2-Dec-91 5:08:23-GMT,18330;000000000001 Received: from athos.rutgers.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) id AA21817; Sun, 1 Dec 91 23:57:46 EST Received: by athos.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) id AA27849; Sun, 1 Dec 91 23:57:43 EST Date: Sun, 1 Dec 91 23:57:43 EST Message-Id: <9112020457.AA27849@athos.rutgers.edu> 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 Subject: ecto #70 ecto, Number 70 Sunday, 1 December 1991 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Happy's message Re-post misk Thanks Whoa!... My account's gone. Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia Hullo - lots to tell ectochondria ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 30 Nov 91 01:40 CST From: katefans@chinet.chi.il.us (Chris n Vickie) Subject: Happy's message Re-post Vickie here. It's strange that Happy's message never made it to the Digest, though it did come in loose mail. That sort of thing happens all the time in Love-Hounds, but this is the first time I've known it to happen in Ecto. here it is again, but within my post to rec.music.misc. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Article 49607 (86 more) in rec.music.misc: From: katefans@chinet.chi.il.us (Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago) Subject: Other musician's reactions (was Re: Freddie Mercury) Organization: Chinet - Public access UNIX Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1991 05:05:07 GMT She's not very well-known now, but her fans have hopes that she soon will be. Happy Rhodes is who I'm talking about and she was a huge Queen fan. Their early albums influenced her love of harmonies and layers of music. Her song "Feed The Fire" on her 5th album _Warpaint_ is dedicated to all the musicians who have influenced her over the years. They include Freddie Mercury, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Bach and Yes. "So many powerful beings So many in tune with life Imagination abounds here There's wisdom and great insight My ears are lucky to hear These glorious songs of inspiration And voices crafted from thunder The power of life There is a road straight to my heart Traveled by those with fire I hope to follow their patterns They're many more to inspire" ---------------------------------- This is what Happy wrote to Ecto, the mailing list dedicated to her: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Thanks for asking Vickie, it means a lot to me to be able to say something for Mercury's memory." "Freddie Mercury was my _strongest_ source of inspiration despite the criticisms I've had, and it devestates me to think that he'll play and sing no more. On the other hand, I'm glad that his last effort, _Innuendo_, was such a successful masterpiece. Selfishly, I feel cheated because I had hoped to meet him one day and tell him how much he meant to me. I guess he knows now, anyway. Freddie's death means the end of something that was very special to me. I don't intend any comparisons here, but I now know how the world felt when John Lennon died." Happy Rhodes 11-26-91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Vickie katefans@chinet.chi.il.us ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 30 Nov 91 15:29:36 CST From: vishal@ra.csc.ti.com (Vishal Markandey) Subject: misk Love the hgp gif Klaus! When and where do I send my tape ? How long should the tape be, 60 minutes or 100 minutes ? Jessica, I'd still like to get the Happy interview tape. Taped the Kate stuff for you, where do I send it ? Thanks for the "dog" song suggestions, greg and Klaus! The following by Klaus was so funny, I *had* to repeat it here: > Caravan, the album "Blind Dog at St. Dunstan" (1976) > Just the title and cover of the album are about dogs. None of the > songs. The cover is great though. A drawing of a town, all filled up > with dogs, dressed up and behaving like humans. Lot's of small jokes, > like little dogs in Boy Scout uniforms, a dog holding a sign "The > World is going to the Humans", a sign at a lamppost "NO BARKING AT > ANY TIME", someone selling "HOT HUMANS". Jo Anna's going to love that!! Also, I am writing a blues song dedicated to Marilyn, to whom I have lost my heart. Trouble is she's got a boy friend , a doctor in LA : My baby done left me, For that Hollywood quack! I want my BABY, But she ain't coming back!! That's why I'm crying! Chorus: Crying! Crying!! Note: I stole the last part from the Koko Taylor song "That's why I'm crying". That's all I got so far. Tentatively titled "Dump the quack, M!" - Vish ======================================================================== From: kkluge@xenox.ruhr.de (Klaus Kluge) Subject: Thanks Date: Sun, 1 Dec 91 0:38:34 MEZ Thanks go to Court & Stephen, who send the times of the HGP selection. Thanks go to Martin for sending me a copy of Happy's statement about the death of Freddie Mercury. I still don't understand why it isn't in any of my digest (I looked for it again). Is it possible that we have messages that only go to e-mail readers, and not to digest readers? Makes me wonder what else I might have lost. -- Klaus Kluge - kkluge@Materna.DE - I'll be here, I'll be (in) Ecto ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 1 Dec 91 19:41:51 WDT From: phil@cain.cs.curtin.edu.au (Phil Wild) Subject: Whoa!... My account's gone. Hi, Martin here. My accounts bit the big one in a system-wide erasure of all student accounts (because it's the end of term)... So please, please do not send any more mail, personal or ecto-mail, to those accounts... ie: SVODOPIER@cc.curtin.edu.au SDOUGIAMA@cc.curtin.edu.au I am currently using a friend's account to mail this, and I'm negotiating for a new account for myself... but until then, I guess further mail to me could come to this address : phil@cain.cs.curtin.edu.au ... for the time being, anyway. Love, Martin ================================== "Let me get it back The heart inside. Let me live again Give me back my pride" - HR ================================== ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 1 Dec 91 13:33 GMT From: "KaTe, HaPpY, and JaNe MAD!!!" KIRSTIN!!!! i FORBI you to pout eh MEw tape on ECTO!!!!!! FORBID do you ehar me?!?!?!!??!! (from my reaction you can probably see that i am a tuiny bit adamant!^!!) christ i cant even type anymore!!! SIs,,this means you dont get your neat little gifts i picked up for you in London!! IF you go thru with this threst.. geez..i have probably done nothing but make everyone want to know what the Mew tape is!!!! Sis..you do that and i will NEVER mew at you again!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Court..the Pissed (not really) Cat.. ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 1 Dec 91 22:22 GMT From: "KaTe, HaPpY, and JaNe MAD!!!" Justin would you like to trapise around Germany and Russia or maybe Italy by any chance???? i will be in Europe from the 1st of Dec... i mean the 1st of Jan..i am spending New Years Eve in Canterbury... and then off to Dover the very next day...mail me direct to discuss plans if you are interested!!! Martin: black as sin eh?? black happenes to be my favorite "color" and is all that i wear...since you arent blonde..you deserve the title for Honorary Blondeness for that postcard trick you pulled...we KNOW you really missent them so that you could hear from Happy!! admit it!!! =)!!!!!!! I had my first hear of Rocketman last night..WONDERFUL!!!!!!!! today on the UK radio stations blaring on my floor..on one it was rated number 13..on the other..number 13!!! i am also getting a ffrindiau (friend) down the halla copy of Warpaint..i am also indoctrinating my friend Cennydd..(Kenneth) he seems to resopnd to In Hiding best so far..but he also likes Warpaint.. we shall see..heheheh!!!!! well..thats all for now.. Court! ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 1 Dec 91 22:34 GMT From: "KaTe, HaPpY, and JaNe MAD!!!" Doug: you cant just go around stelaing excalmation points like that!!!!!!! but i WILL lend them to you...*sweet innocent cat smile* and i AM a bit of an amateur photographer..for all the good that does with me here in Wales..i DONT want my mom digging thru my negatives back at home for reasons that shall remain un-named..but needless to say i wish i could help with the cover...i have a few interesting pix that i would have loved to submit but we shall have to make another tape another time so that i will be able to help out with the cover then..ok??? geez..am i looking ahead or WHAT?? but i DONT see this dying ANYTIME soon at all!!! well..outa here..i just mixed malibu and tango pineapple/grapefruit drink.. how LUSH! but now i am HOT!!! goddess what alcohol does to me..*sigh* Court the slightly pissed Cat!!!!! ======================================================================== From: kkluge@xenox.ruhr.de (Klaus Kluge) Subject: Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia Date: Sun, 1 Dec 91 23:04:41 MEZ Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia, Live Station, Dortmund, 26.Nov.91 Barbara Thompson will be an unfamiliar name for many Ectophiles, but I know that some are interested in her music, so I'll post my impressions of her latest concert in the mailing list. So, who is she? Noone can deny that she is one of the most important women in Jazz, and that for years. She composes her songs (or arranges traditionals), plays saxophones and flutes. So far I've seen her live only as a member of the "United Jazz and Rock Ensemble". This concert was with her Jazz-Rock fusion band Paraphernalia, featuring Jon Hiseman (Drums/Percussion), Malcom MacFarlane (Guitar) and two guys at bass and keyboard, whose names I didn't catch (they usually don't play with Paraphernalia, so I couldn't look it up on a record). [before you ask, no, noone is singing :) ] All of them 1st class musicians. Well, I count Barbara Thompson and Jon Hiseman among the best musicians of the world on their instruments. You can get solo albums from both of them, just on their own instruments. This years solo release "Songs From The Center Of The Earth" from BT contains folk songs from all around the world (Ireland,Syria,Spain,Wales,Brazil, England,Uruguay,Greece,Germany,Africa,Jamaica) and was recorded on two days in the Abbey du Thoronet (France). Just BT on saxophone, playing with her echoes. From that album she played the irish ballad "The Fanaid Grove", and the echo was done by another band member (the sound engineer). Most of the songs they played were from the recent album "Breathless", and it included an enormous range of musical styles. I was expecting some Jazz, Jazz/Rock and music of traditional origin. Of course they played that, but was also surprised by some Blues, Rock'n'Roll, Funk, even a Sax Rap. All of it with a touch of Jazz. The sound quality was superb. Every instrument easy to spot, and the overall level was not too high (no hurting ears!). Attendence about 500 people, very hard to guess, it was not a big place and it was quite packed, but the hall also had a second level. Among those people I met someone from my office, just 5 rooms away, and he said he also saw another colleague. This concert was most enjoyable. It went on for 3 and 1/2 hours, including a 1/2 hour break, where they were selling and signing CDs. Whenever there is a chance to see her/them again, I'll take it. Oh, before you ask, Claudia, she was not wearing _that_ overal again. :) -- Klaus Kluge - kkluge@Materna.DE - I'll be here, I'll be (in) Ecto ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 1 Dec 91 21:36:39 EST From: Nimue - Gwragedd Annwn Subject: Hullo - lots to tell Hi all ---- a fat Gobble! I had a S****y time in NY as usual except for one small thing. I did wave to Happy and Kevin as I breezed back and forth through Albany. I did go down to Philadelphia - no not because i wanted to hear WXPN but because I had to go visit cousins who just happen to live there. For an amazing hour my radio worked without fuzzing - SO i frantically searched for XPN (not remembering the call number) - finally I find this station that I think is XPN (and it was). It was the World Cafe show (some dude hosting - didnt really catch his name over my G'mas horrendous Staten Island accent *gag*). He played a couple folky songs I didnt recognize, then two reggae songs (neatO), then a moment of fuzz and YES.....right after passing Rutgers on the New Jersey TPike he plays Murder by Happy Rhodes from Albany New York (i practically screamed in the car)!! yeeeahhh.... Of course right after the song the radio fuzzed out again i.e. screeched with all its might :) I did pick it up again in Chestnut Hill (philly), and caught about 15 minutes of the all female hour. The lady played two songs that I didn't recognize, but both were really excellent, and then she played a Sugarcubes song during which my speaker/stereo fuzzed out again. Those few minutes made my week. I also read _The Stand C&U version_ for the first time after several of you suggested it. It was a fairly decent read. It sure made you think - and yes he was correct with his virus studies! Justin: No, I didnt go to see Sarah McLachlan...I was tooo lazy to drive up to Montreal (shuh after a night of drinking). I wish I had though - aww well maybe next time. Court: sorry I missed you, I got bumped by call waiting. ALSO don't worry I won't send in the mew tape...MEW! well i must get back to my complete study of the three-edged sword of Ozone toxicology. kIrI hargieka@clutx.clarkson.edu hargieka@camp.clarkson.edu ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 1 Dec 91 21:56:58 EST From: woj@remus.rutgers.edu (woj) Subject: ectochondria getting back from a wonderful thanksgiving vacation type thing to a horde of ectograms from all you busy people...why weren't y'all eating turkey and lazing in front of the idiot box like i was? (as an aside, i discovered an interesting thing over the holiday: i watch television when i am on vacation but avoid it utterly while i am not - go figure). anyways, some comments... Klaus Kluge sez: >Meredith & woj, you have both selected a 'Wuthering Heights' cover. I would >love to hear both of them, of course, but you might want to discuss if you >want to have two versions on the tape (I wouldn't mind). i've heard both covers and i think that they are sufficiently different from each other that it would not be a problem. meredith's is a acapella version whlie mine is an instrumental improvisation on the theme of the song. you could even put them next to each other on the tape and not have a problem with repetition. plus, i think i recall vickie saying that "wuthering heights" was a fave of happy's, so i'm inclined right there to include both... oh yeah, the run length for sonny sharrock's "KaTe" is 4 minutes and 52 seconds. vickie@chinet.chi.il.us (Vickie Ann Mapes) sez: >So cool that you found Lisa >Germano's CD. Mine and Kiri's copies don't have any cover art (they were >promos) so I don't know the picture you mentioned. it's one of those fuzzy black and white shots and it depicts lisa curled up on a window sill with a guitar in her hand. very cute. :) >Martin, I too think you would really like Robyn Hitchcock, he's quite >warped and fun. Very different, but just as warped and just as fun, are >Camper Van Beethoven but in a different way. the campers were goofy, while robyn is a bit, um, eclectic and cerebral in his meanderings. he's not pretentious though - just that his humor comes more from disjoint ideas rather than the silliness of "taking skinheads bowling". >I grew up with dogs, so I love them too. hmmm...i guess that i am a cat person at heart, but can handle selected dogs when the need arises. my family and i have gone through two cats (my father never wanted more than one at a time) and they are on their third. the first was a grey runt who was "my" cat (cats tend to attach themselves to selected people and this one decided that i was hers). she died of a liver disease when i was a frosh in high school. then, a black and white stray adopted us and moved in. she too died of the same liver disease after a year or so. the third cat is a longhair, calico-colored creature that i do not know very well as it moved in when i was in college. hmmmm...oh yeah - we also had a saint bernard when i was very young: around 8 or so. in the space of eight months she went from being a pup that would fit in your hand to a monster of a dog that would jump over fences with ease. we had to give her to friends who lived on a farm so that she would have the room that she needed. she also liked to knock me around the house too. woj@remus.rutgers.edu - in the beginning was the word and the word was fish ======================================================================== To join ecto, please send electronic mail to the following address: ecto-request@athos.rutgers.edu To have your thoughts included in the next issue, send mail to: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu To subscribe to "Ecto", the printed fanzine, send $8 to: Ecto PO Box 11291 New Brunswick, NJ 08906 Ecto is issued 8 times/year, and will include photos and as much material from non-net members as we can get! 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