From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V8 #281 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, October 9 2002 Volume 08 : Number 281 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: College Music [Ed Cole ] Today's your birthday, friends... [Mike Matthews ] webcasters may get to live after all... ["John Zimmer" ] Re: bic runga [walkabout@att.net] ecto-digest V8 #280-college performances [cyo@landoftheblind.com] Re: ecto-digest V8 #280-college performances [Sue Trowbridge Subject: Re: College Music HI, I work for a small liberal arts college just up I-5 from you. In the non-ecto mode, The Red Elvises have been a big hit with our students. They've played on campus three times in just over a year. I caught them the first time. They are a lot of fun. Russian rockabilly meets Dick Dale. I see on their web page that they are touring back east right now. They'll be in Oregon next Feb. http://www.redelvises.com/redelvises/schedule.htm Ed ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 03:00:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friends... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ****************** Dan Riley (dsr@lns598.tn.cornell.edu) ****************** ********************** Neile Graham (neile@sff.net) *********************** ******************* Quenby M. Chunco (no Email address) ******************* ********************* Mike Garland (no Email address) ********************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Dan Riley Sun October 08 1961 Libra Neile Graham Wed October 08 1958 pen Quenby M. Chunco Tue October 08 1968 Crunchy Frog Mike Garland Wed October 08 1952 Creature_of_the_Night Irvin Lin Tue October 09 1973 Libra Michael C. Berch Wed October 10 1956 No parking Chris Gagnon Sat October 10 1970 Libra Wolfgang Drotschmann Thu October 13 1966 Waage Gracescape Fri October 13 1967 unbalanced Brian Bloom Tue October 14 1969 spam Erik N. Johnson Tue October 16 1962 Handle with Care Kim Klouda Tue October 17 1967 Libra Anthony Amato Sat October 20 1973 Libra Suzanne DeCory Tue October 22 1968 Balancing Libra Dave Steiner Sat October 24 1959 Scorpio Tara MacLean Thu October 25 1973 Scorpio Elin Sjoelie Fri October 25 1974 Scorpio Jessica Koeppel Wed October 29 1969 Scorpio Kathy Clark Sat November 01 1969 Bunnies Katie Dougiamas Sat November 02 1974 Scorpio Anthony Horan Fri November 04 1966 Positive Michael Sullivan Mon November 05 1962 Scorpio Anna Pryde Wed November 05 1975 Scorpio Sun; Sagittarius Moon; Pisces Rising Jens Brage Sun November 08 1964 Scorpio Rising Lynn Garrett Sat November 08 1958 Scorpio Sam Murgie Fri November 08 1957 Scorpio - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 00:33:07 -0700 From: "John Zimmer" Subject: webcasters may get to live after all... Now and again, the good guys actually *do* win. A bill bypassing the kiss-of-death CARP ruling that would have taxed most webcasters out of existence just passed the House. It still has to survive a Senate vote, but assuming it does, small and medium-size webcasters will finally get the percentage-based fee structure they'd been asking for all along. Large webcasters will still have to live with the CARP fee structure. Details here: http://news.com.com/2100-1023-961100.html John ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 08:57:14 EDT From: Paul2k@aol.com Subject: melissa ferrick, bic runga, deni bonet AES (the Audio Engineering Society) just had it's 113th convention downtown in L.A. from Saturday until today. My first time going, it was pretty interesting to see all the gizmos and gadgets and geegaws. I also ran into a boatload of Berklee alum and faculty, which was one of the main reasons I went. I also went because Deni Bonet played at the Singer/Songwriter showcase. There were several good acts that they rounded up for the showcase including fellow Berkleeite Adrianne, Saucy Monky (a duo featuring Cynthia Catania who I think is a kick-butt songwriter), and Joan Jones (formerly of Sun 60). Deni is a violinist/singer/songwriter who I know as the violin player on Sarah McLachlan's _Solace_ album. She put out a couple EPs in the late 90's and an album last year called "Bigger is Always Better". As i watched her highly energetic playing and singing (she was backed by guitar, bass, and drums), i was most reminded of the Nields. Not the voice aspect, but the funny, sometimes wacky songwriting and the overall irreverence. She lives in Manhattan and apparently has a cable access tv show on friday nights at midnight called "Duets with Deni" and she'll be having Robyn Hitchcock on as a guest in the near future. www.denibonet.com In addition to the convention, Berklee had a little mixer/get together to honor two distinguished alum. Afterwards, some of the alums and faculty went out to a bar and got greased. I started talking with a woman who it turns out graduated in '91. She talked about how she had worked in NYC and LA at music facilities for 9 years and how she recently switched to a movie post-production house because of the more normal hours. When finally it dawned on me that she graduated in '91 (beer'll do that to you, I guess. And scotch), I asked if she knew the whole female singer contingent from that era, including Paula Cole, Juliana Hatfield, and Melissa Ferrick. In fact she did. In even more factly, she was friends with Paula, really good friends with Jay Bellerose, and roommate of Melissa. She used Melissa for most of her recording projects and was basically her right-hand man in regards to managing her, doing demos, getting gigs, etc, right up through signing with Atlantic. She even toured with her when Melissa opened for Morrissey. She talked about going down to the studios at school late at night to work on Melissa stuff and hearing right across the hall Paula doing her own songs. I think I must have said "Oh wow" at least a dozen times during our conversation. Oh, and Bic Runga is doing a residency at Largo starting this wednesday and every wed. through the month of October. Paul ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 10:39:49 -0700 From: Steve VanDevender Subject: Re: College Music Ed Cole writes: > HI, > > I work for a small liberal arts college just up I-5 from you. In the > non-ecto mode, The Red Elvises have been a big hit with our students. > They've played on campus three times in just over a year. I caught > them the first time. They are a lot of fun. Russian rockabilly > meets Dick Dale. I see on their web page that they are touring back > east right now. They'll be in Oregon next Feb. > http://www.redelvises.com/redelvises/schedule.htm The Red Elvises are definitely a lot of fun. I think they used to come through here even more often with their former drummer, who is from Eugene. And if anyone's interested in booking my favorite Eugene band, Tympanic, I can put you in touch with them. You can also check them out at tympanicband.com. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 12:06:27 -0700 From: walkabout@att.net Subject: Re: bic runga At 08:57 10/08/2002 (-0400), Paul2k@aol.com wrote: >Bic Runga is doing a residency at Largo starting this wednesday >and every wed. through the month of October. Bic Runga has a similar three week residency in San Francisco, at Cafe Du Nord, starting tonight: Tue Oct 08, with Tracy Bonham Thu Oct 17 (no support act listed) Tue Oct 22, with the House Jacks ~walkabout ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 12:54:00 -0700 From: cyo@landoftheblind.com Subject: ecto-digest V8 #280-college performances Hi Ryan, Saw your email to Ecto re:eugene performances. Hi, I'm Cyoakha Grace and I am surprised no-one thought of my band, Land of the Blind, since they are a Eugene favorite!!(as well as fairly-well thought of by the list). We started up in Portland but Eugene always seemed our "home", where folks really REALLY like us. You mentioned the word "cool" so I thought perhaps you are looking for something a little more interesting than a folk singer or a rock band, or even a world band. We have all of those elements but more, world with a grounding touch of pop (song structures, not "pop" pop), rocking but more tribal than rock, folk but with exotic instruments. 1/2 THE BLIND relocated to San Fran 3 years ago but we still tour up the coast quite a lot, just did Portland, in two weeks will do two Eugene gigs, so, even though you sound like you don't offer much money, I would be still interested in playing the university anytime this winter, especially if I can connect it with other gigs on the way etc.... You can listen to the songs on my albums, read the reviews, read about my new band line up ....http://landoftheblind.com or ask the ecto list about my live shows. (speak up folks) or come to the Wow Hall Witches Ball Sat. Oct. 26th, 12th and Lincoln, Eugene or come to the house concert in Eugene, either Fri. Oct. 25th or Sun. Oct. 27th or listen to Mike Myers show on Sat. Oct. 26th KRVM (we are hoping to play live) we are a 4 piece by the way, 1. drum kit made of hand drums (very very cool)and he is just killer, 2. sitar/didgeridoo & Celtic dulcimer, 3. vocals/harmonium & keys, and 4. bass/cello & dilruba (Indian violin) Using all these wild instruments we create a mix of rock, Celtic, Indian, Trip-Hop, Trance-Dance, Tribal-Native-Dream-Pop-Psychedelic ala Dead Can Dance/Mouth Music/Kate Bush/Siouxie/ but none of those quite describe it either. We even do a Doors cover, a Kate cover and a Beatles cover, but almost unrecognizable. Not to blow our own horn but it is, if nothing else, "cool". blah blah, promo promo, blah blah, peace, cyoakha O'Manion Music cyo@landoftheblind.com http://www.landoftheblind.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 16:31:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Sue Trowbridge Subject: Re: ecto-digest V8 #280-college performances On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 cyo@landoftheblind.com wrote: > You can listen to the songs on my albums, read the reviews, read about my > new band line up ....http://landoftheblind.com > > or ask the ecto list about my live shows. (speak up folks) Cyoakha is an amazingly talented and charismatic performer. I saw LOtB most recently at the benefit for the trees in Berkeley, and they were great. (I'm sure many folks have fond memories of their ectofest west performance as well.) I would certainly recommend booking them -- Cyoakha is the kind of artist who can mesmerize a crowd! - --Sue Trowbridge ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 13:46:53 -0700 From: Greg Bossert Subject: Re: ecto-digest V8 #280-college performances On Tuesday, Oct 8, 2002, at 12:54 US/Pacific, cyo@landoftheblind.com wrote: > Hi Ryan, > > Saw your email to Ecto re:eugene performances. Hi, I'm Cyoakha Grace > and I > am surprised no-one thought of my band, Land of the Blind, since they > are a > Eugene favorite!! You were on Neile's original list! :) - -g n.p. "Global Hockets" From Scratch n.r. "The Tiger in the Well" Phillip Pullman - -- "i've never been afraid to change the circumstances of the world" - -- Happy Rhodes - -- "except for bunnies..." - -- Anya ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:35:29 -0700 From: "William Mazur" Subject: RE: ecto-digest V8 #280-college performances Land of the Blind's da bomb dude! Way mega cool! Da coolest! Cyo just doesn't know how to properly read a thread. ;-P All kidding aside, everyone here knows that I am a big Land of the Blind fan. They are an interesting and entertaining band. Cyo is energetic, charismatic and, at times, hypnotic in her performances. The other members of LotB are all excellent as well. Everything that Sue said is true! Everything that Greg said is true as well! Neile did give LotB a mention in her post. She even noted that they are based in both Portland and SF. Bill M. P.S. - I have been listening to the new Peter Gabriel quite a bit. To me it's the best CD he has done since "Security". - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Greg Bossert Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 1:47 PM To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: Re: ecto-digest V8 #280-college performances On Tuesday, Oct 8, 2002, at 12:54 US/Pacific, cyo@landoftheblind.com wrote: > Hi Ryan, > > Saw your email to Ecto re:eugene performances. Hi, I'm Cyoakha Grace > and I > am surprised no-one thought of my band, Land of the Blind, since they > are a > Eugene favorite!! You were on Neile's original list! :) - -g n.p. "Global Hockets" From Scratch n.r. "The Tiger in the Well" Phillip Pullman - -- "i've never been afraid to change the circumstances of the world" - -- Happy Rhodes - -- "except for bunnies..." - -- Anya ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:46:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Neile Graham Subject: New Peter Gabriel (was: college performances) > Everything that Sue said is true! Everything that Greg said is true as > well! Neile did give LotB a mention in her post. She even noted that > they are based in both Portland and SF. Yay, me! > P.S. - I have been listening to the new Peter Gabriel quite a bit. To me > it's the best CD he has done since "Security". Ditto! I actually haven't much cared for _anything_ in between and am really enjoying this one. - --Neile ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:12:20 -0700 From: Damon Harper Subject: Re: New Peter Gabriel (was: college performances) whew - i wondered why ecto was so quiet, forgetting i was subbed under a domain i've let go recently. good to be back! ;) On 08 Oct, Neile Graham wrote: >> P.S. - I have been listening to the new Peter Gabriel quite a bit. >> To me it's the best CD he has done since "Security". > > Ditto! I actually haven't much cared for _anything_ in between and am > really enjoying this one. count me in, i'm loving it too! it's got his hallmark attention to detail in production but certainly doesn't sound over-produced, and generally seems to be a return to the rougher-edged peter gabriel we knew and loved. don't get me wrong, i do love _us_, but i rarely play it; _so_ is probably my least favourite though it certainly has moments. luckily some of its best moments are on the secret world live 2-cd set, which is the one other thing post-security i *do* unconditionally adore and listen to with great regularity. and i'm not usually a huge fan of live albums, either. as an aside, did anyone else find the pictures of him bald and with a white beard kind of shocking? - -damon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 17:56:22 -0700 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: New Peter Gabriel (was: college performances) On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:12:20 -0700 Damon Harper wrote: > don't get me wrong, i do love _us_, but i rarely play it; _so_ is > probably my least favourite though it certainly has moments. luckily > some of its best moments are on the secret world live 2-cd set, which > is the one other thing post-security i *do* unconditionally adore and > listen to with great regularity. and i'm not usually a huge fan of > live albums, either. Yup! I think Secret World Live was his best thing since Security, and it all came together there. I really love "So" too, but I'm pleased that he's returned to the intricacy of his earlier work with "Up". He's taken the time to get each track just right. I wish I could afford the concerts... but suspect that they may end up as a DVD every bit as good as "Secret World Live". (And I'm curious as to how the dynamics and interactions of the duets might change, considering that he's singing with his daughter.) - -- | josephzitt@josephzitt.com http://www.josephzitt.com/ | | http://www.metatronpress.com/jzitt/ http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt/ | | == New book: Surprise Me with Beauty: the Music of Human Systems == | | Comma / Gray Code Silence: the John Cage Discussion List | ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V8 #281 **************************