What are you listening to? The world really needs to know. #5
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PhillyDave
“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
Heard this the other day and thought "I'm gonna have a good day. I think luck is on my side." and i did.
Black Swan
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R.I.P. Phil Chevron, of the Pogues.
Skygazer
And in the end...
Apparently one of the Hunter S Thompson favourite tracks; so another reason to love him.
Re-reading The Great Shark Hunt this week and he says he started writing Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in the Ramada Hotel in LA, must have been 1970 or 1971, the hotel is opposite the Santa Anita Racetrack - isn't that one of the tracks CB went to?
angry red, passion blue, but mostly... shades of gree-een
Re-reading The Great Shark Hunt this week and he says he started writing Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in the Ramada Hotel in LA, must have been 1970 or 1971, the hotel is opposite the Santa Anita Racetrack - isn't that one of the tracks CB went to?
angry red, passion blue, but mostly... shades of gree-een
Ignore the first 3 minutes, and minimize the window so you don't have to see that damn hippie shit. Just listen to the jam and how the rhythm section forces this to where it goes...
Here's one where you don't have to scroll 3 minutes in:
I'm not sure how to explain this, but this jam completely describes how my mind works.
Here's one where you don't have to scroll 3 minutes in:
I'm not sure how to explain this, but this jam completely describes how my mind works.
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Black Swan
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what are you on Mr. JM? :p
It's not like that. I first got into the Dead in '81 in my first year of college. I saw ~20 shows from '82-'85. But while I had amassed a good number of boot tapes, I had only one from '72. It wasn't until this year that I discovered '72 versions of Playing in the Band. In '73-'74, those jams got more extended, to the point of excess. The '72 versions are more to the point and the jams are more focused. It only occurred to me recently that the unconventional grounding of the rhythm section with Jerry's searching over the top was exactly the sound I've been trying to find in my mind. So, nothing to see here, really. Unless you are concerned with how my brain works.
I would add that a good 70% of the Dead is unlistenable to me. It's that other 30% that reaches heights no band can replicate.
mjp
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Then mute your speakers so you don't have to hear it.
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You have more patience than I do to endure a 70/30 split. Though I do understand, because I've seen live Clash shows that approach that ratio - they tended to be either the best band you'd ever seen in your life or the worst, depending on the night - but I don't know that I could live with a ratio like that on records. I'd never go to a live show if the records were 70/30.
But if a band has a long career, it's easy to dip into that territory. Where the bad outweighs the good. It's a funny thing. To produce consistently great music over a period of more than a few years is a rare and marvelous thing. When it happens. Which is almost never. I can count the people who've I think have done it on the fingers of one hand (no Jerry Garcia joke intended).
No band, musician, or composer that I can think of nailed it consistently for any extended period of time. Perhaps the most recent example would be Beethoven and before that, Mozart. I don't care much for Mozart's somewhat fluffy, academic style, but it's hard to find a bad bit in the whole lot. Moreso than anything else in life, in music, I find the reward in risk-taking. So liking 30% of a band's output (and really finding true gems in only about 30% of that 30%) is part of the allure. The concept of great has no context without the concept of horrible, and music is the most accessible example of that to me.
Just heard this song on the radio. Can't resist to post it here.
She is a former jehova's witness. Why am I not surprised.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_Myers
She is a former jehova's witness. Why am I not surprised.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_Myers
PhillyDave
“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
Heard this on the way to work today and thought, "I'm gonna have a good day today. I think luck is on my side." So far so good. If i keep posting tunes like this one would think I'm a hard rocker/metalhead, not that there's anyhting wrong w/ that.
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Black Swan
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Warren Zevon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Airplane on The Smothers' Brothers, 1968. What's most cool about this is the brief excursion into polyrhythm (syncopated 12 over 4 @ 1:29-1:35). Marty Balin looks back as if to say WTF, while Grace sports a big ole gleeful smile. No doubt the Airplane had learned a trick or two from the good ole Grateful Dead. Grace, for all her political correctness, appears in black face. Because nobody said no.
Before the Beatles, there was the Airplane:
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Thanks to Bukfan for reminding me about my Airplane exclusion from my thread that degenerated into a '70 movie review.
Before the Beatles, there was the Airplane:
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Thanks to Bukfan for reminding me about my Airplane exclusion from my thread that degenerated into a '70 movie review.
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Not bad at all, Johannes.
It has probably nothing to do with it but my mind goes back to Cocteau Twins, or a project Frazer later has been involved and a long conversation in the Streets of Andernach in front of a restaurant. ;)
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Skygazer
And in the end...
Hey Ponder, nice to see you liked the Cocteau Twins.They were from Stirlingshire too, but their town was Grangemouth (mine - Linlithgow), only 10 mins away. Here they are as This Mortal Coil again.
PhillyDave
“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
I forgot Chuck Berry's birthday last week. Shame on me. But then again, as Keith Richards said, Chuck hasn't done anything good since the 60's. I'd say the "Hail Hail Rock n' Roll" movie is the exception. But I digress.
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Black Swan
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New to me.
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PhillyDave
“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
My friend's band The Really Cooks is going to be playing as Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem for their Halloween show. They posted this Chopin performance on fb:
There are so many reggae songs that are basic, simple, close to primitive, almost banal, but they still have something I like. To put it in Bukowskian terms: They don't try. They just enjoy - whatever flow they manage to get going.
This one has some faint, a bit off tune, whistling in the background that probobly just happened. You can barely hear it. Its barely there. But it makes the song for me. The fact that its barely audible just adds to my fascination. Was it somebody in the studio just whistling along? Maybe the producer. I love the no nonsense, a bit stumbling, restraint of reggae songs like this.
This one has some faint, a bit off tune, whistling in the background that probobly just happened. You can barely hear it. Its barely there. But it makes the song for me. The fact that its barely audible just adds to my fascination. Was it somebody in the studio just whistling along? Maybe the producer. I love the no nonsense, a bit stumbling, restraint of reggae songs like this.