Errors-To: owner-ecto@athos.rutgers.edu Reply-To: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu Sender: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu From: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu To: ecto-request@athos.rutgers.edu Bcc: ecto-digest-outbound@athos.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto #205 ecto, Number 205 Friday, 3 April 1992 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Lonely is an Eyesore/4ad records Ectophile FAQ (updated) This & That (yep, it's a "Vickie") Re: Tale of the Ectomobile videos When the Walls... Walls ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 2 Apr 92 14:18:02 EST From: Frumpy Subject: Lonely is an Eyesore/4ad records Vickie...Do you OWN Lonely is an Eyesore? (*Hopeful Look*) Also, is there any way to get a listing of all releases under 4ad Records? I generally love and worship all bands that are released on their label... Also, Does anyone know how to get a copy of a record made by Neal from the Young Ones? I remember MTV advertising for it when I was a freshman in High School...He had a song about there being a hole in his shoe and water is leaking in it...The album might have been called Soled Out....I'm not sure.. Any information would make me super happy!!! Christine 'the sun will come out again' ======================================================================== From: katefans@chinet.chi.il.us (Chris n Vickie) Subject: Ectophile FAQ (updated) Date: Thu, 2 Apr 92 14:41:31 CST This an FAQ for new Ectophiles. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Hello! Welcome all newcomers to Happy Rhodes and Ecto-the fuzzy blue mailing list. (Fuzzy Blue=Warm, friendly & flame-free) You are now officially an Ectophile! Abbreviations: HR-Happy Rhodes (also H, HTR) KB-Kevin Bartlett (though, with all the Kate Bush fans here, be sure to H&K-Happy & Kevin (personal partners and co-producers) check the context) B\R-Bartlett\Rhodes (a professional duo in 1988 and part of 1989) AG-Aural Gratification 1st4-Happy's 1st 4 albums (cassettes) VI-Volume I album (also V1, Vol. I or 1) VII-Volume II album (also V2, Vol. II or 2) Rearm-Rearmament album WP-Warpaint album Her full name is Happy Tyler Rhodes. She was born Kimberly Tyler Rhodes but has always been called Happy by family and friends. When she was 16 she had her name legally changed to Happy. She's 26 years old, born August 9, 1965 in Poughkeepsie, NY. The address to order Happy's music or write to her is: The discography: Happy Rhodes c/o Aural Gratification 1) Rhodes Vol. I (1986) P.O. Box 8658 2) Rhodes Vol. II (1986) Academy Station 3) Rearmament (1986) Albany, NY 12208 4) Ecto (1987) 5) Warpaint (1991) 1-4 are available CD and cassette (CDs available in May 1992) 5 available on CD and cassette The CDs are $13.99 each Postage for one CD is $2.00 The tapes are $9.99 each Postage for one tape is $1.50 Each additional tape or CD is $ .35 apiece If you were to buy just the 4 tapes, the total postage would be $2.55. For the CD and all 4 tapes, or all 5 CDs, postage would be $3.40. Price in English pounds is: 8 pounds per cassette (postage included) 11 pounds per CD (postage included) The postage prices for Happy (Aural Gratification) stuff to Australia: Warpaint CD (in its own package) approx US$4.50 First 4 Albums on tape ( all 4 in size 5 mailbag) approx US$8.50 Ecto - the mailing list 0.00 (yay!) Ectophiles from other countries who have not yet ordered anything from Happy but wish to do so should enquire through this list (perhaps there are others who have ordered from the same country and know the prices of postage) or write directly to Happy & Kevin. Whenever you write to them, and you want an answer to postage or other questions, please consider enclosing an IRC (International Reply Coupon) for their convenience. Americans and Canadians might consider a self-addressed stamped envelope. H&K have not requested this, I mention it only to make mail easier for them, when an answer is required. As to which album(s) to get? That's a toughie, because they're all excellent. There's a huge difference between 1 and 5, and the progression is evident in the middle three. If you asked the people here in the mailing list, you'd get lots of different answers. If you already have Warpaint, one suggestion would be to start with 1 and 4, and if you like them, you will almost certainly like the middle two. Of course, it's just about impossible to know what different people will like. My stock answer is "get them all!" :-) because they're all worth getting. IMHO, of course. The 1st4 cassettes are worth having, not only for their musical value, but also for their "cherishibility factor" which comes from the fact that H&K dub the cassettes, put together the inserts (complete with photographs of Happy's paintings) and package and mail the cassettes out themselves. Notes about the 1st4 on CD: After a long and, at times, frustrating wait, fans are finally being treated to the 1st4 albums on CD. They will be (barring unforseen circumstances) available by the second week of May, 1992. Preorders will be accepted. Only 1000 CDs of each album are being pressed, and, while that sounds like a lot, Happy's popularity is growing daily and they could very well sell out within a couple of months. Though more might then be pressed, anyone in "collector" mode might want to get in on the first pressing. Bonus tracks (at least 2 per album) will be on the 1st4 CDs. FYI, if you ask Happy to autograph the tapes and/or CD, she will! She has been working on the 6th album. The songs have been written, but not yet completely arranged or recorded. Fans who saw Happy perform live in Albany, NY (March 18, 1992) or Philadelphia, PA (March 21, 1992) were treated to a preview of the next album. Three new songs (Mother Sea, He Will Come and The Flight) were performed, and they will definitely be on the next album, which is due to be recorded starting July, 1992. Happy has never had a major-label recording contract. All her music has been released so far on Aural Gratification, a private label started and owned by Kevin Bartlett. Kevin started the label to release his own music (he's quite well-known as a musician in the Albany area), then added Happy after they met. The first 4 albums were recorded by Happy, all alone in the studio. She played acoustic guitar and keyboards and used lots of overdubs. She produced them all herself and even engineered quite a few of the songs. Happy started out working as an apprentice engineer at Cathedral Sound Studios and learned the equipment by recording her own songs. Pat Tessitore, Cathedral's owner, was impressed by Happy's talent and encouraged her, even giving her free studio time to play around with the equipment and record her songs. When Happy met Kevin in 1986 and he encouraged her to let him release her music on AG, she had amassed enough songs for 2 albums. They gathered together all the tapes of the various songs and VI and VII were born. Later that year, Happy released Rearmament and Ecto came in 1987. Between Ecto and Warpaint, Happy and Kevin joined forces professionally as Bartlett\Rhodes. They never released any music but did play live in the Albany area quite often. In mid-1989 they decided to continue as they had started, as separate artists. Happy then began work on Warpaint. WP is more professionally recorded (she and Kevin took out a bank loan to make sure it was as high-quality they could possibly make it) and uses more musicians, though it's mainly just her and Kevin. They also co-produced the album. H&K are still personal partners Kevin is also working very hard on the promotional side of Happy's career while keeping a full schedule with his own career. {Live} Happy has played live in and around the Albany, NY area for many years. On March 18, 1992 Happy played live for the first time in years and it was the first time with a full backup band. >From the pages of Ecto: "Happy has surrounded herself with a group of very talented musicians, all of whom have a deep respect for her talent. Kevin Bartlett turned out to be very dynamic on stage, playing a variety of instruments (keyboards, steinberger electric guitar, 12 string electric guitar, and 12 string acoustic, and electronic drum pads). Mark Foster played acoustic and electronic drums, and was quite impressive. It was nice to see that the electronc drums were manually triggered instead of sequenced. In fact, I don't know if anything was sequenced in the entire show; if there was any, it was minimal. Fretted and fretless bass was played by Ray Jung ("We love you, Ray!"), who has had experience with a wider range of musicians, having played with people such as Bill Bruford (of Yes and King Crimson). The second set of keyboards, as well as BVs, were handled by Martha Waterman. You may recognize her name--she played piano on the studio version of "In Hiding." And finally, BVs were handled quite admirably by Kelly Bird. She was able to blend beautifully with Happy's voice so that at times it actually sounded like Happy was multitracked." Jeff Burka A few days later, on March 21, 1992, Happy sold out the 800-seat University Museum Auditorium at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. >From the pages of Ecto: "Incredible." "Mindblowing." "Astounding." "Spellbinding." "Magical." Full details of these concerts via Ectophile impressions can be found in the Ecto archives beginning with Digest 187. These concerts provided the very first opportunity for a "Happy Gathering of Ectophiles." May there be many, many more! {Background} She was a very lonely child and has always been a loner. She suffered from depression as an adolescent and teenager and sought solace and help in the music she listened to (Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Bach) and in writing songs herself. She "wrote out" the demons in her mind, never guessing that the songs would someday end up on albums that would be cherished by other people. Happy is an interesting, intelligent, singer/songwriter/musician who cares deeply about her music and makes music to last, music that matters. Happy's lyrics can sear your heart and soul in its intensity and introspectiveness. Her lyrics are very often dark and are nearly all autobiographical, but they are almost all about emotions. Human emotions are universal, so many of her songs touch nerves in other people too. Many of her songs are about depression, some are about suicidal feelings and some are cynical, but there are also songs about hope and light, with a "you must love yourself before anyone else can love you" point of view. She does have a sense of humor, and it comes out in a few songs, but most of her songs are very serious. Not that they are all slow, dirge-like ballads. Many songs are fast-paced and very melodic. You could enjoy the music and Happy's voice(s) without ever paying attention to the lyrics. The lyrics add another layer to be fascinated by if you choose to delve further, though. {Fans} Happy's fan base is small but growing and we here in Ecto think it's exciting to see how she's progressing and to "be with her" at each step of her career from now on. Happy Rhodes fans are very passionate about promoting her music. Record companies have ignored her (and, so far, continue to) I think because they don't really know what to do with her. She can't be easily put into a box and labled. We all think that it's extremely unfair and wrong that she's unknown and obscure. We want to change that :-) It's only at a small grass-roots level at the moment, but will grow as more people become aware of Happy, fall in love with her music, and care enough to spread the word about her. H&K are *very* aware of Ecto and are kept informed of it's topics of conversation. They are deeply appreciative of everyone's interest and have great affection for Ecto. This affection manifested itself after the Philadelphia concert when Happy and Kevin made it a point to invite Ectophiles to a post-concert "Schmooze-With-Philly-Bigwigs" party at the Penn Towers Hotel. They didn't *have* to invite us, they *wanted* to. {History of Ecto} Semi-regular postings about Happy Rhodes have appeared in rec.music.gaffa (Love-Hounds) since January 1989 via Vickie Mapes, who "found" Happy in 1988 and played her regularly on her radio show called Suspended In Gaffa. The release of Warpaint in April 1991 prompted many gaffa readers to try her music for the first time. Many of those people liked what they heard and went on to complete their collection with the early tapes. As discussion grew to deafening levels, it was pointed out to the Happy Rhodes fans that, no, not *every* Kate Bush fan will like Happy's music, and could we please start talking about Kate again? As many gaffians wanted to continue to talk about Happy, but wanted to respect the wishes of those who had no interest, on June 13, 1991 Jessica Dembski created the mailing list Ecto. The list has been *very* active, and topics on any subject of interest to Ectophiles are welcome. GIFs, lyrics to all the albums, articles, interviews, reviews, other tidbits and Ecto Archives are available from: hardees.rutgers.edu by anonymous ftp, in pub/hr (Internet address is: 128.6.18.2.) For those without FTP capability, Doug Burks has offered to send anything in the archives to you via e-mail. Write him at: dbx@olympic.atmos.colostate.edu If you are getting Ecto as loose mail, you might want to know that it is available in a Digest form. Write Jessica at ecto-request@athos.rutgers.edu for details. {Happy as artist} Happy will soon (if everything works out) be painting her first book cover, a science fiction novel by Michael D. Weaver (who wrote _Mercedes Nights_ and _My Father Immortal_, among others) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ECTO PROJECTS ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The current Ecto Projects are (for blue fuzzy newbies) : 1) The Ecto-zine $8/year for 8 issues. A print fanzine lovingly provided by Jessica for Ectophiles and those not on the net. 8 pages and an ever-expanding number of colours. Subscribers will have their first issue autographed by Happy. The first issue has been delayed, but you should subscribe ASAP anyway. Address to subscribe: Ecto PO Box 11291 New Brunswick, NJ 08906 Donations above the subscription cost are welcomed - all money goes to bringing you better issues! A special issue is being put together focusing on the Albany and Philly concerts. 2) The Ecto SiG A tape made by Vickie consisting of Bartlett\Rhodes demo tapes, and snippets of a phone interview with Happy, plus Happy songs. This tape is in the format of Vickie's regular "Suspended in Gaffa" female vocals oriented radio show. Vickie will make dubs of this program for you. Send a 100 min. tape & postage if you live in the USA or Canada. Overseas Ectophiles can either send a tape as above or American money if it's easy to obtain. Self-addressed mailers would be appreciated. A copy of the history behind this project is available via ftp in Digest 134 (or you can e-mail Vickie) but be warned-it's veeeeeery long! :-) 3) The Happy Interview tape. (aka The World Cafe or WXPN interview) WXPN in Philadelphia syndicates a program called "The World Cafe" and Happy was interviewed on it. She recorded 3 songs live in the studio which were played within the interview. ("Feed the Fire" "Words Weren't Made For Cowards" and "Given In") The entire show is about 20 minutes total. You can get a copy of this (in 2 different ways) from Doug Burks. Please e-mail him for details before sending anything. (dbx@olympic.atmos.colostate.edu) Doug Burks, 2036 West Plum St C7, Fort Collins CO 80521 A) If you just want a copy of the interview w/songs, recorded from the radio, send Doug a short (60 min.) tape & postage or $$ equivalent. B) OR, Doug will also have available a more elaborate tape consisting of... The live songs, by themselves, dubbed from a dub of H&K's Master tape. AND... The complete WXPN interview /songs. The interview is from WXPN's Master tape and the songs are from H&K's Master tape. This sounds much better than a copy made directly off the air. AND... A dub of "When the Rain Came Down" AND... 2 songs by Kevin Bartlett with Happy singing ethereal vocals. This version will require a 90 minute tape & postage or $$ equivalent. Also available from Doug are copies of Vickie's "Suspended in Gaffa" radio show and, especially made for Ectophiles by Vickie, "SiG Collection" tapes consisting of songs played on the show. All the songs have female vocals. Write Doug for details. (dbx@olympic.atmos.colostate.edu) 4) The Happy Gift Project This is (going to be) a twice a year tradition, a gift to Happy from Ectophiles for Happy's Birthday and the Winter Holidays. The idea is to assemble a tape with possibly a spoken message from everyone and ONE song she/he would like Happy to hear. Vickie will create a tape with all the songs and messages and will send it to Albany. Every participant will get her/his tape(s) back with a copy of what Happy receives, if postage has been included. The first HGP spilled over onto a second tape so if you want copies of both tapes be sure to send 2 tapes. Besides postage, a buck would be appreciated for return packaging, or include one in yours. There are no restrictions about what song to select, except not to take one from Happy :). It's nice to have have a variety of music, so hopefully not everyone will select one from KaTe. The deadline for the next such project, the HBP (Happy Birthday Project), will be June 1, 1992. All tapes with messages/songs on them must be received by that date. So, decide on your song & your message, put it on a 100 minute tape, and mail it to Vickie. Don't forget to include return postage if you want your tape(s) to be returned! It will be filled with lots of interesting music from famous artists and notorious Ectophiles. ;) A complete listing of the songs on HGP-1991 are available via ftp and e-mail from Vickie. Mail tapes to: Vickie Mapes 1627 W. Farwell, #2N Chicago, IL 60626 USA Again, get tapes to Vickie, and this time put a song and a personal message (if you want to) to Happy on it. Vickie will compile them into a present for Happy from all of us. Klaus' idea, this one. HGP-Happy Gift Project (for the Winter Holiday season) HBP-Happy Birthday Project (for Happy's Birthday...natch!) Note: The Ecto SIG and the HGP tapes are available to anyone, even if you did not participate. 5) The Personal Database Project Mail to ecto with all your particulars. Which particulars? We're not particular. Birthdays (for Vickie's Birthday List) and physical characteristics (if you wish) are a good start. Besides a Birthday list, Vickie is keeping a mailing list for Happy and Kevin. If you want to be on this (to get mailings from Aural Gratification) just send her your name and address. Do this (assuming you want to) even if you've ordered something from AG in the past. This mailing list is strictly confidential. Also let us know how you found out about Happy and what you have and what you think about what you have. 6) The Ecto\Homeground Interview Over the summer of 1991, Ectophiles sent questions to Happy via Vickie. Happy answered the questions and the interview was posted to Ecto. It will eventually be edited down and sent to Homeground (the Kate Bush fan- zine) for inclusion there. This interview will be available via ftp. Or you can request a copy from Vickie. (katefans@chinet.chi.il.us) We will eventually have an Ecto Interview Pt.II, so if you have any questions you'd like to ask Happy directly, post or e-mail them to Vickie. 7) The Kevin Bartlett interview This is Greg Bossert's project. If you have any questions directed specifically to Kevin, send them to Greg. (gb10@gte.com) 8) The Ecto-band Project Not sure where this is but it IS somewhere. :-) Several musical ecto people are doing joint but remote collaborations on covers of some songs. It seems to be dormant, but might be revived at any time. Any questions? Feel free to ask. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Welcome to Ecto! ======================================================================== From: katefans@chinet.chi.il.us (Chris n Vickie) Subject: This & That (yep, it's a "Vickie") Date: Thu, 2 Apr 92 16:12:13 CST Vickie here. Oh well, at least with Doug and Albert, I'm in terrific company...so I don't feel so bad. Now I have to call Kevin back and tell him that my excited news was a little premature :-) but at least I did warn him that it *might* be an April Fools joke (then again, I also said "but I don't think so, isn't this *great*!?!") Never trust 75 year old cello instructors :-)...along with Doug, I also say "Good job, Martin!" And kudos to Angelos for his Happy on MTV message. I also told Kevin about that and he got a kick out of it. I can't believe I forgot to say welcome to Bill Pringle. *Nothing* personal, Bill! Just brain-damage. Anyway...hearty fuzzy blue welcomes!! *WONDERFUL* post Doug!! I was waiting impatiently for it, because I knew it would be good, and i wasn't disappointed. Thanks for it!! Kevin said he tried to log on to his Rutgers account last week because he was dying of curiousity to see what people thought of the concerts. For some reason he couldn't get hooked up on it and sounded disappointed. I told him I would start a file filled with people's reactions and send it to him. Any one who hasn't sent in their reports, please do so (some of you wrote about Albany and then said "Philly later" and they haven't come yet, others haven't written at all yet-Christine, still waiting for yours-Bob Brown, Barry Wong, lots of others) so I can get these to him. Don't hold back just 'cause you *know* that Kevin (and maybe Happy, but maybe not) will be reading them. Remember, Kevin's there on 2 levels. 1) he's a musician who played so he's interested in reactions to the music and 2) he's a fan of Happy's too! He loves reading this stuff just like we all do. I didn't get to talk to Happy, but hopefully I will soon. I urged Kevin to write us a story about the concerts from his perspective and told him to try and get Happy to do the same. He said he would. They had *such* a great time and Kevin said "the weekend was magical!" Kevin said that now that the concerts are over the work on getting the 1st4 CDs out is stepping up. He was certain that they would be ready by the second week of May (barring unforseen circumstances) and he gave me a nearly complete list of the bonus tracks that will be on the CDs. I don't see any reason to keep these secret, so here's what he told me: There will be 2 bonus tracks per CD (I thought there would be more, but, hey, I'm not complaining) and they are: Take Me With You The Suicide Song The Flaming Threshold Look For the Child Be Careful What You Say (same song as on B/R demos, different recording) When the Rain Came Down Under And Over the Brink (Alternate version) Kevin couldn't remember what the 8th song was :-( but then, it will be a suprise for us :-) Plus, those of you who have Ecto cassettes, keep tight hold on them, because after the CDs come out you will have genuine collector's items. H&K are *re-mixing* "If Love Is A Game, I Win" so it will sound completely different on the CD. Plus, they're adding accordian, horns and strings to "Ode" (oops, it's April 2nd isn't it? Never mind) I don't remember if I've mentioned this or not, but Vol. I & II will *not* have the cassette covers on the front. I don't know what the new ones will look like, but the monsters will be there inside the CD booklets. Happy is working hard on the 1st4 booklets and the lyrics will be included. The booklets are scheduled to go to the printers this Friday, I think. And it will take about 3 weeks to get them back. Kevin said that they've hired a person to work with Susanne on the radio airplay side of things and she must be a dynamo, because they've had lots of adds in the past couple of weeks. Kevin couldn't remember what any of them were :-) except for KKSF in San Francisco. They did play a Warpaint a little after it first came out, but dropped it fairly quickly. It's now back on their playlist so any SFO people who receive the station should call and request something from the album. Be sure to report what the DJ says when you do. (KKSF-ah memories...Dore Stein's station for those who remember my "chains" post: H&K--->Dore Stein--->Bob Davis--->John Reimers --->Vickie Mapes--->gaffa/Love-Hounds--->Jessica Dembski--->Ecto (with, can't forget, the Kate Bush connection all along the way). Anyway, it's no accident that Dore Stein's name appears right before mine in the Warpaint "thank you" credits. That's why KKSF might sound familiar already. I'll try to get a copy of all the adds so I can pass them on to Ectophiles who might be in the vicinity of any of them. That's it. It was a short phone call. When I talk to Happy I'll be getting a list of the songs she put on the pre-concert tape. Kevin said that it was something that Happy put together. We already figured that, but I asked him just to make sure. Geoff thanks for the Juno awards update. You failed to mention who beat out Loreena and Sarah...tell Greg, don't keep him in suspense. Actually, someone posted the full line-up of Juno awards in rec.music.misc and, though the nominees may show intelligence and good taste, the winners tell the story that's the same as it is here in America. Excuse me, absolutely *NO* offense to Canadians intended, but...BLAH! I imagine that you Canadians feel the same way though. Celine Dion over Sarah and Loreena? Ugh! But at least they got nominated. Say, did anyone up north happen to *tape* the Junos? Sarah *did* perform, and Jane Siberry was there, wasn't she? Loreena performed too, right? Uh, um, er, uh...thinking about my "Suspended in Gaffa *Video* Collection Tapes" coming at some point soon to a VCR near you, and they'd make a very lovely addition :-) We found a shop that will do NTSC>PAL, PAL>NTSC (& SECAM) conversions for only $15.00!! There's an area of town here that has a very heavy Indian population and every other store, it seems, carries Indian videocasettes, video recorders and does conversions. Because the competition is so heavy, they have to keep prices down. We're going to take something in and have them make a test conversion, to see what the quality is like. If it looks good, then the SiG Video Collections can go anywhere in the world, just like the audio tapes. Doug, don't panic...we could do that dubbing because we have multiple VCRs. I'd love to spread videos the way I love to spread the music. I have *tons* of really cool videos too..everything from Diamanda Galas to Victoria Williams to Shona Laing to Miranda Sex Garden and on and on. Did *anyone* here get a copy of the "Pass-Along tapes" I tried in gaffa? Jeff Burka, you've referred to the audiotapes, but never to the videotapes. I would never try that in gaffa again, but Ecto is small enough to handle something like that. Except I wouldn't want to do another pass-along, it just gets too confusing. This would work in the same way the HGP & Ecto SiG worked. Send me a videotape(s), I'll dub them and send them back to you. Well, that's a project for the (near, hopefully) future, so any suggestions or comments will be welcomed. I just realized what time it was...I have to get ready and go to the Post Office (there's a package waiting for me...Greg's maybe???) and then Chris and I are going out to dinner, and THEN we're going to see Sarah McLachlan with Mike Mendelson!! I'm psyched...Chris has seen her before (at a teeny-tiny little club) but this will be my first time. I doubt I'll get a chance to meet her, but I'm thinking of taking a Warpaint along with me just in case. I sent Happy a Solace cassette so she could know the reference whenever they are mentioned in the same review, it would be nice to do the same for Sarah. (Besides just spreading the music, of course) Hmmm, think I will...you never know! Later... Vickie ======================================================================== From: Martin Dougiamas Subject: Re: Tale of the Ectomobile Date: Fri, 3 Apr 92 12:02:39 WST I'd just like to say here that Greg's account of the Ecto-mobile had me laughing my tits off. (to use a popular colloquialism) |-D 8-D |-D Martin -- ,--------------------------+-------------------------------. _ . | Feel the searing heat of | Martin Dougiamas. | ~ _r' Ll\ ~ | heightened conciousness. | martin@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au | | \ ~ | Feel the yearning for | Curtin University | ~ \ ._ / ~ | peace and happiness. | Perth, Western Australia | -->X~ `-' ~ `======= * Happy Rhodes * =+===============================' V ======================================================================== Subject: videos Date: Thu, 02 Apr 92 23:21:44 -0500 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu Yes, Vickie, I do have a copy of the two videotapes that were part of the SiG 118 pass-along. My copies aren't great (low-grade tapes, unfortunately, but it was all I had money for. ), but the stuff on 'em is incredible! The Jane Siberry interview, the Victoria Williams interview, all the weird videos (Hugo Largo, old Siouxsie Sue, Diamanda Galas, the old-woman-playing- the-theramin (talk about a collector's item!), Laurie Anderson, (Bob Brown may remember me asking him if he'd seen the video to "Excellent Birds" when it played during the closing music after the Philly Show (good choice, Happy!)), Lene Lovich (even weirder in "real life"!), 10,000 Maniacs (Natalie Merchant reminds me of Happy in the way that her senstive recorded self turns into a whirling dervish on stage (see "Scorpio Rising")), Mary Margaret O'Hara, KaTe (since I don't yet have "The Singles File", that's my only copy of SiG!), oh, there are just too many to name!). In case you folks haven't realized it yet, Vickie's video collection is only outdone by her music collection. And we know what _that's_ like. It would be truly incredible if she started putting together collections! Jeff |Jeffrey C. Burka | "Show what you are / Be strong, be true | | | Time for you to / Be who you are." | |jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu | --Happy Rhodes | ======================================================================== From: shark@cs.ucla.edu (Jeanne B. Schreiter) Subject: When the Walls... Date: Thu, 2 Apr 92 21:55:56 PST April 2, 1992 When the Walls... When the walls come tumbling down I stand alone in a room full of memories tears play tag down my cheeks All of you surrounding me your smiles give me love and much affection the strength to go on When the walls come tumbling down All the pictures are gone this room feels like a tomb of bareness brittle are my bones weak is my voice I call out my name echoes sound back Did I live here at all? When the walls come tumbling down I know I must set up new walls Onward I must go Near and Far wherever I am the walls will be filled with new sights I'll put back up all the pictures I own And you'll still smile back at me Tree on Lake Drive forever still my guide ageless as we are wherever near wherever far memories stay will you and the walls built themselves Stronger. -JB Schreiter ======================================================================== From: Jeanne B Schreiter Subject: Walls Date: Fri, 3 Apr 92 0:00:10 CST That last part of the "Walls tumbling down" poem...is separate ...leading into another poem... Walls...ends after the word "stronger." Jeanne ======================================================================== The ecto archives are on hardees.rutgers.edu in ~ftp/pub/hr. There is a README file explaining what is where. Feel free to send me (or leave in the incoming directory, just let me know) things you'd like to have added. -- jessica (jessica@athos.rutgers.edu)