7/4

If you sell your soul to the Devil to play that crazy geetar, yo better be stylin'! Hm...what's goin' on here...I seem to have misplaced my violin bow....

Maple - I like Maple the most, fast. I own 2 G&L S-500s, fine guitars. About woods, Fenders...

What kinda drugs?

Yep. I have to think a bit about what's my favorite PKD novel. I went through a phase last Spring of reading a lot of his books. It started with a coast to coast trip to LA and back home to NJ at the end of April, but by early July it died down. When I'm home I'm more likely to be surfing the net or playing guitar. Thoughts in the morning....

Interesting comment. Didn't the actor who played Dad Brady live a bit of a double life?

Not a bad idea....

You beat me to it. Yikes!!!!!

I received my copies a few days ago. I love 'em.

I agree about Lulu, I think that track is amazing. My complaint is that they didn't show enough Jeff Beck!!!

Robert Fripp (solo) and with King Crimson.

He's a producer, but the North Mississippi Allstars is his son's (Luther & Cody) band!

I'm looking forward to it, I just ordered it a few days ago.

interview

I used to go there for fusion gigs in the '80's. Bruford. Holdsworth, Torn and others. We used to get there hours early and wait in line. I think I was waiting at a Holdsworth gig and it started raining. So the people in line gathered under the awning to the club and one of the owners came out and gave us alot of crap for hanging there. "My business!" Af if we were not there for a show. That kind of shit pays off in the long run.

Thanks for the listing. I'm pretty sure I won't buy any of them!

They had Zappa and Beefheart too! B)

Crimson not playing Red? Time has stopped!!! B)

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...

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!

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!

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

Yep. I'm on a Sun Ra binge this summer. I'd say my collection doubled this Summer. B)

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)

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)