From: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org (trajectory-digest) To: trajectory-digest@smoe.org Subject: trajectory-digest V2 #54 Reply-To: trajectory@smoe.org Sender: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk trajectory-digest Wednesday, June 3 1998 Volume 02 : Number 054 Today's Subjects: ----------------- ...and they all climb out of the shadows [Tony Jackson ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 11:00:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Tony Jackson Subject: ...and they all climb out of the shadows <> Yet another new member steps boldly out into the light. ;-T I've been lurking on the trajectory list for several months now. I fell for Veda Hille at a show at the Anza Club in Vancouver last fall sometime (I think). She played her own wonderful material, and then she did some piano and backup for the Molestics (the lead man was about as drunk as usual ;-). Songs she played then that I noticed and later recognized on the albums were Three, Small Weight, Precious Heart, Instructions and Slumber Queen. The show stopping, super song (and half the reason why I got the excellent 'Lit From Within' collection) was 'Well I Guess Not'. I loved that track, with the lilting, love-sick begining sliding gently into jazzy, cynical, comical and insightful musings about the nature of love. I fell for her, and bought both Path of a Body and Spine on the spot. Then I moved back to Ottawa to finish my degree, and she is the reason I went to see the Scrappy Bitch show in Ottawa, which was absolutely stellar. She was wondrous, and I really liked Oh Susanna and was blown away by Kinnie Starr and her intense, gripping poetry reading as she strolled through the audience barefoot. I liked it so much that I bought every single iota of merchandise at the table (all the remaining CD's and tapes by all of them and a poster and a T-Shirt). Veda and Suzie were very appreciative, and signed my poster (Kinnie too) and gave me a leopard print little mask they used for their little opening, naming me Honourary Ottawa Scrappy Bitch (which title I dug greatly) That's me and my Veda history. That brings us to last Saturday. I was at New Music West at the Plaza of Nations in Vancouver (I moved here permanently 2 weeks ago) and I was waiting to see the Divas in The Round show at 8. I ended up stumbling into their sound check and sat there for a few minutes enjoying that. Even though my hair and beard had changed lots over the 8 months I was in Ottawa, Lindsay Davis recognized me and came over. She was one of the Divas set to play that evening, and I knew her from when she was in the great local Vancouver band, the Colorifics, and she is now doing her own stuff. Then, to my surprise and delight, I hear through the microphone from the stage "Is that Tony the Tiger? What are you doing here?" Pleased that Veda recognized me, she and Suzie come over after their sound check and chat a bit. Some info updates from my sketchy memory: the Scrappy Bitches are touring again for a coupla weeks in September, then I think Veda is back off to Europe. She told me when the E.Carr Dance presentation was supposed to be (November?) but it slipped my mind because it was a ways off and has been frequently postponed before. The show itself, later was quite a lot of fun. The first set was 6 Divas, I recall, all seeming to have fun together and seeming either engagingly relaxed or endearingly nervous. They each had 2 turns playing songs, prefaced by funny explanatory stories for the first set. Veda played '26 Years' and then a duo of love songs that, if I had to guess titles, would be a sad and lovely 'Stronger Than Love' and perhaps 'Make my Bed'(?). I hadn't heard either before. In the second set, she played 'Born Lucky', which starts with that bella coola(?) phrase for god 'Our woman afraid of nothing'. I hadn't heard that either. She closed the whole show with 'Bellyfish' (helped out by some of the other Divas). The other Divas were all very cool. They were (for set 1) Oh, Susanna and her friend on backup harmonica Anna Friez(?), Coco Love Alcorn, Selina Martin and Kinnie Starr. For set 2, Coco left to do backup for 54-40 outside and Lindsay Davis joined in as well as a very cool, young group from Calgary called Sarah-Tigan, I think. Two girls with voices and guitars and one fellow with a conga-like drum. No album yet for them, but I'll keep my eyes out. Well...that was my Epic tale. I guess if I posted more often, they wouldn't be quite so long. <:-T Thanks for all the cool reviews and info and whatsuch I have been enjoying from the list. Sinking back into the shadows(?), Tony the Tiger A--A |**| =()()= "Forever seek knowledge through the sharing of emotion and the wondrous expression of thought" - Sylvia Mae Register "Oh precious heart, you think you're lost. Look down, look down and find your feet. The next step is the path you're on, Just don't confuse the light and heat" - Veda Hille "When I look down, I just miss all the good stuff And when I look up, I just trip over things" - Ani DiFranco "feelings are everywhere - be gentle" j. masai ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 22:13:41 PDT From: "jeF kearns" Subject: for Trajectory list! Hi! This is jeF. I know Veda plays a tenor and four string guitar; both of which i do not have. But i am wondering if anyone can tell me how to get my regular everyday old guitar to sound like hers does in songs such as Slumber Queen (e.g: chord formations, remove these strings etc.). Thanks. Also: if anyone has Veda Hille concerts (on audio or video tape) i would extremely love to have copies of them. As far as to what i could offer in trade: i have Chantal Kreviazuk bootlegs, Juliana Hatfield bootlegs, Liz Phair bootlegs, plus that Songs for E.Carr concert that was broadcasted on CBC2. Well, i should probably go. THANKS FOR READING THIS! jeF. email: jeFkearns@hotmail.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of trajectory-digest V2 #54 *******************************