From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #28 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, February 4 2007 Volume 13 : Number 028 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Re: Today's my birthday, friends... (well, yesterday, but who's counting now?) [Robert Lovejoy Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ****************** Timothy S. 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Devine Tue February 03 1970 Aquarius Stephen Thomas Fri February 04 1966 Aquarius Doug Burks Tue February 14 1956 Blank Jim Sturnfield Thu February 18 1954 Aquarius Juha Kannisto Wed February 18 1970 Aquarius Joel Siegfried February 19 Penguin Crossing Linda Saboe Tue February 20 1951 aimless Teresa Ross Wed February 23 1977 pisces Michael Curry Fri February 24 1967 Pisces Paula Shanks Mon February 25 1952 Pisces Brni Mojzes Fri February 26 1965 the vanishing boy Mark Bianchino Wed February 26 1964 Pisces Pamela Pociluk Fri February 28 1964 Pisces Marius Voina Mon March 03 1980 Pisces - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 22:29:12 -0500 From: Robert Lovejoy Subject: Re: Today's my birthday, friends... (well, yesterday, but who's counting now?) Hey you guys! Thanks to all who sent b-day wishes or even had a nice thought! I'm still here with you, more of a lurker than I ought to be, but I have quite a bit on my plate these daze. Got a new fretless bass for my present and it's been near impossible to put it down! Sixty? I don't feel a day over thirty-nine. Oh, Rochester! Blessings to all of you fuzzy blue ectophiles. I've discovered some seriously good music because of this list I try to return the favor now and then (did anyone ever check out Deadman? Never got anything back from that, so it goes. Just in case, http://www.deadmanonline.com/ ) I have been passionate about music since I was a teenager. I took up a bass right out of college, got drafted, found a lot of other musicians in the army and started a band with some of them afterward. I remember my love affair with prog peaking in the seventies with Gentle Giant (BTW, I got a birthday note from John Weathers yesterday!) but in the eighties music began to take a back seat to work and family-raising (though I always kept playing, if only to myself). But it was around sixteen or seventeen years ago that a song reached out of my car radio and hammered so deeply into my psyche that I had to pull off the road and Listen. WXPN playing "Feed The Fire" was a milestone in my life. Never had any music reached me on so many levels; and that voice, that voice, oh my goddess! The rest is history Some members of ecto surely must (obviously) empathize... I never learned the true meaning of smoe, but I did inspire a T shirt. I was on ecto before there was smoe. I had a 1200 baud modem hooked up to the Tandy 1000EX and would dial up providers in NYC to get my digests (good old pipeline). Now I've got 16Mbps and get ecto loose mail, and I still read all your posts actively. So here I am, still, and I'm happy to see other old-timers still about. A special shout to Meth for it was her note that prompted this epistle, and always a hug for Vickie. And above all, my thoughts go to Happy and her amazing music. To this day my mind is boggled that a talent of that magnitude was barely a blip on America's musical radar (insert Frank Zappa quote here). I also would like to acknowledge Kevin Bartlett, pure musical genius, for his part in the story. Circumstances have changed, as they do with time, and while there must have been some serious pain all around, my deepest wish is for everyone's happiness. It would appear that life is going on as it should for everyone. We have been through quite a bit together these past sixteen years. Has it only been that long? It feels much longer. Thanks to all of you for sharing a bit of your lives these many years. I'm looking forward to many more years and much more great music. Peace, Bob Lovejoy PS - My personal music life has come around; I'm in a band again, playing regularly for fun. We even played out once or twice. Woo-hoo!!! meredith wrote: > Hi, > > Since it's a milestone one ... > > HAPPY BIRTHDAY to ecto's Uncle Bob!!! > > :) ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #28 **************************