From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #94 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, April 16 2007 Volume 13 : Number 094 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: Feist [Kjetil Torgrim Homme ] Re: copy protection question [Kjetil Torgrim Homme ] re: My first Happy experience [Ellen Rawson ] Re: My first Happy experience ["Paul Blair" ] Re: copy protection question ["Kim Justice" ] RE: My First Happy Experience ["Kevin D. F. Highnight" ] Re: Feist [meredith ] Re: My first Happy experience [Robert Lovejoy ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:00:04 -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********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ************************ T-Bone (no Email address) ************************ *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:03:00 +0200 From: Kjetil Torgrim Homme Subject: Re: Feist [Michael Colford]: > > When did I blink and Feist become so darn popular? good question. same thing with Regina Spektor! but we don't mind, do we? :-) New York Times has a large spread today: Just Feist. Just Wait. By JON PARELES After a decade of wandering, an indie darling is ready to become pop's new one-name wonder. (2200 words) http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/arts/music/15pare.html - -- Kjetil T. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:53:39 +0200 From: Kjetil Torgrim Homme Subject: Re: copy protection question [Nadyne Mielke]: > > Copy-protected CDs don't meet the technical specification for > compact discs, so they can't have the CD logo anywhere on them. > They should have something on the outer packaging saying that the > CD might not play in all CD players because of this. it's not quite that simple -- the Sony rootkit CDs met the specifications, but Windows PCs automatically ran the software included on the discs, which turned out to be a bad idea for those PCs' owners. I don't mind "copy protection" which works like that, since it only affects naive people running unsecure computers (you need to run Windows *and* grant yourself administrator rights *and* enable autorun. three strikes, and you're out), and it can't actually destroy hardware. on the other hand, a disc without the Compact Disc logo once ruined the CDROM drive in my computer while I was ripping it. I guess you could say the copy protection worked as intended, but there was no warning except the implicit one. anyway, copy protection on "CD"s looks to be a thing of the past quite soon (*crosses fingers*). I hope EMI will rerelease Aerial as a proper CD soon, since they've officially abandoned DRM. there are also a few Bjvrk albums, and Anja Garbarek's latest, and Anneli Drecker, and and and :-) - -- Kjetil T. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 06:37:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Ellen Rawson Subject: re: My first Happy experience WXPN. My favourite radio station in the world, one that I now am able to listen to via the Internet. I don't feel any guilt listening on-line because I've been a paid member for years, although I left Philadelphia back in 1979. :) Although I left Philly in 1979, my family stayed there. My siblings still reside there. My parents were there until their deaths. I would return, usually at least yearly, especially when I was still in the US. And when I was there, I listened to WXPN. That's where I first heard Happy. (Heck, I first heard a number of performers there. I'd visit Philly and come back with various artists to investigate. It would later I'd hear them on KBCO or KUNC.) I learned of Ecto first in Philly in the '90s. I'd managed to combine a family visit with an October Project gig --the one at the revived Electric Factory, back when they still had the living rooms shows. I was sitting on a sofa in the front 'row', and a man nearby told me of Ecto. Unfortunately, I never managed to combine a family visit with a Happy show. Alas. Ellen "Literature stops in 1100. After that, it's just books." - -- JRR Tolkien ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:28:40 -0400 From: "Paul Blair" Subject: Re: My first Happy experience I found Happy on Usenet. In 1996, for some reason I can't remember, I started going down the Usenet groups looking for newsgroups for musicians I liked. I kept running into posts from Vickie -- in the Yes newsgroup, in the Kate Bush newsgroup, and then there was this alt.music.ecto newsgroup that seemed to be about a lot of artists I liked. From there I went to some short Warpaint clips that Vickie had put up on the web, and got pulled in. I was on a shoestring budget, and only could afford one album (Warpaint). After that, every six months or so I'd be dying for another Happy fix and get another album. Until there weren't any more, and now what do I do? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:42:52 -0500 From: "Kim Justice" Subject: Re: copy protection question I hate to wade into this topic but for the more technically-inclined I would suggest using a Linux machine to rip CDs. You don't even need a dedicated linux box, as you can boot from a Linux liveCD to do your ripping. Nothing on a booby-trapped CD can hurt a Linux system, although I imagine it's possible it might not be rippable if it departs sufficiently from the CD standard. OK, I'll shut up now. kj - -- Kim Justice justicekw@gmail.com Their graves need no flowers The tapes have recorded their names. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:28:35 -0400 (GMT-04:00) From: "Kevin D. F. Highnight" Subject: RE: My First Happy Experience It's WONDERFUL to see a Happy discussion on ECTO!!! I think this last digest is the first one I've read in a LONG time............... I discovered Happy in a different way than most of you and through another artist than Kate Bush: Tori Amos. I was a Tori Amos fan from her LITTLE EARTHQUAKES era and soon became a subscriber to the fanzine "Really Deep Thoughts". I didn't even know what a fanzine was at the time. Before Tori I didn't even know what a "bside" or "a cover" was. I soon became an obsessive fan who collected everything Tori and even attended annual festivals (OkTorifest). Within one of the first "Really Deep Thoughts" I received was an article written by Sharon Nichols introducing an artist many considered to be similar to Tori and to Kate Bush, who everyone said Tori was similar to. I had only heard ONE Kate Bush song in my life which I heard in the form of it's video: "Love and Anger". I really liked the song and video and saw it many times when it was new.......but it was one of those songs I never got around to buying. And soon forgot about it. When I became a Tori fan and heard the comparisons I remembered the song but didn't see the comparison. Anyway, Sharon Nichols' article in "Really Deep Thoughts" peaked my curiosity. I am a singer myself with a very large range and I had never heard of anyone else who sounded like a man AND a woman when they sang. It was March 1995 and I ordered RHODESONGS to sample this interesting artist. I became an INSTANT fan and within a month had purchased all of her albums!!! Something I had NEVER done nor have ever done again so rabidly!!! I subscribed to "RhodeWays" and in 1997 traveled from Detroit to Philadelphia to finally see her live. It's the farthest I've ever traveled for entertainment AND the only time I've been to the east coast. Soon after getting all of Happy's work in early 1995, she far surpassed all of my many favorite artists and became #1 where she remains to this day. I don't believe there is another vocalist ANYWHERE ANYTIME who can sing as beautifully as Happy. It's quite funny that here I was such a big fan of Tori and find out about Happy and she totally knocks Tori off her throne!!! And through Happy I was introduced to Kate Bush instead of vice versa as everyone else. I finally purchased HOUNDS OF LOVE one day to hear what everyone was talking about. I now see the reason for the comparison.......although I think Happy is a much better vocalist than Kate Bush. The first comparison I thought of after hearing Kate Bush was Cyndi Lauper. [I don't know if that would be considered a good thing or bad.] Kate is very gifted musically but I still believe Happy is the musical genius of our time. Tori and many others will always be seconds to her. Thanks for reading my ramblings........God Bless! Kevin D. F. Highnight ________________________________________ PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:45:15 -0800 From: "Scallion, K.D." Subject: Re: My first Happy experience Not an exciting Happy Rhodes story but...I lucked out finding Happy around the time Many Worlds Are Born Tonight came out. It was listed as an employee favorite at a local Borders store, and I was desparate for new music. I saw David Bowie and Blade Runner references and that sold me. I soon went back to buy the other cds that they had, but had to wait for Happy's site before I could get the rest of the cds (I think I ordered the rest from Samson actually). Kristen - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Blair" To: Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 6:28 AM Subject: Re: My first Happy experience >I found Happy on Usenet. In 1996, for some reason I can't remember, I > started going down the Usenet groups looking for newsgroups for > musicians I liked. I kept running into posts from Vickie -- in the Yes > newsgroup, in the Kate Bush newsgroup, and then there was this > alt.music.ecto newsgroup that seemed to be about a lot of artists I > liked. > > From there I went to some short Warpaint clips that Vickie had put up > on the web, and got pulled in. I was on a shoestring budget, and only > could afford one album (Warpaint). After that, every six months or so > I'd be dying for another Happy fix and get another album. Until there > weren't any more, and now what do I do? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:42:14 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: Feist Hi, 2005.carnivore99@verizon.net wrote: > 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 Feist is featured in this weekend's NY Times Arts & Leisure section, and the making of the video is a large part of the article. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/arts/music/15pare.html - -- =============================================== 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, 15 Apr 2007 21:19:13 -0400 From: Robert Lovejoy Subject: Re: My first Happy experience Old timers here can delete this now; this must be the third time I've posted this to ecto. In a nutshell, I was driving to the grocery store on a routine mission to acquire a few foodstuffs. My car radio is set to WXPN (I am so lucky to live here!). A tune ended. and suddenly there is a lulling synth ostinato with beautiful arpeggios and exotic percussion. Then out of nowhere the most mellifluous voice I have ever heard begins singing "So many powerful beings, so many in tune with life..." I was spellbound. I quickly pulled over to the side of the road and parked. The music reached right into the core of my soul and shook me to my foundations. What was this? Who was I listening to? I've never had such a strong reaction to music before, and I'm a musician. It was a really zen moment. The song ended, and instead of announcing who it was, XPN just started another song. I pulled out and drove to the store, keeping the radio on so I could hear who it was. As I parked, the station went to news, and I did something I'd never done before - I went to the pay phone outside the store and called Information to get XPN's number, then I called the station and asked about the song. "That was 'Feed The Fire' by Happy Roads", I was told. They surely said Rhodes but I heard Roads. The offered that it was on an independent label and was available at a CD specialty shop in Bryn Mawr, PA, about a 45 minute drive across the Delaware River. I thought Happy Roads was an interesting name for a band. I called the shop and quickly found out it was Happy Rhodes. They were sold out. Once I got home I could not get the song out of my head. I was telling everyone I knew that I had just heard an incredible singer. I called WXPN and asked them to play it again. I had my wife call and ask for it. I had my cassette deck ready to go, and before too long it was on again. I'm sure I listened several times in a row. Happy was in town a few days later, for an interview on WXPN and a later appearance at the CD shop in Bryn Mawr. I taped the interview and headed to the store. I went over to Kevin and introduced myself. I told him how deeply I had been touched by the music, and we hit it off. He introduced me to her manager, Susan, who lamented that she hadn't gotten a copy of the interview. I offered her a copy of mine, and said she could pick it up on her way back home. She asked where I lived, and as I began to give her directions, her face took on a look of deep amazement. Turns out Happy's manager had grown up in the house diagonally across the street from mine. I got in line to meet Happy, and I remember that when she saw me, she said I looked familiar, hadn't she met me before? My mouth was saying no, we hadn't met, but my soul was telling me there were other incarnations, other planes where we did know each other. I'd like to think I was a fellow musician with her in another lifetime. There were a lot of coincidences that day. I picked up Warpaint and the back catalog on CDs, and musically I haven't been the same ever since. I look forward to feeding the fire. And imagine having five new Happy Rhodes albums all at once. It was overwhelming! I spent months taking it all in, and in the meantime I found this new fangled thing called the Internet. I found my way to ecto and have been here ever since. Or, to put the whole thing another way: So many powerful beings So many in tune with life Imagination abounds here There's wisdom And great insight My ears are lucky to hear These glorious songs Of inspiration And voices crafted from Thunder The power of life I want to go back to the trees Where my art was born And I was duly sworn To be alive To be alive A live burning force Forever more and evermore I feed the fire There is a road straight To my heart Traveled by those with fire I hope to follow their Patterns They're many more to inspire I live to see my fondest Dreams realized Of living under the Sights and sounds of The gifted Who gave so much to me I want to go back to the trees Where my art was born And I was duly sworn To be alive To be alive A live burning force Forever more and evermore Got to go back to the trees Where my art was born And I was duly sworn To be alive To be alive A live burning force Forever more and evermore I feed the fire Allow me someday to touch you The way that you've All touched me I thank you for your Expressions Your music has set me free I want to go back to the trees Where my art was born And I was duly sworn To be alive To be alive A live burning force Forever more and evermore I feed the fire I want to go back to the trees Where my art was born And I was duly sworn To be alive To be alive A live burning force Forever more and evermore I feed the fire I've got to go back to the trees Where my art was born And I was duly sworn To be alive To be alive Forever more and evermore Thank you, Happy, for _your_ inspirations. Your music has set me free! Bob Lovejoy ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #94 **************************