From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #190 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, July 23 2007 Volume 13 : Number 190 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Neko Case live [neal copperman ] The McDades? [neal copperman ] 4400 Theme [Michael Pearce ] Re: Neko Case live ["robert bristow-johnson" ] Re: 4400 Theme [John Higdon ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:16:12 -0600 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: Neko Case live I have to admit that I've mostly had lukewarm experiences with Kelly Hogan too, but as a back-up singer/foil for Neko, she was brilliant. Though I still prefer the Neko/Sadies combo of a few years back. neal np: Edie Carey house concert . At 12:16 AM -0500 7/22/07, Timothy Jones-Yelvington wrote: >Kelly Hogan sort of ubiquitous here in Chicago, being all over the insurgent >country Bloodshot records thing. > >I went through a bit of an alt country phase shortly after moving here, >during which I bought her album based upon rave reviews at Reckless Records, >our local indie music shop. > >I had trouble getting into it, but perhaps should give it another shot. > > >On 7/21/07 11:04 PM, "meredith" wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Karen Hester wrote: >>> Loved Neko. However, if you were intending to come but weren't quite >>> over your 3 day illness, and not up to loud music and crowds, then you >>> made the right decision to go home and sleep. The sound wasn't great >>> (though fine for free outside show), the volume on Neko's vocals high >>> enough to give her a buzz like a radio station not quite tuned in. >> >> Aww, y'all should've come up to beautiful Greenfield, MA to see Neko at the >> Green River Festival >> today instead. :) woj and I just got home, and we're still giddy from the >> wonderfulness of it all. >> The sound was great, too -- Klondike did the sound, using the exact same >> system that is going to >> be packed up and moved to Falcon Ridge this week. >> >> Our day there started early -- we arrived around 2:30 pm, in time >>to see Rani >> Arbo and daisy mayhem >> on the main stage. After that was the afternoon's main event (for >>us, anyway) >> -- Erin McKeown, >> accompanied by former The Nields rhythm section Dave Chalfant and >>Dave Hower, >> plus a keyboardist >> whose name I have a mental block on and, for the last few songs, a >>great horn >> section from a local >> band called Primate Fiasco. Erin was awesome, as usual. She mentioned she >> has a live album coming >> out this fall, which I believe is from the incredible _Sing You Sinners_ CD >> release show she did at >> Joe's Pub earlier this year. A must to pre-order, believe me. >> >> woj and I took a break for food and a nap before Southern Culture >>On The Skids >> took the stage for an >> amusing high-energy set of "white trash geek rock" that we enjoyed >>immensely. >> Then, after an >> extended changeover break during which time we moved to the front >>of the crowd >> right in the center, >> and the evening balloon launch took place behind us, Neko and her >>band finally >> came on. >> >>> Again, loved Neko. She wore the same straggly clothes and >>> just-out-of-bed hair as her New Pornographers gig. Lots of silly and >>> cute stage banter, >> >> Same here. I don't remember a lot of the banter details, but she >>did mention >> being hung over, and >> warning us all never to party with The Hold Steady. ;) >> >>> Then more silly banter - >>> "when someone yells out 'shut up and play' it makes me want to talk >>> more." >> >> Someone yelled at her to shut up this evening, too. She found the >>offender in >> the crowd and called >> her out and heckled back, and the woman ended up fleeing in >>mortified terror. >> It was brilliant. >> >> So yeah, great show, intense music interspersed with silly moments. And the >> best part was, even >> though it was a festival Neko still did a full 75-minute set plus encore. >> Pretty cool. >> >>> Enjoyed backup singer Kelly Hogan too, who I realize I've 'saved for >>> later' in eMusic. She looked like a perfect southern lady who has gone >>> bad and now lives a trashy 1950s paperback existence with hard >>> alcohol, brassy attitude and one button too many open. >> >> I remarked to woj that I didn't know Neko had cloned Sylvia Plath to sing >> backup for her. ;) Your >> description is spot-on. >> >> Certain musical historians may be interested to note that Kelly >>Hogan used to >> be in The Jody Grind. >> (Southern Culture on the Skids even did an old Jody Grind song >>during their > > set earlier in the >> day, inspired by Kelly's presence backstage.) >> >> Oh, one final note of ecto interest: Neko Case's drummer on this >>tour is Barry >> Mirochnick, who many >> of us know thanks to his years playing with Veda Hille. (woj was >>surprised to >> note that Barry still >> remembers how to play in 4/4, after all that. ;) >> >> P.S. Hey Karen, might we see you at the Dorothy Scott/Sloan Wainwright/Jane >> Kelly Williams show >> this Thursday at The Living Room? If you're not already planning on that >> show, you really, really >> should be. :) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:46:36 -0600 From: neal copperman Subject: The McDades? Anyone have any thoughts/experiences with The McDades? neal ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:54:51 -0700 From: Michael Pearce Subject: 4400 Theme Maybe this was answered last year, but who is the singer/songwriter of the opening theme to the 4400? I love her voice and subtle harmonies. No credit in the credits, of course. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 23:25:06 -0400 From: "robert bristow-johnson" Subject: Re: Neko Case live > ----- Original Message ----- > From: meredith > To: ecto > Subject: Re: Neko Case live > Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:04:02 -0400 > > ... > > Aww, y'all should've come up to beautiful Greenfield, MA to see Neko at the > Green River Festival today instead. :) Merideth, i was seriously thinking of doing that. i wanted to see Neko (who was on Saturday), and one of our (Kurzweil) "soundware" engineers (these are musicians that build up presents, programs and setups that sound cool, out of the hardware and software the geek engineers supply them) was playing Friday with Andrew Jones and Spirithouse. he wanted me to come Friday, and i wanted to come on Saturday, but alas, i didn't make it to either. we're in a crunch here at Kurzweil (it had better be worth it, i hope this keyboard does well). - -- r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com "Imagination is more important than knowledge." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 23:55:15 -0500 From: John Higdon Subject: Re: 4400 Theme Trying this again as a test, since I got a message back from my original attempt, saying that my message had a permanent failure in delivery due to it coming from a dynamic IP address in the sorbs.net database.... Michael Pearce wrote: > Maybe this was answered last year, but who is the singer/songwriter of > the opening theme to the 4400? I love her voice and subtle harmonies. > No credit in the credits, of course. I've liked the song myself, looked her up a while back. According to the IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389564/soundtrack), her name is Amanda Abizaid. She has a Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Abizaid and a site: http://www.amandaabizaid.com/ - -- John Higdon ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #190 ***************************