From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V3 #73 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, November 15 1997 Volume 03 : Number 073 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [matthewm (Mike Matthews)] SF Bay Area: Concert 11/22 ["J. Wermont" ] NYC/NJ Broadcast Alert [jjh969@juno.com] Stalking the wild MUSH room ["Mitchell A. Pravatiner" ] Here goes.......... [AURALG@aol.com] Liza Warfel review and stuff [sspan ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 03:00:12 -0500 From: matthewm (Mike Matthews) Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** *********************** Neil K. (nkg@nettwerk.com) ************************ *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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 Michele Wellck December 08 Sagittarius Jeremy J. Corry Fri December 11 1970 Sagittarius - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:11:05 -0800 (PST) From: "J. Wermont" Subject: SF Bay Area: Concert 11/22 Ectophiles, I offer here a shameless plug: my partner, who's a very talented but as-yet unknown singer/songwriter, is performing at Bean's on Broadway, a coffeehouse in Redwood City, CA (see notice below for details). I thought that some of you folks who live in the area might want to check out this concert. She's a classically-trained guitarist who's been playing for about 25 years, and is now focusing her energy on performing her original acoustic and very ecto-ish music. Here's the notice I've posted on other mailing lists. (If I've violated some rule of the ecto charter or netiquette by posting this, I trust that someone will tactfully inform me.) I hope some of you will be able to get out and enjoy this show! Joyce ------------------------------------------------------- Come hear an evening of INTELLIGENT MUSIC by Beth Hilton Songwriter & guitarist Saturday, November 22 - 8 PM Bean's on Broadway 2209 Broadway Redwood City Phone: 650-369-3335 ** Political satire ** Personal stories ** Clever wordplay ** ** Bizarre humor ** Inspired ranting! ** No cover charge - donations accepted ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 04:45:38 -0500 From: jjh969@juno.com Subject: NYC/NJ Broadcast Alert This is from a review of a show that I really wanted to go to but could not. The review was from the New York Times of 11/11/97. The author was Ann Powers. >The word fetish is often misused in >describing objects of passion, but it fits >Nick Drake's body of work. Fans of the >English songwriter, who died in 1974 at >the age of 26, treasure the 31 songs he >recorded as if they were amulets to be >meditated upon privately and shared with >the sympathetic few. To love Nick >Drake's meditative folk-pop is to join an >esoteric society. Organizing an evening >in which more than a dozen singers >interpret him is a daring, iconoclastic >move. The review went on to describe a show that took place at St. Ann's in Brooklyn Heights (One of my all time favorite venues). The participants were; Peter Holsapple, Peter Blegvad, Terre Roche, Syd Straw, Richard Barone, Richard Davies, Mimi Goese, Susan Cowsill, Duncan Sheik, Katell Keineg, Sloan Wainwright, Dana and Karen Kletter and Rebecca Moore. Yikes ! Cool Bill. The review ended by noting that a recording of the show would be broadcast on WFUV FM (90.7 FM) on Nov. 25 at 7 P.M. I curse my poor reception. John ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 18:59:11 -0600 (CST) From: "Mitchell A. Pravatiner" Subject: Stalking the wild MUSH room Yesterday, after reading of the reappearance of TinyCWRU in these pages, I decided to look around the old place. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that my old character was still there, a couple of years after I last logged in. (Apparently it left its original address long ago; I tried it there over a year and a half ago and got nothing. Over the summer I tried the link on Steve's homepage, and also got nowhere. I didn't have to specify an email address to get my character, and didn't, so naturally they never sent me email about any of their various moves.) But when I tried to teleport to the ecto spaces, I was told that I can't go there. As best as I can figure it, our old complex is not now teleportable. So--how do I get to the ecto room from the steam tunnel? Are there other rooms I can walk through until the jump flag is fixed? Mitch ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 17:49:27 -0800 (PST) From: Sue Trowbridge Subject: How to order the Donnette Thayer CD Donnette just told me how folks can order her new CD, CHAOS AND WONDER. The raves from ectophile Larry Hernandez sparked a lot of interest in this disk -- I heard from several people who wanted to buy their own copy. If you liked Donnette's work in Hex, this new album is a must! You can purchase it directly from Donnette for $14 postpaid. Send a check or money order made out to Donnette Thayer to P.O. Box 1354, Hollywood CA, 90028. Enjoy, - --Sue Trowbridge trow@slip.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 21:15:10 -0500 (EST) From: AURALG@aol.com Subject: Here goes.......... Good Evening and now the news........................ Officials in the State Dept and in Iraq have confirmed reports of the signing of Happy Rhodes to Samson Music. After 2 or 3 months of negotiations and contractual back and forth, Happy Rhodes signed on the proverbial dotted line (I saw it and it wasn't dotted) October 27th if my memory serves me. Who the hell is Samson Music ?, you ask. Sampson is a new label (Slated to unleash itself on the world around the first of the year) based out of Omaha, NE. Owned by 1/2 of the original Gateway Computer brothers, (Norm) the label is headed by the illustrious Mike Delich of American Gramaphone fame, Michael Shrieve (of Santana fame) runs the A&R Dept and various other cool people, who are as in love with Happy's music as we are. Our good pal David Torn was approached by them this past Summer to produce one of their first artists, a woman named Chritine McKinley (a.k.a McKinley) Great record by the way...........They also asked David who else he thought was talented and deserving of their attentions. David asked us to forward a Rhodes package, with discs, sales charts, etc., along with some 10 other artists he thought were worthy. Well one thing led to another, a few months went by, more packages were sent, phone calls were made, faxes were flyin, and then the boys from Omaha wanted to set up a meeting with us here at AG to meet the Diva and hear some of the new stuff. They flew out and we all had a lovely afternoon of coffee, grape soda and chat. (They're as sick as we are) They had pretty much already made their minds up to sign the girl, and negotiations began shortly after. That's pretty much the story. Samson LOVES Happy as an artist. They are the greatest bunch of folks with the highest integrity, and respect for the music she's doing. She has indeed found a great label. She has crafted herself a wonderful arrangement with them and retains full artistic control at all levels. (after overhearing some of her phone calls I think her true calling was as a lawyer), but anyway...................... Her album is most likely slated for an April 1998 release, with supporting tour and all sorts of appearences and God knows what else. Maybe Europe, maybe TV, you know .....Record Company stuff. Her final day of recording is Sunday(she's in Phila. tonight with Project Lo as we speak) and mixing begins Monday morning, with mastering slated for mid December. Then the Samson wheels go into motion. Believe me you'll know about it. We're very glad here at the "old" label, that Happy has connected with a label that has the resources to do all the things we could only sometimes or partially do. If all goes well she has a 5 album deal with them, so we can count on alot of music. (Yey) As of this writing her entire back catalog is still available from us here at AG, although that may go to Samson as well in the near future. (More negotiations) First things first ! I'll write again to hook y'all up with the Samson website and what not. You can always email them and let them know how cool they are for signing Happy Rhodes. Introduce yourselves. They're part of Gold Circle Entertainment, maybe you can track it down yourselves, I don't have their address handy at the moment. I'd also like to take a moment and let you folks know that there wouldn't have been much of an Aural Gratification or Happy Rhodes for that matter, if not for the love and support of you Ectophiles. I mean it. We've met the gentlest, nicest, most giving, respectful, intelligent and caring people. Happy and I could never thank you enough for the support, belief, comradery and faith that you've shown us. For me, it's been a long strange trip, as they say. Meeting this 18 year old gifted musician, trying to figure out a way to work with her, spreading the gospel, duplicating and hand labeling tapes in the middle of the night, brow beating DJ's, pressing CD's, booking shows, buying ads, auctioning guitars (ha ha), flying off to radio stations in East Jesus, and basically doing everything and anything I could think of to keep her name, voice and gift in some kind of light. I was always fueled by the fact that I wasn't alone or crazy, because I was continually confirmed by you people. You don't know. Bless you all. And lucky me.....Happy's travels took me to some of the most amazing, nutso, fun and scary experiences ever. I had alot of great times on a great many stages with her, met some very cool musicians and fans, saw cities I'd never go to in a hundred years, ate at some really fucked up diners, got to and still get to hear her make this stuff up (What a MUSE !!!!!) It's been a blast. Thanks to Happy Rhodes and thanks to all of you. I got to ride on both of your wings. Aural Gratification will remain as a production house, recording studio, and still as a label for those really special projects and artists, and like I mentioned we're still in the business of selling 9 Happy Rhodes albums for the time being. Congratulations to Happy Rhodes, congratulations to Samson Music, and congratulations to you ! So see ya around.....I'm gonna go make a few records. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 01:21:37 -0800 From: sspan Subject: Liza Warfel review and stuff Ok, this week I picked up the new Lisa Loeb CD Firecracker.. been waiting a while for this one, and I wasn't disappointed.. excellent. But then being a huge Lisa fan I'm maybe a little biased . I also got Capercaillie's To the Moon, first of their stuff I've bought, very nice. I found a copy of Katell Keinig's Jet in the used CD bin, was hoping I'd like it more than I thought I was going to, but I'm just not impressed.. My big surprise was Susan McKeown and Lindsey Horner's Through the Bitter Frost and Snow. For some reason I didn't think I was going to like Susan, even though I've seen so much said about her on the list. I was pleasantly surprised.. a fabulous collection of winter/christmas songs. If the rest of her CDs are like this I'll be buying all of them... Last but by no means least, I just got back from seeing Liza Warfel, a Philadelphia area native now residing and working out of Seattle WA playing to a hometown crowd in Aston PA. I was kind of expecting her to sound like Jewel, and the guy selling her CDs said that she did. I was quite relieved when she started playing and the comparison was wrong. Her voice is very strong, but pretty at the same time. She also played acoustic guitar in a rather driving style, and had electric guitar and percussion backing her up. I was EXTREMELY impressed. Anyone on the west coast should check her out when they get a chance. And I'll see what more info I can get on her, CD info and such. later - -- ++ -dave- ++ + irc.Dal.net #Panic_Beach + + Maria McKee/Grey Eye Glances/Lisa Loeb + + Caminando en las nubes + ++ ++ ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V3 #73 *************************