From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V9 #240 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, August 25 2003 Volume 09 : Number 240 Today's Subjects: ----------------- jewel on tv? [Paul2k@aol.com] Re: jewel on tv? [Mike Connell ] A medieval tribute to Black Sabbath [Neb Rodgers ] Re: A medieval tribute to Black Sabbath [alberto carrasco Subject: Re: jewel on tv? Paul's enquiring mind wants to know: >I saw a report that I trust that Jewel will be appearing on Rob Lowe's new >NBC show "Lyon's Den" as Lowe's character's ex-wife. Anyone know if this is >true? Even though Jewel's newsletter has not yet mentioned it, it's been on enough "official" sites I figure it's true. She's in only three episode though. Mike np - all my Warren Zevon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 09:19:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Neb Rodgers Subject: A medieval tribute to Black Sabbath I don't make this stuff up, honest! - -Neb - ---Original Message--- Black Sabbath songs covered by medieval music band Rondellus http://www.sabbatum.com/ Sabbatum is a tribute album like no other  12 Black Sabbath classic songs played by early music band Rondellus and sung in Latin language. Can You imagine what Black Sabbath would have sounded like if Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward would have formed the band in the 14th century? Would War Pigs or The Wizard have been as powerful if played on medieval instruments like lute, fiddle and harp? Curious? So was Rondellus, the renowned Estonian medieval music band. They took 12 Black Sabbath classics and turned them into something totally unheard. You dont have to take history lessons to get the feeling. Its all on the new CD Rondellus recorded  Sabbatum. An amazing collection of Black Sabbath tunes played on medieval instruments and sung in Latin language. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 14:16:18 -0700 (PDT) From: alberto carrasco Subject: Re: A medieval tribute to Black Sabbath I bought it from CD Baby ages ago and heartily recommend it: "Black Sabbath as covered by Dead Can Dance"... very goth... dark... heavy... I'll take it over Liz Phair anything... anyday. ;^} - --- Neb Rodgers wrote: I don't make this stuff up, honest! -Neb ---Original Message--- Black Sabbath songs covered by medieval music band Rondellus http://www.sabbatum.com/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 20:49:25 -0500 (CDT) From: "Mitchell A. Pravatiner" Subject: Jewel's arc, Phair comment and other stories Last Friday's issue of _Red Streak_, the _Chicago Sun-Times'_ side project designed to attract young adult readers, reported that Jewel will appear in a three-episode story arc in NBC's new fall legal drama, _The Lyon's Den_, as a government lawyer who is the ex-fiance of star Rob Lowe. Could it be that she now feels the need to do a more serious sort of performance to counterbalance her recent flirtation with sex appeal as a gimmick? It does seem like an odd casting decision on the producers' part; but so, in its day, was Frank Sinatra in _From Here to Eternity_. Yesterday's _Chicago Tribune_ carried an inrteresting review of Liz Phair's recent show at Cabaret Metro here. Rock critic Greg Kot opines that Phair is a flop at arena rock, and that, by contast, she "has always been best when her voice and guitar lead the music, her idiosyncracxies front and center." He added that "The audience's enthusiastic response was as much for what Phair represents as how she performed," and that nearly half the material (perhaps ironically) was from _Exile in Guyville_. The full review is available--apparently without a seven-day limit on free access--on the paper's offshoot Metromix website, at metromix.chicagotribune.com/search/mmx-gps17s3lk.3aug22.story . I can confirm Kot's conclusions from recent experience. A couple of weeks ago, Phair did a semi-unplugged live peformance on ABC's _Good Morning America_ the morning after the New York blackout--so that it might have ended up even more unplugged than it was :-). I actually found her _GMA_ performance better than the studio renditions of the same songs on her new album--just as I did during her in-store appearance last month at Tower rcords here, when I was able to compare them almost side by side. I unfortunately slept through most of an interview she did during har _GMA_ appearance, waking up toward the end in time to hear her comment on her real or imagined sellout to commercialism, which as I recall was something to the effect that she was doing what she liked and was glad people liked it. Surfing through the Metromix site, I happened on a 2002 profile of another indie artist with Chicago roots, Alice Peacock, who displays an interesting contrast with Phair's recent behavior. The article paints a portrait, to me at least, of Peacock as a performer who, like Phair, aspires to wide popular appeal, including radio play, but at the same time seems determined not to sacrifice her initial artistic vision to handlers within the industry. It's on whe web at metromix.chicagotribune.com/search/mmx-14745_lgcy.story . Mitch ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V9 #240 **************************