Please do!!! More music. More music. The Swans (one of the darkest, most utterly depressed bands ever), did an amazing version of "Can't Find My Way Home". What a gorgeous song. Procol Harem "Whiter Shade of Pale" is gorgeous, as well!
Prioritize. Steve Hillage "Green", Steve Hackett "Please Don't Touch", Steve Hillage "Motivation Radio", Steve Hackett "Voyage of the Acolyte", Gong "You", Steve Tibbitts "Exploded View", Trey Gunn "One Thousand Years", Michael Hedges "Aerial Bounderies", Gentle Giant "In a Glass House", Gentle Giant "The Power and the Glory"......that ought to keep you groovin' and movin'. Maybe "Motivation Radio" before "Green"...hard to say. "Motivation Radio" is songs, "Green" is concept...maybe "Please Don't Touch" first...
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Try and find online examples so you don't get mis-led. My tastes in music may not be palatable to others. Jim and I share enough of the same favorite music that I am reasonably confident in recommending things to him, and vice versa. Some of it is...weird, intense, unusual...as I said earlier, I'm looking for music that bends my universe. Many different musics can do that, the one category that doesn't is any music that can be played in bars, with precious few exceptions (one big exception is The Beatles. I love The Beatles). Consequently, the music I don't listen to is the music designed for mass consumption. Proceed with caution... A special mention is John Greaves "Songs". A venture into the truly obscure but very listenable. Another special mention is Pere Ubu "The Modern Dance". Very odd, but as gun lovers say (which I'm not) "You'd have to pry it from my cold, dead hands". Here's a Hillage link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBpTasRboG4
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Here's a Steve Hackett link from "Please Don't Touch" with Richie Havens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQfg5K9ut2k
Here's a link to Steve Hackett "Genesis Revisitted 2"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbKEGfjmcso
Here's a link to Steve Hackett "Voyage of the Acolyte"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1DGL_gkDBs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbKEGfjmcso
Here's a link to Steve Hackett "Voyage of the Acolyte"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1DGL_gkDBs
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Yeah, do you remember how we turned off the premium channels to the home in those days? An inline trap for the channel. If the subscriber was smart enough to remove them, instant HBO and Showtime. I think i remember as many as 3 inline, meaning we most have had 3 premium channels. All pretty low tech back then.
Good move on picking up from the line amp. I'm sure it was leaking like crazy. I think we would have considered your connection stealing cable signal, because you physically connected, even tho not to a tap. Smart to reel it in.
In days before that, they used to stick a strong NBFM noise carrier between the video and audio signals that would overload tv inputs. To make it work for premium channel subscribers, they rented them a gizmo that cancelled out the interfering carrier so it would work with the TV again.
But a notch filter made using a trimmer capacitor and a helical coil of 12 gauge romex copper inside a coke can would work just as well, though a bit touchier to tune. Made one feel all clever until finding what kind of dreck was being broadcast on that channel, so it hardly ever got used except when wanting to feel clever some more...
But a notch filter made using a trimmer capacitor and a helical coil of 12 gauge romex copper inside a coke can would work just as well, though a bit touchier to tune. Made one feel all clever until finding what kind of dreck was being broadcast on that channel, so it hardly ever got used except when wanting to feel clever some more...
Hahaha! That was way more inventive. The closest I got was pulling the ground wire from the rotary channel selector switch inside the old analog converter box, to enable the descrambler for the HBO. It took awhile (pre-internet of course), but eventually others figured this out as well; soon there were so many that our local cable company had to rent a crappy little office space in a strip mall and set up a Jiggered Cable Box Amnesty Program for a week or so. I still remember standing in line with all the other punters, with our old violated cable boxes in brown paper bags. Haven't thought about that in awhile...
Fast-forward a few decades, and ironically a couple of years ago I got so tired of coming home from work and going round the dial only to find not a thing worth watching, that I finally just ditched my (legal) cable TV completely. Thought I'd miss it, but I've hardly even noticed. Times sure have changed.
I forgot about those guys! Thanks.
- Jim
Ohh, man... That organ line is so simple, and so perfect. Hell, the hardest part of playing it is learning how to start a Hammond organ! 😛 (I think this was borrowed from a classical piece?)
God!! I don't know whether to cry at the memory of hearing this perfect record for the first time as a kid, or laugh at the picture on this YouTube video, featuring the infamous young cover girl - with a pastie on! What is this world coming to...
-- Jim
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When I read about this cover awhile back, I didn't even want to hear it - Blind Faith is about as close to sacred music as it gets for me - but I'm glad I did. The Swans do a fine job with it.
-- Jim
Mentioning the Swans "Cover" which is not what you meant, what a beautiful Robert Maplethorpe photograph.
Here is a link to "The Lodge" "Smell of a Friend". Obscure. Other desert island albums come and go. This one stays. Maybe not #1, The Beatles Box Set is there.😀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoZcxjx2IXk
Like many albums I list, one song does not tell the whole story. "Old Man's Mood", "Swelling Valley" and "The Song" plug right into my neurotransmitters.
Steve Hackett "Please Don't Touch" is the ultimate example of incredible musical diversity. From soul ballad (Randy Crawford vocals) to Kansasesque PowerProg (Steve Walsh sings a couple of tracks), to indescribable weirdness, to Ritchie Havens. I've made a deal with myself. I get to pick two albums from each musical performers catalog for my desert album selection. One per is too stressful.
Absolutely "Flying Teapot" and "Angel's Egg" are must have Gong. I had to pick one.
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Got them all from Mystic Sister/magick brother, Banana Moon original BYG Actuel to Gazeuse... So many happy years of drifting away with the PHP's, stayed at the farm with them in 1974is at Witney Oxford a couple of times... Happy Days.
RE: Bozzio Levin Stevens "Black Light Syndrome"
Wow, yeah, I like this as well. The style almost reminds me of the Flecktones..a bit all over the place, but they do it well. The first couple of tracks were more rocky, then Duende came around and I'm giggling while playing flamenco air bass.
Thanks for mentioning them!
Wow, yeah, I like this as well. The style almost reminds me of the Flecktones..a bit all over the place, but they do it well. The first couple of tracks were more rocky, then Duende came around and I'm giggling while playing flamenco air bass.
Thanks for mentioning them!
I still have that 55/56 Belair hood ornament, most beautiful one every made.
The rare pretty ones nowadays have a 300ft yacht attached to it.
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I didn't end up seeing Gong until their 25th anniversary tour. Had a chance early on but didn't take it. A regret. At least the performers I wish I had seen is far shorter than the list of "acts" I have seen, many I have seen multiple times. Never saw Gentle Giant, Zappa or The Beatles, cept on TV and the movies. Sorry if I am excessively on the music side of the "Weed and Music" topic. I'm trying to turn y'all on to some tunage that would be fun while toasty, or with the memory of toastiness. By the way, the "PHPs" marce refers to stands for "Pot Head Pixies" from the planet Gong. Hava cuppa tea, hava a nother one....
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In my kindergarten days and first years of elementary school, my elder sisters organised parties for school friends during the weekends in a 2000sqft office building my dad had built adjacent to our home.
While they were turning records and dancing, I was in bed and often kept awake by the noise.
To this day, when I hear songs as Whiter Shade of Pale, Michelle by the Beatles or e.g. When a Man Loves A Woman by Percy Sledge, I instantly transport back to 1965/1966.
Stronger than weed.
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