Re: Lovehounds Collections

[chrisw@wwa.com (Chris Williams)]

>Hi, all!  I just got the Lovehounds Collections (thanks to a very, very kind
>list member in Hawaii!) and they are so wonderful!  

   On behalf of the many people involved, thank you.

>I have just scores of questions as I watch... I wonder how all these 
>were acquired, and applaud the effort that must have went into compiling
>and editing these tapes... wow!

   Just through normal collecting and trading, but the genesis of it
was during the last Kate Bush convention in England.

> One of my favorites on the tape is the video for Rocket Man... do you think
>the guitar in the chair with the candle is a tribute to her guitarist that
>died? 

   Yes, Alan Murphy played on the track, but died before the video was
made.

> Also, what is the instrument that sounds like a woodwind (kind of), 
>but instead of the musician blowing into it, it's connected to a series 
>of other pipes, it looks like, by some kind of tube... I couldn't for 
>the life of me figure it out (and I call myself a music minor - huh!)  

   That is the Irish bagpipe, known as the Uilean (elbow) pipes. Where the
more familar Highland pipe bag is inflated by blowing into a tube, the 
Uilean pipe bag is inflated with a bellows attached to the players
elbow. It's a wonderful insturment, often compared to the saxophone
in its expressiveness. 

>I had tons of other questions, too, but have forgotten them all... I loved
>the videos she made at De Efteling.... somewhat humorous, but neat, too. 

   Yeah, those have always been a favorite. Unfortuntly, it doesn't look
like we are ever going to get a better version of that.

>And poor Kate during that interminable Night Flight interview!  She has a 
>lot more patience than I do!

   That is as close as we have ever seen Kate to getting angry (although
there have been reports of her be harassed by a photographer to the
point of taking a kick at him.)

>Well, since these were probably discussed ad infinatum when they were first
>distributed, I will sign off now.  Thank you again, everyone who worked on
>them - they're great!

   Thanks again, and we're glad you enjoy them.


Chris Williams of
   Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago
      chrisw@wwa.com
"How perfectly goddamn delightful it all is, to be sure" - C. Crumb