From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V7 #6 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, January 6 2001 Volume 07 : Number 006 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Kristin Hersh in NYC this Sunday! [Michael Curry ] My best of 2000. Worth a gander? [ArtfulMdrr@aol.com] Re: Pushing a re-release [Anthony Kosky ] Re: Pushing a re-release [Joseph Zitt ] P J Harvey - Live Radio Session On Monday January 8th [Shirley Ye Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************* Paul Cohen (pmcohen@netaxs.com) ********************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Paul Cohen Tue January 05 1954 Capricorn Tony Garrity Mon January 08 1962 Pool of Life Greg Bossert Tue January 09 1962 OfTheTimes Troy J. Shadbolt Thu January 14 1971 Capricorn Chris Sampson Wed January 15 1964 Void where prohibited Dennis G Parslow Fri January 17 1964 ...of the Saint Ross Alford Thu January 17 1957 Positive Nancy Whitney Mon January 19 1959 slippery when wet Sarah Noelle Pratt Ferguson Tue January 20 1970 Seanympf-Aquarius David Beery Tue January 20 1976 drum Terry Partis Sun January 22 1933 Rocker Sarah McLachlan Sun January 28 1968 Aquarius Ilka Heber Mon February 01 1965 Mermaid Bob Lovejoy Sun February 02 1947 Aquarius Diane Burke Sat February 02 1963 slow children Timothy S. Devine Tue February 03 1970 Aquarius Stephen Thomas Fri February 04 1966 Aquarius - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 10:50:23 -0500 From: Michael Curry Subject: Kristin Hersh in NYC this Sunday! Spotted over on wordsandguitar (the Sleater-Kinner list)... >Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 07:42:59 -0800 (PST) >Subject: i'm so sick of tests... > >Kristin Hersh is playing at Knitting Factory in NY on >Sunday afternoon, at 3, it's $12. More info at > > http://www.newyork.citysearch.com/profile?fid=17&id=11311311 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 11:56:21 EST From: ArtfulMdrr@aol.com Subject: My best of 2000. Worth a gander? This looked like fun. Here are my choices, made with the utmost humility - I'd be interested to know what you think: Album: Radiohead's "Kid A" Book: Mark Z. Danielewski's "House of Leaves" Film: "Titus" ( it might as well have been from 2000 ) TV Show: "Sessions at West 54th St." Joke: American democracy. Concert: Ani DiFranco/ Sara Lee at the Hammerstein Ballroom, NYC in October - the show ( before the encores ) ended with a rendition of "Superfreak" played by both DiFranco's and Lee's full bands.( a very close second was Radiohead, Roseland, NYC, but a lot of the fans were jerks... maybe including myself? ) Best Concert Shirt: Radiohead's longsleeve thermal with the scary bears wreaking havoc on the front. If only all bands had shirts as nice to wear as these - being that they actually *fit.* Promise for the Future: New albums from Bjork, Happy Rhodes, Radiohead, Morrissey, maybe Portishead, and Kate Bush ( must always think musically ) Welp, those're my two cents. Categorization never ceases to be fun! nr: Dante's "Inferno," which is frighteningly wonderful to read nl: Le Tigre's debut, and Laurie Anderson's "Big Science" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 10:13:52 -0800 (PST) From: Anthony Kosky Subject: Re: Pushing a re-release - --- dmw wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Brian Errickson wrote: > > > Does anyone have any suggestions for going about convincing a record > > company to re-release an artist on cd? The artist I had in mind was > > Lani Hall who was on A&M. I would either like to have sundown lady or > a > > greatest hits compilation. Who do I write to and what do I say to > > convince them it would be a good thing to do? > > I don't mean to be discouraging, but I don't think this is something a > single private individual, or a focused letter writing campaign from a > small mailing list, can have much impact on. To convince a label, > you need a business case, and the fundamental ingredients are: > Not entirely true, though it does depend on luck, the record company, and whether your letter happens to get to the right person/dept. Record companies do re-release there back catalogues on CD from time to time, and they will use the number of letters they've received for a particular album as an indicator of how many sales there are likely to be. For each letter received they'll reckon there are so many hundreds of potential customers, and calculate it that way. Some years ago I wrote to Island asking them to reissue Nick Drake's Pink Moon on CD. This was long before VW commercials and his new-found fame, in the days when it could only be found by diligent searching of many used vinyl stores. I received a personalized note back saying that they were prioritizing their back catalogue to what to issue on CD, and they'd take my letter into account when deciding whether to put Pink Moon on the list. It was re-issued within a year of that. (of course it might have been anyway, but if no one had written, I suspect it would have taken a lot longer.) On the other hand I've written to Virgin suggesting that they re-issue Ashley Maher's albums, and encouraged other people to do the same, to no effect. I don't know of anyone getting an acknowledgment of them for such things. - -Anthony Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 12:40:20 -0500 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: Pushing a re-release On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:13:52AM -0800, Anthony Kosky wrote: > Some years ago I wrote to Island asking them to reissue Nick Drake's Pink > Moon on CD. This was long before VW commercials and his new-found fame, in > the days when it could only be found by diligent searching of many used > vinyl stores. I received a personalized note back saying that they were > prioritizing their back catalogue to what to issue on CD, and they'd take > my letter into account when deciding whether to put Pink Moon on the list. > It was re-issued within a year of that. (of course it might have been > anyway, but if no one had written, I suspect it would have taken a lot > longer.) This is promising. Maybe I should write to Blue Note to nudge them to reissue a James Blood Ulmer album for which I've been searching. - -- |> ~The only thing that is not art is inattention~ --- Marcel Duchamp <| | jzitt@metatronpress.com http://www.metatronpress.com/jzitt | | Latest CD: Jerusaklyn http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt | | Comma: Voices of New Music Silence: the John Cage Discussion List | ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 10:48:58 -0800 From: Shirley Ye Subject: P J Harvey - Live Radio Session On Monday January 8th is anyone in the UK recording this? if anyone is, i'd like a copy of this show >P J Harvey is set to perform three songs live on Steve Lemacq's BBC Radio >One programme on Monday January 8th at 9pm. It will be a stripped down band >performance with P J Harvey being backed by Rob Ellis & Tim Farthing. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 23:56:45 -0600 From: tenthvictim@mindspring.com Subject: Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac Greetings, Yngve mentioned the two-CD Fleetwood Mac live set from Boston in 1970. It was recorded at the Tea Party Club. I've been enjoying that concert for approximately ten years. It is a good one. I started out sometime in the eighties with a record from a cutout bin. This record is a Belgian import titled _Fleetwood Mac Live_. Later, I found a CD of the same set titled _Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits Live_ (this is a German import). I also found another CD, _The Early Years Fleetwood Mac_ which was the first part of the concert where the band played oldies as a warmup and called themselves Earl Vince and the Valiants (this is a British import). I don't know if the double CD you bought has the Earl Vince stuff ("Madison Blues," "Great Balls of Fire," "Keep a Knocking," etc.). If it doesn't, it is no loss; Fleetwood Mac is at their best with twin-guitar blues, not fifties music. One oddity about this record and the CD: On the record, Peter Green and Danny Kirwan are on distinctly different channels, one left, the other right. On the CD, the stereo image is flipped so that Green and Kirwan switch places in the stereo field. Now when I listen to the CD, it seems unnatural to have Green coming out of a speaker he shouldn't be on. It helps to know who is where, because every now and then you think, "Good lick, Peter," when it was really Kirwan who played the lick. Their vibratos are different, but when they play fast with no vibrato, it can be tough to figure out who is doing what. I have attempted to learn "Jumping at Shadows" with no luck. It is hard to do the shuffle and keep the lyrics going at the same time. I also get confused as to when to throw the minor chord into the mix with the other three traditional chords. There is a box set of John Mayall songs on which Peter Green plays some beautiful, sad blues lines, the best one being "The Supernatural." The box set also contains a bunch of Clapton solos, too. John Mayall is no slouch, either. Boring, non-blues fans, non? Here is a question for the cd burning ectophiles out there. I burned a rough mix of homemade christmas songs and got a pop after each song. I was using Adaptec Easy CD. The pops aren't on the end of the wave files which comprise the CD. I even had one track fading out, so as far as the software is concerned, it should have seen silence at the end of that track. It seemed that the burning program just laid the pops in all on its lonesome. Any suggestions? Also, how do you normalize all your tracks so they are the same volume? Is it just a hit or miss proposition dependent on your ears? Bye, Lyle n.p. _Dead Cities_ Future Sounds of London. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V7 #6 ************************