From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #536 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, September 2 2012 Volume 16 : Number 536 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Dead Can Dance NY Times live review ... [heidi maier ] Re: John Henshon, In Memoriam [Kerry White ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 18:10:13 +1000 From: heidi maier Subject: Dead Can Dance NY Times live review ... http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/arts/music/dead-can-dance-at-beacon-theater.html?_r=1&ref=music I thought others might like to see this! I am crossing my fingers and hoping they bring this show to Australia sometime soon ... :) Heidi. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 10:33:33 -0700 (PDT) From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?anna_maria_stj=E4rnell?= Subject: new tanita Hi.. on the subject of new releases..soon there's a tanita tikaram album called can't go back. Anna ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 20:23:50 -0500 From: Kerry White Subject: Re: John Henshon, In Memoriam A nice remembrance. On 9/1/12, Paul Blair wrote: > Some of you may remember a recent posting that long-time ectophile John > Henshon had died. Today his sister held a gathering to celebrate his life. > Susan McKeown was there, and sang John's favorite song of hers, "Snakes," > as well as a Woody Guthrie song, "Gonna Get Through This World." John's > many t-shirts were on display, including those for the ectofests he > attended (and once or twice did sound for). > > I went back over all the email correspondence I had with John. I first met > him at a Lisa Cerbone concert in February of 1998. Up until 2003 we were in > pretty close touch and saw each other often at ectophilic shows in the New > York area. We also rode up to Pawling, NY together several times to see > shows at the Towne Crier. In later years, however, he became involved with > the Rockaway Theatre Company and we saw him a lot less often. > > Here are some favorite quotes from emails he sent ecto: > > Subject: 650 Miles of Happy Roads/Rhodes.(10/18/98 re Happy Rhodes' shows > at Bearsville / Troy / NYC): > > The Dodge was on shaky ground mechanically and I >> was leery about making the trek north from Brooklyn, >> but figured were it to expire in the effort I'd leave >> it rest at the side of the road and stick out my thumb. >> I needed my Happy fix. All three shows blew me away, >> like Ms Rhodes and her henchmen on stage were my firing >> squad and they all had machine guns loaded with lightning >> bolts.... Going to such an elaborate production >> cold is like swimming the channel after a couple of laps >> in the pool at the Y, bound to get some cramps. > > > Subject: Happy @ the Tin Angel (7/26/99): > > I will not try describe too much what we were treated to, the >> look on Paul Blair's face at the end of the night said it all. Ms. >> Rhodes chided us all for not watching enough cartoons, well, >> Paul looked like Wylie Coyote picking his teeth with a charred >> Road-Runner Bone. > > > Subject: WTC & some memories (9/16/01): > > I'd like to mention some of the great memories I have of that place. >> The Trade Center and the adjacent WFC were a place where a lot of good >> things happened. Not more than a couple of weeks prior to this >> catastrophe I got to see Susan McKeown do a wonderful show on the plaza >> between the towers. She, Johnny Cunningham and Aidan Brennan only got to >> do one set before Mother Nature decided it was time we had shower, and >> she had to cut short the show. It rained buckets. A week before >> Ectofest West I got to meet and chat with Neil Gaiman at a signing he >> did at the Borders where my friend Susan works. I got up in the wee >> small hours one Sunday a while back to go see a short set done on the >> plaza by Autour De Lucie for NBC. It was such an early thing that I was >> only one of two to show up for that. I got to chat with them for a bit >> and was treated to a private performance as a reward for rising early. >> > > >> Over at the Wintergarden at Battery Park City, which I will sorely miss, >> I had seen the Kronos Quartet perform. At that same venue I saw Robert >> Fripp and the League of Crafty Guitarists (21 of them) weave rich >> textures of sound on matching Ovations. After that show I got to talk >> with Robert briefly and found him to belie his rep, as he was most >> charming. Les Paul was in the audience that day checking out the >> places' acoustics in anticipation of his show there the following week, >> and he was kind enough to pose for a picture for me. Les was good enough >> to autograph that snap for me this summer, the night he premiered at his >> first Iridium Monday night gig in the new house. It's now one of my most >> prized possessions. I met Brian Eno in the Wintergarden a couple of >> years back. One my best memories of that place is most definitely Susan >> McKeown and Jamshied Sharife's performing at the Border's back in '98. >> > > >> I loved the observation deck, being up there was always invigorating, >> even on a cloudy day. One time when I was taking a first time visitor >> to New York up there an image was burned into my memory. As we were >> coming off the top escalator, there along the rail with there backs to >> us were a row of Buddhist Monks, must have been twenty or thirty of them >> lined up along the north rail looking up towards the Empire State >> building. Aside from the guard, they were the only one's up there at >> the time and the sight of all those saffron robes and Friar Tuck >> hairdo's in a row with a backdrop of concrete canyons seemed strangely >> incongruous. > > > And something he once wrote to me personally: > > I met the girl of my dreams about 30 years ago and have been trying to >> talk her into marriage ever since.... Carrying a torch for 30 years, >> romantic/stupid, I'm not sure, but love will do the strangest things to >> people.... It's worth the wait, it's not only a good thing, it's the >> only thing you can do. Never settle for less. > > > Musicians we saw or discussed included: > > Happy Rhodes > Susan McKeown > Mila Drumke > Merrie Amsterburg > Trina Hamlin > Juliana Hatfield > Katell Keineg > Elysian Fields > Deni Bonet > Susan Court > Big Lazy > Cowboy Junkies > Autour de Lucie > Wendy Rule > Jane Siberry > Lunasa > Vienna Teng > Neko Case > > ecto was the reason John and I met. Thanks for being out there. > > -- Paul ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #536 ***************************