From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V9 #257 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, September 11 2003 Volume 09 : Number 257 Today's Subjects: ----------------- other mailing lists - suggestsion [jonathan soong ] Sandy Dillon's new one. ["Adam K." ] ECTO Spam [kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white)] Re: ECTO Spam ["Brian Bloom" ] Pixies News [] Re: Pixies News [Ethan Straffin ] Re: Pixies News [] Re: ECTO Spam [Damon ] RE: Has anyone heard this band? ["William Mazur" ] Re: ECTO Spam [Neal Copperman ] Re: ECTO Spam [Neal Copperman ] Re: ECTO Spam [Damon ] Semi-confessional observation [ditto@taconic.net] Re: Sandy Dillon's new one. [Joseph Zitt ] RE: Has anyone heard this band? ["Foghorn J. Fornorn" Subject: other mailing lists - suggestsion Hey everyone I was just looking over the lists at Smoe, and was wondering if anyone has any suggestions on what other mailing lists there are good to join? I don't mind high volume :) Cheers Jon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 03:00:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ****************** Holly Tominack (htominack@erols.com) ******************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Holly Tominack Thu September 10 1970 Virgo Sharon Nichols Wed September 11 1963 As Above So Below Heather Russell September 11 Total Virgosity Karron Lynn Lane Tue September 14 1751 Ophelia Virgo Troy Wollenslegel Mon September 18 1972 Virgo Mark Frabotta Sun September 19 1965 Don't even THINK about parking here Joe Zitt Sat September 20 1958 Will Hack for CDs Ani DiFranco Wed September 23 1970 Virgo Lord Tyr Mon September 24 1979 Libran Paul Kim Sat October 01 1977 fetal position JoAnn Whetsell Fri October 01 1976 Pendulum William Gill Wed October 05 1960 A wide-eyed wanderer 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 - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:06:19 +0100 From: "Adam K." Subject: Sandy Dillon's new one. First of all, apologies if the format on this is all kerflooey -- I've retreated back to sucking on Bill Gates' evil nipple and have gone back to using Outlook as an e-mail thingie, so I'm not sure how this will turn out. That said, Azeem says: "But this, well, this album is full of heartache, gorgeous arrangements, swooping melodies and spooky Fender Rhodes - I can't quite believe it. And yet, despite that, nothing she does could ever sound bland or choclate-boxy, as her voice is as extraordinary as ever." Oddly, I was sure I posted about this, but can't find anything in any of my mail boxes to back it up. Maybe I dreamt it, I dunno. This is an odd album, okay, as she leaves all her quirkiness behind her and becomes a smokey chanteuse, with big, swooning songs. It's as if (as I said before, and if anyone read it and remembers it, PLEASE let me know and tell me I'm not going mad) the spunky little tomboy of her previous two albums has been raiding the dressing-up box and come out, teetering on high heels, lipstick and eyeshadow smeared on, in a long, sequinned dress, staggering into the spotlight and aiming to please. IMHO, it's not a bad album at all, just kind of throwing to hear her to do something like this. Adam K. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:42:32 -0500 (CDT) From: kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white) Subject: ECTO Spam Hi, Several times in the past I have written to ECTO from work. Both at work and at home I have been getting Songwriters contest spam. At work only I have been getting Art spam - old masters for sale. I was just wondering if anyone else [here] is getting the same stuff? Bye, KrW I'm Peter Pan! I'm perpetually young!! OW!! What's wrong with my back? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:00:11 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brian Bloom" Subject: Re: ECTO Spam Yeah, I get the songwriters spam as well... It's probably not just you. moo. > Hi, Several times in the past I have written to ECTO from work. Both > at work and at home I have been getting Songwriters contest spam. At > work only I have been getting Art spam - old masters for sale. I was > just wondering if anyone else [here] is getting the same stuff? Bye, > > KrW > I'm Peter Pan! > I'm perpetually young!! > OW!! What's wrong with my back? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:06:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Subject: Pixies News Legendary Pixies To Reunite For Tour, Album The Eagles declared "Hell Freezes Over" when they reunited a few years ago, and indie rock fans are about to feel the same way. In April, the legendary Pixies will reunite for the first time in over a decade. The notoriously quarrelsome quartet have buried the hatchet, clearing the way for all four original members to hop onstage together for a world tour, according to a spokesperson for the band. If all goes as planned, the triumphant return of one of the most influential rock bands of the late '80s might also be followed by a new studio album, the source said. The band has not yet gotten together to begin rehearsing for the tour, but, given their ugly breakup in 1993, the announcement is one of the most unlikely and anticipated reunions in the history of indie rock. Singer/guitarist Black Francis (real name Charles Michael Kitteridge Thompson IV), bassist/singer Kim Deal, guitarist Joey Santiago and drummer David Lovering got together in Boston as the Pixies in 1986. The band immediately gained a cult following and critical acclaim for their signature blend of screaming punk noise, surf influences and jagged guitar riffs mixed with impossible-to-ignore melodic hooks and Francis bizarre lyrics about space, sex, religion and mutilation. Their debut EP, Come on Pilgrim, was released in 1987, followed by 1988's abrasively catchy full-length debut, Surfer Rosa. By the time they recorded Doolittle that same year with producer Gil Norton (who, thanks to his work with the Pixies, would go on to produce everyone from Foo Fighters to the Distillers), the buzz on the Pixies was deafening. The band scored modern rock hits from that album with the songs "Monkey Gone to Heaven" and "Here Comes Your Man." Tensions were already running high in 1990 when the Pixies went on hiatus and Francis mounted a solo tour. Deal formed the Breeders with former Throwing Muses member Tanya Donelly as an outlet for her songs, which she was struggling to get onto Pixies albums. Her inability to share the recorded spotlight with Francis was one of the primary reasons for her strained relations with the enigmatic singer. The Pixies came back together in late 1990 to record Bossanova with Norton, but personality clashes continued, inspiring Deal to announce from the stage that the band was breaking up during an English date in support of the album. Despite her proclamation, the group held things together long enough to record 1991's Trompe Le Monde. They went out on their final U.S. tour during the spring of 1992 when they opened for U2 on the massive Zoo TV extravaganza. Following those dates, they again went on hiatus as Francis recorded his solo debut and Deal cut an EP with the Breeders. Francis changed his name to Frank Black later that year (inspiring the name of the lead character in the apocalyptic television series "Millennium") and faxed the group a statement announcing their breakup. He went on to record a string of often bizarre solo albums that aimed for the same mix of noise and melody as the Pixies, but failed to connect with a mass audience. Deal scored a hit in 1993 with the unexpectedly popular Breeders single "Cannonball," while Lovering and Santiago formed a group called the Martinis in 1995. Ironically, the very alternative rock sound the Pixies helped to revolutionize exploded onto the public consciousness soon after their demise, with bands such as Nirvana paying frequent and loving tribute to their heroes. In July, Black told London's XFM Radio that he still dreams about a Pixies reunion and he revealed that the group occasionally gets together for informal jam sessions, "but not for public consumption." Black said his fantasies of a reunion were like "those schoolboy dreams when you dont do your homework and you don't study for the test. Im at the gig and were hanging out, but it's an utter failure and I don't know the songs and hardly anyone turns up for the gig and people walk out. Thats what I'm afraid of ... that it'd be a big, big failure." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:46:35 -0700 From: Ethan Straffin Subject: Re: Pixies News No shit! Out of curiosity, where's this from? I couldn't help noticing that the headline seems a bit premature, since the article itself makes it clear that the tour and album possibilities are neither a done Deal nor signed in Black ink. (Sorry, couldn't help myself.) Fingers crossed, Ethan On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 01:06 PM, wrote: > Legendary Pixies To Reunite For Tour, Album > > The Eagles declared "Hell Freezes Over" when they reunited a few years > ago, and indie rock fans are about to feel the same way. > > In April, the legendary Pixies will reunite for the first time in over > a > decade. The notoriously quarrelsome quartet have buried the hatchet, > clearing the way for all four original members to hop onstage together > for > a world tour, according to a spokesperson for the band. > > If all goes as planned, the triumphant return of one of the most > influential rock bands of the late '80s might also be followed by a new > studio album, the source said. The band has not yet gotten together to > begin rehearsing for the tour, but, given their ugly breakup in 1993, > the > announcement is one of the most unlikely and anticipated reunions in > the > history of indie rock. > > Singer/guitarist Black Francis (real name Charles Michael Kitteridge > Thompson IV), bassist/singer Kim Deal, guitarist Joey Santiago and > drummer > David Lovering got together in Boston as the Pixies in 1986. The band > immediately gained a cult following and critical acclaim for their > signature blend of screaming punk noise, surf influences and jagged > guitar > riffs mixed with impossible-to-ignore melodic hooks and Francis > bizarre > lyrics about space, sex, religion and mutilation. > > Their debut EP, Come on Pilgrim, was released in 1987, followed by > 1988's > abrasively catchy full-length debut, Surfer Rosa. By the time they > recorded Doolittle that same year with producer Gil Norton (who, > thanks to > his work with the Pixies, would go on to produce everyone from Foo > Fighters to the Distillers), the buzz on the Pixies was deafening. The > band scored modern rock hits from that album with the songs "Monkey > Gone > to Heaven" and "Here Comes Your Man." > > Tensions were already running high in 1990 when the Pixies went on > hiatus > and Francis mounted a solo tour. Deal formed the Breeders with former > Throwing Muses member Tanya Donelly as an outlet for her songs, which > she > was struggling to get onto Pixies albums. Her inability to share the > recorded spotlight with Francis was one of the primary reasons for her > strained relations with the enigmatic singer. > > The Pixies came back together in late 1990 to record Bossanova with > Norton, but personality clashes continued, inspiring Deal to announce > from > the stage that the band was breaking up during an English date in > support > of the album. > > Despite her proclamation, the group held things together long enough to > record 1991's Trompe Le Monde. They went out on their final U.S. tour > during the spring of 1992 when they opened for U2 on the massive Zoo TV > extravaganza. Following those dates, they again went on hiatus as > Francis > recorded his solo debut and Deal cut an EP with the Breeders. > > Francis changed his name to Frank Black later that year (inspiring the > name of the lead character in the apocalyptic television series > "Millennium") and faxed the group a statement announcing their > breakup. He > went on to record a string of often bizarre solo albums that aimed for > the > same mix of noise and melody as the Pixies, but failed to connect with > a > mass audience. Deal scored a hit in 1993 with the unexpectedly popular > Breeders single "Cannonball," while Lovering and Santiago formed a > group > called the Martinis in 1995. > > Ironically, the very alternative rock sound the Pixies helped to > revolutionize exploded onto the public consciousness soon after their > demise, with bands such as Nirvana paying frequent and loving tribute > to > their heroes. > > In July, Black told London's XFM Radio that he still dreams about a > Pixies > reunion and he revealed that the group occasionally gets together for > informal jam sessions, "but not for public consumption." Black said his > fantasies of a reunion were like "those schoolboy dreams when you > dont do > your homework and you don't study for the test. Im at the gig and > were > hanging out, but it's an utter failure and I don't know the songs and > hardly anyone turns up for the gig and people walk out. Thats what I'm > afraid of ... that it'd be a big, big failure." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:48:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Subject: Re: Pixies News It came from an oh-so-reliable source, MTV news. Sorry I forgot to include the byline. It's a long time between now and next April. Anything could happen with Kim and Frank. > No shit! > > Out of curiosity, where's this from? I couldn't help noticing that the > headline seems a bit premature, since the article itself makes it clear > that the tour and album possibilities are neither a done Deal nor > signed in Black ink. (Sorry, couldn't help myself.) > > Fingers crossed, > Ethan > > On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 01:06 PM, > wrote: > >> Legendary Pixies To Reunite For Tour, Album >> >> The Eagles declared "Hell Freezes Over" when they reunited a few years >> ago, and indie rock fans are about to feel the same way. >> >> In April, the legendary Pixies will reunite for the first time in over >> a >> decade. The notoriously quarrelsome quartet have buried the hatchet, >> clearing the way for all four original members to hop onstage together >> for >> a world tour, according to a spokesperson for the band. >> >> If all goes as planned, the triumphant return of one of the most >> influential rock bands of the late '80s might also be followed by a >> new studio album, the source said. The band has not yet gotten >> together to begin rehearsing for the tour, but, given their ugly >> breakup in 1993, the >> announcement is one of the most unlikely and anticipated reunions in >> the >> history of indie rock. >> >> Singer/guitarist Black Francis (real name Charles Michael Kitteridge >> Thompson IV), bassist/singer Kim Deal, guitarist Joey Santiago and >> drummer >> David Lovering got together in Boston as the Pixies in 1986. The band >> immediately gained a cult following and critical acclaim for their >> signature blend of screaming punk noise, surf influences and jagged >> guitar >> riffs mixed with impossible-to-ignore melodic hooks and Francis >> bizarre >> lyrics about space, sex, religion and mutilation. >> >> Their debut EP, Come on Pilgrim, was released in 1987, followed by >> 1988's >> abrasively catchy full-length debut, Surfer Rosa. By the time they >> recorded Doolittle that same year with producer Gil Norton (who, >> thanks to >> his work with the Pixies, would go on to produce everyone from Foo >> Fighters to the Distillers), the buzz on the Pixies was deafening. The >> band scored modern rock hits from that album with the songs "Monkey >> Gone >> to Heaven" and "Here Comes Your Man." >> >> Tensions were already running high in 1990 when the Pixies went on >> hiatus >> and Francis mounted a solo tour. Deal formed the Breeders with former >> Throwing Muses member Tanya Donelly as an outlet for her songs, which >> she >> was struggling to get onto Pixies albums. Her inability to share the >> recorded spotlight with Francis was one of the primary reasons for her >> strained relations with the enigmatic singer. >> >> The Pixies came back together in late 1990 to record Bossanova with >> Norton, but personality clashes continued, inspiring Deal to announce >> from >> the stage that the band was breaking up during an English date in >> support >> of the album. >> >> Despite her proclamation, the group held things together long enough >> to record 1991's Trompe Le Monde. They went out on their final U.S. >> tour during the spring of 1992 when they opened for U2 on the massive >> Zoo TV extravaganza. Following those dates, they again went on hiatus >> as Francis >> recorded his solo debut and Deal cut an EP with the Breeders. >> >> Francis changed his name to Frank Black later that year (inspiring the >> name of the lead character in the apocalyptic television series >> "Millennium") and faxed the group a statement announcing their >> breakup. He >> went on to record a string of often bizarre solo albums that aimed for >> the >> same mix of noise and melody as the Pixies, but failed to connect with >> a >> mass audience. Deal scored a hit in 1993 with the unexpectedly popular >> Breeders single "Cannonball," while Lovering and Santiago formed a >> group >> called the Martinis in 1995. >> >> Ironically, the very alternative rock sound the Pixies helped to >> revolutionize exploded onto the public consciousness soon after their >> demise, with bands such as Nirvana paying frequent and loving tribute >> to >> their heroes. >> >> In July, Black told London's XFM Radio that he still dreams about a >> Pixies >> reunion and he revealed that the group occasionally gets together for >> informal jam sessions, "but not for public consumption." Black said >> his fantasies of a reunion were like "those schoolboy dreams when you >> dont do >> your homework and you don't study for the test. Im at the gig and >> were >> hanging out, but it's an utter failure and I don't know the songs and >> hardly anyone turns up for the gig and people walk out. Thats what >> I'm afraid of ... that it'd be a big, big failure." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:49:31 -0700 From: Damon Subject: Re: ECTO Spam hola - On 10 Sep, kerry white wrote: > Hi, Several times in the past I have written to ECTO from work. Both > at work and at home I have been getting Songwriters contest spam. At > work only I have been getting Art spam - old masters for sale. I was > just wondering if anyone else [here] is getting the same stuff? Bye, yeah, i brought up the songwriter's contest / NEMO spam a while back. i'd been getting it for a year or so but had been afraid to try and contact them as i was afraid i'd just confirm my address. in the end i wrote to them and demanded they take me off their list, which they did. they were *very* apologetic, and seem to actually be legit, believe it or not. my guess is maybe they had an unscrupulous employee in the past who tried to bulk up the list by harvesting addresses from ecto and other lists; they don't really seem like a spamhaus otherwise (no attempts to obfuscate where the email comes from or who sent it). this was half a year or more ago and i haven't had a thing from them since, so i recommend that people go ahead and contact them to get off the list; like i said they appear legit but seem to have had some unfortunate policies in the past. i recommend in your email you politely but firmly advise them that they've made themselves look like spammers by doing this, no matter how it happened and whether it was a mistake. - -damon - -- dl+ecto@usrbin.ca: protecting my real address since 2002 (too late!) > EWS starts here! < ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:55:07 -0700 From: "William Mazur" Subject: RE: Has anyone heard this band? Sherry, Welcome from lurker mode. The description you mentioned in your post piqued my curiosity. I did a Google search and found out the following: Blackmore's Night is a neo-Renaissance/Celtic/Medieval band. This is the latest project from Richie Blackmore, the guitarist from Deep Purple and Rainbow. Candice Night is the singer and co-leader of the band. Here are the web links that I found: http://blackmoresnight.com/ http://candicenight.com/ I listened to the sound clips. The music is pleasant and Candice does have a voice that is reminiscent of Loreena McKennitt and the softer side of Stevie Nicks and Ann Wilson. I hope this helps you out. Bill - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org] On Behalf Of frank j mcguire Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 6:17 PM To: ecto@ecto.org Subject: Has anyone heard this band? Hi, I'm coming out of lurking to ask a question. I was reading the new issue of Women Who Rock magazine, and saw an interesting ad for a band called "Blackmore's Night." I'm sorry if this was discussed here before and I missed it. Anyway, the ad said "with Stevie Nicks mysticism and Loreena McKennitt's mood setting lyrics and troubadour vocals, Candice Night's vocals are an ideal balance to Blackmore's rock guitar prowes..." and: "The clear, high lead vocals of Candice Night runs the gamut of between vintage Stevie Nicks and Heart's Ann Wilson..." I'm a fan of all the music they are compared to. Does anyone own any of their cds? Do they live up to this description? Thanks, Sherry ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:18:52 -0600 From: Neal Copperman Subject: Re: ECTO Spam I get several of those - NEMO and the International Songwriting Competition. Meredith actually communicated with those people and found out they are "legit". I could never get off their lists, so I just added them to my blacklist. neal At 1:00 PM -0700 9/10/03, Brian Bloom wrote: >Yeah, I get the songwriters spam as well... It's probably not just you. > >moo. > >> Hi, Several times in the past I have written to ECTO from work. Both >> at work and at home I have been getting Songwriters contest spam. At >> work only I have been getting Art spam - old masters for sale. I was >> just wondering if anyone else [here] is getting the same stuff? Bye, > > > > KrW > > I'm Peter Pan! > > I'm perpetually young!! > > OW!! What's wrong with my back? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:27:10 -0600 From: Neal Copperman Subject: Re: ECTO Spam At 1:49 PM -0700 9/10/03, Damon wrote: >this was half a year or more ago and i haven't had a thing from them >since, so i recommend that people go ahead and contact them to get off >the list; like i said they appear legit but seem to have had some >unfortunate policies in the past. i recommend in your email you >politely but firmly advise them that they've made themselves look like >spammers by doing this, no matter how it happened and whether it was a >mistake. That all sounds great, but I've never been able to get their automatic removal stuff to work. neal ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:47:05 -0700 From: Damon Subject: Re: ECTO Spam hi neal - > That all sounds great, but I've never been able to get their > automatic removal stuff to work. i contacted them directly, i don't remember if the email was in the messages or if i just tried info@theirdomain. whatever i did, i got a very apologetic human who immediately took me off their list. this was the songwriting competition one; i guess `nemo' uses the same list as i've never had more from them either. - -damon - -- dl+ecto@usrbin.ca: protecting my real address since 2002 (too late!) > EWS starts here! < ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:19:01 -0400 From: ditto@taconic.net Subject: Semi-confessional observation Pardon this personal comment. I had a decade-long creative relationship with a like-minded artist. We developed telepathy and could perform together as visual artists in a televison studio. Eventually the relationship failed, because my partner came to view me as a competitor rather than a partner. In a certain sense, our parallel paths confused outsiders who remarked that my partner must really just be window dressing in my act. Those assertions outraged her, and in an arguably misguided reaction I was blamed for misrepresentations. In order to make the distinction between us clear to wrong headed observers, she chose to nuke an ectopean relationship. I'm not saying the KB and HR have gone through the same ring in hell as my partner and I, but I do see some similarities. Dr. Tom "I know what I want, because I know what I like." ------------------------------ Date: 10 Sep 2003 15:28:03 -0700 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: Sandy Dillon's new one. On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 06:06, Adam K. wrote: > This is an odd album, okay, as she leaves all her quirkiness behind her and > becomes a smokey chanteuse, with big, swooning songs. It's as if (as I said > before, and if anyone read it and remembers it, PLEASE let me know and tell > me I'm not going mad) the spunky little tomboy of her previous two albums > has been raiding the dressing-up box and come out, teetering on high heels, > lipstick and eyeshadow smeared on, in a long, sequinned dress, staggering > into the spotlight and aiming to please. IMHO, it's not a bad album at all, > just kind of throwing to hear her to do something like this. This reminds me of my reaction to Jane Siberry's "Maria", where she went into stripped-down-jazz mode, contrasting with the lushness of "When I Was a Boy" and the spunkiness of some of her earlier stuff. And, for that matter, how Sarah McLachlan seemed to run out of steam on "Surfacing" -- though it became hugely popular, and "Mirrorball" showed that there was more to many of the songs than the studio albun revealed. Not that I've actually heard Sandy Dillon, so consider this all hearsay and strained analogy :-) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:07:40 -0400 From: "Foghorn J. Fornorn" Subject: RE: Has anyone heard this band? I think you would like Blackmore's Night. The descriptions are pretty apt. I might not go so far as to bracket Candice's vocals between Stevie Nicks and Ann Wilson, but she is a fine singer with a beautiful voice. Her joy of playing the kind of music they play definitely comes thru. They play medieval, Renaissance faire type music. As such, Ritchie Blackmore's playing is more subdued than his work with Deep Purple and others, and that's a good thing, he's a fine acoustic guitarist as well and that shows in this band. I became interested in them from album reviews, and the clincher was when I saw a link on Annie Haslam's website, she recommended their cover of Renaissance's "Ocean Gypsy". While the original Renaissance version will always be, to me, the definitive interpretation, Blackmore's Night certainly does an excellent rendition of it. I have 3 studio albums of theirs, plus a live set released fairly recently. I'd recommend any/all of them. A 4th studio album has just been released, I'll be picking that up at next opportunity. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:24:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Neb Rodgers Subject: 'Concert for George' to Hit Theaters, DVD Somehow, I wasn't even aware that this George Harrison tribute show had taken place until now. Well, I guess that's what live concert DVDs are for! - -Neb - ---Original Message--- 'Concert for George' to Hit Theaters, DVD Tue Sep 9, 8:11 PM ET Add Entertainment - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Barry A. Jeckell http://tinylink.com/?iRPXFyq8cx NEW YORK (Billboard) - A film chronicling last fall's star-studded George Harrison tribute at London's Royal Albert Hall will open Oct. 3 in select U.S. cities. Filmed in high definition and recorded in 5.1 surround sound, "A Concert for George" will be released worldwide on DVD in November, distributed internationally via ArenaPlex LLC. Legendary guitarist Eric Clapton served as the music director for the event, which featured appearances by Harrison's surviving Beatles bandmates, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, as well as friends Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Joe Brown, Anoushka Shankar and Billy Preston. Among the Harrison songs they performed were "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "I Want To Tell You," "Inner Light," "Give Me Love," "Taxman," "I Need You" and "For You Blue." "The Concert for George was all I hoped it would be. The glue that held it together was our love for George," his widow Olivia Harrison said in a statement. "I don't think I've ever heard a band play with so much emotion and respect." Added Clapton, "All I wanted to do was really share our love for George and his music." The event also saw members of Monty Python re-enacting some of Harrison's favorite skits. Harrison financed and served as an executive producer of the comedy troupe's second feature film, 1979's "Life of Brian." David Leland ("Wish You Were Here," "Band of Brothers") directed "The Concert for George," and utilized footage from more than a dozen camera locations inside Royal Albert Hall. Along with performance clips, the DVD includes several interviews and backstage moments. The movie trailer for the film, as well as assorted photos from the event, can be seen at the "Concert for George" Web site. The theatrical engagement will open in New York, Los Angeles and other select U.S. cities to be determined. All proceeds from the concert, the film and the DVD will benefit the Material World Charitable Foundation, founded by Harrison in 1973. Reuters/Billboard __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V9 #257 **************************