From: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org (trajectory-digest) To: trajectory-digest@smoe.org Subject: trajectory-digest V3 #81 Reply-To: trajectory@smoe.org Sender: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk trajectory-digest Tuesday, September 14 1999 Volume 03 : Number 081 Today's Subjects: ----------------- you do not live in this world alone [meredith ] the cd release party in vancouver [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 22:08:40 -0400 From: meredith Subject: you do not live in this world alone Hi! Yes kids, it's out! It's not up on Veda's web site yet, though, and you won't find it at A&B Sounds' web site yet. Still, I don't think she would ignore you if you were to print out the current order form from her site and write in _You Do Not Live In This World Alone_, and enclose a check for the same amount as the other CDs. By the end of September there will be a whole new web site at www.vedahille.com. In addition to the new album, you will also be able to procure the companion book, which contains the lyrics and additional artwork not found in the jewel booklet of the disc. I'll let y'all know when that's going to be going live. Sadly, it looks like ordering this album direct or from places that have always carried her stuff, like A&B Sounds is going to be the only way to get it for the time being. Due to difficulties going on at Bottom Line Records, there are no plans for an American release at this time. It's worth the trouble to get it, though. I'm starting to get used to the studio versions, and after a shaky start it's growing on me very quickly. It's strange to be already intimately familiar with every single song on a CD before you ever hear it. I have the live versions ingrained in my brain, and it's taking time to sort them out so I can deal with them not only from the studio, but in the order in which they've been placed. How was the CD release show, you ask? Next rock ... +==========================================================================+ | 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 *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 23:02:45 -0400 From: meredith Subject: the cd release party in vancouver Hi! Yes, I really did fly to Vancouver this weekend for the express reason of attending the CD release show at the Starfish Room on Saturday night. (Veda should release albums right around my birthday every time. :) We got there early enough to commandeer some barstools off to the side and not too far away from the stage. Unfortunately people ended up standing right in front of us when Veda came onstage, but amazingly enough everyone sitting on the dance floor area in front of the stage remained sitting through her set, so I was able to stand on the periphery and get a pretty good view for most of the show. The evening was emceed by Veda's friend Christine Taylor. I'm not quite sure who she is or whether she does this sort of thing often, but she was really bizarre and quite funny. She came out dressed in a nurse's outfit with a toy pistol stuck into the band of one of her stockings to introduce the openers, Zubot & Dawson. I had heard of Zubot & Dawson, but I hadn't had the chance to hear them until that night. They were great. Picture Bela Fleck and the Flecktones with a fiddle instead of a banjo. If you like that sort of thing, then they're definitely worth checking out. They're both excellent musicians. They played for about 40 minutes, which went by pretty quickly because I was enjoying their set so much. After what seemed an eternity in between sets, Christine Taylor reappeared, this time in a full dominatrix outfit, with the toy pistol stuck through a band on her upper arm. After a rambling intro Veda and the boys took the stage, and opened with "The Boy In The Woods", which also opens the album. From there the set went on something like this: Boat Ride To Skidegate/Born Lucky Veterans of Foreign Wars/The River 3xthin The Williamsburg Bridge Batterie Bellyfish Clumbsy Working/Noah's Ark All Fur Songbird aria/Killzone! Pony Bride Slumber Queen Wrong Peculiar Value (encore 1) INSTRUCTIONS Driven Shamus and Stone (with Zubot & Dawson) (encore 2 - Veda solo) You're Gonna Need Someone On Your Side (the Morrissey song) 26 Years Having "Boat Ride To Skidegate" go right into "Born Lucky" was a musical stroke that had me in a puddle on the floor. But then the band had to do the most kickass "Bellyfish" ever. Other highlights: - -- Veda played "Clumbsy" on the banjo, the instrument on which it was written and recorded. (Tidbit: "Clumbsy" is spelled with the "b" because when it was first written it became Christine Taylor's favorite song, and when Veda played at her birthday party she made a written request for it and misspelled it that way.) - -- I was amused to see her run the a cappella songbird aria straight into "Killzone" again - that just works SO well. - -- "Shamus And Stone" was the surprise of the night. I'd never heard her play it before, and Zubot & Dawson added just the right touches with their fiddle and steel guitar, respectively. - -- The second, solo encore was a delight. I didn't recognize the Morrissey song as such, but I knew it was a cover. Then when that was done she was noodling at the piano obviously trying to decide what to play, and into that moment of indecision I tossed out a request for "26 Years", which she immediately launched into. I was really happy -- I'd been thinking to myself that that song was the only thing missing from the evening. Personnel-wise, there weren't any surprises - I'd sort of been thinking some people besides the Skilled And Devoted Band might show up, it being a hometown show and all, but it remained just Ford, Barry, and Martin backing Veda up. Not that there was anything wrong with that, of course. :) Ford managed to play every instrument on the stage over the course of the set, including French Horn and melodica at various points. He never ceases to amaze me. (My friend and I agreed that French horn must have been the instrument he was forced to play in marching band. ;) All in all, it was the best show I've seen Veda et al. do. They were on, they were having a good time, and simply everything, even the really quiet numbers like "Batterie" kicked in their own ways. Plus, it was a different experience for me, to be in a room with at least 400 other people who were there just to see Veda play. (I'm used to maybe 40 tops, in NYC.) Fortunately for me, Veda had gotten the advance warning that I was coming, so she didn't freak or anything. She said she's saving the restraining order for the next time. ;) She says hello to everyone. Go order the album right this minute! I have some issues personally with the production, but the songs are all wonderful, and you all will be glad you did. (Note to the New York area folk: no shows for us until at least November. Sigh. :P) +==========================================================================+ | 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 V3 #81 *******************************