From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #402 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, November 16 1998 Volume 04 : Number 402 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] me on mtv; plus eddie vedder and neil finn [Paul Kim ] Susan Werner in Portland [Richard ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 03:00:04 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ****************** Dave Cook (davecook@yarrow.wt.com.au) ****************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Dave Cook Mon November 15 1971 Scorpio Jeff Pearce November 16 Orpheus Naama Avramzon Mon November 18 1974 Scorpio Jeff Smith Mon November 19 1962 Crash Kevin Bartlett Fri November 21 1952 Scorpio Claudia Spix Wed November 23 1960 Schuetze Anja Baldo Tue November 23 1965 Garbanzo Tommy Persson Wed November 25 1964 Sagittarius Pat Tessitore November 26 Sagittarius Justin Bur Fri November 27 1964 Sagittarius Sue Trowbridge Sun November 27 1966 Skytten Ward Kadel Tue November 29 1977 Sagittarius Mirko Bulaja Sat November 30 1974 Block Juha Sorva Thu December 02 1976 Sagittarius Chip Lueck Thu December 05 1968 Sagittarius Michele Wellck December 08 Sagittarius Jeremy J. Corry Fri December 11 1970 Sagittarius Renee Canada Tue December 13 1977 Sagittarius Julie C. Kammerzell Sun December 15 1968 Sagittarius/Scorpio combo Gloria Jackson-Nefertiti Sat December 15 1956 Sagittarius - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 16:37:46 -0500 From: Paul Kim Subject: me on mtv; plus eddie vedder and neil finn For anyone interested, I'm missing Veda Hille in Worcester this tuesday (argh!) so that i can slum around the MTV studios in New York and attend the Total Request Live thing with Jewel. Well, I'm not attending WITH jewel...i'll just be there with 40 other Jewel listers as we throw things at her head. Heh...and I haven't even been on the list for a year and half...I'm an EDA by only the most tenuous grip (thank god for the news list). Did anyone else catch her on SNL this week and gag? Me too. *sigh* I wonder how her mum feels about her dressing that way :) Hmmm...all might not be lost in regards to seeing Veda sometime this week...my sister is coming back up to Boston this weekend..so might be able to steal her car to make it down to meth'n'woj's...we shall see... According to the Boston Phoenix, when Neil Finn played in Boston earlier this month, Eddie Vedder's wife's band Hovercraft were playing the same day, and Eddie dropped in on Neil's set and did a couple old tunes with Neil and band, then they performed a Pearl Jam song from Yield. I wish i had been there. Has anybody bought the "new" Holly Cole cd yet? I've been playing the real audio clip of "Tea for Two" a lot... Paul "keep a spare, unbroken heart in your dresser" Kim np : Lava Hay _with a picture in mind_ i haven't listened to this in a while...i likes ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 18:07:22 -0500 From: meredith Subject: tori on sessions Hi! Thanks to the wonder that is WFUV, I managed to get 4 tickets to last night's taping of Sessions At West 54th featuring Tori Amos. (I knew I kept that membership after I moved out of the listening area for *something*! ;) I brought woj, Mike Curry and JeffW with me. As usual everything started late - the doors were supposed to close at 9:15, but they didn't even open until almost 10:00. The taping itself didn't get started until after 10:30. We'd gotten in line at 8, and were able to get seats in the actual studio (as opposed to the "green room" with the folks who watched it on monitors), albeit in the back with Tori completely obscured from view. I had a great view of Caton, though - joy! What a freak show he is. Good guitar player, though. woj got a set list from the cameraman behind us. Precious Things iieee Past The Mission Caught A Lite Sneeze Take To The Sky (solo piano) Hey Jupiter (solo piano) Northern Lad Crucify Spark The Waitress (break) Cooling (solo piano) Raspberry Swirl Cornflake Girl It was amazing. I haven't been in an audience that small for a Tori show since Toad's Place in the fall of 1992, and I haven't been part of an audience that quiet and attentive since then, either. Let's hear it for forced respectfulness! I think they should videotape all of her shows, if it means that. :) Tori was obviously having a really good time, too. She looked great (what I could see of her, anyway - every once in a while the camera would track right behind me and I could see her on the monitor). In the middle when they were changing tapes and she was getting her makeup touched up, she asked if anyone had any questions. Someone asked how's married life, and she said that her husband doesn't like her talking about him, so she won't say anything (but then she whispered, "it's fantastic" :). Then someone asked what she'd be doing if she wasn't a musician. She said she'd either be in sewage or wine, then launched into a hysterical tangent about how waste management just fascinates her, especially when she's out racing in her little 14-foot jet boat ("but it doesn't harm the manatees") and she wonders what's in the water around her. Then Caton said he thought she'd be a cook because she makes great sandwiches on the bus, and there was another little tangent about the guy they'd hired to make sandwiches but he sucked, and they didn't want to fire him so they found something else for him to do and she just started making the sandwiches herself, you know with the whole chicken, carved up so there's none of that gelatinous crap on it, the fat is gone off that chicken baby, she's clean, and then Hellmann's on it, the real stuff, and what else, Caton? Onions? And tomatoes? Mmmmm. I was just about on the floor at that point. :) Of the songs she played, I know for sure that "CALS" and "Northern Lad" aren't going to make the cut because of naughty words, and "Take To The Sky" probably won't because some people were trying to clap along in the beginning. "The Waitress" was too long, and "Raspberry Swirl" too weird for PBS. My prediction for the broadcast is "Precious Things", "Hey Jupiter", "Crucify", "Spark", "Cooling" and "Cornflake Girl" if there's still time. Let's see if I'm right. I don't know when it's going to be broadcast yet, but my guess is not before January. When we saw the Jane Siberry taping last year is was earlier than this, and her show wasn't broadcast until Christmastime. Not bad for a free gig I didn't even know existed until Thursday night. :) +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | | *** TRAJECTORY, the Veda Hille mailing list: *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 00:32:12 -0500 From: Richard Subject: Susan Werner in Portland Susan Werner played Stone Coast here in Portland ME tonight, a gig that was not announced til just five days ago. Not that it bothered Susan one bit- After introducing herself as "the current Wimbeldon champion from Philadelphia", she acknowledged the lack of advance notice and the subsequent small crowd of true believers, then spent the next 2+ hours wowing everyone with her devastating wit, her rapport with her audience, and most of all, her musicianship. Music seems to ooze out of every pore in Susan Werner's being... The only other performer I recall seeing recently who can singlehandedly fill a room or hall with his musicianship is Richard Thompson. Like Thompson, Susan's guitar work seems to project the feeling of a whole band by itself as does her keyboard playing- She is quite simply a wonderful instumentalist (never mind the duct tape holding the edges of one of her acoustic guitars together; The musician's secret weapon...) who somehow manages to keep the essence of her studio arrangements intact using only six strings. And her voice is just SO natural and fluid; She is one of those rare performers who makes it all look so easy and so unforced. She is also one of the most naturally funny people I have seen perform- her range of facial expressions and contortions is a side show in itself, and she manages to be both self-deprecating and supremely self-confident. And, Meredith, my tablemates and I were tempted to ask her to relate the famous Connecticut Karaoke Incident, but we settled for imagining the mindfuck she must have visited on the host and the crowd in that cocktail lounge that night... ;-) Yeah yeah, I know I was bitching about Stone Coast just last month after the Patty Griffin date, but this time the place was uncrowded, I didn't have to eat the food, and the Saturday-night contingent of loud-mouthed alcoholics-in-training at the bar was absent. And Susan Werner was onstage. Best damn ten bucks I've spent in a *long* time. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #402 **************************