From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #425 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, December 6 1998 Volume 04 : Number 425 Today's Subjects: ----------------- The Corrs [stunning@tezcat.com] Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Seeking fellow Lili Haydn fans [Eponine ] Re: Women and Songs 2 compilation [Steve I ] Re: For old Genesis fans [Matthew Levy ] arrogant worms live! ;) [Les Jumeaux ] can't believe i forgot... [Damon Harper ] Re: For old Genesis fans ["Jeffrey C. Burka" ] Neil Finn [kerry white ] mila and susan in nyc [meredith ] It worked!! ["Robert Lovejoy" ] Re: mila and susan in nyc [Michael Curry ] Susan McKeown [Carolyn Andre ] Re: For old Genesis fans ["Xenu's Sister" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 01:19:23 -0500 From: stunning@tezcat.com Subject: The Corrs >I thought the Corrs has guys in it. What makes that band a vehicle for women, >anymore than any of the slew of mixed-sex bands out there? Or you mean any more than any of the slew of mixed-sex bands on that album? Trust me, there are men playing instruments on probably every one of those tracks! (As I'm packing for my trip to Ireland...) The Corrs are an Irish family of performers. Kind of like the Osmonds if you will. 3, COUNT EM, 3 sisters and 1 brother. I guess thats a vehicle for women. I'm sure the other songs on that stupid compilation from stupid Tower Records has more men on it than this one by the The Corrs. Sorry if this sounded snippy. I didn't mean it to. I'm cycling. Thomas ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 03:00:03 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************** Chip Lueck (no Email address) ********************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chip Lueck Thu December 05 1968 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 COOL BANANAS 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 Mark Lowry Mon December 22 1969 Capricarius Uli Grepel Wed December 25 1968 Steinbock Joseph Wasicek Sat December 25 1976 Brown Eagle Stuart Castergine Mon December 30 1963 You Are Here Marvin Camras Sat January 01 1916 Tapehead Jeanne Schreiter Tue January 03 1967 Capricorn John Sandoval Wed January 04 1967 Capricorn Paul Cohen Tue January 05 1954 Capricorn - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 10:25:40 -0800 From: Eponine Subject: Seeking fellow Lili Haydn fans Hi all - I just stumbled across the phenomenal Lili Haydn and her CD 'Lili' three days ago. I'm very excited to have made this discovery and am anxious to talk to other fans of hers. Please write so we can chat about this incredible CD!! Love, Eponine ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 15:17:19 -0500 From: Steve I Subject: Re: Women and Songs 2 compilation Neal typed: >Jeff Burka wrote: >> Yeah, when I first read the post, I thought the track list looked pretty >> appalling. But the post _did_ say that it's a new recording of Sarah >> Slean's "I Know" (could that song get any more beautiful? ), > >I wondered how Sarah S. got on there at all. Any ideas? Sarah has a lot of longtime supporters at Warner Canada. In fact, much to their credit, one of the guys putting the project together loves Sarah's track so much that he pushed for Sarah to record an edit version for release as the single from the album (the original is a bit long to be radio-friendly). However Sarah turned down the offer because she didn't feel she could cut down the song and preserve its meaning... how's that for artistic integrity? >I was tempted to >say the whole thing was full of dreck, but that's not even really true. >It's just largely very unimaginative. If they were going to use Jewel, at >least they could have taken something from the new album. Half of it >plays like a K-Tel collection, and half might be kind of fresh to some >consumers. Maybe they felt they needed the really obvious songs to lure >people in? The song selection from some of the more popular artists surprised me too. This is pure speculation, but perhaps Jewel's marketing folks didn't want to hurt sales of the new album by having songs from it appear in compilations? And of course the other driving force is the desire to choose a track that people recognize. With someone like Jewel though, I feel like this is a wasted opportunity to release something from the huge catalog of great unreleased tracks she has recorded and sitting on a shelf somewhere gathering dust. The Atlantic folks should take a cue from the Nettwerk folks, who at least offered up an *interesting* McLachlan track for the compilation, a cover of "Unchained Melody" which has only ever appeared on other compilations or singles, and not any of her major releases. Of course, I'm sure the Warner people had a big hand in track selection too, but does it really surprise anyone that of the well established artists, Sarah McLachlan's track is the most worthwhile selection on the CD? >I was just hoping that the Sarah Slean song would show up on something >else. Like maybe her first major release? I can't say for certain, but I have a feeling that the tracks which will appear on the upcoming album (which will hopefully be out in February) will all be new ones. I don't doubt that this recording of "I Know" will appear *somewhere* in the future, though. Steve ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 17:24:34 -0500 From: Matthew Levy Subject: Re: For old Genesis fans Vickie (and other old Genesis fans), For a change of pace, pick up Steve Hackett's "Genesis Revisited - Watcher Of The Skies". Mr. Hackett basically takes some of his old tunes with the band and puts a new twist on them. Some of them stay very true to the original, some of them are way out in space. (ex. - I Know What I Like as a ragtime song?) IMHO, some of the songs actually come out better than the originals! One of my faves is his version of "For Absent Friends", which I think is so-so on Nursery Cryme but absolutely fabulous on here. And several singers split the vocals, including Paul Carrack and John Wetton. A definite must-have if you can find it. Matt ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 13:43:50 -0800 (PST) From: Les Jumeaux Subject: arrogant worms live! ;) hallo there. so, last saturday we and some friends got to see the arrogant worms live at the WISE hall here in vancouver - sponsored by the rogue folk club, which is a bit odd as the worms are not their usual fare (generally they get tranditional celtic type acts - though cheryl wheeler is going to be there this month, another concert for me to attend! :). this is the second time i've seen them live, now, the last time a couple of years ago across from the WISE at the east van cultural centre. the opening act was a local band (comprised of several extremely non-local people - from britain, new zealand and iceland, i believe) called fear of drinking, and they were one of those rare opening acts i was glad to have seen. 'irreverent' is how they were described, and it's a fitting description (and paired with the worms, made for one of the most irreverent nights you could hope for :). a very fun band - they did a mix of traditinal fiddle-y songs and their own (irreverent) stuff, like "the t-shirt in winter boys" and its companion song later on about some local vancouverites that really seemed to tick off the lead singer (part of the whole irreverence thing) - "the shorts all year round boys". they did a lot of other really fun stuff, but unfortunately my memory isn't very good for anything more than an hour in the past and i didn't really take notes. i seriously considered getting their CD, but in the end i figured they probably wouldn't be nearly so interesting on a studio recording. then came the highlight of the show, of course - the arrogant worms! when i saw them two years ago, the crowd was decently large and quite enthusiastic - though i got the definite impression that a great number of the people there hadn't really known about the worms previously. and the enthusiasm was, i think, stirred by the worms' incredible stage presence. *this* time around, the place was *packed*, all the tickets were sold out (i barely got mine) and the crowd was cheering its collective head off from the time they walked out on the stage. it seems the worms are becoming something of a phenomenon. ...they've certainly made a lot of appearances in this area in the last little while - the mission (my home town) folk fest seems to be an annual event for them now, for instance. and they definitely deserve the attention. however, as always, it was kinda more fun back when one could be one of a select few people who'd even *heard* of them. ;) and they certainly lived up to my expectations from two years ago. wonderful stage presence, again, and they are among the funniest people i've ever seen. being on stage seems to make mike and chris extremely ... *frenetic* (in the liner notes for _live bait_ they 'appear courtesy of' medical science and non-alcoholic beer respectively), while trevor tends to appear a little more collected ('appears dishevelled') which offsets them well. which is not to say trevor isn't perfectly capable of being rather frenetic too :) i was pleased with the amount of new material in the show - one thing that sometimes bugs me is when someone plays *nothing* new at a live concert... i mean, it's still great to see them live, but part of the fun is hearing something you've never heard before (sometimes it's just the way an old song is presented, even). they did a *wonderful* song about having a crush on celine dion (yes, it was extremely sarcastic, for those of you not able to infer that :), a very short one along the lines of 'i am cow, hear me moo' which i think took everyone rather by surprise, and several others i'm waiting to hear on their next album (remember, my memory is nto so good :( ..) they also did a lot of stuff off _live bait_ (which i'd only heard once before the concert) and a few from _christmas turkey_ (which i'd not heard yet at all), as well as some of their traditional crowd-pleasers like 'jesus' brother bob' and 'rippy the gator', their classic sing-along and make-gestures-along-with song (i think one of the things i like best about the worms is the way they constantly go on (*mostly* jokingly, i think) about hating children - which, paradoxically, is probably part of what makes them so popular with little kids ;) at the end of the worms' set, they got fear of drinking back on the stage and did a wonderfully riotous song called 'drink with me' -- which was the only line in the chorus. had quite a cute interlude, the dance of the tequila drinkers. :) two encores, the second of which was 'big fat road manager' starring trevor with a rather unconvincing fake beer belly :). i can't recall what they did for the first encore now. (*sigh*) ...i just wish they'd do the newfoundland tourism song live sometime. hopefully next time i'll get a chance to request it. it's still one of my favourites. :) a word on the latest albums: it's generally pretty hard to find the worms' albums here for a decent price - they're usually at import prices (oo, all the way from kingston ontario :P ), around $22 - so i didn't have either of their two latest. i'd heard _live bait_ once as i picked up a copy to send to sherlyn a while back, but i'd not heard _christmas turkey_ at all. so i took the opportunity at the concert to buy them both for $15 each. :) _live bait_ is, i think, probably the best album to buy if you've never heard the worms before. it is also, unlike a lot of live albums, a wonderful one to buy even if you have everything else they've done already. it's seven old songs plus five new ones, and even the old songs are redone differently enough to be worth it. plus it does capture a bit of their stage energy, and as i've mentioned they're one of the best live acts i've seen. and the old songs are all classics - jesus' brother bob, the mountie song, the ballad of dan, carfull of pain, mounted animal nature trail, carrot juice is murder, and my all-time favourite, the last saskatchewan pirate. this is also probably their most extremely canadian album to date, which is saying a lot. the new songs mostly centre around that: canada's really big ("we'd like to sing our national anthem... that we made up" :) - contains laur's favourite line, "we're bigger than australia, and it's a continent!". i find this one especially funny, because i remember thinking a few years ago that it was kinda neat that we're the second largest country in the world. i remember being disappointed that even when the USSR split up, russia was still bigger than canada. but, as the worms say: "if russia keeps on shrinking, soon we will be first! (as long as we keep quebec)". me like hockey - the anthem of the beer-swilling, tv sports watching, bob and doug mckenzie style of canadian. wonderfully executed. "but yankees they win the world cup - me think they cheat, use glowy puck!" proud to be canadian - as they described when they did it live, they tried to do something "we are the world"ish... and succeeded marvellously. i think my favourite line is "we may watch your tv shows for hours and hours and hours" sung in an extremely angst-ridden trailing-off voice... and one verse is perfect for ecto consumption: alanis morissette she is our latest pride and joy she used to sing about high school dances and chasin' after boys now she is fed up and about as angry as can be she's got one hand in her pocket, and the other's on guard for thee malcolm - "malcolm solves his problems with a chainsaw, and he never has the same problem twice" - what more can you say? i'd actually heard this one from a clip on their web site. :) tv weather guy - extremely cute, though not among my favourites. ... _christmas turkey_ is an entire album (15) tracks of worms-style christmas songs. *every* single song has either 'christmas' or 'santa' in the title, which i think must be very intentional. :) this is perfect if you're really sick of all the happy christmas schlock you hear every year around this time, and i think will make a wonderful 'retaliation' album when i go home for christmas. some of these songs are downright dismal, like 'dad threw up on christmas day' and 'vincent the christmas virus'... as well as the worms' classic christmas song, 'the christmas song' ;). of course, like any christmas album, no matter how original, it does have limited application... but i'd definitely recommend it for those sick of the usual christmas fare. i think that's about it. probably more i wanted to say, but i can't think of it now. if you haven't heard the worms yet, and you're at all fond of comedic stuff (and/or of canada) - go out and find their albums! - -damon - -- CHEZ JUMEAUX: Gourmet vegan restaurant.. | jumeaux@jumeaux.bc.ca ...or just two silly jums? | damon@jumeaux.bc.ca http://www.jumeaux.bc.ca/ | laur@jumeaux.bc.ca ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:01:47 -0800 (PST) From: Damon Harper Subject: can't believe i forgot... ... to mention one of the new songs the worms performed, just before the intermission - a "traditional celtic ballad" which consisted of silly nonsense words and plenty of animalesque sounds. i swear, i thought the head rogue club guy must be having a heart attack in the back somewhere! - - which he confirmed after the intermission. ;) also, for anyone who might not have realised it, the "we may watch your tv shows" line refers to american tv. quite a plague here. ;) - -damon Damon Harper des Jumeaux _/\_ "I'm Canadian, actually. damon@jumeaux.bc.ca __\ /__ That's like an American, Les Jums: jumeaux@jumeaux.bc.ca \ / but without the gun." http://www.jumeaux.bc.ca/damon/ |/||\| - Kids in the Hall ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 18:08:42 -0500 From: "Jeffrey C. Burka" Subject: Re: For old Genesis fans Matthew Levy sez: > > Vickie (and other old Genesis fans), > > For a change of pace, pick up Steve Hackett's "Genesis Revisited - > Watcher Of The Skies". Thanks for the pointer. Bummer that it's an import ($18.49 on CDNow!)... > One of my faves is his version of > "For Absent Friends", which I think is so-so on Nursery Cryme but > absolutely fabulous on here. Uh oh. I love the version on _Nursery Cryme_. jeff - -- |Jeffrey C. Burka|||||http://www.cqi.com/~jburka|||||"I've got time to rest / | ||||||||||||||| And I've got a clear, able mind that sees my life going fine. | ||| 'Cause everything I need is right here in my hands..." --Melissa Ferrick | ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 17:11:42 -0600 (CST) From: kerry white Subject: Neil Finn Hi, tonight on Sessions: Neil Finn also The Mavericks. It's plague..err pledge weeks on PBS so CYLL very carefully. We will air ours one hour later than usual. KrW "The information superhighway is just CB with more typing" :Dave Barry ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 20:36:22 -0500 From: meredith Subject: mila and susan in nyc Hi! Mike must still be asleep, so I'll post about the Mila Drumke/Susan McKeown show in NYC last night. :) Ectophiles in attendance were most of the usual suspects(tm): myself, woj, Mike, JeffW, Paul Blair, Sam, and Hillary. (John Henshon, where were you?) Katell Keineg was also in the audience - Sam introduced me to her, and I got to tell her in person how badly I'm kicking myself for not going to see her solo acoustig gig at CB's Gallery on Thursday night. (I was in the city all day for work, but I've been suffering from an annoying cold all week, and figured sleep was a better option so I wouln't end up dead and thus forced to miss last night's event. Still, I wanted to be there. Argh. But I digress.) This was the second time I've been to the Bowery Ballroom (the first being the Heather Nova show in September), and I didn't like it much better the second time around. It's only slightly less annoying than Irving Plaza. This time they had set up about 4 tables right in front of the stage, and fortunately for us, a friend/former colleague of mine had sneaked in through a side door and secured two of them for us. Yay. Mila Drumke and her band came onstage pretty much on time at 9, and opened with the St. Nicholas song that starts off the _Gathering My Name_ EP, then proceeded to do the exact same set she did at the Mercury Lounge a couple weeks ago when she opened for Veda. It was still good, though. This time I had a view of the stage, which made it better - Lyris Hung's genius is only enhanced when you can actually see what she's doing up there. :) What really brought the set down was the silly light show. Whoever was running the Bowery Ballroom's light board (did they say his name was Joey?) obviously thought he knew what he was doing, but he was sadly mistaken. The back lights were focused on the tables in front of the stage, instead of at the bottom of the stage where they should've been pointing (Tori-lights! :P), and half the time the lights which should've been illuminating the band weren't doing anything at all. There were a few Vari-lights scattered around the mix, and the lighting guy thought they were way cool toys. At one point Elisa Moser, the bass player did one of those Beavis-and-Butthead "rock!" pump-the-fist-into-the-air moves, and even Mila was cracking up in the middle of a song, those damn lights were doing such stupid things. Fortunately, the lights calmed down a little bit for the Chanting House's set. It was weird to see Susan play with the full band again - that hadn't happened since the last Fez gig, way back in May. And now the band has changed: Chris Cunningham has left the band, only just recently replaced by John Shurfey (that is his name, right?), a wonderfully deft player whom some here may know from Deni Bonet's band. Susan said afterwards that he'd only had a short time to rehearse the songs, but he'd picked them up almost instantaneously. I certainly never would've guessed that he hadn't been playing them forever. He even did the complicated bits in "In London So Fair" without a hitch. The prairie organ is back!!! The first time I ever saw Susan play, almost 3 years ago now turned out to be the last time they used a prairie organ, because it "got sick" right after that and they haven't used it since. But last night there it was, and it would've provided a nice addition to "Bones" if it had been audible. :P The sound wasn't all that great (another reason I missed Fez). Susan was in fine voice, though, and Lindsey, Jeff and Michelle were as great as ever. I'll let Mike post the set list, since he's the one who grabbed it. :) They opened with a frenetic version of "The Winter King", and just continued on from there. There were two new songs, one an Emily Dickinson poem set to some pretty interesting music (the one that starts off with, "When I hadn't time to stop for death, he kindly stopped for me" (that's from memory, so forgive me if it's not 100% right :)), and another one that I think was called "The River". Pretty tasty stuff. As usual, I'm hankering for the next Chanting House album now ... hopefully we'll actually get to see one next year. This afternoon Susan was interviewed on WPKN via phone from Charlottesville, VA, where she's playing tonight. Nothing too terribly enlightening, but if anyone wants a copy let me know. (That particular tape has Merrie Amsterburg's on-air performance on WPKN earlier this year on the other side.) Tomorrow is the Acoustic Studio shows. Looks like the ecto contingent will be at the 6:00 performance. Susan will have Lindsey and John with her. Should be pretty cool. And then on Thursday, Susan, Lindsey and John will open for Natalie Merchant at the Oakdale. Whoo-hoo!!! +==========================================================================+ | 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: *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 20:41:45 -0500 From: "Robert Lovejoy" Subject: It worked!! OK folks, it was amazing but it worked. I now have a master VHS HiFi tape from which I can dub individual cassettes. The show runs about two hours if you want to use C120's, but Happy is only a small portion so you might consider shorter tapes. I checked the head and tail ends, and her segment wasn't there, though the very opening of the show focuses on Happy. I had way too much to do today so I didn't as yet locate Hap's segment. Once I do I'll report back with the total length of it. Logistics: This could be a bit of work if there's high demand. With the Tape Dubbing Project now but a memory, I feel I can get through this if you help. I'm open to suggestions, but I feel the best way to get the tapes out to you both quickly and easily is for all who would like a copy send me a blank tape with return packing and postage. I'll dub for free. It's OK with me if you want the whole show or just the opening segment and the Happy feature. Contact me by private email and I'll give you address info. Hopefully I'll find the segment tomorrow and post the length here. Quality should be first rate as everyone's dub will be of a HiFi VHS master. Turned out to be a great way to tape a latenight radio program! OK then... Uncle Ecto (his own self) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 20:57:12 -0500 From: Michael Curry Subject: Re: mila and susan in nyc At 08:36 PM 12/5/98 -0500, meredith wrote: >Mike must still be asleep, so I'll post about the Mila Drumke/Susan >McKeown show in NYC last night. :) Actually, I was just being lazy. ;p >I'll let Mike post the set list, since he's the one who grabbed >it. :) Winter King Love & Superstition Chances Are Fuck You The Chariot Daddy's Little Girl Seven Cold Glories Who Knows Where The Time Goes River Jericho Bones I Know I Know In London So Fair Albatross Snakes --------- In Sing Of A Maiden Through The Bitter Frost And Snow >There were two new songs, one an Emily Dickinson poem set to some >pretty interesting music (the one that starts off with, "When I hadn't >time to stop for death, he kindly stopped for me" (that's from memory, >so forgive me if it's not 100% right :)), Well, you were close. ;) I'm in complete agreement with Meredith's comments, both the positive ones about Mila and Susan and the negative ones about the venue (though I've witnessed much worse), though I'd like to add that I was truly impressed by how smoothly the Chanting House performed after not having worked as a group for so long, and with a new guitarist thrown into the mix. And speaking of the new guitarist, I was quite impressed with John. His sound was more bright and ringing than what I've heard from the other Chanting House guitarists (Chris, Aidan and whirlyGreg) and I liked it quite a bit. Mike np: Shotgun Wedding -- A Big World of Fun (my copy just arrived today and it's very tasty indeed) nr: Fugitive Prince by Janny Wurts | Michael Curry / mcurry@io.com / mcurry@smoe.org | | http://www.io.com/~mcurry | | Am I bitter? Do I sound bitter? -- Veda Hille | ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 20:11:20 -0600 From: Carolyn Andre Subject: Susan McKeown as long as we're talking or reading about Susan McKeown - and Fez, today I put up a new set of gig dates on the website, including a new one (albeit waaay out in february, the 26th to be exact) at Fez. There's a 2nd Hammerstein Ballroom date as guest vocalist with Natalie Merchant added as well. Enjoy. I, on the other hand, only get to look at my Fleadh photos & listen to Mighty Rain & wait for The Mother Album ..... (not as much fun :-) December 1998 Friday, 4 December - Bowery Ballroom / New York, NY / 8:00 p.m. (212) 533-2111. Saturday, 5 December - The Prism / Charlottesville, VA / 8:00 p.m. (804) 97-PRISM. www.theprism.org Sunday, 6 December - Stamford Center for the Arts / Stamford, CT / 203-358-2305 Thursday, 10 December - The Oakdale Theatre / Wallingford, CT / Susan McKeown & the Chanting House are Special Guests for Natalie Merchant Friday, 11 December - Orpheum Theatre / Boston, MA / guest vocalist with Natalie Merchant Saturday, 12 December - Orpheum Theatre / Boston, MA / guest vocalist with Natalie Merchant Tuesday, 15 December - 9:30 Club / Washington, DC / guest vocalist with Natalie Merchant Wednesday, 16 December - 9:30 Club / Washington, DC / guest vocalist with Natalie Merchant Friday, 18 December - Philadelphia, PA - The Apollo of Temple / guest vocalist with Natalie Merchant Saturday, 19 December - Hammerstein Ballroom / New York, NY / guest vocalist with Natalie Merchant Sunday, 20 December - Hammerstein Ballroom / New York, NY / guest vocalist with Natalie Merchant Tuesday, 22 December - The Living Room / 84 Stanton Street, New York, NY / 8:30 p.m. / (212) 533-7235 / Nancy Magril, Susan McKeown, Gerry Leonard Friday, 29 January - Sunday, 21 February - Susan McKeown is lead vocalist in "Peter & Wendy": Berkeley Repertory Theater / Berkeley, CA Friday, 26 February - Fez / New York, NY / (212) 533-2680 Saturday, 27 February - Clark Art Institute / Williamstown, MA / (413) 458-2303 Sunday, 28 February - The Night Eagle / Oxford, NY / (607) 843-7378 March 1999 Friday, 5 March - Cactus Café / Austin, TX Saturday, 6 March - Sunday 7 March - North Texas Irish Festival / Dallas, TX (214) 821-4174 Monday, 8 March - University Hall / Little Rock, AR Wednesday, 10 March - Washington University / St.Louis, MO Thursday, 11 March - McGonigel's Mucky Duck / Houston, TX / (713) 528-5999 Saturday, 13 March - venue to be announced / Des Moines, IA / (515) 987-8298 Wednesday, 17 March - Mercury Cafe / Denver, CO / (303) 777-0502. Thursday, 18 March - Taos Community Auditorium / Taos, NM / (505) 758-2052. Sunday, 21 March - The Freight & Salvage / Berkeley, CA 510/548-1761 Thursday, 25 March - SOHO / Santa Barbara, CA / (805) 962-7776. Saturday, 27 March - MAS / San Juan Capistrano, CA April 1999 Thursday, 1 April - Tractor Tavern / Seattle, WA / (206) 789-3599 Friday, 2 April - McMenamin's St. John's Theater / Portland, OR / (503) 283-8520 Saturday, 3 April - W.O.W Hall / Eugene, OR / (541) 687-2746 Friday, 9 April - Ashland, OR - venue to be announced Saturday, 10 April - Pistol River, OR - venue to be announced Friday, 16 April - The Rogue Folk Club - Vancouver B.C., Canada Saturday, 24 April 1999 - Universal Coffeehouse - Salem, MA / (978) 741-5743 / 8 p.m. July 1999 Monday, 5 July - Saturday, 10 July - Swannanoa Gathering / Warren Wilson College - Asheville, NC Regards, Carolyn Andre - ------------------- Chicago, IL / USA | Support Independent Music! Use the Internet candre@enteract.com | Carolyn's House of Music: http://house-of-music.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 21:51:02 -0600 From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Re: For old Genesis fans At 05:24 PM 12/5/98 -0500, Matthew Levy wrote: >Vickie (and other old Genesis fans), > >For a change of pace, pick up Steve Hackett's "Genesis Revisited - >Watcher Of The Skies". Mr. Hackett basically takes some of his old >tunes with the band and puts a new twist on them. Some of them stay >very true to the original, some of them are way out in space. (ex. - I >Know What I Like as a ragtime song?) IMHO, some of the songs actually >come out better than the originals! One of my faves is his version of >"For Absent Friends", which I think is so-so on Nursery Cryme but >absolutely fabulous on here. And several singers split the vocals, >including Paul Carrack and John Wetton. A definite must-have if you can >find it. > >Matt I've had this for quite a while (at least a year) and I must say that, for the most part, I don't like it. Chris bought it for me, but if I'd heard it before I got, I'd have told him not to bother. At least, not at full import price. I say "for the most part" because there are some cool things on it. I'm listening to it now, after having put it away shortly after I got it. Disclaimer: Commenting on these songs probably isn't fair, since I got into a Mood yesterday and listened to Genesis all day, in chronological order, from Trespass to Abacab (the last Genesis album I bought), so the originals are very fresh in my mind. I became a Genesis fan in 1973, and though I'd like to think I can lisen to covers with an open mind, I can't say that I'm able to put my biases away. Lineup: Steve Hackett, John Wetton, Bill Bruford, Tony Levin, Chester Thompson, Ian McDonald, Paul Carrack, Colin Blunstone, Alphonso Johnson, John Hackett, Pino Palladino, Julian Colbeck, Aron Friedman, Hugo Degenhardt, Nick Magnus, Will Bates, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Watcher Of The Skies - Musically faithful to the original, but I don't see the point, especially since the vocals, by John Wetton, are excruciatingly boooooring. Let me have Peter's version, no matter how rough the earlier recording. It's one on my favorite Genesis songs, and I have no desire to be kind to someone who's no match for Peter Gabriel. Dance On A Volcano - weird noises and vocals for no good reason. Yeah, it's different from the original, but not in a good way. Put on Trick of the Tail and turn it up loud. Valley Of The Kings - I must say I'm unfamilar with this as a Genesis fan since 1973. It's an instrumental, and excellent. Because it's new to me, I like it. Deja Vu - Don't know this either. Was it a B-side? Paul Carrack sings. Nothing special. Firth Of Fifth - This is another of my all-time favorite Genesis songs, and I don't *want* to hear a cover of it. John Wetton on vocals is, well, excruciatingly boooring and makes me pine for Peter. Though it's musically excellent during the instrumental bits, Tony Banks isn't here, and this is his song. (I don't know if he wrote it, but his keyboards make this song soar into the heavens. Without him, forget it, though Steve's part is still great.) For Absent Friends - Colin Blunstone on vocals. Nice. I like the original but Colin's voice is better than Phil's. I think Colin captures the pathos of this song better than Phil did. Your Own Special Way - Paul Carrack on vocals. It's ok. Could have been one of those bland hits that plays while you're shopping, had Steve released this as a single. At least Phil's voice had an edge to it. Fountain Of Salmacis - Argh, one of my favorite songs turned into a watered-down, bland, boring wank fest. Steve sings, and he's ok on his solo stuff, but here he's just unfortunately boring. The middle instrumental part is ok. Muzak. (I must say that I played the original song 3 times yesterday and I'm waaaay biased This song (the original) got me an A+ in school once when I wrote an essay on it and played it in English class.) Waiting Room Only - the original of this is not so much a song as an experimental "piece" and here it's turned into a lounge song. Since I don't equate it in any way with the original, I kind of like this. And besides, it's instrumental, and most of these songs only get into trouble with me when a boring-voiced guy opens his mouth to sing. I Know What I Like - Ragtime? Uh, Matthew, have you actually *heard* any ragtime? This is swinging lounge music. Imagine a Frank Sinatra wannabe & band in some smoky seedy dive off the Las Vegas strip. They should have added audience sounds, talking, laughing, glasses clinking. Ok, but it gets old fast. Steve sings. I don't know why. Los Endos - Here we go. The best thing on here. It's a (YAY!) instrumental, and everyone does a great job. But still, it's not anywhere near as good as the original, so why bother? Oh, so Steve can show that his considerable guitar chops are still intact. Good for you Steve. I'm so proud. Now go off and make one of your wonderful original albums. That's it. My main impression is "why bother?" and not a little anger at Steve that a) he would do this and b) he did it with so little imagination. I would like to have heard how some *women* would have interpreted some of these songs. Since Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins both have very distinctive voices, why use men with bland normal voices? (My apologies to any Paul Carrack and John Wetton fans, I know who the are, and they should stick to their own stuff). I'll bet the only women who came within a mile of this recording was Kim Poor, Steve's wife. (She painted the cover) Thumbs way down from me. Rating: $2.00 used (thanks Charley!) Vickie "Play me my song, here it comes again" ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #425 **************************