Videos made Prism 1995 Interview & Feed The Fire (Prism) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyXrAyNzp_I Temporary and Eternal (Echoes) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XVVkbUwprc Here Comes The Flood (May 9, 1996 2nd show) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXMatY-sCIc If So (May 9, 1996 2nd show) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yMkLOTSfLc When The Rain Came Down (May 9, 1996 2nd show) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zzcMmfGBjY Summer (May 9, 1996 2nd show) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-eySEHBjaM The Issue Is (May 9, 1996 2nd show) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqdT4cZDzEQ Lily of the Valley/Possessed (May 10, 1996 2nd show) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDu8xn6jxOY Hold Me (May 10, 1996 2nd show) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcXOiiyHE_c The Bottom Line August 10, 1996 Jork (October 12, 1996 1st show) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKwaOULuOgM How It Should Be (October 12, 1996 1st show) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0rdSFqtMbk Down Down (October 12, 1996 1st show) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ARhdyo84W8 Come Undone (October 12, 1996 2nd show) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqzIIJJ-tts Space Oddity (October 12, 1996 2nd show) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Zzt3PEwuM Come Undone - color version (October 12, 1996 2nd show) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmBidIWMgdY Space Oddity - color version (October 12, 1996 2nd show) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSCf15tBGqE March 15, 1997 1st show Look For The Child (March 15, 1997 2nd show) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLMaDkk2d6w All Things (March 15, 1997 2nd show) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eACEYTQkoLA Phobos (March 15, 1997 2nd show) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHB6oJZ3Xu0 Save Our Souls (March 15, 1997 2nd show) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPJ2HRgtquo More July 24, 1999 Mercy Street (July 24, 1999) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytyc72RiXE0 If Wishes Were Horses How Beggars Would Ride (July 24, 1999) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyG_g73R0wY Proof (July 24, 1999) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHaUqUtC4xs 1998 MWABT mini-tour Feed The Fire (November 11, 1999) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zuMeMx3tnY Collective Heart (November 11, 1999) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l13g3FkUB4w Perfection (November 11, 1999) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz1Uy4RYpZc Your Mind (November 11, 1999) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywf1GPHrl9Q Rajah (November 11, 1999) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXZrt-ow760 Station To Station (November 11, 1999) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brf-XgsYDdw Immortality (April 6, 2003) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHR1sA_dveU The First To Cry (April 6, 2003) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjxKnOLRFiA For We Believe (April 6, 2003) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMmcFkwSYlE The Chariot (April 6, 2003) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYINyJYOf28 Ra Is A Busy God (April 6, 2003) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmbHQ0rwCBQ To Live In Your World (Toledo November 9, 2003) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Cpi4_-i3w And Dream Of Sheep (Toledo November 9, 2003) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoNGpa9tJkg Can't Let Go (November 11, 2003) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPvAvMWdlM4 And Dream Of Sheep (November 11, 2003) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmxM6Rjx2u4 Fame snippet (November 12, 2003) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Ml7NW-KDQ Tin Angel January 29, 2005 1st & 2nd shows Project Lo with Happy Rhodes - Station To Station (Bowie) project lo happy rhodes progressive fusioon ecto female singer songwriter live concert david bowie martyrs chicago Project Lo with special guest Happy Rhodes, at Martyrs in Chicago, November 11, 1999. Bon Lozaga on guitar, Hansford Rowe on bass, Paul Ramsey on drums and Happy Rhodes, keyboards and guitars. ======================================================= Google Temporary and Eternal (Prism) And Dream Of Sheep (Toledo) And Dream Of Sheep (Kenosha) Summer (Tin Angel 5-9-96 2) Hold Me (Tin Angel 5-10-96 2) Collective Heart (Project Lo Martyrs 11-11-99) ===== MySpace Temporary and Eternal ================================== Prism Intro Hold Me interview other tape cuts in on Collective Heart (sounds great) interview bit Cohabitants (not great) interview Dying (just ok) Feed The Fire (1st, full, tape has awful dropouts during this) interview cuts in the middle of FtF Feed The Fire end interview Don't Want To Hear It (Funky) interview All Things (very cool) interview Poetic Justice (ok) interview (about talking to fans on IRC) Save Our Souls (very different) interview Murder ============================================================= ============================================================= Bottom Line 8-'96 (do not have Wavs of these shows) SOS <--good one Pavoratti gum story between SOS and How It Should Be How It Should Be <--- good one! pre The Issue Is, Happy and Kelly talk to me Jork (not so great) post-Jork she tells the story of (b)jork (doublt-check...1st show or 2nd show?) Flash Me Up The Bottom Line (do not have Wavs of these shows) New York, NY Saturday August 10, 1996 1st show 7:00pm Set list: 1. Look For The Child "Remember that time I walked out on stage and forgot my set list? That will never happen again" Carl offers his. 2. Collective Heart 3. Take Me With You 4. Tragic+ 5. Save Our Souls Pavoratti gum story 6. How It Should Be <--- good one! 7. Lay Me Down 8. Possessed Happy and Kelly talk to me 9. The Issue Is 10. "Jork" post-Jork she tells the story of (b)jork 11. Phobos 12. Come Undone (Duran Duran cover) 13. When The Rain Came Down Encore: 14. Flash Me Up+ <--- rare! 15. Summer ============================================================= 2nd show The Bottom Line New York, NY Saturday August 10, 1996 2nd show 10:00pm Set list: Look For The Child Collective Heart Take Me With You Save Our Souls How It Should Be Lay Me Down Possessed The Issue Is "Jork" Phobos Summer Come Undone (Duran Duran cover) If So+ Here Comes The Flood (Peter Gabriel cover)+ Encore: When The Rain Came Down Look For The Child (decent) Collective Heart (decent ++) Take Me With You (decent +) birthday present "awkward moment" SOS (weird power chord thing in middle, Happy gives cute smile) someone, not me, requests "Life On Mars" and I mention the Martian rock that was found, just prior to Summer If So <--pretty good, plus nice little Kevin solo introduces the band afterwards, must fade out before Here Comes The Flood starts Encore When the Rain Came Down shot from a different perspective nah, fucks up near the end ============================================================= Painted Bride Arts Center (my copy, Hi8, vocals are way low throughout) DO NOT HAVE WAV FILES OF THE 1998 SHOWS Many Worlds (not bad, but Happy's vocals were too low) Cohabitants (vocals are way too low, but not a goner if someone's interested) Proof (not bad) Down Down (ok) Winter (GREAT!!) Ra (decent but very dark) Roy (pretty good! and lighting isn't too bad) The Chariot (very good!) Feed The Fire (better look at the staging, very dark in spots) Tragic Looking Over Cliffs (not bad at all, Indian walking away shown at the end) If Wishes (decent) 100 Years (opening has Jeffy getting up on stage, great performance, but camera jitter. Check Chris's copy) Encore No In Hiding Serenading Genius (cuts in, but she looks right at me and smiles! "reach higher for the bigger stuff" again at "give me the key") ============ Chris's copy (DV) Painted Bride Arts Center Philadelphia, PA Sunday October 11, 1998 Set list: + Nice intro with part of Bjork and then Kate, then introduction + Many Worlds Are Born Tonight (decent, but audio does weird thing halfway through) Cohabitants (totally terrible) + Proof (GREAT GREAT GREAT!) Down Down (good, but her voice is lowish and she's obviously worried at the video screens not working well. Bit of Chris's video. Shows Paul? on keyboards) + Winter (Great performance, but parts of my video are better) Ra Is A Busy God (shows Kevin and Paul, lots of Paul singing, shows some of Carl near the end) + Roy (pretty good, but my video has some better parts) The Chariot (good, and she does the sign language thing, but is very dark and wobbly) Feed The Fire (great performance, but very dark, very dark.Where's Happy?? Paul shown) Tragic (useless, way too dark...never noticed, she uses the line from The Professional "no women no kids, that's the rules") + Looking Over Cliffs (darkish at times, but worth getting) If Wishes Were Horses, How Beggars Would Ride (darkish, but maybe worth getting. video is of horses? what the hell is Happy saying in the middle?) Gives away the Timelapse games 100 Years Encore: + In Hiding (she loves the glow sticks, is actually lit most of the time)) + Serenading Genius (looks pretty good, but sound is wanky. on the other video she looks at me twice. we see Paul for the first time!) ============================================================= Mary Coughlan tape has Sawyer apartment on the beginning, and the one with the stupid shit on the walls. Mary sings a few songs at Borders Mary at Schubas ============================================================= side angle brown t-shirt & mini-skirt Tin Angel Philadelphia, PA Saturday October 12, 1996 1st show 7:00pm No talk at beginning 1. Look For The Child (not great) "good evening, can't see up my skirt can ya...ask a woman...dance around a little" 2. Collective Heart (nice) "I have an announcement" "ooh what what what" "It's my mother's birthday" 3. Save Our Souls (nice) -"Thank you, can you hear me? Calvin Klein, CK One. I did a wedding recently... - 4. Down Down (decent) -"simplistic statement...it's my favorite song it's about submarines" -"No women no kids, that's the rules" Chris/me "The Professional" "who knew that...right" -5. The Issue Is -"really nerve-wracking...really scared" "You can do it Hap" -6. How It Should Be (really good) -"I need to reasses my life...get serious, no I don't...fleeting moments, bye bye" 7. Space Oddity (not so great) "join me in welcoming Kelly Bird" "I can't believe you guys played without me" "Yeah and it was heaven" audience member "Reaorwe" 8. Summer (pretty) "This is a funky little song I like to call...Freddie! Everybody must dance now" -9. "Jork" (aka "Everyone's Been Born Tonight") -"Anybody taping...did you get the Calvin Klein? cassette tapers, got a really rare version...pictures...enough of the standup" 10. Lay Me Down "Litterbug" "I have to get an edgier image, throwing things from the stage" "This is my last song, oh it's not, ok, this is one of my favorite songs I hope you enjoy it too" 11. All Things (very good) Encore: Hapmom: "You made these people work awful hard for that" "Post show palsy" "Filing my nail, bring it on up here" 12. Soon (Yes cover) "Oh god they're back, thought I lost them, must have been tailing me, tune your little guitars...lalala There's only room for one comedian" "Are you saying my butt's big?" 13. Possessed ============================================================= brown t-shirt & mini-skirt front view Tin Angel Philadelphia, PA Saturday October 12, 1996 2nd show 10:00pm "I don't know what happened but I heard a lot of thumping" 1. Look For The Child meth "$500.00 fine for littering" "And I don't have it...oh bass player, mr bass player" 2. Collective Heart Thank you thank you "Mom, some frickin' guy in the audience said happy birthday, I'm sure she appreciates that there sentiment...come on, the joke is all my stuff is serious...waiting with bad breath?...no I'm sorry" 3. Save Our Souls "Smidgen more guitar...would you like some more in yours? No antics...please ok, give her an inch...anybody been to the submarine here at Penn's Landing?" "Was it yellow" "Hahahaha 4. Down Down Hits microphone "No Happy concert would be complete" "Yah, ah, thanks" "Are you a Yankees fan? "Enough already" "This needs to be said, but I'm not going to say it, don't want to be labeled a bleeding heart liberal" "What's the worst thing about getting together with your family at Thanksgiving?" Goes out into audience, but uses "No women no kids" from The Professional. Me: "Jean Reno is in the audience? Cool!" 5. The Issue Is "My recorder didn't record, I wasn't purposely trying to mess with your brain..." "hey hey no talking to other people on the stage, you go through me. Carl Adami on bass" 6. How It Should Be <--- very good! "Running out of comedy material...anybody see the X-Files last night?" meth" "I haven't watched my tape yet" "I thought it was great" tries to fix some wonky wiring "gonna have to deal with this...I'm really sorry" 7. Phobos+ 8. Space Oddity (David Bowie cover) "Thank you! In case you can't hear me...please welcome Kelly Bird...I'm Calvin Klein...Kelly is (sings) Pippi Longstocking" Kelly "This is the Indigo Girl portion of the song" "This is a very intense, well, you'll be the judge of that, love song" 9. Summer More about the Yankees kid "It's really bugging me...kinda like cheating" Kel "What a country" "I'm gonna have fun with this song, so why don't you...my Barbara Walters moment" 10. "Jork" "So the kid with the baseball" Kelly "I have no idea what you're talking about" "Kelly and I are best friends...not that good friends" Kelly "Aw, she can't hurt me anymore" 11. Lay Me Down "There's a guy lurking behind me..." 12. Come Undone (Duran Duran cover)+ "Ok, that's what I did, stepped back and said now it's the end...clap in rhythm...this is my last song, we're all so sad...trying to figure out what the problem is" 13. All Things Encore: Stop right now with the awkward silence part...sorry about the buzz...god's hand of bad jokes" 14. Soon (Yes cover) Carl only? 15. Tragic+ "Keep that up for the rest of the band...this really is the last song...requests...I'm scared" You Never Told Me interlude with Cass in the audience. "I love you and I really mean that...it means everything to me" Looks at ygs not performed at the 1st show) ============================================================= white lacy top, torn jeans side angle Tin Angel Philadelphia, PA Saturday March 15, 1997 1st show 7:00pm Paul Blair? "Hi Vickie" -1. I'm Going Back (with snippet of Feed The Fire) "Oh, hi, when'd you get here...standing here thinking what's the next word...pound the hell out of it" 2. Possessed ("like that, that's a power chord" "if I break" like a little girl) -"One time I had a man, my brain is not in the same place as you'll...called AG Central, praying for me...life is such joy, this song is about suicide" -3. Lay Me Down Noise toy "scuse me" Kelly "Now You Can See Happy" "Kelly will be doing a ten minute comedy set right after mine" 4. Down Down "Thank You Vickie" ?? Kelly "Will we be going for Applejacks?" "Gotta get into that club" 5. Save Our Souls "Front row cracks up, cool new David Torn thing that I do, but no, did you hear that Clem" "Wow that was really spooky, your voice came right here. More about space" 6. Space Oddity (David Bowie cover) Noise toy. "Like Rosie O'Donnel up here" Waves by guy who went to bathroom "Well go on then" "Oh geez I have no band!" 7. In Hiding (weird feedback, otherwise beautiful) "This is Kevin Bartlett, this is not, this is, take it off my hands whatever it is, this is Kelly Bird, and that is Judy" Noise toy. "Somebody else talk for a minute, notice who stepped up to the microphone" Carl "We need mics" 8. Phobos Another song about space for you. This next song...what could a song called Jork even be about? Sounds like something you found under the couch while you were moving" "we're all gonna dance now, you people" 9. "Jork" "Was going to say something...haven't said anything yet...it's this front row" Noise toy (how I feel about you being in the front row) "When I was 11...do shows now...they're normal people and I lived the fantasy...they make good money...she did unspeakable things into the tape recorded" "She breathed by steel by steel" 10. The Issue Is "How many people can see my gum? nuclear-flavored" "Oh my god thank god" 11. All Things Encore: "Alright, the funny one"..." Kelly: banter...banned her" "Jo Anne Worley, Goldie Hawn...rather the old guy who falls off the bench" "Don't want to be Ruth Buzzi" "Gonna need that...oww! Hope you enjoyed that...female Homer Simpson...Hodown...I could call the rest of the band...NO please don't do that!" -12. Just Like Tivoli "What the hell is going on?? I swear to god I'm going to send you to the back...yeah I love having people staring up my nostrils...guitar boy needs a drink" Me: "Who's the bass player?"Kelly: "Yeah who's the bass player?" 13. Look For The Child "Thank you...Kelly Bird, Kevin Bartlett, Carl Adami, Homer Simpson" ============================================================= XX (5-SOS, 9-Phobos, 12-All Things, 14-Look) white lacy top, torn jeans side angle Tin Angel Philadelphia, PA Saturday March 15, 1997 2nd show 10:00pm Set list: Kelly: "Everybody do the wave" "Not that you're not cool" 1. I'm Going Back (ok) Hap "Is this a different front row?" 2. Possessed (ok) "I tried to frighten them away and they wouldn't go...have been known to spit my gum..." Kelly "that would be really cool" 3. Lay Me Down (pretty) "That's Kelly Bird, may have seen her with Jen Hess" 4. Down Down (very good) "It's not arrogance...wow I got through that whole song...not going to spit gum on you...skipping song, no, we're cool... he's just wishing that Morphine would come back" 5. Save Our Souls (pretty) "Celebration...somewhere Beyond the Sea" 6. Space Oddity (David Bowie cover) 7. Soon (Yes cover)+ (pretty) "Jon Anderson. It's a Yes song, it's so pretty. No, Trevor Rabin" 8. In Hiding (pretty) "Believe, the sun will come out again, request, when hell froze over" "Btw I'm not chewing gum to be crass, keeps everything moist. 9. Phobos (really good) Kelly Rocks Carl Water I'm Easy Spit Take She Made me Clean it upKevin 10. "Jork" (nice) "My name is Happy, feeling very sappy...I'm very white aren't I...well that would be you...it makes me laugh, cat's squeeky toy..." "The woman...while the cat lay dying" 11. The Issue Is Cuts in, "...alled me once...Are you a transsexual?" "Good night song...pin drop""All things metaphysical...Luke" 12. All Things Kelly "I thought she was a man too...everybody said you were a woman...staff of 29" Encore: "entire childlife" 13. Just Like Tivoli Cat stories!! Krusty 14. Look For The Child ============================================================= Project Lo Chicago Your Mind(?) (Happy singing) Mercy Street (Happy singing) Hansford Rowe song (Happy background vocals) Ra Is A Busy God (Happy song, singing) Perfection (Happy singing) Feed The Fire (Happy song, singing) Rajah (with Happy vocalese) Hansford Rowe song The Chariot (Happy song, singing) ... (Happy vocalese) Collective Heart (Happy song, singing) ... (? Happy singing) The mp3 of this song was once misidentified as being a duet by Kate Bush and Annie Lennox. It spread like wildfire around the old (very much missed) Napster. We filmed this video at the Tin Angel in Philadelphia, PA on May 9, 1996 (2nd show of the night, and she did 2 more shows the next night). Kevin Bartlett on electric guitar and Carl Adami on bass are hidden there in the background. We traveled from Chicago to see this show (and many many other shows). The trip was always worth the effort. ============== Vickie (Proud member of the "Kate IS/WAS/AND CONTINUES TO BE WONDERFUL" Nutters Club (especially after the release of the brilliant and beautiful Aerial!) Happy Rhodes: [link=www.myspace.com/happyrhodes newwindow] MySpace page[/link] - [link=p081.ezboard.com/fthehomegroundandkatebushnewsandinfoforumfrm9.showMessage?topicID=793.topic newwindow]Homeground Forum thread[/link] - [link=http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=k8fan newwindow] YouTube live clips[/link] ========================================== Vickie here. Pardons to those who'll see this more than once. k8fan just put up 12 new clips, bringing the total of live clips on YouTube to 21, with more to come, though I'm starting a video section (it's not up yet) on my Rarities page and some to come will probably only be available there. I'm thinking about putting in an RSS feed at the web site so people will know when new ones are available. k8fan's list of videos http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=k8fan&page=1 The new videos put up, from 3 different shows: ============================ Tin Angel - Philly - October 12, 1996 1st show with Kevin Bartlett, Carl Adami and Kelly Bird = How It Should Be No banter before or after for those who just want the music. = Down Down Happy's "Calvin Klein commercial" and wedding story before the song. = Jork This is a bit of a botched performance, endearingly so, but it makes the end banter even more funny. Watch to the very end, she references the Calvin Klein commercial, cassette tapers and people taking pictures. ============================ Tin Angel - Philly - March 15, 1997 2nd show with Kevin Bartlett, Carl Adami and Kelly Bird = All Things (and "Are you a transsexual?") At the front of this Happy tells a story about getting a call from someone asking her if she's a transexual. Be sure to watch it all the way to the end. There's more. = Look For The Child Happy tells a cute cat story and does a nifty Krusty impression at the beginning. = Save Our Souls There are tiny snippets of "Celebration" and "Beyond The Sea" after the song. = Phobos Happy does the cutest giddy dance at the end of the song. Kelly rocks out too! There's VERY funny banter with Kelly after the song. *spit take!* ============================ Tin Angel - Philly - May 9, 1996 2nd show with Kevin Bartlett and Carl Adami = When The Rain Came Down = If So = The Issue Is = Summer = Here Comes The Flood (Peter Gabriel cover) She bows to me when the song is over because she knows I'm such a huge Peter Gabriel fan. *wipes tear* Vickie ========================================================================= I understand the charge of self-linking, because we did put these videos on YouTube. I will point out that we did not post the very first one that appeared here on VideoSift ("Temporary and Eternal"), so please consider not deleting that one. That was posted by someone we don't know, and I only noticed it when I saw the link at YouTube. We were asked to provide more Happy by VideoSifters and so we did. I now realize we shouldn't have taken the requests to mean that *we* provide the videos, and I deeply apologise. I'm not quite sure what you mean about the spurious accounts James, but there are two accounts coming from this IP. My husband Chris, k8fan, has a computer, and I have a computer. He's the techie if you need details, but we're on a network, using an Ethernet and a wireless router and DSL (and cats, even). Since he has his interests and things to do, we both have our own accounts at YouTube, Yahoo, Slashdot, many message boards, various other places, and here. We've always been separate entities, ever since we first got on the internet in 1989, though we didn't get separate computers until the mid-'90's. Did you delete his account here, is that what you meant? There are no other accounts. I *have* several accounts, but I honestly can't remember posting here or voting here using anything but my Yahoo account. If I did it wasn't a calculated attempt to ballot stuff. Come to think of it Chris would have posted either here from our home or using his laptop when he travels for business, which is often. I'm sure he didn't have two separate accounts though. His other IP would have come from EverestKC, the ISP he uses while in Kansas City (we live in Chicago). It's perfectly legitimate, but I can see how it might seem bizarre or suspicious. A lot of people could vouch for us, and I'd be happy to answer any questions and point toward more information about us. If anyone's interested I'll explain about the videos, if you'll indulge me because I have to give a bit of Happy history for anyone to truly understand. It may bore, but it will explain. The relationship here is one of the purest you'll ever run across. Happy Rhodes (her real name) is a singer-songwriter-musician who has been making music for over 20 years and has 10 indie albums. I've been a fan for 18 of those years, after I discovered her and played her on a radio show I used to have called Suspended In Gaffa. I don't work for her, never have, never will, but I am her oldest, staunchest fan so she gives me permission to do just about anything I want regarding her music (cite from one of the serveral fan web sites I maintain: http://wretchawry.com/happy/samples which is a Song Samples site - Other web sites, to check my "credentials," include http://wretchawry.com/happy/rarities for, well, Rarities - http://www.rhodeshows.com Happy live shows - http://www.myspace.com/happyrhodes Happy's MySpace fan page. Happy is very cool about my sharing music and is also cool with the videos). Happy *hates* self-promotion, with a passion, and would never make or submit her own videos anywhere for any reason. In fact, with 10 albums, she's never even made any videos. She's a true album artist, one of the very very few, wanting the music to stand on its own, so besides making no videos, she's released very few singles (only 2 actual CD single releases). There were a other few songs that got airplay and a flurry of attention in the '90's (she's been interviewed by Kimberly Haas for John Diliberto's radio show Echoes, if that means anything to anyone), but mostly she's just garnered a small but worldwide cult following. An internet mailing list dedicated to her, ecto, was started in 1991, which makes it one of the oldest, continuous fan mailing lists on the net. It's still going, and spawned offshoots such as the Ectophile's Guide to Good Music (http://ectoguide.org). Happy's last album was released 8 years ago. She's had an album in the can for several years, but doesn't have the money to complete the mastering. She has no label and hasn't had one for several years. She got dropped by her last one because they didn't know what to do with her. She doesn't fit into any set genre and her music is hard to classify and "market." She lives on a farm in upstate New York and has a day job. She refuses to take money from outside sources to finish the album. She doesn't want to be beholden to anyone financially, so she's been working her day job to earn enough to record bits of tracks here and there. The album is recorded now, and 7 of the 11 songs have been mastered, but there's no ETA on when the last 4 songs will be mastered. There's no product to promote, so that's not what I'm doing. I became a fan in 1988. In 1991 I traveled from Chicago to Albany, NY and Philadelphia, PA to see her live for the 1st and 2nd time. The next time I saw her live was in 1996, when Chris and I traveled to Philly to see her play 4 shows in 2 nights (manna from heaven for a fan). This time Chris brought along a camcorder and recorded the shows, though only 2 of the 4 came out well. The thing to understand about why these shows are rare, is that Happy has never toured the US (or anywhere else), and has only done one-off shows (sometimes two a night), or as in 2003 when she didn't even have an album to promote, a small cluster of shows that stretched from New Jersey to Chicago. We traveled to see several other shows/showsets; in 1996 alone we made 3 trips from Chicago (May and October in Philly, August at The Bottom Line in New York). We traveled to Philly to see her again in 1997, 1998 (Philly, plus Troy, NY and New York City), and 1999. In 2001 she had an accident with her fret hand and it was unclear for a while if she would ever play guitar again. We just had to travel to a New Haven, CT house concert in 2003, her first show since the accident. In November 2003 she played a mini-tour and we saw the dates in Kenosha, WI, Toledo, OH and Chicago. In January 2005 we again went to Philly. Those were her last shows. Every time I see her I think, "this is going to be the last time I see her live" which so far hasn't turned out to be true, but it's always on my mind. All told I've seen 24 live shows and we have 22 of them on video. For years this video has languished in a box. We made the occasional dub but there wasn't really anything else to do with it. Until recently. Chris got the ability to extract songs and make videos for YouTube, and I immediately thought of Happy. There are fans in other parts of the US and in other countries who have never seen a live clip and since she doesn't tour they will probably never see her live. It had to be done, and I made Chris do it (he's such a sweetheart). We just bought a used Digital 8 camera on ebay so we could access some of the older video that was shot with a Hi8 that died many years ago. Now I'm having a blast going through shows and picking out good bits. None of this would matter if the music were average, but if you really listen to her voice and music, she's very special. If you (whoever might be reading this) haven't seen any of the videos, please at least watch "Temporary and Eternal" and her cover of "Space Oddity" or "Mercy Street." I know she won't appeal to everyone, but she's an important artist, one of the best artists you've never heard of. All these clips will be important to biographers and archivists, and music historians of the future. We were zealous about uploading videos without having read the rules and I am very very sorry about that. I just don't want all this to end with people thinking that there's a cold, calculating attempt to spam, market, cheat or deceive. It's been a sincere, if fumbling, attempt to spread the music of an artist I care deeply about. Vickie