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 #284 ecto, Number 284 Tuesday, 7 July 1992 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Re: HAPPY (Happy..happy..appy...py) Echoes + Happy Visit with Steve, KaTe musical, & snoring horns let's try this again... Sophie B; Happy's mistakes All About Eve aieeee! how I spend my summer vacation Crazy Diamonds and Solace for the Less Fortunate All About Eve and Sarah Laurie Anderson HAPPY (Happy..happy...) -REPOST Happy bloopers and Sarah ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 6 Jul 92 19:07:52 EDT From: Vickie Mapes Subject: Re: HAPPY (Happy..happy..appy...py) Mike, I'd still like to make up a tape that includes the WXPN interview, this Echoes interview and some of my interview. It would be easier to have everything on one tape than for Doug to mess around with 3 different tapes. I'd like to get a copy of the Echoes interview from you, because I actually forgot all about it and didn't record it. Bob Brown (are you still there?) *pleasepleaseplease* let me know if it's possible to get a copy of the WXPN interview from you. In case Bob's not reading anymore, did anyone else tape it? I'm sure lots of people want to hear these new interviews and the sooner I can send a tape to Doug, the sooner everyone can "share the wealth." Vickie ======================================================================== From: iamecto@chinet.chi.il.us (kirstin hargie) Subject: Echoes + Happy Date: Mon, 6 Jul 92 19:04:16 CDT Caught the Happy interview on Sunday morning. Fairly interesting, but nothing new - i.e. that ectophiles haven't heard before. It was produced well though, although the guy who does the show has that "i'm pretending to be sophisticated, sultry, and spacey" DJ voice that I find incredibly irritating. They did talk about the 1st4 which was cool to hear... Ob HBP = i found the Breeze song so all can have a taste of caribbean dub poetry. I also included a song by Grace Jones called Libertango (which was played a few times in the movie Frantic) - whether you want to include that on the HBP is up to those Greg et.al who are producing the final tape. It was great meeting SteveV. on his way through. We managed to fit all his stuff in my little car. I'm just sorry I couldn't find the time to ecto-ize at V&C's place on wed. night. Anyway hope you had a good race Steve. On another weird note - are there any ectophiles from Mississippi?? Yes, yours truly may end up in Oxford MS next year. I'm really getting p'od at acedemia - but oh well...guess i'm a masocist.... tatoots kiri  ======================================================================== Date: 1-JUL-1992 23:11:09.04 From: Valerie Nozick Subject: Visit with Steve, KaTe musical, & snoring horns Here I sit at emory U, telnetting to Connecticut, & with my license still intact. *sigh* (last night the 'puter was being mean & giving me attitude) Anyhow, i've just come from having a wonderful visit with Steve VanD, who was in town for the Peachtree Road Race. I first met him on Thursday night at about 9:30pm, when I got a call from a very weary traveller. I picked him up at the airport, he checked into the hotel, & we went off in search of food. In Atlanta, you would think that we could find something better than IHOP that's open at 12am, but no such luck. But hey, those southerners cook up a mean turkey sandwich! We also got to see each other on Saturday for July 4th, and finally on Sunday, when I had to take him to the airport. We listened to most of our music in my car, while he was holding on for dear life, so he didn't unfortunately get the full experience. We also tried listening to Happy, but unfortunately the other 25 people at the party weren't interested & switched it to classic rock crap. (I felt better later on, tho', when someone asked if me or my brother had any Enya.) But I had a wonderful time meeting him, and am looking forward to next year's race. Steve is a really nice and interesting guy who looks a bit like Popeye, and even can sound that way. And he does a mean imitation of the Atlanta Airport subway system! Ack! Someone's calling...I'll get back to this in the next letter... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie Nozick "happy rhodes, kate bush, tori amos? vnozick@eagle.wesleyan.edu atlanta won't know what hit her!" ---a soon-to-be-southerner ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================================================================== Date: 1-JUL-1992 23:37:30.39 From: Valerie Nozick Subject: let's try this again... i hate it when people interrupt a well-crafted (okay, maybe just crafter) letter! anyhow, some of you might be interested in a musical version of wuthering heights which i found at the tower records here in town. as far as i can tell, it hasn't been performed live anywhere, but was commissioned by The Bronte Society (some things get capitalized no matter what. :-) It only mentions the KaTe version once in the liner notes: ' -- and not forgetting KaTe Bush's song "Wuthering Heights" which topped the charts! (no, it's not spelled KaTe in the notes!) for more info, check the posting in r.m.g or write me. you'll probably be hearing a lot about it in the next few days, anyhow, as i listen to it a bit more and decide that it's not the load of industrial waste that it smells like right now. it's been one of those strange days here today...i was driving to an appointment, when my car horn went berserk. i merely honked at a very incopnsiderate driver in a bmw (don't they all seem to be driving bmws!), when my horn decided that it kinda liked being on. imagine driving 15 miles to a car dealer with the horn sharing time with jane siberry! jane, if you're ever considering reorchestrating the first album, do NOT include a horn section! :-) so i had to go see batman returns to cheer me up. as vickie said, it's a love 'em or hate 'em movie. i personally prefer my movies to have plot and characterization, but tim burton does have a fantastic tech staff! (except for the makeup person...michael keaton is looking too old for the role, as is michele pfeiffer) there's one particular shot that amazed me...catwoman, rather selina is being threatened by christopher walken (schreck, that is), and the lighting is set up to make selina's glasses' shadows look like cat eyes. hmmm...was catwoman rendered up the spout by batman??? (sorry, mitch!) Goodnight, sleep tight, and don't let the bedbugs bite! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie Nozick "happy rhodes, kate bush, tori amos? vnozick@eagle.wesleyan.edu atlanta won't know what hit her!" ---a soon-to-be-southerner ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ======================================================================== Date: 1-JUL-1992 23:47:23.91 From: MTARR@eagle.wesleyan.edu Subject: Sophie B; Happy's mistakes Hi! Vickie observes about Sophie B. Hawkins: }I was surprised while reading the lyrics to that song and }realized that it is a lesbian or bi love song. [Stuff about lyrics deleted] }I'll bet most of the radio/video programmers have never taken a }look at the lyrics. I don't follow charts so I don't know how }high it got, but it has to be the highest charting lesbian/bi }love song ever. Hm- that's really intriguing! I'm sure someone along the way noticed the slant to the lyrics, but let it go figuring she was just singing it from the point of view of a man. And most of the Top-40 DJs don't have any clue what the hell they're playing at any given time anyway. I really wonder if it is the highest- charting lesbian/bi love song- have there been others on the charts, even? I really don't know- if anybody can help me out on this one feel free to jump in. :) And, to start a discussion seed ob Happy: Here's my list of the songs she never should have bothered recording, all in my VERY humble opinion. React away, I can take it. ;) He's Alive Suicide Song Box H.A.P. I Have A Heart To Be E. Mortal These five send me leaping for the fast-forward every time. And yes, I have sat myself down and forced myself to listen to them and try to find something redeeming about them, but it just isn't happening. "He's Alive" makes me squirm (if she'd used some better synth sounds it would be a lot more bearable), "Suicide Song" is just TOO damn depressing, "Box H.A.P." annoys the sh*t out of me, "I Have a Heart" for some reason reminds me of the easy-listening fare my parents used to listen to on the radio (and no, I have no clue why), and "To Be E. Mortal" is about 6 minutes too long. But five out of five albums is a damn good percentage. I could rave for hours about the ones I praise the Universe every day that she recorded- I just thought I'd bring this up and see what happened. Fire away. ======================================================================= |Meredith A. Tarr mtarr@eagle.wesleyan.edu Life? WHAT life???| ======================================================================= ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 6 Jul 92 23:59:56 EDT From: kosky@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Anthony Kosky) Subject: All About Eve Gregory asks (about All About Eve): >mm, our illustrious and sometimes multi-hued moderator, jessica, has >said some good things about these folks. she played me enough to get >me curious, but i have yet to really hear an album of theirs in proper >listening conditions... is there a consensus that "Scarlet And Other >Stories" is a good first album to buy? > Hmm. Actually this is difficult. There are now three albums out: All About Eve, Scarlet And Other Stories and Touched By Jesus. I haven't really made up my mind on where TBJ stands in comparison to the other two yet. I think probably not quite as good, though it certainly has some good tracks on it. Of the first two I would say that I probably prefer AAE as an album as a whole. Scarlet has some really excellent tracks on it (my favourate being Lady Jane, though I think that's not the proper title), better than any of the individual tracks on the first album, but doesn't seem quite as consistant as an album as a whole. Actually I think any of these albums would be a good place to start. However I believe that that TBJ hasn't been released in the US, and Scarlet has already been deleted (at least it wasn't listed when I tried to get a copy for someone a little while ago), so this may simplify your decision a bit. -Anthony ======================================================================== Subject: aieeee! Date: Tue, 07 Jul 92 00:13:48 -0400 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu But, but, but, but Meredith, how could you say that about "To Be E. Mortal"?? The length of that song never bothered me. It's so soothing. I absolutely love it. The only song whose length bugged me was "The Chase" which I felt dragged on for about 5 mintues too long. My opinion of it changed completely when I transcribed it. I agree with you on "Box H.A.P." I haven't heard "Suicide Song" yet so who knows? "I Have a Heart" is beautiful so no, you can't take that away. "He's Alive" isn't one of my favorites, but it certainly isn't unbearable. The only songs I fast forward through are "Box H.A.P." and "I'll Let You Go." I really like the latter, but for some reason it grates on me a bit, so I usually avoid it. Besides, it seperates two my favorites--"Given In" and "Possessed" (as if y'all didn't know that...;-). Those are without a doubt two of her best songs. (Y'know, it's amazing just how strong so many of the songs are on Volume I. I can't imagine living without songs like those I just mentioned, or "The Wretches Gone Awry" or ....) Wish I had the 1st4 on CD. The tapes are all out in my car, and as I've already listened to _Warpaint_ today, I ended up listening to the Renaissance album "Tales of 1001 Nights" or whatever it's called. Not bad, and it's been awhile since I've heard it, but still not really satisfying. I wanna hear "Given In" and I'm too tired to walk out to my car. Oh well. Bed time. Jeff |Jeffrey C. Burka | "Show what you are / Be strong, be true | | | Time for you to / Be who you are." | |jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu | --Happy Rhodes | ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 7 Jul 92 00:26:03 EDT From: justin@crim.ca (Justin Bur) Subject: Re: All About Eve Touched by Jesus is quite different from the first two: it does not have any songs that catch my attention the way Martha's Harbour, Wild Hearted Woman, Apple Tree Man, December, The Pearl Fishermen (to name a few off the top of my head) do. It also doesn't have Tim Britchenko, who co-wrote most of the songs on the first two albums with Julianne Regan (if I'm not all mixed up). It's still an interesting album, though. (Not released in Canada, either.) I quite agree with Anthony about the relative merits of the first two albums. I would add that Scarlet and other stories has a stunningly beautiful cover (designed by Stylorouge) which was one of the reasons I picked up the album when it first came out. But when I feel like listening to All About Eve, it's usually their first that I choose to put on first. justin ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 6 Jul 92 23:38:57 PDT From: stevev@greylady.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) Subject: how I spend my summer vacation I returned from my trip Sunday, but since I was suffering from a combination of jet lag and net lag (over 50 new mail messages waiting for me) I didn't report back to Ecto last night. First of all, I would like to thank Chris & Vickie, Kirsten Hargie, and all the other Chicago-area Ectophiles who came to C&V's on Wednesday night, although I was sorry that I missed meeting Jorn Barger. Chris & Vickie have the 24-Hour Church of Kate, a spectacle that I would recommend to any Love-Hound or Ectophile who can make it to Chicago. During my 22-hour stay in Chicago I couldn't possibly have made a dent in the incredible amount of Kate videos and memorabilia that they own. I also saw two sets of concert photos from Happy's live performances, which made me regret missing them all the more, and recorded my contribution to the Happy Birthday Project, Tom Lehrer's "We'll All Go Together When We Go". If Happy's sense of humor is anything like I would guess, I am sure she will enjoy it. I would like to thank Valerie Nozick even more for her help and hospitality while I was in Atlanta. My flight out of Chicago ended up being more interesting that anyone would have guessed since a level 5 thunderstorm (on a scale of 1 to 6) passed over O'Hare and shut down the airport completely when my flight was second in line to take off. The control tower staff even evacuated the tower to avoid being there if the high winds blew out one of the windows. After the thunderstorm had passed, we ended up having to refuel and change the flight crew because of the delay, then waited even longer because Hartsfield Airport in Atlanta was closed temporarily due to thunderstorms there, and the end result was that I was four and a half hours late arriving in Atlanta, and had thereby missed my scheduled ride to my hotel. However, Valerie very promptly came and picked me up when I called her from the airport, and also brought me back for my departure, and invited me to a very enjoyable party at her brother's house the evening of July 4. She also introduced me to the Atlanta Tower Records, where they were selling Diamanda Galas' _Plague Mass_ on CD for $7. I haven't listened to it yet, but I'm sure it will be . . . interesting. I'd write more but I have to be to jury duty (ugh) at 8:00 tomorrow morning. However, I do intend to relate the tale of the delayed flight and the Peachtree Road Race in more detail. Valerie also has pictures of me now, so some of you may end up seeing what that distant Oregonian Ectophile looks like. ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 7 Jul 92 13:16:09 MED From: brage@id.dth.dk (Jens P. Brage) Subject: Crazy Diamonds and Solace for the Less Fortunate Hi, Chris wrote: > To Jeff: I think we ALL hate it when that happens. Thankfully you > DID have the CD. (Excellent choice, BTW. If I were going to have to go > crazy w/music in my head, that'd probably be the album I'd choose. > Probably my favorite song of all time (though it occasionally gets > temporarily supplanted by new and exciting ones) is "Wish You Were > Here"...a small story about that song, sometime :). Well, if you won't give your story, here's my "Shine on Crazy Diamond" `story': Last year I was at a workshop in Lenggries (south of Munich, Germany) and one evening I went to sit on the balcony outside my room, not really aware of which tape was in my walkman. Well, I turned it on, and while the setting sun broke through the clouds and onto the mountains, Pink Floyd played a live version of "Shine on..." (from "Delicate Sound of Thunder"). I recommend the experience! [It should be noted that Denmark is *flat* --- Our highest `mountain', the "Sky Mountain" or "Heaven Mountain" is about 150m high! So real mountains are an experience to be savored... [One of my colleagues (who has also ordered Warpaint) has just corrected me: We actually have a much higher peak in Denmark, it's 172m high! ;-)]] And Mark said: > I think Sarah is _very_ subtle. You don't catch a lot of the depth in > her music on the first listen. But if you listen to it a bit more, you > begin to notice more and more of what she put into it. It's worth > trying... I had much the same experience with "Touch": It didn't sound that interesting at first, but it gets better every time I listen to it. I haven't heard "Solace" (yet!). While Jessica exulted: > I got a special present from Happy today. :) I hate > to make you all terribly jealous, but i jsut have to > tell you!! :) Too bad, you were a good moderator, but when the international ecto lynch party arrives... ;-) > It's a *very* beautiful 8x10 black and white promo photo > of her, bare shoulders, hair brushed back behind her neck, > one hand up on her left shoulder. (which is, of course, in the right > of the picture). It says, in the lower left corner in block letters > "Happy RHodes" (of course:) > and of course it is signed: "To Jessica, With the voice of an angel... > All my love! Happy Rhodes" Congratulations! Well, you can't spoil my mood anyway(:-)): I'm pretty sure the 1st4 are waiting at the post office for me... Yeah! And the package should also contain the AG tee-shirt, so Happy's art are about to make its first appearance in the streets of Copenhagen! Jens P. Brage (jpb@id.dth.dk)| Between those in constant power and those in Design Automation Group |constant pain. Between those who run to glory Center of Integrated Electronics|and those who cannot run. Tell me, which ones Technical University of Denmark |are the cripples and which ones touch the sky? ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 07 Jul 92 13:43:59 MEZ From: Dirk Kastens Subject: All About Eve and Sarah Hi folks, Anthony says: >On a more music related fron, I haven't seen the band All About Eve >mentioned on this group, though they would probably fit in pretty well >with alot of the artists covered here, and I suspect that alot of >people here would like them. They're sort of a folk-rock band, and >their lead singer has a superb voice. My favourite of the albums is >the second, "Scarlet And Other Stories" which is not as consistently >good as the first (self titled) album, but has some particularly excellent >tracks on it. I agree. SAOS is a very athmospheric and melodious album. And the singer (don't remember her name) has a very nice voice. A couple of weeks ago I saw a short cut of a concert where they performed one song of their latest album. I was rather disappointed. The band played quite unenthusiastic and the musicians were, let me say it harshly, dilettante. And they looked like a hippy band of the early 70s. But this short impression didn't detract from my favor for SAOS. Mark says about Solace: >I bought Solace on the recommendation of other folks on Ecto. The >first time I listened to it, I was _very_ disappointed - I thought it >was dull, uninspired, etc. But since I had bought it, I forced my self >to listen to it a couple more times, to see if it might grow on me. >Around the third listen, it started to really catch me - I started >noticing some wonderful things about it. And now, I can't stop >listening to it. I find it absolutely enchanting. I came across Solace on Ecto, too. I've never heard her name before but suddenly I found Solace at a record store. I listened to it - it was a Saturday morning and I still felt drowsy - and after the first song I was totally hypnotized. My flesh began to creep by the chorus of Drawn to the Rhythm and Into the Fire. After the fourth song I bought the album and I call it one of the best that I have. Dirk ______ ______ | | Late one night a happy martian with nothing to do | | | D | made the perfect pleasure drug and he called it | K | |______| the CUBE |______| (Thomas Dolby) ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 07 Jul 92 11:23:08 MEZ From: Dirk Kastens Subject: Laurie Anderson Hello, everybody. In the latest issue of the German KEYS magazine (no, not KEYBOARDS) appeared an interview with Laurie Anderson. The most of it is about the technical aspects of her music but some of her statements are applicable to the music of Happy or Tori, I think. KEYS: How would you describe your general attitude towards avant-garde? L.A.: It disappears! The reason is that everything gets categorized. But I'm not interested in categorizing things. I'm interested in taking things apart. I want to work in a way without rules, so that I don't have to check permanently: is this avant-garde? It's not, stop it! Is this too complicated? Oops, better stop. But why? Just because it's more simple? Definitons and classifications are made for keeping the world under control. That's the reason why television exists; it's the reason why magazines exist. Things are categorized and it's guaranteed that everyone stays within his limits. It's an obvious cliche. It means to me that it results in a less interesting world. It means that the people who are in power are able to control every situation. All these definitons - this is modern art! This is avant-garde! - are made for selling things and keeping control. I'm little interested in both. I've never been interested in selling records. KEYS: What's the best motivation for your work? L.A.: I want to see the things in their real manner. This means the most to me: not to regard things like I want them to be or like others see them. I have the feeling that most people ,including myself, are living in an odd fantasy. We don't really think about what happens around us. ... Racial conflicts and censorship are very high-explosive topics in the USA. The problems with violence and control - I look at this all and I think: I can't ignore these things. But where do I stand? As an artist I must try to keep my distance... It will take an influence on my work anyway. ... I want to observe and describe these things, may they change or not. I don't think it to be the job of an artist to improve the world. Enough people want to do this and I watch them how they louse up everything - just because they have an idea of what is good for us. Usually they are wrong. - Have a nice day. Dirk. ______ ______ | | Late one night a happy martian with nothing to do | | | D | made the perfect pleasure drug and he called it | K | |______| the CUBE |______| (Thomas Dolby) ======================================================================== Date: 07 Jul 92 10:13:18 EDT From: Subject: HAPPY (Happy..happy...) -REPOST This message seems to have been munged rather than digested, so here it is again. As we speak, I am about to transcribe the interview. If you have already done it, send me email NOW. I am mjm@zylab.mhs.compuserve.com. ---------------------------------- Reposted message follows ------------- I was fortunate enough this weekend both to have been in the WBEZ (Chicago PR station) listening area and to have remembered to set my alarm for 4:58am. And i actually got up to. And slid a cassette into the machine, and turned on the receiver, and *bingo* 30 seconds later a man who must have swallowed a platoon of ludes said something along the lines of "welcome to echoes. today we are featuring an interview/music of happy rhodes. etc. etc." (I'll transcribe it if no one else does by Tuesday). Anyways about 10 minutes into the show, after some new age music that will cure all your ills and put you into the same state as the show's emcee, 8 minutes of happy interview ensued, interlaced with excerpts from songs, and followed by "All Things". I must say it sounded *mighty fine* and her music really did fit in well with the whole tone of the show. I am still in a quandary as to why any show would air 5-7am Sunday morning with any hope of getting more than 3 listeners. Kind of like going to an obscure bar to listen to some unknown at 3am Tuesday night only to find that the audience is composed of two of the band member's mothers, a sister and a brother, two wives and the family hamster. Well, you get the idea. In any case, I've got the whole thing, in its entirety, including the intro under which I believe Phobos was playing, complete and full, in full dolby sound, in stereo, with surrounding kitaro tunes, on chrome cassette tape, so if no one *else* taped it (*as if*), I'll happily forward a copy to Doug for disbursement to the slobbering masses. On other fronts, I was very fortunate to catch the Roches (3 sister singing group) as they breezed through the windy city Thursday. Very fine and a must to see in concert. I have their first three albums, but they sound *great* live, and are extremely entertaining to watch... the way they interact and play off each other. Hell, it's a whole psychological study right up on stage. Highly recommended. This week, it's a solo recording of Warren Zevon (can't wait) and Jonathan Richman, spreader of good will and affection-evagelist extraordinaire (actually he sings and plays the guitar)... again if he comes to your town, drop the mixmaster and go go go. Combine that with a fine cloud/sky/fireworks display in Evanston Saturday night and I guess we're all doing pretty well. I even managed to completely avoid the Taste pandemonium this year. Oh joy. And so the summer smooths on. -mjm (mike mendelson) (mjm@zylab.mhs.compuserve.com) ======================================================================== From: kyrlidis@athena.mit.edu Subject: Happy bloopers and Sarah Date: Tue, 07 Jul 92 12:12:06 EDT Hi, Let me join the ongoing debate... Meredith I will agree with you on two songs. 'Box H.A.P.' and 'E.Mortal'. The first one I don't like at all. The second one I don't mind, it's great music to sleep to, but it would be better if it was a 3 minute song and not 33 minutes (that's how long it seems :) ). I used to hate more songs, like for example 'I'm going back', but I now have grown to sort of like it. 'He's alive' I love because it's about Alice, and I love Happy Monsters. 'Suicide Song' is kinda depressing, but I haven't heard enough of it to make up my mind if I love it or hate it. And 'I have a heart' is simply beautiful!! When I was on vacation in Vermont in December, I kept humming this song all the time, and so I have fond memories of it. [Then why would anyone hum a song about being suicidal during a ski(?)-trip? Funny thing is I was having a good time too! ] On to Sarah. I had heard about Sarah McLachlan from my cousin in Toronto, who kept saying that I should buy her album 'Touch'. But this coming from a person who drank from the Inca fountain of youth in Peru ;) wasn't enough for me. Then all the talk in .gaffa started about how 'Solace' was out in Canada, and the US record company just wouldn't release it. I thought, sounds interesting, but I have to listen first. And then came the famous dinner in NY and back to Boston ecto-trip last December, and on the way back as we were hitting the Mass Turnpike around daybreak, and echoes of Lene Lovich skipping through her songs were ringing in my ears, Greg asked Klaus to play the 'Touch' album. The soothing notes of 'Out of the Shadows' and 'Vox' hit me right away as the sun was rising and by the time 'Steaming' was on, I was hooked, in fact the next week I bought 'Touch' and liked it even better. 'Solace' came out not too long afterwards, and I thought it was a little more somber, but still songs like 'Black', 'Drawn to the rhythm', 'Back door man' and others kept me captivated. And then I saw her live in Boston, and her amazing concert certified her status in my books of favorite singers. OK? Angelos ------- 'I walk away from light and sound down stairways leading underground' ======================================================================== 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. -- jessica (jessica@ns1.rutgers.edu)