Errors-To: owner-ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Reply-To: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Sender: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu From: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu To: owner-ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Bcc: ecto-digest@ns1.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto #1163 ecto, Number 1163 Friday, 1 July 1994 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Re: Dreams are... Alf goes to Denver . . . . Danielle Dax & Amy Denio (fwd) Some CD's, alien life, Happy Card's and Boingo... Jacques Brel The Famine Inside disappear fear Do it dreams are... Re: Alf goes to Denver . . . . Re: hearing voices ...been so long. Yippieh!!! Re: Maryen Cairns And More Canada Day! Anthem has Tori on sale Questions and stuff... audio cassette expertise needed ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 09:46:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Eric Lee West Subject: Re: Dreams are... > Well last night I had a dream that Loreena McKennitt was singing to a > a group of people which included me, although I don't know who they > might have been... we were seated on benches attached to the inside > wall of what might have been a restaurant or hotel room or some > reasonably nicely decorated place, and she would sing each song to a > section of people and then move along... I appeared to be at the far > end of the line, and when she reached us she sang a song or part of > one just to me (that's allowed to happen, because it was my dream :) > although I don't recall what song it was, if indeed it was an actual > song... > > I guess I could claim relevance on the grounds that I mentioned > Loreena :) > > Philip (never been on a roller-coaster in his life) > "This is where I want to be, this is what I need." --Kate Bush > Thanx for sharing, Philip! I, who have always had a strong dream life, really enjoy when others share their dreams (of waking and of sleep). I had a dream that seems worth noting here... I was in a strange but comfortable place, outdoors, near water. Kinda swampy. The skys were dark (as in most of my dreams, I like this) and there were people with me who, tho I did not recognize, I knew that they were special. They were getting provisions together, getting canoes ready, and told me to pack up. So, I began deciding which clothes to bring, having a hard time doing so. Somehow, whether I realized this or someone insisted, I don't know, the clothes were of no importance- I let them stay. Well, I kept noticing a woman. She was small and had curly light long hair. A different lady approached me and told me that the same woman I noticed over and over again is a teacher of mine. She (the teacher) approached me. She gave me a flute. Her energy was wise and calm, I felt comfortable around her. She seemed to love me. We all set out on the canoes on what seemed like an important mission involving my learning. Well, there it is. Tho I'm not (yet?) into Lorenna M., the day after the dream, I realized that she was the teacher. Then, a couple of months ago, I was in a record store and noticed a L.M. CD completely out of place and it was as tho it was there for me to notice. It was Paralell Dreams.SP? Anyhow, that experiennce helped me to remember the dream. There. NEXT!,> Hugs! -Onica nijoh@teleport.COM Public Access User --- Not affiliated with TECHbooks Public Access UNIX and Internet at (503) 220-1016 (2400-14400, N81) ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 11:25:25 -0600 (MDT) From: "all together now, in no man's land" Subject: Alf goes to Denver . . . . Last Tuesday, I went to the Mercury Cafe in Denver with my friend Sam to see The Farm in concert. KTCL, a local alternative (whatever the category is called now) radio station was sponsoring it-- free for the first 450 people through the door. We arrived at about 7:00 to get in line, and found ourselves with a couple of hours to kill . . . . Anyway, to make a long story short, I just happened to catch a glimpse at an upcoming events calendar and saw that Alison Moyet is playing there next Thursday, July 7 . . . I thought I'd post this for any Colorado area ectophiles (if there are any left *smile*). Unfortu- nately, I can't really give good directions to the Mercury Cafe. Sam drove, and I got completely lost. All I know is that it's just off of the downtown area, in a simply lovely neighborhood (*ahem*). anyway . . . peace, love, and thunderstorms that end tremendous heat waves, Janet ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 10:45:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Eric Lee West Subject: Danielle Dax & Amy Denio (fwd) nijoh@teleport.COM Public Access User --- Not affiliated with TECHbooks Public Access UNIX and Internet at (503) 220-1016 (2400-14400, N81) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1994 16:43:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Eric Lee West To: ecto@ns1rutgers.edu Subject: Danielle Dax & Amy Denio Hullo all HAPPY ectophiles! Well, since I've been getting many questions about these lovely ladies, here's a bit of my own evangelism. Danielle Dax is a strange and cryptic, worldly seeming woman who began her career out of thin air, or so it seems. This was back in 1982 when she wrote, produced, played all the instruments on, and marketed her album 'Pop Eyes'. I have a re-release CD of this and it's fabulous- she's very talented. Incedently, the album was banned from the U.K. for it's cover (so I've heard/read), at first, tho I don't think it's banned any more. Her style is ecclectic on the far-out pop side. Also very powerful. She's very inspiring to me, as a musician and as a human (MOSTLY human??):>. Her voice is diverse - not always strong - and she goes high and low, tho not as high or low as Happy:>. She is in a class all her own and doesn't get the attention she deserves, as far as I'm concerned. Bio. info. on her is hard to come by, as I've only read anything on her life in 'She's a Rebel'. I've her discography, thanx to a friend...('She's a Rebel: The History of Women in Rock and Roll' was written by Gillian S. ----> Gaar who also published the Kate Bush fanzine 'For the Love of Kate'. I'ts a great book...very worthy for freaks like us!!,>) Pop Eyes - 1982/83 Awesome Jesus Egg That Wept - 1984 Awesome Bad Miss 'M'/Yummer Yummer Man (single) - 1985 Awesome Janice Long Sessions - 1985 Strange Fruit Where the Flies Are/Up In Arms/When I was Young (12") - 1986 Awesome Big Hollow Man/Muzzles/Passing Of the Third Floor Back (12") - 1987 Awesome Inky Bloaters - 1987 Awesome Cat House/Touch Piggy's Eye's/House-Cat (12") - 1988 Dark Adapted Eye - 198s Eye/ House (12") - 1988 (same as above?) Whistling For His Love (promo 12") - 1988 "whistling For His Love" (remix) - 1988? "The Id Parade" - 1990 Blast the Human Flower - 1990 Tommorow Never Knows (12") - 1990 My keys are tripping out-all her stuff after the 'Cat House/Touch...' EP are on Sire. She's also played w/ the Lemmon Kittens and Robert Fripp, also done art for others album covers. Did her own cover for 'Pop Eyes' Please, If any info. is off that you know of, let me know. __DO__ give her a listen, you'll be in for a treat!!! I esp. recommend 'Dark Adapted Eye' & 'Pop Eyes'. Now....Amy Denio...I Know less about her, tho she and I have coresponded. She live in or near Seattle and has 2 solo albums out: 'Birthing Chair Blues' and 'Tongues' Also (she's a busy one) she plays(ed) with the 'Tone Dogs'(2 CD'S) 'Curlew'(1 CD), 'Billy Tipton Memorial Saxaphone Quartet'(1 CD), 'The Nudes'(1 CD) 'Birthing...' is on Knitting Factory Works 'Tongues' is on FOT She may or may not be influenced by Danielle Dax, I have yet to ask her, but she is also definetaly in a class all her own. On 'Tongues' she sings a bit in Italian and she can do some amazing!!! things with her voice! Her music is weird (I've only heard solo & Tone Dogs) and on the mellow experimental side. She plays a plethora of instruments (very well) and she's also cryptic. Her nam rhymes with Ohio. I think she's in love with the saxaphone. She can be contacted thru: Spoot Music World Headquartes P.O. box 85154 Seattle, WA. 98145 U.S.A. I think she's terrific and well worth the checking out.YIPPEE! HOORAY! "When we were six a day was endlessly long And the sunshine sent spokes thru the clouds..." -Amy Denio "When I was young the sky seemed so tall Everything shone in the happiest sunlight forever and tunnels of leaves Made specially for me Led to a magic place where I could hide for a while And hope filled the air My treasures were there..." -Danielle Dax "Would that I could, I'd be serving my Titania Would thet I could, I'd never return Would that I could, I'd be loving my Oberon Would that I could, I'd stay for good..." -Happy Rhodes (possibly my favorite song by Happy!:>) "I just know that something good is going to happen! Just saying it could even make it happen!..." -Kate Bush :> "Ahhhhhhhhh....." -Me!!!!! Hugs -n- Kisses! -Onica nijoh@teleport.COM Public Access User --- Not affiliated with TECHbooks Public Access UNIX and Internet at (503) 220-1016 (2400-14400, N81) ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 14:03:52 -0500 (EST) From: "I'll be here, I'll be ecto..." Subject: Some CD's, alien life, Happy Card's and Boingo... Hi everyone, Jenn and I got back recently from our trip to Buffalo-Syracuse-Cooperstown and we had a great time. Thanks to Josh, we were able to pick up both The Red Shoes singles, Sarah's "Touch" CD and a promo copy of Milla's "The Gentleman Who Fell". We were hoping to pick up a copy of Shrubberies, but I guess someone beat us to it. :( Oh well, there will be more trips to other cities... :) I also wanted to say that there is more than one person at my work who believes in alien lifeforms. In fact, I'd say that most astronomers nowadays pretty much assume it's a given that there are certainly planets out there, and some of them must have life on them. (In case anyone out there hasn't heard about one of the the lastest Hubble press releases, it now appears that planets are much more common than earlier expected. Some of the photos of proto-planetary disks are astounding...) With regards to Vickies note about Happyvangelizing, I still have PLENTY of Happy Cards that I'd like to give to people to help in the vangelizing process. I think they really come in handy, since you can give them to people and they have all the info about Happy's albums right there in front of them. If people are interested, let me know... Finally, I know this is a bit old stuff, but I wanted to comment on the little bit of Boingo talk that surfaced on Ecto... ============================================================================== >Joe Zitt writes: >> Boingo: Boingo. Should be megacool. Ethan replied: >Should be, but isn't, IMHO. I'm really puzzled and saddened by how much I >dislike this album. Maybe Danny Elfman has been doing too many movie >soundtracks lately, because he seems to have completely forgotten that Boingo >is supposed to be at least somewhat *fun*. The melodies on this album don't >seem up to par. The songs are so long that they collapse in on themselves. >"Mary" sounds like a bad Yes ripoff. The cover of "I am the Walrus" adds >almost nothing to the original. And the lyrics, unusually (for Boingo) >lacking in humor, consistently try to make Important Social Statements but >end up falling back on cliches that have been expressed better both by other >artists and by Elfman himself. So what happened? I think this album is a VERY important stepping point for the band. I've seen Boingo more times than I can count (they are almost always playing somewhere in Southern California), and I guarantee that every time I saw them, they played several of the same songs (their "classics"). By losing the horns and dropping the Oingo, I think they are making a statement that they want to move forward with their music. They aren't angry young teens anymore... To me, this album has very strong Beatle influence (not only because of the cover of "I Am The Walrus") and I think they were experimenting with a lot of new ideas. I know that this is the first album where the band felt that they had full freedom to create what they wanted... >Does anyone else who has heard the album agree with me here, or am I just >losing my mind, or worse yet, my taste? :) I don't agree with you about the album, but I don't think you're losing your taste. :) There are PLENTY of Boingo fans who are very unhappy with the album, much like the latest release from a certain female British singer... :) (I just like them both... :) ) >berni sez: >>on boingo: >>i am always suspect when a band changes its name. it *always* comes >>with a change in Image, and this is a concerted effort by the band or >>by the record co to make the band something other than it is, for the >>purposes of attracting money, i mean, consumers, i mean, listeners. and Jeff replied: >I haven't heard the Boingo album yet, so take this with a grain of salt. >Leno actually talked to Elfman for a few minutes after the band played, and >Elfman said that they *were* changing their sound--losing the horns--and >felt they ought to change the name to match. If anything, I'd see this as >an attempt to maintain integrity, a way to say that it's *not* the same >band, so don't expect what you've heard in the past. The band does have a new record contract, that gives them more artistic freedom. If they were really in it for the money, I think they song length would've been MUCH different. (The last song on the album "Change" is 16:00 minutes long, and IMO is similar in many ways to some of the Beatles "White Album" tracks.) And the name change is significant, and I think it's good that they did it, since it clearly delineates a style change. >Me, I'm happy with _Only a Lad_. I don't need another rehash of it. Exactly. Danny and the boys are REALLY tired of playing the old stuff and they want to move on. At one of the latest shows, a small group of people started chanting "Dead Man's Party" over and over. Danny got quite irate and told them they'd play whatever the **** they wanted to... (Which reminds me, has anyone read the book "Paperback Writer", a fictional account of the Beatles getting back together?) =========================================================================== This is by far my longest Ecto post. :) Thanks for indulging me... :) Take care everyone, John ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 30 Jun 94 12:59:37 PDT From: kyrlidis@templeton.cchem.berkeley.edu (Angelos Kyrlidis) Subject: Jacques Brel Hi, I posted a similar query to alt.fan.david-bowie, and nobody replied, so here I am trying it out on ecto. I recently bought a Brel Greatest Hits CD, inspired by the fact that he has written two songs that Bowie covered in his Ziggy days ('Amsterdam' and 'My death') and another one that Tom Robinson covers in his solo-acoustic CD ('Les Bourgeois' aka 'Yuppie scum'). The CD is wonderful, and includes 'Ne me quitte pas' which I think was discussed here a while ago. Anyway, enough background material. There is a song on that CD called 'Les Vieux' whose lyrics are *very* similar to Bowie's 'Sons of the silent age'. The question is: Does anybody have any Jacques Brel lyrics on-line that they could e-mail to me? I would like to do a line by line comparison of the two above mentioned songs and see just how much Bowie was influenced. Merci, Angelos PS. While on the topic of covers, nobody has mentioned the Richard Thompson tribute CD 'The world is a beautiful place' which features Victoria Williams, and Tom Robinson, and others. Has anybody bought it? Is it any good? ======================================================================== Date: 30 Jun 94 15:06:22 EDT From: Mike Mendelson Subject: The Famine Inside This is the name of the PBS show to which I referred in my brutal honesty post. I haven't gotten the digest that contains it or any responses to it yet, though I have gotten some personal replies that imply there were others posted to the list. All in good time. Anyways, my tape of this PBS show came out, and I have watched about 2/3 of it. I would *love* for every person in the United States to watch this film. (This is actually how I feel about a few other PBS shows I've seen, most notably the 6 part columbus special which I thankfully have on video as well.) For me, it is impossible to watch this film and get feel absolutely horrible and angry inside, and at the same time feel totally helpless and subjected to culture and societal pressures. It is absolutely *unbelievable* what environment can do to someone's psyche. It is in fact *AWESOME* how we are all molded by "society." And the fact that society -- civilization -- is just the collective *us* is even more astonishing. The very sad but sociologically true thing about this all is that even if each one of us watched this film and *agreed* that everything it talks about is abhorent, *even* *then* there is no way it would change!!!! Much of it is so deeply impressed on our brains that even admitting to ourselves that the standards for attractiveness and health and fat that we attach to personal worth and success are impossibly distorted and *un*healthy and *counter*productive to society as a whole -- indeed contributing to the *FAMINE* inside -- even then we would be hard pressed to change our ingrained views and psychology, and esp. to heal all the damaged self-images that are so rampant out there. What a *great* country. And what a cess-pool of humanity we are. All at once... Ugh-wow. Yuck-yay. I, for one, would love to distribute this film around the country. Every child in every school in the nation should view this film. Maybe if we start with the youths in the country, then over 25 years attitudes could change. I won't even try to quote or summarize stuff from this film. I hope you all look out in your local Public Television station calendars, and try to watch this film. I'd love to hear other people's opinions on this super show. -mjm ======================================================================== Date: 30 Jun 94 15:16:44 EDT From: Mike Mendelson Subject: disappear fear Echoing Neil's sentiments, the first (and only) disappear fear album I've ever found and bought was their newest one and I had a real luke-warm reaction to it after one listen. Lukewarm enough for me to put it away without listening again. I will listen again, eventually. So, you are saying their earlier stuff is better? Figures. I'm not sure how quickly I will buy it now... perhaps I should see them live first. Then again, if I find it cheap in Boston, say, I might check it out. -mjm ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 15:56:55 CDT From: Subject: Do it WRT Neal's posts on the new Disappear Fear album: By all means, Neal, send something from their uncontroversially good earlier albums to the HBP. Lord knows Doug and I could use some incoming material from y'all over the next two weeks. The upcoming long weekend may, in the best case, afford many of you the time you need to actually get the stuff together. And remember to send the stuff to Doug's new place in Seattle, rather than his no-longer place in Fort Collins. Remember also that you can email prepared texts to me to read into the record, as it were, if you lack the equipment to put your prefatory remarks on tape yourself. End of jeremiad. Actually, I developed a liking for Disappear Fear the first time I heard them. Appropriately, it was the night of the Thanksgiving weekend Ecto party, when a number of us made the pilgrimage from Gaffa Central to Club 950 to take in the scheduled post-release party for _The Red Shoes_. It was a colossal bust. I left early. As I strolled down Lincoln Avenue toward the Fullerton L station I noticed that Vagabond Music had opened up in a portion of Guild Books' old space. I went in to check it out, and was greeted by the sounds of what, on further inquiry, was one of the first two DF albums on the store's audio sys- tem. I've been favorably disposed toward them ever since. Happy new fiscal year's eve, if you follow Illinois politics (will they stop the clock in the legislative chambers this year, as per tradition?), or an early happy Canada Day otherwise. Mitch --------------------------------- "I am a good joe, I am an open book to my boss, I am a complete mystery to my closest frends." --Lawrence Ferlenghetti ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 20:11:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Suspended In Duct Tape Subject: dreams are... Hi! This talk of dreams reminds me of one I had on Tuesday night (well, actually, Wednesday morning). I was walking on a darkened semi-urban road at night (it was a strange mixture of the street running behind my house and Route 66 in Middletown, CT right where it goes underneath the railroad tracks by Dunkin Donuts), past a small baseball stadium. There was a stage set up in the stadium, which was somehow situated where I could see it as I walked past, and the stands were filled with people. As I walked past and backpedaled to see who was on stage, I realized there was a piano on there, and Tori was playing it. The show was just about over, and she was leaving the stage. I stood there for a minute to see if she would come back out for an encore, and sure enough she did. She sat down at the piano, took a swig of water, and waited for the applause to die down. When it did she just sat there, hunched over the keyboard, and the silence got thicker and tenser, while everybody waited to see what she was going to play. Then suddenly she jumped up and ran off the stage. There was a stairway running down the side of the stadium like a fire escape, and it ended right by where I was standing, so I waited as she ran down, wondering what to do next. As she ran by me I saw she was crying, and I said, "Hey Tori, what's wrong?" She stopped, turned around and started to walk back to where I was, and was just opening her mouth to say something when... ...my @!%*$# alarm went off. *Not* a good way to start a new day! :P :P :P Anyway, just thought I'd share that one with you all. It's the first dream I've remembered in months. Weird. Meredith meth@delphi.com ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 30 Jun 94 19:48:40 PDT From: Neal Copperman Subject: Re: Alf goes to Denver . . . . SO how were the Farm Janet? They are coming here soon, although I have no idea who they are. SHould I? Neal ======================================================================== From: Mklprc@aol.com Date: Fri, 01 Jul 94 00:02:54 EDT Subject: Re: hearing voices Quoting Suspended In Duct Tape seanympf noted: >> Also, womyn have a harder time listening to the very low registers, while >> men have a hard time listening to higher registers. >> That the listening range is physiologically different. > Yes, women can generally hear tones of a higher frequency than men can. > For example, I can hear the high-pitched little whine emitted by television > sets and computer monitors when they're switched on, but every single male > I've pointed this out to has looked at me like I'm nuts. This physiological > difference has been proven in studies, but I don't think they've figured out > why yet. I have had (male) friends who could hear those tones. I am glad I can't! Part of it is due to normal hearing loss, and abnormal hearing loss (too many rock concerts, loud work environment, living next to factory, screaming baby in house, etc.) The highest tones are the first to go. Those (dis)blessed with high hearing cannot even enter stores that use ultrasonic motion sensors. Pain! (Any guy who "thinks you're nuts" is a clueless fool. He should know about VHF noises even if he can't hear them!) I did not know about women having a hard time hearing lower registers. I have odd hearing loss: I cannot understand children (who cannot enunciate yet) very well at all (glad I don't have any); one friend, a woman with an extremely low register and soft-spoken voice coupled with a New Zealand accent, is almost impossible for me to understand. In noisy environments I don't even try. My overall loss is about 30% due to the aforementioned rock concerts, plus chemotherapy ten years ago (kills ear cells) and general decay. Still, it does not hurt my appreciation of music; hear Happy's voices fine, but all my life I have not been able to pick out lyrics from records. Had to read along because they just blended into tones, so I appreciated them for that. Some artists are clearer than others, but most people can discern lyrics where I can't. mp ======================================================================== From: watcher@the-matrix.com Subject: ...been so long. Date: 07 Jan 94 00:09:11 After a month and a half, I am back in the world of ecto. I'm now logging in from a local BBS, as opposed to the university system at UT which had everything. I only have email and newsgroup access here, and I'm not even sure what all I can do with them here, but at least I can talk to a great bunch of people. Unfortunately, I have to pay for this access by the hour, and email messages go out every two hours, instead of immediately, so it's not a perfect solution. I'll probably have to impose limits on my net time, but I'll try to keep up. Anybody got better ideas for net access? I briefly tried out the Delphi system, but it doesn't seem best for my needs. I did manage to snag off my old server any mail that came through ecto between the time of my unsubscribe message and start of ecto hiatus (mid-month), and the eventual actual end of subscription (the end of the month). Thus, I know of the current Happy Birthday Project plans, and also that Doug has moved. And, that the new album will be title Building the Colossus. Anything else I should know? Any ectoids in Alabama? I haven't checked my copy of the ectofile in a while. By the way, because of hectic scheduling my final week in Texas, the day I sent in my unsubscribe message was the last day I was able to read any ecto messages, and indeed I did not even get to read the mail for that day. If I should have responded to any mail, but did not get the chance, let me know. Well, I'll let it go at that for my return announcement. John H. ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 01 Jul 94 09:29:00 EST From: Ilka Heber Subject: Yippieh!!! Hi everybody!! I *have* to share this with you!!! After long months of looking we finally found a beautiful appartment!!!! I'm so happy about it!!! We can move in in September, and I'm really excited about it. It's a big flat with a lovely balcony and a great view. Boy, am I lucky!!!! = ) Ilka = ) ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 01 Jul 94 10:37:17 BST From: GTP10@phx.cam.ac.uk Subject: Re: Maryen Cairns And More Hello, everyone! Tim wrote (in response to a posting from Martin): > Yay! Another Maryen Cairns fan. I've got her last album - can't > remember the name (something like "The Pictures Within"). I even > managed to pick up a copy for a friend for 2 quid in London (cheap > place round the corner from Leicester Sq. tube). This is obviously a UK Ectophile thing, as I have that Maryen Cairns disc too (the pink version). Her record label is Progressive Interna- tional (formerly Progressive Records). Her connection with Fish is that she did BVs on his "Internal Exile" album, and she has a new album coming out later this summer. A track from it appears on the 3 cassette British Progressive Rock Audio Directory and sounds pretty good - similar to stuff on her debut. In other news, does anyone have a spare couple of minutes from their quota for the HBP they could donate me? I've already recorded my contribution, which is Echolyn "Bright Sides" (mostly because it begins with a little girl saying "This is a happy song") and Iona "Beachy Head" (which in complete contrast is about a popular suicide location in Southern England), but it has occurred to me that Happy has probably never heared and would enjoy hearing the Not-The-Nine- O'Clock-News KaTe spoof "Oh England, My Leotard", which I am probably the only Ectophile to have a copy of. So, would anyone be willing to give me two minutes of their quota to include this? When I send Doug my tape (which will be just as soon as he answers the question I posed in private email), I'll also be enclosing a couple of sampler tapes I've compiled. One is Irish "Traditional" and the other Scottish "Traditional". Both conform to Ecto standards, i.e. female lead vocalists or instrumentals, and feature artists who perform traditional Irish or Scottish music or music deriving from those traditions. I've also imposed a rule that the artists must still be recording (e.g. no Bothy Band tracks) and from the country in question (i.e. no Loreena McKennitt, Connie Dover or other North American Ecto favourites). In most cases I've gone for one, two or three tracks representative of the band/performer. In the case of Clannad and Enya, who I'm sure everyone has already heared, I've included a rare A or B side. I'll post complete track listings in due course. TTFN Geoff Parks ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 01 Jul 1994 07:26:31 -0500 (EST) From: HOLLY@umbc2.umbc.edu Subject: Canada Day! Happity Canada Day! Anybody got any ideas for celebrating Canada Day even if you're not Canadian? Holly, who thinks Canada's national anthem should be "Maple Leaf Rag" :) ======================================================================== From: brianb@netcom.com (Brian Bloom) Subject: Anthem has Tori on sale Date: Fri, 1 Jul 1994 07:17:47 -0700 (PDT) Hey all, just thought I'd pass this along.. Anthem Entertainment, an online music store, has a sale going on right now.. Among the offerings: Tori Amos Cornflake Girls (CD5 - Eur) ... $8.98 Silent All These Years (CD5 - Eur) ... $8.98 So if you still haven't gotten them, here's your chance. Anthem is : AnthemEnt@aol.com although I have never actually ordered anything from them.. (I prefer EAR/Rational..) br!an ObHappy: Maybe we should see if we could get them to carry Happy! -- __ ____ __ ____ __ __ (__==__) /\ \ / \_\ / /\ / \ \ / |\ / /\ (oo) ( moo.) / \_\ / /\ |_| / / /| /\ \ \ / ||/ / / /-------\/ -' / /\ | |\ \/ /_/_ / / / \ \/ \ \ / |/ / / / | U.T.|| / \/ |_| \ __ \_\ /_/ / \ /\ \_\ / /| / / * ||----|| / /\ ./_/ \ \ \/_/_\_\/ \ \ \/_// / | / / ^^ ^^ \ \/ |_| \ \_\ /_/\ \ \_\ /_/ /|_/ / Br!an Bloom \__/_/ \/_/ \_\/ \/_/ \_\/ \_\/ brianb@netcom.com .. but music hides me so well, ..and reveals me.. oh well - HR ======================================================================== From: FreeForm@aol.com Date: Fri, 01 Jul 94 10:32:28 EDT Subject: Questions and stuff... Hi all... First of all I would like to say that I managed to get tickets to see both Sarah McLachlan and Tori Amos later this month.. YES!!!!!! It will be my first time seeing Sarah and my third for Tori... Now on to some questions that I have: 1) The only Texas album I have is "Mothers Heaven". How do their other albums compare to this one? 2)Whatever happened to Wendy Maharry? I know that her albums weren't exactly big sellers.. Does she still have a recording contract? 3)Does anybody have any information on when Mae Moore may be releasing her next album? 4)Now that the Rhodeways fanzine is in publication, does that mean that Happy will stop sending out the Ecto newsletters and just rely on the fanzine to report the news? Or will we still get both? If it's both, it should be about time for another newsletter, yes? Thanks, Charles ======================================================================== Subject: audio cassette expertise needed Date: Fri, 01 Jul 94 10:41:25 -0400 From: lcliffor@bbn.com Wondering if anyone can offer me any tips on how to fix an old tape. I've been looking for years for an old tape I had of my favorite local band from the early 80's 2nd place performance at Boston's Rock and Roll Rumble. I found it a couple of nights ago and was thrilled. Then I tried to play it and was bummed. The tape moves VERY unevenly - dragging and speeding up severely. I tried rewinding and fast-forwarding a few times to see if that would help but it didn't appear to. Any ideas? Is it even possible to have a tape removed from its original cartridge and put into a new one? Thanks, Laura ======================================================================== 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)