Errors-To: owner-ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Reply-To: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Sender: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu From: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu To: ecto-request@ns1.rutgers.edu Bcc: ecto-digest-outbound@ns1.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto #531 ecto, Number 531 Sunday, 18 April 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Happy free Boston, partly explained A Dream of Midsummer Re: ecto #530 Happy in Austin!!! Meredith does it again! more laurie anderson, + david bearwald (once again, no happy content) Re: ecto #523 Re: ecto #526 Ecto-gathering ======================================================================== Subject: Happy free Boston, partly explained Date: Sat, 17 Apr 93 17:59:40 EDT From: Angelos Kyrlidis Hi, I took advantage of the beautiful day outside to walk to Harvard Sq., and check out *all* the used CD stores along the way. Nothing was really worth buying (I saw a couple of Texas CDs, which I *think* Greg has raved about in the past, could be wrong though). What I found though in the $2.99 bin of _In your Ear_ was a promo-Equipoise. Which had the explicit sticker 'Loaned for promotion. Ownership reserved by Aural Gratification Inc. SALE IS ILLEGAL' on it. Of course I bought it, and needless to say it was hardly used.In fact, as I type this I pulled out the booklet, and the wallet size card with the gorgeous picture of Happy and the 6 CDs on its back fell out [Jeez, I didn't get that with my Equipoise, so it was worth it for that alone :-) ]. Anyway, if Suzanne lets us know which stations in Boston got the CD, we can find out who gave it away or sold it. Now I can use it for its purpose. P R O M O T I O N and not a quick buck. :-( Angelos ' Battered taxis in the marketplace, narrow streets, little alleyways I was restless, kind of breathless, still trapped in the past' -TR ======================================================================== From: Tree of Schnopia Subject: A Dream of Midsummer Date: Sat, 17 Apr 93 18:20:28 EDT Forwarded message: > From METH@delphi.com Fri Apr 16 20:36:53 1993 > Date: 16 Apr 1993 20:21:54 -0400 (EDT) > From: Suspended In Duct Tape > Subject: A Dream of Midsummer > To: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu > Message-Id: <01GX3B8WFBL491W43H@delphi.com> > X-Vms-To: IN%"ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu" > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT > > }To make it clear just how good Neil is: that World Fantasy Award > }was for best *short story*. It was an issue about _A_ Midsummer > }_Night's_Dream_, which, I'm told, was sublime. > > If you haven't read it, it can be found in the trade paperback > compilation THE DREAM COUNTRY, which collects issues 17, 18 and > 19 of SANDMAN. Incidentally, that's the only SANDMAN Happy has > read, and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was her favorite. It's > interesting that the tape Neil got has _Ecto_ on it- I pointed > out "Would That I Could" to him, but dammit, he still hasn't > listened to it yet! I just bought DREAM COUNTRY (and now own all 4 compilations, yay!). Although it's probably my least favorite, that still places it on the incredible list (like my least favorite Kate Bush album). _Midsummer_Night's_Dream_ is a complete trip (and should have been in quotes, not underlined). Mythology lovers like me will want to read SEASON OF MISTS. And if you're really up for a nice, long yarn of the end of the world, try the prose GOOD OMENS, a novel coauthored by Gaiman and Terry "Discworld" Pratchett. If you like hilarious narrative in the style of Douglas Adams, you'll love this. I've been finding hardback copies for $4 in chain bookstores...I have no idea why these are marked down, but GET THEM QUICK! C'est tout. Drywid ======================================================================== Subject: Re: ecto #530 From: metatron!joe@dogface.austin.tx.us (Joe Zitt) Date: Sat, 17 Apr 93 16:21:46 CDT WretchAwry writes: > Ingrid karklins is coming to Chicago!! Cool! I'm listening to Kas Dimd now (reminded of it by your message). I just worked on a show (doing video and film projections and creating ambient sound tapes) with her husband/bassist, Mark Williams, who did some stunning stuff with his electric cello. I'm pleased that she has fans outside of Austin. Does anyone know if the Laurie Anderson show is coming to Texas? I saw her Empty Spaces (?) tour and United States Live, and would love to see her again. She also sat in with Peter Gabriel when I saw him at Madison Square Garden, looking a little uncomfortable as she tried to follow the dance the band was doing during "Excellent Birds". She also did the single best benefit concert I ever saw, for medical help for homeless children in NYC, featuring (deep breath) Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Lou Reed, Dion, Paul Schaefer and the World's Most Dangerous Band, Chaka Khan, Nona Hendryx, Grandmaster Melle Mel, Nile Rodgers, a championship rope skipping team, and a few I've forgotten. It was fun to see Springsteen, Joel, and Reed singing backup for Dion, and Billy Joel playing piano for Brooooce. I took a friend to it who, though she was in her mid30's had never seen a rock concert. She was knocked out... ObHappy: I finally found the Happy Rhodes section in our local Tower -- filed under *Folk*! I mentioned to the salesdroid (who seemed none too alert anyway, as it was almost midnight) that there were several better places that she could be filed. -- "You could be an ocarina salesman going | Metatron Press | PGP 2 Key Available from door to door..." -- Laurie Anderson | Human Systems Performance Group [__] ======================================================================== Subject: Happy in Austin!!! Date: Sat, 17 Apr 93 20:32:16 -0400 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu Cool cool cool! Just got this from a good friend of mine down in Texas. FWWI, he's had Volume II for a year and a half and doesn't care for it. He's had Equipoise since just before it was released (thanks to a preorder I sent him...;-) and he loves it. Jeff --------- From: Jeff Shaevel Message-Id: <9304171732.AA04334@guest.apple.com> To: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu Subject: Music postcard Guess who I just heard on the radio the other day? Nope, guess again. RIGHT! Happy Rhodes! They were playing "Runners" on some station here (I was in an art supply store and the person behind the counter didn't know what it was they were piping in) and sounded damn good. I remember you mentioning that that song had potential for air time, and apparently someone else thinks so too. Any air play elsewhere? Later, Jeff ------- End of Forwarded Message ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 17 Apr 93 20:29 EDT From: robert@deepspace.nj00802.sai.com (Robert Lovejoy) Subject: Meredith does it again! Hi all! Just had a peek at Genie. Looks like Meredith has done gone and started a Happy Rhodes topic right there in the middle of the Music RT - cat 17, top 18 I think. Wow, if I knew anyone could start a topic I would have tried before! Thanks, M.T., I'll drop in frequently! (More computer time! Yay!) Pam has set up a HR area on Prodigy; it's in the middle of the Tori Amos area. Any place is a good place! People are becoming more and more aware of Happy. The snowball begins to roll! Thanks, Brni, for your kind note! I'm sorry I had to get back to work so fast, but I look forward to your visit there soon! Glad you enjoyed the tapes! I look forward to reading the rest of the digest when it arrives! See you all soon! Bob ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 17 Apr 93 22:36:36 EDT From: mojzes@monet.rutgers.edu (brni) Subject: Re: the last couple of days.... (NO HAPPY CONTENT) cc: cloud-zero@cs.magill.ca >Warning: Below is only Legendary Pink Dots content. Skip now if you hate >them. Sorry, but when someone gets me started, I just run with it! :-) > >[In message "the last couple of days...." on Apr 16, brni writes:] >| >| concert review: the legendary pink dots reminded me of ecstacy. no, >| not XTC, but of the drug, ecstacy ( i don't know what the official >| latin is for it), which i took once and have craved it and feared it >| ever since. it is really a wonderful feeling drug, but i could tell >| by how i felt that it had done a lot of damage to both body and brain. >| but anyway, the dots reminded me of that: beauty found in the oddest >| places (when i was on X i remember thinking "i never realized how >| *beautiful* melted chewing gum on pavement is"), while the world pulses >| with a sort of very *unusual* groove that your body has tapped into >| somehow. > >That's beautiful... I hope that I can experience the same thing when I see >them, even though I've never been on X... I've been a big fan of the LPDs >since 1988, but I've managed to miss their live shows every year since >then, due to circumstances beyond my control. I am quite looking forward >to the Montreal show... > then SEE them! i became a convert at the show. and when you go--hang out afterwards and wait for them to come out. they are very nice people. >| 4) the guitarist knew when not to play, a characteristic common to many, >| all too many guitarists. > >I am glad you were impressed by the sax player. He is a reatively new >addition to the band, however. (well, they've been around since 1981) I >saw a video of their live show from 1989 and the *SAX* player didn't know >when not to play (come to think of it, there was no guitar player then >either), and he was always drowning out the other instruments. Did you >observe that he's still doing that now? [although perhaps you didn't know >what other instruments were supposed to be played, as you didn't hear the >music before]. > well, i'm not sure that music is the sort of thing where parts must remain static... the sax player played almost constantly, but he had good dynamic control, and so he wasn't drowning anyone out. the video you saw might have been suffering from mixing problems. the mix at the trocadero was very good, except that edward's mike was too soft during the first song. they had that fixed by the second song, tho. >Just curious - was there a violinist on the stage? > no. i understand that the sax player joined after the violinist left (according to mike, the guy i went with). >Which disc did you get? > the maria dimension_. i already had tear garden's _tired eyes slowly burning_, which, i think, suffers from the conjunction of lpd and skinny puppy. >Anyway, the LPDs are a bunch of serious musicians. I personally own over >15 CDs by the group, plus an additional 6 CDs by their spinoffs, and about >6 tapes of stuff that never made it onto CD. Every year, there are at >least two new releases by the group or the group's leader or a >collaboration between LPDs and some other group, and I *always* look >forward to hearing them. > >I also run the LPDs mailing list and FTP archives, so for those of you who >want more info, come join us!! cloud-zero-request@cs.mcgill.ca > i just may, but only after i get my school work done. > >-- >| Alan Ezust depeche@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca Montreal, Quebec, Canada | >|------------- McGill University School of Computer Science ----------------| > brni mojzes@monet.vill.edu ps. my friend mike had written two letters to edward, and received letters back both times. edward remembered details (like mike's last name, where he lived, etc), years after the letters were written. anyway, i'm just telling you this because you might be interested to know that he *does* write back. pps. it took a couple days, but i've finally figured out what image i was getting from edward ka-spel: he was the jekyll/hyde to thomas dolby's eccentric scientist. ppps. the band that lpd reminded me of most was gong. gong has been putting out really weird experimental music like this since the late 1960's, but theirs is the "happy trippy hippy" version. ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 17 Apr 93 22:10:27 EDT From: mojzes@monet.rutgers.edu (brni) Subject: Laurie Anderson > >So does Laurie ANderson have a new album coming out? Is she touring anywhere >else? > >thanx, >cHris > oh, i should have mentioned this. sorry. she's still working on the album (to be entitled _stories from the nerve bible_), and has finished a book (same title) which will be published in the fall by Harper Collins. the show is called _stories from the nerve bible_ as well. i think i neglected that, as well. see it see it see it!!!!! i wish i could afford to go twice! brni mojzes@monet.vill.edu ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 17 Apr 93 22:56:11 EDT From: mojzes@monet.rutgers.edu (brni) Subject: more laurie anderson, + hi all, alan, i think that "dissidents" is the right speed to start out with. of course, i also think that _the flat earth_ is one of the closest things to a perfect album that we'll ever hear. joe zitt, after the laurie anderson show i saw on thursday, she came out and took questions from the audience. she's very nice, and yet still very "new york". anyway, she mentioned that following springsteen at a stadium show was the worst stage experience she'd ever had. "there i was, playing 'let x=x' on the keyboard, and it felt really tiny. suddenly it felt like 20,000 people yawning simultaneously..." (paraphrased, of course). regards, brni ps fyi: my rabbit came out of his cage voluntarily today. he must be over whatever it was he had, or he's just happy to hear the legendary pink dots. ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 17 Apr 93 23:31:49 EDT From: mojzes@monet.rutgers.edu (brni) Subject: david bearwald (once again, no happy content) hi all, a couple of weeks ago i heard a song on the radio by a guy named david bearwald. it was some song about being in a car with a sadist, or something, and was really very cool, sorta laid-back jazz feel. does anyone know anything about him? are the other songs on the album any good? thanks brni mojzes@monet.vill.edu ***************************vivivi******************************** "It is some strange addiction When you have to put yourself back on the rack." --L&R ****************************************************************** ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1993 02:38:19 -0400 (EDT) From: tlb@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us (Tracy Barber) Subject: Re: ecto #523 Pamela writes: EC>One of the radio stations on Bob's list was WHRL - Albany, NY. I listen t EC>that station as I'm drifting off to sleep. I'm not sure if at one time it EC>a different format and that's caused some confusion, but WHRL is a contemp EC>jazz station, and I've never heard anything even remotely Happy-like on it EC>Thus I'm wondering if it was included on the radio list in error. I'm all EC>trying to get radio stations to expand their horizons, but I have a feelin EC>that one would really be an uphill battle! I =have= heard Happy on that station. Very few, if any, other stations in Albany play her music. I heard a song from Warpaint going to work one mornin tlb --- * SLMR 2.0 * Wanna giggle Try (EDITOR=EDLIN !) in anything. ---- Tracy Barber tlb@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us The Big Sky BBS (+1 614 864 1198) ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1993 02:46:20 -0400 (EDT) From: tlb@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us (Tracy Barber) Subject: Re: ecto #526 Doug Writes: EC>Monday I posted two items, "Tape dubbing stuff" and "Tape dubbing FAQ". I EC>know they appeared in loose mail, and the latter appeared in the digest. EC>However, did the first (which announced additions to the dubbing project) EC>it into the digest? I would appreciate it if someone would e-mail me with EC>"Yea" or "Nay". Some of the new tapes made the airwaves, Doug. Curious if I have enuff in my account to send me the interview tape, the Radio Show tour, the latest and newest from Ms. Rhodes? Tracy Barber 471 West Street Albany, NY 12206 If not, let me know and I'll post some $$$ out the door ASAP. Thanks! tlb --- * SLMR 2.0 * Youth + confidence + myopia = naivete. ---- Tracy Barber tlb@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us The Big Sky BBS (+1 614 864 1198) ======================================================================== Subject: Ecto-gathering Date: Sun, 18 Apr 93 10:47:17 -0400 From: Michael Matthews I'm going to be out of town all week (in Pittsburgh, PA; I just hope that the Holiday Inn isn't *too* far from Grant Street) and won't be able to read mail pretty much until Thursday night if I'm up to it, maybe Friday. (It'll probably be a long undertaking to read all of Ecto's accumulation, especially since I'm going through a 2400 baud dialin line here and I've got news to read elsewhere.) But I'll see whoever else is attending Jeffy's b'day event/Ecto gathering next Saturday. On a semi-related note, someone at work played _Equipoise_ and it wasn't me. Oops, it may be dangerous to use _'s. ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@ectds.com (NeXTmail accepted) ------ I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat. -- Will Rogers ======================================================================== The ecto archives are on hardees.rutgers.edu in ~ftp/pub/hr. There is an INDEX file explaining what is where. Feel free to send me things you'd like to have added. -- jessica (jessica@ns1.rutgers.edu)