From: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org (trajectory-digest) To: trajectory-digest@smoe.org Subject: trajectory-digest V2 #48 Reply-To: trajectory@smoe.org Sender: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk trajectory-digest Saturday, May 23 1998 Volume 02 : Number 048 Today's Subjects: ----------------- cd Release Party ["Amy Jeffries" ] ADMIN: Thanks, and upcoming smoe.org downtime [Jeff Wasilko ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 11:42:54 PDT From: "Amy Jeffries" Subject: cd Release Party Since it appears as though no one has thus far reported on it, and I'm not sure if any other listers even attended, I suppose it has become my job (and happily so) to tell y'all about Veda's cd release party at the Canadian Consulate on Tuesday night. I had an interview earlier that afternoon for an internship in midtown at 1180 6th Ave. When I called to RSVP about the release party the woman I spoke to told me that the address of the Canadian Consulate was 251 6th Ave. and I was like, "oh COOL they're on the same street", apparently I did not know much about NYC. So since I had about 3 hours between the interview and the party I started walking. It took me a good, sweaty 2 hours to walk all the way down to 251 6th Ave, and I found myself at a grocery store in the village - not the Canadian Consulate. So, me, now freaking out that I'm gonna miss the whole damn thing or collapse from heat exhaustion (it was 90 degrees and humid that day) I get a village fireman to look up the address of the Canadian Consulate in the phonebook: 1251 6th Ave., shoot me now! Well, I hopped in a cab a few mintues later and booked all the way back up 6th Ave. and got there actually a few minutes early, praying that I didn't smell like ass - I didn't, phew! It was kind of quaint. The room looked just like one of those little Motel 6 lounges, not very big with a couple of tables topped with aurderves and beverages (alcoholic and non-alcoholic, Veda had the former, scotch) and in the center of each table was a salad bowl filled with copies of Spine (all of which were gone 2 hours later). We all mingled and networked for the first hour or so, I talked to Sarah Hoffman (from the Bottom Line, and now a friend of mine) the founder of the Bottom Line the Record Co. and the Club, Patti the Nield's tour manager, and Rita Houston from WFUV, and of course Veda among other enthusiasitc players. Around 7:30 they rolled the video for Bellyfish, which, like much of what Veda does, is still sorting itself out in my brain, but there was much cheering from the croud. We had some mushy introductions and then Veda played for about half an hour starting off with a shouted-word piece about insects that I hadn't heard before. Let's see if I can remember (in no particular order) she played a really beautiful version of 26 years, Bellyfish, Instructions, One Hot Summer, and a couple of others all from Spine. There was some initial shock from the crowd, many of whom had never heard anything from Veda and were not expecting such abstact intensity, but they were all very attentive and warmed up to her and there was much applause and enthusiasm at the end. All in all it was a very happy event, but just know for future reference that the Canadian consulate (where Veda held the very first cd release party) is at 1251 6th Ave, not 251. I will be playing my interview with Veda and some exerpts from her set at CB's Gallery Sunday Night somewhere between 6:30 and 10pm on WRTC 89.3FM Hartford. - Amy ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 16:12:30 -0400 From: Jeff Wasilko Subject: ADMIN: Thanks, and upcoming smoe.org downtime Hello: Let me start by thanking everyone who donated to the smoe.org fund drive. You've raised over $3500 at this point, and I really appreciate your support!!! Earlier this week I ordered the new hardware for smoe.org, which cost $4600 (drop me a note if you're interested in the technical specs on the new gear). It arrived today, and I'm taking a few days off work to get it set up and in production. At some point between Saturday and Tuesday, smoe.org will be shut down to install the new hardware. The downtime will probably be 4-6 hours. During the time we're off-line, mail will be queued up at my ISP so no mail will be lost. I'll send out another announcement once the new gear is online. Thanks again for your help! - -Jeff P.S. If you've been meaning to send in a check, Mike Connell is still accepting donations. Contact him at ducksoup@spectra.net for more info. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 21:57:29 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Veda at The Bottom Line Hi! Well, I made it into NYC to see the late show at The Bottom Line last night. It turned out to be a very surreal evening on many levels, but it was well worth it. We got a sneak peek of Veda at the end of Cindy Lee Berryhill's set, when she came onstage to play toy piano on a CLB standard called "Make Way For The Handicapped". I wish I could get a videotape of the whole scene - I was practically on the floor. Picture Veda crouched down practically on the stage, grooving away and banging octaves on a toy piano, every once in a while leaning way over to yell harmony into the mic. Maybe you had to have been there, but it was a stitch. :) Veda went on third, and she was replacing Christine Taylor, who had come down with a strep throat. She came onstage in a black cocktail dress and her new shoes (which can only be described as Air Jordan sandals), drink in hand, and proceeded to do a completely spoken rendition of "INSTRUCTIONS", followed by "Well, I Guess Not" and a hilarious bit of 'psychosurrealism' called "Sink" (which I had previously known by the title of "Bug Yelling"). For "Sink" she stood about four feet behind the microphone and shouted about cockroaches showing up in soup, two women in an airplane-shaped hotel room, and finally a woman who finds a pole in the water and crawls down it to the bottom, where she stays until she drowns. After that came two new songs on the guitar: the one she's played previously that has the line about "maybe we can fuck in the kitchen", immediately followed by a playful one with the lines, "why don't you come up, my bed's unmade" and later, "why don't you come up and make my bed", both of which she prefaced by saying that the first was about the sad side of love and the second about the happy side, which is how she hopes it goes for everyone. It was the first time she had ever performed that song. I liked it a lot. Apparently they were both written for banjo - can't wait to hear them that way! Then she made her way to the piano and played yet another new song, this one again a debut, which she introduced by saying that it's for an 18-month-old friend of hers, then mentioned the inspiration also came from the translation of the word a British Columbian tribe has for "god": "woman who is afraid of nothing" (I think I'm remembering that correctly). This song was gorgeous. Maybe it was the piano, but it sounded like it could have come from _Path Of A Body_ with a bit of the chills I always get from "26 Years" thrown in. I had barely recovered from that when she again went to the front of the stage and picked up the accordion belonging to the previous band, and performed e.e. cummings' "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond" in its entirety. A bit of this is the "hidden track" on _Spine_, but last night she did the whole thing, with accordion accompaniment, ending it with the bit as it appears on the album. As Veda always does, by the end of her set she'd completely won over the room, and left those of us who were there expressly to see her shaking our heads and wondering just how she can keep on doing what she does to us *every single time*. As Veda made her way offstage to a rousing ovation the host, WFUV DJ Meg Griffin noted, "isn't it a pleasure to be a part of something like this, and know that you're one of a select few who had the brains to be here at The Bottom Line tonight?" Amen. :) It was definitely a special performance, and I'm very glad I had the chance to experience it. While I'm here -- thanks again to everyone who participated in the chat Monday night! Veda really enjoyed it, and I hope we can do it again sometime. It was fun. I logged as much of it as I could (Netscape crashed on me twice, but I don't think I missed too much), and I plan to get it formatted and readable this weekend. Since it's going to be huge I'm not going to post it to the list, but rather will post the URL once I've got it up. If anyone needs a copy e-mailed to them instead, just drop me a line and I'll make sure you get a copy. +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | | *** TRAJECTORY: the Veda Hille mailing list *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ End of trajectory-digest V2 #48 *******************************