters of a book and expecting it to still make >sense. This is *not* a shuffle-play album!!! Well, okay, the whole album as a novel concept is a little lost on me. I admit I see the album as kind of one long song with different movements, but I have no problem with playing it out of order. In fact, I usually only play 5 or so of the songs at a time, skipping madly. >Erm, unless the back of one's knee has suddenly become an erogenous zone, >I think you'd best look again... ;> Well, it's said that the back of one's knee often is one, but I doubt that's the point. ;> >>One last thing....Does she.. or does she not... have a ring-o-thorns style >>tattoo on her right upper arm.? > >I don't know. I'm *really* confused now. My guess is that all the photos >et al. that we've seen were done at least a few months ago Are there any actual pictures of said tattoo in the lyric booklet? I can't find any! >I didn't even bother to look for Dar's new album -- I knew it would be a >lost cause. :) Yeah, I should've had the same thought, hehe. I knew full well that it would be a lost cause, but I loved Honesty Room so much I couldn't resist. I even had the mad hallucinatory idea that I might PLAY Mortal City, instead of Boys For Pele, once or twice. I did have the foresight to play Mortal City first though, realizing that the liklihood of my hearing it anytime soon once I played BFP wasn't that good. >"Talula" is on the little "featuring" sticker on the front, isn't it? That >usually indicates which tracks they're planning to release as singles. Yeah, I figured. That and Putting The Damage On was on the sticker. I can see PTDO being released - if Take A Bow (Madonna's biggest hit ever) could be released, PTDO sure can. >As >for "Professional Widow" (which is playing as I type this :), I don't think >it'll be seeing any radio play in the US anytime soon. Lines like "Slag pit/ >Stag shit ... Starfucker just like my Daddy" don't go over too well with the >boys at the FCC. :) Yeah, but they could them out! >I think she should release "Little Amsterdam" as a single, just to confuse >the hell out of Joan Osborne fans. ;> ROFL! >It's so obvious that the RS reviewer listened to the album in the background >while he was doing dishes or something, then glanced at the lyric booklet very >briefly before sitting down to write the review. Isn't it though. I have to wonder if the reviewer didn't have a problem with Tori in general, though, since she criticized everything from the way she sits to who she thanks in the liner notes, as if either thing has anything at all to do with the album. >It's also obvious that he >hasn't really listened to much of Tori's music at all in general. "Hey >Jupiter" is NOT a hymn to the Roman god, sorry dude. She, it was Evelyn McDonnell. But gods, McDonnell sure didn't pay much attention. TORI? Doesn't know how to rage?! TORI!?! Just because she doesn't SCREAM AT THE TOP OF HER LUNGS doesn't mean she doesn't know how to rage. BFP is one of the most angry albums I've ever heard, at points. Of course, this reviewer also said she was "waging a war on religion". Eh?! UTP and LE had more religious criticism in one song than BFP has on the whole album. Mentioning a diety's name does not a religious song make. >I agree with you there, but I do have to say that some spots on the album do >remind me of _TD_ musically: this backing vocal here, that masked track lurking >behind everything else there. The first time I heard BFP, I had the same impression, but now I can't remember what made me think of Kate at all. Maybe it's just because I'm not thinking about it as much. :) But there's this tiny spot of noise at the beginning of Not The Red Baron which reminds me of The Ninth Wave. Ariel - -- "But now I've got to worry, 'cause boy, you still look pretty when you're putting the damage on." - Tori Amos ------------------------------ From: ariel_b@pipeline.com (Ariel Brennan) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 04:47:48 -0500 Subject: Re: toribabble (longer than you'd probably like :) On Jan 26, 1996 01:55:15, 'Neal Copperman ' wrote: Re: random sequencing >I really like to do that, even on a carefully sequenced album. It wakes >you up once you've become complacent. I hate doing that, hehe. It stresses me out, and really, I knowing what comes next. It annoys me when I think "Y" comes after "X", but it doesn't... >(Granted, I doubt anyone is actually used to BfP yet.) At this point, I am, hehe. A - -- "But now I've got to worry, 'cause boy, you still look pretty when you're putting the damage on." - Tori Amos ------------------------------ From: David Dixon Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 02:19:36 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: jon and vangelis (a very late reply to a reply) On Sat, 27 Jan 1996, Kerry White wrote: > > first of his that I ever got. :) My favorite V album is, without a > > doubt, _Soil Festivities_. I was literally *stunned* when I first heard > > it, it's just that beautiful. > > The beep--beep running thru(I think) title track of SF is exactly at > the Theta brain-wave frequency. The famous ALPHA is the brain in > 'idle', theta is the link-to-muse/universal unconsciousness mesh of non- > verbal/verbal full-brain collaboration state. It is *true* braain-food! Not to be a spoilsport, but I don't believe that nonsense for a second. To link the repetition of a note to a "full-brain collaboration state" is a gross oversimplification at best. There's no hidden psychic machinations at work, it's just pleasant music. Sorry to interject some non-fuzziness into the mailing list, but this kind of "magical thinking" really gets my goat. D^2 ------------------------------ From: dreaming Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 03:14:30 -0800 (PST) Subject: Joan Osborne CD to good home.... greetings!! well... I was at my favorite friendly locally owned neighborhood record store, Benway Bop, when I was paroozing their cut out area... and low and behold... I saw the CD "Blue Million Miles" by Joan Osborne. it's only a 3 cut CD on the Swimming Blue Pool label. picked it up 'cause I knew someone here would probably want it... (I don't much like her) and I KNEW someone would make her a good home.... sooooooooooooo... it belongs to whoever emails me first and agrees to replaces the $1.99 I spent on it... and a few extra cents for postage. thats it... pleasant dreams when you rest your heads... ~ Suzanne ------------------------------ From: kcd@romulus.cray.com (Kevin Dekan {x66440 CF/DEV}) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 96 08:57:15 CST Subject: Take It Easy Hello fellow 'philes, This talk of the Eagles and the song "Take It Easy" got me reminiscing a bit. Jackson Browne and Glenn Frey from the Eagles co-wrote the song back in the early '70's. Jackson does the song on his excellent '73 album _For Everyman_ from 1973. It's kind of a summer time type of tune and it has me pining for summer as I awoke to another foot of snow outside my door again this morning. Wisconsin is getting a taste of what the folks out east had a few weeks back. Never fear though, the storm is headed your way eastern ecto-philes! Well, time to bundle up and grab the shovel! -Kevin (thinking of the endless summer Anneli Drecker sings of on Bel Canto's _Shimmering, Warm, & Bright) ------------------------------ From: Neal Copperman Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 10:33:55 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: ectori On Sat, 27 Jan 1996, Ariel Brennan wrote: > Well, I'm kind of caught in the middle here. I can understand people > calling it Tori's "Dreaming" (and in fact, that was my first impression, as > it doesn't sound, to me, even vaguely like her old work), but on the other > hand, I agree that it's not as big a leap. So maybe it's... uh... half her > dreaming? I dunno. :) Maybe it's Tori's "Reaming" Neal ------------------------------ From: MATH TRIED ERR Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 11:08:09 -0500 (EST) Subject: NJ/Phillyphiles ALERT!!! Hi! I hopepeople see this in time... In the past 12 hours or so, the following have been determined: 1.) Chicago's own master of verbiage, Mitch Pravatiner will be flying into this time zone to visit friends in New York City, and will take advantage of the world-famous hospitality of woj-n-meth's World O'Muzak tonight. 2.) Mike "The Milla-Man/The Tori-Fan" Curry will be driving down from his abode in northeastern Connecticut to hang with us. 3.) We will all be heading down the New Jersey Turnpike to see the Nields at the Grace Rogers Norton Theatre in Hightstown, NJ this evening. Show starts at 8, there's no opener, and as of yesterday evening there were plenty of tickets left. So... this sounds like a possible (very) impromptu Ectogather! We all know how much fun the Nields are, and they're one of the very best live bands out there today, so if you live in the area and are looking for something to do tonight, drop us a line (or call: 201-331-9285) and we'll meet up at the show. Sorry for the short notice here - sometimes life takes rather abrupt turns. :) Hope to see a few of you this evening! +===========================================================================+ |Meredith Tarr meth@delphi.com| |Boonton, NJ USA http://remus.rutgers.edu/~woj/meth/| +===========================================================================+ | "well you'll never gain weight from a donut hole" - Tori Amos | +===========================================================================+ ------------------------------ From: 32 flavors and then some Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 12:21:02 -0500 Subject: Re: World Cafe Mailing List? "Chad E. Lundgren" sez: > was there a mailing list for lineups as far as Wolrd Cafe broadcasts were >concerned? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. don't know if there is a world cafe mailing list, but there is a world cafe web page - http://members.aol.com/radioradio/cafe.html - where all of the upcoming guests are listed. speaking of which, jane siberry's pre-recorded world cafe appearance was broadcast yesterday on the cafe. three live songs ("honeybee", "lovin' cup" and "my mother is not the white dove") and one album track ("calling all angels"). good chat, but much too short. woj ------------------------------ From: Miguel Antonio Gonzalez Date: Sat, 27 Jan 96 12:49:52 PST Subject: The Angry Young Woman: The Labels Take Notice ...is the title of Jon Parles' Sunday, January 28, 1996 New York Times article. It's on Page 24 of the Arts and Leisure section. Check it out, some of the artists mentioned include: Alanis Morissette, Poe, Tracy Bonham, PJ Harvey, Tori Amos, Courtney Love, Liz Phair, Lisa Loeb, Helium, Garbage, Gillette, Elastica, Evil Stig, Ani DiFranco, Patti Rothberg. Check it out. It may appear on the cyberversion of the NYTimes on www.nytimes.com for all those unable to pick up a copy. MAG ------------------------------ From: dreaming Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 12:59:55 -0800 (PST) Subject: Joan Osborne CD got a home... Just wanted to let you all know that the little blue CD got itself a home... Valerie was the first to say she'd give it a lovely little spot along with her other CDs. ~ Suzanne ------------------------------ From: Phillip Clark Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 22:46:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [none] unsubscribe ------------------------------ From: jwaite@popmail.ucsd.edu (Jerene Waite) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 15:17:25 -0800 Subject: Pele Check out the legend of Pele (with pictures) at http://hawaii-shopping.com/~sammonet/pele.html The original Pele was also unlucky in love, it seems. - --Jerene ------------------------------ From: "she listens like her head's on fire.." Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 19:24:19 -0500 (EST) Subject: Boys for Pele A long dark walk into the wild scary woods. wow. I'm enthralled. - -Quenby ------------------------------ From: Kerry White Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 18:28:56 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: jon and vangelis (a very late reply to a reply) Hello, On Sat, 27 Jan 1996, David Dixon wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Jan 1996, Kerry White wrote: > > > > first of his that I ever got. :) My favorite V album is, without a > > > doubt, _Soil Festivities_. I was literally *stunned* when I first heard > > > it, it's just that beautiful. > > > > The beep--beep running thru(I think) title track of SF is exactly at > > the Theta brain-wave frequency. The famous ALPHA is the brain in > > 'idle', theta is the link-to-muse/universal unconsciousness mesh of non- > > verbal/verbal full-brain collaboration state. It is *true* braain-food! > > > Not to be a spoilsport, but I don't believe that nonsense for a second. > To link the repetition of a note to a "full-brain collaboration state" > is a gross oversimplification at best. There's no hidden psychic > machinations at work, it's just pleasant music. > > Sorry to interject some non-fuzziness into the mailing list, but this > kind of "magical thinking" really gets my goat. However one interprets it: the tone *is* at Theta frequency. If it is nothing more than pleasant-making, OK! *I've* had some fun at the bio-feedback lab w/ theta and the rest of the neat stuff, and not *all* of the literature on Bio-feedback comes from the starry-eyed camp of New Age. Most of the "New" Age philosophy is over 50 years old. The Menninger Clinic has proven that *basic* bio-feedback works: mentally raising the temperature of your hand responds to the thermometer.etc. Alpha was touted as the "creative" state but is merely the brain at "idle", which is pleasant and relaxing. If I am too flowery w/ my prose on stuff, I apologise! KrW "Who was that masked man?" "That no mask, that birthmark!" ------------------------------ From: maeldun@i-2000.com (Michael Doyle) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 96 19:32:01 EST Subject: random shuffle At 12:23 AM 1/26/96 -0800, damon harper wrote: > i >*always* used to do this. and that's exactly how i described it, too - >"combatting musical complacency". of course, i haven't listened to a cd on >random for several months now... what does that mean? i've given in to >complacency? OK, here's my story: I was a total random play addict. When I got a new album I would pop it in the changer with a bunch of other stuff and familiarize myself with it at random. It would take about a month before I listened to beginning to end. Then I got annoyed at this system. It meant that I had six albums at a time that would bore me. My collection isn't huge so growing weary of six albums every two weeks lead me to serious dissatisifaction. I decided to kick the habit by listening to every CD in my collection, from A to W (I have no "X," "Y" or "Z" bands), from beginning to end. Doing this restored in me the appreciation for album as cohesive works, not just strings of songs. Since then, I have not gone back to my old ways. > i couldn't *not* tap my fingers - and now i hardly ever >do; if i give any outward sign that there's music playing, its generally >that i'm singing along. why this change, i wonder? It seems you are calming down, or allowing yourself to be calm. Excessive random play had been making me jumpy and irritable without my noticing it. Kicking the habit has granted me more peace. - - Mike Michael Doyle maeldun@i-2000.com =================================================================== "'Normal' is not a word I like to use." - - Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist ------------------------------ From: "Deep Space" Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 21:50:05 +0000 Subject: A Bass Note Hi there! Today was a most unusual day. As I returned from the dentist Lo in the mail was the HGP! Congrats to all involved, esp. Doug and Mitch. There's some nice music on there (and then there's the stuff I sent!):) Speaking of Mitch, sorry to miss Mitch and Meth (say that fast a few times!). Hope the Neilds yeilds good listening. Got one of those Phone Calls Of Destiny tonight. My son's guitar teacher, Joe Dalton, just asked me to join his band in the bass slot. As he's a fulltime professional musician and I make an excellent salary with my day job, I was concerned I wouldn't have the flexibility with my schedule Joe would need, but he said he was impressed enough with my abilities to put me on as the main bassist, and hire someone part time to fill in for daytime jobs. My head commenced to spinning, because Joe is a world class guitarist. In fact, he writes a column for Guitar Player magazine. He and his band have a few independent CDs out as well. He's hard to pigeonhole. You might say country, but he throws in a lot of Jazz and Rock elements. There's some Chet Atkins, some Mark Knopfler, and more comes to mind, but ultimately Joe is... well, Joe! I'm blown away. I have the support of my family, at least so far. I'd just been looking to find a bunch of fellow old coots to jam with once a week, but it looks like I may be returning to the pro fold again. Unless the whole thing was a big hallucination! (pinching myself)... whew! Well, sorry for the not very ecto content. I just wanted to share my news with everyone. First rehearsal might be tomorrow... Robert, wondering at the enormity of it all... ------------------------------ From: Don HARLOW Date: Sat, 27 Jan 96 19:08:40 -0800 Subject: Question about a band Hi everyone :) (Hi Anthony! It's me! the bouncy girl from Karl's car the night of the RDT party! :) ) I was in Berkeley today looking around the music stores, and I found a CD by a band called "The Magick Heads" (? or something like that. I know it had 'magick' and 'heads' in it.) The cover looked, interesting, and I was wondering if they were all ectophilic (I wasn't willing to take a chance because it was $13, but...), or if they're not, if anyone knows what they are and how they would describe their music. :) I couldn't find any other information about them on the net. Thanks! Esther (exhausted from the SATs) ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V2 #364 ************************** ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu