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 #593 ecto, Number 593 Wednesday, 2 June 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Re: How I spent my vacation from posting Re: HB, Cure & Ma mushing Wild Horses Today's your birthday friend.... I'm back/KaTe vinyl Hat Full of Stars Travelling ectophile I wanna play Happy music A Sundays kind of weather? Words in Happy's lyrics Here's "The Chase" for GUITAR Transcriptions in vogue ... I Have a Heart ... ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 02 Jun 93 00:49:58 -0500 From: "Dennis G Parslow" Subject: Re: How I spent my vacation from posting .....Wild Horses.... That was probably The Sundays (I love the cover!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Of course the proper segue is to Sympathy for the Devil (by Jane's Addiction). What we need now is for The Cowboy Junkies to cover "Jumping Jack Flash" (a la Sweet Jane and Powderfinger) Dennis Parslow I saw you from the cathedral Troy, NY 12180 Well, I'm an ancient heart p00421@psilink.com Tanita Tikaram ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1993 15:06:09 +1000 (AEST) From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: Re: HB, Cure & Ma mushing In apana.lists.rec.happy-rhodes, article <9306011731.AA01988@ns1.rutgers.edu>, you wrote: [re: The Cure] > Also, you should let your son know that Porl's no longer with the band.... Yep - but to my surprise he turned up on the new Shelleyann Orphan CD, "Humroot". If you've not heard of them before, search it out and listen, it's a wonderful album; available on the newly resurrected Rough Trade label in the UK (R2792) and in Australia on that label through Festival Records with catalogue number D30909. This is one for the "S" recommendations list! Anyway, Porl is credited as playing dulcimer on this album! Anthony ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "Something about this place makes me lose a grip on time and space..." - Saint Etienne ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1993 15:21:54 +1000 (AEST) From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: Wild Horses In apana.lists.rec.happy-rhodes, article <9306012154.AA15831@ns1.rutgers.edu>, you wrote: > Last night _World News Now_ accompanied the weather with an acoustic version > of "Wild Horses" done by a woman. Anyone have an idea who she was? For that > matter, anyone remember who did the original? It's by English band The Sundays; the singer is one Harriet Wheeler. Whether it's on the album in the US or not is something that me and a dozen other alt.music.alternative readers could never decide, but it's certainly not on the album ("Blind") in the UK or Australia. It's an extra track on the sublime, superb, and generally rather wonderful single "Goodbye", surely one of the greatest songs recorded so far this decade. :-) The original, by the way, was done by none other than the Rolling Stones! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "Something about this place makes me lose a grip on time and space..." - Saint Etienne ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Subject: Today's your birthday friend.... From: klaus@inphobos.w.open.de (Cosmic Vagabond) Date: Wed, 02 Jun 93 05:36:08 GMT i*i*i*i*i*i *************** ***HAPPY******* ********BIRTHDAY*** *** Perttu ******** ******* Yli-Krekola *** *********************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- * New or changes made since last post Marvin Camras Sat January 1 1916 Tapehead Jeanne Schreiter Tue January 3 1967 Capricorn Euan Robertson (Xolf)Wed January 3 1973 LordOfTheNeverKnown John Sandoval Wed January 4 1967 Capricorn Tony Garrity Mon January 8 1962 Pool of Life Greg Bossert Tue January 9 1962 OfTheTimes Chris Sampson Wed January 15 1964 Void where prohibited Dennis G Parslow Fri January 17 1964 Capricorn Ken Taylor Tue January 21 1969 Aquarius Terry Partis Sun January 22 1933 Rocker Sean Casey Thu January 25 1962 ICB Bob Lovejoy Sun February 2 1947 Aquarius Tim Devine Tue February 3 1970 Aquarius Stephen Thomas Fri February 4 1966 Aquarius Gene Sady Tue February 7 1956 Aquarius Doug Burks Tue February 14 1956 Blank Andrea February 14 Aquarius Jim Sturnfield Thu February 18 1954 Aquarius Pamela Fri February 28 1964 Pisces * Christine Kennel Sat March 2 1963 Pisces kIrI Hargie Fri March 13 1970 Pisces Randall K. 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Kate Bush Wed July 30 1958 God Happy Rhodes Mon August 9 1965 HolyGhost Ron Hill Tue August 11 1964 Leo Vickie Mapes Wed August 15 1956 Giddy Martin Dougiamas Wed August 20 1969 Positive Dan Segel Tue August 31 1965 Virgo Jorn Barger August 32 1953 Neon Meredith Tarr Wed September 1 1971 Virgo Mary Lou Rowe Sat September 3 1960 Virgo Scott Zimmerman Mon September 4 1972 Virgo David Blank-Edelman Sat September 9 1967 Neon Chris Williams Tue September 20 1960 Neon 3-D Computer-generated Joe Zitt Sat September 20 1958 Will Hack for CDs Michael Blackmore Fri October 4 1963 Libra Tim Breitkreutz Wed October 7 1964 Libra Dan Riley Sun October 8 1961 Libra Neile Graham Wed October 8 1958 pen Wolfgang Drotschmann Thu October 13 1966 Waage Brian Bloom Tue October 14 1969 Libra Dave Steiner Sat October 24 1959 Scorpio Jessica Dembski Wed October 29 1969 Scorpio Katie Dougiamas Sat November 2 1974 Scorpio Anthony Horan Fri November 4 1966 Positive * Michael Sullivan Mon November 5 1962 Scorpio Larry Nathanson Fri November 7 1969 Scorpio Jens Brage Sun November 8 1964 Scorpio Rising Steve Potter (Skaludy) Mon November 9 1964 Scorpio M. 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Warwick Sun November 15 1964 Scorpio Naama Avramzon Mon November 18 1974 Scorpio Jeff Smith Mon November 19 1962 Crash Kevin Bartlett Fri November 21 1952 Scorpio Alan Ezust Fri November 21 1969 Earth Moving Claudia Spix Wed November 23 1960 Schuetze Tommy Persson Wed November 25 1964 Sagittarius * Pat Tessitore November 26 Sagittarius Justin Bur Fri November 27 1964 Sagittarius Chip Lueck Thu December 5 1968 Sagittarius Henry Kilmer Wed December 11 1968 CallMeHank Shelby Sun December 13 1970 Roscoe the Frog Laura Clifford Tue December 17 1957 Sagittarius Dirk Kastens Tue December 17 1963 Sagittarius Uli Grepel Wed December 25 1968 Steinbock Karl Dotzek Sat December 30 1961 Capricorn Stuart Castergine Mon December 30 1963 You Are Here -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- If anyone wants to be added to this list, or change their "sign" just e-mail me with the information...if you don't know what day you were born on, I can figure it out if you give the year of birth. Thanks! _____ Klaus Kluge * klaus@inphobos.w.open.de * I'll be here, I'll be (in) Ecto! ======================================================================== From: Dick Locke Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 12:18:05 -0500 Subject: I'm back/KaTe vinyl Greetings, I'm back from my trip to San Francisco, and a fine trip it was. Not only did I enjoy the business aspects of the trip (I attended the NeXT Expo -- any other gaffa'ns go?), but I also found mass quantities of good vinyl for cheap. Kate fans might be interested in that I bought two more copies of The Kick Inside, one being (what I think is) the UK release with the oriental-ish writing and Kate suspended in air, and the other being the original US release with a head shot. Both are basically mint and you would be sick to know how little I paid for 'em ;-) Among other cool finds were stuff by Joan Armatrading, Phranc, Joni Mitchell, Roches, Nina Hagen, Kim Carnes, This Mortal Coil, Marianne Faithful, Dead Can Dance, & Renaissance. I hit Amoeba and Rasputin's in Berkeley (thanks for the recommendation Jon D.), as well as the shops on Haight and the Streetlight near Noe (thanks Mark/Jon/Peter). I checked the Kate bins in all the stores, and the selections tended to be weak with a few high priced and questionable quality 12" singles and a few beat up copies of HOL being typical (I saw a couple of the marble vinyl versions of that in so-so condition for $20.) I've been a Kate record collector for quite a while, and nice copies of her stuff is just hard to find/expensive! By the way, I have been looking for a McGarrigles album, "Love Over and Over", for quite a while. If anyone has a copy I'd appreciated it if you could drop me some mail and maybe we can work something out. Indeed, I'm looking for vinyl items too numerous to list here, so if you're into buying/selling/trading vinyl you should definitely drop me a line. -Dick Locke email: dlocke@atg.wiltel.com -or- uunet!wiltel!dlocke ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 17:14:43 MET From: brage@sphere.home.id.dth.dk (Jens P. Brage) Subject: Hat Full of Stars Hi, I just bought Cyni Lauper's "Hat Full of Stars" yesterday. Although I've only been able to listen to the CD a couple of times as yet, it sounds pretty good and I think it will seriously grow on me. Once you get past the hip-hop beat in some of the songs (not exactly Cyndi's usual style), Cyndi's voice and the lyrics stand out. Great! The lyrics for this album is much better than for "A Night to Remember". And in "Feels Like Christmas" I even like the hip-hop beat: It blends with the rest of the music in a pretty odd way... Stuart wrote some time ago: > Cyndi's new songs were good (not great) and included one she wrote > with Mary Chapin-Carpenter. The audience was enjoying the new stuff > but there were requests throughout the show for the old hits. Cyndi > said she wouldn't be doing any of those older songs, but she came > back with an encore of "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," "True Colors" > (with just Cyndi and a violin), and "Change of Heart." Over all, it > was a good concert and well worth seeing IMHO. Due to the changes in her style, it's probably a good idea to buy the album and listen to it before going to a concert: That way you won't be expecting the old style and can better enjoy the lyrics. The song co-written with Mary Chapin-Carpenter is "Sally's Pigeons". Great lyrics and displays Cyndi's voice nicely. Jens P. Brage | And I looked up and there they were: Millions brage@sphere.home.id.dth.dk | of tiny teardrops just sort of hanging there. /\ | And I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. \SphereSoft | And I said to myself: What next big sky? but by far the most reigning opinion was "Is she depressed, or WHAT?" I found this rather odd, because I view The Chase as one of Happy's HAPPIER songs! Jeff, care to convince me otherwise? :-) Here's to heading a lobby to put THE ORIGINAL The Chase on a CD!!!!! Happy, if you're listening, please please please please please please! Thanks. -correctedmjm ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 11:47:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Neile Graham Subject: Travelling ectophile Well, folks, I'm outta here for 10 days--I'm on my way to Montreal for the League of Canadian Poets meeting (I have to give a paper *shudder*) and I will, I hope, have time to phone Justin to say hi, then to Ottawa where I'm going to meet & spend a day with Mary Lou and a couple of days with a friend who really likes Happy and Tori, then off to Saskatoon for a friend's wedding (I'm the Matron of Misrule). Jim (jmg@rocket.com) will be watching the ectophiles guide mailings so don't hesitate to send in your contributions to ethelred@u.washington.edu Got the new Cranes and like it pretty well. Jim is obsessing with Aimee Mann. I brought a tape of Rhodes I & II to work today and have been obsessing with that. I really like the cd version of "The Chase". How much more would I like like the tape version (which I've never heard? Hmm. The ectophiles guide progresses. I will put together a status report when I get back--please flood us with messages about Happy, ok? Bye for now. --Neile ======================================================================== From: moorsa@rpi.edu Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 17:09:20 EDT Subject: I wanna play Happy music even though I'm probably not competent to do it. I tried to post this request before, but I don't think it ever made it to the list: Has anyone transcribed Happy songs that they could pass along to me? A friend of mine did a rough version of Rainkeeper, which I still haven't been able to turn into real music, try as I might. I'm interested in her acoustic works, which I hope to someday play on a fretted dulcimer. I can provide Russ's RainKeeper if anyone's interested. On an entirely different note: the baby hawks that I think I've mentioned here in passing are now nearly full-fledged and are taking turns testing their wings. They're also eating a lot of garter snakes, courtest of their parents. I can see them from my office window (how can I hope to get any work done?!), stretching and flapping their little winglets in the breeze. I can hardly wait for first-flight day. If the weather's supposed to improve, I'll bring in my camera tomorrow and try to get some pictures. I nicknamed the babies Manny, Moe, and Jack, but they don't answer when I call them. |-W-| | | \ / | | /| |\ / | | \ / | | \ | | | | | o | | o | \ | | / | | | | Six strings, ten thumbs / | | \ / | | \ / | | \ | _ | | _ | \ \/ | | \/ / \ | | / \ | | / \ | | / \| |/ \U/ alanm ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 02 Jun 93 16:27:17 CDT From: Serious but Offbeat Subject: A Sundays kind of weather? Thanks to all who elucidated the situation with the Sundays' cover of the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses" during the weather on _World News Now_ the other night. By an interesting coincidence, last night's episode of _WNN_ carried a BBC piece on the 40th anniversary of the Queen's coronation (often erroneously referred to in the U.S. press as her ascension, which actually occurred a year and a half or so earlier), which included a clip of her "annus horribilus" speech. A little while later, they ran the weather against a background of shots of Sydney, NSW, to the musical accompaniment of the Sundays' "Here's Where the Story Ends," complete with the hook, "it's a little souvenir/of a terrible year" or words to that effect. I like Dennis' ideas for segues from the Sundays' Stones cover, but let's not forget Linda Ronstadt's interpretation of "Sympathy for the Devil." On the other hand, if we want to exhause all the logical possibilities for mutual homage with their ultimate roots in my deranged television habits, we may have to bite the bullet and be willing to entertain the theoretical notion of a Mick Jagger cover of the "World News Polka." :-) :-) :-(' Mitch ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 23:54:47 +0200 From: yngveh@stud.cs.uit.no (Yngve Hauge) Subject: Words in Happy's lyrics I did some analyzing earlier today of the following 8 words used in the lyrics of VI compared to all the albums together (with VI)... words VI all percent(%) ------------------------------------------ death | 2 | 12 | 16.67 | die | 7 | 26 | 26.92 | dead | 1 | 8 | 12.50 | cry | 8 | 26 | 30.77 | fear | 6 | 20 | 30.00 | hate | 2 | 10 | 20.00 | pain | 7 | 12 | 58.33 | hurt | 1 | 7 | 14.30 | I've compared negative words cause I started out with them. I've only taken the exact words and not other words with the same meaning etc. I could just mail it uncommented but I would like to tell you why I did this at all and some comments. Earlier today we discussed what we thought was valid as an paper to a higher degree. And we came to the point after someone told about a paper written about Litterature where the person wrote about the percentage of words conserning plants/animals in the norwegian writer Ibsen's works. There I got the idea to do it with Happy's lyrics.........So here is some of the results (positive words will come later on. The number of these negative words (IMHO) reflects much of the album VI compared to the later onces. I myself love to listen to it when I got a bad day like two days ago as I thought of some good friend of mie who died 5 years ago in a tragic accident in Germany. I got kind of a guilt-feeling from what happened cause I had planned to go visit him but then something came in between and I was away for two weeks and as I came back a black card was placed on my desk. I didn't sleep for some days afterwards. It was really terrible....Try to tell myself I couldn't do anything about it but it is still hard to take 5 years later. I wasn't there when he needed me :( And I had an exam the day after (yesterday) and I couldn't sleep that night (*sniff*). Didn't feel very well :( Somehow Happy's music/lyrics has helped me a lot the last time both when I really need it as the other day or just when I need to get the thoughts somewhere else - away from the real world. And VI (as I said) and Equipoise helps me me when I'm far down. Thank you Happy!!!!!! Take care all, -- T ---- Only In Your Eyes Lies Your Soul.............. H | --- ----- ---- --- - -- - - - - - --- E |-- | | | | | | |__| | | |_ | | | | | |--- | | | | | --- --- - - ---- - - - -- - - - --- --- Yngve Hauge (yngveh@stud.cs.uit.no).....University of Tromsoe...Norway ======================================================================== Date: 02 Jun 93 18:21:37 EDT From: Mike Mendelson Subject: Here's "The Chase" for GUITAR THE CHASE -- by Happy Rhodes --------- transcribed for guitar in key of C without permission by M. J. Mendelson (Intro I:) | Cmaj7 | | Amin | | Cmaj7 | | Amin | | (instru.) (Intro II:) | Cmaj7 | | | | (sing ooh ) (Intro III:) | Amin | | | | (sing ooh ) Cmaj7 | | | | (1) My feet are failing me, I need to rest (2) Can't go any faster, I think I'm beat (3) I'm running to-ward you, don't fail me now Amin | | | | Fmaj7 (1) My mind is killing me, and it's doing its best (2) I feel the dis-aster, and I feel the lack of his heat (3) I don't live life so well, I need you to show me how | | Emin7/G | (Refrain:) The chase is on, and I'm losing | Fmaj7 | | Emin7/G | (1), (2) And I'm trying to run, my legs are refusing (3) dying | C | E | G | Amin | (1) And I can feel his cold breath lingering like death (2) clinging to my neck (Intro II) | C | E | Amin | Fmaj7 (3) And I can feel his cold breath, and it's lingering like death And I can feel his cold cold breath, and it's clinging to my neck (Intro II) (Intro III) __________________________________________________________________________ ___ (Sigh Pattern:) | Fmaj7 | | Emin7/G | | (Sing ooh / ah / oh) __________________________________________________________________________ ___ (Sigh) x 4 (& play Sigh Pattern alternating chords every 2 bars) (ooh,ooh,oh,ah) The chase is on, | the chase is on, | the chase is on, | the chase is on | The chase is on, | the chase is on, | the chase is on, | the chase is on | (Sigh) x 2 (then keep alternating chords) (ah,ah) And I can | feel his breath, and it's | on the back | of my leg | And I can | feel his breath, and it's | on the back | of my leg And I | want | | your | hand And I | want | | your | love I | want your hand, I | want your hand, I | need your love,I | need your love I | want your hand, I | want your hand, I | need your love,I | need your love (Sigh) x 3 (then keep alternating chords) (ooh,ooh,oh) I | need you | to be strong, 'cause | I am here and the | chase is on (Sigh) x 2 (then keep alternating chords and sing octave higher!) (oh,ooh) I | need you | to be strong, | 'cause I am here and the | chase is on | need you | to be strong, | 'cause I am here and the | chase is on | oh | And I'm | losing | | (Sigh) x 4 (and keep alternating chords) The chase is | on, would you | like to come a- | long? | | (but) I'm | losing | | (to fade) -mjm ======================================================================== From: boek@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Christopher Boek) Subject: Transcriptions in vogue ... I Have a Heart ... Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 10:40:34 +1000 (EST) Well, what with requests for transcriptions and mjm's major seventh Chase, I thought I'd post what I can of 'I Have a Heart', which I've bashed out on my DX7 a couple of times. The main bit basically goes Bm, E, A, D for a bit, and then changes to (I think - I'm working from memory here ...) A, C#m, F#m, Bm. E.g.: Bm E A D I have a heart inside. It's begging me for suicide. ... A C#m So what do I say to put her at ease F#m Bm Da daa da daa, da da da daa. (I can't remember the exact words) Bm E A All I can do is beg her to stay ... This is just from empirical observation. Please feel free to embellish or correct anything :). Chris. -- | ||| ||| | ||| ||| ||| | ||Christopher Boek - boek@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au | ||| ||| | ||| ||| ||| | || Dept Elec Eng Univ of Melbourne Australia | | | | | | | | | / "Anybody remotely interesting is mad in |___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___| \_/\_/\_/\_/\__/(:*- some way or another" ======================================================================== 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)