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 #146 ecto, Number 146 Tuesday, 4 February 1992 Today's Topics: *-----------------* ooh! ooh! Wendy Carlos I'm official now! Anna Domino stuff also... Who's Glen? Blabbedy-blabbedy-blab! ;^) ======================================================================== Subject: ooh! ooh! Date: Mon, 03 Feb 92 16:39:03 EST From: jeffy@lewhoosh.umd.edu Guess what I heard on the radio today! The new Concrete Blonde song, "The Ghost of a Texas Ladies' Man" WOW! Great stuff. I can't wait to hear the album; dunno if I can wait a month! As one might guess from the title, it's got a really funny (ie humourous) country feel to it. Johnette sounds like, well, Johnette, and it's about what you'd expect in a song about a woman who's visited by the ghost of a Texas ladies' man--and greets the ghost with open arms, amongst other things. You folks may appreciate the chorus...this may not be exact; I heard it a few hours ago in the car: I'm not scared, I'm not scared I cried To my ectoplasmic lover ======================================================================== From: jeffy@lewhoosh.umd.edu Subject: ooh! ooh! Date: Mon, 03 Feb 92 16:39:03 EST Guess what I heard on the radio today! The new Concrete Blonde song, "The Ghost of a Texas Ladies' Man" WOW! Great stuff. I can't wait to hear the album; dunno if I can wait a month! As one might guess from the title, it's got a really funny (ie humourous) country feel to it. Johnette sounds like, well, Johnette, and it's about what you'd expect in a song about a woman who's visited by the ghost of a Texas ladies' man--and greets the ghost with open arms, amongst other things. You folks may appreciate the chorus...this may not be exact; I heard it a few hours ago in the car: I'm not scared, I'm not scared I cried To my ectoplasmic lover >From the other side I got a real kick out of that... Jeff (who's wondering why 4, four, FOUR copies of Mitch's latest post appeared at my site) |Jeffrey C. Burka | "Show what you are / Be strong, be true | | | Time for you to / Be who you are." | |jeffy@lewhoosh.umd.edu | --Happy Rhodes | ======================================================================== Subject: Wendy Carlos Date: Mon, 03 Feb 92 17:06:32 EST From: jeffy@lewhoosh.umd.edu I've been meaning to write about this for almost a week, and I keep forgetting! Last weekend, I was in a bookstore with some friends, and they were playing Carlos' recording of Bach's Brandenberg Concertos. It was the first time I'd ever heard that recording, and I really enjoyed it. The next day, I got into my car, and when I started it up, the song that started playing in the tape deck happened to be "One Alien." My first thought was regarding how reminiscent "One Alien" was of the Carlos I'd heard the night before. My second thought was to consider using some of the Carlos stuff for a selection on one of the upcoming HGP-type-thigns. My third thought was the realization that I'd known for almost a year that Happy counted Wendy Carlos amongst her major influencs. It made me feel kind of silly, but it was neat being up to hear that influence so incredibly clearly in the first Happy song I heard after hearing some Wendy Carlos. (what made me finally post about it? hearing Happy say something about Walter/Wendy Carlos on my newly arrived Ecto SiG...THANKS, VICKIE!) Jeff |Jeffrey C. Burka | "Show what you are / Be strong, be true | | | Time for you to / Be who you are." | |jeffy@lewhoosh.umd.edu | --Happy Rhodes | ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 3 Feb 92 15:13:34 -0800 From: Rodney Somerstein Subject: I'm official now! Anna Domino stuff also... I'm proud to say that I am now a real (official) Happy fan. I managed to find two copies of Warpaint in the last week or so. One in Berkeley and one at Tower Records in Mountain View. At first listen, I was slightly underwhelmed. The more I listen, though, the more I am starting to really like this album. It's kind of funny, but the exact same thing happened to me with The Kick Inside, which was the first Kate album I bought. With TKI, I listened once and wasn't very impressed. Before taking it back to the store to trade in, I gave it one more listen and decided that I must have been crazy not to like it. I really like music of this sort that has a lot of depth to it and requires some active listening to appreciate. Now to get the other copy off to a friend of mine to convert him. :-) Vickie, I actually bought some 100 minute tapes. If I get real ambitious, I might even manage to make it to the post office to mail them to you. Justin, I haven't even heard of Anna Domino's "Mysteries of America" album. Was this released after "Colouring in the Edge and the Outline"? Do you know of anyplace in the US that I can call to order this? (I hope!). I have about 4 of her albums. One of them includes the best cover of 16 Tons that I have ever heard. I never thought that a woman would cover that song so effectively, but she managed to pull it off very well. Now to get a check mailed off for Happy's tapes. Are there any plans for her earlier works to be released on CD? -Rodney (rodneys@apple.com) ======================================================================== Subject: Re: I'm official now! Anna Domino stuff also... Date: Mon, 03 Feb 92 15:44:21 -0800 From: tsai@hal.com > Now to get a check mailed off for Happy's tapes. Are there any plans for > her earlier works to be released on CD? I had asked Aural Gratification and they said hopefully they would re-release Happy's back catalog on CD within 2 or 3 months. ^^^^^^^ | --- ( _|--- /-----------------------------------------------------------------------/ @ \________________________________________________________________________ | Nobody said the fall(bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerro- | nntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!) of a > once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down |______ through all christian minstrelsy. Finny the Nobody(finnegan@leland.Stanford.EDU) ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 3 Feb 92 18:48:24 -0500 From: gb10@gte.com (Gregory Bossert) Subject: Re: Wendy Carlos mm, Jeff gives me the opportunity to say that Wendy Carlos' last few albums have been IM-yeah-sure-HO fantastic: Digital Moonscapes -- CBS MK39340 Beauty in the Beast -- Audion SYNCD 200 Ms. Carlos' use of alternate tunings and amazing sounds lifts these albums out of the classical synth. style or new age drone into the realm of truly engaging instrumental music... BitB is the better of the two and highly recommended -- it borrows from many musical traditions while avoiding the cliches of modern "world beat"... footah! -greg -- gb10@gte.com -- "close they eyes, i wake in much suprise i run and jump on sunbeams dancing by" -- HR (and i mean it, too!) ======================================================================== From: kyrlidis@athena.mit.edu Subject: Who's Glen? Date: Mon, 03 Feb 92 22:56:32 EST To Vickie or whoever knows. Who's the Glen that Happy mentions in the end of the KKFI interview on the ecto-SiG? Just curious! Angelos 'Two people on a stage, producing all this music, and dancing around like wildfire' -HTR ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 4 Feb 92 10:16 GMT From: Merow!! PENBLYWDD HAPUS to Stephen Thomas!!!! (aka..Happy Birthday!!!) MEROW! ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 4 Feb 92 08:48:37 CST From: barger@ils.nwu.edu Subject: Blabbedy-blabbedy-blab! ;^) this started out to warmroom only, but i decided to crosspost it to ecto, because i think sorting out the ecto-wmrm sisterhood relationship is one of our first orders of business. and besides, as i'm writing this warmroom is down, and i can reach most of us thru ecto... what we have going, and where we might go, is so golden! and internet has so much potential still to be unlocked... i'm afraid there may always be a need for warmrooms, on evry nice newsgroup. we're lucky enough to have gotten an early glimpse of 'the vision'-- friendlyopentrusting communication. i think fragmentation into special interest groups is *highly desirable* on internet in general, as a way to let people easily focus on their own interests... but you want to do it thoughtfully so as not to be too confusing. because there is at least one ectopod who isn't a katefan, and many Roomies (!) who've yet to discover happy rhodes, and especially because ecto is so so so full to bursting, there's just no way to make these two into one. i tried posting my rocketman gush to ecto last fall, to avoid cynthia, and it just flopped, i felt, because i couldn't take the same things for granted in ecto that i had been in gaffa. (like not having to mention Her name ;^) to be able to choose loose-mail or digests is also a nice way to customize. loose mail is hugely warmer and more involving, but i think subscribing to three busy loosemail lists would just drown a person. i get ecto as a digest, and may have to go to a digest-ed warmroom at some point. but i'm strongly asking that we form a neither-here-nor-there list ("EctoRoom"? EctoRoom Crossposting Service?) for stuff we really want to crosspost, about other artists or just friendly gab, that will be the real homebase we all subscribe to. cause i really do feel like ecto and warmroom are one family!!! now here's my warmroom post: oh man, this is so fucking intense!!!! (anybody mind my swearing?) i need vibes-feedback from people. ron thinks i coulda been sweeter about the whole thing down there (ah! we've *risen above*!? does it feel that way to you all?). and if i coulda, i admit i shoulda, but i'm not sure if i had, i would've achieved escape velocity... i do want feedback, though. are there wounds we can soothe? what do we need in the way of ambassadors to r.m.g.? i was finding myself starting to make a long goodbye, and decided to just cut the cord, so i'll really appreciate "weather reports" and news flashes. is anybody else going this bye-bye route? man, they look like a pack of devil-dogs down there to me! saturday night me'n'C'n'V had our usual Mystery Science Theater party (schedule your chicago flybys to join us!?), and it was a 2yearold rerun of their version of "The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy" (P.U.!!!! Man what a stinker! Their wisecracks had me in spasms though. ;^). But the *subplot* during the breaks was that Joel's space station was being attacked by snapjawed alien red puppie-skeletons: "You know, Joel, these devil-dogs... without the flesh, there's really like ZERO cuddle factor..." Then we-three tooled down to the Avalon to meet Ken B. for the first Warm Room reunion (!) and a Moon Seven Times concert. They're a downstate band that are 4AD-like, and album-label-worthy but I think unsigned. The Avalon was having a really bad night! ;^). I guess it was all suburbanite metalheads having some kind of ghastly puking woodstock in the big hall, but overflowing (in every sense of that word ;^) all over the damn place, with their Spinal Tap hair and alternately lost-and-desperate or oh-so-studly gazes. Ooh, but I'm being blatantly insulting... I'm afraid there's not much i can do to keep Warm Room from being deeply imprinted with my own style, except refrain from saying anything the least bit critical about anyone else's style, or better, as time allows, making sure everyone knows I enjoy their individual styles! It's gotta be *you* telling me who to bounce, not that I ever really expect to bounce anybody. It's *your* club, not mine. I just arbitrarily appointed myself bouncer, for day one. But now I'll throw the "key to the front door" onto the kitchen table, where anybody can pick it up... I feel like I've shocked some of you ecto-sweeties, too, with my violence... so let's try to figure out where we are and who we wanna be. Jessica, I remember you said something a few weeks ago about where it would be at for you to have to lock someone out... do you feel like you could do that now? Is it just you need a tough-neck to deliver the news? (does it feel unlucky even to *think* about the possibility? strange phenomena...) I finally figured out that having Larry Spence watching us from a 'glassed-in observation booth' would inhibit me, so i will tell him this, nicely i hope, if no one has other thoughts. (he asked to observe a while, promising not to speak a peep.) i've been involved in 12-step groups like alcoholics anonymous that have a 'fascistic' (ha!) attitude about protecting people's anonymity and sense of security in opening up. i really really really appreciated *that* agreement. it gave me a chance to barf up a lot of scary neurotic shit i was holding down, like remembering how to weep... i also lived for a short time in the 70s (i'm 38), on a commune called the Farm where kicking impolite butt was their greatest innovation and probably their biggest strength. they did it better'n me, in general, i have to say, but they had tons of practice, getting thousands and thousands of visitors each year. i talked to andy and ron sunday, and andy i'm afraid was appalled at the news, aware of the problem but wishing there had been another way. it *is* kind of like a divorce... ron is with us now, and i think will be posting some demos intro material, edited from Cloudbusting. I'll post the lyrics to Carmilla, Playing Canasta, and Hot in the Ice, for starters. [when we're back up] Getting back to Moon Seven Times, I have to say I was put off by Lynn-the-singer's *flirtatiousness*. I had the same problem with the woman who opened for Mouth Music that time. Continually twitching around, making coy faces and hiding behind a mask of sex-signals-- where's that at? I was there to *know their hearts*, not fuel my sexual fantasies! But she sang real nice... Flirtation like that is so phony-- maybe that's just something young women on stage take time to outgrow? Madonna's not that kind of flirt... or is she? Too nervous to stand still and be herself? In Truth or Dare you get the sense that when she says she's horny... she means it! (Is there some of this in Kate's first albums? Too too manipulatively sexual? Almost to the point of dishonesty?) =========================================================================== Jorn Barger, Northwestern U., Chicago, Midwest, USA barger@ils.nwu.edu "And crazyheaded Jorn, the bulweh born?" _Finnegans Wake_ 513.07 (Ask me about the electronic Finnegans Wake reading project!) =========================================================================== ======================================================================== 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 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. 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