From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #1241 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, October 19 2014 Volume 16 : Number 1241 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Chuck Stipak [Steve VanDevender ] Re: Chuck Stipak [jessica spurling ] Re: Chuck Stipak [Mike Connell ] Re: Chuck Stipak [Valerie Nozick ] Re: Chuck Stipak [Jeffrey Burka ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 00:08:50 -0700 From: Steve VanDevender Subject: Re: Chuck Stipak rbj@audioimagination.com writes: > > Longtime ecto list subscriber Chuck Stipak (cjmacs) passed away > > today after a long bout with cancer. He helped organize the > > original ectofest in 1999. He'll be greatly missed. R.I.P. > > i wish i had met him. I made it to the Ectofest in 2000. I'm a little hazy on some of these details now, but I seem to recall giving Meth a call when I got into town and her saying "hey, you should also call up Chuck." So I did, and he immediately launched into bemoaning the situation with the t-shirts that year, which were purple and had "ectofest 2000" printed on them in almost exactly the same shade of purple. (I actually thought the final effect was kind of neat if not good at making the printing obvious.) But I'm not hazy on the hospitality that Chuck and Joe showed me and everyone else who came to the Ectofest that year. I was staying at a hotel nearby, but I pretty much only slept there because one of the evenings Chuck and Joe had me over for dinner and the evening after Ectofest they hosted a party for anyone from Ectofest who wanted to come. > r b-j ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 00:23:30 -0700 From: jessica spurling Subject: Re: Chuck Stipak Sad to hear the news. Thanks for letting us know. - -jessica On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 8:27 PM, FJ wrote: > Longtime ecto list subscriber Chuck Stipak (cjmacs) passed away today > after a long bout with cancer. He helped organize the original ectofest in > 1999. He'll be greatly missed. R.I.P. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 13:53:19 -0400 From: Mike Connell Subject: Re: Chuck Stipak I am also sad to hear this. Mostly a lurker over the years. I certainly recall him. Not sure if I met him (or if he was even there) at the lone Ecto event I was at, a Happy Concert at the Bearsville theatre in October 1997 or 1998. For those here who knew him well off-list, I offer my condolences at the loss of your friend. Mike ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:19:21 +0000 (UTC) From: Valerie Nozick Subject: Re: Chuck Stipak RIP Chuck. He was way too young. Thanks for sharing this.B *sad* ==> Valerie On Saturday, October 18, 2014 12:27 AM, jessica spurling wrote: Sad to hear the news. Thanks for letting us know. - -jessica On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 8:27 PM, FJ wrote: > Longtime ecto list subscriber Chuck Stipak (cjmacs) passed away today > after a long bout with cancer. He helped organize the original ectofest in > 1999. He'll be greatly missed. R.I.P. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 19:38:26 -0400 From: Jeffrey Burka Subject: Re: Chuck Stipak Damn. For those not around back then, herebs the message Chuck sent the mailing list after the b99 EctoFest went off. You can sense his giddiness, his pride, and the joy he felt with the whole thing: Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 02:56:03 -0400 From: "cjmacs" Subject: ectofest hi all! hey i hope everyone that made it to ectofest had a great time...it was incredible!!!! thanks and lots of love to all who were there; it was a WONDERFUL day and it was _fantastic_ meeting so many ectophiles in person for the first time: Jeff Burka, Neal Copperman, Josh Weichel, Mike Mendelson and Debbie, Alan Ezust (welcome back to ecto!), Joe Zitt, Craig Gidney, Marc Power and family, Binnie and Valerie!!! -Thanks SO much to the WPKN folk!, Suzanne Cerquone, Laura Clifford, Michael Colford, and i KNOW i'm forgetting people... Mike Weis! Ectopia rules!! and if any of you haven't ordered it yet, dammit DO IT NOW!!!! and as always it was awesome to see Paul Blair, Paul Kim, Ofer Inbar, Val Nozick, Erik "Grey" and Liz and Lisa, Mike "that bastard" Curry, Jeff (Mr. Smoe) Wasilko (in those oh-so-fashionable eyeglasses!), and happy's personal stage assistant Pattycakes...i mean, WOJ..... what can possibly be said about John Henshon and Tony donating the PA and their time and talents....thank you a million times over! everything sounded fantastic! and meredith... geez without meth kicking me in the ass and convincing me that we could do it... how can i possibly thank the one person that helped ME hold everything together when it seemed the bleakest! meredith's dedication to ectofest was what kept the wheels in motion and i honestly can say that without her it could NEVER have been done!!! ectofest was an astounding success on so many levels! we had drama chic blowing the unsuspecting crowd away, rob brereton's captivating dulcimer music, the palpable rush through the crowd during rachael sage's superb set, the overwhelming vocals of sloan wainwright followed by the stunning susan mckeown...hearing sloan and susan singing together was itself well worth all of the effort of putting the show together!... and then we had mila's gorgeous set, with the beautiful and talented elissa linowes and the incomparable superstar lyris hung ;-) (notice how i left out anything about the song that the ectoplasms sang about rachael, susan and happy...) and then after all this incredible musicianship we got to hear happy.... wow!!..... what can possibly be said!! i'll leave it to others more coherent than i at the moment to fill in all of the details, but suffice it to say that the hapster RULED ectofest as well she should!! all i know is that ectofest was a wonderful event and i look forward to doing many many more in the future... as long as the ecto-folk are out there i say let's keep it up!!! thank you EVERYONE for showing up and for supporting these unbelievably talented artists and the good causes we raised money for!! love to ALL of you!!! chuck Good people. > On Oct 17, 2014, at 11:27 PM, FJ wrote: > > Longtime ecto list subscriber Chuck Stipak (cjmacs) passed away today after a long bout with cancer. He helped organize the original ectofest in 1999. He'll be greatly missed. R.I.P. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #1241 ****************************