From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V5 #316 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, September 22 1999 Volume 05 : Number 316 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Tori Amos: To Venus and Back [Dirk Kastens ] Refuge Benefit Update [Christopher Kornmann ] Happy in Harrisburg [Anthony_Matern@vanguard.com] Re: Happy in Harrisburg [Patrick Moseley ] Kate Price ["Matt Bittner" ] Merrie Amsterburg West Coast Dates [Michael Curry ] Los Angeles ["C Goldberg" ] when it rains it pours [meredith ] Re: Los Angeles [birdie ] Victoria Williams sneaks into Fez [faucet@pipeline.com] to venus and back [NNadelS@aol.com] Happy MP3 Debacle ["One Two Three" ] Re: to venus and back [Ellen Rawson ] Blast from the past? ["Mitchell A. Pravatiner" ] vic williams [joann.whetsell@oberlin.edu (JoAnn Whetsell)] quick venus thoughts [Mark Lowry ] RE: Blast from the past? ["Foghorn J Fornorn" ] victoria and tori and jane, oh my!! [joann.whetsell@oberlin.edu (JoAnn Wh] Re: Blast from the past? [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 12:33:49 +0200 From: Dirk Kastens Subject: Tori Amos: To Venus and Back Hi, I listened to the new Tori Amos CD, yesterday. First of all: the live CD is absolute brilliant. Second: the studio album is very good. Not as good as the first three, IMO, but much better than Choirgirl. Bliss, Concertina and the last four songs are fabulous, esp. the hypnotic Datura. Dirk ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:08:29 +0300 (EET DST) From: Juha Sorva Subject: Niss Kerstin Hi, I'd like to take a moment to mention an artist whose lovely album I picked up a week ago. She's Swedish, called Niss Kerstin, and has one album out which was released last year. (Anyone here familiar with her music?) She gets lumped in the folk music category, but that's hardly the whole of it. Make no mistake, she does draw on old Scandinavian music for inspiration, which is very obvious on some songs, but hers is certainly not the traditional folk music of cheerful dances or heroic ballads. The music is often... jazzy, for lack of a better word, and turns the folk stuff into something quite different and original. She brings a fresh touch to a genre which, perhaps almost by definition, sometimes suffers from lack of innovation (with notable exceptions). I, for one, am enchanted. She doesn't write her own lyrics on the album, but writes the songs around poems by this Swedish literature nobelist whose name I now unculturedly forget. Anyhow, "Träd" ("Trees") is her album's title, and indeed, every song on it is about trees, forest, experiencing nature. There are songs specifically about aspens, pines, junipers, birches, and what not. The pictures she paints range from tranquilly beautiful to joyously beautiful to mournfully beautiful. Singing, piano, violin, and interesting percussion, supplemented by the occasional wind instrument or sound effect, create a very rich acoustic soundscape that, like nature, sometimes erupts into a momentary swirling chaos. Sometimes - when it's called for - her delivery can be quite charged with energy, too, and occasionally - when trees get nasty things done to them - it can sound even menacing. There's also a mysterious-sounding song which, in my head, evokes images of little, gnarled, mischievous forest trolls dancing and chanting (my problem). There's a RealAudio sound sample available at her record label's site at http://www.amigo.se/. Too bad it's just part of one song (good as that song is), but do go ahead, listen to it a few times. Besides that page, little can be found about her on the Web, it seems. I highly recommend checking this out, and am willing to trade taped samples or help get the whole CD for anyone interested. 'sall for now, Juha n.p. Pooka: _Spinning_ n.r. short stories by Guy de Maupassant ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 10:55:27 -0400 From: Christopher Kornmann Subject: Refuge Benefit Update Joe Jackson has just joined the line-up for the live benefit for Kosova. I am not sure if he will be playing a full set or what, but he will be playing none the less. Hope to see you there! featuring Joy Askew, Wild Colonials, Richard Barone, Ahmed Best (Jar Jar Binks of Star Wars) & Antigone Rising Friday, September 24th The Bottom Line 7:30 & 10:30 (2 shows) ALSO... the “Refuge: A Benefit for the People of Kosova” CD is officially out! They will be selling it at the Bottom Line gig on Friday. Here is the list of artists on the CD. Remember: 90% of the proceeds from each CD will go to help people in need in the Kosova region. Melanie Gabriel (Music by Melanie Gabriel, Joy Askew and Peter Gabriel) Jennifer Kimball Freedy Johnston The Wild Colonials Vernon Reid featuring Beans Richard Barone Richard Julian Joy Askew Toshi Reagon Cry Cry Cry Marina Belica with members of October Project Sarah Slean Chris Harford Leslie Nuchow Larry Fast/Synergy Available at www.theorchard.com and at select retailers. - -- Christopher Kornmann Graphic Designer Spit & Image 828 Waring Avenue Bronx, NY 10467 718.798.2862 spitandimage@earthlink.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 14:04:49 -0400 From: Anthony_Matern@vanguard.com Subject: Happy in Harrisburg The following is an update from Bon Lozaga mentioning Happy tracks to be found on Hansford Rowe's album AND also mentions an additional HAPPY RHODES SHOW on Oct 2nd, happens to be a Saturday, held at the Wire in New Cumberland....very close to Harrisburg. I spoke to The Wire just a moment ago. The fella there is thrilled to have HR appearing there. Just off exit 18 of the PA turnpike....two hours from Philly. Doors open at 7PM...show starts at 8PM. General admission in a theater type setting. No alcohol.....soft drinks served...I think. The venue can seat up to 130 people if they're squished in a bit. Normally around 110....as I recall from the conversation. Anyway, the guy at the Wire was a huge fan. Hopefully this post will alert the fans in the general area. Best to all, Tony Just a quick note for you all on some upcoming shows and LoLo activity. Hansford Rowe's solo release is now available. This cd titled "No Other" features Hansford on vocals & bass, Jon Catler, David Fiuczynski, Happy Rhodes, Bob Mueller, & Bon Lozaga. We will have copies available, along with most of the LoLo catalog at the BON shows. PROJECT LO featuring Bon Lozaga & Happy Rhodes will be touring in Nov. Six dates have already been confirmed. More to come soon! BON Bon Lozaga - guitar Hansford Rowe - bass Vic Stevens - drums September 23 Cleveland, OH Diamondback Brewery 724 Prospect Ave. (216)-771-1988 24 Cuyahoga Falls, OH Borders Books 335 Howe Ave. (330)-945-7683 25 Lakewood, OH Phoenix Coffee House 15108 Detroit Rd. (216)-226-4401 27 Cincinnati, OH Buzz Coffee Shop 2900 Jefferson Ave. (513)-221-3472 28 Louisville, KY Artswatch 2337 Frankfort Ave. (502)-893-9661 30 Phila., PA Upstairs At Nicks 16 S. Second St. (215) -928-0665 w/Percy Jones October 1 Wheaton, MD Phantasmagoria 11319 Elkin Ave. (301)-949-8886 w/Percy Jones Also: Oct. 2 Happy Rhodes w/Bon Lozaga The Wire (717)-774-0678 216 Fourth St. New Cumberland, PA LoLo Records www.lolorecords.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 14:36:22 -0500 From: Patrick Moseley Subject: Re: Happy in Harrisburg >an additional HAPPY RHODES SHOW on >Oct 2nd, happens to be a Saturday, held at the Wire in New Cumberland....very >close to Harrisburg. General admission >in a theater type setting. The >venue can seat up to 130 people if they're squished in a bit. Normally around >110....as I recall from the conversation. Quick question to those of you familiar with past Happy shows and the typical turn-out... What are my chances of getting tickets if I wait until the day of this show? I'd love to see her in concert and this would be my first time, but for reasons too involved and boring to relate here, I won't know until the day of the show (or slightly earlier) whether or not I can go. Am I crazy to think there will be seats left the day of? Thanks, Patrick ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 14:35:10 -0500 From: "Matt Bittner" Subject: Kate Price Does anybody know what Kate Price is up to? Any new releases soon? Matt Bittner np: Kate Price, _Deep Heart's Core_ nr: Carl Sagan, _Contact_ _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 19:06:16 -0400 From: Michael Curry Subject: Merrie Amsterburg West Coast Dates Go see Merrie! >Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 12:56:35 -0400 >From: jsmyser@qdivision.com (Jessica Smyser) >Subject: Merrie Amsterburg West Coast Dates > >Hi Folks! Please forward this information to your friends out west. > >Wednesday, September 22 Belly Up Solano Beach, CA w/ Aimee Mann >143 S. Cedros Ave. 619-481-8140, 481-9022 Tickets are $12 the show starts >at 8:30 > >Saturday, September 25 Slims San Francisco, CA w/ Aimee Mann >333 11th St. 415-255-0333 > >(The shows below may require reservations, please call ahead) >Thursday,September 23 Largo, Los Angeles, CA w/ Aimee Mann >& >Tuesday, September 28 Largo, Los Angeles, CA w/ Aimee Mann >432 N. Fairfax LA, CA (323) 852-1073 > >Saturday, October 2 Genghis Cohen, Los Angeles, CA >740 N. Fairfax Ave. 231-653-0640. Tickets are $7 the show starts at 8:30 > >Tuesday, October 5 The Last Day Saloon, San Francisco, CA >406 Clement St. 415-387-6344 > >Thursday, October 7 The Green Room, Portland OR >2280 NW Thurman St. 228-6178 > >Friday, October 8 Music Millenium IN-STORE PERFORMANCE Portland,OR >501 NW 23rd St. 5 PM > > >Monday, October 10 MIXFEST, Foxborough, MA > > >___________________________________________________________________________ > Please visit our web site at http://www.qdivision.com > Q Division Records 443 Albany Street Boston, MA 02118 617-542-0081 >___________________________________________________________________________ > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:31:18 -0700 From: "C Goldberg" Subject: Los Angeles Here's some good Los Angeles shows that may interest some of you... Sept 21: Rilo Kiley @ Dragonfly Sept 21/22: Chris Cornell @ El Rey Theatre Sept 22: Noella Hutton @ Genghis Cohen Sept 22: Gay Dad @ Troubadour Sept 23: Susan McKeown @ Neighborhood Church (Pasadena) Sept 23: Chuck E. Weiss @ Viper Room Sept 23: Aimee Mann @ Largo Sept 24: Roy Harper @ McCabe's Sept 24: Tito & Tarantula with Lili Haydn @ 14 Below Sept 24: Splendid (Angie Hart's new band) @ Club Lush Sept 24: Ana D. @ Luna Park Sept 25: Magnetic Fields with Snakefarm @ Spaceland Sept 27/28: They Might Be Giants @ House of Blues Sept 28: Aimee Mann with Syd Straw and Merrie Amsterburg @ Largo Sept 28: Trina Hamlin with Laurie Geltman @ Genghis Cohen Oct 1: Gomez with Joseph Arthur @ John Anson Ford Theatre Oct 2: Elvis Costello with Steve Nieve @ Wiltern Theatre Oct 2: Merrie Amsterburg @ Genghis Cohen Oct 3: Squeeze with Julia Darling @ House of Blues Oct 3: Ronnie Spector with The Muffs @ Whisky Oct 3: Tricky @ Mayan Theatre Oct 5: Catie Curtis with The Nields @ Troubadour Oct 6: Splendid @ Luna Park Oct 6: Kimball Roeser Effect @ Troubadour Natalie Merchant, Afro Celt Sound System, Lili Haydn, Quasi, Paula Cole, Caledonia, Berlin, Sixpence None the Richer, Chris Isaak, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Royal Trux, Brian Wilson, Lucinda Williams, Andy Prieboy, Aterciopelados, Blonde Redhead, Echo & the Bunnymen, Mary Black, Patricia Barber, Luscious Jackson, Ben Lee, Les Nubians, Johnette Napolitano, Maria Fatal, Fairport Convention, L7, and John Paul Jones also have shows in October LA shows. Did anyone catch Sarah McLachlan in Los Angeles last weekend? I would have loved to have seen her at the Key Club but $150 for 30 minutes is too rich for my blood. I hear she also sang "Angel" at Paul McCartney's thing last Saturday too. csg HotBot - Search smarter. http://www.hotbot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 19:37:21 -0400 From: meredith Subject: when it rains it pours Hi! Okay. So this Friday, September 24 absolutely EVERYTHING is going on in NYC. - -- Rachael Sage at CB's Gallery - -- Lamb at Mercury Lounge - -- The Kosovo benefit thing at the Bottom Line - -- Emm Gryner at Fez - -- A party at my best friend's house So what are woj and I doing? Going to Noho to see Richard Shindell. We've got to be in Boston for the Red Sox game the next day (which is why Jessica Weiser's CD release party on Saturday isn't an option either, argh). At least Lamb are going to be playing at a club literally right across the street from Fenway Park on Saturday night, so the weekend won't be a total loss musically. But geez -- couldn't all the ecto artists compare notes and stagger their area appearances so we don't have to make these decisions?!? Speaking of musical rains, September really has been an incredible month for new music. Veda's album, Sarah Slean's album (which didn't really grow on me - more like pounced), and now Tori's double offering today. The live disc ROCKS. I can't believe the track listing ... though I'd happily have replaced "Cornflake Girl" with "Honey", but that's a minor quibble. I'm on listen #1 of the new disc, and it's going to have to take hold. _Choirgirl_ was the same way, though, and now I absolutely love it, so I'm going to give it some good car time and see how it goes. (But I'll have to pry the live disc out of the player first ... yow.) +==========================================================================+ | 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: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:51:30 +0100 From: birdie Subject: Re: Los Angeles Also: Marcella Detroit with Denise Fraser @ Luna Park (upstairs) Oct 12th Birdie C Goldberg wrote: > Here's some good Los Angeles shows that may interest some of you... > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 12:44:24 -0400 From: faucet@pipeline.com Subject: Victoria Williams sneaks into Fez Victoria Williams will be the unannounced featured performer in a set by the JC Hopkins Octet, tonight (Tuesday) at Fez in NYC. She'll be performing a number of songs from her upcoming album. JC Hopkins has recently moved to NYC from San Francisco. JC Hopkins & friends will go on at 10:30. Stacey Earle and Stephan Smith will open the show. __________ Nicholas Hill ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 02:43:38 EDT From: NNadelS@aol.com Subject: to venus and back just got the new tori amos at virgin megastore. big tuesday-nin, chris cornell, tori. just listened to the new disc and so far i like it alot. i think it'll split tori fans like boys for pele. it's extremely well produced, very ambient and atmospheric. standouts so far are juarez, suede, glory of the 80's (easily her funniest lyrics ever) and Datura. segues between songs are great. anyone who likes ambient music should get this. i like tori's new direction, she can't do the girl and a piano thing forever ( this means u too fiona). first she added the band no she adds more production and mood. i think it's great, but i'm sure many miss the old sound. still, 1000 Oceans is her most straightforward ballad since silent all these years and should be a big hit on the radio and at weddings. anyone whose ever liked tori should get this. lyrically, it's as dense as ever and i'm just starting to figure some of the songs out. juearez deals with an article tori read about as massacre in mexico. others deal with her new-found love and happiness in her marriage. no neil gaiman reference, but he's mentioned in the thank-yous. i haven't listened to the live disc yet, there are some great tracks on it,i want to stretch out the new album high as long as i can! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 12:10:46 CDT From: "One Two Three" Subject: Happy MP3 Debacle Fellow Ectophiles, 1999 will heretofore and at all points in time beyond the present one be known as the Year of the Great Ecto Music Piracy Conspiracy, and will forever live in infamy with other notorious events. People mark their lives by where they (or their parents, or grandparents) were when Kennedy was assasinated, their age when Star Wars came out, their first consensual sex act with another person, and when Gene Simmons got that thing under his tongue cut to make it longer. Now they will ask, “Where were you when the s___ hit the fan?”. Future generations will curse us for our mishandling of this situation, if we do not proceed very carefully, vis-a-vis utmost tact, diplomacy, and legality...and of course, let us not forget the paramount consideration of flawless Political Correctness in thought, word, and deed in relation to this perceived and potential heinous crime, especially in the special case of colored and also colorless peoples of all hues and tones and grades of transparency and lengths and degrees of hardness living in the immediate vicinity of as well as on the shores of Lake Baikal, all indigenous peoples of the sphere and zone whose squatters rights must be honored and defended by the might of the Allied military forces anywhere on this planet, and others, and especially anyone whose name coincidentally sounds like the name of an illegal drug. I forgot young Filipino girls working as nurses aides in Dallas, Texas, who should e-mail their phone # so I can get together with them and translate this fiasco. But I digress. If I may, I would like to point out a couple of things that came to me in a sodden, but livid, dream. Numero uno, when you record something from that no-man's-land called the audience with a piece of portable equipment, no matter how groovy said gear is, there will be a significant compromise of fidelity...I'm sure the chief perpetrator in this debacle would not strenuously disagree with this sidelong observation. Not to mention, while recording, you would have to keep screaming "Shut Up!!" at nearby stoners and drunks who are talking over the music...I know you are ahead of me on this one, and see the flaw in the logic of that course of action, so I won't belabor. With all due respect and appropriate acknowledgement to the considerable efforts of the source and his technical team, limited though their resources were...I don't think Happy is going to want to fist-fight anyone for the rights to this particular work of art...though my musical heroine could probably beat even Xena in a fair fight (sans Chakram) ...but it's a bitch trying to pick and grin Dueling Banjos or Orange Blossom Special with knuckles and lips both swollen to the size of a Pecos canteloupe. I meant Malaguena, that Orange Blossom thing is a with a fiddle...I get them mixed up. On the other point, I think that nude wrestling in a plastic wading pool full of pudding sounds safer. Anyway, after evaluating the true commercial value of this gem, and after figuring expenses, including the legal fees to punish and humiliate her scofflaw fans, office supplies, and the ex-Navy SEALs needed to recover the master from you-know-who, I figure she would have to sell approximately the same number of copies as all of her other 37 albums combined just to clear the cost of a Happy Meal. Numero two-o, what's all this stuff about pushing the limits of 80-minute CD-R's? Why bother? You make a pass over the royal item with any piece-of-crap audio processing freeware , set a parameter or two regarding silent passages, and cut it down to easily fit on a 74 and you’ll never notice the difference...you cut all the overlong quiet moments out of this puppy, and you can get it all on a regular CD-R, with enough room left for dozens of naked .jpg's of my ex-wife that I have been meaning to distribute anyway. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, no matter how many filters, equalizers, fertilizers, dynamic processor whovers, gain whatevers, quantize whenevers you apply to it like a stun gun to a begging homeless bum, not even the famous Harmonic Virtual Valve Paragoric Shmoozer...and, unbelievably, not even the magic of Reverb. If you don't believe me, look at your wife's makeup case...then look at her. 1 2 3 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 18:00:35 -0600 From: Ellen Rawson Subject: Re: to venus and back Add me to the numbers of folks enjoying the new Tori cd! And I'm very pleased that I made it to Albums in time to receive their last free Tori lithograph! Yay! Ellen, looking forward to the Denver show next month. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 20:50:22 -0500 (CDT) From: "Mitchell A. Pravatiner" Subject: Blast from the past? Does anyone recall the name of the club in Greenwich Village where Happy performed in the summer of '96 (or was it '97)? A local singer-songwriter I know is scoping out places to perform in New York, I want to suggest it to her. The name Bottom Line comes to mind, but I am not certain of it. Mitch ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 22:03:47 -0400 (EDT) From: joann.whetsell@oberlin.edu (JoAnn Whetsell) Subject: vic williams the victoria williams post made me want to ask about the harmony ridge creekdippers, which she and her husband are 2/3 of. what's their music like? i saw on a website their new album, their 3rd, has been released. maybe that's old news. anyway JoAnn ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 21:16:21 -0500 From: Mark Lowry Subject: quick venus thoughts Hi, Listened to "To Venus and Back" quite a bit today. From the first listen, I knew I was to love it more than "Choirgirl" ... and now I now it's already ahead of "Under the Pink" for me, too. Don't think it will surpass LE or BFP, but I'm just glad to be really happy about new Tori again. (Choirgirl was such a disappointment, IMHO). There doesn't seem to be a single song on Venus Orbiting that I will want to skip over. That's a first for me and Tori. The songs on the other albums I hit "skip" on are: YKTR -- Pirates and You Go to My Head -- hate 'em. LE -- Me and a Gun -- I love the song, it's just hard to listen to. UTP -- Bells for Her -- don't know why, but I have never liked this song. I sometimes skip The Wrong Band also. BFP -- Talula -- my most hated Tori song. I also dislike Marianne, but I usually listen to it anyway FTCH -- Raspberry Swirl -- Tori does not do sex talk to dance music well. Oh, and Pandora's Aquarium, cuz I can stand the way she stretches out the word "Pandora." Fave songs on Venus so far: Juarez, Glory of the 80s, Josephine, Datura, 1,000 Oceans Love the live disc too, esp. "Space Dog" and, oh yes, "Cloud on My Tongue," which isn't that different from the album version ... but strangely, it has always been one of my fave songs from UTP. Mark np Venus live, still orbiting ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 22:19:51 -0400 From: "Foghorn J Fornorn" Subject: RE: Blast from the past? Yes, The Bottom Line (August 1996). - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Mitchell A. Pravatiner Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 9:50 PM To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: Blast from the past? Does anyone recall the name of the club in Greenwich Village where Happy performed in the summer of '96 (or was it '97)? A local singer-songwriter I know is scoping out places to perform in New York, I want to suggest it to her. The name Bottom Line comes to mind, but I am not certain of it. Mitch ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 22:26:32 -0400 (EDT) From: joann.whetsell@oberlin.edu (JoAnn Whetsell) Subject: victoria and tori and jane, oh my!! i meant this as a list e-mail. i don't know if it showed up. if people get this 2x, my apologies. > >ooh, wish i could be there. do you have any idea when this upcoming album >is expected? i have been really into victoria's music lately, and i am so >glad, her songs make me so happy. i have to re-buy _swing the statue_ and >then i will have a complete set. well, except for the 2 song christmas ep >with "what a wonderful world" and "have yourself a merry little xmas". > >i've only listened to the new disc once, and haven't had a chance to hear >the live disc yet. i like the new disc; it hasn't sunk in yet. i already >knew "bliss" from the single. the 2nd song didn't do anything for me, at >least on first listen, but "suede" which I think i recognize from concert >and "concertina" did. i am happy to have live versions of most of the >songs, but i could have done without "waitress" and "sugar" since there >are live versions of these on widely available singles (past the mission >and hey jupiter). But I suspect, with the direction Tori's taken of late, >that these versions will be quite different. > >Also _Tree Lips Child_ finally arrived yesterday. Got my first listen of >Tree this morning, and repeat listen this afternoon and now. The version >of "Slow Tango" sounds strange to me, too choral somehow, not the way I >remember it. I like most of the disc though. Brings back good memories. >As well as just being good music. I like the choral harmonies. Sometimes >though some of the noodling around that is fun in concert can be annoying >on repeated listens on a cd, but that is a minor complaint. It is a good >album, and I need to listen to it more, but I can already tell it's going >to be another thing I love. > >JoAnn > >np: nothing. apparently my roommate does not feel the same way about >jane as i do, so i let her turn it off. > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 23:59:50 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: Blast from the past? Hi! Mitch inquired: >Does anyone recall the name of the club in Greenwich Village where Happy >performed in the summer of '96 (or was it '97)? It was indeed the Bottom Line. >A local singer-songwriter >I know is scoping out places to perform in New York, I want to suggest >it to her. If she has never played in New York before, she might have better luck at places like The Living Room and the Starbucks on Astor Place, which specialize in showcasing lesser-known artists. Unless you're lucky enough to be included in one of the Required Listening or other anthology shows the Bottom Line features, you have to be pretty established already in order to play there. Other places to suggest she try: Arlene Grocery, the Sidewalk Cafe, and The Bitter End. +==========================================================================+ | 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 *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V5 #316 **************************