From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V6 #283 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, September 25 2000 Volume 06 : Number 283 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Pamela Means (and Erica Ballinger) [RAVEN@igc.org] Breaking the waves... [Drew Harrington ] Re: Breaking the waves... [Neile Graham ] Re: song on radio [RedWoodenBeads@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 22:59:52 -0700 From: RAVEN@igc.org Subject: Re: Pamela Means (and Erica Ballinger) At 20:00 09/19/2000, Drew replied to Emily's question about seeing Pamela Means live in SF: >Should you go see Pamela Means? Should you breath? >Should you eat? Should you Love? The answers are of >course, yes, yes, yes, and yes, respectively, and in >that order of importance.... yes I exaggerate a little. Such a subdued recommendation, Drew! :) >John Miller has recommended Pamela for so long and >with such urgency that when she came to the bay area >I had no choice but to go see her. Drew, if you had skipped her this tour, I would not have let you hear the end of it... :) >THE most dynamic woman w/guitar I've seen in a long time >(a quote I recently read, but can't recall where - probably >on John's web site). I've seen the same quote... it's not on my site (I would not have qualified the reference by specifying gender), but I'll certainly agree she is one *blazing* guitar player. >"The most dynamic" is not hyperbole - I measured it >objectively - it's true. Checking those recording levels, eh? :) >Emotionally charged ocassionally political lyrics, vocals >ranging from muttered whispers to volumous screams, guitar >delicately picked to thunderously strummed. Obvious >comparisons will come to mind. She has a wider dynamic range than almost anyone I can think of, from whispers to soaring shouts, making it difficult to record her live shows. >Yes, do yourself a favor and catch any of her shows. >If you are in the bay area, the best show to catch >will be the Rose Street show. THE venue to see her. >Small, quiet, respectful. People are still talking >about her last show there a year and a half ago. I will agree that Rose Street is likely to be the most intimate and accessible, with the most attentive audience you're likely to see anywhere... and it is likely to be my favorite show of this west coast tour (I'm seeing 8 or 9 of Pamela's 11 west coast shows). Just be aware that the Rose Street show is in someone's living room, totally acoustic (no sound system at all), and some of the effects (guitar and vocal) Pamela likes to use will be missing, which means you will miss the *full* range of her performance. However, Drew is correct that her Rose Street show from last October *is* still talked about as one of the highlights of their year, and in spite of the usual problems recording in such a 'quiet' venue (when the slightest sound from listeners could be picked up by my mics), Pamela chose three tracks we taped at last years Rose Street show to put on "Pearls", her new CD (and 'official bootleg')... highly recommended! To see her fully amplified, check out her Santa Cruz show next Saturday at Palookaville, opening for Patty Larkin (won't that be a fantastic double-bill?). ---- At 10:54 09/21/2000, Emily wrote: >Well, I saw Pamela Means last night at Hotel Utah in SF, and...wow! Great show! I was the old geezer , dressed in black, sitting front and center, taping both Pamela and Erica (and just for the record, with permission from both). >Thanks to those who recommended her. I admit I was disappointed during >her first song that I didn't like her as much as I'd thought I would, She usually starts a show with something a bit quiet, and not too challenging... >but then partway into the second song she took off with some >fierce guitar playing and hooked me. ... then she hooks the audience with that blazing guitar! >I kept looking at her guitar and wondering how she was producing >those sounds out of that instrument, and where the band was she >seemed to have hidden somewhere behind a curtain or something. I had the same reaction when I first saw her live, and I had the advantage of already having heard her first CD... but that still did not prepare me for what she can do live... whew! >She definitely won at least one new fan, and I may try to catch >her again while she's in the area. I'll second Drew's advice... catch her Rose Street show! ---- Emily continued: >Part of the reason I went to the show last night was that I vaguely >remembered hearing positive things about Erica Ballinger, one of the two >opening acts. She was quite a find, too. Most of my thoughts on her got >washed away once Pamela Means started, but I'm definitely planning to >pick up her album at some point. Her voice is perfectly suited to the >bluesy, jazzy folk-rock she does--particularly her great low register. I met Erica last October (at Pamela's Rose Street show) and I've been impressed with her work (and entranced by her low-register vocals)... she plays often, all over the Bay Area, including Rose Street, and she's started doing shows up the west coast... she also plays with a band at some shows... definitely someone I recommend seeing live. John - who just got back from Pamela's San Luis Obispo show - -- RAVEN ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 10:53:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Drew Harrington Subject: Breaking the waves... I ha trouble decyphering who said: > As someone who suffered through _Breaking the Waves_ > and its star Emily Watson Wow! Until just now I had never even conceived of the ides that anyone could think of Breaking the Waves and Emily Watson's performance in it as anything but a masterpiece. Maybe I should see it again? Yes.. Yes, I think I will. Drew __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 11:34:39 -0700 From: Neile Graham Subject: Re: Breaking the waves... At 10:53 AM -0700 9/24/00, Drew Harrington wrote: >I ha trouble decyphering who said: > >> As someone who suffered through _Breaking the Waves_ >> and its star Emily Watson > >Wow! Until just now I had never even conceived of the >ides that anyone could think of Breaking the Waves and >Emily Watson's performance in it as anything but a >masterpiece. Ditto. Though I can see why other people might not like it, I love it. And Lifetime? Give me a break... - --Neile n.p. Thea Gilmore, _Lipstick Conspiracies_ - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neile Graham ...... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ....... neile@sff.net Les Semaines: A Weekly Journal . http://www.sff.net/people/neile/semaines The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music ....... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 17:08:23 EDT From: RedWoodenBeads@aol.com Subject: Re: song on radio In a message dated 9/23/00 11:03:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time, owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org writes: << Was it a male singer? it sounds vaguely (and I'm probably wayyy off here) like Julianne by Ben Folds Five, but who knows. >> yes it was a male singer. maybe it was ben folds five, cool, i'll check it out. Joe http://www.angelfire.com/indie/impryan Now hit those gleaming faces hard You know you'd try to miss it you'd do the same for others Look now it's raising Ready to put you under light sedation - -Mary Margaret O'Hara ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V6 #283 **************************