From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V3 #82 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, November 24 1997 Volume 03 : Number 082 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friends... [matthewm (Mike Matthews)] Non-Ecto: Moby in Boulder, CO ["Lawrence J. Kim" ] Happy Rhodes / Project Lo [Michael Matthews ] Re: Project Lo in DC [Neal Copperman ] an evening of susans [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 03:00:17 -0500 From: matthewm (Mike Matthews) Subject: Today's your birthday, friends... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** **************** Claudia Spix (claudia@inphobos.wupper.de) **************** ********************* Anja Baldo (anja@jane.tiac.net) ********************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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 Renee Canada Tue December 13 1977 Sagittarius Julie C. Kammerzell Sun December 15 1968 Sagittarius/Scorpio combo Gloria Jackson-Nefertiti Sat December 15 1956 Sagittarius 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 Sherry Haddock Sat December 17 1960 Sagittarius Tracy Benbrook Tue December 18 1973 Sagittarius - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 15:01:15 -0600 (CST) From: "Lawrence J. Kim" Subject: Non-Ecto: Moby in Boulder, CO If anyone can e-mail me any information about the Moby concert at the Boulder Theatre on November 28, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Lawrence ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 21:31:14 -0500 From: Michael Matthews Subject: Happy Rhodes / Project Lo Just adding my two cent's for Friday night's Project Lo/Happy .. uh, "event" at Phantasmagoria. I left McLean, VA at 5:00 to go to Laurel to pick up my girlfriend. I figured, the show didn't start until 9, I had plenty of time. As others have mentioned, it rained like hell that day (must produce lots of steam down there when it rains, don't ya think?). I got to Laurel at 7:45. Took me one hour to go one mile, to get on the beltway. Luckily, the trip from Laurel to Wheaton was actually quite nice. Joe, if *I* can find it, you can... It's easy to get to, although I'm glad I called ahead to make sure I was going in the right direction (I called from about a block and a half away, at the Taco Bell/KFC). I hadn't realized you had to find parking elsewhere. The show didn't start until sometime after 10:00 (there was a teaser sound check, then everyone left the stage and pretty much disappeared for an hour). My girlfriend and I were sitting next to the Long-Haired Kite Boy (I suspect we were right in front of Heidi Heller). I thoroughly enjoyed it (although the sound system needed some serious work; not only was there the aforementioned radio problems, but Caryn Lin must have stepped on/smashed her electric violin [?! didn't know they existed] hookup as it made some really nasty noises for a split second, then nothing at all, then she had to fix it later). Bought the Black Canvas CD, although I haven't had time to listen to it yet. I figure the chances of being able to see Happy live again without driving 8 hours to do so were slim to none, so I had to take advantage of it. At first, I thought the radio bleed-over was intentional, as it was kinda funny in some instances. But hey, I'm easy to please. :) Mike ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 21:46:07 -0500 (EST) From: Neal Copperman Subject: Re: Project Lo in DC On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Valerie Nozick wrote: > The low-light of the show, however, was the sound > system. Phantasmagoria is located near the broadcasting tower for WTOP, a > local news radio station. So the radio station was bleeding into the mixing > board, and Project Lo and Caryn Lin spent many frustrating moments trying to > get rid of the constant reports about the Iowa septuplets and Saddam > Hussein. Actually, I thought it had a nice effect -- just as Project Lo > would end a song, you'd hear the radio announcer with a random tidbit. This was really annoying. Every time Caryn would flip on her violin, talk radio swelled out of the speakers. When the band got loud enough, you couldn't hear it, but it really ruined many of the more sensitive moments. The weird thing was that it was just on the house speakers, not the monitors, so the people on stage had no clue what we were hearing. They seemed occasionally confused at the laughter coming from the audience at strange times. They took a break and attempted to fix the problem, but with no luck. They ended up moving the radio from the house speakers to the moniters, so that now only the band could hear it. I'd think it would be pretty horrible to play through. Happy quipped, "Could I have a bit more radio in my moniter please?" The show had such a different feel to last weeks show. This was largely due to the mix, which turned every song on it's head (related to the Orion Studios show). Bon's guitar was mixed really high, as were the drums, while Caryn's violin was more in the middle of the mix. She was front and center in Baltimore, which I thought sounded a lot better. Her violin playing was far more interesting than Bon's guitar. > The crowd was really small -- at one point I counted 37 people, at least > one-third of which were ectophiles. I can't recall everyone, but included > were Jeff Burka, Neal Copperman, Kiri and John, me, Amy, Chris. It was old > home week for ectophiles! I couldn't believe the number of ectophiles in the area. On the forgotten list were Craig and Jeff Hanson, coincidentally (and quite luckily) in town for 2 days. We even managed to catch the last 20 minutes of Lisa Cerbone's show in Baltimore on the way home. DC philes should definitely look for Lisa (and me, if you care) at Iota on the 28th (yeah, the day after Thanksgiving). Well, I'm off to see Helium now... Neal np: Savourna Stephenson, June Tabor, Danny Thompson - Singing the Storm ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 23:03:30 -0500 From: meredith Subject: an evening of susans Hi! Neal recounted: >This was really annoying. Every time Caryn would flip on her violin, talk >radio swelled out of the speakers. That's really odd, because Susan James was getting radio in her monitors at Arlene Grocery last night. I'd never ever heard of this happening until the posts about the Phantasmagoria Project Lo show, and there I was seeing it happen myself the very next day. So yeah, we saw Susan James last night. While Paul Blair most emphatically did *not* agree, I thought she ruled. :) woj and Mike Curry thought she ruled too. (woj even tried to tell her so afterwards, but the compliment somehow got twisted around in his brain so what he actually said was, "I got your tape a long time ago, then I forgot about it for a really long time". :} Oops.) First off, she has a really nice voice. Second, there's her guitar playing. She was doing some quite nice things with her acoustic, but when she strapped on her purple electric (to match her purple platform shoes) things really got interesting. She played one song using a dulcimer hammer on the strings, then brought out "Mister Paper" to put through the strings for another song, and did generally weird things with it on everything else. She ended with a version of The Byrds' "Eight Miles High" that I never would have recognized if she hadn't introduced it first. She's got a new album coming out in January, and I'm sure it's going to be great. For now, there's _Shocking Pink Banana Seat_, which we upgraded to CD at the show, yay. I hope she comes back to NYC soon, and I hope next time there's more than 15 people there to see her. After that we killed not enough time in the Tower Outlet (and bought nothing, ha), and went down to Fez to see Susan McKeown and the Chanting House's final 1997 performance. As usual, they brought the house down. I don't know how it's possible for them to keep on getting better, but they do. Both shows were sold out, and with reason. They started the set off with a rocking version of "The Winter King", and I was mesmerized until the final notes of the impromptu second encore (Susan and Lindsey's unique bass-and-bodhran arrangement of "Blue Moon") had faded away. The set was way too short (only just over an hour), but I'll always have that complaint. :) Anyone within reach of L.A. next month should make an effort to go see _Peter And Wendy_. Susan is not the only reason to go: it's a stunningly wonderful production, and the music is amazing (pick up the album and you'll see instantly what I mean). Of course, I did have to run into Nick Hill at the show and find out that I'd missed the Victoria Williams show of a lifetime in Brooklyn by going to Arlene Grocery instead. :P Thanks, Nick. I'll let him go into the details of that, so we can all squirm. :) At least I got to see Nick's brother Tim play! He opened for the Chanting House with his trio (featuring a bassist and Katell Keineg's drummer). His music was very mellow, quite jazzy, and he has a really good voice (he was able to do justice to a Jeff Buckley song quite nicely). I don't know if he has any recordings out (Nick?), but he is playing around NYC more, so I'd recommend anyone in the area check him out if his name appears on a bill somewhere near you. +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT 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***| +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V3 #82 *************************