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 #462 ecto, Number 462 Friday, 26 February 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Today's your birthday friend.... Re: Aimee Mann Re: More Grammy thoughts This is All So Amazing! "Up the Voltage" Now, here I am :-) ======================================================================== Subject: Today's your birthday friend.... From: klaus@inphobos.w.open.de (Cosmic Vagabond) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 93 06:42:06 GMT i*i*i*i*i*i *************** ***HAPPY******* ********BIRTHDAY*** ******************* *** Christine Waite *** *********************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Christine Waite Fri February 25 1972 Pisces Christine Kennel Sat March 2 1963 Pisces kIrI Hargie Fri March 13 1970 Pisces Alan Sodoma Thu March 18 1965 LuckyLurker Barry Wong Thu March 19 1970 Merlin Geoff Carre Sat March 20 1954 Pisces Bob Brown Thu March 22 1951 Ham John Baker Tue March 24 1964 Berkeley Valerie Nozick Thu March 25 1971 Aries -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _____ Klaus Kluge * klaus@inphobos.w.open.de * I'll be here, I'll be (in) Ecto! ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 25 Feb 93 22:30:27 EST From: WretchAwry Subject: Today's your birthday friend... HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Christine Waite!! (Come back to Chicago soon...The Field Museum of Natural History is waiting!) Vickie ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 25 Feb 93 22:38:51 EST From: Greg Bossert Subject: Re: Aimee Mann Tamar recalls: >A few digests ago, several people mentioned Aimee Mann--at least I >think it was on Ecto. I don't know, my brain has been like mush >lately. that was me. that is, i mentioned Aimee, and then several other people did as well... also, that was me whose brain is mush ;) thanks for the Aimee update!!!!! i will start looking :) >You people are going to cause me to go broke--first I had to buy all >of Happy's albums, and now I strongly feel the need to go out and get >myself a good set of headphones!! tell me about it -- i start a new job tomorrow, after several months of poverty, and i am already plotting out which CDs i will buy first ;) ta.. (fooh) -greg -- bossert@vizlab.rutgers.edu -- == i have never been afraid to change == Happy == the circumstances of the world == Rhodes ======================================================================== Subject: Re: Aimee Mann Date: Thu, 25 Feb 93 23:12:40 -0500 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu Greg replies to Tamar: >that was me. that is, i mentioned Aimee, and then several other >people did as well... Righty ho! Thanks to Tamar for the Aimee Update. Exciting news!! But do I really have to wait 'til May? Tamar then wrote: >>You people are going to cause me to go broke--first I had to buy all >>of Happy's albums, and now I strongly feel the need to go out and get >>myself a good set of headphones!! To which Greg responded: >tell me about it -- i start a new job tomorrow, after several months >of poverty, and i am already plotting out which CDs i will buy first ;) HA! I've got you both beat! I just started a new job (only 'til the end of March, but hey, it's an income!) and as I remarked to a friend earlier today (long before I read either of your posts), I've already got plans for Saturday to head out to a record store which, last I was there, had a copy of _White Out Conditions_ at a reasonable price *and* carries the particular Sony headphones that I've been wanting for a while (my current set of Koss having finally given up the ghost yesterday). Jeff ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 25 Feb 93 23:32:02 EST From: WretchAwry Subject: Re: More Grammy thoughts > I can't believe this guy either. He sounded like Sinead O Connor when he > started his child abuse story :) Huh? ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 25 Feb 93 22:47 EST From: robert@deepspace.nj00802.sai.com (Robert Lovejoy) Subject: This is All So Amazing! Hello Ecto! Wow, the international scope of this board continues to amaze me! Hello Norway, The UK, Australia, and Denmark, and Canada! I have _always_ been a shortwave radio listener. At one time I wanted to be a Ham operator, but I never learned the code. Still, I would listen to the world as a child on my trusty Hallicrafters S-38D shortwave radio! Today I have a Sony 2010, and I still love to listen. In the mornings, Radio Australia booms in clearly on 9580kHz. The BBC World Service can be received anytime, usually on 12095kHz. I often get Radio Sweden and Norway, though their schedules are shorter. I've logged stations all over the world. But ecto is even better! It's almost as fast as radio, and quite clearer! But here we have people united by a common interest sharing information on a global scale. The scope of the internet is amazing! Well, enough rambling! I'm really glad to see Doug's post; some Email is headed your way! John, keep up the great work in Portland! And more thanks to everybody as messages for Susanne keep coming in! I sent Doug some Sampler selections - Wow, is that hard. Try to pick a few songs out of Happy's work! I guess the only thing that awes me more than the internet concept is the music of Happy Rhodes. Peace, everybody, and thanks for being out there! Bob Lovejoy P.S. Vickie did you get the tape?? ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 26 Feb 93 3:30:48 EST From: WretchAwry Subject: "Up the Voltage" (...just a pertinent line from _Real Genius_. I got my dosage upped tonight :-) ) My head is spinning...where to start? It's snowing the strangest snow. "Misty snow" is what I'd call it. It's obviously snow, you can see it on the parked cars, but it's coming down like a fine mist. What's it called Doug? Last night when I went to the college for my show, I was walking up the walkway to the building entrance and I had a little time to kill. The snow from a few days ago was still unmarked in a lot of places next to the walkway, so I picked a spot and, using just my feet, "stepped out" the name KATE BUSH in letters 6' tall. I was going to do HAPPY RHODES but I didn't have *that* much time to kill. I wonder if it will be there next week. Ok, ok, it was me...I used to regard Tori with utter scorn. I was already biased against her because I'd had her first album since it was released. The only reason I still had it was because of one song ("Etienne Trilogy") that I thought was pretty cool. Otherwise, heavy metal bitch goddess wannabe...ugh! I liked a couple of songs on _Little Earthquakes_, but for the most part I was seriously, severely, underwhelmed. It started to grow on me a little bit, though that was mainly because of Chris. He loved it right away and played it often. To let the bitch (me) out of the bag, not only couldn't I figure out what everybody was raving about, it also upset me that this Tori person could put out one bad album, then get invited to make another one and have everybody fall all over themselves raving about how great it, and she, was. (grumblegrumble...Happy has 5 albums grumblegrumble...been turned down by all the major labels and all the best alternative labels...grumblegrumble...gripe gripe grouch grouch bitch bitch) Yeahyeahyeah, I was jealous on Happy's behalf, sue me :-). To make a sorta long story short, my entire perspective and attitude changed when I saw her in concert. No one should make a final judgement of Tori until they've seen her in concert, I speak from bitter, and embarrassing, experience. I didn't trust her "talent" (what everyone was raving about) because I was certain it was studio manufactured. In concert, when it's just her and a piano, there's no doubt that she's genuine. Reading articles and various interviews also helped me understand her point of view better. Well, I'm totally hooked now, and I wouldn't blame anyone if they never trusted anything I said wrt music ever again after that anti-Tori period I went through. (It also took me a long time to get into Jane Siberry and Dead Can Dance too, and now Jane is Jesus and Lisa is an Angel. I did love the Cocteau Twins the first time I heard them, in 1984. _Treasure_ had just been released and I was visiting Andy Marvick (IED) in New York City. He played me the first song ("Ivo") and I told him to take it off. He looked kind of disappointed until I said "Lets go to the nearest record store that would carry the album" and off we went.) You'll never believe what I found this morning at the local "L" stop vendor. I was getting some apple juice out of the cooler and I noticed a plastic bottle filled with blue liquid. I had no intentions of buying it, but I wanted to see what it was. I just about died when I saw the name of it. I am *not* making this up! "BIG HUG Blue Raspberry Flavored Drink" Alright now, who on Ecto works in the marketing department of Daily Juice Products, Verona, PA 15147?? I bought it, took one drink (ugh!) then tossed it. I kept the cap though, just to prove that such a thing exists. (Ingredients: Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Malic Acid, Artificial Flavor, Sodium Citrate, Sodium Benzoate, and Sodium Something-I-can't-make-out as preservatives, Cellulose Gum and Blue 1. My own hugs may remind of High Fructose Corn Syrup, but they are not artificial!) Martin, there was an article in the Chicago Tribune yesterday that was filed from Perth! It's not about Perth so much as about the play "Song of Jacob Zulu" which played at the Festival of Perth. I'll type it in later. It doesn't mention if the play was only shown once, or if it's on a limited run in Perth. If you see that it's still playing, I'd say gogogo, even though I haven't seen it myself. My friend Kim saw it and *raved* about it. It's not exactly upbeat though. It's about a 19-year-old black South African hanged for his part in a 1980s anti- apartheid terrorist act, and features Ladysmith Black Mambazo singing a choral narrative (an African Greek Chorus) throughout the play. Unfortunately (for me), Kim saw the last performance of it here in Chicago before it moved to Australia. It will open on Broadway March 24. Hmm, glancing over the article again, I see that this is a review of "Tuesday night's *opening* performance...at His Majesty's Theater." Check it out. I heard back from the guy who went to the Victoria Mountain Stage with Andy Whitman. He mentioned that the Indie label thinking about releasing her next album and _Happy Come Home_ on CD is none other thatn Mammoth Records, who have done fine things with blackgirls and Blake Babies, among many others. Good for them! Welcome to Yngve Hauge and Steve Lusky (hug back! *great* post!) and all other new Ectophiles out there. Yngve, good for you for passing the music along up in Tromsoe! Mitch, thanks for the information about Tori. I knew she was going to be in town (I posted it in rdt) but I didn't know exactly where or when she would be doing the in-store. Good, I can buy her an Equipoise. (And yes, SIG will probably be a repeat :-)) Tori will also be at Q101 at 4:00pm, so set your recording walkman. She will be performing songs on the air. I'll have to save the rest for later, I really should go to sleep now. (my brain menders seem far more concerned about my lack of sleep than my vast past.) Pooh! CNN's Showbiz Today just did a long feature on the Grammys, and not one mention of kd. Grrr! I missed the Grammys, I missed part of Peter's appearance on Leno, I missed Suzanne Vega on Leno (and live), I missed Big Hat and M7T, I missed Bettie Seevert(sp?), blah. I'm as bad as Mitch :-). This is long, and I'm in danger of rambling on, so, g'night all. Vickie "The looters make me angry, and I got so angry when I heard about the Marine being shot. It's so sad, it's futile. They left their homes and came all this way to help the Somali people, and then they get shot for it." Valerie Place, 23-year-old nurse from Dublin, a few weeks before she herself was shot and killed in Somalia... ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 26 Feb 93 14:09:24 +0100 From: drotschm@eos.informatik.uni-bonn.de (Wolfgang Drotschmann) Subject: Now, here I am :-) Hallo Ectophiles! This evening, _equipoise_ finally made its way into my CD Player. And after a first listening I couldn't hold back no more --- I had to start a message for Ecto... :) But before talking about _equipoise_, I want to tell you how I came to Happy. It's simple. I'm still a regular but silent reader of rec.music.gaffa. The number of postings with Happys name in it made me very curious. So I went to the bank to get the $$... and asked for _Warpaint_. I was surprised, the order only took three weeks. But after that, _Warpaint_ was trapped :) I hurried to my X Station to subscribe Ecto. And now, every time I turn to it my xbiff beeps: Nice and interesting mail from almost all over the world. Great 8) This was last October. In the meantime I happyvangelized friends: Benno was the first (Hi Angelos! :). Then _Warpaint_ was a birthday present for a good friend. Hope to convince him to subscribe. Happy was so kind to wish him a happy birthday :) Next weekend I will hand him CDs for his collection: _Ecto_ and _equipoise_, of course. Btw.: My Happy collection is complete. And I am glad about it. Tja, I hope there are still more people here who will be happyvangelized... 8) Oh, I really should have done "real important" things this evening. In not too many weeks I should make a step forward to the end of my time as a student... the second of four examinations. Schluck. But this CD is fantastic, so I had to listen, and I had to write this. To keep my own equipoise... :) Okay, next time thoughts about _equipoise_... Bess demnaehx, Wolfgang P.S.: Please be kind with my English --- I'm only used to express myself in German ;) ======================================================================== 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)