From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V10 #308 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, November 9 2004 Volume 10 : Number 308 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friends... [Mike Matthews ] Recent changes to the Ectophiles' Guide ["The Ectophiles' Guide" ] Re: Ectophiles in the News ["neal copperman" ] Songs for the post-election blues ["Bill Adler" Subject: Today's your birthday, friends... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************** Jens Brage (no Email address) ********************** ********************* Lynn Garrett (no Email address) ********************* ********************** Sam Murgie (no Email address) ********************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jens Brage Sun November 08 1964 Scorpio Rising Lynn Garrett Sat November 08 1958 Scorpio Sam Murgie Fri November 08 1957 Scorpio Rachel Kramer Bussel Mon November 10 1975 Scorpio Neb Rodgers Tue November 10 1959 Space Available - Inquire Within Ken Latta Sun November 11 1951 Scorpio Craig Gidney November 11 Scorpio Michael Doyle Wed November 12 1969 Scorpio Dave Cook Mon November 15 1971 Scorpio Jeff Pearce November 16 Orpheus Naama Avramzon Mon November 18 1974 Scorpio Jeff Smith Mon November 19 1962 Crash Kevin Bartlett Fri November 21 1952 Scorpio with Saturn and Pluto issues Claudia Spix Wed November 23 1960 Schuetze Anja Baldo Tue November 23 1965 Garbanzo Tommy Persson Wed November 25 1964 Sagittarius Pat Tessitore November 26 Sagittarius Valerie Kraemer November 26 Sagittarius Justin Bur Fri November 27 1964 Sagittarius Sue Trowbridge Sun November 27 1966 Skytten Ward Kadel Tue November 29 1977 Sagittarius Jesse Hernandez Liwag Wed November 29 1972 Water Rat Mirko Bulaja Sat November 30 1974 Block Juha Sorva Thu December 02 1976 Sagittarius Chip Lueck Thu December 05 1968 Sagittarius Lenore December 05 sagi Michele Wellck December 08 Sagittarius - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 04:16:04 -0800 From: "The Ectophiles' Guide" Subject: Recent changes to the Ectophiles' Guide Latest changes to the Ectophiles' Guide 07 November 2004 New Guide entries added for: * Marine Girls (by request) * Kat Maxwell * Mecca Normal * Mediaeval Baebes (by request) Changes made to the entries for: * Thea Gilmore (new album) - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this email because you have asked to be notified of updates to the Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music at http://www.ectoguide.org/. If you are no longer interested in receiving these notifications, please unsubscribe yourself using the form at http://www.ectoguide.org/guide.cgi?newsubscribe&action=unsubscribe ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 13:09:25 -0500 From: DanStark <2004.carnivore99@verizon.net> Subject: Ectophiles in the News Kudos to Neal and Jeff for making headlines! http://www.abqtrib.com/archives/diversions04/110504_diversions_amp.shtml [Copied below for the archives]: The Albuquerque Tribune November 5, 2004 Living room, folding chairs, eats: Welcome to the concert venue By Michael Halstead Tribune Reporter If you have ever found yourself shopping for new home audio equipment, then it's likely you have heard this inevitable clichi: "Our product's sound quality is so good you'll think the musicians are right there in your living room!" However, any audiophile or devoted music fan knows the truth. There simply is no substitute for the real thing. The "real thing" being live musicians playing original material, right there in your living room. Few people in Albuquerque know this truth as well as Neal Copperman and Jeff Hanson. For the last four years, they have skillfully cut out all the intermediary gadgetry, bringing live musicians directly to people's living rooms. Copperman and Hanson are co-founders of the AMP Concert House Series, an organization devoted to bringing a new, interesting alternative to musicians and music lovers who have grown weary of the club and coffeehouse circuits. The house concert is a simple concept. Music lovers in the know - through word of mouth or a newspaper calendar listing - get secret directions to an undisclosed house, pay a donation (or don't; it's up to you) to get in and experience an hour or two of anything from folk to jazz to world and everything between. There is usually mingling before and after the shows and during the shows' 20-minute intermissions, with food and drink usually provided by the host. The result is a more intimate, music-oriented experience. "The house concerts provide a level of intimacy between the listener and the musician that's usually lost in a larger venue," says Copperman, a computer analyst at Sandia National Laboratories. Copperman, 39, and Hanson - a 38-year-old computer engineer who leaves the public relations to his more outgoing partner - met each other in San Diego during that city's fertile folk scene of the early 1990s. Copperman's appreciation for small venues came after seeing pop star Jewel performing all original material in a coffee shop. "Outside of a select group of people in San Diego, I don't think anyone had even heard of Jewel. She performed in a small coffee shop for three hours, and the cover was 3 bucks," Copperman says, shaking his head in wonder. "This is an artist who would eventually be on the cover of Time magazine." After seeing popular San Diegan folk rocker Cindy Lee Berryhill play at a house concert at a Beverly Hills mansion, Copperman was hooked on recreating the intimacy of those shows. "I actually moved to Albuquerque with the idea of putting on house concerts," he says In 2000, through a combination of chance and favorable job transfers, Copperman and Hanson reunited in Albuquerque. That year they put on their first house concert for 18 people. AMP, or more formally Albuquerque Music Presenters, has grown considerably since, putting on roughly 18 concerts per year, amassing a 700-person e-mail list and often turning away talent because of booked schedules. "It's pretty amazing to think how far AMP has come," Copperman says. "Our attendance at these shows hovers between 90 and 100 percent. It's grown so much it's kind of scary." "People think we're in the music promotion business," Copperman says, leaning forward to make his next point: "We're not. One hundred percent of the donations go to the artist. If we're a business we're not a moneymaking one." However, success has caught up with AMP. As the organization branches out, promoting more conventional concerts, AMP is considering the unthinkable: booking performance spaces and actually charging a cover. "I'm a music fan, not a business guy", Copperman says, smiling and rolling his eyes, shifting a little uncomfortably in his chair. "I'm learning a lot of this stuff as I go along." Still, Copperman gives assurances the house concerts will continue as they always have, where the people who profit are the musicians and the music-loving audience. On a recent Saturday night, Bay Area singer-songwriter Vienna Teng and a string accompaniment performed before a crowd of roughly 70 in Hanson's home west of Old Town. The crowd mingles before the show, munching on hors d'oeuvres until Copperman signals the guests that the show is about to begin. They quickly take their places in the folding chairs provided. Teng smiles playfully behind her keyboard and addresses the audience: "We were recently playing a show at the Paramount in Santa Fe to a disappointing crowd of about 15 people," she says. "After the show, Neal walked up to me and said, `You know, you really need to play our living room.' " Teng shrugs and nods in Copperman's direction. "So, here we are," she says. The lights dim, and the sound of Teng's soulful voice resonates across the sliver of a room. There is no mistaking the immediacy and intimacy of that sound. It's the real thing. Right there in your living room. ) The Albuquerque Tribune. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 21:45:22 -0000 From: "neal copperman" Subject: Re: Ectophiles in the News DanStark <2004.carnivore99@verizon.net> said: > Kudos to Neal and Jeff for making headlines! Ok Dan, what were you doing reading the second most popular daily paper in Albuquerque?????? (I'm guessing you do regular Vienna Teng searchs. That's the only thing I can think of.) It was a nice article. Like most things of that nature, there are a lot of inaccuracies or things that are just a little off. I'm amazed that people will interview me, quote me at length, and not actually either record the interview or take really careful notes. So the quotes tend to be something like what I said, but not really what I said. It's very strange. And, while I knew this was due to come out, the first copy I saw was via ecto. Funny how that happens :) Later, neal ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 19:27:54 -0500 From: "Bill Adler" Subject: Songs for the post-election blues I don't want to presume that everyone on the Ecto list wanted Bush to be defeated (well, I do want to presume that actually ), but I'm looking for Ecto-like songs that will help lift me out of my post-election blues. I've found two so far: Rilo Kiley's "It's a Hit" (www.rilokiley.com) Christine Lavin's "Like Father, Like Son" (http://lavin.folkdude.com/) Any other good, left-leaning songs? - --Bill Adler n.p. Deanna Kirk, Beautyway ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 12:22:46 +1100 From: Sherlyn Koo Subject: Re: Songs for the post-election blues Hey folks, On Mon 8-Nov-2004 7:27pm, billonline@adlerbooks.com wrote: > Any other good, left-leaning songs? My vote goes to SONiA's "No Bomb Is Smart" - check out http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/sonia2 ... And Allison Moorer's "All Aboard" is a good, angry rant as well (http://www.allisonmoorer.com/site/home.php)... - -sherlyn - -- Sherlyn Koo - sherlyn@pixelopolis.com - Sydney, Australia ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 22:32:08 -0500 From: "Foghorn J. Fornorn" Subject: RE: Songs for the post-election blues http://www.paranoise.com/ ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V10 #308 ***************************