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just also want to put in a word for the late Charlie Lourie, who I'm sure Cindy knew well, and who was one of the really great guys in the business.
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not a bad idea. but we're just discussing some larger theoretical issues.
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yes yes no, maybe and yes and then no. Because there's musical analysis and there's musical analysis - Williams, essentially a non-musician, knew how to depict music in a clear and smart laymen's language (though the best at this that I have read, and I am not just saying this because he's my friend, is our own Larry Kart).
that's how you do it - also see my own project, Devilin Tune, as I believe I show therein how you can be technical without really being technical, and how you can be historical without being schematic and doctrinaire.
it really can be done. There's no mystery to it, and I don't think the issue is real complicated (unless we want to get academic about it).
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actually, I think Martin would have done a nice job - certainly his musical analysis was about 100 times more astute than Kelley's -
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poor Cindy, if she's reading this, is thinking "this is why I got the hell out of the jazz business."
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"Look I try to stay out of the daily machinations of the board but I feel a need to respond. Yes, Allen is one of the few board members that I've had the pleasure to meet with and share a drink. However, just because I've met him offline that doesn't mean that I automatically give all of his posts a "pass". Please give me some more credit than that. "
hey, I thought the flowers I sent the next day did the trick -
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I think we should send Cliff all posts for prior approval - he could be, like, the Organissimo Food Taster.
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well, I ordered 2
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Homeland Security mission?
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my god - I should order about 25 -
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well, since it's on Willard Jenkins' blog, I would ignore it - *******
******personal dislike. Please ignore post. Or see Cliff Englewood for commentary.
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Or maybe we could have posters create a complicated formula to police themselves so that they don't feel the need to post each and every though that enters their head???
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geez, I wonder why George got in trouble for My Sweet Lord - I mean, according to Danasgoodstuff, this whole clean-slate thing is stupid -
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"a guy getting oral sex while driving at highway speeds"
actually, Pendergrass was getting it from a transvestite when he crashed his car and paralyzed himself-
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didn't realize my fan club would disrupt the proceedings - sorry Cindy, and all the best.
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I said academic posturing, not posturing, a key difference - and I'm sorry, but Tucker's stuff is too damn typical of academic writing to be funny. I've read a lot of this stuff. Re the other, I am talking about the life of artists, and that can be described in many different ways, as bio or autobio; there is a difference in forms, but the ultimate aim is really the same.
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I heard she went to work for OJC -
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it's not that we don't want to hear the details of the life, even the social context - the problem is that academic works invariably put me to sleep with contextualization, and too often reveal a certain cultural impoverishment - see my Sherry Tucker reference above. The ignorance of her position is so at odds with any actual experience of the music as to make it laughable. I love reading about the life, about what happened, when it happened, how it happened, who it happened with - I just cannot stand the boxing of musicians into social categories, as both symbol and cipher. Read John Szwed's bio of Sun Ra if you want to see how it can be done correctly - or read Beneath The Underdog, Death of a Bebop Wife, Tonight at Noon, Clyde Berhardt's book, to name just a few extremely informative biographical works, which are all about the life but devoid of academic posturing.
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for George, will you talk about his time in the Navy band (he was an ensign)?
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well, my favorite thing was Barry Harris telling me about working with Hawk, and hearing him play All the Things You Are:
"I began to think that maybe I had idealized Bird and Bud too much, because here was someone who lived and kept growing."
there is no higher praise -
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not far from the Robbe Grillet/Beckett ideal, as in:
"he has nothing to say, only a way of saying it."
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people should stick to just having sex in cars -
don't forget Teddy Pendergrass -
FS: guitar and recording-related: Delay and Mic Preamp
in Offering and Looking For...
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I've just bought a little digital multi-track so am raising a little cash - I am selling:
1) Line 6 Echo Park Digital Delay Pedal - I have two of these, so one is out of here.
Probably the best in its digital class, wide range of delay times, analog/digital/tape setting; swell; reverse; slap, etc etc. Sounds great. $80 plus shipping.
2) Mackie 402 VLZ
2 channel mic pre-amp. xlr in. Good and professional sounding, for recording or live applications (Mackie stuff is excellent, as a matter of fact I used one of these a few years back for Roswell Rudd on a recording). $99 new, I'll sell for $60 plus shipping. (my new multi-track has very nice built in mic preamps) -
prefer paypal, my paypal is alowe5@maine.rr.com