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 #1130 ecto, Number 1130 Friday, 3 June 1994 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Woodstock and more Re: Flintstones question Re: What? Re: Dan Hicks can't unsub! Ectopinion on... Lisa Loeb? Re: Ectopinion on... Lisa Loeb? Lisa Loeb Hey Bday, Highs & Blighs Re: I Scare Myself Chords for "Path of Thorns" Re: St. Petersburg (was: Happy Loves Milla!) REVIEW: Sam Phillips, GAMH, SF, 31 May ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 18:44:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Lovejoy Subject: Woodstock and more Greetings yet again: Susanne White, Manager Extraordinaire, asked me to say hello from her to all of you. She wishes everyone to know that Happy will indeed be playing Aug, 11 at Joyous Lake in Woodstock, NY BUT there are a few little details yet to hammer out, such as the start time. Tickets are not yet available for the show, so please don't pester the venue just yet. Susanne will let us know as soon as she knows when tickets will be available. From what I can tell, Joyous Lake is a local spot, not that big, and this is happening during the other Woodstock festivals. Logistics may be a problem. Aug.11 is a Thursday night, BTW, FYI. I am hoping to be able to go, but I may have a problem with work - it's usually pretty heavy that time of year. I still have hope. On a closer note, the upcoming WXPN concert at Penn's Landing is about six weeks off. As previously advertised, we may have some hostel space available for travellers from afar. Email for details if interested. We do have a large enthusiastic Golden Retreiver named Max, an ecto legend already. He's really a sweet dog, but - well, he's big and enthusiastic! I'm enjoying the Rhodes family tree thread! When I first heard her name, I thought maybe it was a group, Happy Roads. Boy, just remembering the first times I heard her triggers a flood of memories, mostly of tears and goosebumps. Thank goodness for WXPN! And thank goodness for Ecto, as well. In closing, Susanne did mention RhodeWays. I told her how I'd not yet subscribed, but I do plan to! Apparently Sharon interviewd Happy, so I can't put it off much more. Besides, I may have something worth contributing! Anyway, Peace and Love (in keeping with the Woodstock theme), brothers and sisters, and keep the bong ready!:) Like, Bob ======================================================================== From: jzitt@ssnet.com (Joseph Zitt) Subject: Re: Flintstones question Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 19:20:09 -0400 (EDT) > > > What, no takers on the Fred Flintstone's bowling team question???? > > tornados." No one is certain. Please, someone, salvage the remainder of my > sanity. Tell me the answer to this question (which has turned out to be much > more difficult than it first appeared)! Can't say I remember the team, but I think their official beer was Rolling Rock. (*ducking*) ======================================================================== From: jzitt@ssnet.com (Joseph Zitt) Subject: Re: What? Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 19:27:19 -0400 (EDT) > letter but A TAPE! I put it in my walkman and heard:'Hi Angelos, this is > Tom Robinson. Thanks for your letter and your interest in my music...'. > Needless to say I was floored. He then proceeded to give me an update of his > career and described how the TRB reunion didn't work out and how he Holy Cow! I was just listening to Robinson for the first time in a while last night ("We Never Had It So Good", a collaboration with Jakko Jazkszlzk (or something like that -- I can't get at the disc right now)). One of the best experiences of my college years was talking to and hugging Robinson backstage at a benifit concert for the first gay march on Washington. (I'm probably dating myself (well, what the hell, I'm not dating anyone else at the moment...)) I spent the rest of the night sitting crosslegged on the floor talking to Allen Ginsberg. I gotta unpack my records soon. However, as you may be able to tell from my typing, I just returned from the Greek festival at the church up the street (where they have a cool band with a bouzouki, a jazz bass player, a guitarist who sounds like Nile Rodgers, and a electric drummer) and have had *just* enough rum to make it not a good idea to do anything involving heavy boxes for a few hours. *hic* *thud* ======================================================================== From: Mklprc@aol.com Date: Thu, 02 Jun 94 20:50:32 EDT Subject: Re: Dan Hicks > From: Mike Mendelson > Subject: Hips Lick Shaken Frente! > Does anyone know which album (if any) the original > I Scare Myself (covered by TD) by Dan Hicks is on? > I assume this is Dan Hicks of Hot Licks fame. Yep, it is on the album Original Recordings by Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, Globe Propaganda/Epic Records, no copyright date. 8-( Other notable tracks include Canned Music, How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away, Waitin' For The 103, Milk Shakin' Mama, Jukies' Ball. All songs written by Dan Hicks. Band members included Dan, Sherry Snow & Christine Viola Gancher, backing vocalists (Christine also played celeste and piano), Jaime Leopold, bull fiddle, Sid Page, violin, Jan Weber, lead guitar. Dan played rhythm guitar, harmonica and drums. The back cover picture shows them in all their hippieness, Indian print body-wrap dresses, 1940s suit & hat, used car salesman's sport coat, blue feather boa, etc. sitting around a little table with a 1930s phone, candle, some money and what looks like rolling papers. One is leaning against a 1915 crank victrola lighting a cigarette (or a well-rolled joint). A dog is curled up next to the woman in the harem pants and feather boa. Great picture. The front cover photo is a sparse browntone of Dan in 1880s western garb, holding an accoustic guitar with the dog attentively at his feet. BTW, I _loved_ the Thomas Dolby version. Thought it was one of his best ever. Hope he comes out of that creative slump (which gave us the awful "Aliens Ate My Buick") Michael "Love pawing through these old records" Pearce ======================================================================== Subject: can't unsub! Date: Thu, 2 Jun 94 19:45:55 CDT From: Larry Spence I know how much everyone _loves_ seeing unsub requests on a list, but... I've been emailing to ecto-request for a couple of days trying to unsub (this site is going away on _very_ short notice) with no luck. Can someone please email me if there's a better way to get this done in a hurry? Sorry to spew this onto the list, but (a) out of about 20 lists I'm on, this is the only one I can't unsub from, and (b) I'm apologizing in advance if people get bounces due to my still being on the list after this address is dead. Thanks, Larry ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 2 Jun 94 19:29:29 PDT From: erik@falcon.kla.com (Erik Johnson) Subject: Ectopinion on... Lisa Loeb? Just soliciting Ectopinion here. I stumbled across a video by Lisa Loeb, and found it good. (Foolishly, I seem to have forgotten to write down the title of song or album. *thwack* of hand on forehead.) FWIW, the video I saw was filmed in an apartment, with her moving from room to room & synching. Does anyone here know her work? Is this song a fair benchmark for her talent, or is this the one decent song on an otherwise undistinguished album? Some songs grab me so that the album would be worth it just for the one song (I grabbed _Little Earthquakes on a single viewing of the "Silent All These Years" video), but this song didn't hit me quite that strongly. Any feedback? I've been overloaded here at work until recently, so I've not had the chance to say thanks for all the great reccomendations I've gotten from here in the last four months or so. I think the keeper rate is *well* over 90%, led by great stuff like Sarah McLachlan, Loreena McKennit, D'Cuckoo, Milla, Holly Cole, & many more. Unfortunately, that still leave me with another 20-30 artists on my list. Somehow, I don't think this is what the investment community means when they say to put my money in CDs. :-) As far as I'm concerned, it's been a great investment. Keep 'em coming! See some of you Bay Area philes Saturday at seanympf's party. Erik _______________________________________________________________________________ Erik N. Johnson Don't believe the return address. KLA Instruments Corp. The one and only True Address is: San Jose, CA e_johnso@kla.com. - - - KLA's only opinion on the subject is that I should get back to work - - - In your head, no car is fast enough / In your heart, no love is true Would it ruin all your solitary fancies / If I told you that it isn't only you? -- Emma Bull, Cats Laughing, "For It All" ======================================================================== From: "Ralph A. Pincus" Subject: Re: Ectopinion on... Lisa Loeb? Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 23:35:34 -0400 (EDT) O.k., I'll bite. (Where *does* that expression come from?) > I stumbled across a video by Lisa Loeb, and found it good. (Foolishly, > I seem to have forgotten to write down the title of song or album. *thwack* > of hand on forehead.) FWIW, the video I saw was filmed in an apartment, > with her moving from room to room & synching. The song is called "Stay" and it's from the Reality Bites soundtrack. It caught my ear, too. For those of you out there who haven't heard it yet, she (they?) sounds a little like a cross between The Story and Shawn Colvin, IMHO. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to unearth any more info than that. I checked the computerized database at a great book/record store called Border's (they carry Happy, so you know they're cool), but the only entry was for "Stay." I have a hard time believing that this is the ONLY thing she's done. Sorry I can't be more helpful. Anybody else? > (I grabbed _Little > Earthquakes on a single viewing of the "Silent All These Years" video), Me, too. :) :) :) :), etc. > to say thanks for all the great reccomendations I've gotten from here in > the last four months or so. On that note, count me in as the latest Moon7x devotee. Wow! and Thanx! Peace. --Josh (not to be confused with Ralph) Pincus raps@uhura.cc.rochester.edu ======================================================================== From: Stuart Myerburg Date: Fri, 3 Jun 94 00:25:51 -0500 Subject: Lisa Loeb Ralph said about Lisa Loeb: > I checked the computerized database at a great book/record store called > Border's (they carry Happy, so you know they're cool), but the only entry > was for "Stay." I have a hard time believing that this is the ONLY thing > she's done. Sorry I can't be more helpful. Anybody else? She does only have "Stay" out right now. She is Ethan Hawke's next door neighbor and he was very impressed by her music. So, one day, he took Ben Stiller, the director of _Reality Bites_, to hear her perform. Ben was also impressed and she ended up on the soundtrack. Right now, I don't think she is signed to a label. But I'm sure after all of the exposure from being on the soundtrack and having the video become a "Buzz Clip" on MTV, she will have no problem getting a deal. Now, if only Happy lived next door to a young, musically-aware actor... Stuart __________________________________________________________________________ Stuart Myerburg labspm@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu "You are either in touch with lizard people or you are not." - Tori Amos __________________________________________________________________________ ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 3 Jun 94 3:36:38 EDT From: WretchAwry Subject: Hey Bday, Highs & Blighs HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Perttu!! (my friendly Finnish friend) Hello to Cheri, Jim, Josh and other new Ectophiles! Goodbye (come back soon!) to Kerry and Larry :-( (Kerry, it was so nice meeting you in Cambridge and seeing you at the KonvenTion the next day) Congratulations on all the new abodes :) *HUGS* to those who want them Friendly *GUHS* to those who don't :) Vickie (who looked on her "RocDonald's" fries box for hints of Fred's Bowling team, but only learned that Fred was the best bowler in Bedrock. Sorrrryyyyy) ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 3 Jun 94 10:11:49 EDT From: krb@fluent.com (Ken Blake) Subject: Re: I Scare Myself Mike Mendelson asks: > Does anyone know which album (if any) the original > I Scare Myself (covered by TD) by Dan Hicks is on? > I assume this is Dan Hicks of Hot Licks fame. The album is called "Original Recording". It is still my favorite Dan Hicks album, also containing Canned Music, Waiting for the 103, Shorty takes a dive, Jukies Ball, and several other excellent songs including a very funny song about a soda jerk ("my milk shakin' mama"). The cover shows Dan in full cowboy regalia. The album also features Sid Page on violin. It's an outstanding album both lyrically and musically - highly recommended. Ken P.S. I'm finally going to get to see Sarah M. in Burlington VT in July. Didn't make it to the Boston show and I thought that was it for New England - I can't wait. ======================================================================== From: "Ralph A. Pincus" Subject: Chords for "Path of Thorns" Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 10:56:59 -0400 (EDT) Greetings Marisa and all you guitar-toting ectos out there! Here are the chords for "The Path of Thorns" by Sarah McLachlan. Like the previous transcriptions, this one's pretty simple, so beginners needn't worry. The only requirement is a capo. Here goes... _________________________________________________________________ ** CAPO 4th FRET ** INTRO: A- D G C G VERSE: C G I knew you wanted to tell me C G In your voice there was something wrong C F C G D/F# E- But if you would turn your face away from me A- C You cannot tell me you're so strong C G Just let me ask of you one small thing C G As we have shared so many tears C F C G D/F# E- With fervor our dreams we planned a whole lifelong A- C Now are scattered on the wind CHORUS: G A- C In the terms of endearment G A- C In the terms of the life that you love G A- C In the terms of the years that pass you by G A- C In the terms of the reasons why. INSTRUMENTAL BREAK: A- D A- D F CLOSING SECTION: A- D Funny, how it seems that all I've tried to do A- D Seemed to make no difference to you A- D At all... _________________________________________________________________ Obviously, there are lots more words than that, but the above excerpts contain all the progressions you'll need. Happy (!) strumming! Peace. --Josh (who is in DESPERATE need of his own Net account...ARGGGGGHHHHHH!!!) ======================================================================== From: "Mike Bravo" Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 20:08:50 +0400 Subject: Re: St. Petersburg (was: Happy Loves Milla!) In message <9405280625.AA03685@kilimanjaro.opt-sci.Arizona.EDU> Alex Gibbs writes: >Vickie writes: >> Happy wants to know who sent her the great postcards of St. Petersberg >> (ack, I always forget...e or u?), Russia. My first thought was Mike >> Bravo (he lives there, after all) but then I thought Alex Gibbs. Mike? >> you still around? Alex, was it you? Anyway, she says thanks. >Wish I could say yes (my dad and step-mom from Russia are there for >the summer again now) so sounds like Mike is the most likely suspect! I should say it was actually me :) I just asked a friend of mine, who was going to visit New York (he's from there, actually) to post the postcards in States so they'd reach Happy in some decent time. I'm glad she liked them. >BTW, the December issue of National Geographic had a photo spread and >article about St. Petersburg for those interested (and about glass and >a little optics too). I haven't been there since I was 8 or 9 so I >don't remember much, but what I do remeber about Russia was very >dramatic. If anyone is interested in getting some views of St.Petersburg, drop me a line and I will try to send you something. The biggest problem is to send it so it will not disappear in our mail system, but I usually find someone who's going abroad. Finally, if this is of any interest, I'm reading Ecto highly irregularly, in bursts of 500 messages or so :), so if you're writing something concerning me, could you please CC: it to me at mbravo@octopus.spb.su... If all goes well, I'll get new email account at my new job and will get Ecto there. Great hellos to everyone ~c ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 3 Jun 94 11:15:57 PDT From: John Relph Subject: REVIEW: Sam Phillips, GAMH, SF, 31 May Sam Phillips, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, 31 May 1994 Briefly: an excellent concert, very satisfying. Sam Phillips is an intriguing performer who disdains the standard relationship between performer and audience. Rather than cater to the expectations of an audience weened on rock videos and stadium shows, Ms Phillips relies on her voice and the music to carry the show. She introduced one song by saying, "You may have noticed the lack of choreography tonight", and how she saw a Paula Abdul video a few years ago and has never recovered. Her one "move" was to take off her jacket and put it over her shoulder, "something I saw Frank Sinatra do once", she said. Initially I was a bit put off by the lack of apparent emotion and movement, but I grew to appreciate it, since it did not distract from the music. Ms Phillips was backed by a very capable group of musicians. T Bone Burnett played a hollow body electric guitar for most of the show, as did Ethan Jones (or was it Johns?), who flew up from Los Angeles just that day to join the tour. Mr Jones had not played with the band for about three months so his playing was a bit hesitant at first, though he warmed up as the night went on. Jerry Scheff, erstwhile bassist with Elvis (the King) as well as Elvis Costello, provided an excellent underpinning, sharing the efforts with the drummer, Josh (last name forgotten), whose arms and legs all akimbo proved he enjoyed his work. One got the feeling that the band didn't know quite what to expect and it lent a kind of drunken spontaneity to the concert. But since all the musicians were very competent it all turned out wonderful. Ms Phillips sang quite a few numbers from her excellent recent LP _Martinis & Bikinis_ (she apparently wanted to title the record _I Need Love_ after one of the songs on the album), including "I Need Love", "Fighting With Fire", "Signposts", "Same Rain", and "Baby I Can't Please You", the latter preceded by a dedication to Jerry Falwell and Rush Limbaugh who she said had just announced their engagement. The song is an indictment of fundamentalist conservatives and their rules, rules to which Ms Phillips does not wish to bow down. She also sang a few songs off earlier albums, including one which must have been recorded under her religious nom de disque, Leslie Phillips. The songs survived the lack of studio production quite nicely, stripped down to two jangling guitars, bass, drums, bongos, and Ms Phillips' powerful voice. The guitar playing was mostly very simple, so as not to distract from the vocals and the lyrics. I was impressed with the show in that most of the vocals were easily understood, unlike most "traditional" rock shows. (For example, I attended the Fillmore concert by They Might Be Giants the week before and had a very difficult time understanding the lyrics to the new songs.) Jerry Scheff's bass playing was strong and sometimes unexpected; his great experience showed in his versatility and apparent improvisation. And of course, the drummer was a wildman, playing in apparent glee, singing along (albeit without a microphone) the entire time. One got the feeling that Ms Phillips gradually was warming up (although she still stood stock still, arms at her sides) as the concert progressed, especially when she looked back at the musicians and smiled. She also whipped out a harmonica for the instrumental sections of "I Need Love", but unfortunately she was buried underneath the guitar assault. She looked a little shy about it, but got smiles and approval both from the band and from the audience. Ms Phillips came back for two encores; for the first she sang two songs accompanying herself on acoustic guitar; the second was a performance of the old standard "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" with Mr Burnett accompanying, smoking his cigar all the while. In any case, my wife and I thoroughly enjoyed the show. Ms Phillips seemed like a real person who just wanted to sing her songs. She didn't want to put on a "show", instead she was trying to be as straightforward as possible. We came away from the show satisfied. (The only drawback of the show was the persistent feedback problem that apparently didn't bother the soundman or most of the audience.) Another person wrote to tell me that she stayed after the show to speak to Ms Phillips, and that she turned out to be very friendly and very "real" in their conversation. -- John ======================================================================== 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)