From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V9 #295 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, October 19 2003 Volume 09 : Number 295 Today's Subjects: ----------------- rickie lee jones article. [] test ["Cynthia Conrad" ] RE: test [Jason Gordon ] New Artists ["thecritics" ] RE: test [meredith ] Re: New Artists [meredith ] Re: New Artists [Greg Bossert ] Re: New Artists ["Peter Clark" ] Re: Rickie Lee Jones [RedWoodenBeads@aol.com] RE: New Artists [Jason Gordon ] Re: New Artists ["Peter Clark" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 18:17:06 +1000 From: Subject: rickie lee jones article. [from the guardian]: The devil and Miss Jones She battled her personal demons when she kicked the drug habit that nearly killed her. Now Rickie Lee Jones is squaring up to a far more public enemy: the American president himself. She tells Simon Hattenstone about her journey from Chuck E to George W, and about the anger that spawned her new album. Saturday October 18, 2003 Rickie Lee Jones is angry. Make no mistake. She's bloody angry. So angry that she's calling her fellow Americans to arms. For the past six years, little has been heard of the singer-songwriter. There was nothing to say, nothing to write. Sure, she was busy living life, bringing up her daughter in Washington state, calming down after the years of drugs and drink and self-conscious coolness that almost destroyed her. Sure, she won back her self-respect, learned to take things in her stride, even recorded lovely albums of covers and acoustic classics. But there was an emptiness. In a way, life was better, calmer than she had any right to expect, but there was something gnawing away at her soul. A part of her felt she had given up on life, that she had settled for the banal domesticity of middle age. But then along came George W Bush. Now she has written her first album of new material since 1997, The Evening Of My Best Day, and she's burning. She has never sung protest songs before. She used to think politics was not a fitting subject for music - it was crude and transient, and she wanted her lyrics to last. Now, though, she is singing about the ugly man with the ugly father who is blighting her nation, the two senators killed in mystery plane crashes, and the need for Americans to tell the world what is happening in the US (in a song subtitled Repeal The Patriot Acts NOW). Jones is 48 and looks weathered but surprisingly healthy. She is wearing jeans, a shirt and, of course, cowboy boots. Her body is big and strong-looking, so different from the waifish Rickie Lee who appeared on the cover of her first, eponymous album in 1979. That picture became iconic - the hollowed cheeks, beatnik beret, dangling cheroot; she looked so cool. She was compared to Joni Mitchell and it's true, she did have long, blond hair and big teeth, and she was a bit folky, but she was really very different. She was ballsier and more vulnerable, sexier and more seedy. And the music went in all directions - jazz, blues, soul, country, scat and rock'n'roll. Her voice could be so languid that the words lapped into each other until they stopped making sense. And she could do anything with that voice - she crooned and whispered, bayed like a dog and impersonated roaring traffic. Back then, her songs were character-led short stories - sometimes even fragments of stories - about lazy days filled with casual menace and cheap love, populated by bums and drifters: Johnny the King who made a spit ring, Woody and Dutch dancing in the cell of 14, Jupiter Ray with the translucent eyes, Cunt-finger Louie and Eddie in the alley and the guys from the town where they all look like Frankie Valli, and, of course, Chuck E, who stopped calling. But the new album could not be more polemical. "I hope it wakes people up. You know, people in America are afraid to say anything; they are afraid of George Bush, afraid of the police, afraid of being fined, afraid of being accused. I feel I'm in the right place and right time spiritually to stand up, and say, 'But you don't have any clothes on'." Her voice is so strange - little-girlie sweet, sleepy and nasal. She stops, tells me she shouldn't say this because she'll be quoted on Fox News, then goes ahead anyway, directly addressing the subject of her bile: "You're an ignorant, low-class, opportunistic man, both personally and politically, who does everything for political gain and nothing for the wellbeing of the people, and you should not be in office, and the kind of fascism you're perpetrating on our country we don't want, and you're out. We're done with you. Ffffhgggmm." She snorts to clear her nose. "He's come from millions of dollars, and no matter how much money he has, he's a low-class human being. I just really think it's not going to take very much for a whole bunch of people to stand and drive him away." But why is she so frightened of being quoted on Fox - isn't that what she should be hoping for? And where have the traditional voices of protest gone? Well, she says, you know what happened to the Dixie Chicks (the country pop group widely boycotted for saying they were ashamed that, like them, George W comes from Texas). And then, of course, there is the USA Patriot Act itself. Shortly after the September 11 attacks, the Bush administration introduced the act, an acronym for "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism". On the eve of this year's second anniversary of September 11, Bush proposed strengthening the act by expanding the application of the death penalty. "People are afraid," says Jones. "What the government can do now, aside from trying to harm your career, they can actually arrest you and say what you said is a threat to national security, and they don't have to tell you why they are arresting you. They can arrest you for as long as they want without you seeing a lawyer, and without telling anyone." She stops, and takes a swig from my bottle of water. Jones has always had a complex relationship with America. She spent years away, living in Paris, where she met her former husband, Pascal Nabet-Meyer, a musician and the father of her daughter. France made her more aware of the US imperialist presumptions so rarely reported back home - its activities in Latin America, for example. Despite that, she missed the American rhythm of life, its creativity, and went back, to California, then to Tacoma, Washington. Now, she says, this is a country she barely recognises. She believes the bombing of the Twin Towers has politicised a politically apathetic generation in an alarming way. "I think 9/11 gave this generation an identity, and its identity is potentially fascist. My skin crawls when I think of the first week after 9/11. I was looking out of the window and there were people marching down the street carrying flags. It reminded me of spontaneous, angry Nazis and I thought, 'Oh, man, we are in a lot of trouble'. There's a whole bunch of people who have flags hanging from their cars and who are mistaking fascism for patriotism." This generation of Americans, she says, has not had to struggle for anything, and the only thing it has fought for is the right to reverse hard-won freedoms - free speech, fair trials, abortion rights. She talks of how language and values have been subverted. "Now they're using the term 'left-wing' to evoke in people fear and loathing," she says. "And they have no idea what the far left looks like. Actually, the far left is almost the same as the far right. But they accuse just moderate people who disagree. And it is 'accuse'. There's no discussion going on." Then there's the strange notion of bombing countries into a sense of responsibility. "Look at Afghanistan and Iraq. Pound the shit out of them, then bring them democracy because it's for their own good, right?" It's the hypocrisy she finds hardest to cope with. "I would have probably made peace with the idea of this rightwing Republican presidency if at any point after we were bombed - because we were devastated, we were terrified and broken-hearted - if he had said, 'I'm so pissed off, I'm gonna go and blow up the whole fucking Middle East. I hate 'em and I'm blowing 'em up', we would have gone, 'OK, right on', but he didn't. He said, 'We're looking for Bin Laden and we're bringing democracy'. Every single aspect of his response has been evil, thus making us into the evil thing we didn't know we were. Ffffhgggmm." (I'm sure she wouldn't have said 'right on' and made peace with Bush, but I know what she means.) I ask whether she has a cold. "I have really bad allergies. For the past seven years. They come and go. I've been tested and there's nothing to account for it. I think it's a hurt inside... maybe my emotional state." Her voice on the new album is as strange as ever, still bruised, but unearthly. The song Ugly Man may be a hate letter to Bush, calling for revolution, but it hates in a whisper that almost washes over you. And, ultimately, she hopes more than she despairs. She is convinced that things really are going to change - that there will be a glorious revolution, a counter to Bush's bloodless White House coup. She whinnies like a horse when I give her one minute to plot the revolution. She knows it's going to make her enemies. "Well, I suppose it's a romantic notion to think of Americans in the street with their guns approaching the White House: that couldn't happen. They'd shoot them down. Would there be more behind? I don't know, but I would like to think that at some point Americans would commit enough to protecting their country from the enemy within to sacrifice their lives. Because something is going to have to give. I don't know if it will happen in my time." Would she be willing to take Bush out for the benefit of democracy? "If I say that, I might get arrested when I go back. And I have to go home." She's thinking it out carefully. "I guess the question is, would I kill anyone? And the answer is, no. But would I feel sorry if someone killed him? No, I wouldn't. It would depend on who killed him, I guess." All this seems such a change from the Rickie Lee of 1979. Back then, she looked so happy, hazily cocooned in her own-world smiles. "In 1980, I was totally inward and insecure, and everything that happened to me was personal. I didn't really see anybody out of my experience. So if you were the waiter and brought me food and didn't smile at me, I would think you didn't like me and I might be discourteous to you in return. Maybe now, if you didn't smile, I'd think perhaps you're having a hard time, so I'd try to be kind." It's hard to believe she was so insecure. After all, everybody wanted to be Rickie Lee with that jazzy, boho life and Tom Waits for a boyfriend. "Did they think that?" she asks. You know they did, I say. "Yeah, well, the image was true. That's how I was outside. But it's not how I was inside. And the songs weren't saying I'm cool and confident - they were saying the opposite. They were saying I'm really lonely and looking out of a little lonely window, I think." People tend to think Chuck E's In Love (about her friend, the musician Chuck E Weiss) was a happy song, she says, but it's not, it's desperate. And she starts to sing it quietly, slowly, paraphrasing. "'How come he doesn't come and hang out with me any more...' That's how that started. I saved it at the end, but most of the song is a lament." She saved it by revealing that Chuck wasn't coming round any more because, in fact, he was in love with her: "Chuck E's in love with the little girl who's singing this song/ Chuck E's in love with me." Perhaps this was the pride of the younger Rickie Lee. Perhaps if she wrote it today, he wouldn't be coming round for the more likely reason that he was in love with someone else. I ask if she always wanted to sing. Yes, she says; in her home, everybody sang. She was born in Chicago in 1954 to a "lower-middle-class-hillbilly-hipster" family. She tells me about her grandfather, a one-legged vaudeville dancer called Peg Leg Jones. "I have the old reviews and they loved him. And the grandmother was a dancer on the chorus line. I never met them - they were all dead before I got there. And the grandfather on my mother's side was Irish and died young, but the stepfather played saxophone in Paul Whiteman's band - he was a popular big band leader. My father was a songwriter and singer and, when my uncle came to visit, he played guitar. It was really cool." There was also plenty of tragedy and disappointment in her family. Both her parents had been raised in orphanages. Her father, Richard Jones, was constantly on the move, trying to make a name for himself, and the family followed. They settled, temporarily, in Phoenix, Arizona, when Rickie was 10, and she loved the life of cowboys, rodeos and horses. But along the way her brother Danny lost a leg in a motorbike accident, her parents split up, her father became a hopeless drifter and she was kicked out of high school for being a hippy-haired rebel. At 14, she ran away to a Californian rock festival, only to be returned to her father a month or so later. The next summer she ran away again, then left home for good at 18, following a boyfriend to Orange County. At 19, she found herself in Venice, Los Angeles, hanging out with Chuck E Weiss and Tom Waits, and hanging off the latter's car bonnet for the cover of his 1978 album Blue Valentine. She and Waits were together at the time. Does it upset her that people still ask about her relationship with him? "Yep," she says. Silence. "It's like, 'Isn't there anything else here you want to know?' I knew that guy for a year 24 years ago, and they're still asking me about it. Someone left a message on my website saying, 'I've created a page on Tom and Rickie - maybe you'd like to go and look'." Actually, she says, she can't be bothered to be angry about it any more. "He [Waits] said something nice - maybe the reason people are so obsessed with this, maybe it wasn't a great love affair, maybe it's just all mythology, just part of their pop thing. I guess I would only have my heart hurt if I thought they're asking me but they're not asking him. Because then it feels disrespectful." She pauses. "Then I thought, he's so scary they wouldn't dare ask him." Her early days can be made to sound desperate, but she says it was never quite like that and, anyway, it's all a matter of perspective. "There were happy times, you know. It was happy when I was little. But it's hard to say whether it was a happy family. You see things out of your eyes. If you are happy, you see happy. If you're sad, you see sad." Does it seem a good time in retrospect? She quotes her own words at me - "It's a good life from now on when I look back at you. That's the title song, The Evening Of My Favourite Day. You can look back and say it was a tragic childhood, or look back and say what a wonderful childhood - you write it, you decide what you're going to say it was because it's all subjective. You decide to say that was so fucked up and it has caused me so much sorrow, or you turn and you say life's really good now." There's a lovely simplicity to her language. As she talks, I can't help thinking that if anyone were to play her in a film, it would have to be Sissy Spacek. She takes another swig of my water. "That's a big act of trust to share our water," she says. Yes, I know, I say. I wouldn't let most interviewees anywhere near it. "Hey, how's about going for a walk?" she says. We head off for Hyde Park. Earlier on, she had said she felt she was in the right place spiritually to stand up and be counted. Did she always know where she was coming from spiritually? No, she says - there was plenty of religion in her childhood, but that's different. She was brought up a Catholic, and felt guilty about anything and everything. "My relationship with God was so threaded with guilt. Jesus suffered so much that it was impolite to ask for anything." She giggles. It's only recently, on her trip-hoppy 1997 album Ghostyhead, that she found the courage to use the word "prayer" again. She doesn't go to church services, but she likes to visit churches and pray in her own words. "There is no ritual. I just say, 'Hi, how ya doin'? Hope you're doin' well, I'm thinkin' of ya', thank you very much'. Ffffhgggmm." On the production notes to the new album, she says she prayed to be restored. To what? She talks about all those years of not writing songs; how barren she felt. "I thought it was over. And so that was probably the focus of a lot of prayer - to be restored and to write again and to serve. Two years ago, I felt so thrown away, so unneeded and unwanted in business. And I wanted to be vital - I wanted to be relevant again." But it was her decision to retreat from music and devote herself to her daughter? Yes, she says, and the years at home with Charlotte, now 15, and the poodle and the English bulldog and the turtle and the goat called Goaty were rich in so many ways, but domesticity has a price. "We can get attached to so many things as adolescents, then afterwards we pick a family and go inward and we don't care. I wanted to come out and be with humanity one more time." Only one more time? "I don't know - I thought one more time." She grasps my hand at the pedestrian crossing to make sure I don't run into the road. "You know," she says quietly, "I had this impending sense of death. I'm 48 and I feel really good now, but a year or two ago I felt really old and like I might be going to die, and before I die from old age I wanted to do one more thing." Was all this morbidity rooted in anything physical, or was it just a spiritual thing? "It's hard to say what it was. If I die in a year or two, we'll know it was real." Anyway, she says, now is the perfect time to come out and play again. "Charlotte is 15. It's time for me to withdraw from her. Y'know, like a bird, and the wings are over the child, and now it's time for me to let her go. And the great part of that is that I'm still here, and I can come back and do me now." We sit down on a bench. She looks at my cigarettes. These days she can't even stand being in a room of smokers, though she does occasionally treat herself to a cigar. So how would she feel if Charlotte said, "Right, Mom, I'll be off now, leave home, and do all the things you were doing at my age?" "You mean the bad parts of what I've done? The self-destructive behaviour? Because taking drugs and stuff like that is not the end of the world, but if you're self-destructive, everything you do you'll use to see how close to death you can come." Can she explain that self-destructive streak? For a second, she becomes incoherent."Well, I have an addictive personality, so whenever I find anything... you know, and especially, however, the wires were working then..." She stops, and starts again: "Using drugs to the extent that you know this time you might die. Whereas some people seem able to take dope a little bit for their whole lives, they are not going to take it to their demise. And those of us who are addicts are in great danger because nothing is ever enough." What did she take? "I was a heroin addict for two years, then I took cocaine for six months and that's what almost killed me - luckily, because that ended my drug-taking career." She says cocaine made her psychotic - hearing things, seeing things, invariably bad. "It's an evil, evil drug. It's the best argument for the idea of a devil, because it opens the door to the worst parts of the human spirit and mind. All the things that are delicate about us are eaten away, and all those things that are insecure and cruel are magnified. Little things whispering [and she spookily whispers], 'Watch out, someone's looking at you, this phone's tapped, look out of the window'." She's rubbing her fingers, silent, thinking. "You know, I was ashamed and disappointed." She blurts it out like a confession. "The shame that was attached to my drug use was so consuming." She felt she needed to do penance, and it's only recently that she felt she had earned the right to live for herself again. "I was so straight for so many years. And, finally, it's like you go ahead and be whoever you are. It's taken me my whole life to go, 'Hey, that's not an immoral act', because I must have felt people were disappointed in me." Parents? "Other people. I think people wanted me to be the thing... and I have the clear impression that, if I hadn't been a drug addict, I could have fulfilled somebody's idea, and that I had let people down, and perhaps let myself down, and I'm just not able to say that." Personally or creatively? "As like a destiny of great success." She pauses, psyching herself up for what she's going to say: "As the queen - the queen of music." She laughs through her snuffles and repeats it slowly because it sounds so nice. "The queen of music." But wasn't there always something in her that resisted the idea of being "the queen", something that thought it was just totally uncool to be a huge commercial success? "Exactly," she says. "That's exactly how I felt." Was that the self-destructive impulse, or snobbery? "Probably both those things. Things don't go in boxes." So, to return to the original question, what if Charlotte said she was heading off to live her mother's life? "I'd say, 'No, you're not.'" She bursts out laughing. We start making tracks back to the hotel. It's a hot autumn day masquerading as summer. Is it true she used to pick fights on stage? Well, she says, it made good copy. So it wasn't for real? "I guess I did tangle with a few people on stage." Fans? "Yeah." She hit them? "I tried to. I think someone yelled something bad to me at a show and I said, 'Who said that?' And they came down." And? "I tried to beat 'em up. Ffffhgggmm. But I didn't. Somebody grabbed me." Yes, she says, that was really bad behaviour. Close your eyes, I say. "Imagine how scared I must have been to do things like that," she carries on as if she's not heard me. "It wasn't out of confidence and arrogance, it was out of insecurity and sorrow. That was when all that success happened and I was scared. Why d'you want me to close my eyes?" Picture happiness - what comes to mind? "The ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 13:37:55 -0400 From: "Cynthia Conrad" Subject: test test ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 13:46:35 -0400 From: Jason Gordon Subject: RE: test ok you asked for it, here is a test: Which of the following will lead to rapid ews faster? A) happy rhodes releasing a new cd B) cdbaby having a 50% off sale Should I drive 60 miles out of my way monday night to see chantal kreviazuk? A) yes B) no Fill in the blank: My least favorite vegetable is __________? Thats it for now :) jason np Helene "Postcard" - something I picked up for one pound in england and am quite enamored with so far even though I have no idea who helene is... ps two hints on the vegetable question is that the "my" refers to me not to you who are reading this, and secondly the vegetable tastes like black jellybeans......ewwwwwwwww - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org]On Behalf Of Cynthia Conrad Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 12:38 PM To: Ecto Subject: test test ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 12:11:48 -0700 From: "thecritics" Subject: New Artists Just a quick update on some newer artists... Paul, didn't know you were at The Like show. I showed up late because Carla Werner's set ran long. I think we've passed each other a dozen times around L.A. and didn't know it. Anyway, check out the latest issue of Nylon for a nice write-up on The Like as well as a bunch of other great Los Angeles bands (Metric, Ima Robot, The Tyde, The Warlocks, The Icarus Line, and others). Zooey Deschanel of "Almost Famous" and the upcoming Will Ferrell vehicle "Elf" is on the cover of the issue. Deschanel also has a cabaret group of her own called The Pretty Babies (abbreviated), which she heads with Sam Shelton, sister of actress Marley Shelton. If you're into celebrities with bands, here's more... Fredalba - Actor Eric Balfour ("Six Feet Under," "Texas Chainsaw Massacre") leads this hip-hop, rock/funk outfit in the vein of 311 and RHCP... Becky - lead by Rebecca Lord of "Real World" fame who used to be a solo artist performing around town as just 'Rebecca'. She got all business-like and started the rock thing adding Keanu Reeves as their bassist. While that certain member of the group seems to be the main draw, the music itself is fairly average pop/rock. She should have stayed solo... Lindsay Price who single-handedly carries the NBC show "Coupling" as the feisty 'Jane' is also an aspiring singer-songwriter. Got a chance to see her perform a few showcases last summer. She needs to work a tad on her vocals, which seem to cross that blurry line of childlike and ethereal but her demo was listenable enough for me not to stop by the third song, which says something... As far as some bands without the burdensome celebrity status... Splendid, the group Angie Hart (Frente!) and her husband Jesse Tobias (currently heard plucking on the latest Twilight Singers release) started a few years back, is back. After a scatter of low-key performances the last couple of years, they'll be playing 'officially' again at the Hotel Cafe on November 22nd (Paul, they're playing with Sylvie Lewis). After that, they head off to Australia for a month-long (or longer) residency at the Rob Roy... Ima Robot have a show with Mellowdrone at the Roxy on 10/29. If you're not at the Ani DiFranco or Loudon Wainwright shows, don't miss this one... Carla Werner, who I still maintain has one of the best records of the year, has some new dates up at http://www.carlawerner.com. There are plans for her to hit the UK in January... Every Thursday in November, Mia Doi Todd performs at Tangier, a cozy little joint across the street from the Derby in Los Feliz. If that weren't enough, throughout the residency she'll be joined by a smattering of notable openers. Inara George, formerly of the band Merrick which quite suddenly broke up last year, is now solo and opening for Todd on 11/6. Trespassers William, who finally released their "Vapour Trail" single through Bella Union, opens 11/13. Lastly, on 11/20, Todd will be joined by the lovely and talented Gwendolyn (new EP in early 2004) and Tiffany Anders (daughter of director Alison Anders). Sondre Lerche will be touring with Rachael Yamagata, who just released her long-awaited "Hidden Driveway" EP on 10/7. Hopefully she won't be written off as part of the new wave of female singer-songwriters that were signed post-Norah Jones phenomenon since she was signed before all that. The demos I heard earlier this year were very good. And it helps she's part of Marty Diamond's 'Angels.' This usually equals positive results. http://www.rachaelyamagata.com/ If there is one artist that couldn't be more 'ecto' it's probably Jem, a UK singer-songwriter that KCRW pretty much hand-delivered to ATO Records. I've been corresponding with her for the last year about her work because I absolutely think she's brilliant. A debut EP of songs came out this past week with the catchy lead track "They." She'll no doubt be compared to Dido and Beth Orton but, personally, I think she's more in line with Sia Furler or perhaps a groovier Ephemera. Her first public U.S. show is appropriately at KCRW's annual "Sounds Eclectic" concert (with Damien Rice, Jurassic 5, The Polyphonic Spree, Gary Jules, and others). http://www.jem-music.net/ If I *were* to compare an artist to Dido or Beth Orton it might be the UK's Butterfly Boucher who just release an album (import) called "Flutterby" this month. The album is a little more pop/rock structured but definitely fun to listen to. Her bio touts that she created every detail on it, from playing all the instruments to doing the artwork. Control freak? Possibly, but it works for me. She also did a brief promo tour in the summer and by the way she sold out every venue in town with barely any promotion, the lady definitely has star potential. http://www.butterflyboucher.com/ Some others to look out for: Keane, The Last Town Chorus, Hypatia Lake, Giant Drag, The Turn-Ons, Harland, Autolux, Oceansize, Sara Osmer, The National, Midnight Movies, and probably the best Latina punk rock band I've ever seen, Go Betty Go. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 17:43:31 -0400 From: meredith Subject: RE: test >Which of the following will lead to rapid ews faster? >A) happy rhodes releasing a new cd >B) cdbaby having a 50% off sale B. (A leads to just 1 CD purchased, whereas B leads to large piles of CDs purchased.) >Should I drive 60 miles out of my way monday night to see chantal kreviazuk? >A) yes >B) no No. She's not 60 miles good. >Fill in the blank: >My least favorite vegetable is __________? Um ... asparagus? =============================================== 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://muzak.smoe.org =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 17:52:39 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: New Artists Hi, >If you're into celebrities with bands, >here's more... Another one: Adam Busch (known to the Buffyheads amongst us as Warren-who-killed-Tara) is one half of Common Rotation, a surprisingly wonderful acoustic-bop outfit who we first saw open for Sarah Harmer at the Iron Horse in Northampton, MA earlier this year. I saw them there again opening for the Nields last week, and they were even better the second time around. They even joined Katryna and Nerissa in a stunning version of "Goodnight Irene", totally a cappella from the top of the stairs in the back at the very end of the show. Good stuff. Adam's very sweet, too -- I got to talk to him for a little bit afterwards. He clearly wants to be known as a singer when he's up on stage, and not "that guy who was on _Buffy_". He mentioned that before they flew East to open for Sarah Harmer, he'd talked to Amber Benson (Tara) about how he didn't know any of Harmer's music, to which Amber immediately responded by loaning him "several of her CDs", which tells me that Amber is a Weeping Tile fan as well. That ratcheted up my Amber Benson appreciation level several notches, let me tell you! >Fredalba - Actor Eric Balfour ("Six Feet Under," "Texas Chainsaw Massacre") ... and he was Jesse in the pilot episode of _Buffy_ ... the connections just keep on rolling on... ;) >As far as some bands without the burdensome celebrity status... Splendid, the >group Angie Hart (Frente!) and her husband Jesse Tobias (currently heard >plucking on the latest Twilight Singers release) started a few years back, is >back. woj downloaded S-VCD versions of the three unaired-in-the-US-but-shown-in-the-UK episodes of Joss Whedon's _Firefly_, and we watched them recently. Angie Hart turned up in the last of them, as one of the working girls in the remote brothel that Captain Mal and the crew saved from certain destruction. She sang "Amazing Grace" at the funeral of the episode's main guest star at the end, which is how I knew instantly that it was her. :) (These episodes will be included in the DVD release of _Firefly_, whenever that comes out. 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://muzak.smoe.org =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 15:41:15 -0700 From: Greg Bossert Subject: Re: New Artists On Saturday, Oct 18, 2003, at 12:11 US/Pacific, thecritics wrote: > Just a quick update on some newer artists... thanks for all the info. (this goes likewise to everyone out there!) - -g n.p. elastica - "the menace" n.r. "the thackery t. lambshead pocket guide to eccentric & discredited diseases" - -- "i've never been afraid to change the circumstances of the world" - -- Happy Rhodes ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 16:36:14 -0700 From: "Peter Clark" Subject: Re: New Artists Keep 'em coming, it's been sparse of late. The only way I get to hear of new folk out here in the desert is ecto. Peter C -= High Performance Analogue =- www.redpoint-audio-design.com - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Bossert" To: Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 3:41 PM Subject: Re: New Artists > On Saturday, Oct 18, 2003, at 12:11 US/Pacific, thecritics wrote: > > Just a quick update on some newer artists... > > thanks for all the info. (this goes likewise to everyone out there!) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 19:55:00 EDT From: RedWoodenBeads@aol.com Subject: Re: Rickie Lee Jones In a message dated 10/17/03 10:55:35 PM Pacific Daylight Time, owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org writes: > Rickie Lee Jones is going on tour to promote her new album. I'm very > excited. However, I'm wondering if any ectophiles can help a girl out: I'm > looking for the promo code for the internet pre-sale of her SF shows. Anyone > happen to have the code handy? That's weird, once again she's not coming to Oklahoma. Amazing, considering that we have tons of RLJ fans here. Her music seems to go right along with sooners football, paintballing and nascar racing. np: marvin gaye - what's going on joe and ellen music: http://www.jotdot.net/joeandellen http://www.mp3.com/joeandellen ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 20:19:24 -0400 From: Jason Gordon Subject: RE: New Artists here is a list in no particular order of recent purchases...should keep you busy researching for a while :) and most of them havent been discussed here too much as far as I can remember (definate thank you's owed to whomever had mentioned emilie simon and aude in the past - lvoe the discs!!!) in no particular order... natacha atlas - something dangerous candan ercetin - Hier Pour Aujourd'hui lauri kranz - all this time we could have been friends greta gertler - the baby that brought bad weather hera - not your type kat goldman - the great disappearing act hushhush - cinematique aude - vents contraires over the rhine - ohio priya thomas - songs for ear committment kate walsh - clocktower park katy carr - passion play rebecca hancock and the prison wives - somewhere to land libby kirkpatrick - goodnight venus missy roback - just like breathing worm is green - automagic louisa john krol - alabaster heather nova - storm edie carey - when i was made kinnie star - sun again andrea florian - picture this kolrassa krokridandi - kynjasogur bang bang - you emilie simon - s/t tywanna jo baskette - fancy blue wilby - precious hours holly lerski - life is beautiful carina round - the disconnection poly phillips - i wish i had your life lene marlin - another day colleen - everyone alive wants answers helene - postcard a lot to digest I know, no descriptions (shame on me), but a starting point hopefully for meandering the net :) go marlins! (I would have been at the world series tongiht if boston would have won game seven...sigh....) Jason - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org]On Behalf Of Peter Clark Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 6:36 PM To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: Re: New Artists Keep 'em coming, it's been sparse of late. The only way I get to hear of new folk out here in the desert is ecto. Peter C -= High Performance Analogue =- www.redpoint-audio-design.com - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Bossert" To: Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 3:41 PM Subject: Re: New Artists > On Saturday, Oct 18, 2003, at 12:11 US/Pacific, thecritics wrote: > > Just a quick update on some newer artists... > > thanks for all the info. (this goes likewise to everyone out there!) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 18:00:36 -0700 From: "Peter Clark" Subject: Re: New Artists Thanks. Grist for the mill. Peter C -= High Performance Analogue =- www.redpoint-audio-design.com - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Gordon" To: "Peter Clark" ; Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 5:19 PM Subject: RE: New Artists > here is a list in no particular order of recent purchases...should keep you > busy researching for a while :) and most of them havent been discussed here > too much as far as I can remember (definate thank you's owed to whomever had > mentioned emilie simon and aude in the past - lvoe the discs!!!) > > in no particular order... > > natacha atlas - something dangerous > candan ercetin - Hier Pour Aujourd'hui > lauri kranz - all this time we could have been friends > greta gertler - the baby that brought bad weather > hera - not your type > kat goldman - the great disappearing act > hushhush - cinematique > aude - vents contraires > over the rhine - ohio > priya thomas - songs for ear committment > kate walsh - clocktower park > katy carr - passion play > rebecca hancock and the prison wives - somewhere to land > libby kirkpatrick - goodnight venus > missy roback - just like breathing > worm is green - automagic > louisa john krol - alabaster > heather nova - storm > edie carey - when i was made > kinnie star - sun again > andrea florian - picture this > kolrassa krokridandi - kynjasogur > bang bang - you > emilie simon - s/t > tywanna jo baskette - fancy blue > wilby - precious hours > holly lerski - life is beautiful > carina round - the disconnection > poly phillips - i wish i had your life > lene marlin - another day > colleen - everyone alive wants answers > helene - postcard > > a lot to digest I know, no descriptions (shame on me), but a starting point > hopefully for meandering the net :) > > go marlins! (I would have been at the world series tongiht if boston would > have won game seven...sigh....) > > Jason > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org]On Behalf Of Peter > Clark > Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 6:36 PM > To: ecto@smoe.org > Subject: Re: New Artists > > > Keep 'em coming, it's been sparse of late. The only way I get to hear of > new folk out here in the desert is ecto. > > > Peter C > > -= High Performance Analogue =- > www.redpoint-audio-design.com > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Greg Bossert" > To: > Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 3:41 PM > Subject: Re: New Artists > > > > On Saturday, Oct 18, 2003, at 12:11 US/Pacific, thecritics wrote: > > > Just a quick update on some newer artists... > > > > thanks for all the info. (this goes likewise to everyone out there!) ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V9 #295 **************************