From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V3 #25 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, September 29 1997 Volume 03 : Number 025 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Amy X Neuberg performance - SF [Sue Trowbridge ] KC Trip - No Ecto Content. [isometric plaything ] Re: Meth's clarification [meredith ] Re: Sessions PBS [Gianfranco Covello ] Re: Brady Blade [Neal Copperman ] Re: ecto-digest V3 #24 [sspan ] Janis Ian [rjk1@cs.wustl.edu (bob)] Re: Sessions PBS [charleydarbo ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 01:21:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Sue Trowbridge Subject: Amy X Neuberg performance - SF Since people keep posting New York area dates to the list and causing me to turn green with envy... ;) here's one for those of you on the Pacific side of the continent. C'mon Bay Area ectophiles, don't miss this one -- Amy X and the Men are just fabulous live! - --Sue Trowbridge trow@slip.net - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 17:25:58 +0000 From: amyx To: "Heinz, Herb (IS)" Subject: junk from the X HEY YOOZ GUYS Experience AMY X NEUBURG & MEN attempting to leap around in that cavernous complex of (clean) cacophony -- the BRAINWASH CAFE & LAUNDROMAT. SATURDAY OCTOBER 4 10:00 PM BRAINWASH is at 1122 Folsom, SF. After us, enjoy the syntho-lounge-o-rama of Congo Bongo. Or was that Mumbo Gumbo? Fungo Mungo? Something like that. THIS SHOW IS FREE! YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE. BRING YER LAUNDRY. Due to the freeness of this show we are unable to afford to send out announcements, so please do us the favor of passing this on to anyone who might be interested and bringing with you many friends and enemies. ____________________________________________________ You are on the IS Productions email junk mail list. If you have reached this recording in error, please hang up and dial again. - -- @@@@@@@@ @ @ Amy X Neuburg @ amyx@isproductions.com @ http://www.isproductions.com @ @@@@@@@@@@@ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 11:32:13 -0400 (EDT) From: isometric plaything Subject: KC Trip - No Ecto Content. Hey gang, Sorry to clog the list with some non-ecto stuff, but I'm taking a trip to Kansas City, MO next week, and was wondering if anyone knew of any good music shops in the area, or any good places to visit and eat at. If anyone wants to meet up either there, or on the way (passing through St Louis and Indiana and Ohio), let me know! - -cas ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:53:30 +0100 From: Emmy May Lombaerts Subject: Re: Kristina Olsen Susan Krauss wrote: >I love Kristina. She fits what seems to be a standard for me - a writer >who can be hysterically funny and make you cry all in a brief moment. And >she's a fabulous guitar player. Yes, definitely. She also writes from the heart and the anecdotes she tells in between songs are hilarious. Emmy NP - Edie Brickell "Shooting rubberbands at the stars" - -,-`-<@ http://home.planetinternet.be/~elombaer/ased/ The alt.support.eating-disord F.A.Q. http://club.innet.be/~year2846 Music, Madness And Mayhem - My homepage @>-,-`-- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 15:38:06 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: Meth's clarification Hi! Paul B. responded: >Poor you!! Here's an interesting coincidence: There I was, in a room so >crowded the only room left was two spots on the bench at the back, next to >me. Guess who should come in part way into the set and sit down right next >to me? Susan McKeown! Hey, that's pretty cool! I'm sure we'll catch Mila live sometime soon. >And of course you'll see me at Susan's show Thursday... We're probably going to the late show (out of necessity, not because we really prefer that time slot on a weeknight). Which one are you going to? In other news, we missed the boat and didn't get tickets to see Susan Werner tonight before it sold out, alas. This is turning out to *not* be the busy weekend we'd planned, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. woj and I did manage to get down to Princeton to watch Neil Gaiman's NEVERWHERE. It was great, even if it did mean we were stuck for three solid hours sitting in uncomfortable chairs squinting at a tiny tv screen through the heads of 4 rows of people in the middle of a busy bookstore with way too bright lighting. (My headache is just beginning to fade.) The series itself was really well done, though, and I'm glad I got to see it. I found myself wondering what the soundtrack would have been like if Tori had ended up doing it, as originally had been the plan -- as it was, it was sparse and didn't really add much when it was there. We also forgot to tape Sessions, alas. I wanted to see Patti Smith, but I was already planning to tape over Ron Sexsmith's portion with static if I had to. Apparently Chantal Kreviazuk has been opening for him -- they just did two nights in NYC this past week. IMO he should be opening for her, and I say that even as I remain mightily unimpressed by her album. My feelings of revulsion for Mr. Sexsmith are only surpassed by my feelings of revulsion and derision for Dan Bern. But that's a rant for another place and time. :) +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | Boonton, NJ USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | |***TRAJECTORY, the Veda Hille mailing list: trajectory-request@smoe.org***| +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 19:35:01 -0400 From: Gianfranco Covello Subject: Re: Sessions PBS >> Ron Sexsmith(who?) >I don't know much about him, but I have heard the name,as Tara McLean was >opening for him on one of her runs across the country. He is a Canadian >Singer/Songwriter, who is rumored to be excellent. Any of you know better or >more? Well, i saw a little bit of him when i saw Tara Maclean in Toronto and well.. i just didn't.. um.. a better word would be, couldn't stay for his entire set :) if you know what i mean, just didn't do anything for me. I'm pretty sure most of the people there were to see Tara anyway, and the sad thing is that he most likely knew that as well :) Oh well.. he's recognized, and was opening the show, so *someone* must like him out there.. :) just not me :) take care all. - -Gian- Northern Sounds: Check out the local Toronto musical talent here! Http://psych.utoronto.ca/~stephen/tomusic/tomusic.htm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 00:02:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Neal Copperman Subject: Re: Brady Blade I'm cleaning out my mail since it's a lot more fun than unpacking from my vacation (4 weeks from San Francisco to Seattle, with ectophile visits with Sue Trowbridge, Michael Bowman, Brian Bloom & Mindy, and Neile and Jim in Seattle, as well as National Parks aplenty), or unpacking from my move. When I passed through San Francisco, ecto was still down, and I was saying to Sue that it had been down long enough for Jeff to step forward and fix things up :) Thanks as always to you and woj for providing me this fine alternative to more pressing activities. On Mon, 8 Sep 1997 faucet@pipeline.com wrote: > meth asked: > > Emmylou Harris came on after that, and she was great. I've been > >trying to remember why her drummer's name sounds so familiar -- does the > >name Brady Blade ring any bells for anyone? I *know* I've seen him perform > >somewhere, or heard of him before. It's been bugging me ever since. > > Brady Blade's brother Brian Blade is also a drummer, and is the one who > accompanied Joni Mitchell at Fez last year. Brain also is on the upcoming > Victoria Williams album. I think they are from Schrevesport, LA and thats > all I know. Very likely Brady has done lots of work with Daniel Lanois.. I couldn't find anything on Brady Blade, but I found that Brian Blade appears on Emmylou Harris' Wrecking Ball and Jane's Maria. No Blades on either of the Daniel Lanois discs I have though. Neal np: Versus - Deep Red nr: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha - Roddy Doyle I saw earlier that someone (Michael Colford?) was reading Mr. Sandman by Barbara Gowdy? What did you think? I just finished it, oddly enough, while camping, and really loved it (Thanks Jeff!). It reminded me of Tom Robbins, except that I liked it. Sort of the same feel, but less showy and warmer, and very funny. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 00:23:27 -0700 From: sspan Subject: Re: ecto-digest V3 #24 So anyway... went to see Grey Eye Glances tonight at the Tin Angel in Philly... they were great as usual, and apparently they're now working on their second Mercury release... also, they are doing a worldwide real-audio broadcast on Fri. Oct. 10 at 7:00 (eastern time I would assume this is). It's supposed to be a full concert with photos and quicktime VR clips to download too.. anyone interested can get all the details at http://www.greyeyeglances.com - -- ++ -dave- ++ + irc.Dal.net #Panic_Beach + + Maria McKee/Grey Eye Glances/Lisa Loeb + ++ ++ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 23:12:48 -0500 From: rjk1@cs.wustl.edu (bob) Subject: Janis Ian Hi all, It's been a while and rather than putting together a Meth of Klausian proportions, I'll let the many topics I'd set aside to comment on lie in peaceful repose. I couldn't go without commenting on last night's concert, however. The short version: Wow. Easily one of the 2 or 3 best concerts I've seen this year. Don't miss this tour if she plays near you... Full schedule online at: http://www.songs.com/janisian/tourinfo.html The long version: In an otherwise pretty uneventful month concert-wise (with a couple notable exceptions), it would figure that once again 2 worthwhile shows would hit town at the same time when there were 27 other pefectly good nights devoid of much of interest. This time it was Cordelia's Dad vs. Janis Ian (not to mention 3 local acts at 3 seperate venues, any one of which would have made for a perfectly enjoyable Saturday evening...). In true procrastinating fashion, I'd put off trying to decide until that morning. Even the usual tie-break factor wasn't of use as ticket price was the same for both shows. ;) So when a free ticket to the Janis Ian show landed in my lap that morning, the decision was made for me. Obviously, I can't know what I missed with the other shows, but I can't believe they could possibly have been more impressive than the show I did see. The tour's just starting (her new disc - "Hunger" (co-produced by and featuring the vocals of Ani DiFranco) - isn't even due out 'til Tuesday...) and she's doing this tour solo. From the stage, she repeatedly referred to herself as a "folk" musician, and indeed the first half of the show consisted largely of classics of hers that she and others popularized over the last 20someodd years. As enjoyable as that was, it was the second half that floored me. Definately not what pops to mind when the (admittedly ambiguous) term "folk" musician and I found myself wondering if Ani'd rubbed off on her. ;) Wonderful guitarwork (ranging from folk to blues to rock, even getting a couple of funk riffs in), coupled with on-the-fly looping of guitar and vocals (which if abused can be trying, but she pulled it off wonderfully and to great effect) and a voice that hasn't lost anything made for an unbelievably powerful closing 40 minutes. I can't neglect to mention the excellence of the crowd as well - *to a person* they were there for the music and not to converse; a most welcome change. Fate chose well for me. ;) Oh, and WRT/Ron Sexsmith - if I'm not mistaken, he's the one I heard Sarah mention by name as being tremendously underappreciated and just the kind of act she'd like to include in next year's Lilith (back when she was still toying with dropping the gender qualification...) bob n.p. Rare on Air Vol I ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 23:14:06 +0000 From: charleydarbo Subject: Re: Sessions PBS Jeffrey C. Burka wrote: > > > > Ron Sexsmith was one of the most reviled folk to be mentioned often on > ecto over the last several years. > I very much liked his previous album (title escapes), even though he's of a genre that doesn't generally attract me (male "singer-songwriter"). His overall sound is evocative of, say, Jackson (ak, barf) Brown, but he's a much, much better writer, and his lyrics are more grounded in reality. He's got a bit of a Lyle Lovett smirk in his tone--just a bit--and a refreshing solidity to his language. I can see why he'd be unappreciated by a Sarah McLachlan audience. I will buy his new album if I see it on sale. - --charley ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V3 #25 *************************