Errors-To: ecto-owner@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 #984 ecto, Number 984 Sunday, 30 January 1994 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Kristin Hersh review in NME Fumbling Towards Fuzziness delurking..... I'm back Re: I'm back Re: I'm back Re: delurking..... Catherine Wheel (was Re: I'm back) Some Love-Hounds tidbits Re: Hidden Messages from God _Swing the Statue!_ Re-Released? Cheezy Casio Keyboards :) tv spottings ======================================================================== From: Tim Cook Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 08:39:17 GMT Subject: Kristin Hersh review in NME Saw this in NME this week. It's a review of Kristin Hershes new album (due out any day now) and a review of a live gig she did in London a couple of weeks ago, blah blah reprinted without permission blah blah blah....... KRISTIN HERSH Hips And Makers (4AD/All formats) AS THE expressive lead singer with Throwing Muses, Kristin Hersh has spent years offering an alternative female-centred viewpoint to the strutting nymphs of the mainstream. She's managed to sidestep the weight of history that drives thoughtful white Americans to tear themselves apart with guilty angst and concentrate on the war of attrition between the sexes. Despite being besieged with personal problems, Tanya Donelly's half-sister has gained a modicum of success by writing cathartic songs. Only now she's upped the ante by temporarily shelving her band's rhythmic maximalism in favour of an accessible and gorgeous open-diary solo acoustic LP. And the likelihood is that the cash-tills will ring from Warsaw to Rome, from Rio de Janeiro to New York City. Certainly an artefact as valuable as this deserves to exist beyond the confines of the stifling, though widespread, 4AD cult. You might initially think you've stumbled in on a late night folk session in Greenwich Village circa 1968 until you listen closer and detect this unique voice shifting octaves by will, visiting blues and country territory, and telling sometimes melancholy, sometimes funny tales of love gone ballistic. What gives 'Hips And Makers' its corruscating impact, however, is the attention to detail - even in minimalist settings - and the way the occasionally abstract but always poetic lyrics forgo verse/chorus for streams of (un)consciousness. If this gives you a mind's-eye vision of avant-garde leanings and self-conscious artiness, fear not. 'Hips And Makers' is naked and lilting, melodic and textural. Even when Michael Stipe guests on 'Your Ghost' and adds harmonic murmurs to its spectra of obsession - a lover has left but his essence remains - he's another instrument not a big-name selling point. And when Kristin draws out the word 'loon- and dwells on its cadences on the touched 'A Loon' you're sucked in to the extent that you can almost see the protagonists in your kitchen throwing cutiery at each other. There are many Kristins here - Good Kristjn, Bad Kristin, Preacher Kristin, Wistful Kristin, Angry Kristin and Content Kristin - but they're all full of love. 'Velvet Days' is an unadorned love song with blushing cello and the pitter-patter of acoustic guitars, while at the other extreme 'Close Your Eyes' is claustrophobic: "you ruined all my memories". 'Me And My Charms' draws on the scenario of what used to be called -cheating songs- but the perspective is changed to that of the third party, and tenderness and non-explicit sexuality abound. Humour creeps into the closing title track with its air of contentment after all the demons have been chased away married a boxer to keep me from fighting. married a brewer to keep me from drinking-), but mostly mirth is represented by the odd line and the occasional ludicrous predicament. Just check the way 'Teeth' meditates on moodiness and Kristin slips from an accusatory tone to observing -this hairdo's truly evil I'm not sure its mine- with great sleight-of-hand. Alternately, you can wonder just how she manages to inhabit the traditional 'Cuckoo' and make you smile at its mixture of banal and affecting sentiment. When the clouds gather, though, 'Hips And Makers' can seem mired in darkness. 'Tuesday Night' disturbs with its simple snapshot of a woman waiting for her lover to wake up; it's the way this turns into musing on the relationship that gets you. Most harrowing of all is 'The Letter', detailing true-life experiences almost too uncomfortable to bear. The subject is mental illness and the questions thrown up are hard to answer. But there's a bravery here in confronting something most people sweep under the carpet. And it takes its toll on Kristin Hersh, as well, when she almost breaks down on the last line. All feminine life is here. A Rhode Island mother-of- two has taken on the soppy, confessional acoustic genre and made it valid once again. As you hear Kristin shaping her father's lyrics on 'Houdini Blues' into her own, the song changes from being about Harry Houdini to being about changing roles, avoiding domesticity and flashing two fingers at the work ethic. And it doesn't take a battering ram of guitars and excessive sturm und drang to get this timeless rock'n'roll lifestyle tip across, just that vowel-hurdling, lived-in voice. 'Hips And Makers' is enough to make you marvel through those long winter nights; enough to make you mesmerised by the sheer power of supposedly powerless music. (8/10) Del Fadele NME 22nd January 1994 KRISTIN HERSH - LONDON BLOOMSBURY THEATRE "IT'S SO quiet in here." mutters Kristin almost to herself. tuning up her guitar for the umpteenth time. She's not wrong. There's a respectful, all-pervasive hush hanging over the crowd. only broken occasionally by sporadic stirs of self-conscious laughter. It's partly because the Bloomsbury is the sort of place where no-one dares talk; any foolishly loud slurp of vodka and orange in row Y would cause half a dozen people down in row A to peer around distractedly. And it's partly because, well, the new year officially. musically. starts here, and a modest Kristin is unwittingly heralding it in. 'Hips And Makers'. the Throwing Muses one's solo debut. is the first platter to unshackle us mentally from the year just past. It's the sort of wonder blast we beg for in January, a record that spectacularly gusts in to clear cluttered heads. induce mighty goose pimples and raise the stakes for the coming months to preposterously high levels; an album that even seems to reduce the latest Tory money-sex-suicide scandal to the level of mere trivia by comparison. Hey - we don't ask for much. That feeling, that rebirth of optimism, has eluded us up to now. The only competition has been the New Wave Of New Wave braggados. merrily leading us down a path sign-posted Ever Decreasing Circles. No ta. Having, gratefully nudged Kristin so far up the deification ladder. you're almost convinced there's a halo hovering above her head as she sits on a red chair, with only a couple of guitars and a leather-trousered cello player for company. She opens with the busy strums Of 'Sundrops' - as abrasive as the music gets tonight. Which isn't harsh at all really, as the cellist weaves around her scrubbed riffs, smoothing the edges out. But the atmosphere does strike you as being utterly stark. Within the deathly quiet, the intricate, clean-cut guitar for songs like 'Houdini Blues' first prick. then melt in the air. 'Tuesday Night' and 'Close Your Eyes' roll by almost effortlessly, deftly perfect. It's also stark because the terwibbly naice Bloomsbury has plunged the audience into virtual darkness, while the yellowish light streaming down on Kristin is so boldly bright, you can see her veins popping 50 yards away. She, and she alone - hunched a little, neck twisted, rolling and writhing - is the atmosphere. Unlike at Smashing Pumpkins' laid-back Raymond Revue Bar acoustic jaunt last summer, we barely have a hand in it. Nothing is added nor subtracted from the readings of the album tracks. Which is all self-contained and rather neat, but a little predictable, until something swipes you with more ravishing intensity than before. 'Teeth' catches you like that. Its spartan, insistent refrain rising and rolling back, and Kristin's voice burning you up inside. It's huge, it's vulnerable, it's strong and it's sexy - all in one. That, and the similarly devastating 'Me And My Charms' grab the glory tonight. Otherwise, spontaneity is reserved for Kristin's little "Why can't I tune this bloody guitar?" niggles. It's at these junctures her airy fairy, dimpled Princess Weird image gets punctured, with a frustrated "Jesus Christ!*' here and an abrupt. annoyed "Fuck" there. She needs a guitar roadie, bless her. "If you guys wore my T-shirts as much as you did Sonic Youth's T-shirts, I wouldn't have to do this," she grumbles. mockingly. Whatever she says, Kristin Hersh's charmed hat is in no danger of slipping off tonight. But that's not to say your life depended on being here. Buy the album, switch the light off, stare at the ceiling and drift away with it, and you'll do just as well. Pleasant musing. Angela Lewi NME ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 05:25:46 +1100 From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: Fumbling Towards Fuzziness Hi Ectites... Another buncha days I haven't had time to do the big EctoReplyThing and have ended up with 180 messages in my little virtual newsgroup to enjoy reading. I hate missing anything in Ecto, so I read every message, which of course means that once again it's 5am and I'm still here.. :-) My sympathies to those of you in the LA area who suffered damage, injury or other distress in the earthquake; I hope you're all OK. I had a bit of mild panic trying to get through to a friend in Santa Barbara (he runs the only youth hostel there - just ask for Brent and tell him I said "hi"! :-) to see if he was OK, as the main phone link to the US was out and calls from here were being routed via the UK! My big news for this week is that I finally got "Fumbling Towards Ecstacy" - thanks to Neil in Vancouver. Neil, thank you! This album is *wonderful*, I can't get it out of the CD player. Your Margot CD is in the mail... :) I like this album far more than "Solace" - the songs are soaked in emotion, where some tracks on Solace left me cold; Sarah's backing vocals are superb too, the best I've heard since that album by a Melbourne woman I keep goijg on about. :) The mastering on this disc is dreadful, by the way - far, far too loud, and I can hear a bit of digital distortion in there on some of the peaks. No wonder it is, as Meri reported, so hard to dub onto tape. Whoever mastered this should be slapped on the wrist and sent back to do a course on dynamic range. And that click at the start of "Good Enough" - slack! But yes, this is indeed a superb album, and I'd like to respectfully ask you to think back to my Top 10 for last year, make it a top 11, and stick this in at number 4. Ta. :) Oh, and I do prefer the version of "Hold On" on the "No Alternative" compilation, possibly because it was the one I heard first, but more likely because its rhythm track is stronger. I'm interviewing Jane at 2pm tomorrow, and I'll get as many EctoQuestions in as possible... Mitch quotes me: > Anthony explains it all: > > >Just my twisted mind working overtime again. > > I have never come across a better exegesis in these pages of the stuff I write > in these pages :-). We should be keeping an EctoQuotes file, and then we can vote for the best at the end of the year...! "terry kroetsch" comes up with Ecto's own "Global Alert" scandal and in the process comes as close to a flame as we're hopefully ever likely to see in here... > PLEASE - HELP ME OUT OF THIS AMATEUR MINDLESS FUCKING TEDIOUS UNINFORMED GROUP What I want to know is - what inspired him to join in the first place? What did he expect? Jelly wrestling? :) Terry, if you're still there, call me amateur, call me uninformed, call me what you want, but if you send insults to this group - my friends - again, I'll get Clarence Thomas IV to save your soul for you. :) At this point I have to mention that my FTE CD is up to "Elsewhere" and there's this bit where Sarah sings "passing through like liquid and.." and the backing vocal sings the same, but in the most beautiful, perfect harmony I have ever heard in my life. Aaaah. Beautiful. And woj, were you mentioning you like the drum sound on this track? This is the trademark Eddie Rayner drum sound as heard on the Margot Smith album! :-) Ian quotes Tim, who originally posted this: > > # # # # ##### ##### > # # # # # # # # # # # # > # # # # # # # # # # > ####### ####### # # # #### ##### ####### > # # # # # # # # # # # > # # # # # # # # # # # # > # # ##### ##### ##### > But found it on his site as: > Tim> # # # # ##### ##### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # > Tim> # # # ####### ####### # # # #### ##### ####### # # # # # # # # # # > Tim> # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ##### ##### ##### Ian, this is Intelligent Networking. It's interpreted the hidden meaning of Tim's hug, which is this - look from left to right; "Global Alert For All: Tim Cook is coming! Watch out America!" :-) woj: > >"Euphoria" - Insides > >This is a strange one - on the Guernica label run by 4AD, this two-piece UK > > haven't heard this yet, but it's on the list. were earwig a uk band? i > thought they were from massachusetts for some vgue reason. Darnit, and I threw out the ultra-pretentious press release, too. Anyone? > >I also bought "So Tonight That I Might See" by Mazzy Star, and am quite > >pleasantly surprised at it. > > i dunno. maybe it was just a mood i was in when _she hangs brightly_ > was released but i instantly fell in love with that album. i enjoy this I bought that after the new one and was comparatively disappointed. > >I third that emotion. :-) Down this end of the world, Margot Smith has had > >Kate Bush and Tori Amos brought up in *every single interview* she's done. > >Ever. > > even yours? ;) :-) Yes, even mine! Not Kate, actually, but Tori, yes. I brought Tori up in context of how I first heard Margot's music (a fellow journalist told me about the first single, saying "if you like Tori, you'll LOVE this" :-) Margot does like Tori, though, and in fact has pinched my UTP cassette to listen to. :) The context she understandably hates having Kate or Tori brought up in during interviews is more the "so you're trying to sound like them" stuff that many come up with... > >The Amiga ListSERV 2.0 I run the Margot mailing list with as of a couple > >weeks ago puts an "-error" address in the "envelope" field, which apparently > >is where bounced messages return to rather than the "From" address. Errors > > well, the errors-to: and listname-errors: headers are not universal. a Mmm, but I mean the envelope field at the very top of the message aftre it's sent out - check the RFC for this, I'm not 100% sure that's how it should be described. It's different to the "From:" and other fields. Steve Lamb takes revenge on Clarence Thomas IV: > Or even better, a few scans from the Sandman story where Lucifer quits > hell and goes into retirement in Austrailia. This sounds like something I'd like to read! :-) Oh, by the way, it's "Australia" with one "i" :-) Anthony "Melbourne EctoMafia" Baxter says: > Wow! According to the latest copy of Beat magazine (Hi Anthony!) > Jane Siberry is playing at the CUB Malthouse on the 16th of Feb. Indeed she is, as I posted here a while back... I guess I'll be seeing you there! Steve Fagg quoted several (including me) over the "Cornflake Girl" sleeve: > >>> The cover features this scrumptious picture of our red-haired goddess, with > >>> a window reflection in the foreground. She is wearing a white top and is > >> > >>Same as the "Cornflake Girl" cover (it's black and white, right?) and the > > > >Not quite. This one is in beautiful color - red hair with blue background. > > The UK CD single of "Cornflake Girl" also has the cover photo in full > colour, not just in black & white. If Bob has a black and white version, > perhaps this is a promo copy? It was me who has the black and white version - it's the sleeve of the Warner Australia cassette promo. A black and white version is also being used for ads, including in NME. I scanned the promo sleeve and that scan is now ftp-able at: cs.uwp.edu:/pub/incoming/pictures/amos.tori/UTPsampler.gif (256 grey, 280Kb) And that's all from me - it's 5.30am now, and I have to get some sleep sometime..! **HUGS** to you all.. - Anthony -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "I kind of feel like I'm Metallica..." - Tori Amos on the perils of long tours, November 1992 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Subject: delurking..... Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 03:38:41 -0800 From: dreaming@nevada.edu greetings everyone! well, I decided to delurk and say that I'm enjoying myself on ecto! thanks vickie!!! ::hugs:: = ) you all seem to be so supportive, which is definitely a plus in times like these!! = ) I've never seen a place like this and I tell everyone about it! it's just ... great! (happy, happy, joy, joy!) just wanted to say... enjoyed the possum and wombat stories. LOL I did! oh, has anyone heard Martin Newell's "The Greatest Living Englishman"? I rather like it. as the cover says.... featuring the New Improved Andy Partridge. think I need to play it a couple of more times to let the songs sink in. about Happy.... thanks to Vickie I'm now a fan!! = ) just haven't gotten past "warpaint" and "rhodesongs". I have all of them but I just need to give myself time. it took me 6 months to flip over HoL when I first purchased it. = / I must admit to being suprised while wandering in the local tower record store I decided to look up Happy (fully thinking they wouldn't have it and happily I was wrong!) and low and behold... they carried 2 copies of "rhodesongs"! (which isn't bad for las vegas!) Sarah M is coming to town towards the end of February. now if only Tori would visit.... (I've given up on Kate ever coming to the west coast!) everyone keeps saying the FTE is brilliant... can't wait till it comes in. I work at a radio station and the rock director said it's going to go straight into medium when it does... he's got a copy and really liked it. saw "In The Name Of The Father" the other day.... it's *brilliant*!!! I highly recommend it! then again I *adore* DDL & ET. even though I watch anything w/ DDL in it, I wish I hadn't seen "Last of the Mohicans". anyways... ITNOTF is wonderfully acted and directed, the cinematography was superb and the SDTK... well, I *must* get it when it is released!!! I blathered on enough for tonight... guess I'll crawl back into the woodwork.... ; ) peace, suzanne PS: ::hugs:: to Vickie, Revvie, Fili, and Rava!!! see you on #ecto!! ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 13:31:10 CET From: Ilka Heber Subject: I'm back Hi Everybody! Well, I can tell you for sure that I'll *never* go to New England or Nova Scotia at this time of the year ever again!!! It was *freezing*!!!!! = ) Anyway, I bought a lot of goodies! Here are the CDs I bought, quite a few of them where recommended here, so I got them to make up my own mind about them: % Saved by WATFILE/Plus V5.2 define NUMMER = 3 N define INTERPRET = 28 L define TITEL = 35 L define AUFNAHME = 7 L bye Amos, Tori Little Drummer Boy (Promo) Amos, Tori Cornflake Girl (Maxi) Amos, Tori After the Rain (Live) Arden, Jann Time for Mercy Berry, Heidi The Moon and the Sun (Promo) Bjoerk Venus as a Boy (Maxi) Bjoerk Big Time Sensuality (Maxi) Bush, Kate Rubberband Girl (Maxi) Cranberries Everbody Else is Doing it, So Why.. Genesis The Lamb Dies Down on Broadway Germano, Lisa Happiness Indigo Girls Rites of Passage E Broken Toy Shop Mann, Aimee Stupid Thing (Maxi) McLachlan, Sarah Possession (Maxi) Nova, Heather Glow Stars Nova, Heather Blow (live) Story The Angel in the House Sugarcubes Life's Too Good 10,000 Maniacs Last Days in Eden 10,000 Maniacs Few & Far Between (Maxi) Tribe Abort Wheel, Catherine Chrome Williams, Victoria Happy Come Home Soundtrack Philadelphia I must say that I'm not so sure about Victoria Williams, but maybe the album will grow on me. I certainly like Tribe, Lisa Germano, E, Indigo Girls and Jann Arden (hi, Tim! = ) ). I haven't listened to everything yet, it's just too much... = ) Anyway, that's all for now, byeeeeeee, Ilka = ) P.S.: Jessica, in case I'm signed off from the list, can you please put me back to the digest version? Thanks a lot!! ======================================================================== Subject: Re: I'm back Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 09:46:31 -0500 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu Ilka wrote: >Wheel, Catherine Chrome That's "Catherine Wheel." It's a band name, not a person's name. Great album, though definitely not ectofodder. (a catherine wheel is an instrument of torture; some people find the band to be very aptly named...just ask Mike) Jeff ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 09:59:26 -0500 From: Mike Matthews Subject: Re: I'm back Jeffy writes: > >That's "Catherine Wheel." It's a band name, not a person's name. Great >album, though definitely not ectofodder. >(a catherine wheel is an instrument of torture; some people find the band >to be very aptly named...just ask Mike) heh heh heh. I bought that CD, figuring Catherine Wheel was a female vocalist, and Jeffy had high praise for Ferment (which I ordered through Columbia House but they were perpetually out of stuck, so I cancelled that order). Brought it in to work without listening it, warned the folks that were here that it was an experiment and I had never heard it. It was hideous. Nobody liked it, not even me (to be honest, the last half of the CD isn't that bad; but the first is just screeching to mine ears). We have this standing rule, only broken once in the time that I've been here, that the only person who can stop a CD is the person who put it in. The only time that was broken, incidentally, was a co-worker stopping Betty in favor of Amy Grant. Not many folks here liked Betty, but fewer liked Amy Grant (I was fairly pissed at him too, for a time). But I digress. Then I learn that it's not Catherine *Wheel*, it's *Catherine* Wheel. An instrument of torture. Fitting, I thought. Mike ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 08:23:41 -0700 From: "Alex Gibbs" Subject: Re: delurking..... Suzanne (dreaming@nevada.edu) says: > well, I decided to delurk and say that I'm enjoying myself on > ecto! thanks vickie!!! ::hugs:: = ) Hey there Suzanne! Nice to see you again, and welcome on #ecto. :) AlexGibbs arg@kilimanjaro.opt-sci.arizona.edu |\| | (~, |-| ~|~ |-| /-\ \/\/ |< Short sign on a short post. ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 15:49:55 GMT From: imy@wcl-rs.bham.ac.uk (Ian Young) Subject: Catherine Wheel (was Re: I'm back) >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Matthews writes: Mike> Jeffy writes: >> That's "Catherine Wheel." It's a band name, not a person's >> name. Great album, though definitely not ectofodder. Mike> I bought that CD, figuring Catherine Wheel was a female Mike> vocalist, and Jeffy had high praise for Ferment [...] Mike> It was hideous. Nobody liked it, not even me (to be honest, Mike> the last half of the CD isn't that bad; but the first is Mike> just screeching to mine ears). [...] I must say that having heard both albums, I'd rate Ferment far above Chrome. The songs are much more melodic... well, perhaps Tim Friese- Green[1]'s production just emphasises the melodic aspects more. My favorites from Ferment; _Black Metallic_, _Ferment_, _Salt_. Who produced Chrome? I forget. Isn't one of them Bruce Dickinson's cousin or something? Ian. [1] Produced Talk Talk's last 3(?) albums. ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 14:19:18 EST From: vickie@pilot.njin.net Subject: Some Love-Hounds tidbits Knowing that many Ectophiles are also rec.music.gaffa readers, and since rmg has been down for 2 weeks, here are a few tidbits from today's Love-Hounds digest. Welcome back Ilka & AnthonyK! Hi Suzanne! (*Hugs* to all!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 12:00:05 -0500 Subject: Love-Hounds Digest #10.23 In this digest: * Cocteau Twins Tour Dates * 7" singles Does this newsgroup exist? HELP! Need news of Kate Convention! Re: The Whole Video Kate on NPR sound file rec.music.gaffa Tori & KBC Jane Siberry on Radio! Kate Bush Club Magazine out now! [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] Date: Sun, 23 Jan 94 22:34 CST From: chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (chris williams) Subject: Kate on NPR sound file Chris here, I've uploaded a 8-bit, 11-khz .WAV format audio file of the NPR interview to: /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/multimedia/audio of: wuarchive.wustl.edu I made a .au format version, but it was so much trouble uploading the one file (neither rz or kermit worked, and I ultimatley had to install SLIP - talk about fun) that I decided to let somebody else have some fun too. It's 2521951 bytes, so I wouldn't recomend trying to get this sucker via ftp-mail, unless you wish to be forever in your sysadmin's thoughts. Chris Williams of Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (his) vickie@njin.rutgers.edu (hers) P.S. Still no rec.music.gaffa. Has anyone posted a message to alt.wee.willie. wisner? [][][][][][][][][][] Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa From: niklasn@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nik Newark plc) Subject: Jane Siberry on Radio! Organization: University of Sussex Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 09:51:04 GMT Jane Siberry is being interviewed on BBC Radio 3 this evening at about 10.45. Amongst the questions she will answer is "Why doesn't she like the colour of her lipstick on the front cover of her latest album?". Heavy. Nik [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 12:27:26 GMT From: nbc@inf.rl.ac.uk Subject: Kate Bush Club Magazine out now! I have just received the latest copy of the KBC magazine - the Red Shoes Issue. It is packed with great photos mostly colour but some B&W. I know some people will not have received theirs yet so I wont spoil if for them by giving too much away. I will just say that there are articles by Kate, Del, Paddy and Stuart Arnold. Lots of stills from The Line, The Cross, The Curve and a pull-out supplement with swaps etc. that opens up into a calendar with a great photo of Kate. Well worth the money! Neil -- Neil Calton UUCP: ..!mcsun!ukc!rlinf!nbc Informatics Department, NSFNET: nbc%inf.rl.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, BITNET: nbc%uk.ac.rl.inf@ukacrl Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0QX JANET: nbc@uk.ac.rl.inf England Tel: +44 235 44 5740 Fax: +44 235 44 5893 [][][][][][][][][][] End of Love-Hounds Digest Vickie ======================================================================== From: halasz@caip.rutgers.edu (Hala'sz Sa'ndor) Subject: Re: Hidden Messages from God Date: 24 Jan 94 19:34:12 GMT Summary: Sounds a Proverb to me ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 14:32:13 -0500 (EST) From: King o' Pain Subject: _Swing the Statue!_ Re-Released? Someone (I don't remember who since I stupidly deleted the message) was wondering if Victoria Williams' _Swing the Statue!_ had been re-released on CD. I don't know if it has been re-released, but today I saw both a new copy and a used one at a local record store. I decided to buy one since I don't know if this is just a bizarre coincidence that the store has 2 copies of a possibly out-of-print CD. But I would speculate that it probably *has* been re-released since such bizarre coincidences rarely occur. Anyway, that's all the information I have... Stuart ______________________________________________________________________________ Stuart Myerburg "I need more things. I need more money. Emory Univ. Law School Don't want to work. Want things for free." labspm@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu -Jane Siberry _o_ |< ______________________________________________________________________________ ======================================================================== From: brianb@netcom.com (Brian Bloom) Subject: Cheezy Casio Keyboards :) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 11:45:32 -0800 (PST) > > [...] I had had one of those > > synths myself. This thing was standard cheap casio, though it probably > > wasn't cheap at the time. It could only play one note at a time, though it > > did have all those cheesy Casio rhythms (rhumba, disco, etc.) that you > > could play along. It had a memory function so you could record melodies > > and play them back. And, most humorous, IT WAS ALSO A CALCULATOR! The > > keys had little numbers on them and of course there was an LCD. Most > > humorous. > > You're talking about those little CasioTone gadgets, aren't you? > About a foot long with little pushbuttons? My sister got one from a > relative when we kids. She didn't use it much but I had lots of fun > playing with it. That memory function you mention was brilliant - you > could laboriously type in a melody in memory mode note by note, > deleting errors. Then you could play it back with the AutoPlay key, so > you could play a tune of sorts even if you couldn't play a keyboard by > punching in the notes and then tapping out the rhythm later... Ah, The Casio VL-Tone! Yeah, i too had one of those (still do, though it is now defunct) and had great fun with it. What I used to love to do was key in a pattern, typically some scaling kind of scheme. Then set the "learn" tempo very low and re-tap the rhythm keys as fast as possible. Finally, crank the tempo back up and play the bit. You could get a blurring cascade of notes zinging out of the thing. Then loop that and use it for whatever... Yep, them were the good 'ol days! -- br!an __ ____ __ ____ __ __ (__==__) /\ \ / \_\ / /\ / \ \ / |\ / /\ (oo) ( moo.) / \_\ / /\ |_| / / /| /\ \ \ / ||/ / / /-------\/ -' / /\ | |\ \/ /_/_ / / / \ \/ \ \ / |/ / / / | U.T.|| / \/ |_| \ __ \_\ /_/ / \ /\ \_\ / /| / / * ||----|| / /\ ./_/ \ \ \/_/_\_\/ \ \ \/_// / | / / ^^ ^^ \ \/ |_| \ \_\ /_/\ \ \_\ /_/ /|_/ / Br!an Bloom \__/_/ \/_/ \_\/ \/_/ \_\/ \_\/ brianb@netcom.com .. but music hides me so well, ..and reveals me.. oh well - HR ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 11:31:18 PST From: Neal Copperman Subject: tv spottings I did a bold thing and turned on my roomies tv, just for Victoria and AImee. Can't remember the last time I did that. Rather enjoyed Victoria's performance, although I got a little bored with the song as it progressed. Aimee was pretty good too, but she seemed really nervous, and a bit more restrained than usual. THat was the first time I'd seen Conan O'Brian, and I thought he was really horrible. Is he always that bad? I could only watch the first 10 minutes and had to turn the sound off until Aimee came on. Just horrible. And speaking of Aimee - looks like IMago is giving her an incredible amount of support, what with all these appearances and actual singles and stuff. I got a postcard from them this weekend asking me to request Stupid Thing on local radio and MTV. Too bad the radio stations they suggested and gave me phone numbers for are all in LA, so I can't listen to them anyway, but the thought was nice. My roommate things they are dumb pushing Stupid THing, which she thinks is the worst song on the album. And speaking of Victoria - Here's a little quote from an article on New ORleans in the LA travel section. "Then we piled into a couple of cabs, destination the Howlin' Wolf, a rock club in the Warehouse District downtown, not far from the French Quarter. The quirky and delightful singer-songwriter Victoria Williams wsa onstage backed by the COntinental Drifters, a pedigreed band - composed of a dB, a Bangle, a Cowsill, a couple of Subdudes and a guy from the Dream Syndicate - that has taken up residency in the Big Easy." Also in the LA Times, a note about all the majors actively pursuing Liz Phair, who still has one album in her contract with Matador. Apparently, the belief is that she will spurn them all and actually renew her contract with Matador, who will give her the control she wants for the albums, videos, movies, whatever. Have you been tidbitted out yet? Neal ======================================================================== 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)