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 #1039 ecto, Number 1039 Thursday, 10 March 1994 Today's Topics: *-----------------* U.K., Eddie Jobson SIBLINGS: New Mailing List for Jane Siberry fans Spiralling downwards Re: Spiralling downwards Jobson that and this Nonconcert review Writing worth reading? jobson Suddenly, Bob Re: Suddenly, Bob Lisa Germano sTuff Short Cuts and German movie titles Breeders upcoming concert in Dayton,OH Re: sTuff Re: Breeders upcoming concert in Dayton, OH Re: jobson Re: Jobson ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 09 Mar 94 14:39:12 EST From: Tamar Boursalian Subject: U.K., Eddie Jobson Hi, all! It's really cool to see that there are fans of Eddie Jobson and U.K. out there! Does anyone know if U.K.'s albums are hard to find on CD? I haven't really looked, and I've sort of forgotten about them, but now I think I'd like to try to find some. Eddie Jobson's "Zinc" is one of my all time favorite albums! I almost fell on the floor when I found it on CD a few months ago. I thought for sure I'd never find it. Although John Whetton was never a member of Yes, Eddie Jobson almost was. He apparently almost joined them when 90125 came out, an in fact appears for just a second in the "Owner of a Lonely Heart" video, but I heard that he was too difficult to get along with or something like that. Anyway, just wanted to add my $0.02 worth to the thread! :-) Have a good one! --Tamar P.S. I can't believe it's snowing again...... ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 15:46:12 -0500 From: gerstel@underground.irhe.upenn.edu (Brian Gerstel) Subject: SIBLINGS: New Mailing List for Jane Siberry fans After having run it in "test mode" for a few days with no major mishaps, I am opening a new list for Jane Siberry fans, called "siblings." To subscribe, send an e-mail message to majordomo@underground.irhe.upenn.edu no subject, with just the text subscribe siblings in the body. (*Don't* add your name, e-mail address, or anything else.) Assuming all goes okay, you will get back a "success" message from majordomo, and my (very preliminary) list information file. When you want to post to the list, send messages to siblings@underground.irhe.upenn.edu Facilities for archives, a FAQL, etc. are forthcoming, and will be announced on the list when they become available. "Clownliness is next to godliness." |Brian Gerstel Jane Siberry |The Institute for Research on Higher "Man needs his monsters to maintain |Education - University of Pennsylvania the status quo - and to win American|gerstel@underground.irhe.upenn.edu football scholarships." | _Love and Curses_ | ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 9 Mar 94 13:17:19 PST From: kyrlidis@templeton.cchem.berkeley.edu (Angelos Kyrlidis) Subject: Spiralling downwards Hi, a couple of things... First, Dave and I made it to the Tower Records acoustic show by Melissa Ferrick and Evan 'alternahunk' Dando, and personally I am glad I did. MF was great; funny, energetic and cautious of the record business she managed to grab the crowd which was mostly there to get a glimpse of Mr. Lemonhead himself. I liked what I heard and will be checking out Massive Blur really soon. Evan Dando took me by surprise. First, he had shaved his head recently and I wouldn't have recognized him if I bumped into him on the street. Second, he was actually very very good. I used to really hate the Lemonheads because IMHO they stole the glory of the late 80s Boston music scene from other deserving bands, but now I have changed my opinion, and will have to learn to respect their music. He played very subtle, sensitive acoustic versions of lots of songs, and earned my applause. Second, I bought one of the most brilliant albums I have ever listened to. Trent Reznor has managed to create an aural landscape as diverse as possible in 'The Downward Spiral'. Sure, this is not ecto-friendly stuff, or is it? There are several tracks in this album which combine 'industrial noise' with soft, acoustic guitar or piano, and lyrics which border on Happy Rhodes caliber darkness and gloom. 'Hurt' is the best example. It closes the album and if it is any indication of Trent's future direction, I will be watching closely. Other tracks that are definitely non-stereotypical NIN are 'A warm place', which sounds like a 'Low'-era Bowie instrumental, and 'The downward spiral', a song about suicide. Yes, there are lots of noisy tracks, with aggression, and even a track where he impersonates (I *hope* that's what he does) the offender in Tori's 'Me and a gun', which are not for ears trained for ectophilic material, but even those are innovative and deserve attention. If this sounds like a rave review, well it probably is. :) I really should be working on alternatives to cold fusion ;) (inside joke) Angelos PS. I hope Happy someday interacts with someone like Flood or Brian Eno. That for me would be the ideal Happy record. A little bit of danger in the music does wonders. PPS. Before we rush in and send $15 for Rhodeways, could someone tell us what to expect in return? Issues/year, contents, etc? PPPS. If the ectozine is resurrected and I can help in any way, count me in. ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 13:41:27 -0800 (PST) From: David Dixon Subject: Re: Spiralling downwards On Wed, 9 Mar 1994, Angelos Kyrlidis wrote: > Massive Blur really soon. Evan Dando took me by surprise. First, he > had shaved his head recently and I wouldn't have recognized him if I > bumped into him on the street. Second, he was actually very very good. > I used to really hate the Lemonheads because IMHO they stole the glory > of the late 80s Boston music scene from other deserving bands, but now > I have changed my opinion, and will have to learn to respect their music. > He played very subtle, sensitive acoustic versions of lots of songs, > and earned my applause. I second that. Dando seemed a bit, well, "lethargic" comes to mind (maybe he was just stoned :) ), but his lyrics were great. How many songwriters do you know can sing something like "If I was a booger/Would you blow your nose?" and make it sound endearing? > Second, I bought one of the most brilliant albums I have ever listened to. > Trent Reznor has managed to create an aural landscape as diverse as possible > in 'The Downward Spiral'. Definitely! This CD hasn't escaped my player yet. It's very, very cool. There isn't a throwaway track on the album. > I really should be working on alternatives to cold fusion ;) (inside joke) Heh heh heh... Quick, get to the Patent Office! :) D^2 ======================================================================== From: sam@swanson.com (Sam Murgie) Subject: Jobson Date: Wed, 9 Mar 94 8:49:54 EST according to mjm: > > Song writing very strong. I know Whetton has gone to things like > Asia and Yes (?) and Bozio pops up here and there (Jeff Beck?) > but what ever happened to Eddie Jobson? I've had this CD > for a while now, but everytime I take it out and listen to it again, > I am more impressed that it can be *that* good. wow. i agree UK was a phenominal band. i saw the first incarnation of the band (wetton/jobson/bruford/holdsworth) in an old theatre that seated maybe 1500. it was great :-) wetton never joined yes; he obviously did asia. he has done solo albums and he did an album with phil manzera (both having been in roxy music). however jobson did join yes, but didn't last long (not on any album, did not tour with them). jobson has done some solo stuff and i read on the king crimson mail list that someone had seen him credited with a soundtrack to a movie or a tv show. -- *-----------------------------------------------------------------------* | Sam Murgie | "Confusion will be my epitaph..." | | smurgie@swanson.com | (Pete Sinfield) | *-----------------------------------------------------------------------* ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 9 Mar 94 14:29:15 PST From: Neal Copperman Subject: that and this mjm asked where Melissa Ferrick is from. She's a Bostonian who recently relocated to LA. Lt. Jeffrey A. Pearce: I'll get you a disappear fear blurb within a few days. Seems I've done it enough so that people here should be bored reading about it, so I thought I would add some lyrics to my usual comments. Now I just have to remember to bring some in. Neal ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 16:20:34 CST From: Subject: Nonconcert review Having been in the mood to try something new yesterday, I attended my first live performance by a name recording artist, to-wit, Sam Phillips' appearance at Tower to hype her new album, _Martinis and Bikinis_. I had taken early leave from the net already, to take care of some other errands. After a pleasant stroll down Belden Avenue following the renewal of my books at the Lincoln Park library, I finally arrived at Tower, and picked up the March _Pulse_ preparatory to browsing. I found out that Happy's niche in the H bin had a better selection than her niche in the R bin. Go figure :-). I proceeded to listen to bits and pieces of a number of new releases on the headphones, accruing a significant wish list in the process, even as I tried to integrate the input of CD's in one ear with that of _All Things Considered_ in the other. The store audio was playing a good-sounding recording, which I made a mental note to ask about. I snapped up the last copy of _Fumbling Towards Ecstasy_ in that particular rack, since it was on sale for $10.99. As I paid for it, I asked what record they were playing, and learned it was the new Sam Phillips album. Finally I found a niche within the Wall of Human Flesh :-), and awaited the arrival of the main event. Sam Phillips arrived not too long thereafter. She uttered a couple of witti- cisms that I made a mental note of at the time, but have since forgotten. At last, she launched into her set. It was a song that didn`t seem particularly memorable to me, accompanied by a massive set of bongos and a couple of acous- tic guitars. For some reason, on that song her singing voice sounded to me like a cross between Iris DeMent and Edith Ann from Lily Tomlin's comedy rou- tines. I began to understand why some people think Iris DeMent sounds like Olive Oyl :-). That number was followed by another which seemed to me not very different from the first. The last number was somewhat better. Then the mini-concert ended and the regrouping for autographing, etc. began. I still think her record sounds good; I don't know why the live performance wasn't as good. Still, I think I may be making a wise decision by choosing records over concerts as my means of music consumption. As the southbound Clark St. bus reached the corner, who should emerge but Vick- ie herself. She was supposed to meet Charley there, but had been delayed and so missed the live performance. Hope this mini-essay captures some of the flavor of what she may or may not have missed, depending on her point of view :-). For the benefit of those more heavily into concerts than I: I meant to mention this the other day, but forgot. Folk_music ran the Story's schedule of upcom- ing concerts. If anyone wants it, I can send it to them. If the last AG newsletter is completely out of print, maybe someone can retype it in these pages. I, too have been stiffed on that issue :-). Mitch ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 17:04:16 CST From: Subject: Writing worth reading? The current _Pulse_ has a letter which starts, "How dare you palm off Tori Amos as some sort of Kate Bush imitator?" The writer goes on to say that she's "disappointed in the way Kate has "chosen to retain her precious art-scho ol image, while Amos has plumbed the ragged depths of her own soul....It has taken Bush 15 years to shed her cloak of English detachment and 'pull her heart out' for us, while Amos has done it on her debut album." Takes all kinds to make a world, I suppose :-). Mitch ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 9 Mar 94 19:41:09 EST From: woj@remus.rutgers.edu (the king of spain) Subject: jobson wow. i'm stunned by the number of people who have popped up with accolades for eddie jobson. i first came across him on jethro tull's _a_ album and soon afterwards found _the green album_ (recently, as tamar mentioned, re-released on cd! yay!) which i think is brillant. i can't even count the number of times i used _theme of secrets_ as music to either study to or fall asleep to. yeah, it's kinda new agey in feel, but it's much more than just another synthesizer programmed by some psycho psychic. ;) since _the green album_ was just re-released, i commission all of you with obtaining a copy of it and enjoying the hell out of it. +woj ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 20:39:25 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Lovejoy Subject: Suddenly, Bob Hello again, Not to worry, it's only me! In my eager overenthusiam about Rhodeways, I neglected to mention that yesterday I worked on the video for Suddenly, Tammy! The song is "Lamp", and much of the footage was shot on Hi-8 video. The film was shot at a local club (Khyber Pass) and at their rehearsal space in Pa. Looked pretty good. We did a few effect-type things, but overall kept it fairly straight. Interestingly, I learned that the singer, Beth, is romantically involved with the lead singer of Live, another band from Lancaster. Well, maybe not that interesting, but here I am sharing that tidbit with y'all! At the same time, we did a video for the band Psyclone Rangers. They looked kinda like a Nirvana clone. Never heard the music. Anyone here know of them? It's always a lot of fun to work on music videos. There's a willingness to break the rules, to experiment, that you don't get in mainstream ad agency commercials, the backbone of my work. Many of you may have seen my work without realizing it. Chicago 'philes, I'm responsible for the WLS-TV local news opens and most of the film news promos. Also a lot of news promos for KGO, in S.F., and KABC in L.A. - "There Goes That Newsvan again!" On the ABC network, the PLUS (Project Learning US) spots are my work. All this ABC stuff because Capital Cities, ABC's parent company, is here in Philly! Since coming to Philly, I've done fewer videos. My video credits include "Rockin' the Casbah" by The Clash, "Genius of Love" by Tom Tom Club, several Blue Oyster Cult Videos ("Joan Crawford Has Risen From The Grave"), Aldo Nova, EBN-OZN, and more obscure bands. Still, it's always fun. Well, enough about me. On to the next mail, which I trust you'll Really like! Video Bob ======================================================================== From: kmorrey@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Kathleen Morrey) Subject: Re: Suddenly, Bob Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 20:22:26 -0600 (CST) Well, Bob Lovejoy says he's responsible for, among many other videos, "Rock the Casbah" by the Clash... FINALLY someone I can ask: What is the significance of the armadillo?!? I became obsessed with that armadillo, trying to figure out "What does it mean?" In my circle it became known as "That armadillo video" and many hours were spent conjecturing on its presence. My apologies if you feel this belittles the rest of the work done on the video. I did really enjoy it, the darn little armored animal just possessed me. Ever curious, Kath ======================================================================== From: Tim Cook Date: Thu, 10 Mar 94 08:14:41 GMT Subject: Lisa Germano Lisa Germano is doing a live session on Mark Radcliffes show on R.1 tonight between 10p - 12p. tim ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 09 Mar 1994 23:20:12 -0500 (EST) From: Suspended In Duct Tape Subject: sTuff Hi! Anybody out there heard of a band called Field of Vision? They're from New Haven, and I saw them open for Aimee Mann at Toad's last summer. They were quite impressive live, even though their music is not incredibly original (your basic college radio pop alternative fare), and I liked them a lot. Well, they have a CD out now called _Groceries_, and from what I heard when I previewed it at the station the other day, it's quite good. It's rare to find a local band that's as good in the studio as they are live, but these guys appear to be. They are a drummer, guitarist, and bassist/singer who it turns out is female, but that isn't readily obvious in either her appearance or her voice. (Anybody read Emma Bull's _Bone Dance_? This woman is *exactly* how I pictured Sparrow in my mind.) Listening to the tape of my show and the song I played from the disc, I would compare her to Johnette Napolitano in both vocal and bass playing style, and the band as a whole could be compared to Concrete Blonde without too much stretching. I plan to stop at Cutler's Records tomorrow and pick up the CD, so once I have it I'll post the salient details - I'm sure more than a few of you would be interested in these folks! Uncle Bob announced: >Announcing "Rhodeways", the official Happy Rhodes Fanzine! Well, damn. So much for the Ecto Zine, huh? :( In other Happy news, I just got the latest edition of ALPS, the music APA in which I am a member, and a new contributor reported that "a friend" got him into Happy Rhodes. Anybody out there responsible for the Happy fandom of one Brett Bayne of Maplewood, New Jersey? (Ah, remember the days when the chances of getting an answer to that question out of ecto were about 100%? :) It's going to be at least four months until I can find out who this "friend" is.... ALPS is great, but it's sort of like getting one ecto digest every two months. Kinda slow turnaround as far as questions go. Angelos mentioned: >Shrew'd (A collection of NZ women's music): I *think* this one was mentioned >on ecto before. It is a sampler of various women singers from New Zealand. >Some songs are good, others I can live without. I was especially impressed by >a quasi-instrumental piece by Gill Civil called 'Procession', which somehow >evoked happyrhodesian effects in my mind in its style. This one warrants >further study. Yep, I mentioned it a couple times - it was in the bin at WESU for a while at the end of last year. Some very interesting stuff on that disc... where did you find it? That Jane review from the Inquirer was truly awful. I'm beginning to think a prerequisite for writing on music at that newspaper is certification of a full cranial lobotomy. I've been meaning to reply to this tidbit of Neal's: >Can't imagine how that would have happened. I'd just record right over >it, but the live version of "The Happy Song" is incredible, and of decent >quality too. Very sad to be missing the JUliana Hatfield song, which was >hilarious. She said it's on a radio station promo, and we should scan the >discard bins for it. Um, I have this promo sitting on my desk. Yours for postage or a viable trade. Send e-mail. Mitch opined: >Still, I think I may be making a wise decision by choosing records over >concerts as my means of music consumption. Argh! You *can't* be serious! You would take _Little Earthquakes_ over sitting ten feet away awash in Tori's raw emotion, consumed by the Tori Stare and moved to tears several times in 90 minutes? You prefer the studio version of "I'm Not Awake, I'm Not Asleep" to the absolutely stunning way it was performed live? _Strange Angels_ over the experience of witnessing Laurie Anderson deliver an entire performance in flawless German to a packed hall in Munich? I could go on and on... To cure yourself of this affliction, Mitch, do the following: Buy any Bela Fleck and the Flecktones recording. Listen to it a few times. Then go see them live. Then try ... just TRY ... to listen to the studio recording again. One dose of this therapy should have you set for life. :> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ |Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT meth@delphi.com| ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ |"Mother can't you see I've got to live my life the way I feel is right for| |me? Might not be right for you, but it's right for me..." Sarah McLachlan| ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 10 Mar 94 12:43:35 MEZ From: Dirk Kastens Subject: Short Cuts and German movie titles I saw Short Cuts last Sunday. I don't really know what to think about the film. On the one hand it was funny and interesting, on the other hand it was too long. Two hours would have done. Nearly all movies in Germany are dubbed. More and more movies keep the original title (Short Cuts, Manhattan Murder Mysery, In the Line of Fire, Perfect World) but most of the titles are translated. When the movies are re-released on video or when they are shown on TV, the distributors often create a new title or add a subtitle. The more boring or uninteresting the film, the more thrilling is the title. The distributors must think that we Germans are bloodthirsty and violent. Here some funny examples: Original title -> German title (translated) The Cimarron Kid -> Flight from Death Afterburn -> Starfighter of Death Pursuit -> Pursuit - Snipers of Death Made in L.A. -> Showdown in L.A. The Stunt Man -> The Long Death of Stuntman Cameron The First Power -> Pentagram - the Might of the Evil A Dandy in Aspic -> Death Dance of a Killer The Sender -> Devilish Signals Brainstorm -> The Devilish Game The Cradle Will Fall -> Satan in White The Car -> The Devil on Wheels The Cars that Ate Paris -> The Killer Cars from Paris Star in the Dust -> Today You Shall Hang Cameron's Closet -> Cameron - The Demon from Hell Limit Up -> A Devilish Career The Surrogate -> Schizophrenia Heart of Dixie -> Burning Hate Sky Pirates -> Dakota Harris in the Hell of Death The Haunted Palace -> The Torture-Chamber of the Witch-Hunter Border River -> The Devil Passage Runaway Train -> Express to Hell Strange Shadows in an Empty Room -> Burst of Fire House of Numbers -> The Hangman Measures Mother's Day -> Deadly Suspicion Out For Justice -> Deadly Revenge: The Brooklyn Massacre Right of the People -> City in Weapons High Road to China -> Mortal Chase to the End of the World House of Secrets -> In the Claws of the Gangsters Final Notice -> Bloody Sketches Black Gunn -> Visa for Hell She Woke Up -> The Murderer's Shadow Return From the Past -> Mask of Horror If you really want to see a bloody and violent movie, you would be disappointed, because most of these movies aren't thrilling at all. Dirk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ || \\\\\ || ///// | dkastens@dosuni1.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE || ))))) IRK || ((((( ASTENS | "Music's the way, the only way I know" || ///// || \\\\\ | Happy Rhodes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 08:20:03 -0500 From: "Andy Wee/I'm the one and only Dominator (419) 634-0410" Subject: Breeders upcoming concert in Dayton,OH ok ectophiles, this might possibly be considered as ectofodder, but oh well... On the 18th of March (Next Friday), an alternative station in Dayton, OH is hosting a concert with tickets at $18 available at Ticketmonger... The band lineup includes the Breeders, the Afghan Whigs and two other bands... I don't remember where the venue is, but it should be a good show... We return you to normal programming... Andy Wee awee@austin.onu.edu (looking forward to seeing the JH3 on leno tonight...) ======================================================================== Subject: Re: sTuff Date: Thu, 10 Mar 94 08:24:50 -0500 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu >Mitch opined: > >>Still, I think I may be making a wise decision by choosing records over >>concerts as my means of music consumption. And then meth replies: >Argh! You *can't* be serious! Well, there *is* something to be said to being able to hear a song more than once. Not all of us have the equipment (nor the gumption!) to be as zealous a recorder as woj. Actually, at the Cocteau Twins concert t'other night, we were frisked quite vigourously on the way in. >You prefer the >studio version of "I'm Not Awake, I'm Not Asleep" to the absolutely stunning >way it was performed live? Actually, the song that does it for me is "Where Do I Go". The live version of that song absolutely blows me away, completely wrings me out. Now that I think about it, for me it's very similar to listening to "Under the Ivy." I think it's one of the crimes of Happydom that only one live tape of that song is around, since the Philly tape shut off before Happy got to that song. (not to cast aspersions on footah! I'm still grateful to have as much of the Philly show as I have) Fortunately, it sounds great on woj's Albany tape. If y'all haven't heard Happy live, I strongly recommend getting one of the tapes from dbx's dubbing project. While you may not agree with meth and me as to a favorite live version, they're definitely worth hearing. Happy is a wonderful live performer, and the new arrangements of old songs are great fun in some places ("The Perfect Irony" springs to mind) and incredibly effective in lots of other places. >|"Mother can't you see I've got to live my life the way I feel is right for| >|me? Might not be right for you, but it's right for me..." Sarah McLachlan| One of my favorite lines off _Fumbling Toward Ecstasy_. Jeff ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 10 Mar 94 11:26:50 -0500 From: pearceja%pomis.dnet@wl.wpafb.af.mil Subject: Re: Breeders upcoming concert in Dayton, OH I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M Date: 10-Mar-1994 11:17am EST From: Lt Jeffrey A. Pearce PEARCEJA Dept: POSF Tel No: 52089 TO: _MAILER! ( _DDN[ECTO@NS1.RUTGERS.EDU] ) Subject: Re: Breeders upcoming concert in Dayton, OH > On the 18th of March (Next Friday), an alternative station in Dayton, OH >is hosting a concert with tickets at $18 available at Ticketmonger... >The band lineup includes the Breeders, the Afghan Whigs and two other bands... >I don't remember where the venue is, but it should be a good show... ^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ >We return you to normal programming... >Andy Wee >awee@austin.onu.edu To clarify this a little, they're playing at the Hara Arena, which is a few miles northwest of Dayton, conveniently accessed from I-75. Though this is a sizeable venue, I believe the show is general admission. Jeff pearceja@wl.wpafb.af.mil ======================================================================== From: ezust@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Alan Ezust) Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 11:40:41 -0500 Subject: Re: jobson [In message "jobson" on Mar 9, the king of spain writes:] | wow. i'm stunned by the number of people who have popped up with accolades | for eddie jobson. i first came across him on jethro tull's _a_ album and | soon afterwards found _the green album_ (recently, as tamar mentioned, | re-released on cd! yay!) which i think is brillant. i can't even count | the number of times i used _theme of secrets_ as music to either study | to or fall asleep to. yeah, it's kinda new agey in feel, but it's much | more than just another synthesizer programmed by some psycho psychic. ;) | | since _the green album_ was just re-released, i commission all of you with | obtaining a copy of it and enjoying the hell out of it. I got into Jobson shortly after Theme of Secrets came out; I saw the video for one of his songs on TV and it blew me away. I really like the way he experiments with different time signatures. I found his album, "Zinc" on vinyl quite a few years ago, and it wasn't what I expected at all, but it is absolutely mind-blowing - his violin playing is amazing, and when he mixes it with those screaming guitars masterfully. What is this "Green Album"? Is it new-agey like Theme of Secrets, or is it Rocky like Zinc? If you like Jobson, I recommend Jerry Goodman's "Ariel" release, which was on Private Music a few years ago (currently unavailable, alas). He does similar mixtures of fusion violin with synths, only with a more jazzier feel; he was the violinist for the Mahavishnu orchestra. -- | Alan Ezust ezust@cs.mcgill.ca Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |------------- McGill University School of Computer Science ----------------| "Where is this L.L. Bean University anyway? It looks like lots of McGill students transfered from there!" ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 10 Mar 94 12:43:20 -0500 From: pearceja%pomis.dnet@wl.wpafb.af.mil Subject: Re: Jobson I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M Date: 10-Mar-1994 12:38pm EST From: Lt Jeffrey A. Pearce PEARCEJA Dept: POSF Tel No: 52089 TO: _MAILER! ( _DDN[ECTO@NS1.RUTGERS.EDU] ) Subject: Re: Jobson Alan queried: >What is this "Green Album"? Is it new-agey like Theme of Secrets, or is it >Rocky like Zinc? I believe I may have confused you with my post. "The Green Album" and the album others are calling "Zinc" are the same thing. I believe on the spine of the record it says Eddie Jobson/Zinc, "The Green Album." For other Jobson appearances, check out Roxy Music's "Viva" or some albums by the band Curved Air. I believe he also played on a few 70's vintage Zappa albums too. ___________________________________________________________________________ Jeff Pearce pearceja@wl.wpafb.af.mil And though I'd like to laugh At all the things that led me on Somehow the stigma still remains David Sylvian - "Waterfront" ___________________________________________________________________________ ======================================================================== 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)