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I've got the Sun Ra SNL thing on tape, and it's farily interesting, for the most part.
Didn't realize Ornette had been on SNL - when was that??? (What year??)
Miles was on too, circa 1981 I think. I've heard it, but never seen it.
They had Zappa and Beefheart too!
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THEY WERENT PLAYING RED WHEN THEY TOURED AMERICA IN MARCH. YOU ARE LUCKY.
Crimson not playing Red?
Time has stopped!!!
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On further reflection, how in the world can RS afford to send out 24 issues of their rag to you, every year, for the rest of your life??
I would think that most people taking advantage of this offer would be on the young side, like at least in their 30's or even late 20's. Let's see - that's probably at least 50 years times 24 issues per year equals 1,200 issues. $100 divided by 1,200 equals only $0.08 or $0.09 per issue!!!!
Their circulation must be so huge that they don't care about loosing money on what few lifetime subscriptions they sell. That's the only think I can think of.
Either that, or they make enough money on their advertising - such that they really don't care what they make on subscriptions. Although, isn't the newsstand price something like $4 or $5 an issue?? 10 years ago it was at least $3 or $4, I remember that much.
They're just pumping up their circulation so they can charge more for their advertising. I happen to work in the magazine subscription biz. Lucky me...
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What is in the center of the hub cap? It looks like a U-boat with the crew standing on top.
Clue me in man!
Looks like a factory to me, presumably the factory where the cars get builted. :rsmile:
It looks like the car is on a pier and we're seeing the reflection of the edge of the dock and the U-boat floating near by. In the hub cap, we can see the edge of the dock where a boat can be moored, then the water between the dock and the U-boat with the crew standing on top.
I'll remind you that Adolf Hitler got the ball rolling on the peoples car: the VW.
I don't have any axe to grind here, but my Mother is German. She just turned 80 in May and had to live through that shit. She's still afraid of thunder because she relates it to the war and boming in Berlin.
Sorry to be a bummer folks, but that's what I see in that VW hubcap!
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I absolutely LOVE the cover of this one -
- nearly as much as a few "classic BN titles", if you must know.I mean, look at the reflection in the center of the hubcap.
What is in the center of the hub cap? It looks like a U-boat with the crew standing on top.
Clue me in man!
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Oh yes. Classic electronic music predating minimalists like Steve Reich & Phillip Glass and all the Moog and post-Moog electronic music.
Here's a review I wrote for my old web magazine Juxtaposition Ezine (which has been down for years, I'd rather play then write!):
Raymond Scott is mostly known for his compositions "Powerhouse", "The Toy Trumpet" and "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals", because of Carl Stalling's use of the music in countless Warner Bros cartoons. "Powerhouse" was also used more recently in "Ren and Stempy" cartoons. A quirky bandleader/composer in the 1930's and '40's, he later involved himself in electronic music by inventing an early synthesizer and sequencer. The three volumes of Soothing Sounds for Baby were originally released in 1963 but only sold a few thousand copies. Volume 1 is for infants 1 to 6 months, Volume 2 is for infants 6 to 12 months and Volume 3 is for infants 12 to 18 months. These reissues have of course been digitally remastered. From the liner notes:
"I couldn't believe they would play this spooky stuff for babies"
- Chris Athens, SONY digital transfer.
That's right. This is strange music. Odd melodies repeated incessantly for long periods of time make a strong link to the minimalistic music that was being born at the same time in downtown Manhattan (La Monte Young, Terry Riley, later Steve Reich and Philip Glass).
"Raymond Scott was definitely in the forefront of developing electronic music technology and in the forefront of using it commercially as a musician."
- Robert Moog, MOOG Music, Inc.
Synthesizer textures remind one of Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, TONTO and even Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2, but much brighter. The unchanging homemade drum machines predate Brian Eno and Cluster's use by more than 10 years. The production is loony too: lots of echo and reverb. The liner notes are extensive but the same notes are in all three cds. Too bad these couldn't be released as a two cd set.
Soothing Sounds for Baby Volume 1 (BASTA 30-90464-2) 38:51 min.
Soothing Sounds for Baby Volume 2 (BASTA 30-90465-2) 31:56 min.
Soothing Sounds for Baby Volume 3 (BASTA 30-90466-2) 31:55 min.
The Raymond Scott Archive on the web: http://www.RaymondScott.com
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Wow! Instant Sun Ra collection!
Yep. I'm on a Sun Ra binge this summer. I'd say my collection doubled this Summer.
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Recent purchases:
Beck, Jeff - Jeff
Glass, Philip - Dracula
Hammer, Jan - The First Seven Days
Laswell, Bill - Asana 3
Magic Band, The - Back to Front
Mobley, Hank - Soul Station
Munoz, Tisziji - The Hu-man Spirit
Munoz, Tisziji - Shaman-Bala
Munoz, Tisziji - Divine Radiance
Organissimo - Waiting for the Boogaloo Sisters
Palestine, Charlemagne - at Sonnabend
Schneider, John - Just Guitars
Soft Works - abracadabra
Sun Ra - Black Myth/Out in Space
Sun Ra - Life is Splendid
Sun Ra - Outer Space Employment Agency
Sun Ra - Live in London 1990
Sun Ra - My Brother the Wind II
Sun Ra - The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra
Sun Ra - Cosmo Sun Connection
Sun Ra - Concert for the Comet Kohoutek
Sun Ra - Janus
Sun Ra - Live at the Hackney Empire
Xenakis, Iannis - Ensemble Music 1 B)
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I always dug this album. ProgRock meets Miles at the crossroads with some blazing Mahavishnu guitar work. I'd say this was his best post-comeback work, but it wasn't miles ahead of the pack. There were other albums almost as good for me. B)
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I've still got the thing on tape, if anybody wants a transcription of the whole exchange. Anybody else see this?? (My wife was late getting home, and had asked me to tape the 5:30pm national news.)
There's a video of the Ted Kopel episode on the web site.
As for me in NJ, the blackout came near my neighborhood, but I didn't have any problems. I drove down to the PNC Arts Center to see Jeff Beck, and when I got back I watched the news...whatta mess!
I stayed home yesterday because I was waiting on UPS to bring me some software for my new machine. I also didn't want to get stuck in traffic and miss El Becko. Good move!
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Mine is incredibly slow, but I like having it for data storage. So far, I haven't put any of my movies onto discs, but I've stored a lot of mp3's I've created from box sets on discs. 4.7GB per DVD-R, as opposed to 700MB per CD-R is great.
Back up is the main reason I got mine. But I only got it on a new machine last week, so I haven't even used it yet.
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I voted for Impulse Studio Recordings. This doesn't really exist does it? There's just the offical releases, right?
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Though technically not a "box", the 4-CD "Live In Japan" (1966 w/Alice & Pharaoh) is one of my favorites, though it's not for everyone.
A statement I would agree with.
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Are the tunes known by other names? The titles shown sound more like a Sun Ra album.
"Spiral Galaxy" and "Sketch" are both tunes on Other Planes of There.
"Journey to the Stars" is on My Brother, The Wind v.2.
"Abstract Eye" is on The Magic City.
Sun Ra billed his band as "the Astro Infinity Arkestra" on occasions.
Mike
Ha! I thinking the same thing when I saw this a few days ago.
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have you heard Harry Partch?
Yep. I've even played the instruments at an open house. But how well known was he music back then?
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Great! Another piece of gear we gotta schlep!
Ha! I know what you mean...I've been rehearsing in a dance studio in Brooklyn. Huge space, wooden floors, sounds amazing, no problems playing loud, beautiful view...and it's on the second floor. Ouch!
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So where do I get one of these machines? Time to Google!
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Where is Brooklyn?
Don Cherry cor
Pharoah Sanders ts, picc
Henry Grimes b
Ed Blackwell dr
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So, if I get one of these copy-protected CDs and I want to play it in my PC, I'll just make an analog copy onto a CD-R and it'll play no problem.
And it's still going to sound better than a "high quality" mp3 recording!
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The biggest problem of copy protection is that the CDs don't play in PCs and in many DVD players, car CD players and other devices that use computer CD drives instead of dedicated audio drives.
That would kill the audio quality!
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I just opened a link to Giddins VV column on the JVC jazz fest and across that was a banner for this beautyisararethingbox!
Essential and sounds pretty darn good to me.
It's my favorite early Ornette! B)
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I have heard that the Norah Jones CD is copy protected. I wouldn't know for sure, since I don't own it. B)
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Yeah you could say all that... or you could just say that they fired David Lee Roth
I thought he quit!
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SNL 25 years of music on DVD (5)
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Thanks for the listing. I'm pretty sure I won't buy any of them!