From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V11 #42 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, February 12 2005 Volume 11 : Number 042 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Vienna Teng news [Ethan Straffin ] Re: RE: Bitter Valentine's songs... [gordodo@optonline.net] Re: Tori Amos' _The Beekeeper_ [meredith ] Re: Bitter Valentine's songs... [Allan Anderson ] Happy's Hand [Doug ] Re: Happy's Hand [meredith ] Re: Happy's Hand ["Jeffrey Burka" ] Re: Tori Amos' _The Beekeeper_ [meredith ] Noe Venable (and Ani) on the Tonight Show, TONIGHT! ["Xenu's Sister" ] Re: Tori Amos' _The Beekeeper_ [meredith ] Jane sale [neal copperman ] all music guide [neal copperman ] more anti valentine songs [breinheimer@webtv.net] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 02:39:20 -0800 From: Ethan Straffin Subject: Vienna Teng news For iTunes-equipped Vienna fans not on her mailing list, this just in: >ITUNES & MODERN TROUBADOURS > >"How about a live album?" some have asked. Well, recording one proved a bit much to undertake last year, but we do have something for you: three songs from the Modern Troubadours show in Philadelphia on July 23, 2004. Teitur lends his guitar on Harbor and Damien Rice's "Cannonball." It's an iTunes exclusive; saves us shipping and all that jazz. Thanks to XPN's World Cafe for recording the show! > >To download iTunes: >http://www.apple.com/itunes > >In the iTunes Music Store: >Rock > Vienna Teng > World Cafe Presents Modern Troubadours >or just search for "modern troubadours" > (The third song she doesn't mention is "Gravity.") I just finished listening, and the performances are very nice indeed. Meanwhile, looks like my Beekeeper torrent just finished downloading. So tempting to stay up and listen, but ouch, look at the time... Ethan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:47:36 -0500 From: gordodo@optonline.net Subject: Re: RE: Bitter Valentine's songs... I was just listening to Frost's Melodica this morning and the first track, Pharmacy fits perfectly to the discussion :) Sound samples at http://www.juno.co.uk/products/139710-01.htm if you're interested :) cheers jason np frost PHARMACY (peterson/martinsen) I don't want to but still I do You don't want to you never will that's true I don't understand but still I see 'cause I have realized it's just a game between you and me And all I can say And all I can do is to make you see that I'm sorry for loving you I just feel like hiding away You just feel like leaving me I just don't know how how to get by The game is over now you're no good to me there's no use to try And all I can say And all I can do is to make you see that I'm sorry for loving you ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:58:05 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: Tori Amos' _The Beekeeper_ Hi, John responded: > Hmm. Well, I was gonna recommend to you an article on a German > site that was linked to from the > Dent. (http://www2.thepop.de/artistbio.php?artist=37) It's an excellent > article, part interview and part essay, delving into the spirituality > infused into the album. When I'd gone to the site just last weekend, the > article was in English. But now it's in German! (Damn them, writing in > German on a German website!) > > I don't suppose anyone has this article saved as it was in > English, or is willing to translate it? I had hoped to read it again to > ponder some of its deeper implications.... Wow, that German degree just might come in handy. :) Not sure if I still have the chops after all these years to do justice to a translation, but I'll see what I can do if I can't dig up the English version anywhere. P.S. Dan -- I'm thinking you downloaded some mislabeled MP3s. I know mileage varies, and that's perfectly okay, but children's album??? =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 08:24:48 -0800 From: Allan Anderson Subject: Re: Bitter Valentine's songs... Thanks for all the great suggestions, folks. I just finished the show...with all this material, I'll have to play a few more next week. - --- 15: Don't think of it as reasonable; think of it as terrifying! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:15:06 -0600 From: Doug Subject: Happy's Hand A while back I read on her website that Happy Rhodes had suffered a possibly career-ending cut to her hand. She's obviously managed to recover from that, but I'm curious as to the details. Can anyone give me a quick summary? Thanks, Doug "Instructions are for people who don't know what they are doing" - Bob the Builder ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:33:50 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: Happy's Hand Hi, Doug inquired: >A while back I read on her website that Happy Rhodes had suffered a >possibly career-ending cut to her hand. She's obviously managed to >recover from that, but I'm curious as to the details. Can anyone give >me a quick summary? Short version: she hurt her hand, now it's all better. :) Slightly more detailed version: In June of 2001 a group of ectophiles organized a concert in Santa Cruz, CA called EctoFestWest, at which Happy headlined for her first-ever West Coast performance. On the morning of the show she was trying to cut a cable tie off something in her hotel room, and in the process seriously cut the middle finger on her left hand. Thanks to a load of Vicodin and the flexibility of the boys in her band, who were able to rearrange the songs so she would only have to play keyboard that night, she was able to perform as scheduled. Once back in New York she eventually had surgery to repair the tendon that had been severed in the accident, but they couldn't do much about the nerve damage. As far as I know she still doesn't have full feeling in that finger. She somehow managed to figure out a way to play the guitar under the circumstances, and in April of 2003, almost two full years after the accident she finally performed live again in our living room in New Haven. I think I can speak for all ectophiles when I say we're all thankful the injury did not indeed turn out to be career-ending... =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:39:36 -0500 From: "Jeffrey Burka" Subject: Re: Happy's Hand Doug asks: > Can anyone give me a quick summary? the quickie is that it was June of '01. Happy and her band had arrived in Santa Cruz, CA for EctoFestWest. Happy was cutting some wireties off one her gear boxes and the (box cutter? knife?) she was using slipped. The injury was to her left hand. She was rushed to the hospital and preliminary treatment was provided, but due to the necessity of that hand for her guitar playing, the major surgery/physical therapy was left until she could see a specialist back home in new york. Despite the injury, Happy did play a (shortened) set that evening, with her hand all swaddled in bandages. Not surprisingly, the ectophiles were greatly interested in helping Happy with the financial side of her recovery. She refused to take our money, so instead she put together an EP, titled "The Left Hand Demos." The production of the disc and its artwork were handled by ectophiles, so all monies generated went straight to Happy. Watching her play now, it seems like she's fully recovered, though she might have a different opinion. jeff n.p. _Building the Colossus_ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:10:02 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: Tori Amos' _The Beekeeper_ Hi, Update: the article referenced here: > Hmm. Well, I was gonna recommend to you an article on a German > site that was linked to from the > Dent. (http://www2.thepop.de/artistbio.php?artist=37) is simply a German translation of Tori's bio at her official site: http://www.toriamos.com/ That'll save me some time. :) =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:43:22 -0600 From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Noe Venable (and Ani) on the Tonight Show, TONIGHT! Forwarded from her: hello everyone-- it's been ages since we had the kind of news we could send out to the whole list like this... Ah, the miracle of television! We thought we'd let you know that Noe Venable will be singing harmonies with Ani DiFranco on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The show will air tonight, February 11th, 2005. Also, we've got going on in our own little corner of the universe... a new look for the website is on the way, for one thing (http://www.noevenable.com) with more new content and other renovations to follow soon. You can read Noe's update in her own words in the Rant Room. And lastly, there's a March tour coming together, (West Coast) details on that coming soon to those who live there, and two new records in the works, so we'll keep you posted on that. Be well, Petridish records mission control ======================= I wish it were just her singing (no offense to Ani, because while I respect Ani as a person, I *ADORE* Noe and her music) but I'll take what I can get when I get it. Vickie (who admits with great embarrassment that tonight will be the first time I'll ever have heard Ani's music. Better la...? Never mind. Flog me now.) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:04:33 -0500 From: "JoAnn Whetsell" Subject: RE: Noe Venable (and Ani) on the Tonight Show, TONIGHT! Thanks for the heads up. I've been meaning to post about Ani's new album, Knuckle Down, and the fact that Noe sings backup on 3 tracks. It's actually a really good album, far better than Educated Guess, and somehow more intimate even though she's involved more people (a co-producer and a number of instrumentalists). Not quite sure how to describe it as I've only had a chance to listen to it twice, but it seems to take the best of her newer (Evolve on) style and place it with her older style. Definitely worth checking out if you're an Ani fan, even if you were disappointed with the last 2 albums. JoAnn np: Jane Siberry - No Borders Here >From: "Xenu's Sister" >To: ecto@smoe.org >Subject: Noe Venable (and Ani) on the Tonight Show, TONIGHT! >Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:43:22 -0600 > >Forwarded from her: > >hello everyone-- > >it's been ages since we had the kind of news we could send out to >the >whole list like this... Ah, the miracle of television! We thought >we'd >let you know that Noe Venable will be singing harmonies with Ani >DiFranco >on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The show will air tonight, >February >11th, 2005. > >Also, we've got going on in our own little corner of the universe... >a new >look for the website is on the way, for one thing >(http://www.noevenable.com) with more new content and other >renovations to >follow soon. You can read Noe's update in her own words in the Rant >Room. > >And lastly, there's a March tour coming together, (West Coast) >details on >that coming soon to those who live there, and two new records in the >works, so we'll keep you posted on that. > >Be well, > >Petridish records mission control > >======================= > >I wish it were just her singing (no offense to Ani, because while I >respect Ani as a person, I *ADORE* Noe and her music) but I'll take >what I can get when I get it. > >Vickie (who admits with great embarrassment that tonight will be the >first time I'll ever have heard Ani's music. Better la...? Never >mind. Flog me now.) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:08:24 -0700 From: John Higdon Subject: Re: Tori Amos' _The Beekeeper_ At 11:10 AM 2/11/2005, wrote: >Update: the article referenced here: > >> Hmm. Well, I was gonna recommend to you an article on a German >> site that was linked to from the >> Dent. (http://www2.thepop.de/artistbio.php?artist=37) > >is simply a German translation of Tori's bio at her official site: > >http://www.toriamos.com/ > >That'll save me some time. :) It does appear that you are correct! Thanks! (Perhaps that explains why this went from English to German on the German website. They copied it from the official website, then later translated it. Though I'm still perplexed that the article is described as a "Bio" when it's clearly a discussion on themes in the current album.) John Higdon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:10:14 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: Tori Amos' _The Beekeeper_ Hi, > It does appear that you are correct! Thanks! Credit goes to woj for pointing it out, actually ... I hadn't gotten around to checking out her web site lately. :) > (Perhaps that explains why this went from English to German on > the German website. They copied it from the official website, then later > translated it. Though I'm still perplexed that the article is described > as a "Bio" when it's clearly a discussion on themes in the current album.) That's a common thing these days. The official artist bio is often just a press release about the album, with very little actual biographical information contained therein. This is quite annoying, particularly when I'm trying to find some simple facts about an artist for an event web site I'm putting together. It's all well and good to know what the motivation for every track on the new album was, but evidently it's too much to ask where the artist grew up or got their training. *sigh* =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 23:31:30 -0700 From: neal copperman Subject: Jane sale I was about to go pick up the few things I didn't have during Jane Siberry's sale, when I was distracted by the fact that Jane is also selling a CD by Adrienne Pierce. It's the first non-Jane CD at Sheeba, so I was intrigued. Anyone know anything about her? neal np: Free on the Mountain - Sand Sheff nr: Brick Lane - Monica Ali ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 23:34:54 -0700 From: neal copperman Subject: all music guide Hey, the AllMusicGuide has changed again! Now it is requiring a log-in. Grrrr. neal ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:33:39 -0500 From: breinheimer@webtv.net Subject: more anti valentine songs well this thread certainly seems to have struck a chord. two more mad love type songs; 1) attrition- a girl called harmony. actually there are probably a lot of other goth songs that would fit here. I just can't imagine that any of them could be better than this. brilliant, and of course, moody. Joy division- 24 hours. I actually like this even more than love will break us apart. you can't go wrong with this band. Ian Curtis was no poser but rather a tragic tormented soul whose despair drove him to great artistic heights . unfortunately they also led him over the edge into the abyss and he took his own life. of course if you just want to poke fun at it all why not try Dan Hicks' (there's that name again)." How can I miss you when you won't go away" or even Martin Mull's Margie the midget "walking hand and ankle down to the dock ready to sail away walking hand and ankle she's got her arm around my........... sock ready to sail away today." Martin always was a sentimental fool -bill ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V11 #42 **************************