From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V5 #73 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, February 28 1999 Volume 05 : Number 073 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Early reactions to Happy's catalogue... [Bill Mazur ] ANI DIFRANCO ANSWERS TWO QUESTIONS [FAMarcus@aol.com] compilation update ["Foghorn J Fornorn" ] opinions and all that [John Drummond ] Re: Ecto comp [Heather Russell ] RE: Ecto comp ["Foghorn J Fornorn" ] Veda Hille/Susan Werner [Steve I ] Happy to have Happy ["Holly Hill" ] re:Grammy reactions and just about everything else [jfrancis@villagenet.c] Re: Peter & Wendy [Michael Curry ] Re: Peter & Wendy ["Jeffrey Hanson" ] Re: Kate News? [kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white)] Re: Kate News? ["Kristen Weissleader" ] Indiemanie Tapes available [Neile Graham ] Re: Another lurker revealed... ["Robert Lovejoy" ] eh and bee shoppin' ["Bill" ] RE: Ecto comp [Kim Justice ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 23:43:50 -0800 From: Bill Mazur Subject: Re: Early reactions to Happy's catalogue... Patrick, I have been wanting to respond to this post ever since I first read it. Before I did though I wanted to listen to all of Happy's CDs one more time. Please see my comments below: Patrick Moseley wrote: > 1) I'm definitely a bigger fan of Happy's newer, more electronic > music than her initial, acoustic-based music (with a few noteworthy > exceptions). I do appreciate the back-to-basics approach of the two > compilation albums, however. I agree with this statement for the most part. In addition, I REALLY love The Keep! Thank you Vickie for your beautiful description of this CD that prompted me to seek it out immediately. > 2) I think Happy has shown a definite growth and progression with > each all-new album, again with a couple of exceptions. I tend to agree with this statement as well. There are outstanding songs on all of Happy's CDs. There are also some that I don't care as much for as well. I can't say that about MW or The Keep though. I love both of those CDs completely. MW is the epitome of her well produced, electronic-based music and The Keep is the best representation of her acoustic-based music, IMO. The earlier CDs were more like diamonds in the rough from both a songwriting and production point of view. Plus Happy seems to be quite unhappy in those early lyrics. She must have had some difficult experiences to prompt her to write the lyrics of some of those songs. This statement is probably not significant of anything, but I really don't like the covers of Rhodes I, Rhodes II and Ecto. I find them to be quite disturbing, especially the cover of Rhodes II. I'm sure Happy meant them to be that way (disturbing that is). Billi mentioned to me that if she didn't already know how good Happy Rhodes sounded, she wouldn't take a chance on her music based on the CD cover. I don't know if anyone else feels this way. I'm quite sure that this subject has been covered on the list before. > 4) Right now, I'd rank the albums in the following order (favorite to least-favorite): > 1. Many Worlds Are Born Tonight > 2. Equipoise > 3. Building the Colossus > 4. Warpaint > 5. Ecto > 6. Rearmament > 7. Rhodes II > 8. Rhodes I I believe that my ranking list would look very similar with a few exceptions. I would put The Keep in the second position and move everything else down a level. I also think that I would move Warpaint ahead of Building The Colossus. From what I understand, BTC is supposed to be Happy's most pop oriented recording. I think most of it is really good with a few major exceptions. As Vickie suggested, I listen to all of Happy's CDs and give them a chance to sink in. I know that I will enjoy them all very well once I am really know them well. It will depend on my mood which one I listen to at any given point in time. > 5) I haven't heard a single Happy song that I don't appreciate on > some level. Not all are favorites, and her musical highs are so high that > some of the stellar moments even pale by comparison. A lot of the material > on the first few albums is, at least right now, indistinguishable one song > to the next. Repeated listenings will probably remedy this. I have to generally agree with these statements as well. In particular I find that most of the first two CDs sound very similar to me. This makes sense based of when they were recorded in historical perspective. Here are some of my favorites on the early CDs: "Oh The Drears", "Given In", "I'll Let You Go", "The Wretches Gone Awry" from Rhodes I and "The Revelation", "Under And Over The Brink", "Let Me Know Love", "Noone Here", Beat It Out", "The Chase" on Rhodes II. > On a humorous note, the first time I listened to RHODESONGS, I was > listening over headphones in my room late at night with the lights out. As > the closing notes of the tribute version to "Feed the Fire" faded, I got up > to turn my stereo off, when suddenly through the headphones I heard Happy > say, "Hey Pat?" Needless to say, this nearly caused me (Patrick) heart > failure. When I first read this it really made me chuckle at a time during the day when I needed a good laugh. Thanks Patrick! :-) Well that's enough for tonight, I am getting sleepy. Bill n.p. Happy Rhodes _Building The Colossus_ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 02:48:18 EST From: FAMarcus@aol.com Subject: ANI DIFRANCO ANSWERS TWO QUESTIONS this is an exerpt from an on line ani difranco interview Addicted To Noise: What was the inspiration for " 'Tis of Thee"? DiFranco: " 'Tis of Thee" -- it's about the drug war and the criminal justice system, which is such an oxymoron that it's hard to say. Basically, I think that the war on drugs that I grew up in the '80s ... The pessimist side of me, I think, exists because in 1980, I was 10 years old, when Ronald Reagan was elected. So my whole conscious life has been under this dark cloud of conservativism and racism. Basically, I think that the war on drugs is a war on poor people. And I think that there are many terrible things about the criminal justice system in America, capital punishment being one. I'm not sure why we're the only industrialized nation who feels that the state is justified in killing people. I think that there's a whole culture of imprisonment that is becoming more and more extreme. There's the privatization of prisons. They're becoming big businesses and, of course, the way to make money on a prison is to fill it. And we're constructing so many prisons in the United States right now. And the statistics -- especially for African-American males, for example -- are just really terrifying. And I think that incarceration is basically being used as an alternative for education and employment. I think it's scary. It's very scary. So " 'Tis of Thee" is about the drug war and it's about criminalization and further victimizing of the victims, the already victimized economically and socially. I think taking some kid who sells pot on the street and locking him up for ... Things like minimum sentencing laws -- that's just fascistic as far as I'm concerned. So that's what that's about Addicted To Noise: "Come Away From It" is a very powerful but more personal song about drug addiction. What inspired you to write that song DiFranco: Well, you've definitely picked up on a key dialogue on the album between " 'Tis of Thee" and "Come Away From It." Yeah, "Come Away From It" is the personal perspective, another side of the same issue. Basically, I think that drugs are a symptom of a bigger problem. And so people who ... the conservative force to focus on drugs and criminalize drugs and drug culture and people who use, I think is not dealing with the actual problem. And I think in my own life and in the lives of people that I know and love, overuse of drugs is of course a symptom for a much deeper problem. And there's one particular person in my life who I thought I had lost to drugs. But, hopefully, that may be turning around a little bit now. But it's basically a song about being in a position of loving someone who is killing themselves. And it's hard to know what to do, how to deal with it. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 03:01:45 -0500 From: "Foghorn J Fornorn" Subject: compilation update Please accept my apolologies that I am not necessarily responding to you all individually about your proposed contributions. I am tallying them though, rest assured. Here's the list I have now: Demos/Participants: Jessica Weiser [Songbird22@aol.com] John Drummond [johnxxiii@yahoo.com] Heather Russell [hrussell@bellsouth.net] Joseph S. Zitt [jzitt@humansystems.com] 5:00 Holly J Tominack [htominack@erols.com] "Stimulous Bound" Bill Mazur [wpm@value.net] and Katheleen Michaels 10:30 Dirk Kastens [Dirk.Kastens@rz.uni-osnabrueck.de] 6:00 Kim Justice [justicek@home.com] Rubber DeNiro [lissener@yahoo.com] Richard Holmes [rholmes@ccrma.Stanford.EDU] and Janet Dunbar Cyoakha [lanblind@teleport.com] Liner Design: Rubber DeNiro [lissener@yahoo.com] Brian Bloom [brianb@mooman.com] Cyoakha [lanblind@teleport.com] Of course, please contact me if this is in error or if I've missed your volunteering post. I may have more trouble than initially anticipated dealing with DAT sources. I have some more asking around and research to do on this. But it would really simplify things if sources came to me on CD or CDR. If this is a burden let me know and lets see what we can come up with. And if anyone else has the resources to do this transfer digitally, please speak up. Someone mentioned possibly contributing a tape mix (analog, not DAT, I assume), among other options. Let me just mention what I have done with analog sources for my own purposes. I record them from my stereo to my sound card using a program called Cool Edit. I then run CE's normalization routine, then a noise reduction routine. I use "silence" - silent intro with tape hiss - as my noise sample. I run CE's noise reduction with this "silence" as the basis for noise to be removed - I use 67% reduction (more than that creates a hollow or "tinny" sound). The end result is a recording that initially had a range of 0 to about -30db now has a range of 0 to -50db or better using CE's meters. I've played these CDRs mixed in with commercial CDs in shuffle mode and the casual listener cannot tell which is mine and which is commercial. It's not DDD quality, but its pretty good. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 00:15:22 -0800 (PST) From: John Drummond Subject: opinions and all that Y'all, Well, I *do* appreciate not having my head bitten off... I will admit readily that I *am* extremely volatile and ragey, and my point wasn't to attack anyone's opinions, it was to merely respond in the manner I felt fitting to the responses other people made to my first little letter. Thank y'all for being understanding enough to allow me the space to let my flamethrower rip. :D And y'all are all, of course, welcome to have any opinions y'all like, and make any commentaries of any kind on my sharp-tongued little diatribes... go right ahead, by all means... but don't be surprised if I give my own brutally-honest opinion on y'alls' opinions... that's what I do. I'm a lil' minx, me. *grin* Very truly y'alls', John, Ecto's Token Asshole Oh... and for the benefit of the person putting together the Ecto comp CD, the track I'm going to contribute should be no more than 5 minutes as well. :D == lyrics flow like spirits from the waters Moses parted _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 10:00:53 -0500 From: Heather Russell Subject: Re: Ecto comp Hi, If possible, I'd like to contribute two songs, which would be a total of 6 1/2 minutes. If just one song, then it would only be 1:55. :-) heather - -- |********************************************************* | Heather Russell | My music site: http://www.freecloud.com/heather | Indiegrrl - an independent music resource: http://www.indiegrrl.com | Email: hrussellatbellsouthdotnet |_________________________________________________________ "I'm in favor of love as long as it doesn't happen when 'The Simpsons' is on television." --- Anita, age 6 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 11:52:14 -0500 From: "Foghorn J Fornorn" Subject: RE: Ecto comp If time permits we'll include both. When the time comes to submit, just make sure you clearly identify your 1st vs 2nd choice. If we have to bump some 2nd choices and keep others, I guess the determination will be based partly on overall time alotted to an artist, plus a possibly subjective evaluation of how the songs "work" together on the comp. Perhaps put some realaudio excerpts on a web page and allow readers to vote. Hopefully I'm getting way ahead of myself here and we'll have a nice tight set just under 74 minutes. (I can dream, can't I?) And, if this all goes well, no one's ruling out a Volume 2 someday, so keep those 2nd choices handy . - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Heather Russell Sent: Saturday, February 27, 1999 10:01 AM To: Ecto Subject: Re: Ecto comp Hi, If possible, I'd like to contribute two songs, which would be a total of 6 1/2 minutes. If just one song, then it would only be 1:55. :-) heather - -- |********************************************************* | Heather Russell | My music site: http://www.freecloud.com/heather | Indiegrrl - an independent music resource: http://www.indiegrrl.com | Email: hrussellatbellsouthdotnet |_________________________________________________________ "I'm in favor of love as long as it doesn't happen when 'The Simpsons' is on television." --- Anita, age 6 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 12:26:27 -0500 From: Steve I Subject: Veda Hille/Susan Werner Heya philes... saw Veda Hille yesterday at the El Mocambo in Toronto. Not my favourite venue in Toronto, but I shouldn't complain too loudly because it's conveniently right across the street from work and they were kind enough to let Veda play there when she got stranded without a venue due to a double-booking at the Rivoli. Anyway it was really good to see her since it's been over a year I think since she was last in town with the Scrappy Bitches. Coincidentally one of the other Scrappy Bitches, Oh Susanna, was playing just down the street the same night and came down to say hello to Veda. Anyway Veda was terrific as usual, and thoroughly impressed my Veda-virgin friend who promptly went and picked up her Emily Carr disc (he loves E. Carr). Veda is sheer brilliance. It took me a few of her shows to really warm to her but once I did I was completely hooked. I ran into Jian from Moxy Fruvous there, and he told me he could always tell when a show was going to be a good one because I would be there. I told him that was a 2-way street. Seriously though we must have similar tastes in music because I run into him at shows all the time. Anyway we chatted a bit about Susan Werner, who'd opened for Moxy last week (I reviewed their show in an ecto post last week). It rapidly became apparent that he was just as awed by Susan's incredible performance as I was. He said that he didn't want to seem conceited but that it was the first time that one of their opening acts was able to stand up to them, meaning that Susan totally captured the crowd, which by the end of her set was cheering for Susan with the same enthusiasm that they did for Moxy Fruvous, which is an especially amazing thing considering that this was a die-hard Fru-head crowd which had travelled to Toronto from all over North America for the a fan convention. (I found their overwhelming devotion both charming and somewhat frightening, but I digress). Then when Moxy invited her up to the stage to jam with them, it was clear that the Moxy uber-fans were cheering just as much for her as they were for Moxy. Anyway Jian was effusive in his praise for her, and said he hoped they could set up a tour with her in the near future. Anyway, Moxy and Susan fans beware... they're both pretty volatile live performers and when you put them together, they're liable to react quite explosively! The Demolition tour may be coming soon to a venue near you... Speaking of explosive combinations... 10 days to Rufus and Imogen!!!! Wooowooo!!!! Steve ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 16:19:28 -0000 From: "Holly Hill" Subject: Happy to have Happy Just wanted to say thanks to the list for introducing me to Happy's music. Bill Gill sent me my first taste on his fine mix tape (thanx again, Bill!), then I grabbed MWABT when it came out. WOW! I then acquired Rhodesongs, then Equipoise. When Jack Sutton and Harmony Ridge announced the availability of some of her AG cds, I was able to snag RI and II, Ecto, and BTC. Now, if I can just wait till Sampson releases The Keep and Warpaint! I've introduced Happy to others here on base, and they were equally blown away, and anxious to buy everything they can. Thanks, list. I am so thankful for groups like this that the Internet makes possible. np: Rhodes II--next up are Ecto and Building the Colossus Holly K. Hill hillh@ast.livorno.army.mil Camp Darby Community Librarian The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 13:39:49 -0500 From: jfrancis@villagenet.com Subject: re:Grammy reactions and just about everything else Jeez, is this list the equivalent of "Tiger Beat Magazine" for the ecto set , or what? Pehaps the "Jerry Seinfeld" equivalent; a list about " ". ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 12:46:51 -0500 From: Michael Curry Subject: Re: Peter & Wendy At 08:44 PM 2/26/99 -0500, Riphug@aol.com wrote: ><< I owe a ton of reviews, plus comments on Peter & Wendy in Berkeley >too, though I don't have time for that at the moment. >> > >Hey, Neal ;-) > >Quick question on Peter & Wendy.......is Mary Fahl still in that >production? Actually, I don't believe Mary has ever actually ended up being in Peter & Wendy. Susan McKeown did the original production in North Carolina and the OBIE winning one in NYC, then for the run at Yale there was another singer (whose name escapes me), and for the shows at Berkeley it was Susan again. Mary was considered as an alternate when Susan couldn't do the shows at Yale, but it didn't work out. I know that Susan has mentioned the possibility of Mary doing the show on more than one occasion, so I would guess that it's possible she still might end up doing it at some point in the future. Mike np: Mother - Songs Celebrating Mothers and Motherhood (featuring Susan McKeown, Cathie Ryan and Robin Spielberg) nr: Jingo by Terry Pratchett | Michael Curry / mcurry@io.com / mcurry@smoe.org | | http://www.io.com/~mcurry | | Am I bitter? Do I sound bitter? -- Veda Hille | ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 11:00:51 -0700 From: "Jeffrey Hanson" Subject: Re: Peter & Wendy >At 08:44 PM 2/26/99 -0500, Riphug@aol.com wrote: > >><< I owe a ton of reviews, plus comments on Peter & Wendy in Berkeley >>too, though I don't have time for that at the moment. >> >> >>Hey, Neal ;-) >> >>Quick question on Peter & Wendy.......is Mary Fahl still in that >>production? > Mike Curry responds: > Actually, I don't believe Mary has ever actually ended up being >in Peter & Wendy. Susan McKeown did the original production in North Carolina and the OBIE winning one in NYC, then for the run at Yale >there was another singer (whose name escapes me), and for the shows >at Berkeley it was Susan again. Mike is correct--Susan McKeown did sing at the recent Berkely performances (I attended the show with Neal). If this show appears anywhere near you, regardless whether it's Susan, Mary, or someone else, make a point of seeing it. I was really impressed by the performance--it's much more than a puppet show, a play, or a musical. In fact, I found the music to be a great addition, but only a minor part of the overall show--I expected it to be a much bigger part of the show than it was. This adaption of Peter Pan is completely magical--I was truly amazed at the narrator's skills in doing all the voices, as well as doing quite a physical performance, and how easy it was to suspend disbelief, almost forgetting the myriads of puppetteers on the stage. Anyone interested in theater at all should see this, because the way it is staged is really incredible--they make the most out of all the stage props, the lighting, the stage space, etc. Everything about the performance is equal to the quality of the Johnny Cunningham music--which makes it quite a production. Jeff Hanson ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 11:49:58 -0600 (CST) From: kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white) Subject: Re: Kate News? Hi, this has been bandied about over at Love-Hounds. The question is not how old the news is, it is whether it is news at all. They say The Sun is a tabloid and is not to be trusted. No other news source has repeated or expanded on it. KaTe is still in unknow waters. 8-) bye, KrW "Yes, it left a great gaping hole in the water!" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 10:17:31 -0800 From: "Kristen Weissleader" Subject: Re: Kate News? - -----Original Message----- From: Sue Fechner To: ecto@smoe.org Date: Friday, February 26, 1999 9:02 PM Subject: Kate News? >This may well be subtitled "Making a fool of myself by mentioning old news". > >I've been out of circulation for awhile and still haven't caught up on my email so I don't know if this is exactly news or not - but anyway... > >Received a letter from a friend in the UK the other day - he had included a news clipping which said, "Kate Bush has amazingly scrapped the concept album she has been working on for *five years* to start a carrer writing plays." > >Don't know how much truth is in it as it came from a Sunday tabloid and it may even be ancient news but hey, I seem to be good at the Retro angle. > >My opinion? Well, I'll wait until I find out if I'm actually up to speed in regards to what's happening in the wonderful world of music. Oh, I hope that's not true. I've been waiting in great anticipation for her next CD release. So few people I know like Kate Bush, and I was so glad to find such a following of her online. Still it's hard to find any news of what she is definitely up to currently. She was my first dive into collecting female musicians which now for me females outweigh males in my musical selections. I was so very happy to discover Happy Rhodes this year, especially, with so much to go back and collect. I have all of Kate Bush's main releases and only have something new to look forward to unlike with Happy Rhodes whom I'm still discovering her past, so I don't have to wait for the future releases. I guess it's just a matter of finding some of those releases. I'm also glad to hear of everybody's opinions and discoveries. For some reason, I have a hard time finding anything new in Las Vegas. Of course, I don't go out much to bars or clubs, but finding CDs slightly obscure CDs can be very difficult. I'll just have to get over my mail-ordering phobia I suppose. I seem to be really long-winded, but I wanted to respond to different things on here. I think the Ecto collection CD would be a wonderful idea. My hesitation in ordering, buying music is often attached to not being able to sample anything first. Sample CDs are wonderful. I'm inspiring to be some kind of musician myself. I sing and can't play any instrument well, but I can do enough to write songs on my computer. I have about six write now at my first try. I also have done work on designing CD and tape labels. Only three different designs, the first combined a photo with original artwork, the second was completely original artwork and my third, I'm doing currently, is utilizing a photograph I took years ago. I just need a faster printer. I would at least like to possibly design a cover picture since my printer isn't really up to par for mass production. (The 200 tape covers I'm doing right now is just killing me.) Ok, I think I'm done blabbering for now. I'm just excited to find so many people with similar tastes. I've never had that before. Thanks! Kristen ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 11:54:51 -0800 From: Neile Graham Subject: Indiemanie Tapes available Hi, all-- Peole were talking about getting a chance to hear things, and I thought maybe it was time to make another offer of the Indiemania tapes I compiled a couple of years ago. I could probably add a few more tapes to this but don't have time right now, so for now I'll only offer the original three. This is a collection of material I made from artists all of whom are on small independent labels--or were at the time the recording was made. I originally made it for a particular person, which explains some of the choices I made. It's only one song from each artist, which makes it more difficult to really hear each particular artist, but still, it's a taste. Here are the track listings. Tape One Happy Rhodes--Words Weren't Made For Cowards Arson Garden--She Reconsidered Cindy Lee Berryhill--Father Of The Seventh Son Emily Bezar--40 Mansions Big Hat--Erotomania Mari Boine--Cuvges Vuottat, Duodalas Calbmi Sam Brown--Come Into My World Caterwaul--Diminutive Do Se Do Caveman Shoestore--Four Years Old Lisa Cerbone--Blue Frog Cordelia's Dad--Katy Cruel Sara Craig--Wow Amy Denio--Salvatore Devils Wielding Scimitars--She's A Hemingway Teresa Doyle--Path Of Destiny Janice Durham--Walking In Your Sleep Jennifer Ferguson--Snake Song The Flash Girls--A Girl Needs A Knife Laurie Freelove--Broken Garmarna--Min Man Lisa Germano--Trouble Pamela Golden--Eerie Song Goya Dress--If I Know Veda Hille--26 Years Tape Two Lida Husik--Pyramus and Thisbe Penelope Houston And Her Band--Glad I'm A Girl Juned--Kyuss Ingrid Karklins--Race The Sky Sandra Lockwood--Bath Lois--Shy Town Laura Love--Things I've Heard People Think Low--Lazy Martha and the Muffins--To Dream About You Susan McKeown And The Chanting House--Storm In A Teacup Mecca Normal--Taking The Back Stairs Momus--The Lesson of Sodom (According To Lot) Janie Mitchell--Renascence Scott Merritt--Violet And Black Barbara Manning--Lately I Keep Scissors The Moon Seven Times--Her House Rebecca Moore--If You Please Me My Brilliant Beast--Fall Away Nerdy Girl--Casa Nova Amy X Neuburg--Take Your Eyes Out Perfume Tree--Virgin Rebecca Pidgeon--Kaleka Pram--Loco Psychowelders--Bombs Away Tape 3 Rainbirds--Johnny Guitar Long Fin Killie--Lamberton Lamplighter John Renbourn's Ship of Fools--Searching For Lambs Rose Chronicles--Awaiting Eternity Dorothy Scott--Into The Natural The Shakers--Songs From Beneath The Lake Kerri Simpson--Ah Jolé Azalia Snail--c/o '66 Margot Smith--Pool of Blood Supernova (Denmark)--Eye Of The Night Suddenly Tammy--Mt. Rushmore June Tabor and The Oyster Band--Mississippi Boo Trundle--Siva UT--Safe Burning Varttina--Seelinnika Velvet Belly--Untold Anhai--Imagination Susan Court--Fundevogel Susan Voelz--Let Me Be Your Bible Kaitlyn ni Donovan--Reel Life Gabriel Yacoub--Beauté/Twelfth Song Of The Thunder Kathleen Yearwood--Lost My Way Young Marble Giants--Credit In The Straight World If you're interested in any or all of these tapes, all you need to do is to send me three blank 90 minute cassette with enough postage (in stamps, please, or let's work it out) to get the tapes back to you. Or we could arrange an exchange. - --Neile - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Neile Graham ...... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ....... neile@sff.net Les Semaines: A Weekly Journal . http://www.sff.net/people/neile/semaines The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music ....... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 16:51:49 -0500 From: "Robert Lovejoy" Subject: Re: Another lurker revealed... Elina writes... >Hi all! > >I've been a lurker for quite a while, but I decided it's time for me to >introduce myself...My name is Elina, I'm a 20-year-old student from >Helsinki, Finland. I'm the sister of Juha, who posts every once in a >while...he's the one who spread the Happy News to me...:) > >The reason I didn't introduce myself earlier is that I didn't think of >myself as really "ecto".....I'm a Queen fan first and foremost, and I >felt I couldn't _possibly_ be taken seriously here if I admitted >that...Seeing the names Queen, Freddie and Brian mentioned here a few >times in the fav lists made me change my mind...so thanks to everyone of >you who mentioned them! Happy herself is a Queen fan, and I detect just a bit of their influence on BtC's "If I Ever See That Girl Again" . Check it out! Bob Lovejoy ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 16:40:25 -0600 (CST) From: "Joseph S. Zitt" Subject: re:Grammy reactions and just about everything else On Fri, 26 Feb 1999 jfrancis@villagenet.com wrote: > Jeez, is this list the equivalent of "Tiger Beat Magazine" for the > ecto set , or what? Oy, I can see the magazine's contest's now: "Identify all the monsters on Happy's album covers and win a dream date with Alice!" :-) - - ---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------- |||/ Joseph Zitt ===== jzitt@humansystems.com ===== Human Systems \||| ||/ Maryland? = <*> SILENCE: The John Cage Mailing List <*> = ecto \|| |/ http://www.realtime.net/~jzitt ====== Comma: Voices of New Music \| ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 17:13:57 -0600 From: Mark Lowry Subject: Re: Indiemanie Tapes available Neile Graham wrote: > Hi, all-- > > I thought maybe it was time to make another offer of the Indiemania tapes I > compiled > a couple of years ago. > Young Marble Giants--Credit In The Straight World Um, would that be a cover of the Hole song ... like anyone else would have the same title. What is YMG like? > If you're interested in any or all of these tapes, all you need to do is to > send me three blank 90 minute cassette with enough postage (in stamps, > please, or let's work it out) to get the tapes back to you. Snail mail address, please. I'd be willing to do a trade, but probably don't have anything you don't, besides maybe a bunch of Legendary Pink Dots, Edward Ka-Spel and Wire stuff. Or maybe a Garth Brooks disc. *grin* Cassette tapes are a weird thing and don't get much time with me ... but I'm curious about this collection. Count me in. It's in the mail .... Mark n.p. Erykah Badu, Baduizm ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 17:34:33 -0800 From: "Bill" Subject: eh and bee shoppin' In the "Jill :D" spirit of things, here's news of my latest (and first, actually) on-line order from A&B Sound. And yes, I do have a varied taste in music... Happy Rhodes -- Equipose Suzanne Vega -- 99.9F Heather Nova -- Blow Sheryl Crow -- Sheryl Crow Cesaria Evora -- Cesaria David Torn -- Cloud About Mercury Ace of Base -- Beautiful Life With the exchange rate the way it is, and with on-line prices the way they are, I had to restrain myself from blowing a few hundred more bucks... But, as more than one famous person has said before, "I'll be back!". :) - - Bill. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 23:55:08 -0600 From: Kim Justice Subject: RE: Ecto comp At 10:52 AM -0600 2/27/99, Foghorn J Fornorn wrote: > [...] When the time comes to submit, just make >sure you clearly identify your 1st vs 2nd choice. If we have to bump some >2nd choices and keep others, I guess the determination will be based partly >on overall time alotted to an artist, plus a possibly subjective evaluation >of how the songs "work" together on the comp. Perhaps put some realaudio >excerpts on a web page and allow readers to vote. Hopefully I'm getting way >ahead of myself here and we'll have a nice tight set just under 74 minutes. >(I can dream, can't I?) > >And, if this all goes well, no one's ruling out a Volume 2 someday, so keep >those 2nd choices handy . I've got a CD-R ready to submit. "Pale Clouded White" clocks in at 5:05 and "Joy's Shadow" (2nd choice) is 5:20. kj the big time hog - -- justicek@home.com (Kim Justice) http://members.home.net/justicek "There are always new beginnings, even for people like us." -- Susan Ivanova ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V5 #73 *************************