From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #95 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, April 17 2007 Volume 13 : Number 095 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: My first Happy experience ["Marcel Rijs" ] First Happy Experience [adamk@zoom.co.uk] Re: My first Happy experience ["robert bristow-johnson" ] RE: My first Happy experience ["Bill Mazur" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 16 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********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ***************** Jeff Hanson (jjhanson@worldnet.att.net) ***************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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 Michael Colford Wed May 16 1962 Taurus - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:14:20 +0200 From: "Marcel Rijs" Subject: Re: My first Happy experience Hi, Joining in on the topic, I must confess that my memory is a bit blurry. I do remember that my first Happy experience was a result of discovering the internet in 1993. Back then, everyone in Holland had to dial in to Amsterdam to get online (which fyi is not a local call when you live anywhere else in the country... I spent hundreds of guilders/dollars/euros that way!) . I had an account from the university (where I spent one year) and on Compuserve at the time. I think it was Marion who told me about this artist called Happy Rhodes and the ecto mailing list - but I don't remember exactly. The name just popped up because I was a Kate Bush fan ever since I was a child and as earlier posts have already cleared up, it's just a small step from her to Happy. Now her music wasn't all too easy to come by: online music stores weren't as omnipresent as nowadays downloading a music file could take hours. So I was dependent on 'regular' record shops. In the Spring of 1994 I ended up going to 'Fame', a large cd shop in Amsterdam that for some strange reason stocked Happy cd's. I never quite figured out why: under normal circumstances no regular shop in Holland should ever stock cd's by an independent artist from America, but somehow they did. I think they were the only one in the whole country! So there I was: I saw I, II, Rearmament, Ecto, Warpaint, Equipoise and RhodeSongs and my first decision was to check out RhodeSongs because that one seemed to be a sampler of all the other ones (I caught on quick, see!). I went to the desk and asked if I could listen to this cd. A minute later I was listening to track one, 'Feed the fire'. I don't think I even listened to any other track. I bought the cd right then and there. RhodeSongs was a great disc. And a wonderful introduction to all the rest. Just like in 1985 with Kate Bush, it only took two months to buy all her albums. Kind regards, Marcel Rijs marcel.rijs@kb.nl ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:14:04 +0100 From: adamk@zoom.co.uk Subject: First Happy Experience Mine was a slightly more unusual route: I was a member of a Peter Hammill list (check out his entry on the ectophile's guide to music) and somebody raised the topics of female artists similar to Hammill. Someone mentioned Happy Rhodes, so I googled the name, bought the new album (MWBT) and, simulataneously, discovered the warm blue fuzzy world of ecto. As I was already into people like Jonatha Brooke, Patty Griffin and the Indigo Girls, it seemed like...well, like coming home. I've discovered a lot of other interesting music, as well, and even though it must have been about 7 or 8 years ago, I still feel like a newcomer. Oddly enough, I'm seeing Peter Hammill tonight, along with what's left of Van der Graaf Generator. adam k. - ----------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://webmail.zoom.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:09:30 -0400 From: "robert bristow-johnson" 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, similar for me. i posted this before i think. also similar for me that it was a radio experience. dunno entirely the date, but i think it was 1995 and the show was John Diliberto's Echoes on WFUV (i was living in NJ at the time). although i missed the actual Living Room Concert, he was repeating this song that recorded at the LRC and now is on The Keep. that song was and is Save our Souls. i was enthralled from the beginning (the "Ha, ha, ha...") but was blown away by the little trill she did in the 2nd refrain (around time marker 3:21). you know, that high G, Eb, F, D, Eb, C, D, C, Eb, D, thingie... the epitome of equisite feminine vocal. it just melted me. i was like: "Who *is* this lady?!" and i found out. eventually, in 1996, i and my wife got to see her at the Bottom Line. that was one of two shows where i heard Happy perform live. the other was in 2002 (i think that was the year) also at Bottom Line. (may the spirit of that place R.I.P.) ... > Thank you, Happy, for _your_ inspirations. Your music has set me free! me 2. - -- r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com "Imagination is more important than knowledge." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:51:57 -0700 From: Greg Bossert Subject: Re: My first Happy experience the 1990 KBC/Homeground KaTe convention in london. a group of LoveHounds was wandering towards dinner afterwards and Vickie said something along the lines of "you all need to hear this" and pushed play on a little boombox sort of gadget and *pow*. i'm pretty sure the first thing she played was "poetic justice", leastwise that's the track that stuck in my head; that and "ecto" itself. (we hadn't slept much, so it was all a bit of a delicious blur...) i got the first four cassettes as soon as i got back to the US, and quickly became one of those folks on gaffa that mentioned Happy enough to annoy the masses and prompt the creation of ecto. not coincidentally, within a year or so i was hanging out in, and later working in, the office of ecto-founder jessica, soon had woj as a house mate, and a few years after that i was hosting and moderating this list. i probably wouldn't have my dream job making movies in california if i hadn't heard that voice on the streets of london... hmm, here's a special commemorative sig from those days: - - --+ i have never been afraid to change -- Happy +-- - - --+ the circumstances of the world -- Rhodes +-- footah! - -g ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:11:52 -0700 From: "Bill Mazur" Subject: RE: My first Happy experience My first Happy experience: I have been here on Ecto now for about nine years. I was doing some grass roots Internet marketing for the Katheleen Michaels CD when I happened upon the web site of Joel Siegfried, an Ectophile from San Diego. I found his site because I was looking for people on Internet that had sites dedicated to female acoustic music. Joel had the Usenet handle of "Ecto". His web site explained the following about Ecto: "The term "ecto" as it applies to music actually comes from the Usenet newsgroup alt.music.ecto dedicated to Happy Rhodes, and named after one of her albums." I did some Google searches and found "The Ecto Home Page" and "The Ectophiles Guide to Good Music". I filled out the artist add request form and offered to send a copy of Katheleen's CD to be reviewed. Neile Graham responded back to me with a very nice message. In the meantime, I read more and more about Happy and the glowing comparisons to one of my favorite artists, Kate Bush. So I immediately sought out and purchased MWABT. I was so impressed with everything about that CD not the least being Happy's incredibly beautiful voice. Not many artists touch me the way Happy does. Her voice and her poignant lyrics can send a shiver down my spine and bring a tear to my eye. Very shortly thereafter I joined the Ecto mailing list and entered this fuzzy blue universe. I received a very warm welcome (both publicly and privately) from many people here most notably from Vickie Mapes, Marion Kippers, Neal Copperman, Jeffrey Burka and Jeff Hanson. I have been here ever since. Sometimes I am very active and other times I have been a dormant lurker. It just all depends on how complicated my life is at the time. I have met some really wonderful people here that have become my friends and I have discovered some amazing artists and music. Thank you Happy! Thank you Ecto! With affection, Bill Mazur - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Greg Blair Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 1:01 PM To: ecto@smoe.org 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 ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #95 **************************