From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V6 #298 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, October 7 2000 Volume 06 : Number 298 Today's Subjects: ----------------- new (perhaps even interesting) topic - music that means a lot to you [Red] MP3 player? ["Michael Mendelson" ] Re: Veda Hille Concert in Seattle Last Night [James Gurley ] A week in Montreal [Joseph Zitt ] Re: La Luna ["Michael Pearce" ] RE: the day the solid format died ["Michael Pearce" ] Re: La Luna [jjhanson@att.net] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 10:46:00 EDT From: RedWoodenBeads@aol.com Subject: new (perhaps even interesting) topic - music that means a lot to you Hey, I have a new idea for a topic. I'm not sure if anyone would go for it, but it might be kind of fun. What if everybody told a story of some incident in their lives that means a lot to them in which a particular album, song or artist or whatever played an important role? It could be anything, like a song that happened to be playing during some really special incident or a time when you had an interesting encounter with some artist you love. Could this be a good idea? :) To kind of get things going, I thought I might go first.... Well, I have an Aunt by marriage who is from Germany (this is the wife of my mom's brother). Every two years, she, my uncle and my cousins all fly back to Germany to visit her parents and all of her friends and family back there. So this year, I accompanied them. The trip lasted from early May until early June. While I was there I met this girl named Brigitte. It turns out she was really into a lot of German kind of indie bands, most of which tended to sound like R.E.M. or The Cure or something in that area. As we were both avid music fans, we both had a great deal to talk about. She played a lot of her CD's for me, and I enjoyed them. I had, ofcourse, brought a lot of my own music and so I was going to play her some stuff. She was looking through my CD stack when she stopped at The Sundays "Reading Writing & Arithmetic". "The Sundays", she said in a thick german accent, "What an interesting name: so plain but so good" (she didn't have an enormous vocabulary of english adjectives to make use of). So we put that on, and the first track "Skin & Bones" started playing. As it was going we talked about a lot of things, mainly music, and the song was kind of in the backround. Then all of the sudden, "Here's Where the Story Ends" comes on and she just stops and goes "my god, that is so pretty sounding!". A look of enchantment took over her face and she just sat there, listening intently to the entire track until it ended. She then declared to me "that is the prettiest song ever". I said, "yeah, it's gorgeous". I was kind of surprised, it's a great song but I never thought it could have that kind of an effect on somebody. Anyway, we listened to that song again. "It is so pretty", she said, "The way she says "souvenier", her voice is so pretty"! Then I played it for her on guitar and sang it. She then insited that I teach it to her and so I showed her the chords and she started playing it and singing it (or rather, humming it). When I got back home she wrote me a letter, and on the seal of the envelope she wrote "It's that little souvenier of a terrible year that makes my eyes feel sore". I bought the album for her and sent it to her. Then a couple weeks later I got a tape in the mail with her playing it on guitar and singing it in a thick german accent. And so the story ends, very commonplace but with magic hidden somewhere in its ordinariness ;-) until next time 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 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 10:00:09 -0500 From: "Michael Mendelson" Subject: MP3 player? I tried this and my windows media player says "The data is invalid" What do I need to do to get this to work? Is there another way I can access the shoutcast? Thanks. - -mjm Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 07:56:01 -0500 From: "Matt Bittner" Subject: Re: vickie's shoutcast On Wed, 04 Oct 2000 17:39:47 -0500, WretchAwry wrote: > The URL of songs played is http://64.34.20.125:8000/played.html in case > listeners miss the name of a song. (This also has a Listen option which > when clicked should hook up with the broadcast. I've never tried it though). Yes, it works fine, as long as you have an MP3 player installed correctly - that is the key. :-) Matt Bittner _______________________ Michael J. Mendelson mmendelson@auvo.com or mjmjm@usa.net Auvo Technologies 500 Park Blvd. Suite 775 Itasca, IL 60143 office 630-285-9079 x105 fax 630-250-8047 web http://www.auvo.com _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Listen Up! A Cappella http://www.jewishsong.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 08:15:28 -0700 (PDT) From: James Gurley Subject: Re: Veda Hille Concert in Seattle Last Night For anyone on the Veda list, sorry about the cross-posting... Anyway... I just wanted to be the first to praise Veda's concert in Seattle last night. She appeared solo, but managed to captivate everyone. Just a few interesting facts for you all. Veda announced at the start of her concert that she had just gotten married twelve days ago. She flashed her ring to my friends and I before the concert. Veda seemed happy and in top form. No odd Veda-hair; perhaps wedded bliss has calmed her hair? Veda also talked about the new cd she will be recording this fall--whose themes/obsessions she said are science and nature--and then went on to play an absolutely beautiful new piece whose lyrics were in part taken from a science report she wrote at the age of six. Veda also said that she will be giving a concert in Vancouver on December 17th with Seattle's Robin Holcomb. This gig, said Veda, will be recorded and form the basis for her next release, which she also mentioned will be mostly her with guitar/piano accompaniment. There were a few technical difficulties at the onset of her set, mostly revolving around her breaking two strings during her first song. Veda played a selection from This is a Picture, and did a stunning acoustic version of "Williamsburg Bridge." Also, a highlight for me was "Born Lucky" and "Thin." Veda also said that her upcoming Spring 2001 mini-west-coast tour will be sans-band. It was a great performance by Veda and served to remind me (and Neile and Tamar) again of the incredible range of Veda's writing and voice. I love hearing Veda and her band, but it's refreshing to hear her perform by herself where she really shines. Also, judging from the new songs Veda played, it's clear that Veda keeps getting better and better. - --Jim (Sorry about these random notes but I'm writing this after only four hours of sleep.) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 14:21:36 -0400 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: A week in Montreal On a whim, for no particular reason, I will be in Montreal from Tuesday through Sunday of next week. Anything/anyone I should catch up with there? - -- |> ~The only thing that is not art is inattention~ --- Marcel Duchamp <| | jzitt@metatronpress.com http://www.metatronpress.com/jzitt | | Latest CD: Jerusaklyn http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt | | Comma: Voices of New Music Silence: the John Cage Discussion List | ------------------------------ Date: 6 Oct 2000 14:53:08 -0700 From: "Michael Pearce" Subject: Re: La Luna At 2:49 PM -0400 9/27/00, "Suzanna Otting" wrote: >I was surprised how much I liked "La Luna". I was also disappointed >with the unimaginative cover of "Here With Me", but the album is >good pop-operatic listening, in my opinion. I especially liked her >version of "Gloomy Sunday"...she's done it at least as well as >Sinead O'Connor, Sarah McLachlan, and Heather Nova! >Actually, Ms. Brightman reminded me a little of Kate Bush at some >points, in a "And Dream of Sheep" way. Is that just wishful >thinking, or does someone else agree? :) It knocked me out, too. I had never heard her before. And yes, the KaTe similarities were quite impressive. I wonder just how deliberate it is? An older guy in my breakfast group says she was an Andrew Lloyd Webber protege who did not have the power in her voice for theatrical singing, but sounds great on CD. She is coming to a rather large auditorium at the end of the month. Wonder how she'll do. I may go. Michael ------------------------------ Date: 6 Oct 2000 15:03:33 -0700 From: "Michael Pearce" Subject: RE: the day the solid format died At 2:49 PM -0400 9/27/00, Phil Hudson wrote: >I think the late 60s and most of the 70 were the glory years for really >interesting album covers; before it started getting too expensive, according >to the record companies. >Anyone still have a copy of the first ever ( to my knowledge) graphically >enhanced 12" Curved Air? >Anyone have a favorite 12" cover? Which one? You mean the picturedisk, or the one with the cover that unfolds from a pastel rainbow cutout to a large sheet with 7 or 8 segments? There was a lot of art with vinyl. Dave Mason's best album, Alone Together (Blue Thumb Records) was an explosion of color, like a bowling ball pattern. Split Enz even embedded a holographic picture in the vinyl. The Deviants made unfolding album covers (British release only) and who can forget the 3D image glued onto every copy of the Stones' Satanic Majesty's Request? (IMO their best album). There was a Talking Heads album on clear vinyl with a cover made up of multiple plastic segments, the whole thing was overlarge and did not fit in any standard LP rack. The worst companies were the ones that had all that space and didn't use it. All style and no meat (information about the band and the music) because it supposedly wasn't hip to care about such things. Idiots. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 22:14:34 +0000 From: jjhanson@att.net Subject: Re: La Luna Michael Pearce writes about Sarah Brightman: >It knocked me out, too. I had never heard her before. >And yes, the > KaTe similarities were quite impressive. I wonder just >how deliberate > it is? > An older guy in my breakfast group says she was an >Andrew Lloyd > Webber protege who did not have the power in her voice >for theatrical > singing, but sounds great on CD. Actually, Sarah was more than Lloyd Weber's protege, she was his wife for many years--thus the reason she landed the role of Christine in Phantom of the Opera. And despite not having "a powerful enough voice", she led Phantom to be one of Weber's biggest success. She does not have the powerful voice that many Broadway singers have, but she does have a beautiful voice. A friend of mine saw her on her last U.S. tour and was blown away by it--it was quite the production--ala Madonna or Cher--with multiple costume changes, dancers, multi-level platforms, and lots of theatrics. Despite the production, my friend was equally blown away by her voice. If you want to hear Sarah at her most Kate-like check out her first non-Broadway album--Dive. But my favorite performance of hers is probably the duet with opera singer Jose Cura "There for Me"--I was disappointed that it didn't catch on as well as her duet with Andrea Bocelli from the same album, because I think it's a much better song and Cura has a much better voice (though I like Bocelli too--and it's appropriate they teamed together because Bocelli is often criticized as not being a great opera tenor--just as Brightman is being criticized as not being a Broadway star, even though the two of them are probably leading CD sales in their respective genres). Maybe one of these days I'll acutally be in a place at the same time she's playing and get to see her. Jeff Hanson n.p. Moby - Play n.r. So Far From God - Ana Castillo > At 2:49 PM -0400 9/27/00, "Suzanna Otting" wrote: > > >I was surprised how much I liked "La Luna". I was also disappointed > >with the unimaginative cover of "Here With Me", but the album is > >good pop-operatic listening, in my opinion. I especially liked her > >version of "Gloomy Sunday"...she's done it at least as well as > >Sinead O'Connor, Sarah McLachlan, and Heather Nova! > >Actually, Ms. Brightman reminded me a little of Kate Bush at some > >points, in a "And Dream of Sheep" way. Is that just wishful > >thinking, or does someone else agree? :) > > > > An older guy in my breakfast group says she was an Andrew Lloyd > Webber protege who did not have the power in her voice for theatrical > singing, but sounds great on CD. > > She is coming to a rather large auditorium at the end of the month. > Wonder how she'll do. I may go. > > Michael ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V6 #298 **************************