From: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com (edheads-digest) To: edheads-digest@smoe.org Subject: edheads-digest V7 #34 Reply-To: edheads@efohio.com Sender: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Errors-To: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Precedence: bulk edheads-digest Monday, February 16 2004 Volume 07 : Number 034 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [OT] Help us bring our child home [Buddy Brannan ] EFO: Pasadena Review [Seth Hornstein ] Re: Pasadena Review ["Ron Rosen" ] Question [StardocJG@aol.com] Re: Question [Beth Simons ] Re: bluehouse [PBacoustic@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 13:19:36 -0500 From: Buddy Brannan Subject: [OT] Help us bring our child home Hi y'all, I know this is off-topic. The list owners may feel free to beat me about the head and shoulders, or whatever. Melanie and I are, as some of you already know, in the process of adopting a special needs child from Ukraine. Our paperwork is almost all ready to go off for state apostile, and then off to Ukraine for translation and processing. Only a couple more small things are outstanding, and most of what we're doing now is waiting. During our wait, we're actively raising funds to help us complete this adoption. Our total costs for travel, paperwork, translation, and associated services and things is projected to be between $10,000 and $15,000. We would really appreciate your help; please pass this information on to anyone you think might be willing or able to help...any help we can get, big or small, is very much appreciated by us--and certainly by the child that will be coming to our home. We are working with several catalogs of unique gift items; we are also taking any financial donations of any size that you can make to our adoption fund. All proceeds from these catalog sales will go directly to fund the adoption. For more information, to look at what we have, or how you can help us, please visit http://ouradoption.brannan.name Thank you in advance, from me and Melanie...and from our future addition. - -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - ------------------------------------------------------------ Children can come from the heart, too. Please help us bring the child of our heart into our home! Visit http://ouradoption.brannan.name or Email ouradoption@brannan.name to find out how you can help us. Thanks! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 18:45:24 -0800 (PST) From: Seth Hornstein Subject: EFO: Pasadena Review I know its been nearly two weeks since the Pasadena show but I promised myself I would write some comments about it and...better late than never. First of all, it was a great show. Having been more than a year since I last saw EFO they rocked. The show was done in Neighborhood Church and it was pretty good for being in a church! The acoustics were pretty good, most seats had a great view, and the seating capacity was nice. Much better than Knitting Factory, not quite as intimate as McCabe's (but with how small McCabes was, it is understandable that they had to leave). Ok, but here is my major comment. They played a few new songs (Schmee, Independence, Fly, Alone, Baltimore, Cowboy) and I noticed that on almost EVERY one, Eddie was playing the drum kit. Now, I love the whole group, but one of the first thing that instantly attracted me to the band oh so many years ago, was Eddie on the bongos. He just rocks on them. I find it quite unsettling that most of the new songs are being written with Eddie on the drums. Does anyone else notice this? Is this only at certain shows?I know most of the time, no one on this list likes to point out negatives with the band (some lists call them PATTs: Positive All The Time) but I can't keep this one in. I find it very troubling that one of the main things that draws me to the band and seemed to be the band's signature is slowly being phased out in the new songs...That being said, the lyrics, melody and topic of Fly makes it one of my new favorite songs. So enough of that. I have to commend the transplanted Virginian that ran up to the stage after Old Dominion while waving the Virginia flag. Even better was the fact that he didn't realize that the band had come back out for an encore and was watching him parade the flag in front of the stage! And finally, the bummer news is that my recording of the show came out unusable. According to Bob, the PA system at the church was not quite strong enough to handle the folk-rock that is EFO. So he had to really pump up the output of the sound board. Even though my mini disc recorder has an auto-leveling feature (and has never failed me before) it was not able to auto-level the very loud feed from the sound board and it the whole show ended up way too loud and clipped. There you have it. seth - ------------------------------------ Seth Hornstein seth@astro.ucla.edu http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~seth UCLA Department of Physics & Astronomy __o _o /\o_ _ \<,_ //\_ ^^^^^^^^ (_)/ (_) _/\ / ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 19:39:41 -0800 From: "Ron Rosen" Subject: Re: Pasadena Review > than never. First of all, it was a great show. Having been more than a Agree. I especially thought Julie was incredible. Mike was fairly tame compared to other times I've seen him > year since I last saw EFO they rocked. The show was done in Neighborhood > Church and it was pretty good for being in a church! The acoustics were > pretty good, It was pretty good. It's a tiny bit echoey, but, as you say, it sure beats the knitting factory, and it beats McCabes for capacity. Nothing beats McCabes for sound. Also, I should mention it's not a typical church. It's a hall that's wider than it is long. The stage consists of numerous square risers that can be reconfigured in an infinite number of ways. It's a Unitarian church, The main support beams are telephone poles. It's on the grounds of the famous Gable House by craftsman era architects Green & Green. > on almost EVERY one, Eddie was playing the drum kit. Now, I love the whole > group, but one of the first thing that instantly attracted me to the band > oh so many years ago, was Eddie on the bongos. There was one song in particular where Julie was singing and Eddie was on the drum kit, and I found it distracting. Don't know the name of it. > So enough of that. I have to commend the transplanted Virginian > that ran up to the stage after Old Dominion while waving the Virginia > flag. Even better was the fact that he didn't realize that the band had > come back out for an encore and was watching him parade the flag in front > of the stage! That was very cool, but from what I saw, after holding up the flag, he draped it across his back as the band came out. Some people in the front row tapped him to signal that the band was coming back, and he ran down the aisle away from the stage. I wasn't sure that the band saw it, and wished he had not run off, but waved it right in front of them to be sure they saw it. > There you have it. Thanks, Seth! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:56:27 EST From: StardocJG@aol.com Subject: Question Just saw Pasadena review and comment about the drum kit. We saw Robbie solo last night at The Point in Bryn Mawr, PA with The Bluehouse (3 hilarious Aussie gals) - great show -We're seeing the whole band there in 3 weeks on 3/6. My first time there last nite - small place - less than 100 seats. My question - Is the drum kit standard for EFO when they play a small venue? If so, I'll also be sorry not to hear Eddie on the bongos - Joel from Maryland ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 23:07:23 -0500 From: Beth Simons Subject: Re: Question if at all possible, eddie likes to have his full kit of: standard drum kit djembe congas bongos but if the venue is really too small to fit all of that, he'll just have his djembe. if anyone wants to add/correct, please feel free! :) - -beth At 10:56 PM 2/15/2004, you wrote: >Just saw Pasadena review and comment about the drum kit. We saw Robbie solo >last night at The Point in Bryn Mawr, PA with The Bluehouse (3 hilarious >Aussie >gals) - great show -We're seeing the whole band there in 3 weeks on 3/6. My >first time there last nite - small place - less than 100 seats. My question - >Is the drum kit standard for EFO when they play a small venue? If so, I'll >also >be sorry not to hear Eddie on the bongos - Joel from Maryland ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 23:13:05 EST From: PBacoustic@aol.com Subject: Re: bluehouse Ah, the gig with Bluehouse... I asked Robbie about that gig when they played Dallas, and he wasn't familiar with the girls at all.. so I filled him in a bit (they played Calvin's last summer, and were great...) on their background and what they did. Glad the gig went well, and I'm sure he enjoyed their stuff. They ARE quite funny, and quite good musicians as well... PB ------------------------------ End of edheads-digest V7 #34 ****************************