From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V11 #77 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, March 21 2005 Volume 11 : Number 077 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Marketing [robert bristow-johnson ] Re: First time hearing Happy [robert bristow-johnson ] Re: Find Me Sampler [robert bristow-johnson ] Re: Find Me Sampler [robert bristow-johnson ] Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] re: *SMART* Albany folks! ["Mark B" ] Re: Marketing [Bernie Mojzes ] Gong [Bernie Mojzes ] Re: ecto-digest V11 #76 [aural gratification ] Re: ecto influence [meredith ] Things to Read? [RavFlight@aol.com] Re: Things to Read? [FAMarcus@aol.com] Re: Things to Read? [Josh Burnett ] Re: Things to Read? [Valerie Richardson ] RE: Gong ["Bill Mazur" ] RE: Marketing ["Bill Mazur" ] Re: Things to Read? ["Jeffrey Hanson" ] josh komorowski [Bernie Mojzes ] RE: Gong [Bernie Mojzes ] interesting NY Times magazine article on home recording ["JoAnn Whetsell"] RE: Gong ["Bill Mazur" ] Happy a CDBaby? [Jerene ] Re: ecto-digest V11 #76 [Greg Bossert ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 02:34:39 -0500 From: robert bristow-johnson Subject: Re: Marketing hey Woj, could you config majordomo to include a Reply-To: ecto mailing list header? it would help to allow us to just hit "Reply". on 03/19/2005 01:19, Xenu's Sister at xenussister@yahoo.com wrote: >> I also think that she should get 'HappyRhodes.com' and either create >> a new home page or link this to AuntieSocial. it's auntiesocialmusic.com . > happyrhodes.com had been owned for years by a male country singer in Canada. > His name really was Happy Rhodes as far as I could tell. his real name is Jack Chapelle and he still owns the domain. if he renews it in May, perhaps someone should call him and ask if they can buy it. >> And yes, AuntieSocial is cute, but does not really look like the vehicle >> of an artist who is serious about breaking new territory. well, it sure doesn't look like a vehicle about breaking *old* territory. i think it's the persona that Happy wants. i personally would not like to see Happy commercialize her artistic expression in order to sell more CDs or MP3s or whatever. but i *would* like to see her sell more CDs or MP3s or gigs or whatever her music comes on, so i do not have contempt for the spirit of this thread. but let's not throw the Happy out with the bathwater. i think clever domain and trademark names can be better the old standard this_is_my_name.com . i know it belongs to Kevin Bartlett, but i think that Aural Gratification is the most clever name for a music label i have heard. it puns on a variety of levels. Auntie Social Music maybe on only one. personally, Happy has had a few people put in some effort plugging her music. i know i did a couple to one year ago, and unfortunately, most people just have no taste. Happy's music both has edge and sophistication and it's hard to come upon people who like both. and then the subset of those people who are people of power or influence (who can get her played on the air or booked at a gig) is smaller yet. all those people want is an artist who can make them money. i do not have solutions, but a lot of questions regarding commercializing Happy in any way that might compromize her art. - -- r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com "Imagination is more important than knowledge." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 02:35:51 -0500 From: robert bristow-johnson Subject: Re: First time hearing Happy first time i heard Happy was on Echoes in the early 1990's. they had a living room concert that was sorta in the background of my attention until she sang "Save Our Souls", and then i really noticed. it's the same recording as in The Keep. i didn't know she was singing about E.T., but some of the lyrics (as i heard them over the radio, i know they're different from what i thought i heard) hit me deep in my soul. "We're the number one offender of [species] and yet here we are reaching out for [radiance] looking for our salvation, oh, pity our emptiness. Save our souls..." well, so it wasn't what i thought it was. it still moves me. - -- r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com "Imagination is more important than knowledge." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 02:36:26 -0500 From: robert bristow-johnson Subject: Re: ecto influence in article fa.in887ql.110scb5@ifi.uio.no, meredith at meth@smoe.org wrote on 03/17/2005 20:57: > [warning: self-indulgent and probably boring] not boring at all. (only you can speak to whether it's self-indulgent or not.) meth, are you and/or woj and/or Chuch gonna do another Ectofest? (if it was a net loser, moneywise, i don't blame you for saying no but...) i would really like to see another one happen, 'specially one that includes Happy and Bob (and Hansford and Bon and whomever else). i'd be happy to work on such a gig in terms of logistics, but i couldn't invest much $$$. if such were ever planned, and you wanted to check out another location, i might suggest (no, not Burlington VT) Lake George Village at the southern end of the Adirondack Park. they have a great natural amphitheater and bandshell there. it would be really cool. Rutland VT has a sound company called Atomic that might be economical. - -- r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com "Imagination is more important than knowledge." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 02:37:48 -0500 From: robert bristow-johnson Subject: Re: Find Me Sampler in article fa.jei0rv7.a48uob@ifi.uio.no, Vickie Mapes at xenussister@yahoo.com wrote on 03/09/2005 21:57: > So, hey, why isn't anyone talking about the Find Me sampler? i actually like the sampler CD a lot (i didn't know the CD had a name, so is "Find Me" the title track?). i will have to listen to re-evaluate favs, but the last i remember, Can't Let Go is my current fav. these things change in time. I like Happy's music so much that i deliberately do no overplay CDs so that i do not get too familiar with them so when i do play them there is almost always a nice surprise. problem is, even with Happy's music that is overplayed, sometimes it slips into the background and her music is not elevator music. even though i have her direct contact info, i don't like calling her or emailing often because i don't want her to be overwhelmed with any groupieisms from me. but if there is feedback you wanna give her from me, tell her it's entirely positive. i just wish there were more clubs that would book her. i would love to see her up here in VT or northerm NY or Montreal or similar. i might even go to NYC or Boston or meth's and woj's house to see her. the Tin Angel gig was not possible for me to get to. - -- r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com "Imagination is more important than knowledge." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 02:38:37 -0500 From: robert bristow-johnson Subject: Re: Find Me Sampler just gave it another listen and now my favs are One and Many and Find Me. i'm also getting more into She Won't Go. but the fact is, i like every track on this which is not something i can truthfully say about any other Happy CD, even Many Worlds in which i agree with Jeffrey is a masterpiece CD (The Chariot followed by Ra is my absolute favorite Happy). anyway, had anyone ever heard (from Happy) if the release CD (whenever it is currently expected to be happenin') will have additional tracks or will it be, essentially, reworked artwork? - -- r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com "Imagination is more important than knowledge." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 03:00:03 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************* Geoff Carre (no Email address) ********************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Geoff Carre Sat March 20 1954 Pisces John Stewart Sat March 21 1970 Aries Bob Brown Thu March 22 1951 Ham Valerie Nozick Thu March 25 1971 Aries Tom Proven Sat March 27 1971 Eat at Joe's Jennifer Albert Wed March 30 1966 Aries (w/Cancer rising!:) Warpaint Mon April 01 1991 Brilliant! Michael Pearce Wed April 03 1946 Pegasus Michael E. Bravo Mon April 05 1971 Dandelion Wine Brion McIntosh Sun April 06 1958 Aries Marcel Kshensky Thu April 06 1950 Aries Bill Mazur Mon April 06 1953 Aries Sun/Cancer Rising David Dixon Tue April 07 1970 Aries Heidi Heller Mon April 08 1974 Aries Jill Hughes Sat April 09 1955 Aries Klaus Kluge Sun April 10 1960 Unicorn Steve VanDevender Sun April 10 1966 Racer Art Liestman Fri April 10 1953 Repeat Stephen Golden Sat April 10 1971 Jokey Michael Bowman Wed April 11 1962 Aries Wolfgang Ullwer Fri April 11 1969 Widder Janet Kirsch Thu April 11 1974 Aries Jerry Tue April 13 1971 Aries Stuart Myerburg Mon April 14 1969 Aries T-Bone Wed April 15 1992 happy cat Jeff Hanson Sat April 16 1966 Aries Michael Klouda Mon April 17 1967 Aries Noe Venable Tue April 20 1976 Aries - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 08:11:43 -0500 From: "Mark B" Subject: re: *SMART* Albany folks! I have lived in Albany for most of my life having done a three year stint in Great Barrington MA as my only move away only to return. When I worked at the music store Kevin gave a lot of attention to distributing the music and keeping in contact with the vendors. We always had a "play copy" of every release. Not only did KB eventually give me CDs for the store (when they were issued on CD), he gave me my own personal copies at times when he could. I still have a sampler called HR5 that he gave me (I am sure any Happy fan knows about this release). Hell I even have a Happy Rhodes shirt he gave me that is a bit old, but I would wear it to help the cause. I did sell a lot of her/their music, almost every time I played it in the store which was often. I remember their music played on WQBK Q104 fm a fact that I can substantiate as I still am very good friends with one of their former DJs. I heard their music on WRPI which is one of the college stations. So the product was there, the promotion was there from what I can see. The problem always seemed to be, well, the same problem we have today. The mass media market gets behind artists that may not have much musical talent and crams them down the throats of the willing/unsuspecting target market. I hope Albany has been a launching board for somebody. Luckilly Albany at least attracted some great artists over time so we could at least be exposed to good music. I could not make Happy's show at the Troy Music Hall a while back as I could not get out of working that evening. Troy is a few minutes outside of Albany. Saratoga Performing Arts Center is only a twenty minute ride from Albany. Albany is the Capital of NY and there are a lot of great things that occur here. There is an open mic. night every day of the week within a 20 minute drive. As someone who still attends many concerts/shows I can tell you that the live music market is not what it used to be. I can't tell you how many times I attend a show with some incredible musicians and am in a crowd that doesn't even fill one tenth of the club's size. When I attend shows the audience will stand there and barely make a sound after an artist is through playing. At one show a wile back the artist didn't come back out on stage after the last set for an encore. On the way out of the club I heard some young kid complaining about how short the show was. I actually got worked up and explained to him that an encore usually is brought on by the crowd reacting and making enough noise to warrant an artist returning to the stage. He just looked at me like a deer in the headlights. Support for an artist starts at that level. Unfortunately Albany will never be known as the place that launched Happy Rhodes, unless it was for launching her somewhere else to pursue her path elsewhere. That doesn't make it a bad place...just the place I call home. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:08:33 -0500 (EST) From: Bernie Mojzes Subject: Re: Marketing On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Xenu's Sister wrote: > >I also think that she should get > > 'HappyRhodes.com' and either create a new home page or link this to > > AuntieSocial. > > happyrhodes.com had been owned for years by a male country singer in Canada. > His name really was Happy Rhodes as far as I could tell. Happy did try to > get it but couldn't. She went with auntisocialmusic.com. > > Now it's owned by Network Solutions, and they require a "Certified Offer" > between $100.00 and $10,000. Happy would have to bid with money she doesn't > have for her own freaking name. The domain expires in May but I assume the > vultures will just renew it. happy apparently owns happyrhodes.net, but it just points to a "site under construction/coming soon" page. it would be easy enough to point that to the auntiesocial.com page. that domain expires in july this year, incidentally. > *I* own happyrhodes.org and I've been holding it for happy for years. Right > now I have a link to auntiesocialmusic.com and that will continue. She knows > it's there for her if she wants it. She's settled in at auntiesocialmusic > and doesn't seem to want to move. I can't blame her. Goodness, that's one > of the coolest domain names ever! certainly. moving domains, etc, is a pain in the ass. but it's non-intuitive. it would be better if she could use a happyrhodes.[something] to assist people in finding the auntisocial.com site. unless she starts selling cds as Auntie Social... i was talking with someone from another ISP on thursday who said "no, we don't do web page design. people 'round here think 'if i have a web page, i'll make a million dollars!'" the web page is necessary nowadays, but not sufficient. there needs to be something out there bringing people in. gak... i just discovered that www.auntiesocial.com forwards to www.breastfed.net, which is essentially a very odd rap album. > I know she recently signed with Lolo Records, but I know nothing about their > deal or plans for the album. They didn't pay for the album (just like Samson, > the album was finished before the dotted lines were signed) so they have > no obligation to promote beyond putting their name on it and putting a > link to buy it on their web site. I have no idea what's happening behind > the scenes. For all I know they could have all these plans (CD Baby, others) > in the works. Good, at least there'll be some way for music retailers to get ahold of the disks. - -- brni i don't want the world, i just want your half. www.livejournal.com/~brni ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:36:30 -0500 (EST) From: Bernie Mojzes Subject: Gong was just looking at lolo records' web page, following links and so on, and have come to a startling revelation: Happy is now part of the Gong extended family! this is too cool for words. - -- brni i don't want the world, i just want your half. www.livejournal.com/~brni ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 02:28:41 -0500 From: aural gratification Subject: Re: ecto-digest V11 #76 Just like the rest of the world and humanity Ecto is so willing to romance the "victimhood" of the Happy Rhodes story. Why ? Why ? Why ? It's NOT about Albany or Woodstock or radio or retail or any of this speculative banter. Why is the answer SO important. We all make our own beds and then must toss and turn in them. People are responsible for their paths and what happens to them and around them. Does anyone really believe that the non-stop coddling and donating and hand holding is a benefit ? Obviously it hasn't ever worked has it ? Happy is a world class A-list artist period. Her level of success and notoriety is not really up to us at the end of the day is it ? It's not an unfair Universe that randomly rewards and takes away. It IS a Universe that seeks to mirror what it receives energetically. This is Happy's experience on Earth perfectly designed by Happy herself. This is her soul's classroom, her spirit's education. She is not at the mercy of anything, especially the whims and ears of insignificant places such as Woodstock or Albany, NY. I'm suprised to hear that anyone could entertain the notion that "paths to the world" eminate from a physical place. kb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:05:52 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: ecto influence Hi, robert inquired: >meth, are you and/or woj and/or Chuch gonna do another Ectofest? It's on my "things I would love to do" list. I know exactly how and where I would do it (an all-day glorified house concert at a great venue called The Space just up the road from here), but the question is when. Between being on the road a lot and being knee-deep in the New Haven Folk Festival when I am home, there's not a lot of free time. Maybe I'll make it a goal for next year. :) =============================================== 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: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:16:25 EST From: RavFlight@aol.com Subject: Things to Read? Well, this is not specifically music related, but there are plenty of discussions on here about non-music related items. I am sure that there are waves of you who are This American Life fan and (either by proxy or separately) fans of Sarah Vowell and David Sedaris. I'm delving into the 'personal essay' format, have devoured everything that the above two authors have chosen to put on paper. I'm curious if any of you out there have recommendations of other authors in the same style genre (especially humorous personal essay writers). Any suggestions? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:44:31 EST From: FAMarcus@aol.com Subject: Re: Things to Read? In a message dated 3/20/2005 3:38:04 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, RavFlight@aol.com writes: Any suggestions? did you see the incredibles? sarah was great in it ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 14:41:55 -0600 From: Josh Burnett Subject: Re: Things to Read? On Mar 20, 2005, at 2:16 PM, RavFlight@aol.com wrote: > Well, this is not specifically music related, but there are plenty of > discussions on here about non-music related items. I am sure that > there are waves of > you who are This American Life fan and (either by proxy or separately) > fans of > Sarah Vowell and David Sedaris. I'm delving into the 'personal essay' > format, > have devoured everything that the above two authors have chosen to put > on > paper. I'm curious if any of you out there have recommendations of > other authors > in the same style genre (especially humorous personal essay writers). > Any > suggestions? There are a lot of personal essayists I can recommend, but most of them are more serious than David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell. One writer I can recommend is Joan Didion - she can be very funny, though in a totally different way than the other two authors mentioned. Her essay collections _The White Album_ and _Slouching Towards Bethlehem_ are classics. Some other great writers who've written in the personal essay genre are James Baldwin, Jorge Luis Borges, M.F.K. Fisher, Virginia Woolf, and Annie Dillard. But they're all very different from Vowell and Sedaris, so I can't really say whether you'd like their work or not. If you want to pick up an anthology of personal essays, I recommend _The Art of the Personal Essay_, edited by Phillip Lopate. It's a huge book (over 700 pages) with a great variety of styles, themes, cultures, and eras (ranging from Plutarch in the first century to writers from the latter half of the twentieth century). ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 16:04:25 -0500 From: Valerie Richardson Subject: Re: Things to Read? You might want to check out "The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present," edited by Phillip Lopate. David Sedaris might be separated by a great distance of time and space from the Greek philosopher Seneca, but he could have been the author of Seneca's piece "On Noise." Seneca complains about living next door to a gym filled with noisy and self-absorbed body-builders. There are dozens of other equally timeless, often humorous, essays in the book. - --Valerie Richardson RavFlight@aol.com wrote: >Well, this is not specifically music related, but there are plenty of >discussions on here about non-music related items. I am sure that there are waves of >you who are This American Life fan and (either by proxy or separately) fans of >Sarah Vowell and David Sedaris. I'm delving into the 'personal essay' format, >have devoured everything that the above two authors have chosen to put on >paper. I'm curious if any of you out there have recommendations of other authors >in the same style genre (especially humorous personal essay writers). Any >suggestions? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:34:15 -0800 From: "Bill Mazur" Subject: RE: Gong I can't wait for the Happy and Gilli Smyth duet! ;-) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Bernie Mojzes Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 7:37 AM To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: Gong was just looking at lolo records' web page, following links and so on, and have come to a startling revelation: Happy is now part of the Gong extended family! this is too cool for words. - -- brni i don't want the world, i just want your half. www.livejournal.com/~brni ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:46:19 -0800 From: "Bill Mazur" Subject: RE: Marketing Being associated with LoLo Records will get Happy some good exposure. LoLo Records is a featured label at The Artist Shop. I have mentioned them here before. I also believe that Gary Davis, the proprietor of The Artist Shop, posts here on Ecto from time to time. His site gets a lot of traffic and Gary exposes people to new music via his regular e-newsletters. Here is the lowdown on The Artist Shop from their website: Welcome to The Artist Shop, a music store dedicated to the independent progressive artist putting out his/her own product. The items we display we buy directly from the artist or his/her own company. When you buy from these artists you can take pride in the knowledge that more of your dollar is going directly to the artist than when you buy from a mainstream, corporate, big business, big bucks, impersonal, conglomerate label. And that means you're investing in the future of these artists and their continued creation of new work. It's also been pointed out to us by some artists that there are many independent progressive labels not owned by artists, but without which many independent progressive artists would go unheard. So you will also see independent labels that we consider to 'have a mission!' - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Bernie Mojzes Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 7:09 AM To: Xenu's Sister Cc: ecto@smoe.org Subject: Re: Marketing On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Xenu's Sister wrote: > >I also think that she should get > > 'HappyRhodes.com' and either create a new home page or link this to > > AuntieSocial. > > happyrhodes.com had been owned for years by a male country singer in Canada. > His name really was Happy Rhodes as far as I could tell. Happy did try to > get it but couldn't. She went with auntisocialmusic.com. > > Now it's owned by Network Solutions, and they require a "Certified Offer" > between $100.00 and $10,000. Happy would have to bid with money she doesn't > have for her own freaking name. The domain expires in May but I assume the > vultures will just renew it. happy apparently owns happyrhodes.net, but it just points to a "site under construction/coming soon" page. it would be easy enough to point that to the auntiesocial.com page. that domain expires in july this year, incidentally. > *I* own happyrhodes.org and I've been holding it for happy for years. Right > now I have a link to auntiesocialmusic.com and that will continue. She knows > it's there for her if she wants it. She's settled in at auntiesocialmusic > and doesn't seem to want to move. I can't blame her. Goodness, that's one > of the coolest domain names ever! certainly. moving domains, etc, is a pain in the ass. but it's non-intuitive. it would be better if she could use a happyrhodes.[something] to assist people in finding the auntisocial.com site. unless she starts selling cds as Auntie Social... i was talking with someone from another ISP on thursday who said "no, we don't do web page design. people 'round here think 'if i have a web page, i'll make a million dollars!'" the web page is necessary nowadays, but not sufficient. there needs to be something out there bringing people in. gak... i just discovered that www.auntiesocial.com forwards to www.breastfed.net, which is essentially a very odd rap album. > I know she recently signed with Lolo Records, but I know nothing about their > deal or plans for the album. They didn't pay for the album (just like Samson, > the album was finished before the dotted lines were signed) so they have > no obligation to promote beyond putting their name on it and putting a > link to buy it on their web site. I have no idea what's happening behind > the scenes. For all I know they could have all these plans (CD Baby, others) > in the works. Good, at least there'll be some way for music retailers to get ahold of the disks. - -- brni i don't want the world, i just want your half. www.livejournal.com/~brni ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:30:50 -0700 From: "Jeffrey Hanson" Subject: Re: Things to Read? I highly recommend Augusten BUrroughs memoirs if you like David Sedaris. Jeff Hanson - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Valerie Richardson" To: ; Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 2:04 PM Subject: Re: Things to Read? You might want to check out "The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present," edited by Phillip Lopate. David Sedaris might be separated by a great distance of time and space from the Greek philosopher Seneca, but he could have been the author of Seneca's piece "On Noise." Seneca complains about living next door to a gym filled with noisy and self-absorbed body-builders. There are dozens of other equally timeless, often humorous, essays in the book. - --Valerie Richardson RavFlight@aol.com wrote: >Well, this is not specifically music related, but there are plenty of >discussions on here about non-music related items. I am sure that there are waves of >you who are This American Life fan and (either by proxy or separately) fans of >Sarah Vowell and David Sedaris. I'm delving into the 'personal essay' format, >have devoured everything that the above two authors have chosen to put on >paper. I'm curious if any of you out there have recommendations of other authors >in the same style genre (especially humorous personal essay writers). Any >suggestions? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:22:56 -0500 (EST) From: Bernie Mojzes Subject: josh komorowski josh komorowski was the "main guy" from the love syndicate, a philly area band that i played with for a while back in '99. he's got a new CD coming out, and there's a CD release show at WXPN on Friday 3/25. the music is singer/songwriter fare. in earlier incarnations, there was a distinct funk influence. this album is a little more ballad driven, but the funk still makes an appearance. tickets are available at http://www.worldcafelive.com/ josh's web page is http://www.lovesyndicate.com/ - there's a couple song snippets up there. i've put up a couple songs from the new album at http://gobi.kappamaki.com/~brni/music/josh/ helen leicht (of WXPN) will be featuring josh on her show on tuesday at 9pm. - -- brni i don't want the world, i just want your half. www.livejournal.com/~brni ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:29:16 -0500 (EST) From: Bernie Mojzes Subject: RE: Gong or even... Auntie Gong? On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Bill Mazur wrote: > I can't wait for the Happy and Gilli Smyth duet! ;-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org] On Behalf Of > Bernie Mojzes > Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 7:37 AM > To: ecto@smoe.org > Subject: Gong > > was just looking at lolo records' web page, following links and so on, > and > have come to a startling revelation: Happy is now part of the Gong > extended family! > > this is too cool for words. > > - -- brni i don't want the world, i just want your half. www.livejournal.com/~brni ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:58:24 -0500 From: "JoAnn Whetsell" Subject: interesting NY Times magazine article on home recording I thought some people here might be interested in the NY Times Magazine's article "Home Sweet Studio," about musicians who record in home studios. Several artists are profiled/quoted, including Moby and Keren Ann (who gets a picture as well) who's recently been mentioned on ecto. There are also song samples from each of the artists. Check it out at: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/20/arts/music/20pare.html Seems like good exposure. Now if someone would write an article on the internet and music fans using Happy Rhodes as an example... JoAnn ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:08:53 -0800 From: "Bill Mazur" Subject: RE: Gong That sounds good. Four octaves and space whispers. - -----Original Message----- From: Bernie Mojzes [mailto:brni@kappamaki.com] Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 7:29 PM To: Bill Mazur Cc: ecto@smoe.org Subject: RE: Gong or even... Auntie Gong? On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Bill Mazur wrote: > I can't wait for the Happy and Gilli Smyth duet! ;-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org] On Behalf Of > Bernie Mojzes > Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 7:37 AM > To: ecto@smoe.org > Subject: Gong > > was just looking at lolo records' web page, following links and so on, > and > have come to a startling revelation: Happy is now part of the Gong > extended family! > > this is too cool for words. > > - -- brni i don't want the world, i just want your half. www.livejournal.com/~brni ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:35:24 -0700 From: Jerene Subject: Happy a CDBaby? I found out recently that one of my new neighbors is Derek (of CDBaby)'s mother. Surely, I could use this connection to get Happy anything she wants from them. I love Find Me. I love that it has little bits of all kinds of Happy expression all through it. Mostly I love the self exposure she does so willingly and trustingly. Even those of us who have been chosen on occasion can empathize with being the last picked for the softball team or something, I suppose. On the other hand, it is a tease. Grrrr. I want it all. Now. Please. My new neighbors live in the southwest corner of Colorado, because that is where I have moved recently--well, that's why they're my neighbors. Those ecto-persons who have known me in the past to live in San Diego should check out our new digs (mostly archaeological). We have a 1,000 sq foot meeting room, plenty of outdoor space (including natural red rock ampitheatres), places to sleep and much much more. If anyone is ever in the neighborhood, we could accommodate events, music, curiosity, and explorers. We are, however, about 180 miles from the nearest freeway on-ramp, 14.6 miles from the Utah border, 12 miles west of Cortez, CO, and 20 miles from Mesa Verde National Park. This is an ecto-free zone (free for EWS ectophiles). Jerene www.kellyplace.com P.S. We could use another cook. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:45:46 -0800 From: Greg Bossert Subject: Re: ecto-digest V11 #76 On Mar 19, 2005, at 11:28 PM, aural gratification wrote: > Just like the rest of the world and humanity Ecto is so willing to > romance > the "victimhood" of the Happy Rhodes story. [...] We all make our own > beds > and then must toss and turn in them. People are responsible for their > paths > and what happens to them and around them. Does anyone really believe > that > the non-stop coddling and donating and hand holding is a benefit ? > Obviously it hasn't ever worked has it ? [...] I'm suprised to hear > that anyone > could entertain the notion that "paths to the world" eminate from a > physical > place. right on, Kevin. right on. i hope you are well. i'm still digging "Near-Life Experience"... which is, of course, available from CDBaby. hang loose, etc. - -g - -- www.suddensound.com --- ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V11 #77 **************************