From: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com (edheads-digest) To: edheads-digest@smoe.org Subject: edheads-digest V2 #81 Reply-To: edheads@efohio.com Sender: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Errors-To: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Precedence: bulk edheads-digest Saturday, May 8 1999 Volume 02 : Number 081 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Edheads: Bridge Solo [Berkeley Bush ] Re: Edheads: Bridge Solo ["Susan Githens" ] Re: Non-EFO Content: Share the Music Lovins. ["Susan Githens" Subject: Edheads: Bridge Solo Yes, they are incorporating it in more shows! I saw it in Birmingham, AL! Eddie's hands moved fast like a helicopter. What's more, He made a melody out of the "pounding of the strings". For those of you yet to see it, you are missing out. Better grab your friends and get to the nearest show as soon as you can. ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 09:45:49 -0400 From: "Susan Githens" Subject: Re: Edheads: Bridge Solo All this hoop-tee-do about Eddie on the guitar, sheesh. So he's incredibly talented and dexterous, whatever. Now, Mike on the trombone...THAT was talent. Anyone else (besides Birchmere-goers) witness this daring feat of musicianship?? >>> Berkeley Bush 05/06 11:24 PM >>> Yes, they are incorporating it in more shows! I saw it in Birmingham, AL! Eddie's hands moved fast like a helicopter. What's more, He made a melody out of the "pounding of the strings". For those of you yet to see it, you are missing out. Better grab your friends and get to the nearest show as soon as you can. ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 09:49:02 -0400 From: "Susan Githens" Subject: Re: Non-EFO Content: Share the Music Lovins. I like Jennifer's contributions. I'm dying to see The Nields because I've heard EFO and listserv-ers talking about them so much. EFO was such a find for me that I appreciate the opportunity to discover bands with similar sounds. I would add The Corrs to the Celtic section, although they sound more "popular" Irish than traditional. Still, they rocked in a PBS special I caught (did I just admit that?). >>> "Jennifer Schlosser" 05/06 11:45 PM >>> nicole said: >Can I chime in here and say that, IMHO, discussion of other bands is a >Good Thing(tm)? I've found many of my current music faves (most >notably EFO) through discussions on alt.music.moxy-fruvous. Music >recommendations from people with similar tastes in music tend to work out >VERY well. No one here is testing anyone else's Edheadedness; that's not the point of >a list like this. At least, it SHOULDN'T be... Hear, hear! I propose that we do a big sharing thing, where everyone lists other bands that people would like, so that we all can share the love. Right? Who's with me? I shall then, list off other bands that I think are EFO-esque, at least, I like them... (categorized into types, although many defy categories, so I will strategically place them in the non-categorical category.) Folky: Jump Little Children, the Nields, Indigo Girls, Kristen Hall, Natalie Merchant, the Sundays, the Murmurs, Cat Stevens, Dar Williams, Dougie MacLean, Rockapella, Big Fish Eat Little Fish. Celtic: Great Big Sea, Natalie MacMaster, Leahy, Rawlins Cross, Irish Descendants, Barra MacNeils, The Rankins, Ashley MacIsaac. Non-Categorical: Moxy Fruvous, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bela Fleck, Barenaked Ladies, They Might Be Giants, Willy Porter (awesome guitarist!). Music Lovins, Ferf (who heard about EFO from alt.music.moxy-fruvous, and about Moxy Fruvous from alt.music.barenaked-ladies, and about Barenaked Ladies from picking up a random tape in a music store six years ago.) - ----------------- [ REKLAMA / ADVERTISEMENT ] ------------------- Twoja nowa podręczna przyjemność on-line !!! Spotkajmy się na www.liptonicetea.com.pl !!! - ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 12:30:51 -0400 (EDT) From: cos@efohio.com (Ofer Inbar) Subject: Re: Eddie's "guitar" solo Wow. I've only been skimming edheads mail for a while, so I figured I'd just missed discussion of Eddie's guitar thing. I can't believe it hadn't already been posted about. Then again, perhaps I should have posted about it, myself :-) Eddie doesn't actually "play" the guitar. What happens is that while he's doing his drum solo on Bridge, Robbie discreetly walks up beside him holding up a guitar. Then Eddie begins incorporating the guitar into his drum solo as if it were just another piece of percussion mounted on the kit. And he's amazing at it, like he is with all the other percussion, except that guitar strings sound quite different :) I first saw this back in early December, when I road tripped out to Buffalo NY and Ann Arbor MI to see EFO open for The Nields on two consecutive nights. They did it on both nights. I must admit, despite already being an edhead, the main reason I took that road trip was to see The Nields, although EFO was certainly a big extra incentive. But I was so amazed by their opening sets those two nights, that I extended my trip by a half day in order to see a full length EFO that Sunday night in Cleveland. Which meant I had to drive back to Boston overnight right after the show, 'cause I had a conference to attend starting at 9am Monday. But it was quite worth it, even though they did not do the guitar thing at the Cleveland show, I think. [Heather, are you still on this list? Do you remember if they did?] I asked them about it later, and it turns out it wasn't a new thing. They used to do it a lot, in the early days, until eventually they decided everyone was probably getting sick of it, and dropped it. But that was before they were having much success outside of their home region, and after a few years passed, they realized that they now had all these audiences in other states who had never seen this Eddie guitar percussion thing before, so they added it back. And I hope they never drop it again! So, is there anyone here on edheads who's been an EFO fan long enough to have seen them do this years ago? Speak up :-) -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- cos@polyamory.org cos@leftbank.com -- WBRS (100.1 FM) -- info@wbrs.org http://www.wbrs.org/ "When your dream comes true, you're out one dream." -- The Nields, "Tomorrowland" ------------------------------ End of edheads-digest V2 #81 ****************************