From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V8 #48 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, February 17 2002 Volume 08 : Number 048 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: B = Bayard [dmw ] Re: B = Bayard ["n'woj" ] various live stuff [meredith ] Re: Gilligan's Island/Stairway to Heaven ["Michael Pearce" Subject: Re: B = Bayard On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, dmw wrote: > On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Abydos * wrote: > > > As usual, I was in a weird mental place, preoccupied and Im afraid, less oops. wrong mailing list. sorry about any resultant confusion. - -- d. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 14:28:21 -0500 From: "n'woj" Subject: Re: B = Bayard when we last left our heroes, dmw exclaimed: >oops. wrong mailing list. sorry about any resultant confusion. well, i knew what you were talking. ;) +w ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 15:00:14 -0500 From: meredith Subject: various live stuff Hi, I've been slacking shamefully in writing about live shows lately ... so I'll try to remedy that with a bunch of capsule reviews. 1.) Sarah Slean at The Kendall Cafe, Boston, 1/23 woj and I headed up to Boston on a school night to see Sarah play, because it had been a really long time since she came south of the border. I wish I could say it was worth getting home at 3 am when I had to be at work at 9 ... but it wasn't. :/ I really, *really*, REALLY don't like the direction Sarah is going with her singing. The music is fine -- a little Cabaret styling never hurt anyone, and she's got a good, tight band. But she's singing like a washed-up drunken Berliner chanteuse now, and in someone with such a gorgeous voice, that's just a crime. She's going to destroy her voice if she keeps this up. I haven't been able to listen to her EP more than once, because it's so painful to hear her butchering songs I really used to love, like "Eliot" (which led off the set that night, getting it off to a very depressing start for me). She has also completely rearranged my all-time favorite song of hers, "Weight". I never thought a live song could be overproduced, but this one was. The whole thing was very awkward, because the Kendall performance space is about the size of our living room, where Sarah has also played, and she was really happy to see us there. We ended up sitting *right* in front of the stage, and at the end she dedicated "Jerome" to me, which on the one hand was really cool, but on the other wasn't, because I don't like how she's singing that one now, either. How do you tell someone you really admire that you think she's making a huge mistake with where she's going with her art? I don't think there's any smooth way to do that, so I just kept my trap shut and told her (sincerely) that it was really good to see her again, and that was that. I took a lot of photos, which are at http://www.smoe.org/meth/gallery/script.cgi?stext=&page=13&Show=Show&options=T&options=U&options=W. 2.) Susan Werner at Joe's Pub, NYC, 2/5 On the official street date of her self-released new CD, _New Non Fiction_, Susan appeared at a place in New York she'd never played before, with a brand-new band. woj and I had never seen her play with a band before, and I think I can speak for both of us when I say that I was blown away. The bass and drums added just the right touches to the new songs where they were used, and on the jazz piano stuff, they were perfect. Unfortunately they don't know all of the songs yet, so they were only on stage for part of the set. They're not accompanying her at many shows, but hopefully she can get them for more shows in the future. I took a bunch of photos that night too, which are at http://www.smoe.org/meth/gallery/script.cgi?stext=&page=14&Show=Show&options=T&options=U&options=W. 3.) Jill Sobule at the Acoustic Cafe, Bridgeport, CT, 2/8 Jill Sobule absolutely cracks me up, and last Friday night was no exception. Opening was a NY artist named Jennifer Marks, who was a good warm-up act in that she was hilarious between songs. Unfortunately, the songs themselves weren't much to write home about (and one, about going to a strip club on the eve of her wedding was downright offensive in its implied homophobia, imho). But when Jill took the stage, all that got forgotten pretty quickly. She was very punchy, having come straight from a cross-country flight to the Cafe. (She had been in L.A., among other things playing guitar in a friend's band that they named "The Axis Of Evil". ) The place was packed, and it turned into a very informal evening, as people asked questions and Jill engaged in conversation with the audience in between songs. She didn't really have a set list, and so ended up doing a lot of requests. She managed to fit in a few new songs, and recruited people from the front row to hold her lyrics sheets. And, some girls in the back who couldn't have been more than 13 or 14 years old joined her on stage to sing backup on "Supermodel" (they were pretty good, too!). It was a great show, as usual one which left my sides smarting for a while afterwards. 4.) Trina Hamlin and Lyris Hung at The Living Room, NYC, 2/15 Last night woj and I ventured back into the City to see Trina play for the first time since she was at our house last month. She had told us that Lyris Hung (the electric violin player from Mila Drumke's band) would be accompanying her, but I completely forgot about that until we saw Lyris arriving at the place at the same time we did. The sets at the Living Room are only 40 minutes long, which is particularly sucky in a situation like that, because I wanted to hear Lyris and Trina playing together all night. It's always exceedingly cool to see two musicians who are masters at accompanying other people weave their magic together. Lyris' violin meshed perfectly with Trina's harmonica, and filled in behind her guitar playing nicely as well. The people who packed the place to see the set loved every minute of it, and as was the case the last time we saw Trina play at the Living Room, an encore was loudly demanded and received. The band that was supposed to come on next didn't mind, either - I overheard one of them tell her afterwards that he had really enjoyed her set. Trina's got a new CD coming out in March sometime. She recorded it solo, "live in the studio". Her new songs are great, and I'm really looking forward to the CD. But she needs to be playing at bigger and better places than The Living Room, though! I just don't get it. (CT-area ectophiles should mark April 11 on the calendar: she'll be co-headlining at The Acoustic Cafe with Rachael Sage. Yow.) That catches us up ... now we're heading up to Northampton to see Suzanne Vega and Kris Delmhorst at the Iron Horse. Yay! ======================================= Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth ======================================= Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html ======================================= (: New England Patriots - Super Bowl XXXVI CHAMPIONS :) ------------------------------ Date: 16 Feb 2002 19:13:49 -0800 From: "Michael Pearce" Subject: Re: Gilligan's Island/Stairway to Heaven At 1:55 AM -0500 2/14/02, adamk@zoom.co.uk wrote: >Ahhh, now THAT takes me back. I remember this version, by >a band called Roger and the Goosebumps, and it made me >laugh until the led zep lawyers stepped in and squashed it >flat, flat, flat, never to be heard again. > >adam k. Until the Net, that is. I had the first year of Dr. D on tapes and just finished a project of ripping them all to MP3. I gave him the originals when he appeared in Portland for a class at Reed College. I extracted Gilligan from that. I don't have a place to FTP it where you can get it, but I can email it to you if you can receive a 1.7 meg file. Michael PS: Anyone on this list wants this, email me. I will accumulate the requests and send it out in one mas swoop. Ah, the glories of DSL. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V8 #48 *************************