From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #93 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, April 15 2007 Volume 13 : Number 093 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 ] My first Happy experience ["Greg Blair" ] Re: My first Happy experience [YogaPoze@aol.com] Re: My first Happy experience ["Jeffrey Hanson" ] re: My first Happy experience ["Jeffrey Burka" ] Re: Feist ["Jeffrey Burka" ] Re: Feist [birdie ] Director of Fiest 1 2 3 4 vid is..... [birdie ] Re: My first Happy experience ["F.J.Fornorn" ] Re: My first Happy experience ["Marc McLaren" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 03:00:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ***************** Stuart Myerburg (stuart@sph.emory.edu) ****************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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 Harry Foster Sat April 21 1956 NiceGuy Kjetil Torgrim Homme Thu April 23 1970 Taurus Jeff Burka Thu April 24 1969 GoFlyAKite Christine Waite Tue April 25 1972 Taurus Matt Adams Thu April 26 1962 Taurus Brad Hutchinson Tue April 28 1964 What sign? Geoff Parks Sun April 30 1961 Taurus Marty Lash Sat May 01 1948 Taurus Barney Parker Fri May 02 1986 happy cat Gray Abbott Tue May 03 1955 Suprised Tamar Boursalian Tue May 03 1966 Taurus Richard A. Holmes May 07 Taurus Steve Ito Fri May 08 1970 DA Bull... Brian Gregory Thu May 09 1963 Eclectic Catherine Sundnes Sat May 09 1970 Very Catzy Heidi Maier Wed May 10 1978 Taurus Kris the boy Fri May 11 1979 Taurus Patrick Varker Wed May 12 1954 Torius Philip David Morgan Sat May 12 1962 Chinese Tiger in Bull Clothing Steve Fagg Tue May 13 1958 Nightwol Karel Zuiderveld Fri May 13 1960 Stier - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:01:17 +0000 From: "Greg Blair" Subject: My first Happy experience My friend Kerry came to my apartment in 1995 and said he had a CD he wanted me to hear, but wouldn't tell me what it was. After a few songs, I thought I had it figured out. I told him that what he had just played was trio consisting of Annie Lennox, Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel. Obviously, the three of them had decided to do a project together. Well, it turned out to be "Building the Colossus" by one Happy Rhodes, who I had never heard of. I was smitten and have been so ever since. It still tickles me to think that I originally thought that she was three people, because no one person could make all those sounds! After being a reader of ecto for the last two years, I realized that I had been waiting for somebody to ask the musical question, "How did you discover Happy Rhodes?" when I decided to ask and answer it myself. Anyone else want to tell their story? - - Greg - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Interest Rates Fall Again! $430,000 Mortgage for $1,399/mo - Calculate new payment ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:19:17 EDT From: YogaPoze@aol.com Subject: Re: My first Happy experience Thanks for bringing up this discussion! I'll be really curious to hear ever yone's stories. I first encountered Happy Rhodes about nine years ago, when I was ten. My mom had gone to Blockbuster and returned with Many Worlds. She didn't tell me what it was until after we had listened to it, but when I heard it, I was in love! I asked her who all those singers were, and she said, "Happy Rhodes." I was fascinated that a single voice could achieve such extreme ranges, which made my love her all the more. We listened to that album every single night for several weeks after that. Gradually, I started collecting her earlier albums, and the more I listened to them, the more I loved them. I became a truly thorough Happy Freak early in life, and I'm proud to consider myself one today! Sincerely, Kate M. "Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." - Victor Borge ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:11:03 -0600 From: "Jeffrey Hanson" Subject: Re: My first Happy experience Let's see, I was living in San Diego at the time (1993?), was sick of the flame wars on rec.music.gaffa, and discovered the ecto mailing list. I'd heard about Happy before I'd ever heard her. My first post to ecto was asking if anyone on ecto lived in San Diego and knew where in San DIego you could buy her albums. Neal Copperman responded, turned out we worked across a canyon from each other and had been to many of the same events. A friendship developed, and now we both live in ALbuquerque and run a house concert series together. Just one of several friendships that evolved out of ecto. The first concert Neal and I went to together was a Diamanda Galas concert- very interesting experience!. My first two Happy purchases were Rhodes I and Ecto (from Lou's Records in Encinitas). At first I thought she was a Kate wanna be,but she quickly grew on me and I soon was a total fan and have been ever since. I think Equipoise was just coming out or had just came out about the time I discovered Happy. Back then though she was pretty prolific, so I had a decent back catalog to choose from and new albums coming out pretty rapidly. Sad to realize that its now been 9 years since Happy's last officially released album (MWABT--though there have been some demos at least to tide us over). Jeff Hanson np - nr - The Portrait of Mrs Charbuque - Jeffrey Ford ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:28:26 -0400 From: 2005.carnivore99@verizon.net Subject: Re: Feist The video for "1 2 3 4" was released to YouTube yesterday, and it's quite fabulous too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Z-DIAthbM Dan Neile Graham wrote: >Speaking of great, a friend provided me with a copy of Feist's upcoming >album, and all I can say is hang on to your hats. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:35:01 -0400 From: "Paul Blair" Subject: Dorothy Scott CD release events in May (Chicago & Wisconsin) - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: dorothy scott Date: Apr 14, 2007 1:36 PM Subject: CD Release/Dorothy Scott Dear friends, I hope this finds you well. Out The Box Records will be releasing "Pass It On" in May. We have a few CD release parties on the horizon and there will be more coming. http://www.otbrecords.com The first one: Saturday May 12th 8:00 PM The Ladder House (Upstairs) 38 South Third Ave Sturgeon Bay, WI 920-743-3315 Pat Macdonald will also be releasing his record "Troubadour of Stomp" on this night and we will be collectively celebrating the Steelbridge Songfest 3 so we hope you can come out. http://www.myspace.com/dorothyscott http://www.myspace.com/patmacdonald http://www.myspace.com/steelbridgesongfest Thursday May 31st 8:00 PM Martry's 3855 North Lincoln Ave Chicago, IL 773-404-9499 http://www.martyrslive.com The Martry's concert is not confirmed yet but check website as it will be soon. ***Art Of Music*** Friday May 4th 7:30 PM with CORKY SIEGEL 119 King Street La Crosse WI 54601 608-785-1434 http://www.thepumphouse.org *The (Little Pop Overthrow) Wise Fool's pub concert in Chicago scheduled for tomorrow night (April 15) has been cancelled on my end. Sorry for the inconvenience. O.K. It's spring so make a lot of good things happen, plant a lot of seeds for change and renewal and keep the good vibes flowing. Love and Peace, Dorothy Scott http://www.dorothyscott.com - --------------------------------------------------------------- Change your info? Stop the emails? Easy! Just click this link: http://dorothyscott.com/hostbaby/i?i=580&p=X3b4Z8El19uoSiyv5C3F ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:54:07 -0400 From: "Michael Colford" Subject: RE: Feist It is super-fabulous! I love it. And it's the Top 20 viral videos on YouTube. When did I blink and Feist become so darn popular? Michael Michael R. Colford Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President P.O. Box 301237 Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 781 526-5384 colford@chlotrudis.org http://www.chlotrudis.org/ "Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion!" - -- Kittie Farmer, Donnie Darko - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org] On Behalf Of 2005.carnivore99@verizon.net Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 10:28 PM To: Ectophiles Subject: Re: Feist The video for "1 2 3 4" was released to YouTube yesterday, and it's quite fabulous too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Z-DIAthbM Dan Neile Graham wrote: >Speaking of great, a friend provided me with a copy of Feist's upcoming >album, and all I can say is hang on to your hats. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:11:49 -0400 From: "Jeffrey Burka" Subject: re: My first Happy experience greg blair sez: [his Happy story] Thanks...always fun to read these. > After being a reader of ecto for the last two years, I realized that I > had been waiting for somebody to ask the musical question, "How did you > discover Happy Rhodes?" I guess this is one of the problems on a mailing list that's about to turn 16...many of us have been around for years and we've heard these stories before. It doesn't mean they're not great topics, even for us old-timers...just that we don't think to ask the question but every so many years! This might be broken-recordy for some folks, but clearly others I first heard Happy in the summer of '90 (17 years! that's 45% of my life ago!). The original Ecto Ma herself, Vickie, had put together a tape tree on rec.music.gaffa to distribute tapes of her final Suspended in Gaffa radio show -- four cassettes and two video tapes, if I remember correctly. I was the second person on the list of people to receive the box o' tapes and I dubbed them within a day or two and mailed off the package to the next recipient. It was never seen again. I swear, I really mailed it! Honest! Anyway, the fourth tape's second side was 30+ minutes of Happy, taken from the first four albums, then available only on tape. While I liked other stuff on the tapes, it was that last side that made the biggest impression. It began with a couple of songs by Area from _The Perfect Dream_ (25, With Louise, and I'll Gather Flowers...I also turned into a huge Area, M7x, and Shotgun Wedding fan!) and was then followed by all sorts of beautiful music, ending with "To Be E. Mortal." I listened to that tape pretty constantly for about 4 months before I finally broke down and ordered all four tapes from Aural Gratification. In the Aural Gratification package they came in, Kevin Bartlett included the '89-'90 AG catalog, with the following handwritten at the bottom: Dear Jeffrey, Thanks for your order, we hope you enjoy the music. Sorry it's taken us a bit longer than usual to ship these out. The flu decided to try and kill us. We bare prevailed. I figured it was best just to mail these, than wait another week for shrinkwrapping, so please forgive. Happy and I will be around Boston on Thurs. 1-24 mastering her new CD "Warpaint." It should be out soon. We'll keep you posted. Thanks again, Kevin Bartlett Two months later, in a project spawned on rec.music.gaffa, I spent I'm not sure how much time transcribing a draft of the lyrics on the first four albums. These were then sent on to mjm, who refined them and then sent them on to Vickie. She took another stab at corrections and then sent them on to Happy, who, after laughing a lot at our mistakes, made a final set of corrections. Those were the lyrics that got printed in the liner notes of the 1st4 CDs when they were finally released. I like to think that Mike, Vickie, and I provided at least some of the inspiration for Happy to release those CDs. So it's been 17 years. I'm not sure I listen to Happy every day, but I would guess a song of hers still shuffles on to the iPod at least once every 1-2 days. Two years later and I still listen to _Find Me_ quite often, dreaming of the day Happy actually releases the album. jeff n.p. BtC Oh, if you're wondering, the songs on the original SiG 118 tape 4 were: Given In No One Here I'll Let You Go Ecto Step Inside The Wretches Gone Awry Crystal Orbs To the Funny Farm Asylum Master Because I Learn The Chase I Cannot Go On Ode Don't Want to Hear It Poetic Justic To Be E. Mortal Thanks, Vickie! You changed my life! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:11:24 -0400 From: "Jeffrey Burka" Subject: Re: Feist On 4/14/07, Michael Colford wrote: > It is super-fabulous! I love it. yeah, that's pretty awesome. For some reason it makes me think of the video late 70's KaTe would have made if she'd had the Polyphonic Spree as co-stars. jeff ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:22:27 -0700 From: birdie Subject: Re: Feist i thought of kaTe right away, me'self i am sure she will think it's great. anyone know who directed and choreographed it? it's simply fabulous... cheers birdie Jeffrey Burka wrote: > On 4/14/07, Michael Colford wrote: > >> It is super-fabulous! I love it. > > > yeah, that's pretty awesome. For some reason it makes me think of the > video late 70's KaTe would have made if she'd had the Polyphonic Spree > as co-stars. > > jeff ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:38:14 -0700 From: birdie Subject: Director of Fiest 1 2 3 4 vid is..... Patrick Daughters he also directed Mushaboom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQDpy_e5yhg&mode=related&search= ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:57:43 -0400 From: "F.J.Fornorn" Subject: Re: My first Happy experience Setup: I lived in Poughkeepsie, NY, from to 1994. I had a friend (B) who lived in the severely rural outskirts of town, and he was very big on a station he found from Connecticut: WPKN. He could just barely get it on his farm in the eastern Hudson Valley. I could not get it at all where I lived in downtown Poughkeepsie. In 1994 I moved to CT. I remembered this favorite station of B.'s and started listening. Not too long after that, probably 1995, I first remember hearing the music and name of Happy Rhodes, when Binnie Klein played tracks from the newly released album Building the Colossus. That was it... hook, line and sinker. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 06:06:25 +0100 From: "Marc McLaren" Subject: Re: My first Happy experience Apparently the way I discovered Happy is a common method of her discovery. While randomly download Kate Bush songs from...a totally legitimate source, of course...there was a song. A duet from Kate Bush and Annie Lennox! singing a song called When the Rain Came Down. I loved the song and further research showed... ...that it was infact by Happy Rhodes. Google revealed Vickie's wretchawry website and I've been hooked ever since. I don't think there's been a day gone by where I haven't listened to at least one Happy song. And I'm real glad someone finally brought up this topic :D Marc. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #93 **************************