Brandon Burke

From: http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/16655.html **************************************************************************** Rodeo in Salem gets unexpected song rendition: A man purportedly from Kazakhstan launched into a diatribe instead of "The Star-Spangled Banner." By Laurence Hammack. The Roanoke Times No one knows for sure who he was, that Middle Eastern man in an American flag shirt and a cowboy hat who was supposed to sing the national anthem at a rodeo Friday night in the Salem Civic Center. But he sure shook up this town before leaving in a hurry. Introduced as Boraq Sagdiyev from Kazakhstan, he was said to be an immigrant touring America. A film crew was with him, doing some sort of documentary. And he wanted to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" to show his appreciation, the announcer told the crowd. Speaking in broken English, the mysterious man first told the decidedly pro-American crowd - it was a rodeo, of all things, in Salem, of all places - that he supported the war on terrorism. "I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq, down to the lizards," he said, according to Brett Sharp of Star Country WSLC, who was also on stage that night as a media sponsor of the rodeo. An uneasy murmur ran through the crowd. "And may George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq," he continued, according to Robynn Jaymes, who co-hosts a morning radio show with Sharp and was also among the stunned observers. The crowd's reaction was loud enough for John Saunders, the civic center's assistant director, to hear from the front office. "It was a restless kind of booing," Saunders said. Then the man took off his hat and sang what he said was his native national anthem. He then told the crowd to be seated, put his hat back on, and launched into a butchered version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" that ended with the words "your home in the grave," Sharp said. By then, a restless crowd had turned downright nasty. "If he had been out there a minute longer, I think somebody would have shot him," Jaymes said. "People were booing him, flipping him off." Rodeo producer Bobby Rowe, who by then had figured out that he was the victim of some kind of hoax, had the man escorted out of the civic center. Rowe told him that he and his film friends had best leave right then. "Had we not gotten them out of there, there would have been a riot," said Rowe, who has been bringing his Imperial Rodeo Productions to Salem for years. As his wife, Lenore, put it: "It's a wonder one of these cowboys didn't go out there and rope him up." Saunders agreed. "I was concerned for his personal safety," he said. Once the film crew members and their star realized the severity of the situation, Bobby Rowe said, "they loaded up the van and they screeched out of there." After apologizing to the crowd for being duped, Rowe was left to wonder who pulled such a hoax, and why. Months ago, he was approached by someone from One America, a California-based film company that was reportedly doing a documentary on a Russian immigrant, Rowe said. The outfit asked if Sagdiyev could sing the national anthem at the rodeo in Salem. After listening to a tape, Rowe said sure. By Saturday afternoon, Jaymes had observed that Sagdiyev looked a lot like the title character of "Da Ali G Show," a Home Box Office production that often catches its guests and audiences unaware and then records their reaction to "shock value" material such as Friday night's performance. The show has a character named Borat from Kazakhstan, according to the HBO Web site. Jaymes said she recalls that one of the five cameras was turned on her and others on stage, as if to catch their reactions. "I looked at Brett and said, 'Why do I feel like I'm in the middle of a bad "Saturday Night Live" episode?'" Jaymes said. As Rowe prepared Saturday for a second night of the rodeo, he was playing it safe on who would sing the national anthem. "It'll be a tape," he said.

Straw Dogs is an altogether different film, Aric. Stray Dog, the one originaly mentioned in this thread, is Kurosawa. Straw Dogs is Sam Peckinpah. Easy enough to confuse though. And both were Criterions so.....

I got this today. Just came out in the past few days, as did Fighting Elegy, another Seijun Suzuki title. I'm very excited....

I don't want you to take this the wrong way but it sounds like you're looking for a very particular sound that may or may not actually exist. After all, just because you've got a well-defined idea about your ideal Kraut/prog record in your head, it doesn't mean that anyone ever made it. And hell...I love when that happens. That means I get to write that song! B-)

You mentioned NYC shops so I'm guessing you went to Other Music. One of my oldest buddies is a manager there. (I'll email you his name when I'm done with this. You can tell him that I sent you.) He knows way too much about all genres of music but he is especially helpful with psychedelic stuff. And he's not into corny prog. And, believe me, other than a few exceptions--early Soft Machine, for example--most prog is REALLY f*cking corny. Sorry dudes. Your issue with Can--the long avant pieces--is something you're going to have to learn to swallow if you plan on listening to either of these genres. That's rather like having a problem with dissonance but really wanting to get into George Russell. It's a package deal, man. Either that, or you simply have to accept that you're going to only listen to about 70% of these records. That said, I would start with Can Ege Bamyasi because (1) the song lengths are shorter and (2) it's arguably their most accessible record. (Someone is going to disagree with me here. I can feel it.) From there you probably want Tago Mago and Moster Movie. I happen to like Future Days better than both of those records but most people that I know do not. Whatever, right. Tago Mago in particular is very very good but it does have some *noise* pieces. The 18-minute "Halleluhwah", however, is worth the price of the disc all by itself so I'm pretty much telling you that you want it. John is quite right about both NEU! and Faust. I feel pretty comfortable telling you that you really only need NEU!'s first record (NEU!) seeing that the second (NEU! 2) is very literally the same song at different speeds. As for Faust, I would begin with Faust IV but I say that because that's where I began and it worked well for me. That one also features the tune "Krautrock"...so there you go. Look out for Amon Duul II as well. I'd go for the Yeti LP if I were you. And be careful with the original Amon Duul (i.e. before they formed Amon Duul II) because that stuff is seriously noisy and not at all unlike musique concrete at times. Enjoy!

LC has taken their LP cleaning solution off-line (for revision) but I seem to remember it containing Triton XL-80N which, to the best of my knowledge, is at least somewhat toxic. So any of you who use the (old) LC solution might want consider either changing to something else for the time being or....I dunno....investing in a fume hood.

You're always going to hear arguments against using alcohol of any sort. And rightfully so, I think. For years I used a relatively weak [90% ISO] + [distilled water] solution and had good luck with it home. I used more than a "just few drops" of ISO, however. Something closer to 10-15% of the solution.

Oh shit! You live less than an hour away from where I work?

My Jayhawks certainly proved their #2 ranking yesterday. Winning against #8 Kentucky in Lexington without Wayne Simien (who averages double doubles) and without Keith Langford (arguably the nation's best slasher) for much of the second half.

Yeah, he uses Armor All on the dashboard. But other than that....

Story on Morning Edition this morning about "the death of audiotape". Kind of a puff piece but whatever.... Click here and scroll down to "A Fond Farewell to Audio Tape".

I'll have to give Mary Lou's Mass a spin when I get home this evening. It's been ages...

That's a great tune.

Cool. Thanks Lon. I'm looking forward to hearing it--especially those so beloved "resonances".

That's the problem with the Discwasher solution. They don't tell you what's in it. I understand, of course, that they have an interest in keeping this information to themselves but I don't feel comfortable cleaning my LPs--much less those of the institutions I work for!--with a (quite literally) unknown substance. There's no shortage of threads on this issue at the ARSClist archives page. I'd check there.

Seeing as there are going to be new OJCs in April, perhaps you should wait until you're actually "getting screwed" before you take on this admittedly quite illegal project.

CORRECTION: The jacket on my copy says W. 63rd but the labels on the disc itself are like your's, Peter. "767 Lexington Ave NYC." Also in script. I must have a second-run jacket with an original 1500 series disc. Interesting....

Ditto here on this Mary Lou Williams release. Good to see it out. The Pablo date? I think I'm lost here...

Oops. Forgot about the 78s. ...and the 10". This is a W. 63rd copy. I went down there today and traded some stuff I didn't really want anyway. So I'm happy. B-)

Dixon/Shepp split Savoy LP (orig press) - $9

Can someone please tell me the address on the back of the first Milt Jackson Blue Note LP? Yesterday, I found what I'm pretty certain is an original pressing for a not unreasonable price (given the significance of the date and all). Thanks, Brandon

When are you movin' out here, man? MacD and I can't drink all of this Marin IPA by ourselves! Besides, how else are we gonna finish that duet we started way back when...? Happy birthday, brother. I'll give you a ring tomorrow. -- B

I like to marinate fish filets in fresh lime juice, olive oil, chopped jalapeno, paprika, cracked pepper, and cilantro.

I listened to these records yesterday as well. Both are easily among my all-time favorites. Especially the tunes "Mephistopheles" and "Blues in Trinity". Hope all is well in DC, -- B

Yup. Except I would have said.... * A Tribe Called Quest - "Can I Kick It?" * LL Cool J - "I'm Bad" * Eric B & Rakim - "Paid in Full" * Eric B & Rakim - "Microphone Fiend" * Biz Markie - "Spring Again" * Stetsasonic - "Talkin' All That Jazz" * Marly Marl - "The Symphony" * Kool Moe Dee - "Wild Wild West" * Big Daddy Kane - "Ain't No Half Steppin'" * Rob Base & DJ EZ-Rock - "It Takes Two" * Public Enemy - "Night of the Living Baseheads" * Public Enemy - "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" The Quest jam in particular was cool because the video featured an altogether different mix. [EDIT: And let us not, of course, forget the Ed Lover dance!]