From: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org (trajectory-digest) To: trajectory-digest@smoe.org Subject: trajectory-digest V1 #14 Reply-To: trajectory@smoe.org Sender: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk trajectory-digest Saturday, September 13 1997 Volume 01 : Number 014 Today's Subjects: ----------------- veda on the radio! [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 23:47:32 -0400 From: meredith Subject: veda on the radio! Hi! My terrible, awful, no-good, very bad day got quite a bit brighter as I was driving home this evening -- I heard a Veda song on the radio!!! WFUV played "Bellyfish" (in between Dar Williams and Indigo Girls, no less). I was so shocked when I heard those first few telltale drumbeats, I almost drove off the road. When it was over I grabbed my phone (I knew there was a reason I kept that damn thing ;) and did something evil. I called the studio and gushed all over the poor DJ for about five minutes ("that was such a cool song, what label is she on, can I get the album at Tower, how do you spell her name again, is the rest of the album that good (to which he said a definite "yes" :), thank you so much for introducing me to this great new artist, please be sure to play a lot more of her real soon!"). ;> I know how WFUV operates, and if they get a big reaction to a "new" (to them) artist, they'll bend over backwards to play that artist to death, at least for the next few weeks. It happened that way with Melissa Ferrick and Susan McKeown (among others), though I do have to say in both those cases the paradise was short-lived. But if they can do for Veda even a fraction of what they did for Dar Williams, I for one will be a very happy camper. I'd love to have to worry about Veda's upcoming Bottom Line gig selling out before I can get tickets! I know there are a couple other people here located within WFUV's listening area, so I'd just like to ask you folks to keep an ear tuned to 90.7 FM, and if you hear Veda again, do like I did and call up and be all excited and "who was THAT?!?" at them. And request that they play her stuff at other times. I'd been calling occasionally to request her, but never heard whether my requests got honored or not. Rita Houston, who's on between 10 AM and 2 PM is the most likely candidate to play Veda, since she hosted the Required Listening gig and interviewed her, and is an unabashedly big fan now. (Plus she's the Music Director, which is a good thing.) And Corny O'Connell, the 6-9 PM guy is now a target too, since he's the one who played her tonight. (He isn't the best about playing requests, though.) We're coming up on two weeks to the NYC and Northampton stops on the Scrappy Bitch tour -- who's going? We'll definitely have to arrange to meet up, both places. Anyone else planning on catching any of the shows scheduled before the 29th? Please report, if so... +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | Boonton, NJ USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | |***TRAJECTORY, the Veda Hille mailing list: trajectory-request@smoe.org***| +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ End of trajectory-digest V1 #14 *******************************