tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45002772458968812572024-03-05T20:18:17.081-08:00sound seen google0b2ac8dd1de3a699.htmlwhat does music look like?dugghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08635731334768163038noreply@blogger.comBlogger137125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500277245896881257.post-89798058302128002632015-11-10T10:11:00.002-08:002015-11-10T10:11:43.440-08:00Steeling Sheep<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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one of my Scottish ancestors was hung for stealing sheep, <br />but that was then and this is now!<br />
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/142719327">Stealing Sheep - Apparition</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/dougalwilson">Dougal Wilson</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
dugghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08635731334768163038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500277245896881257.post-47461098281122912562015-11-08T16:49:00.000-08:002015-11-08T16:49:27.991-08:00Whatever Happened to Eleanor Rigby?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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dugghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08635731334768163038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500277245896881257.post-83141040249315176482015-11-04T12:28:00.000-08:002015-11-04T12:37:21.943-08:00Music Marketing Fail - Classical vol. 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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What were all those crazy kids into anyway? </div>
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Both would have an influence on the marketing of classical music, </div>
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a tribute to <a href="http://divineofficial.com/bio" target="_blank">Divine</a> maybe?</div>
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Holst - the Barbarella cheapo remix.</div>
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Wagner's bad karma?</div>
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Thank-you Thing...</div>
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Opus as orgasm?</div>
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Did you recognize <a href="http://julienewmar.com/" target="_blank">Catwoman</a>?</div>
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dugghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08635731334768163038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500277245896881257.post-22510172209991397382015-10-13T20:14:00.003-07:002015-10-13T20:14:48.520-07:00Ozomatli... got the look?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br /><br />Gig posters have always been a big part of music for me. <br />It's like if there's no poster, my eyes get jealous of my ears <br />or something.<br /><br />I get the feeling posters are an important part of music <br />for Ozomatli too.<br />
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<br /><br />Music lovers of a certain age will remember this cute little graphic <br />from back in the 80s. <br /><br />There were no computers then, and no internet, but nonetheless <br />the music industry was keen to hip quadrillions of young music <br />lovers to the fact that the mix tapes they were making for themselves <br />and their friends were "killing music"...<br /><br />...and if we didn't stop, one day there would be no more music.<br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
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Fast forward a couple of decades, during which the music <br />industry made sick profits selling people the same music <br />many of them already owned on vinyl in the form of fabulously <br />over-priced CDs and holy doodle- music was getting killed again!<br /><br />Lions and tigers and bears! Oh my!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieNyQmnVqXXe3cVggMa3I_P3BXhLXLVhv4s7aLgQ8814grFZST1B3-iZDUrtzMopRUhdLFPHwDgP1O4hUJjAUAQQqE0Ca9aiixkEHY61H7u0-0TLspst9TiYfNJk4c3_cjFunrf651q2Gv/s1600/4+file+sharing+killing.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieNyQmnVqXXe3cVggMa3I_P3BXhLXLVhv4s7aLgQ8814grFZST1B3-iZDUrtzMopRUhdLFPHwDgP1O4hUJjAUAQQqE0Ca9aiixkEHY61H7u0-0TLspst9TiYfNJk4c3_cjFunrf651q2Gv/s1600/4+file+sharing+killing.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br />Blah, blah, blah... and the beat goes on.<br /><br />For a zone of human creativity and commerce that likes <br />to represent as "hip" and "cool" and "cutting edge", popular <br />music on an industrial scale is curiously resistant to any sort <br />of cultural and/or technological change. <br /><br />Once upon a time, record players were going to kill music <br />by making it available to people in their homes. Next, radio <br />stations that were going to kill music by playing records <br />on the air... but somehow, the beat went on.</div>
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<br />Along the way, there was another music killer waiting in <br />the wings - the use of "canned music" in theatres as opposed <br />to "Real Music" made by AF of M members. The text in these <br />ads is very familiar in both tone and topics to that which came <br />along with home taping and file sharing, don't you think?<br /></div>
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Sadly though, they were right. Music died and now there isn't <br />any more and it's really, really sad. If only we'd listened to them...<br /><br />Oh, the humanity...<br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
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<br /><br /><br />Some say the idea came from up a dark holler in the Ozarks. <br />Some say it was a drunken violinist in an Argentinian lumber <br />camp while others are quite certain it was woodcutters in France.<br /><br /><br /></div>
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<img border="0" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZtFarV7aceZvKtK4TmMvmi8ewVc4PIDhw1EKqokemufISh2uDOBhacxOssL-Tcfq_Juh59tgRXUHz9qkXe9_gCRWwz6QQWbEMfzPVvBi8aY3RKC8VhN5C5C6W_cONLx2DACHY6fvJPa4V/s320/mussehl-westphal.jpg" width="320" /><br /><br /><br />The musical saw became popular in the hands of circus and <br />variety-theatre artists from 1900 onwards. It was cheap, easy <br />to carry and hard to break. Street musicians, circus clowns, <br />singers, rock bands and country music groups had taken it to <br />the people long before ‘serious’ like Henri Sauguet and <br />Georges Crumb began to compose for it. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
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<br /><br /><br />One of the greatest exponents of the musical saw was <a href="http://umdblog.blogspot.ca/2012/08/musical.html" target="_blank">Marlene Dietrich.</a> <br />Marlene was musically gifted- in addition to singing, she also played the <br />drums, piano, guitar and accordion.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOAkZ7_OXxzPiACDrv1CuEtH1lqKR4hsb1PcFAUO-FoAiiPKKOT3OrtNPflamfIK7bxmU0rbrcH3aeAgrzM-O_BgmUo4LmoJEqXd_0nJUZZ17yBnSsjDI7vLRJs4jJROvm2LDpeKr8fZpl/s1600/515cea95077a7ad0ec799ad3ce371096.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOAkZ7_OXxzPiACDrv1CuEtH1lqKR4hsb1PcFAUO-FoAiiPKKOT3OrtNPflamfIK7bxmU0rbrcH3aeAgrzM-O_BgmUo4LmoJEqXd_0nJUZZ17yBnSsjDI7vLRJs4jJROvm2LDpeKr8fZpl/s320/515cea95077a7ad0ec799ad3ce371096.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://kuenste-im-exil.de/KIE/Content/EN/Objects/dietrich-singende-saege-en.html?single=1" target="_blank">She was taught to play in 1927</a> by her fellow actor Igo Sym, who gave <br />her the instrument as a farewell gift. She took it with her to Hollywood <br />and mesmerized directors and crew by playing on the set of at least <br />six films between takes.<br /><br /><br /></div>
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People who play the saw are known as "sawists" or "sawcerors".<br /><br />You play the saw seated or (more rarely) standing, holding the <br />wooden handle between your legs, and the end of the blade with <br />your left hand to bend the blade to an ‘S’ shape. Rubbing a given <br />spot of the blade (depending on its curvature) with a violin bow <br />alters the pitch of the note. <br /><br />Like the glass harmonica and the waterphone, the saw belongs to <br />the family of friction idiophones. When well mastered, it can reach <br />great delicacy of expression. Its sound range can cover over three octaves. </div>
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<br /><br /><br />While the French may or may not have invented it, they are <br />perhaps the world's leading manufacturers of musical saws, <br />notably thanks to the singing blade, a toothless version of the <br />saw <a href="http://www.thomasbloch.net/en_musical-saw.html" target="_blank">invented by Jacques Keller in 1948</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB4FlkZ6NGzjbL6rsj0Oas8OqpWdTHfHoFdjcK7CSqxzqfwjLXxbSp3ZLHcm7n4uK_JwJO111X0EwoiZjXtvJlZPqbdr47DFZYPcvgrxdnsqxuqs-Q4DicLiCaz4asuG53v37IvuQ____r/s1600/SawFestFlyer09.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB4FlkZ6NGzjbL6rsj0Oas8OqpWdTHfHoFdjcK7CSqxzqfwjLXxbSp3ZLHcm7n4uK_JwJO111X0EwoiZjXtvJlZPqbdr47DFZYPcvgrxdnsqxuqs-Q4DicLiCaz4asuG53v37IvuQ____r/s320/SawFestFlyer09.jpg" width="253" /></a><br /><br /><br />It's popularity started a long, slow decline after 1921, when <br />the Hawaiian steel guitar came in but like many folk instruments <br />in recent years, it has seen a revival of interest. <br /><br />There are clubs and festivals dedicated to it and musicians <br />pursuing it's ghostly tones in Germany, Finland, France, <br />Japan, China, Canada and the US. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
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<a href="http://www.sawlady.com/" target="_blank">Natalia Paruz - sawceror</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.singende-saege.com/index.html" target="_blank">Katharina Micada - sawceror</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.sarahangliss.com/gigs/adriftwiththesawchestra" target="_blank">Sarah Angliss - sawceror</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.sawplayers.org/" target="_blank">The International Musical Saw Association</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.musicalsaw.net/sakihaji/e/jmsakb/jmsakbprofile.html" target="_blank">Kansai Nokogiri Orchestra</a><br /><br /><a href="https://78records.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/clarence-mussehl-talks-about-his-1920s-musical-saw-records/" target="_blank">1920s Musical Saw Records</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img border="0" height="71" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7nlUkwG1m0yTkGUErxyECIjgDLofKk2JXUiaq1qf_hK1UV04t23zks9gx97Ktv7hnZGc63DlPAAwa6pwzjBupenokdYEUeEE9ekrtfQi3zzjkjYuSUnSBJ_fx40yfp1R6BzK8VDU3C1on/s320/173948_3229685_wave_L.png" width="320" /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.freesound.org/people/JohnsonBrandEditing/sounds/173948/" target="_blank">Click here to hear the sound of a musical saw</a><b><a href="https://www.freesound.org/people/JohnsonBrandEditing/sounds/173948/" target="_blank">musical saw ascending UFO</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />*</b></div>
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In 1964, Ray Collins formed a band called The Soul Giants with drummer <br />
Jimmy Carl Black, bassist Roy Estrada, saxophonist Dave Coronado, <br />
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Zappa convinced the others that playing his original compositions <br />
would step them up to the big time. They changed their name to <br />
The Mothers and by 1966 were ready to release Freak Out, the <br />
second double album in rock history. Their label insisted on a <br />
name change, and<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mothers_of_Invention" target="_blank"> the Mothers of Invention </a>were unleashed <br />
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After touring widely and releasing 5 albums, Zappa disbanded <br />
the group in 1969- a decision that was not well received by band <br />
members. He signed with a new label and released a solo album <br />
called Hot Rats. He would also release two Mothers of Invention<br />
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The 1969 album was called Burnt Weenie Sandwich. The second, <br />
released in 1970, was called Weasels Ripped My Flesh.<br />
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The title came from a cover headline on the September 1956 <br />
issue of Man's Life, a men's adventure magazine. Zappa had <br />
been given the magazine by a young fan named Dan O'Brien, <br />
who had acquired it from his brother, a musician who had <br />
found it during his day job at a pornographic publishing house.<br />
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The absurdity of flesh-ripping weasels appealed to Frank's <br />
sense of humor. According to legend, Zappa showed it to a <br />
young San Francisco poster artist known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_Park" target="_blank">Neon Park</a> and <br />
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Park's painting, for which he was paid $250, almost didn't <br />
see the light of day. Zappa fought with Warner Bros. over <br />
its suitability for release. "<i>Evidently</i>," says Park, "...<i>it wasn't <br />up to their standards</i>." Warner's eventually caved, but then <br />
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"<i>The printer was greatly offended</i>," says Park. "<i>The girl who <br />worked for him, his assistant, she wouldn't touch the painting. <br />She wouldn't pick it up with her hands.</i>" <br />
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It could have been worse. German releases of the album <br />
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Park would go on to do work for Little Feat, David Bowie, <br />
Dr. John and the Beach Boys as well as illustrations for Playboy, <br />
National Lampoon, Glass Eye, and Dreamworks. <br />
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sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. <br />
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<a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/weasels-ripped-my-flesh-mw0000207737" target="_blank">One review says</a> "....Weasels can make for difficult, incoherent listening, <br />especially at first. But there is a certain logic behind the band's accom-<br />plished genre-bending and Zappa's gleefully abrupt veering between musical <br />extremes; without pretension, Zappa blurs the normally sharp line between <br />intellectual concept music and the visceral immediacy of rock and R&B. <br />Zappa's anything-goes approach and the distance between his extremes a<br />re what make Weasels Ripped My Flesh ultimately invigorating; they <br />also even make the closing title track -- a minute and a half of squalling <br />feedback, followed by applause -- perfectly logical in the album's context.<br />
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learn much, much more at <a href="http://www.united-mutations.com/p/neon_park.htm" target="_blank">United Mutations</a>! </div>
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the deep background on "the weasels" and other elements of pulp life at:<br />
<a href="http://www.menspulpmags.com/2009/08/weasels-ripped-my-flesh-and-so-did.html">http://www.menspulpmags.com/2009/08/weasels-ripped-my-flesh-and-so-did.html</a><br />
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more mothers ads:<br />
<a href="http://www.afka.net/scrapbook/Rolling_Stone_ads.htm">http://www.afka.net/scrapbook/Rolling_Stone_ads.htm</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"I was sprawled on a mound of hay - shotgun <br />cradled in my arms and head drooping fiercely <br />from want of sleep - when that first ripple of <br />alarm surged through the duck house.<br /><br />Instinctively my finger curled on the trigger <br />as I sat upright, blinking at the soft amber glow <br />of the kerosene lamp suspended from the rafter. <br />I heard nothing. Only the breeders shifting <br />timorously in their pens and quacking." <br /></span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Does this sound familiar to you? <br /><br /><br />The answer is probably "No", and there's no reason they would unless <br />you are profoundly interested in pulp magazines from the 50s. They <br />are the opening passage to a story by Mike Kamens that appeared <br />in the September 1956 issue of Men's Life magazine, <br />entitled `Weasels Ripped My Flesh`.</span></span></span></span></div>
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The cover art was done by Wilbur `Wil`Hulsey, who did a lot work <br />
for Man`s Life and other major pulp publications in those days. <br />
The weasels were not his only foray into the danger animals <br />
represented to would-be heroes:<br />
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Nor were weasels and turtles the only creatures <br />
seeking to rip the flesh of their oppressors...<br />
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There were snakes:<br />
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Man-eating rats...<br />
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Nasty little monkeys...<br />
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Giant otters...<br />
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and giant crabs!<br />
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All of which is quite colorful and interesting in it`s own right, <br />
but how, you may well be asking, does this connect with Frank <br />
Zappa, the Mothers of Invention and one of the better-known <br />
album covers in the history of rock?<br />
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The answer is here, at Weasels Ripped My Flesh (2).<br />
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Here are links to some sights where I learned a lot, <br />
found some images and got very pleasantly distracted.</div>
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the deep background on "the weasels" <br />
and other elements of pulp life at:<br />
<a href="http://www.menspulpmags.com/2009/08/weasels-ripped-my-flesh-and-so-did.html">http://www.menspulpmags.com/2009/08/weasels-ripped-my-flesh-and-so-did.html</a><br />
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more flesh rippers and other classic pulp magazine covers here:<br />
<a href="https://markosun.wordpress.com/2012/page/61/">https://markosun.wordpress.com/2012/page/61/</a><br />
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and here:<br />
<a href="http://styledose.co/top-ten-mans-life-magazine-covers/">http://styledose.co/top-ten-mans-life-magazine-covers/</a><br />
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more pulp headlines<br />
<a href="http://flashbak.com/weasels-ripped-my-flesh-10-awesome-pulp-headlines-6637/">http://flashbak.com/weasels-ripped-my-flesh-10-awesome-pulp-headlines-6637/</a><br />
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dugghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08635731334768163038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500277245896881257.post-21185043715347257982015-09-08T12:09:00.000-07:002015-09-08T12:09:21.719-07:00There is a town- Here is the Song<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br /><br />enough talk... time to listen.<br /><br /><br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"Helpless"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There is a town in north Ontario,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">With dream comfort memory to spare,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And in my mind</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I still need a place to go,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">All my changes were there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Blue, blue windows behind the stars,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Yellow moon on the rise,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Big birds flying across the sky,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Throwing shadows on our eyes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Leave us</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Helpless, helpless, helpless</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Baby can you hear me now?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The chains are locked</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">and tied across the door,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Baby, sing with me somehow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Blue, blue windows behind the stars,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Yellow moon on the rise,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Big birds flying across the sky,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Throwing shadows on our eyes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Leave us</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Helpless, helpless, helpless. </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />*</div>
dugghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08635731334768163038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500277245896881257.post-44361401762430995762015-09-08T12:04:00.003-07:002015-09-08T12:09:46.035-07:00Where is that Town in North Ontario? (2)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />In "<b>Where is that Town in North Ontario? (1)</b>", Thunder Bay <br />(<i>nee Fort William</i>) emerged as a strong contender for being <u>that</u> town. <br />Many people, not all of whom grew up there, would say "no doubt, eh?". <br /><br />They would point out that:<br />a) it is a town<br />b) it is in north Ontario<br />c) Neil lived there, gigged there and was writing songs <br /> and recording them there well before he headed "south"*.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>* a term that would include Toronto, California and all points in-between.</i></span><br /><br /><br />It's a strong case to be sure, but if you were to suggest such a heresy <br />in Omemee, Ontario you just might get your lights punched out. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><br />WTF is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omemee,_Ontario" target="_blank">Omemee</a>?</span></b><br />
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It's one of the communities within the "city" of Kawartha Lakes, Ontario. <br />
It's named for the Omemee people, who once hunted in the area. Omemee <br />
is a Mississauga word that means "pigeon".<br />
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Soon after Neil Percival Young was born in Toronto in 1945, <br />
he moved to Omemee, with his father Scott, mother "Rassy" <br />
and brother Bob. <br />
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Long after he'd moved to California Neil describe it fondly <br />
as a "sleepy little place". <br />
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He suffered from a bout of polio in 1951, in what was the last <br />
major outbreak of the disease in Ontario. Curiously, a thousand <br />
miles away, future Canadian songwriter Joni Mitchell, then aged <br />
nine, also contracted the virus in this epidemic.<br />
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In 1960, his mom and dad split up. Bob stayed with his father <br />
in Toronto and Neil went to live with his mom in Winnipeg. <br />
He was already deeply fascinated by music - his most treasured <br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Two Towns, One Song...?</span></b></span><br />
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People from Omemee would say that when Neil and his friend <br />
Jonathan Demme made the film Journeys, they drove in his <br />
1956 Crown Victoria from <u><b>Omemee</b></u> to downtown Toronto's <br />
iconic Massey Hall where he performed the last two nights <br />
of his solo world tour.<br />
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Thunder Bayers mention how Neil met Steven Stills in their town, <br />
and that he's probably never even heard of Omemee.<br />
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Omemeers might point to the Omemee's <a href="http://www.youngtownmuseum.com/" target="_blank">Youngtown Rock & Roll Museum</a> <br />
and ask (<i>somewhat rhetorically</i>) if there was one in Thunder Bay?<br />
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Thunder Bayers might pull out a map, noting that they live <br />
at 48° 38' North latitude and that Omemee, at 44° 18' 0" North <br />
latitude, is not even IN north Ontario*.<br />
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* <span style="font-size: x-small;">In rural Ontario, there is an understated understanding that Ontario is divided into two unequal <br />parts- south of 7, and north of 7. Omemee straddles Highway 7.</span><br />
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Omemeers might say "Oh yeah? We have a postcard".<br />
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Thunder Bayers might point out how Alice Cooper once played <br />
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Then people from Omemee might slap the table like they were <br />
playing the Jack of Spades in a euchre tournament, and shout <br />
"<i><b>Neil Young said so</b></i>".<br />
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But did he? In classic Canadian fashion, the answer is yes... and no.<br />
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When the question was put to him in an interview with Nick Kent <br />
from Mojo magazine in 1995, Neil did say "Omemee, Ontario" <br />
but - and it's a big but - here is that response in context:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">"Well, it's not literally a specific town <br />so much as a feeling. Actually, it's a couple <br />of towns. Omemee, Ontario, is one of them. <br />It's where I first went to school and spent <br />my 'formative' years. <br />Actually I was born in Toronto... *I was born <br />in Toronto*... God, that sounds like the first <br />line of a Bruce Springsteen song (laughs). <br />But Toronto is only seven miles from Omemee."</span></i></span><br />
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Well, there's a bit of artistic license here - Toronto is actually <br />
130 kilometers from Omemeee, which works out to about 81 miles - <br />
but that aside, it sounds like both towns are at the heart of this essential <br />
Canadian song, and maybe even a few others.<br />
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It also wouldn't come as a surprise if kids growing up somewhere <br />
off the map in Montana or Saskatchewan or South Dakota or any <br />
number of other places felt like the song was about where they grew up too. <br />
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And somewhere out there, a Winnipegger is reading this and muttering <br />
"he might have set the song in Ontario, but he wrote it HERE".<br />
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By the late Cretaceous Period, the Accordions<br />
were in complete ascendancy.<br />
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Everything that moved and many things<br />
didn’t had a mortal enemy<br />
in the Accordion.<br /><br />
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Never before or since has Nature<br />
created such a voracious omnivore - one that<br />
could and would consume anything<br />
from raptors to trees to its own young.</div>
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This capable predator thrived on land and sea,<br />
and it would dominate life on Earth<br />
for almost 5,000,000 years.<br />
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Each new generation grew larger<br />
and more fierce than the one before<br />
until what we know as the Great Accordions<br />
appeared in in eastern Africa and spread to Central Asia.</div>
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Some of these magnificent creatures<br />
were as large as doughnut shops.<br />
Their very magnificence, though,<br />
would prove to be their undoing.</div>
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The loud, atonal wheezing sound<br />
produced by Bellosaurus Belissima<br />
as they moved could be heard from<br />
nearly a kilometer away… more warning<br />
than most prey needed to escape.</div>
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Ultimately, the only food they could catch<br />
was each other, and it is this last desperate orgy<br />
of cannibalism which accounts for their scarcity<br />
in the fossil records.<br />
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Extinction was inevitable, and they would fade away<br />
in the blink of an evolutionary eye.<br />
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Their day had passed, but new predators<br />
would arise… with powers not based<br />
on solely on size, but on speed, intelligence<br />
and the ability to work together.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzXvm8LtlPGVu9cwn1tEBUMimXnLIThIb3tFdGH7jVWy8AxSi2w9oXXQy9wq5KYFSlsEtc9P3TH0SAdKnpoXrbKWnZhm2wP2i2AI02Yu0NalViXlKJnsvMfQw86dfJqc1WKbhefK8VlQ8/s1600-h/a6+accords.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368137342163175970" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzXvm8LtlPGVu9cwn1tEBUMimXnLIThIb3tFdGH7jVWy8AxSi2w9oXXQy9wq5KYFSlsEtc9P3TH0SAdKnpoXrbKWnZhm2wP2i2AI02Yu0NalViXlKJnsvMfQw86dfJqc1WKbhefK8VlQ8/s400/a6+accords.jpg" style="display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
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It was the dawning of a new era,<br />
which would one day come to be known<br />
as the Age of the Ukelele.<br />
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“I think records were just a little bubble through time <br />
and those who made a living from them for a while <br />
were lucky.<br />
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There is no reason why anyone should have made so much<br />money from
selling records except that everything was right<br />for this period of
time. I always knew it would run out sooner<br />or later. It couldn’t last,
and now it’s running out. </span></div>
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I don’t particularly care that it is, and I like the way things <br />are going. The record age was just a blip. <br />
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It was a bit like if you had a source of whale blubber in the 1840s <br />and
it could be used as fuel. Before gas came along, if you traded <br />in whale
blubber, you were the richest man on Earth. Then gas <br />came along and
you’d be stuck with your whale blubber. <br />
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Sorry mate – history’s moving along. <br />
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Recorded music equals whale blubber. <br />Eventually, something else will replace it.’’</span></div>
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<a href="http://brian-eno.net/">http://brian-eno.net/</a><br />
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<a href="http://productionadvice.co.uk/oblique-strategies/">http://productionadvice.co.uk/oblique-strategies/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/">http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/</a><br />
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Roy was a multi-instrumentalist, a touring musician, <br />
a movie star, an instrument builder and a technological<br />innovator
pioneering possibilities that would become<br />industry standards. <br />
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He made over 500 recordings, starting with Edison, <br />
and later for Victor, Columbia and Decca. <br />
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He became a virtuoso on the guitar, the lap steel, <br />
the banjo and the harmonica, but it would be<br />
another instrument that would take him<br />
to the top of the musical world.<br />
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Roy Smeck was a <b>monster</b> on the ukelele.<br />
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<br />Born at the turn of the century in Reading, PA,<br />he became obsessed by
music as a kid. His father <br />taught him everything he knew, which added up <br />to 3
chords and Roy took it from there.</span><br />
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started out on the vaudeville circuit, <br />where over time his live
performances <br />would feature moves that seem familiar to rock and
blues<br />audiences 50 years later, including:<br />
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- a variety of dance steps <br />
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- flipping the harmonica over with his tongue <br /> and pretending to swallow it before popping <br /> it back to his lips.<br />
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- play various instruments behind his back <br />
and on top of his head.<br />
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- spinning the ukelele around, blowing across the sound hole,<br /> plucking
the strings with his teeth and tongue, bowing the strings <br /> like a violin
and creating sounds behind the bridge and nut.<br />
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- and imitating the sound of fellow star performer <br /> Bill "Bojangles" Robinson tap dancing, on the ukulele.<br />
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Small wonder he was known as "the Wizard of the Strings" <br />or that his
tours would include venues like Radio City Music Hall <br />in New York, The
Steel Pier in Atlantic City and the London Palladium... <br />and command performances for US president Franklin D. Roosevelt <br />and King
George V of the UK.<br />
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In 1926, he invents the rock video appearing in one of the first <br />sound
films ever made by Warner Brothers. <br /><br />By 1933, he's featured in "<b>His
Pastimes</b>" - a revolutionary Paramount <br />short where the screen was divided
into four parts, with Roy playing steel guitar, tenor banjo, ukulele and six-string guitar simultaneously.<br />
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It was multi-tracking... ten years before Les Paul.<br />
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Somewhere along the way, he saw <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Hoopii" style="color: #38761d;">Sol Hoopii</a> perform.<br />Hoopii was a native Hawaiian, and is often called <br />the finest lap steel guitar player in history. <br />
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His music had a profound effect on Roy. Hawaiian music<br />became his
obsession. He worked his way deeply into the<br />music, integrating it into
his sound and played a key role </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">in celebrating Hawaiian music and
bringing it to a larger<br />audience that exists to this day.<br /><br /><br />
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One guitar book calls Roy "the king of the artist models", with good reason. <br />
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In the late 1920s, Harmony Company issued the Vita-Uke, <br />an instrument invented by Roy. <br /><br />
They introduced a Roy Smeck signature line with a Hawaiian guitar <br />in 1930. Soon, that line would include ukuleles, guitars and banjos.</span><br />
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When the Gibson Guitar Company released its Roy Smeck<br />Hawaiian acoustic guitar in 1936, it was only the second artist<br />signature model in their history*. <br /><br /><br /><br />
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Generations of ukulele and banjo players came to know him<br />as an
inspiration and mentor. When he was touring, he often<br />put on workshops,
appeared free at music stores, and held talent <br />contests for local
players. <br /><br /><br />
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During the second world war and later in the Korean War,<br />Roy toured with
USO shows to play for GIs from Greenland<br />and Iceland to Korea and
Japan. <br />
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Over time, Roy became better known among musicians <br />than the public at
large. When Yazoo began re-issuing <br />some of his early work in the 70s, a
whole new generation <br />of acoustic musicians - including <a href="http://www.thedugghouse.com/2010/11/albums-and-art.html" style="color: #38761d;">Robert Crumb</a> - <br />were introduced to his work. <br />
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Dr. T. at <a href="http://mississippimoan.blogspot.com/2010/11/roy-smeck-plays-hawaiian-guitar-banjo.html">Mississippi Moan</a> summed it up beautifully...<br />
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" he was the fellow who described his ascension <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I didn't play any better for 1,250 dollars <br />
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Which goes to show that even he truly considered <br />what he did "playing," no matter how miraculous <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>want more Smeck?</i><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Smeck">Roy Smeck at Wikipedia</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.andyeastwood.com/Roy-Smeck-memories.htm">a fellow Ukelelian remembers Roy</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">watch Roy work out, and be amazed!<br />
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<a href="http://www.spaceagepop.com/smeck.htm"> the people at Space Age pop music are big fans</a><br />
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and <a href="http://www.ukulele.org/?Inductees:1997-1998:Roy_Smeck">he's featured at the Ukelele Hall of Fame</a></span></div>
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<br />It's no surprise that many young people - and some not-so-young <br />people - today want to be in a band. Who doesn't want to be famous, <br />worshiped, envied, beautiful and rich?</div>
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<br />But the road to becoming a celebrity success in popular music <br />is not easy, so here are some tips on how to get your game on, <br />beginning with perhaps the most important decision of all- <br /><b>naming your <strike>brand</strike> band:</b> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicZwa7oSj4tqGe69pS5aDjfZ3bdDXZLEC_uiu71fCtXx9D2aewr3KQ_GUq_w9Ktj2L7nXf74C7Cr3Zjt6qTTNGCuvx87RX-hLMQ3cbksw67hCa6JSePMYwhCSOO0ACAygNDT38tDICcDga/s1600/Starting+A+Band+thorsthundershack-music-title.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicZwa7oSj4tqGe69pS5aDjfZ3bdDXZLEC_uiu71fCtXx9D2aewr3KQ_GUq_w9Ktj2L7nXf74C7Cr3Zjt6qTTNGCuvx87RX-hLMQ3cbksw67hCa6JSePMYwhCSOO0ACAygNDT38tDICcDga/s400/Starting+A+Band+thorsthundershack-music-title.png" width="285" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Here's more in-depth perspective <br />from Scott Meyer at <b><a href="http://basicinstructions.net/" target="_blank">basicinstructions</a></b>.<br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
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<br /><br /><br /><br />... and there you go! Good luck on your journey to fame <br />and fortune, and don't forget to "keep it real". <br /><br />Here's one last bonus tip to help with that...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwUW8WETVBcD0Gjfd7GwdjgC4WeJmi7bO3qS_qeIO9TsC7z48WVpUP1knw9iD4jgWSXHTVZ8danYG8AdssJ45gBP_031B4UG8PDTZnZZpQ_SzT7BDVADsMhmpI0wovSiVXH4cgr6JNv2uz/s1600/sound-checks-are-for-pussies-fridge-magnet-funny-music-joke-band-musician-123726-p.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwUW8WETVBcD0Gjfd7GwdjgC4WeJmi7bO3qS_qeIO9TsC7z48WVpUP1knw9iD4jgWSXHTVZ8danYG8AdssJ45gBP_031B4UG8PDTZnZZpQ_SzT7BDVADsMhmpI0wovSiVXH4cgr6JNv2uz/s320/sound-checks-are-for-pussies-fridge-magnet-funny-music-joke-band-musician-123726-p.jpg" width="309" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7yUKZpppiNmEUsdAtmdG1DVeJpxX6jVr01ywh4rMnT_oEqt_ZDJ3R5JvTN8t0du9Ckkccee-qboLxYRxPLj1CrPBI-HFr1XajBEKwgeCFw2VMgNINSdnQ19DNDasWqMkax2kX2RnHt4iZ/s1600/Starting+A+Band.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div>
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Captain Beefheart</b> was a <i>nom de plume</i> used <br />
by the closest thing white rock music ever had <br />
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A man with more gris-gris than Mac Rebennack, <br />
and more poetry than Jim Morrison,<br />
who was more far out than Mercury <br />
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He spent more of his life living in the desert <br />
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<i>I look at her and she looks at me<br />
In her eyes I see the sea<br />
I can't see what she sees in a man like me<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Slow goes slow</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Rich are rich and the po' are po'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Everybody's doing the Low Yo Yo Yo Yo</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Everybody's doing it</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Deep down everybody knows they should</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>You used me like an ashtray heart<br />
Right from the start<br />
Case of the punks<br />
Another day, another way<br />
Somebody's had too much to think<br />
Open up another case of the punks<br />
Each pillow is touted like a rock<br />
The mother / father figure<br />
Somebody's had too much to think<br />
Send your mother home your navel</i><br />
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used...on this old yellow <br />piece of paper it's written out, that if she
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we would be friends the rest of our life.</i></span><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /><br />Don van Vliet</span></span><br />
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<i>i met aldous huxley. i sold him a vacuum cleaner. <br />i said: 'i assure
you, sir, this thing sucks!'. he bought everything in my car. i was
selling electrolux vacuum cleaners. i quit right after that - probably
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dugghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08635731334768163038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500277245896881257.post-50483790155128437172015-08-31T22:18:00.000-07:002015-08-31T22:18:09.240-07:00a musical Reality Check<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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dugghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08635731334768163038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500277245896881257.post-57604157107737378802015-08-30T19:07:00.003-07:002015-08-30T19:07:24.155-07:00Scene at Live Music Venues<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br /><br />Live music is an amazing thing to share with other people, <br />but bringing people and music together is not an easy way <br />to make a living. Whether you are working the door, the bar, <br />the mixing board, stage crew or actually performing onstage, <br />you will encounter people acting like assholes.</div>
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<br />That's why people make signs like these...<br /><br /></div>
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Every venue should have a sign like this <br />hanging in a prominent place.</div>
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Right on, Mr. Rollins. <br /><br />When I was booking a music festival, I made up a sign for the crew <br />working the evening concert stage that said|: <br />"To the best crew in live music- I can always find another band, <br />but I could never find another crew this good. <br />Mad love and big respect from your Artistic Director".<br /><br />I signed it and framed it and they hung it up <br />where they met with the bands to go over their stage plots. <br />They said it helped.</div>
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Not so long ago, there were giant saxophones all over the place. <br />
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