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I'm also an accomplished elbowist. .

like Allen, I'm self taught on the rubber band. .

Let's be perfectly clear: Jimmy is the man! ...

Just finished, couldn't wait to close the Vista chapter in my life. .

Is that why he's named Lucky? ...

I like her too, but I'm not sure that makes her "one of the most important of American composers". I would think her work with folk music is notable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Crawford_Seeger She sure knew and worked with some important people, it's a shame she died so young (52) from cancer.

First thing in the morning, back to XP for my Parents machine. .

Now I'm thinking of going back to XP. ...

That is probably the biggest crock of shit Microsoft has ever come up with, none of their products are ever really backward compatible. I'm sticking with XP though, better the devil you know. I needed a new copy of XP and they don't sell them anymore.

I installed it on my parents machine two weeks ago. I happen to be staying there every night, so it works out for both parties. Except... problems transferring their old email & address book from the old Thunderbird that was on Win XP. problems setting up their 2nd HP printer. problems with user rights opening Word documents with multiple users setup on the machine. problems with user rights using Retrospect backup. problems with Vista installing older programs. I thought MS OS were backwardly compatible.

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something I'd like to check out, I'd love to hear piano versions of any Varèse compositions. Edgard Varèse: Amériques / Morton Feldman: Piece for Four Pianos / Five Pianos Content: Morton Feldman: Piece for Four Pianos Edgard Varèse: Amériques. Version for two pianos, eight hands Morton Feldman: Five Pianos Helena Bugallo: piano / Amy Williams: piano / Amy Briggs: piano / Benjamin Engeli: piano / Stefan Wirth: piano Wergo WER 67082

Wow, check that out! Better that it's based on one of his books, than someone ripping off his ideas and using them in their own screen play.

I'm enjoying these two this afternoon. The microtonal aspect is pretty transparent to me. It just sounds like crazy jazz man!

Visiting with my parents (locally), hanging with my friends. Just another weekend... ...

Listening to Gravity and Speechless this afternoon.

this is a trip. ...

If you like Jeff Lorber, you're gonna love Sun Ra. Would someone on an Internet message board lie to you? That would never happen.

Two that I bought years ago for Carter and Babbitt, then never really listened to rest of them. More thoughts later as I dig into them. David Starobin - New Music with Guitar, 1, 2 & 3. New Music with Guitar 5

ah - ok! ...

I think the bass line would be perfect on organ pedals.

You can't. But I can. I always thought it would be cool if we could!

Sweet! I didn't know we could do embedded video in posts.

I guess, like a lot of folks, I first heard Bruford with Yes. I really love Close to the Edge and after a few years I was curious to hear what else he did so I discovered this band he joined named King Crimson. I bought Larks Tongues in Aspic, Starless and Bible Black and thought they sounded like the Mahavishnu Orchestra. It must have been those flat 9ths...a year or two later his first solo album Bruford & the first UK album came out about the same time. I'd give real high marks to all those albums! So I kept up with his career moves as the albums came out. '80s Crimson showed up and folded, the original Earthworks was great with his electric drums, he joined and quit the '90's Crimson (didn't think too much of that band, liked the instrumentals, but didn't like the songs). He reformed Earthworks as an acoustic drummer and the tunes were more fun than the band, although I thought the Earthworks Underground Orchestra was pretty exciting - I wish I caught that band in NYC. Boy...Bill Bruford played some really exciting music over the years!