From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V15 #241 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, October 7 2010 Volume 15 : Number 241 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: running up that hill [Daniel ] Re: running up that hill [kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white)] Thea Gilmore live in London [Adam Kimmel ] Re: running up that hill [Sue Trowbridge ] Re: running up that hill [Sarah Morayati ] Record shop in Paris dedicated to "women who rock" [meredith Subject: Re: running up that hill I enjoyed your writing and your sense of humor ("Full of melisma and fury") but I now wonder how long it will be until the all-cover album--not one band or 'various' bands doing covers of various songs but various bands covering one song--comes out; or did that already happen and I blissfully missed it? - -----Original Message----- >From: Sarah Morayati >Sent: Oct 5, 2010 1:39 PM >To: ecto@smoe.org >Subject: Re: running up that hill > >Listed all of these -- thanks! > >(Shameless self-promotion time -- the full list is up: >http://www.sarahmorayati.com/2010/10/running-up-that-page/ .) > >-Sarah ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 04:03:12 -0500 From: kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white) Subject: Re: running up that hill Hi, There was an all "Louie, Louie" LP put long ago. Bye, I enjoyed your writing and your sense of humor ("Full of melisma and fury") but I now wonder how long it will be until the all-cover album--not one band or 'various' bands doing covers of various songs but various bands covering one song--comes out; or did that already happen and I blissfully missed it? KrW I'm Peter Pan! I'm perpetually young!! OW!! What's wrong with my back? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 00:36:03 -0800 From: Adam Kimmel Subject: Thea Gilmore live in London Back to Dingwalls in Camden, where I first saw Thea back in 2001, and my how things have moved on. I'm that much older, for a start, and now realise that turning up to queue for two hours before a gig is insane, no matter what. As it turned out, I could have turned up half an hour before the doors opened and got the same place I ended up with. Camden itself continues to metamorphose into Knobsville, crammed with surly tourists, desperate hipsters and overpriced ersatz chic. Thea was playing in this intimate club with a full band, including bassist, additional guitarist and drummer (with the incomparable Fluff on violin and percussion and backing vocals) and it was a great, tight, full-on sound. The song selection was interesting, starting with a more acoustic bent -- just Thea, Nigel and Fluff onstage for "Saviours and All" and then absenting herself while Nigel accompanied Thea on a cover of the old hit, "You Belong to Me" (one of those songs my father used to hum to himself) and a spare, haunting "That's How the Love Gets In". This seemed an odd place for it, at the start, but I guess I'm just used to it's placing in the album, where it comes after the frantic, dangerous "Not alone". The band came on and most of "Murphy's Heart" was performed, as well as, along the way, the old civil rights folk song "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize" (thrilling harmonies, there) and a couple of songs previously available only to the Angels (her subscription service) and finishing with "Come Up", which was only on the US version of Liejacker. It was a great concert, although not, I thought, the best I've seen of hers. The structure didn't seem to flow and they just seemed to be hitting their stride with a really punchy, pogo-inducing version of "Mainstream" when it was pretty much all over. i didn't get the hairs standing up at the back of my neck as I have in her best gigs, and the ending, with the upbeat "Come Up", left me without a sense of closure -- I'd hoped for a final, come-down song like "The Parting song" or even "Wondrous Thing" from her latest, which disappointingly went unplayed. Nothing at all from "Harpo's Ghost" which, given the full band, seemed strange; nothing from "Songs from the Gutter" and only "Old Soul" from Liejacker and a couple from "Rules for Jokers". The evening was chock full o' highlights -- the covers and rarities, a frightening version of "Not Alone" and a joyous "Come Up", but somehow it didn't cohere the organic, soul-shaking experience I've had befor! e. I do n't think I've ever seen her be less than brilliant (although the Harpo's Ghost tour comes close), there are just -- with her -- different levels of brilliant. Oh, and kudos to the opening act, Louis Eliot: in all the time I've seen Thea I've only been impressed with two of her openers, Rod Clement and Erin McKeown, and the rest have bordered on the "Okay" to "Oh, God, why?", so expectations weren't high. Eliot, however, had a nice line in Americana (he's from Cornwall, aparently) and a good way with a barbed lyric. He lost me a bit in a song about being a farmer, but on the whole I liked him enough to buy his album. Adam K ____________________________________________________________ Share photos & screenshots in seconds... TRY FREE IM TOOLPACK at http://www.imtoolpack.com/default.aspx?rc=if1 Works in all emails, instant messengers, blogs, forums and social networks. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 04:28:30 -0700 From: Sue Trowbridge Subject: Re: running up that hill On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:03 AM, kerry white wrote: > Hi, There was an all "Louie, Louie" LP put long ago. Bye, And there was an Australian album titled "Stairways to Heaven" which featured a dozen different versions of you-know-what. http://www.amazon.com/Stairways-Heaven-Various-Artists/dp/B000005J65 - --Sue ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 09:37:54 -0400 From: Sarah Morayati Subject: Re: running up that hill To my knowledge, it's never happened yet -- I don't think a lot of people really realize how often this thing is covered until some MP3 blog decides to look into it and mentions, offhand, that they'd run into a lot of versions (so far I've seen two or three statements to this effect.) - -Sarah On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 02:20:37 -0400 (EDT), Daniel wrote: > > > I enjoyed your writing and your sense of humor ("Full of melisma and fury") > but I now wonder how long it will be until the all-cover album--not one > band or 'various' bands doing covers of various songs but various bands > covering one song--comes out; or did that already happen and I blissfully > missed it? > > > > -----Original Message----- >>From: Sarah Morayati >>Sent: Oct 5, 2010 1:39 PM >>To: ecto@smoe.org >>Subject: Re: running up that hill >> >>Listed all of these -- thanks! >> >>(Shameless self-promotion time -- the full list is up: >>http://www.sarahmorayati.com/2010/10/running-up-that-page/ .) >> >>-Sarah ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 11:47:37 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Record shop in Paris dedicated to "women who rock" Hi, Just came across a link to a shop in Paris called "Gals Rock" that is devoted to female-fronted music. Anybody ever been there? If you're planning on passing through Paris, looks like it's definitely worth checking out. (Chris Pureka just did an in-store performance there, which is how I found out about it.) http://www.galsrock.fr Meredith :) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 11:57:40 -0400 From: Sarah Morayati Subject: Re: Record shop in Paris dedicated to "women who rock" I'm going to be in Paris this spring! Thanks for the heads up. On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 11:47:37 -0400, meredith wrote: > Hi, > > Just came across a link to a shop in Paris called "Gals Rock" that is > devoted to female-fronted music. Anybody ever been there? If you're > planning on passing through Paris, looks like it's definitely worth > checking out. (Chris Pureka just did an in-store performance there, which > is how I found out about it.) > > http://www.galsrock.fr > > Meredith :) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 13:00:14 -0500 From: kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white) Subject: Running to Stairways covers Hi, Some years ago Second City TV had a fairly long ad for a Stairways LP with a polka band, Buffy Ste. Marie, Slim Whitman, and Ricky Lee Jones, to name just a few of the parodied singers. Each inpersonation was done quite well, too. (Ricky Lee: "Buying a stairway, buy a stairway, buy a stairway...") bye, KrW I'm Peter Pan! I'm perpetually young!! OW!! What's wrong with my back? ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V15 #241 ***************************