From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #129 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, April 25 1998 Volume 04 : Number 129 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Kendra Smith - trade [Andrew Fries ] Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Oxy and Eze (Re: Falcon Ridge) [Juha Sorva ] Some Horde Festival information [Riphug ] Sale on (obscure) CD's at The Artist Shop (One Way Records) [Riphug ] Re: Oxy and Eze (Re: Falcon Ridge) [Riphug ] Sandy Denny Article in The Gaurdian [ABershaw ] Re: Oxy and Eze (Re: Falcon Ridge) [Riphug ] Re: Oxy and Eze [Juha Sorva ] Re: Oxy and Eze (Re: Falcon Ridge) ["Jeffrey C. Burka" ] Lillith Fair-Mary Arden Collins!!! [Horter3 ] Sunday backyard LRT featuring Lisa Sanders, Joy Eden Harrison, et al. ["L] Jonatha Brooke in Cincinnati [Riphug ] Merrie Reminder & New Stuff (fwd) [Michael Curry ] Re: Oxy and Eze (Re: Falcon Ridge) [Neal Copperman Subject: Kendra Smith - trade The recent discussion of Kendra Smith made me realise that although I've got two of her CDs (Five Ways of Disappearing and The Guild of Temporal Adventurers) I haven't played them in close to two years. Which makes me think I could probably manage to live without them... On the other hand there are a number of new releases I'd just love to get but the current state of my finances makes it imperative that I should not succumb to EWS just now. So if anyone would like to trade - one new CD for two rarely used ones - please e-mail me! n.p. Mercy Bell - Bite (because I'm going to see them play tonight, yeah!) - ------------------------------------------------------------------ ...Who alive can say, "Thou art no Poet; mayst not tell thy dreams?" (John Keats) http://www.zip.com.au/~afries/hall.html - ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 03:00:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** *********************** Jeff Burka (jburka@cqi.com) *********************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jeff Burka Thu April 24 1969 GoFlyAKite Christine Waite Tue April 25 1972 Taurus Matt Adams Thu April 26 1962 Taurus Brad Hutchinson Tue April 28 1964 What sign? Geoff Parks Sun April 30 1961 Taurus Barney Parker Fri May 02 1986 happy cat Gray Abbott Tue May 03 1955 Suprised Tamar Boursalian May 03 Taurus Joe Dembski Wed May 07 1952 Rumple Richard A. Holmes May 07 Taurus John Warren Mon May 08 1961 Taurus - the Ox Steve Ito Fri May 08 1970 DA Bull... Brian Gregory Thu May 09 1963 Eclectic Patrick Varker Wed May 12 1954 Torius Steve Fagg Tue May 13 1958 Nightwol Karel Zuiderveld Fri May 13 1960 Stier Miss Megan Celia Koster Sun May 14 1978 Taurus Michael Colford Wed May 16 1962 Taurus Christopher Boek Tue May 19 1970 Taurus Yngve Hauge Fri May 21 1971 Gemini Lisa Laane Tue May 22 1973 Gemini Jewel Kilcher Thu May 23 1974 The Gem - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 13:37:43 +0300 (EEST) From: Juha Sorva Subject: Oxy and Eze (Re: Falcon Ridge) Hello all, This is the first time I send anything to the list (been lurking for a while, though). On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Alan Moorse wrote: > How could ANYONE skip a fest that will include [...all these wonderful artists...] > Well, I can see how someone in, say, Finland might... Yeah. I can see that too :\. Anyway, I have a (stupid?) question for you folks: who are Oxy and Eze? As for the earlier subject of CD organizing, mine have always been sorted by the color of the sleeve, the way someone mentioned a few days ago. Searching for a CD does indeed get rather frustrating sometimes, but it looks good. :) Yours in ecto, Juha n.p. Blackgirls: Procedure (I just noticed that Mimi Goese is mentioned in the thanks section on the sleeve. Any interesting connections here?) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 07:45:56 EDT From: Riphug Subject: Some Horde Festival information *********************************************************** H.O.R.D.E Festival organizers officially announced dates for the 1998 edition of the trek, now in its seventh year, on Wednesday. The Smashing Pumpkins will appear on five of the announced dates as they roll out their own support tour in support of Adore, their upcoming Virgin Records release. In addition to Blues Traveler, the mainstays of the announced dates will be Ben Harper, Barenaked Ladies and Alana Davis. Smashing Pumpkins will play the July 9th, 14th, 15th, 21st and 22nd dates. Paula Cole will play from July 24th through August 12th, and Fastball will join from August 14th through September 5th. The fifteen acts named for the second stage will vary almost from show to show, and will be listed for each date at the H.O.R.D.E Festival web site. The Horde Festival was announced this week, and will rotate co-headliners such as the Smashing Pumpkins, Paula Cole and Fastball along with mainstays Blues Traveler and Alana Davis. Six dates go up this weekend, with Saturday getting Kansas City's Sandstone Amphitheatre, Oklahoma City's All Sports Stadium, Cincinnati's Riverbend, Mansfield's Great Woods and Buffalo's Darien Lakes. Sunday, one show goes up at Cleveland's Blossom Music Center (tickets at this location are $33.00). www.hordefestival.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 08:32:09 EDT From: Riphug Subject: Sale on (obscure) CD's at The Artist Shop (One Way Records) <> For information and ordering go to http://www.artist-shop.com/oneway/index.htm Jill :D ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 08:36:31 -0400 From: "Jeffrey C. Burka" Subject: Re: Oxy and Eze (Re: Falcon Ridge) Juha Sorva wrote: > Hello all, > > This is the first time I send anything to the list (been lurking for a > while, though). Well, then, a belated welcome! > Anyway, I have a (stupid?) question for you folks: who are Oxy and > Eze? I'm guessing from the question that you have _Building the Colossus_ but not _Volume 1_, though it's possible you have V1 and simply don't grok the lyric. In any event, Oxy is an explicit reference to one of Happy's childhood "moonbeam friends," as referenced in the song by that name on V1. That song also references Nitro, and Eze is presumably another such creature. jeff (who remembers that he got the lyric about Oxy and Nitro totally wrong on his first pass through Volume 1 for the original Lyrics Transcription Project) n.p. _Rhodes 1_, Happy Rhodes (the original tapes were Rhodes Volume I and Volume II; the "volume" got dropped on the first CD releases) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 08:50:55 EDT From: Riphug Subject: Re: Oxy and Eze (Re: Falcon Ridge) Ahhhh......you mean from the lyrics to Happy's song "Dying": <> All I can find is that Oxy often refers to Occidental University..... Eze could be Ezekiel.....or the name of a city in France. *sigh* i'm trying..... Jill :D ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 08:44:59 EDT From: ABershaw Subject: Sandy Denny Article in The Gaurdian This article was just published in The Gaurdian (a UK Paper, I think) in memory of Sandy Denny, who passed on 20 years ago this week. It's not too detailed, but does give a decent overview of her career that a few Ectophiles may enjoy reading. Alan A Wound That Never Healed- Sandy Denny, the British Baez, died tragically at 31. Now two decades later, we are finally realising how good she was. Robin Denselow reports: Twenty years ago this week the finest British female singer of the last three decades died after a tragic accident. Sandy Denny fell down the stairs of a friend's house, struck her head, and went into a coma. She never regained consciousness. She was 31. At the funeral, a lone piper played The Flowers Of The Forest. I was one of the small group of her friends and fans who stood around the grave that day wondering how she would be remembered. Sandy was the first great female British singer of the rock era, an unlikely, genial and slightly chubby star whose quiet persona changed utterly once she started singing. Until Sandy came along, the music scene of the sixties had been dominated almost completely by men and by bands, apart from the odd blues singer like Maggie Bell and traditionalists like Norma Waterson. It was a time when everything and everybody seemed to be connected - there were rock bands experimenting in underground clubs like UFO, and there were eccentrics like Roy Harper or the Incredible String Band emerging through the folk circuit. Sandy managed to combine both these scenes, changing the face of British music almost by accident. She became the leading vocalist of the new and vibrant British folk-rock scene after she sang a few of her favourite trad songs to her band, Fairport Convention, one night in a dressing room. "We thought, 'What could we do that was different?' said Sandy, "so I sang them some songs." No one in the band seemed to realise the importance of the experiment at first, but Fairport's blend of traditional narrative songs and a sturdy rock band backing became one of the distinctive English rock styles of the sixties and seventies. Then she moved on, concentrating on her own melancholy songs, many of them obsessed with death, their oblique lyrics utterly at odds with her jovial self. Again, she was moving the British music Scene into new territory, and in the process she became an icon, a home-grown answer to both Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. She hasn't been forgotten, 20 years on, but it's the sort of anniversary this self-effacing lady might have expected. Fairport Convention, who produced their greatest work when Sandy and Richard Thompson were part of the line-up, are "not planning to do anything special", but they did revive her best known song Who Knows Where The Time Goes on an album last year. Island records are marking the occasion with a series of releases, starting with Gold Dust, a recording of her last concert at London's Royalty Theatre in November 1977. Unfortunately it would't be in the shops until a month after the anniversary has passed. It's unfortunate too that there's been a dispute over another "new" Denny album. Released by Strange Fruit, The BBC Sessions 1971-73, was withdrawn on the day it was released after a contractual dispute between record companies. It was special because it's the only recording on which Sandy can be heard playing solo. It's a tribute to Denny's lasting appeal that even this album-that-never-was found its way onto several "best of the year" listings at Christmas. That might have amused her, in her droll fashion, and she would have been flattered that everyone from Blur to Sonic Youth currently claim to be Denny fans. But she would have acted as if she didn't quite believe it, for despite her achievements she remained painfully modest, even insecure about her work. If she was ever aware of the extent of her talent, she never showed it. She may have acted at times as if she had no real confidence in herself, but once she started singing she displayed an emotional intensity that was applied to anything from the traditional songs to ragtime or her own haunting ballads. It's easy to see why she was never quite treated as a superstar in her lifetime (even if she was voted Britain's best female singer time and again in the music press), why she suffered so badly from the whims of pop fashion, and why fellow musicians so admired her. As her latest live releases show, there was a timeless quality to her work. Her career started in a typical mid-sixties fashion. A student at Kensington Art College, she started on the folk circuit. "I liked singing", she told me, "but I was frowned on by the more ethnic folkies." She got bored "flitting around the country by myself. Finding my way to obscure pubs", so she joined a then-struggling band, The Strawbs, with whom she recorded one album, before auditioning for Fairport Convention. She confessed, after she'd got the job, that she thought they were American. They certainly sounded that way, with their West Coast blend of soft-rock and Dylan songs. But while she was with them, they developed their interest in folk-rock. Sandy's strong, flexible voice was a match for both the rousing guitar work of Richard Thompson and the fiddle-playing of Dave Swarbrick. But her own song-writhing was developing too, and "Who Knows Where The Time Goes" was to be a bestseller for the American singer Judy Collins. Denny moved on, just as the Fairports were becoming famous. At the end of 1969 she started a new band, Fotheringay, with the Australian guitarist Trevor Lucas, whom she was to marry three years later. Soon she moved on yet again, this time to a solo career. She was now the most important woman on the British music scene, but typically refused to act the part. Then 23, she lived in Fulham with Lucas, three cats and an enormous dog, and seemed happy to sit around, making tea, telling jokes, and talking about anything other than her career. I once asked if she was ambitious. "No, yes. Well, I just plod. It just happens." She wouldn't discuss what her songs were about. "They are biographical. About 10 people can understand them. I just take a story and whittle it down to essentials. I wouldn't write songs if they don't mean something to me, but I'm not prepared to tell everyone about my private life, like Joni Mitchell does. I like to be a bit more elusive than that." She elaborated by attacking John Lennon for being too explicit. "He really blew his cool when he explained exactly how he wrote Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds." It wasn't worth pursuing the subject much further. She recorded three mostly introspective solo albums between 1971 and 1973, but she was still as restless as ever. She made an excursion into rock theatrics, appearing alongside The Who and playing the part of The Nurse in Tommy, proving again that her clear, exquisite voice was a match for any rousing backing. For a while she rejoined Fairport Convention (which now included her husband), but quit once again to make another solo album, Rendezvous, in 1977. By then she was panning to move to America with Lucas and their daughter, Georgia, who was born nine months before her death. She never had a chance to relaunch her career in the States, where most English singers might, ironically, have reached a wider audience. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 08:59:12 EDT From: Riphug Subject: Re: Oxy and Eze (Re: Falcon Ridge) In a message dated 4/24/98 8:45:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jburka@cqi.com writes: << In any event, Oxy is an explicit reference to one of Happy's childhood "moonbeam friends," as referenced in the song by that name on V1. That song also references Nitro, and Eze is presumably another such creature. >> The birthday boy wins the prize! Happy Birthday, Jeff! Jill :D ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 16:25:54 +0300 (EEST) From: Juha Sorva Subject: Re: Oxy and Eze On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Jeffrey C. Burka wrote: > > Anyway, I have a (stupid?) question for you folks: who are Oxy and Eze? > > I'm guessing from the question that you have _Building the Colossus_ but not > _Volume 1_, though it's possible you have V1 and simply don't grok the lyric. I confess to not grokking it. :) I had completely overlooked that line in "Moonbeam Friends". Thanks for the clarification. Juha n.p. Diamanda Galas: Schrei X ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 09:32:33 -0400 From: "Jeffrey C. Burka" Subject: Re: Oxy and Eze (Re: Falcon Ridge) Riphug wrote: > > In a message dated 4/24/98 8:45:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jburka@cqi.com > writes: > > << In any event, Oxy is an explicit reference to one of Happy's childhood > "moonbeam friends," as referenced in the song by that name on V1. That song > also references Nitro, and Eze is presumably another such creature. >> > The birthday boy wins the prize! sometimes it doesn't matter how good your web-searching skills are; it helps to have a more-than-passing knowledge of the artist's body of work. jeff (who, dare he say it?, fancies himself something of a...ugh...Rhodes scholar... ;-) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 11:31:38 EDT From: Horter3 Subject: Lillith Fair-Mary Arden Collins!!! One of my favorite new artists who may be familiar to you all is competing for a spot on Lillith Fair!!! Who? Mary Arden Collins (and other finalists, but who cares about them) Where? At the TLA (Theater of Living Arts), South St, Phila PA When? This Wed, April 29th, doors open at 7pm. Show at 7:30pm. How? Tickets available thru Electric Factory Concerts (215)569-9400 for $3 Why? To help Mary win the one spot open for the Lilith Fair!!! I plan on being there. Hope to see you come out too! GO MARY!!!!!!!! (there she goes, blushing again ;-) Apologies for the crosspost. Feel free to forward to whomever you can think of since the audience decides who wins. The more, the merrier!!! Enjoy! Tom ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 11:26:56 -0700 From: "Larry S. Greenfield" Subject: Sunday backyard LRT featuring Lisa Sanders, Joy Eden Harrison, et al. Hi, all! I wanted to take this opportunity to remind everyone about the Living Room Tour in Los Angeles this Sunday (April 26), starting at 3 p.m. Joining headliners Lisa Sanders and Joy Eden Harrison will be Aife Wells (a stunning acoustic-guitar-playing singer/songwriter who opened for Counting Crows last Sunday at L.A.'s Viper Room), and, newly-announced, "Starbelly," featuring the haunting vocals of Cindy Wasserman, plus some special guest appearances. Please email me for location and directions if you can come. I hope to see a lot of you! - -=-Larry-=- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 16:58:59 EDT From: Riphug Subject: Jonatha Brooke in Cincinnati Hi, all ;-) I just learned that Steve Poltz will *not* be involved in the Marc Cohn/Jonatha Brooke concert at Bogart's on Friday, May 1st. Replacing Steve Poltz in the line-up will be none other than....... Kacy Crowley! ;-) I'll be there! Jill :D ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 18:05:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Michael Curry Subject: Merrie Reminder & New Stuff (fwd) Merrie Amsterberg news... - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 14:14:17 -0400 From: Jessica Smyser Subject: Merrie Reminder & New Stuff ** Reminder ** This Saturday, April 25 Universal Coffeehouse Salem, MA 211 Bridge St. 978-741-5743 7:30 W/ Barbara Kessler This Sunday, April 26 Lupo's Providence RI 239 Westminster St. 401-831-4071 7 pm w/ Paula Cole **New Stuff** Saturday, May 2 ON THE AIR WKPN 89.5 FM / Bridgeport CT 1 PM Stamford Center For The Arts Acoustic Studio Stamford CT 307 Atlantic St. 203-325-4466 8 pm w/ Barbara Kessler Thursday, May 14 CBGB's Gallery 315 Bowery, NYC 8 PM *****Thanks to all who volunteered to help out at Merrie's recent shows!***** ***** Stay tuned for Boston Phoenix Best Music Poll Results and more Shows in May***** **************************************************************************** Please Visit our web site at http://www.qdivision.com **************************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 00:38:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Neal Copperman Subject: Re: Oxy and Eze (Re: Falcon Ridge) On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Juha Sorva wrote: > This is the first time I send anything to the list (been lurking for a > while, though). Welcome Juha... Would you believe we used to have another Juha on the list, some years ago? Doni't know what happened to her though. neal np: horse - god's home movie (single) ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #129 **************************