From: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com (edheads-digest) To: edheads-digest@smoe.org Subject: edheads-digest V3 #133 Reply-To: edheads@efohio.com Sender: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Errors-To: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Precedence: bulk edheads-digest Tuesday, October 10 2000 Volume 03 : Number 133 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: notes from a lurker ["Jon Vordermark" ] Re: Speaking of songs they don't do and should.... [ACGM7@aol.com] JMU/Harrisonburg show ["Darren E. Drury" ] I want to have my cake and eat it too ["Jon Vordermark" Subject: Re: notes from a lurker You want a recording of Robbie ripping his jeans?! or are you talking about the show from Saturday? Jon ;-) - ----Original Message Follows---- From: Ann Bunger To: edheads@efohio.com Subject: notes from a lurker Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 10:10:02 -0500 Actually, I have seen the band jump around at the Neighborhood Theater--at the Feb. 13th 1999 show--but during a slide across the stage for "Bookends", the stage struck back, and Robbie ended up with a torn pair of jeans and a nasty gash on his knee. I don't know if this has anything to do with the band's current conservativism in Charlotte, but it makes for a nice story! By the way--if anyone has a recording of this show, I'd love to get a copy. It was my birthday, and one I'd like to relive :) ann > I'm surprised that Julie or Robbie didn't slide down the stage into your lap. .... [For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, at Charlotte's Neighborhood Theater, in order to compensate for the high stage, they have slanted the stage downward towards the crowd. That is probably why Robbie didn't jump around in a circle, as he usually does, and probably why the group didn't do any big chorographical pieces like "Bookends" (note to Tom)]. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 12:44:35 EDT From: ACGM7@aol.com Subject: Re: Speaking of songs they don't do and should.... Heven forbid EFO becomes like Vertical... I actually began listening to EFO after they opened for Vertical at my school way back in 1995... i've been big fans of both ever since (vertical since the year before) and I'm very upset about what's happened lately. Their music's different, their image is different... it's all so very frustrating. I declined tickets to their show near me because i didn't want to listen to the new music... heaven forbit that happens to my favorite band. Anthony ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:35:06 -0400 From: "Darren E. Drury" Subject: JMU/Harrisonburg show Hello gang, longtime lurker here, thought I would post something. Just saw EFO last Wednesday here in Harrisonburg, Va. They performed at a small theatre downtown as part of the JMU homecoming week. As you may or may not know, Eddie, Robbie and Mike graduated from JMU, so whenever they return here, the between song jokes and comments are always a treat, as they recall some of the moments they spent while going to school here. Anyhow, they put on a great show, the sound was perfect. We all got to meet them after the show and they were very kind. The campus newspaper printed and article in today's edition, so I thought I would copy it and post it here for your reading enjoyment. Monday, October 9, 2000[PARA] A stellar groove[NL]by Matt Carasella/staff writer Court Square Theater got out of "folkin'" control last Wednesday night after Eddie From Ohio (EFO) detonated an explosive sound on stage. [NL][NL]The semi-local band rock and folk band, three of which are JMU alumni, packed two sets of fiddling acoustics, amble bass notes and piercing harmonics into a special Homecoming show. As a result of the EFO blast, everyone in the crowd was sprayed with musical debris. [NL][NL]Defenseless against flying pieces of bluegrass from Robbie Schaefer's bronze threaded guitar, audience members had to dodge Schaefer's notes as well as pieces of Julie Murphy Well's echoing gospel song.[NL][NL]Breaking out with a mixture of "Women of Faith," "Sahara," "The New James Bond," "Great Day," "Gravity" and "Operator," EFO smothered Harrisonburg concert-goers with hand-clapping, finger-snapping, hip-popping and chair-rocking tunes. Traces of other show components found on the scene included evidence of hilarious commentary and effortless comedy by EFO bassist, Michael Clem. His story-telling side talks about his days at "Madison College" with former classmates and current band mates, Eddie Hartness and Schaefer boosted the show's energy level. [NL][NL]Since most of the EFO blast was absorbed by the theater walls, chunks of "bod-da-bop" from a double dose of percussionist, Hartness' solo acts can probably still be heard vibrating loudly in the hall. Hartness ignited a heavy rhythmic tribal beat on his bongo that shook the theater and the souls of those in the audience.[NL][NL]Doing what they could, audience members took cover under Wells' soft, yet sometimes overly powerful voice. Wells' smooth voice provoked feeling and appeared to move the audience in their seats.[NL][NL]When all the elements of the EFO blast were released at once, the audience found themselves being hit with music from four different directions, at four different rates. The intimate theater setting was in absolute musical bliss. [PARA] Darren E. Drury Technical Services James Madison University druryde@jmu.edu stp43@email.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 16:28:10 EDT From: "Jon Vordermark" Subject: I want to have my cake and eat it too Yes indeed, you made sense here, rhiannon. Very well put. I'm glad that many of you Edheads out there feel the same way. I'm just a paranoid music lover. As soon as I find a group I adore, they end-up going big. I still remember lounging on the Glen of Sweetbriar College years ago, listening to Dave Matthews. Dave was a college bum like the rest of us, and happened to be partying for the weekend there (I think he was dating someone at SBC back then). The next Saturday, Dave got bored, and whipped-out the guitar, and started to play on the little wooden stage at the bottom of the glen. I think there were about 100 of us listening to him play, as we tried to sooth our hangovers to "Satelite" and "The Song that Jane Likes." The next time I heard Dave Matthews was in 1999 at the Alltel Pavilion in Raleigh, with about 60,000 other people. I think Dave Matthews was actually there too, because the guy playing guitar on the stage sounded a lot like him! There was another group that had the same outcome. When I lived in London, there was this one band that had a small following for awhile. Frankly, many thought they sucked. But I LOVED 'em. A couple awesome concerts in America later, they started to stick in the UK. Now, I think everyone on Earth owns a Police or Sting CD ... Jon - ----Original Message Follows---- From: rhiannon richard To: edheads@efohio.com Subject: famousosity (i made that up) Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 12:03:08 -0400 This is something that I find to be very intresting about folk fans (myself included, of course). We want the world to know, but we want it to be our secret as well. We love it when people know who EFO is, but that's because they are *in* on our secret. We wish the band nothing but the best... but I think we're scared a bit. It's scary to think that they might someday not be able to talk to us after shows, no longer know us by name, no longer treat us as friends rather than just fans. If they get really super famous then it's not our secret anymore...the secret's out. The world knows about them, and nobody cares that we "knew them when." The day that our emails go unanswered and we have to buy tickets to sit in the back row of amphetheatre is pretty terrifying. But luckily we don't have to worry about that too much. EFO loves their fans, because we make what they do possible. It's still a pretty scary thought that this COULD change, even if we know it won't. I'm not just pulling this out of the air either... i've seen it happen. Dar Williams has gotten way big in the past couple of years. We didn't realize HOW big until her new album came out and was getting on best seller lists, and the tour for the new album is selling out bigger and bigger theatres. She used to know all her regular fans by name, and she still does an amazing job of this...but there are just SO many of them. But hopefully EFO will get all the fame they want and deserve, and still love us just the same!!! i hope this made sense! YAY EFO! - -rhiannon At 10:49 AM 10/9/00 -0400, you wrote: >They do have a genuine interest in their fans and give a lot back through >their music...whether or not our discovery stays a secret or should is >beyond our control...my comments really are more about the diifuculty in >trying to contain ones success and the eventuality of the world finding >out...whether we want it to or not... >Regards, TomE _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ------------------------------ End of edheads-digest V3 #133 *****************************