From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V6 #256 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, September 4 2000 Volume 06 : Number 256 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: ectofest [Leslie DeSimone & Ken Descoteaux ] Re: nina [RedWoodenBeads@aol.com] [none] [erroclese mortal ] Canada and the name Sarah [Jason Kurylo ] ectofest 2000 - crazed eye view [meredith ] Re: ectofest 2000 - crazed eye view [Michael Curry ] Ectofest 2000 pictures up! [Jeff Wasilko ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 03:51:30 -0400 From: Leslie DeSimone & Ken Descoteaux Subject: Re: ectofest I'm bummed that this is two years in a row that I've been unable to attend Ectofest. This year my excuse is my new 2 month old son who doesn't appreciate drives of more than an hour or so, who's been even more cranky since getting his shots on Thursday. Maybe next year? - -Ken Descoteaux ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 09:17:29 EDT From: RedWoodenBeads@aol.com Subject: Re: nina In a message dated 9/2/00 11:05:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time, owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org writes: << No, AIDS is caused by a virus. >> Yeah, but that virus is transfered easilly through unprotected promuscuity and injecting drugs through used needles. Certainly behaviour is a cause of AIDS in many cases. I'm not saying people don't get infected from blood transfusions, etc, but surely someone who engages in unrpotected sex with multiple partners has more of a chance of getting AIDS than someone who never has sex and never uses drugs. Joe http://www.angelfire.com/indie/impryan ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 19:18:20 -0700 From: erroclese mortal Subject: [none] HIV is transfered through unprotected sex period. It only takes intercourse with ONE infected person ONE time to become infected. Promiscuity is not the issue nor is number or sex of partners. What is HIV? Human Immunodeficiency Virus. HIV was discovered in 1983. HIV is a retrovirus that infects several kinds of cells in the body, the most important of which is a type of white blood cell called the CD4 lymphocyte (also known as "T-cell") . The CD4 cell is a major component of the human immune system that helps keep people free from many infections and some cancers. HIV can effectively disable the body's immune system, and destroy its ability to fight diseases. Two major types of HIV have been identified so far: * HIV-1 is the cause of the worldwide epidemic. * HIV-2 is found mostly in Africa. * At least ten different sub-types of HIV-1 have also been found. HIV infection is spread through exposure to semen and vaginal fluid (including menstrual blood) from unprotected sex (without a condom) or through exposure to blood from injection drug use (via contaminated needles or syringes). HIV can also be transmitted from mother to child through birth or by breast feeding. What Is AIDS? Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Before scientists had discovered the HIV virus, they named the set of symptoms and diseases experienced by people with a severe breakdown of the immune system "AIDS". Later, the definition was changed to include anyone infected with the HIV virus, with advanced breakdown of the immune system, even if they didn't have a disease or cancer. A definite origin of HIV has yet to be found. What is an AIDS Diagnosis? A person is given an AIDS diagnosis by a doctor when they are infected with HIV and they come down with one of several diseases or cancers, including: Tuberculosis, Toxoplasmosis, PCP, wasting syndrome (involuntary weight loss), Candidiasis, HIV dementia (memory impairment). People who haven't had one of these diseases, but whose immune system is shown by a laboratory test to be severely damaged also qualify. (CD4 count of 200 or below). Once you have been diagnosed with AIDS, you are always considered to have AIDS, even if you recover from the disease that "qualified" you or even if your CD4 cell count goes up again. Today: Many researchers and physicians think of HIV disease as a spectrum, and consider "AIDS" as less of an indicator of a person's health. Thanks to new treatments, it is much more common for someone to "recover" from one of the defining diseases than it once was. Some AIDS organizations require proof of an AIDS diagnosis in order for clients receive services. For more information on HIV and AIDS see the source of this and more detailed information on the causes and effects of this virus and syndrome http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/topics/basics/2098.3e77.html emortal ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 17:21:15 -0700 From: Jason Kurylo Subject: Canada and the name Sarah Someone asked what the deal was with the name Sarah and Canadian talent... Well, I can't answer that, but I was one of the lucky folk who got to watch Sarah McLachlan grow up musically in and around Vancouver in the late 80s. In the mid-90s, I met a young woman named Sarah, who was strangely the first woman by that name I'd even befriended, let alone dated. On the FTE list, she became known as "my Sarah", since any time I mentioned her in a post I received fifteen emails asking if I was dating McLachlan. Anyway, my Sarah and I had and placed for adoption a little girl, who is now 4 years old and living with a wonderful family in Texas. Last year, after I gave Sarah five years of unblinking devotion (not many birth fathers stick around through stuff like that, let alone cough up a ring after the adoption), she broke the engagement -- and obviously, my heart -- in one fell swoop. Since then it's been a bizarre wave of like-monikered women. My current roommate's name? Sarah. I returned to school last Sept; three women in my professional writing program? Sarah. My favourite waitress at my favourite restaurant? You guessed it: Abercrombie Fitch III. Anyway, I've been asking the same thing about this Sarah thing, for very different reasons. I'm just glad that McLachlan has moved into musical territory I'm not very thrilled with; if she were making FTE after FTE I'd be messed up even on the musical front. If anyone finds out what the scoop is with this whole too many Sarah's thing, please let me know. No offense to any and all Sarah's out there (but you Abercrombie's, watch out!), - -- Jason Kurylo Writer / Graphic Designer eff multimedia productions 280 Nelson Street, Suite 107 Vancouver, BC Canada V6B 2E2 Stodmyk@home.com (604) 570-5015 "Like the city streets, the campaign trail is treacherous, serpentine and thick with the fecal stench of coyotes and wild boars." Vance Degeneres, The Daily Show With John Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 23:15:50 -0400 From: meredith Subject: ectofest 2000 - crazed eye view Hi! Wow ... I guess everyone who actually attended ectofest is still recovering. :) I'm not really qualified to write a review, but I can encapsulate my recollections here, in as close to chronological order as I can muster. - -- 8:15 am. God I'm tired, why couldn't I get more than an hour of sleep last night? Oh yeah. Never mind. - -- 9:45 am. Driving to Danbury with JeffW, and the constant feeling I forgot something (in denial about the fact that we passed through a rainshower on the way there). Dar Williams' _The Green World_ is in the CD player. The drive from New Haven to Danbury on Rte 34 takes _The Green World_, plus three songs off Melissa Ferrick's _Freedom_. - -- 10:30 am. Why do so many geese have to call Kenosia Park their home? Better yet, why do they all have to crap right in front of the pavilion?! - -- 10:32 am. Oh good, Parks & Rec did finally cough up a handicapped-accessible portajohn. Yay, Chuck and his powers of persuasion (though still making mental note to mention to the mayor if he shows up (as advertised) that there is no permanent handicapped-accessible portajohn at the park, which is illegal according to ADA). - -- 10: 33 am. It's cloudy. It can't be cloudy. Cloudy means rain, and that would be Bad. - -- 10:34 am. It's humid and sticky. Ick. - -- 10:35 am. Thank you, Josh Weichel for folding the programs! Thank you, Anja Baldo, for helping hang "ectofest" directional signs along the road! Thank you, Chuck's neighbors for raking up goose crap for an hour before the gates opened! - -- 10:45 am. Determine that Chuck is on drugs. The t-shirts do look very cool, even if they aren't at all what he ordered. - -- 10:50 am. Discover bagels on one of the picnic tables. No napkins, which is a problem considering how much cream cheese is on them, but hey. - -- 11:00 am. JeffW and I get to apply our Susan Werner merchandising experience to setting up the merch table. Jeff, you are the master of counting in. :) - -- 11:10 am. My mantra for the day is fast becoming "Where's Chuck???" (I really do think that should be the slogan on the staff t-shirts next year.) - -- 11:20 am. I head over to the Ethan Allen Inn to pick up Steve V. Make an ass of myself trying to get the wheels off his chair in order to fit it into my car. - -- 11:45 am. We need music on the PA that isn't this jazz crap they've got playing (sorry, Tony and John :}). Sarah Harmer should do the trick. - -- 11:50 am. People are asking what the music is that's playing over the PA. 8) - -- 11:52 am. Oh my god, I did NOT just get a call from Kristeen Young wailing that she thought ectofest was on *Monday*. - -- 11:55 am. Oh my god, Jessica Weiser did NOT just call to say she's stuck in traffic. - -- 12:00 noon We have more volunteers than jobs to do. I guess this isn't the worst thing in the world. - -- Bon Lozaga and his wife are very sweet people. They showed up at 11 and stuck around ALL DAY, selling Project Lo CD's and just generally being Nice. Bon donated a percentage of the proceeds from his CD's to the cause. He did not have to do that. Everyone needs to make sure that when they go see Project Lo this fall (and you all will, right??), they make a point to say hello to Bon and tell him what a cool guy he is. (He even *looks* cool. :) - -- The folks from the Emerald City Cafe are also very cool people. They make the best damned turkey wraps I've ever had (or so I notice as I remember halfway through Merrie Amsterburg's set (i.e. 5:45 pm) that I haven't eaten since that bagel this morning). I've heard people raving about the food all day - now I know why. - -- Thank you, Costco and Stop & Shop, for donating the soda, bottled water, and Snapple we sold all day! Thank you, attendees for respecting the honor system and filling the donation box next to the soda tub with a nice chunk of change for the cause! - -- Thank you, Valerie Nozick for volunteering to work the merch table! We desperately needed help there. - -- 12:05 pm. Amy Fairchild is here. Well, if Jessica and Anne Heaton don't show up, we can at least get *somebody* on stage. (Amy is very cool. Thank you, Rachael Sage for pointing her to us when you found out you couldn't make it this year!) - -- 12:10 pm. There are actually a few people through the gate, two of whom I don't know. - -- 12:15 pm. There's Jessica! Yay! Of course, she has the biggest setup of the day. We can do this. :) We have a surplus of volunteers anyway. - -- 12:20 pm. Chuck and I have to go stand in front of the mic and say something. I hate that. - -- 12:25 pm. I introduce Jessica Weiser. Yay!! ectofest 2000 is underway!! - -- 12:45 pm. Anne Heaton is here. Yay. Oops - she's driving away. Hmmm. - -- 1:00 pm. Anne Heaton is back. Perfect timing. She brought Frank Marrotta, Jr. with her to play guitar - yay! The two of them are great together. - -- At this point, I lose all track of time. - -- Jessica's last song really rocks. I like it a lot. - -- We finally get the raffle tickets - only an hour and a half late. Okay, start selling for the raffle! - -- Anne is playing. It really looks like it's going to rain soon. It can't do that. - -- Time to get the posters back to the hospitality tent so the performers can sign them. - -- Anne needs a piano stool. Good thing Jessica's drummer has a stool that's the right size. - -- It's starting to rain. This sucks. - -- Now it's POURING. As in, small domesticated animals are falling from the sky (oh wait, that's just Chuck's dogs ;). JeffW suggests rotating the stage 90 degrees so that people can sit on the concrete slab under the roof of the pavilion. Tony and John agree that the sound will still work that way, and Anne and Frank are cool with it. The whole process takes less than 5 minutes. We have gone from a sparsely populated outdoor festival to a coffeehouse atmosphere. This is rather cool, but it still sucks. - -- People are also sitting under the roof at the other pavilion. I notice some folks have set up their picnics on the floor. Apparently the sound is fine in there. It's nice to see people being resourceful, and not fleeing toward the gate. - -- Folks are still arriving. They are seeing the music still happening and coming in anyway. This is good. - -- The merch table is surviving under a sheet of plastic. Bon Lozaga has moved his stuff into the trunk of his car. Resourcefulness abounds. My blood pressure decreases slightly. - -- "Where's Chuck?!" count is up to around 55 at this point. - -- Anne Heaton is doing a kickass set. People are really getting into her music. Valerie reports she is rapidly selling out of Anne's CDs. I am very happy about this. - -- The sound is good under the pavilion roof. The lights are coming in handy. It's still raining buckets. Dogs are barking and making Anne laugh during her songs. The atmosphere is good despite the completely crappy weather. - -- I lose my clipboard. - -- By the end of Anne's set, the rain has abated somewhat. We move the stage back a bit to make more room for people to sit. Amy Fairchild is playing solo, so she doesn't need a lot of space. - -- Sloan Wainwright has arrived. She is still one of the nicest people on the planet: the Earth Mother of roots music. She apologizes on behalf of the elements for us "getting totally pissed on". - -- I find my clipboard. - -- "Where's Chuck?!" count is now up to about 70. - -- Thank you, Jeff Wasilko for agreeing to be stage manager! He's doing a great job of keeping me and Chuck on our toes, and making sure the artists have everything they need (like their money before they go -- whoops :}). - -- Amy Fairchild is turning heads all over the park, not least of which is mine. I enjoyed her set at CB's Gallery way back in March when she was on before Sarah Slean, but I wasn't completely wowed. This is much different. I wish I could pay closer attention, but we've got more CDs to count in and artists are arriving and I need to make sure all the performers are signing the (GORGEOUS) posters. - -- It's stopped raining. Thank god. We're leaving the stage configuration as-is, though - it seems to be working out ok, and you never know. - -- Amy's set is done - time for the first raffle drawing. Chris Montville wins the Ectofest Package. Yay, Chris! - -- Merrie Amsterburg has called from a traffic jam in Hartford. At least we know she's coming. Susan McKeown is MIA, and she's on next since Kristeen has been scratched from the program. Slight pangs of panic ensue. - -- "Where's Chuck?!" count is now approaching 90. - -- I send Chuck home to look up Susan's number and call her and desperately hope she doesn't answer. - -- For the second time, I lose my clipboard. - -- People are still arriving, despite the weather. Though the attendance is still much lower than we'd hoped, at least we've got SOME people here. Folks are spreading out onto the grass again. - -- More Emerald City Cafe people appear, with a tent that's big enough to cover both their area and the merch table. This is a very good thing. I'm sure Valerie appreciates it, too. :) - -- One of my co-workers, who has been here all day informs me that next year we should sell ectofest CD cases, because he doesn't have enough hands to bring home all the CDs he's bought. (By day's end, he has literally bought one of every CD on the table. All I can do is laugh evilly. A new ectophile has been created!) - -- Anne Heaton has sold out of CDs. This is cool! - -- Sloan is doing a wonderful set. She's so amazing. She's accompanied by guitar and bass, and it sounds great. She's in fine voice, too. I don't catch much of her between-song stuff, but she's making people laugh. This is good. - -- Susan pulls up in style, driven by Jon Spurney in his brand-new Audi TT Quattro convertible. JeffW, a fellow TT owner immediately appears by their side to admire the car. Jokes about compensation for one's music being used in an Audi commercial ensue. - -- Thank you, Susan for showing up even though you're not feeling well! Much appreciated. - -- Sloan gets a nice ovation at the end of her set. It's time for Reverend Wisdom of the Interfaith AIDS Ministry to give a short talk about the organization and what we're all here to support, so that gives Susan and Jon plenty of time to set up. - -- I find my clipboard. Chuck has been walking around with it, thinking it's his. Moron. ;) - -- We had been hoping Susah would have copies of her new album, _Lowlands_ with her to sell and to raffle off with one of the packages, but they didn't arrive. :( - -- We are now using Mary Lydia Ryan's _Diaphonous_ for between-set music. People are asking who that is, too. - -- Happy arrives. I miss the introduction of Happy to her namesake, Chuck's miniature pinscher who has been the life of the party all day. Apparently it was quite amusing. Oh well. I do witness Anja, Happy's origami stalker, presenting her with the massively cool thing she's spent the entire day folding for her this time. I think Happy thinks Anja is weird. I could confirm this, but choose not to. ;> - -- Chuck gives Susan an appropriately gushing introduction. She starts off with "In London So Fair". I try to make time to pay attention to as much of her set as I can. - -- I run out of film. I tear my bag apart looking for the extra roll I just KNOW I put in there. No dice, but I do stab myself on a stray thumbtack left over from one of my trips downtown to put up ectofest posters. Oh well. JeffW is taking lots of shots with his digital camera. Chuck's got no fewer than three people taking professional-quality shots too. All is not lost. - -- Merrie Amsterburg arrives. Yay! All performers are present and accounted for! She's wonderfully sweet and charming, as always. She and Peter Linton pay close attention to Susan's set. (Who couldn't?!) - -- I realize I haven't sat down all day. - -- "Where's Chuck?!" count has now hit 100. - -- I remember that Valerie asked me to buy her some raffle tickets, like, an hour ago. Oops. :} I take care of that. The people manning the gate are very nice. They seem to be having a good time out there, even if they have been getting rained on. - -- RichF from the Acoustic Cafe appears. This is a pleasant surprise. I make a mental note to mention the Cafe before the day is out. He's got schedule cards to put out on the merch table. - -- Susan and Jon finish up, too soon as always. No duet with Sloan this year. :( - -- Time to do the next two raffle drawings: two tickets to the Eli Whitney Folk Festival and a package of CDs from everyone who played today but Happy. There are a lot more raffle tickets in the (empty :) coffee pot this time, which is nice to see. Susan says to take down the winner's name and address and she'll send them _Lowlands_ as soon as it comes in. I think the winner of the Folk Festival tickets lives in New Jersey. Oh well, at least it wasn't Juha. :} Rick from Torrington wins the CDs. Yay! - -- I introduce Merrie, and I think I embarrassed her, but hey, it's all true! - -- I run into someone from Green Linnet whom I'd met at a seminar back in December. We'd talked about ectofest back then, and it's nice to see her here to see Susan (the label is right in town, after all). She has three copies of _Lowlands_ in her bag. She gives me one for Rick's prize package, and another for me to keep. 8> Not even Chuck has this! This is incredibly satisfying. - -- Merrie sounds great. Peter's amp starts having issues halfway through, so we end up with the Fuzzbox version of "Lay Of The Land". It's all Merrie can do to keep a straight face through the rest of the song. He gets it under control, but it keeps buzzing back at him here and there for the rest of the set. Oops. (After they're done, Merrie notes that it probably just needs new tubes.) - -- I am pleased to note that performers have been signing the posters in the tent without my having to bug them about it. - -- Happy is hanging out by Bon's car/merch booth, graciously talking to anyone who ventures by. I bring her the posters, since she's the only one who hasn't signed them and the hospitality tent is kind of far away from where she's lounging. I think she doesn't believe me when I tell her it isn't a problem that she hasn't signed them yet. - -- Merrie closes her set with a stunning version of Aerosmith's "Dream On". The day seems strangely complete. - -- All we've got left is Happy's set now. I announce a few administrative details about cleanup and such, and plug WPKN, the Acoustic Cafe and the Eli Whitney Folk Festival. This area won't get new venues for great live music if people don't get out to support what is already out there. - -- "Where's Chuck?!" count has topped out at somewhere near 135. - -- Time for the last raffle! Valerie tells Chuck to pull out one of her tickets when we draw for the signed poster. We award a package containing cassette versions of _Warpaint_, _Building The Colossus_ and _Equipoise_, a _MWABT_ sticker, and a signed Happy Rhodes publicity photo. Rick's wife wins this (they're a lucky couple I guess!). Finally is the drawing for the poster. Valerie is the winner!!! This was NOT rigged, I swear!! - -- Happy and Bon finish setting up. They need no introduction, so Happy just gets going. It takes a few bars before I realize that I'm not hallucinating, this really is "Given In". I plant myself on the floor near the front, and vow not to move until the set is finished. - -- I don't think I have the exact order, but here's what she played as I can recall: Given In Ashes To Ashes To The Funnyfarm Summer Ra Is A Busy God Look For The Child I Have A Heart The First To Cry Just Like Tivoli (encore) Bon adds just the right textures with his bright red Parker Fly. Happy plays just an acoustic guitar, perched on a stool looking very relaxed. She's funny between songs, as always. I'm thinking this is the perfect set, considering the number of ectophiles in the crowd. I look back at the audience and see similarly stunned expressions on pretty much everyone's face. This is a good thing. :) - -- Halfway through Happy's first song, Cindy, a non-online friend who is volunteering and has never heard her before, turns to me and asks, "How does she DO that?!" All I can say is, it's one of the Great Mysteries Of The Universe, and leave it at that. - -- All too soon, it's over. Chuck and I give our closing thanks. We've made a good amount of money for the charities this year, despite the weather and the depleted crowd. - -- It's been raining softly through most of Happy's set, and now the scary lightning is moving in. Gotta pack up quickly before it gets too bad -- besides, we have to get over to Chuck's for food, drink, and rapidly impending collapse. :) - -- The ectophiles are positively buzzing. "Can you BELIEVE that set list?!?" - -- I realize that most of the artists have managed to slip away without my giving them a proper goodbye and THANK YOU for coming all this way in crappy weather to play for a tiny crowd for next to no compensation. We couldn't do this without the incredible artist roster to get people through the gate. - -- I find my clipboard in a place I don't remember leaving it. This time, I didn't even notice it was lost. - -- We work out the logistics of getting everyone over to Chuck's house, and make our way out through the rain. Much partying, good food and good company ensues. We get home at 3 am. And so another ectofest is history. Chuck and I are already talking about what we're going to do next year. I think this is in danger of becoming a tradition. (One thing is for sure, though -- I am NOT having this thing actually on my birthday next year!! Having it close to the date has been bad enough. :P) I can't put THANK YOU in big enough capital letters to express my gratitude to every one of you who attended yesterday. We did a great thing for Interfaith AIDS Ministry and the Danbury Women's Center, and none of it would have been possible without you. I know I didn't get much of a chance to talk to many of you, especially those who couldn't make it to Chuck's afterwards, where it was a bit less insane and I could actually concentrate on something for more than 20 seconds at a time. But it was great to see all of your faces in the crowd, and I hope to see you all again (in better weather!) next year. And now, it's time to collapse ... recovery is going to be long in coming, I fear. :) +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | ectofest 2000: sat. sept. 2, 2000 kenosia park, danbury, ct | | http://www.ectofest.org | +==========================TICKETS ON SALE NOW!!!==========================+ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 00:04:13 -0400 From: Michael Curry Subject: Re: ectofest 2000 - crazed eye view At 11:15 PM 9/3/00 -0400, meredith wrote: >I'm not really qualified to write a review, but I can encapsulate >my recollections here, in as close to chronological order as I can >muster. None of us are really qualified I think... >-- 11:52 am. Oh my god, I did NOT just get a call from Kristeen >Young wailing that she thought ectofest was on *Monday*. Actually, my theory is that she just realized that she was expected to be out in the daylight and freaked out. ;) I was disappointed she didn't make it though... she certainly would have been very different from the rest of the lineup. >-- People are still arriving, despite the weather. Though the >attendance is still much lower than we'd hoped, at least we've >got SOME people here. Folks are spreading out onto the grass again. Given the amount of people there on a day like that I'm sure I'd have totally astonished by the headcount if the day had been all sunny and cool. Still, it could have been worse (and tried to be at one point). >-- Chuck gives Susan an appropriately gushing introduction. She >starts off with "In London So Fair". I try to make time to pay >attention to as much of her set as I can. This was the first full set I witnessed, as I didn't make it to ectofest 'til almost 4:00 (partly due to planning, partly to an accident and big traffic snarl on I-84). Jeff was kind enought to grab me a copy of Susan's set list (thanks Jeff!), so I don't have to rely on my faulty memory to remember what she played: In London So Fair Fuck You (aka What Did I Ever Do To You) The Chariot To Fair London Town Johnny Coughlin (??) River Salome Snakes I put those question marks next to "Johnny Coughlin" because I'm not actully she she played it at this particular show. *wry grin* There were four more songs on the set list, but since Susan wasn't feeling well I'm grateful for what we got. >JeffW is taking lots of shots with his digital camera. Chuck's >got no fewer than three people taking professional-quality shots >too. All is not lost. I assume we'll be seeing some of these online at some point? >-- I introduce Merrie, and I think I embarrassed her, but hey, it's >all true! That didn't make it less embarassing. :) >-- I run into someone from Green Linnet whom I'd met at a seminar >back in December. We'd talked about ectofest back then, and it's >nice to see her here to see Susan (the label is right in town, >after all). She has three copies of _Lowlands_ in her bag. She >gives me one for Rick's prize package, and another for me to keep. >8> Not even Chuck has this! This is incredibly satisfying. And no, I'm not jealous. Really. >-- Merrie sounds great. Peter's amp starts having issues halfway >through, so we end up with the Fuzzbox version of "Lay Of The Land". >It's all Merrie can do to keep a straight face through the rest of >the song. He gets it under control, but it keeps buzzing back at >him here and there for the rest of the set. Oops. (After they're >done, Merrie notes that it probably just needs new tubes.) >-- Merrie closes her set with a stunning version of Aerosmith's >"Dream On". The day seems strangely complete. I thought Merrie's set was really great, and it made me wonder why I don't make more of an effort to catch her live on a regular basis. >Bon adds just the right textures with his bright red Parker Fly. >Happy plays just an acoustic guitar, perched on a stool looking >very relaxed. She's funny between songs, as always. I'm thinking >this is the perfect set, considering the number of ectophiles in >the crowd. I look back at the audience and see similarly stunned >expressions on pretty much everyone's face. This is a good thing. >:) I have to admit that, not being as enthralled by Happy as I was once upon a time, I had been planning to head out after Merrie finished, but I didn't quite get around to leaving and then when Happy started... I was hooked. >I know I didn't get much of a chance to talk to many of you, >especially those who couldn't make it to Chuck's afterwards, >where it was a bit less insane and I could actually concentrate >on something for more than 20 seconds at a time. I was one of those who didn't make it too Chuck's... I was just feeling tired, cranky and antisocial (yes, more than usual) and didn't want to inflict myself on everyone. Hope a good time was had by all. > Still not jealous... nosiree... Michael np: Sarah Harmer -- You Were Here nr: The Madness Season by C.S. Friedman ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 01:28:37 -0400 From: Jeff Wasilko Subject: Ectofest 2000 pictures up! Hi: The pix I took on Saturday are up on the web now. You can see them at: http://www.smoe.org/jeffw/gallery/script.cgi/page27 or if your mail software doesn't mangle links longer than 80 characters, this link should set up the display CGI with better settings: http://www.smoe.org/jeffw/gallery/script.cgi?&page=27&options=D&options=T&options=U - -jeff ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V6 #256 **************************