From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #225 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, August 26 2007 Volume 13 : Number 225 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- **LAST WEEK TO VOTE FOR RACHAEL SAGE IN STARBUCKS CONTEST!** [SpiritWe@ao] Re: hats off to neal and jeff [neal copperman ] Re: hats off to neal and jeff ["Xenu's Sister" ] Getting together before the show...the S&S list ["Xenu's Sister" ] Ashley Maher coming to Boston, NYC [meredith ] Re: hats off to neal and jeff [neal copperman - AMP Concerts ] RE: Stuff for Boston [kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white)] Ectofest '07 now has a MySpace page ["Xenu's Sister" Subject: Re: hats off to neal and jeff Thanks for the plug Meredith. Guess you have some sort of alert when Rachael is mentioned :) neal np: Live from Momo's - The Band of Heathens (the group that was our 100th and final house concert) . At 10:32 PM -0400 8/24/07, meredith wrote: >Hi, > >Our own Neal Copperman and Jeff Hanson just laid to rest the house >concert series they've been running in Albuquerque for the past >seven years. > >I raise my virtual glass to Neal and Jeff for putting on over 100 >shows, and doing it all with class and style. (In the three+ years >I've been on the road with Rachael Sage, the AMP show she did back >in '04 still ranks as one of the very best I've been involved with, >all around.) > >http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/aug/24/amp-concerts-series-shows-homes-comes-end-after-se/ > > >-- >=============================================== >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: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:01:32 -0700 (PDT) From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Re: hats off to neal and jeff - --- neal copperman wrote: > Thanks for the plug Meredith. Guess you have some sort of alert when > Rachael is mentioned :) That was a great article about you two (thanks meth)! *Hat off and flying through the air* Sigh, too bad Happy never did that full tour in 2003. I know you guys offered your place. V ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:20:08 -0700 (PDT) From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Getting together before the show...the S&S list I'm a bit worried that the list is small so far. I haven't yet made reservations, but I should do that soon. There has to be more ectophiles coming...? I have 11 people on the list, but of those 11, a full 7 are not even ectophiles, and of those 7, 3 are not even attending the show because they couldn't make reservations in time, but they wanted to come to the gathering. Vickie ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:13:25 -0700 (PDT) From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: A look at The Lily Pad Chris was trying to get a feel for what The Lily Pad was like since he's going to be videotaping, and he found these two videos on YouTube of a dance being held there. Watch both to see different parts of the room. I had to watch these to get a full appreciation of just how small TLP is. We are all going to be VERY good friends by the end of the show! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWb8cIuTMME http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a_0Syw5u5o There's no stage, which means that people in the back are not going to be able to see Happy or Bob. Those who can fight their way up front will be the luckiest ones. I hope the tallest people will hang in the back or over on the side. As a short person I know what it's like to be at a show but not being able to say "I saw the band/artist" which sucks. I've seen Happy, so I don't plan to be front and center, to give others a chance to be in that spot. I'll be over to the side and hopefully won't have a tall person in front of me too. Maybe we could pitch in some extra bucks for Robert to rent some risers so that everyone can see Happy...? I do like the fact that there it's right on the street, with big windows in front, because I have a feeling that some people will be listening to the show from the sidewalk. Some might have not been able to get in the show, but others might be just walking by and will stop when they hear Happy's incredible voice. The 2nd video shows a bit of the street from outside the venue. I can't tell where the S&S is from there. Anyone know? Vickie ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:00:25 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Ashley Maher coming to Boston, NYC Hi, Speaking of the Lily Pad ... Ashley Maher will be playing there on Sunday, October 14. Save the date!! She will also be at The Living Room in NYC on Monday, October 15. Cruel fate may mean that I can't make it to either of these, but all you Boston and NYC folks should go see her when she comes to town. Ashley has been an ecto favorite pretty much since the list's inception (*waves to Anthony Kosky, are you still out there??*), and she puts on a helluva show. (I know this, b/c last time she came to the East Coast she put on that show in our living room. Alas I won't be home to host her this time ...) Check out her music at: http://myspace.com/ashleymaher - -- =============================================== 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: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:54:21 -0600 From: neal copperman - AMP Concerts Subject: Re: hats off to neal and jeff Yup. We had a standing offer. We also offered to fly her to New Mexico and guaranteed a respectable fee to be our 100th and final house concert. neal ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:07:27 -0400 From: "robert bristow-johnson" Subject: Re: A look at The Lily Pad > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWb8cIuTMME > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a_0Syw5u5o those are pretty faithful representations of the space. > There's no stage, more accurately, the stage is not elevated. this is a deficit i knew of from the beginning. > which means that people in the back are > not going to be able to see Happy or Bob. that is not accurate as far as i can tell. half of us will be sitting in chairs and the half of us not sitting in chairs can see over the ones sitting. > Maybe we could pitch in some extra bucks for Robert to rent some > risers so that everyone can see Happy...? the problem with that is, that there are two other acts that will make use of the (grand) piano. i *don't* think it's a good idea to make a little platform for just Happy or Noe or Casey to sit on and leave the backup musicians at floor level 8 inches lower. this lack of stage elevation is a problem i knew of from the beginning, and if this didn't sell out, it would be less of an issue. i didn't wanna throw numbers out, but with this issue on the table, i guess i'll have to. the audience capacity of the LP that was quoted to me is 80 and we are at 79 (guests and paid admits). some no-shows are likely. i was going to leave it to the door people to count admits and, if we haven't hit the official limit, use their judgment as to admitting anyone who just comes in from the street. i am hoping that people sitting will get tired of sitting and will be willing to trade their locations with those standing at various times during the show and between sets. it *is* gonna be tight and my hope is that we all approach this more as a community, more cooperatively than competitively. lessee how considerate and sharing ectophiles are. i *really* didn't expect this to sell out, folks (and was trying to cover my ass in the case very few people came to this). in hindsight, it would be better if i had a bigger, better venue (say, a real bar with booze), but it is hard to get such a place to book people they do not know of. - -- r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com "Imagination is more important than knowledge." ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:31:24 -0700 (PDT) From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Re: hats off to neal and jeff - --- neal copperman - AMP Concerts wrote: > Yup. We had a standing offer. > > We also offered to fly her to New Mexico and guaranteed a respectable > fee to be our 100th and final house concert. *shakes head sadly* Sigh. What an honor that would have been for her. V ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:57:36 -0500 From: kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white) Subject: RE: Stuff for Boston Hi, In consideration for the artists selling CDs, I have decided: 3 or 4 CDrs for those in a trade with me, 5 or 10 CDrs at the table (?) where HRs CDs will be sold, to be given to the 1st 5 or 10 buyers, and some more for ectos that get together after the show. Anyone interested in my 'sorta novelty' CDr that includes the 14 Min: The Legend of The USS Titanic by Jamie Brockett? The record recording was cleaned up very nicely by an ecto- whom I won't name to keep him from getting requests: and a hard rockin' Subterranean Homesick Blues done by John Lennon and R Starr, and a couple of other 'singletons'. Non Bostonian bound ectos can ask for it, too. bye, me KrW I'm Peter Pan! I'm perpetually young!! OW!! What's wrong with my back? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:50:37 -0700 (PDT) From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Ectofest '07 now has a MySpace page http://www.myspace.com/ectofest07 V ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #225 ***************************