From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V10 #166 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, June 16 2004 Volume 10 : Number 166 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friends... [Mike Matthews ] carla bruni [anna maria "stjärnell" ] Re: Anniversary [Markku Kolkka ] new priya thomas cd on the way [Jeff Wasilko ] Great High Mountain Tour ["Lyle Howard" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 03:00:01 -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********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ******************* Mark R. Susskind (no Email address) ******************* ******************** Dave Upham (dupham@canoemail.com) ******************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Mark R. Susskind Wed June 15 1966 Gemini Dave Upham Sun June 15 1958 Gemini Mike Matthews Mon June 16 1969 Pr. SAFH Albert Philipsen Mon June 17 1968 Gemini Neal R. Copperman Thu June 17 1965 Gemini Susan Kay Anderson Tue June 17 1969 Gemini Ecto-The Mailing List Tue June 18 1991 Fuzzy blue Tracy Barber Mon June 18 1956 Gemini Greg Dunn Thu June 18 1953 + Paul Blair Thu June 18 1964 Objectivist Mike Connell Sat June 18 1955 Apollo David Lubkin Fri June 20 1958 OurLady Marisa Wood Fri June 20 1969 Gemini Cheri Villines Sun June 20 1965 Gemini-Leo rising Ray Misra Sat June 20 1970 Gemini Nik Popa Sun June 22 1969 Cancer Teresa VanDyne Thu June 23 1960 Cancer Dave Torok Mon June 24 1968 Cancer Ethan Straffin Thu June 24 1971 Cancer Kevin Dekan Mon June 27 1960 Cancer Samantha Tanner Tue June 30 1970 Wild Goose BunkyTom Tue July 02 1968 Cancer Anders Hallberg Tue July 03 1962 Cancer Kevin Harkins Thu July 05 1973 Cancer Laurel Krahn Mon July 05 1971 Cancer John J Henshon Mon July 05 1954 The Year Of The Horse / Ruled By The Moon Jim Gurley Mon July 06 1959 Cancer Lisa Rouchka Fri July 08 1960 Moonchild with Java Rising Courtney Dallas Fri July 09 1971 Catte Michael Peskura Sat July 09 1949 HallOfFamer Finney T. Tsai Sat July 09 1966 Cancer Larry Greenfield Tue July 11 1950 Virgo Rising; Gemini Moon Marion Kippers Tue July 13 1965 Kreeft Ellen Rawson Thu July 13 1961 Double Cancer Mitch Pravatiner Mon July 14 1952 Cancer R. Rapp Wed July 14 1954 On a Gray Eye Sojourn - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 02:15:58 -0700 (PDT) From: anna maria "stjärnell" Subject: carla bruni Hi.. this is unfair..carla bruni is a supermodel(or was) and she has made an album that is pretty darn cool. none of that naomi campbell nonsense. quel q'un ma'dit id the real thing. a big hit in france and gettinge exposure elsewhere in europe. she 's got this slighly raspy, cool voice and some pretty great laidback songs. forget what you may have read in the tabloids(hey is that just me?) and give it a chance. anna maria np-regina spektor-songs nr-erlend loe-expedition l __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 13:41:43 +0300 From: Markku Kolkka Subject: Re: Anniversary mapravat@prairienet.org kirjoitti viestissddn (ldhetysaika tiistai, 15. kesdkuuta 2004 00:38): > Yesterday, June 13, was the 60th anniversary of the granting > of a patent to Marvin Camras for the first magnetic sound > recording device. The _first_ magnetic sound recording device was the "telegraphone" invented by Valdemar Poulsen and patented in December 1st 1898. (http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blsoundrecording.htm) The patent awarded to Camras in June 1944 appears to be for "magnetic tape recorder", which was invented by Germans in 1920's. WW2 conveniently allowed ignoring prior art from enemy countries. - -- Markku Kolkka markku.kolkka@iki.fi ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:50:19 -0400 From: Jeff Wasilko Subject: new priya thomas cd on the way there are 3 sample songs from her upcoming CD on her website. Sadly, it's all flash, so I can't give a url to the music section... http://www.priyathomas.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 04:16:03 +0000 From: "Lyle Howard" Subject: Great High Mountain Tour Hola, mis compadres, I had my second fifteen minutes of fame last night (the first was when I played guitar on a friend's self-produced cd) when the Great High Mountain Tour hit Fort Worth, TX, and the Bass Performance Hall. My bluegrass buddy (the one with the cd) e-mailed me a while back that Sacred Harp singers were needed to open the Great High Mountain Tour. Apparently T-Bone Burnett was recruiting hometown singers to add some local color to the show. We were told to appear at the Bass Hall an hour early to practice two hymns and get stage instructions. My initial reaction to appearing before two thousand people and singing songs in a style I was barely familiar with was "thanks, but no thanks." However, my friend persisted and I went. I wasn't too keen on spending three hours listening to bluegrass. My past experiences with bluegrass festivals has been that one act melts into another, as everyone has the same instrumentation and sings the same songs. Aural fatigue sets in quickly. The experience of the night was more positive than negative, though standing and sitting in the wings of the theatre for four hours was tiring. To see what we sang, turn your Sacred Harp hymnal to the following hymns: P. 282, I'm Going Home, and P. 47b, Idumea. "And am I born to die? To lay this body down! And must my trembling spirit fly Into a world unknown? Waked by the trumpet sound, I from my grave shall rise; And see the Judge with glory crowned, And see the flaming skies." As I've said before on this list, this is hair-raising music. This is modal music, with a minor quality to it and the lyrics are poetic in an Anglo-Saxon, pre-destined fate sort of way. There is a lot of worm-gnawing going on. On the other hand, there are many mentions of crossing the river and going to another shore. Isaac Watts is, in my opinion, the best lyricist of the hymn writers, followed closely by Charles Wesley. Any goth kid worth his/her salt would do well to keep a hymnal handy to get song ideas out of. The Sacred Harp singers opened the show. We walked out on the stage and I perceived the first challenge of the night. The stage lights were so low my aging eyes could not see the words or the notes of the first hymn. Fortunately I had sung the hymn enough in the past to fake my way through. However I did act as a sort of 1-second delay, providing rich phasing/flanging for the bass section as I picked up the lyrics from the basses around me and spit them out a fraction of a second later. Aside from the momentary panic of having not a clue what the words or music of the hymn were, I was calm. I had three options: I could sing, rather badly, I could lip-synch, or I could even shut my trap. Whatever option I took, it would not have made one whit of difference; there were plenty of singers to pick up my slack. On the second song, the stage lights went up enough that I could see the notes and the words. Besides, I knew Idumea much better than the first hymn and it was a slower, more ponderous hymn, so no vocal gymnastics were required. When we finished, we calmly exited stage right and parked ourselves there to watch the rest of the show. As far as star-gazing was concerned, T-Bone wandered by ten times or more, making sure everything back stage was going smoothly. A nice-looking middle-aged blonde lady in a dark formal dress hovered nearby. It didn't occur to me at the time (what a dunce) but that may well have been Sam Phillips. I just thought she was another Sacred Harp singer. T-Bone did seem to have family or friends stashed on that side of the stage (Burnett is a Ft. Worth boy). Allison Krause wandered by once, and her hunched shoulders indicated she didn't want to be bothered by anybody. At one point I decided I should tell T-Bone I enjoyed his 1970s and 80s albums (_Truth Decay_, _Trap Door_, etc) but the chance never presented itself and I would have been tongue-tied in the bargain. On the stage were many people I enjoy/admire. Norman and Nancy Blake, Jerry Douglas, The Whites, Allison Krause and Union Station, Ralph Stanley. Dan Tyminski sang multiple times. His vocals are all over _Brother Where Art Thou_ and other T-Bone produced soundtracks. In fact, I was pleased to find that, like all bluegrassers, he noodled on his guitar while waiting to go on stage. Of particular interest to ectophiles were two groups: The Reeltime Travelers and Ollabelle. The Reeltime Travelers was a group of young people who played a mesmerizing brand of bluegrass. They didn't attack there instruments the way most bluegrassers do. They were fairly subtle in their playing. Ollabelle had an odd take on bluegrass. They sounded more like folkies playing bluegrass. The addition of a frame drum and reed organ made their sound veer from the more traditional sounds of the groups around them. They sang "John the Revelator," a Carter Family tune called "Storms are on the Ocean," and another song ("Soul of a Man," I think). One of the lead singers, Fiona McBain, could pass for a Happy Rhodes sister when viewed in profile. She had the same Pre-Raphaelite features and blonde hair. However, her singing, though fine, did not have the Happy magic. So it seems apparent that Happy has not yet been cloned. Here is one bit of synchronicity my friend and I encountered that night. A local group, the Quibby Sisters, had been invited to play a set. The core of the group is three teenage sisters who play fiddle in three-part harmony. They played a couple of western swing tunes and "Oklahoma Hills." It turns out that my friend knows their family fairly well and we both played music with them at a jam five or ten years ago. My friend talked to the family after their set and they remembered him and his cd. For the encore, all the acts and the Sacred Harp singers went out on the stage to back up Ralph Stanley. We sang "Angel Band" and "Amazing Grace." These songs I know by heart and, since I hung at the back of the pack, I very much enjoyed singing them. The populace at the back was sparse enough that I could hear myself sing, so I experimented by singing in thirds or singing the melody or bass, just generally having a good time. I was hoping to see the audience but the stage lights were too bright and the house lights were off. I was standing next to the bass player for Union Station and I got a kick out of hearing him sing bass while he played the stand-up bass. He was hitting the low notes in a fine manner. Now here is the best part. After the last song, my friend and I exited Bass Performance Hall, went up four flights of stairs at the parking garage next door, and were out of downtown Ft. Worth and on the Interstate within fifteen minutes, headed for Denton. Try that in Boston or New York. I love Texas. Bye, Lyle n.r. _Beatles Gear_, Andy Babiuk ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V10 #166 ***************************