From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #453 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, April 10 2008 Volume 13 : Number 453 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Magdalen Hsu-Li [morayati@email.unc.edu] Re: Shawn Phillips [Michael Pearce ] Re: 80s [Michael Pearce ] Re: 80s ["Aly Fields" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:16:55 -0400 From: morayati@email.unc.edu Subject: Re: Magdalen Hsu-Li I'm a first-year student and NC native. I haven't seen very many shows here, though - I was going to see Christine Fellows tonight but then something else came up. - -Sarah Quoting Aly Fields : > Yeah, she was totally there and signing crap and she had some kind of online > deal. If you email her your contact info and say you go to UNC you can > probably score two signed albums for $20 and it would be nice. Also, Kate > Bornstein (one of my idols) was there and I met her and almost peed myself > when I learned she loves Laurie Anderson too. > > What year are you? Are you an NC native? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:25:59 -0700 From: Michael Pearce Subject: Re: Shawn Phillips At 10:10 PM -0400 4/9/08, kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white) wrote: > Hi, do I remember correctly that there was a pantheon of >Goddess and Gods and a list of Demigods? Demigods are still more ( >Ectoish) than mere mortals. > Also, my main God has been/is Shawn Phillips with (I forget) >3 octaves in his range, tho only wordless tones were his vehicle of >choice when he went high. Anyone else [here] familiar with Mr Phillips?? Yeah, very much. I pirated a demo set of 3 lps he did before he got his first contract, back in 1972. If I had just recorded them on cassette instead of reel-to-reel I would still have them. The tapes rotted in the box just 15 years later while my cassettes are good to this day. When he finally did sign with Elektra I got the albums, but some of that music was never released. Amazing producer/songwriter. He burned out after a few albums (but kept cranking them out) but he is one of my fonder early memories. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:34:27 -0700 From: Michael Pearce Subject: Re: 80s At 10:10 PM -0400 4/9/08 Tim Jones-Yelvington wrote: >I think the 80's in Europe may have been slightly less abyssmal, >with a bit more of a focus on progressive rock and pop. I can say >that I've met several European Happy & Kate fans who also gravitate >toward more mainstream but still smart (in my opninion) pop from >that period and into the early 90's, including Shakespear's Sister, >(selected) Kylie Minogue, Sugarcubes, etc. Absolutely. Music in the USA sucked dog eggs in those days. All the radio stations except for the few independents were too busy playing Madonna to give us Kate and all the others that were making MTV the place to be. I missed the first few years of it because I lived in a place I could not get cable. Ultravox, Blondie, Duran Duran, Sugarcubes, there was so much going on and I could hear only a little bit of it on listener-supported local radio. Portland especially was cursed with heavy metal madness and as a result I hate it to this day (even though I later learned to like some of it, like Heart - yes, they were technically metal - and Pink FLoyd who led me to the German elektropop bands). When I saw the video for Vienna I wanted to get on a plane for Europe but I was living in minimum-wage land and could barely afford the record. At least I got to be in the middle of things in LA in the '60s and saw all the hot bands and acid tripsters who later became founding grand non-fathers of much modern rock. But I still miss the '80s I never got to participate in. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 23:50:00 -0400 From: "Aly Fields" Subject: Re: 80s Hey, Madonna is awesome. :P On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Michael Pearce wrote: > At 10:10 PM -0400 4/9/08 Tim Jones-Yelvington wrote: > > I think the 80's in Europe may have been slightly less abyssmal, with a > > bit more of a focus on progressive rock and pop. I can say that I've met > > several European Happy & Kate fans who also gravitate toward more mainstream > > but still smart (in my opninion) pop from that period and into the early > > 90's, including Shakespear's Sister, (selected) Kylie Minogue, Sugarcubes, > > etc. > > > > Absolutely. Music in the USA sucked dog eggs in those days. All the radio > stations except for the few independents were too busy playing Madonna to > give us Kate and all the others that were making MTV the place to be. I > missed the first few years of it because I lived in a place I could not get > cable. > > Ultravox, Blondie, Duran Duran, Sugarcubes, there was so much going on and > I could hear only a little bit of it on listener-supported local radio. > Portland especially was cursed with heavy metal madness and as a result I > hate it to this day (even though I later learned to like some of it, like > Heart - yes, they were technically metal - and Pink FLoyd who led me to the > German elektropop bands). > > When I saw the video for Vienna I wanted to get on a plane for Europe but > I was living in minimum-wage land and could barely afford the record. > > At least I got to be in the middle of things in LA in the '60s and saw all > the hot bands and acid tripsters who later became founding grand non-fathers > of much modern rock. But I still miss the '80s I never got to participate > in. > > Michael ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #453 ***************************