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 #1146 ecto, Number 1146 Thursday, 23 June 1994 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Re: The Lion King Re: Tori on 120 Minutes Frank Black/Divine All About Eve live cd electronic upchuck (what a cool name for a band) Re: vocal mixing at concerts (was Pretenders @ fair) go norway milla Re: Happy and more Tori live... Re: Tori live... Re: new sarah news from nettwerk Eddi Reader Good record stores in Syracuse/Buffalo? Loreena video Re: new sarah news from nettwerk Re: Happy and more Re: Happy and more Happy and more Tori in DC Re: Happy and more Re: new sarah news from nettwerk Updated Moxy Fruvous Schedule Rebecca and the incredible renascent posts Happy Fathers' daze ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 20 Jun 94 00:45:04 +1000 From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: Re: The Lion King Sam said: > Well, I saw "The Lion King" at Radio City last night. It was very dark for a > Of course, there are lighter moments as well. The animation on this picture > is, in my opinon, stunning. I guess it was in Dolby sound, or surround sound, > or something, because the elephants' footsteps echoed like thunder from the > four walls of the theater. There were also moments when hyenas voices could be > heard from behind me. Interesting effect. You may have seen it in Dolby Stereo Digital, a new-ish 6-channel digital sound format with stereo surrounds. Yum. :) > The songs (by Elton John and Tim Rice) didn't impress me. With the exception > of the wonderfully staged (if that's the proper terminology) opening sequence, > which makes excellent use of "The Circle of Life." The four other songs, > although one of them was sort of cute, left me longing for Alan Menken. Before "Aladdin" came out in the US we were invited to a screening here in Melbourne attended and hosted by one of the heads of Walt Disney Feature Animation (can't quite remember the name... it'll come back to me. Isn't there someone on Ecto at disney.com?). Before "Aladdin" he did a 90 minute lecture on the making of "Aladdin" and what Disney was up to; best thing was, he brought with him work-in-progress footage and other goodies. He showed us the opening song of the still-being-made "Lion King", but before that he played us the original version of the song in question, as actually performed and produced by Elton John. It was awaful, a typical, tepid Elton track. After it had finished he looked at the audience and said with a straight face, "As you can imagine, we were horrified....!" The music accompanying the actual film was the same song reworked by Hans Zimmer. The song was still awful, but it did sound suitably tribal, unlike Elton John's original. > The film has a "politically correct" feel to it. It's from Disney. Of course it does. :) Check out the debate on "Aladdin" over on alt.video.laserdisc... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "All told, Under The Pink is small but likeably formed; ideal for those herbal-tea moments." - Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian reviewing the new "Victoria Amos" album. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1994 14:49:41 -0400 (EDT) From: S Trowbridge Subject: Re: Tori on 120 Minutes > Stuart points out: > > > I see that no one has mentioned this yet, so I thought I would let > > everyone know. At the end of 120 Minutes this week, Elvis Costello, the > > guest host, said that they would have a live performance from Tori next > > week. The guest host will be Frank Black (AKA Divine), And Anthony adds: > Just in case I didn't miss some subtext here; Divine, now deceased, was a > film actor; Frank Black AKA Black Francis AKA Charles Thompson III was the > lead singer of The Pixies and now has a second solo album out... I'm afraid I'm to blame for this one, Anthony. :-) I wrote to ecto a few weeks ago: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 18:39:10 -0400 (EDT) From: S Trowbridge To: ecto For a laugh, check out the cover of Frank Black's new "Teenager of the Year" album and see if you don't agree that he looks exactly like the late film star/drag queen Divine. --Sue ======================================================================== From: Stuart Myerburg Date: Sun, 19 Jun 94 14:46:19 -0500 Subject: Frank Black/Divine Anthony pedantically noted: > Just in case I didn't miss some subtext here; Divine, now deceased, was a > film actor; Frank Black AKA Black Francis AKA Charles Thompson III was the > lead singer of The Pixies and now has a second solo album out... Yes, I know. I was just making reference to what Sue Trowbridge had pointed out earlier. That is, Frank Black looks frighteningly like Divine on the cover of his new CD, _Teenager of the Year_. Sorry if that was rather vague in my original post. Stuart __________________________________________________________________________ Stuart Myerburg labspm@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu "Mary Magdalene showed up once and said, `It's tough being a single mother.' But that's about it." - Tori Amos __________________________________________________________________________ ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1994 17:16:05 -0400 From: Justin Bur Subject: All About Eve live cd I too would like to know about Julianne Regan's new band! In the meantime, there are leftover bits and pieces of All About Eve to be picked up. Found at the CD Bar in Toronto: BBC Radio One Live in Concert (Windsong Records, UK, WINCD044, released late 1993). Concert recorded 1989 at the Glastonbury Festival, i.e., between their debut album and Scarlet. This recording contains three non-album songs (all of them on the Winter Words compilation, though), four songs from Scarlet, and seven from the first album. Julianne introduces (very briefly) a few of the songs. In general, as one might expect, the live versions have more heavy-rock effects than the album versions, and some of the subtlety is lost. But it's interesting to hear what they sounded like in concert... I would have liked to have been there... justin ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1994 15:50:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Suspended In Duct Tape Subject: electronic upchuck (what a cool name for a band) Hi! Am I the only one who logged on today to find about 25 or so messages that had been posted to ecto during the past week, resent by ru-rec-ecto@rutgers.edu? (The list has been gatewayed into a newsgroup at Rutgers for a while now, and it appears to have puked everything back onto the list this morning -- must be too hot for it or something.) I sent a message to Jess about this, but I'm wondering if this happened to everyone... Meredith meth@delphi.com ======================================================================== From: jzitt@ssnet.com (Joseph Zitt) Subject: Re: vocal mixing at concerts (was Pretenders @ fair) Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1994 22:13:41 -0400 (EDT) Chris Farmer intones: > it seems that most shows are mixed so you can barely hear the vocals and > certainly not appreciate them. as someone who is usually interested mostly > in the beauty of the voice, this has always irked me. is it just rampant > bad mixing in the business, my bad ears / skewed musical preferences, or > what???? do any of the more experienced concert goers or electronic genii > have an explanation for this?? (if you can get out of your bottles... :) , I frequently found in shows that I mixed (on equipment that I *didn't* choose or set up) that raising vocals to an appropriate level brought things perilously close to permanent feedback. This is a problem (unless you're mixing the Jesus and Mary Chain B-]). ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1994 22:08:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Suspended In Duct Tape Subject: go norway milla Hi! Go, Norway! I was watching the World Cup this afternoon, and the American announcer introducing a substitution completely butchered the pronunciation of Kjetil. Some of us have been enlightened, and know better. :) Vickie reported: >I haven't yet gotten the entire review, though it's been promised to >me, but I did get another letter from someone else, and, with her >permission, here's the entire letter (with yet another review). Could you please send me the review when you get it, if you don't end up posting it to ecto? Thanks! >I really have to get to know Milla's lyrics better. I casually dismissed >them, yet Happy raved about the lyrics (and everything else) which took >me by suprise. At that time I said I'd give them more of a chance, and >I still haven't. Just laziness on my part. This interview specifically >mentions the lyrics too...interesting. I haven't studied the lyrics like I do with other things, mostly because of a lack of time, but the lyrics that have stood out in listening haven't struck me as being as sophomoric as others have opined around here. I'll have to pay closer attention sometime in the near future, too. Hey Anthony, good luck with your producing career! You wouldn't by any chance have Kate Bush's number, would you? She's sorely in need of some fresh outside influence... ;> Meredith meth@delphi.com ======================================================================== From: jzitt@ssnet.com (Joseph Zitt) Subject: Re: Happy and more Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1994 22:46:38 -0400 (EDT) jeffy writes: > It was a while before I got into it, but I began to like "Wrong Century" > just fine within a couple of months of getting _Warpaint_. For that > matter, for a long time I had a problem with the title track, because I > just loved the chorus, but found the verses to be a bit dull. Now I > absolutely *love* the song. Hmm... as I posted Friday, I just put it on a compilation. It just goes so well with the NIN track... Actually, that was probably the first track of Happy's to really grab my ear, mostly for the scrambled male vocals. I then listened to the lyrics and thought them really cool. Of course, by then "Waking Up" and "In Hiding" had seized me in their grasp, and I was a goner B-]. ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 00:26:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Cheri Villines Subject: Tori live... Wow...I just watched Tori on 120 Minutes...this is the first time I've ever seen her live...was that pretty typical? I loved it. cheri ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 20 Jun 94 2:35:53 EDT From: WretchAwry Subject: Re: Tori live... > Wow...I just watched Tori on 120 Minutes...this is the first time I've > ever seen her live...was that pretty typical? I loved it. > > cheri Yep, typical with a capital T. Great song ("Icicle"), beautiful voice, interesting vocal mannerisms, pretty piano, intense expressions, fine lyrics, godawful ugly clothes... Vickie ======================================================================== From: guetzlaf@rhea.cray.com (Cathy Guetzlaff) Subject: Re: new sarah news from nettwerk Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 08:01:58 -0500 (CDT) Meth tells us: >But there's going to be a Sarah video! There's going to be a Sarah video! >(No, TWO!) And a songbook! Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But wait! There's more! Sarah was just here in Mpls in May, but I saw an ad in Sunday's paper that she's coming back August 23. And this time The October Project will be opening for her! When I read that, I spilled my coffee all over the front deck, the dog, and the girlfriend. Only the dog really seemed to mind since Carla is a Sarah fan too. We decided to get ourselves downtown to buy tickets *immediately* instead of dealing with that infernal TicketMaster. The box office opened at noon, we were there by 12:45. We told the ticket guy we were close personal friends of Sarah's (he wasn't sure if we were kidding or not since he didn't know who Sarah was -- he asked if she was from around here...I told him no, but that I'd stood next to her at the Loring Bar (I didn't recognize her then although we exchanged hellos...)). Anyway, he found us seats in the fourth row over to the side. When we asked for something closer to the middle, he hesitated a bit, looked at me, looked at Carla, looked back at me, and then said yeah, he had a couple seats more towards the middle, front row center to be exact. Had I had coffee with me then, I would have spilt that too! So there you have it, Sarah is back in Mpls, and I have even better seats than last time! Ain't life grand? It makes up for not being able to get to the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival to see The Story, Patty Larkin, and D'Cuckoo (to mention a few ecto-type performers who'll be there...). There, did I go off on enough tangents to please everyone? Do all the parentheses match? Should I have detailed what we had at our 'aren't we pleased with ourselves for getting such good tickets' celebratory brunch? ;-) -- Cathy Guetzlaff Cray Research, Inc. guetzlaf@cray.com ======================================================================== From: Tim Cook Date: Mon, 20 Jun 94 14:30:43 BST Subject: Eddi Reader Eddi Readers new album is out in the U.K. today. Some of the tracks ("Dear John" for example) hit me straight between the eyes on first listen. More so than anything on Mirmana did at first. Recommended! tim ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 10:36:59 -0500 (EST) From: "I'll be here, I'll be ecto..." Subject: Good record stores in Syracuse/Buffalo? Hi everyone, I've got a question for anyone who can answer it. My wife (Jenn) and I are taking a road trip this weekend to visit a friend of ours from San Diego who is attending a wedding in Syracuse. I've looked in several Baltimore record stores for Sarah's "Touch" CD, Kate's "Red Shoes" singles, and any other rare or import CD's, but I've had no luck. Are there some really good record stores in Syracuse that might have these CD's? Or any in Buffalo since we are going to be there for a few hours on Monday? If there are, please let me know so that we can try to find them while we're there. On another topic, I just got a flyer about the upcoming comet collision with Jupiter. There will be daily updates on NASA-Select TV, which some cable companies carry. I'm still trying to find out about press release pictures, but I don't have any info at the moment. If I find out where the pictures are to be posted on the net, I'll let everyone know... Thanks for any record store info, and I hope things have cooled down a bit by the end of the week. This heat is really getting out of control... :) Take care, John ======================================================================== From: brianb@netcom.com (Brian Bloom) Subject: Loreena video Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 07:51:58 -0700 (PDT) Hi all! For any die-hard Loreena McKennitt fans, I ran across a video for 'The Mask And The Mirror'. I don't know what it contains but it is 11:43 in length (according to the label). They are asking $9.95 (if I recall correctly, plus Dallas 8.25 percent sales tax) if anyone is interested in this, I can get their number for you or arrange to pick it up sometime.. br!an the moo-man * moo-man grins. -- __ ____ __ ____ __ __ (__==__) /\ \ / \_\ / /\ / \ \ / |\ / /\ (oo) ( moo.) / \_\ / /\ |_| / / /| /\ \ \ / ||/ / / /-------\/ -' / /\ | |\ \/ /_/_ / / / \ \/ \ \ / |/ / / / | U.T.|| / \/ |_| \ __ \_\ /_/ / \ /\ \_\ / /| / / * ||----|| / /\ ./_/ \ \ \/_/_\_\/ \ \ \/_// / | / / ^^ ^^ \ \/ |_| \ \_\ /_/\ \ \_\ /_/ /|_/ / Br!an Bloom \__/_/ \/_/ \_\/ \/_/ \_\/ \_\/ brianb@netcom.com .. but music hides me so well, ..and reveals me.. oh well - HR ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 21 Jun 94 01:10:50 +1000 From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: Re: new sarah news from nettwerk Meredith bears good tidings from the Nettwerkians: > compilation which will include all of Sarah's videos (Canadian & U.S. > versions) as well as behind-the-scenes and live footage, interviews and > other such things. It will be released in the fall. Yay! Finally! Hope they do it with digitally mastered audio. I might ask 'em to. :-) Another reason to be glad I bought that NTSC video deck... > heading to Europe where Fumbling... will just be newly released. That tour > will finish by Christmas and allow Sarah another chance to revitalize > before she heads off to tour Australia, New Zealand, and Asia. Whew! Australia? AUSTRALIA!!!!!! There *is* a deity of some description! Tori in Novemberf, Sarah in the New Year... two more reasons to look forward to my favorite season... > separate US version of the video. However, the word "bullshit" will be > dropped from the US radio mix. You gotta just love the FCC. :P An Australian band called Cold Chisel, usually quite a loud pub-rock band, released a song back in the early 80's called "Flame Trees" (just covered, by the way, by the wonderful and femalevocalising Killjoys); when this song came out as a single, they censored the word "bullshit" in it despite the fact that even then radio was quite willing to play it uncut. The censoring was done by reversing the vocal track for that word, resulting in the immortal line: "Ah, who needs that sentimental bweeshinneahb any way?" :-) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "All told, Under The Pink is small but likeably formed; ideal for those herbal-tea moments." - Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian reviewing the new "Victoria Amos" album. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 21 Jun 94 01:01:25 +1000 From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: Re: Happy and more Vickie said: > Funnyfunnyfunny, why am I the only one on the planet (HRfan-wise) > who does not really care for "Wrong Century"? No, you're not; it's one of the only Happy songs I don't care much for, as a matter of fact. I've tried to like it, I really have...! > I'm certainly missing > something :) but I tend to cringe when I see that someone has put > that song on a sampler tape ("The Issue Is" too) and *never* would > have become a Happy fan if I'd heard that song first. What annoys me most about it is the chorus. Though the melody is OK, the male vocal that accompanies Happy kills it for me completely. I know not why, and it's not reverse gender-bias at work, either. It's just a male vocal I don't care for. Maybe if Billy MacKenzie had done it... :) I do like "The Issue Is", though...! > Not in Ecto though! I love Kate, and I really haven't heard that > much Kim Wilde. Bob, have you met Marcel? :) Bob, should I send you my infamous Kim Wilde GIF? :-) I've just spent a long day in a recording studio being a producer; we got four songs recorded (we're mixing on Thursday) in about 10 hours, with some real fun had when it came to the guest musicians we asked to help out. The music of the band I was working with (About Six Feet, mail tony@xymox.apana.org.au for more info :) is electronic pop, but we had contributions from Wendy Rule, who I mentioned yesterday, who gave a devastating vocal performance a la Pink Floyd's "Great Gig In The Sky" on one song, and a soft Debbie Harry-like coo on another. High on excitement after that had worked out, we next recorded a male vocalist called Ivan on a song called "Miasma", a minor-key-minor-chord-just-pretty-minor-all-over cinematic epic of a song. Ivan sounds like a cross between Seal and that famous African singer that Gabriel works with whose name I've forgotten. So naturally, we had him sing a Middle-Eastern chant. Then David Sterry came in, set up a guitar amp in the studio corrdor and played the biggest wall of Albini- defeating feedback guitar you've ever heard for the song's climax. It's going to sound *magical*. I was personally pleased on this song as I finally got to use all 24 tracks. :-) These tracks will be out on CD in early August; I'll let you all know when it's out. My first production credit, at long last. :) (The other two or three things I've worked on over the past few years have never made it to release stage). Now I have to learn all about that mysterious process they call mastering... :-) - Anthony (Wading through the backlog) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "All told, Under The Pink is small but likeably formed; ideal for those herbal-tea moments." - Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian reviewing the new "Victoria Amos" album. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== From: Ethan Straffin Date: Mon, 20 Jun 94 10:19:02 -0700 Subject: Re: Happy and more AnthonyH writes: >> I'm certainly missing >> something :) but I tend to cringe when I see that someone has put >> that song on a sampler tape ("The Issue Is" too) and *never* would >> have become a Happy fan if I'd heard that song first. > >What annoys me most about it is the chorus. Though the melody is OK, the >male vocal that accompanies Happy kills it for me completely. I know not >why, and it's not reverse gender-bias at work, either. It's just a male >vocal I don't care for. Yep, in my book this song is second only to Sarah McLachlan's "Lost" in terms of being nearly ruined by gratuitous male backing vocals. >I do like "The Issue Is", though...! Oh, *yes*. Definitely. Ethan ======================================================================== Subject: Happy and more Date: Mon, 20 Jun 94 13:41:49 -0400 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu Ethan writes, wrt "Warpaint": >Yep, in my book this song is second only to Sarah McLachlan's "Lost" in terms >of being nearly ruined by gratuitous male backing vocals. You're *insane*. "Lost" is no worse than *any* of the mindboggling single-word-titled songs on _Solace_ : "Terms," "Lost," "Home," "Shelter," "Mercy" (I think I'll leave "Black" off the list--it's great live, but I've never been crazy about the studio version). I *love* the male vocals on it, and I love the contrast of Sarah's voice to them. Wish I had a copy of _Solace_ with me in the lab today. Jeff ======================================================================== Subject: Tori in DC Date: Mon, 20 Jun 94 13:44:44 -0400 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu So am I going to bump into ectophiles at Tori's concer tonight at the Warner here in DC? I'm currently scheduled to meet up with some friends in front of the Warner at 7:00, and we'll probably run over to National Place to grab a bite of dinner before the show. If any ectophiles care to join us, just show up at 7:00 (and rsvp to me so I'll wait for you there if you don't show up before we bug out...) Don't think I'll be wearing a Happy t-shirt this time...probably a Tori shirt. Perhaps you'll recognize the long, dark braid? Jeff |Jeffrey C. Burka | "Everything is still with a fear of never coming out | |Suffering Bad Grammar| Never following through / Never ever finishing | |jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu | What we wanted to do." -- Melissa Ferrick | ======================================================================== From: Ethan Straffin Date: Mon, 20 Jun 94 11:22:07 -0700 Subject: Re: Happy and more Jeff sez: >You're *insane*. "Lost" is no worse than *any* of the mindboggling >single-word-titled songs on _Solace_ : "Terms," "Lost," "Home," "Shelter," >"Mercy" (I think I'll leave "Black" off the list--it's great live, but I've >never been crazy about the studio version). Heh. Well then, I'll just have to compound my insanity by confessing that I'm not too nuts about any of these songs (although "Terms" is okay). It does seem that Sarah fans are sharply divided over what parts of _Solace_ are best, doesn't it? I guess that takes care of my cantankerousness for the day... :) Ethan ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 11:55:12 -0700 (PDT) From: David Dixon Subject: Re: new sarah news from nettwerk On Tue, 21 Jun 1994, Anthony Horan wrote: > An Australian band called Cold Chisel, usually quite a loud pub-rock band, > released a song back in the early 80's called "Flame Trees" (just covered, by > the way, by the wonderful and femalevocalising Killjoys); when this song came > out as a single, they censored the word "bullshit" in it despite the fact > that even then radio was quite willing to play it uncut. The censoring was > done by reversing the vocal track for that word, resulting in the immortal > line: > > "Ah, who needs that sentimental bweeshinneahb any way?" :-) > They do this on one of the local stations as well, with Violent Femmes' "Day After Day", reversing the word "fuck". "Why can't I get just one kkkkyyyuf! Why can't I get just one kkkkyyyuf!" D^2 ======================================================================== Date: 20 Jun 94 12:46:38 EDT From: Mike Mendelson Subject: Updated Moxy Fruvous Schedule Moxy Fruvous, 1994 tour dates =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= June 24 Waterfront Fest Oakville,Ont 25 Sounds of Summer Waterville,Ont 27 Cicero's St. Louis,MO 28 Stache's Columbus,OH 29 Schuba's Chicago,IL 30 Alvin's Detroit,MI July 1 Tecumseh Park Chatham,Ont 2 Friendship Fest Fort Erie,Ont 3 Blythe Theatre Blythe,Ont 8 Northern Lights Sudbury,Ont 9 " " " " 12 Mercury Lounge NY,NY 13 Tin Angel Phila,PA 14 Calgary Stampede 15 " " 16 Prairieland Ex. Saskatoon,SK 22 Folk on the Rock Yellowknife, NWT 23 " " " " August 1-7 Rochester,Boston,Philly,D.C,NYC 8-13 St.Louis,Chgo,Detroit,Columbus,Buff 14 Maripossa Folk Fest Toronto 17-23 Edinburgh Fringe Fest, Scotland 26-27 Tonder Fest, Denmark Sept. 15,16 Borderline London, Eng. For CDs and other gear, write Fruvous Quill POB 90005, 1436 Queen St.W. Toronto,Ont,Canada M6K1M2 -yourfriendlyneighbourhoodmjm ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 20 Jun 94 16:52:51 CDT From: I love you/For sentimental bweeshinneahb Subject: Rebecca and the incredible renascent posts The first time I heard of Rebecca Pidgeon, interestingly, was when her picture appeared in an ad for The Gap, which was hung from the ceiling of the North Western Station concourse. I can no longer remember what article of clothing from that chain's line she was modeling. As fate would have it, she is married to the noted playwright David Mamet, with whom she coauthored some of the songs on her new album. She reportedly had to pull out of starring in the film version of her husband's play _Oleanna_ because she's pregnant. _The Midnight Special_ has been playing tracks from her album for the last couple of weeks, and they're quite good. Meredith wasn't the only one to receive a reprise of selected posts from the first few days of last week, courtesy of the Rutgers newsgroup to which the list is gated. Somehow, I doubt that she and I collectively are the only ones to receive this somewhat dubious bonus, either. An idle speculation on where Vickie remembers Blue Rodeo from: with the amount of music by Canadian artists whereof we speak in these pages, it is quite like- ly that it came up in that context at some point. Mitch ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 18:42:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Lovejoy Subject: Happy Fathers' daze Hi again! I got a great gift for Father's Day - a portable CD player! First disc in was Warpaint! What a joy to be able to listen this way. I like tapes well enough, but this is something! Today being my wife's birthday, I've showered her with gifts (amazingly, none of them has a plug or battery!) and I guess I'm running pretty durn near my credit limit!! Well, it's all good fun! Hello to NewBob! Yup, I'm no authority figure and not anti-anything, generally speaking. I really appreciated your glowing enthusiasm about Happy and her music; she most certainly is incredible! I'm so excited about the upcoming release!!! Time to get working on the HBP, I see. Methinks this time I'll rest the bass and send some much-beloved music from my past. I really enjoyed the last batch of tapes; there's so much music out there I've not heard that is wonderful! I might be moving to a new net.address soon. Panix is a long- distance call from Philly to NYC for me, and it looks like a new provider is opening up in Lawrenceville, NJ. In addition to the lower phone charges, they offer full access for $15.00/month, which means I'd be able to join you all on #ecto! We shall see what transpires... Speaking of the net, if anyone out there is running Mosaic on a Windows PC, please email me (if you don't mind a few dumb questions!). Thanks, and now back to your regularly scheduled discussions! Bob the exclamationally wild! ======================================================================== 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)