JACkory
Struggling Artist
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Post by JACkory on May 19, 2004 14:30:54 GMT -5
Now Playing:  Miles Davis
Live At The Fillmore East March 7, 1970Proof positive that a jazz legend can rock out hardcore even without a guitar. This was recorded just after the release of the legendary Bitches Brew, and even though John McLaughlin is missed, several of that album's principle players are in fine form here (Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Jack DeJohnette). One can only imagine how many hippies' minds were blown at the Fillmore when they were treated to this incredibly psychedelic jamming... |
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Post by Meursault on May 19, 2004 14:34:16 GMT -5
I think i have that one JAC, really far out Avant Garde last I remember, haven't put it on a lot. Is Zawniful (spelling?) on that?
I'm goign to have to put in my Heavy Weather, and Inner Mounting Flame albums sometime soon.
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Post by bowiglou on May 19, 2004 17:16:58 GMT -5
bowie, costello, zevon, fleetwood mac etc. all being played....you all are the cats meow!!.......first of all I agree: buckingham is an amazing and radically under-rated guitarist.....but I still very much missed Bob Welchs' hypnotic type of guitar playing.....and as for Cracked Actor, damn right...that song is sheer bluster and attitude....given Bowie's antipathy to LA I'm surprised he moved there, albeit for a brief coke-infused period, a few years later
Right now I'm listening to Go-Betweens 'Lovers Lane'......another amazing and neglected group....
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Post by PC on May 19, 2004 19:39:54 GMT -5
This is a little off the subject here...but bow, from one of your emails I saw the website for your consulting firm (Glaser Consulting), and I must say, you have a lot of credentials. If I had only known you as a guy with a bunch of degrees in statistics or what not, I NEVER in a million years would have guessed that, at heart, you're just a surfer dude who loves rock and roll. Also, in the pic you kind of look like Bruce Willis.
NP: My Dad blasting the TV in the other room 
~PunkChick
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Post by ScottsyII on May 19, 2004 21:44:22 GMT -5
This Afternoon's listening includes Gomez - In Our Gun, as well as the wonderful "Dear Friends and Enemies" by Big Heavy stuff... :-)
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Post by ScottsyII on May 19, 2004 21:47:53 GMT -5
Bowiglou... I absolutely agree with about the Go Betweens, they are utterly fantastic if you ask me, real masters of the art of songwriting, full of songs about hardship, hope, humour and angst, and put across so exquisitely...
They are amongst my favourite bands of all time, just for the utter beauty and and uniqueness of their music.
We Aussies can churn out some darn good music if we try... people need to notice the Go Betweens far more than the Kylie's and INXS's of the world...
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Post by Galactus on May 19, 2004 23:55:16 GMT -5
Pixies- Live In Indio CA 05-01-04 (Tame)
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JACkory
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Post by JACkory on May 20, 2004 10:34:37 GMT -5
I think i have that one JAC, really far out Avant Garde last I remember, haven't put it on a lot. Is Zawniful (spelling?) on that? No, Shane, I don't think Joe ZAWINUL is on that album. I think Chick Corea is the only keyboard player on board...it IS pretty "far out avante garde", I guess. A better word to describe it would be "chaotic". It's the kind of stuff that old school Miles fans were pissed off by. You play this next to Kind Od Blue and it's hard to believe it's the same guy. |
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JACkory
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Post by JACkory on May 20, 2004 17:06:20 GMT -5
Now Playing:  Arvo Pärt
Kanon Pokajanen |
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Post by bowiglou on May 20, 2004 19:13:52 GMT -5
This is a little off the subject here...but bow, from one of your emails I saw the website for your consulting firm (Glaser Consulting), and I must say, you have a lot of credentials. If I had only known you as a guy with a bunch of degrees in statistics or what not, I NEVER in a million years would have guessed that, at heart, you're just a surfer dude who loves rock and roll. Also, in the pic you kind of look like Bruce Willis.
NP: My Dad blasting the TV in the other room
~PunkChick yeah, so what about a bit of respect!!..actually, Punkchick you've always been very nice to me.just for your comment, I'll do my first statistical analysis for you for free!!!! |
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Post by bowiglou on May 20, 2004 19:16:06 GMT -5
yeah Scotty..I utterly fell in love with the Go-bEtweens the last year..just perfect songwriting..
OK all, right now I'm listening to an LP I'm sure you all loathe, but I"m listening to Tommy by the Who...whatever criticisims it gets for pretentiousness, it is still a wonderfully coherent cadre of songs....I love this one.....
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Post by PC on May 20, 2004 19:42:02 GMT -5
yeah, so what about a bit of respect!!..actually, Punkchick you've always been very nice to me.just for your comment, I'll do my first statistical analysis for you for free!!!! Heh...I wish I knew what that was. Statistical analysis of what exactly? I am so not a math person. Recent listens: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell Blur - Parklife David Bowie - Aladdin Sane David Bowie - Scary Monsters (I hadn't listened to this one much since I first bought it, but it is really good...I think it's growing on me) ~PunkChick |
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Post by NdY on May 20, 2004 20:26:25 GMT -5
NP - Boards of Canada Music Has a Right to Children (An Eagle in Your Mind)
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Post by strawman on May 21, 2004 3:32:44 GMT -5
while travelling over the last couple of days
Lou Reed...The Bells, New Sensations, Legendary Hearts, The Blue Mask, growing Up In Public
Eels..Electroshock Blues, Beautiful Freak, Daisies...
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Post by bowiglou on May 21, 2004 14:34:59 GMT -5
Punkchick........I have mercilessly gone on and on these boards that Scary Monsters (and super creeps) is my fave Bowie.......seriously, from the opening discordance of It's no Game I to the defeated resignation of Its No Game II, there is nary a weak spot on the LP (though some critics were not too crazy about Bowie's cover of Tom Verlaines "Kingdom Come".................).......but it is a stunning album, and why in review after review, you'll see reference to Scary Monsters being the last great Bowie album.......saw a lot of references to that one with Reality (..."best since sCary monsters)........also, at that time Bowie was on a creative roll....playing Elephant Man on Broadway (note: the snobby NY critics, always suspicious of cross-fertilizing rock and rollers loved him), movies, art.......Bowie was at his height of creativity circa 1980/1981.......
Strawman, lots of Lou Reed.....you make me proud as usual...and based in part on Straw's recommendation, and I know many of you are tired of hearing me extoll the Clean, but I was listening again yesterday to the 2-CD 'Anthology' of the Clean, and I can't recommend it highly enough..........it's melodic and accessible but still has that almost punky/VU-ey feel to it.............plus, I love that guys vocals...seriously all, if there are two groups you want to explore from NZ waste no time and get into the Clean and the Chills...............and then I would go into the next tier: Straitjacket Fits and the Verlaines......I think what strikes me about quite few of the Flying Nun artists is their lack of pretension and embarce of artists slightly left of center......and most salient, is the few artists I have listened to from this label dont' feel the compelling need to pander only for the adolescent sect......meaning, even grown-ups such as I can find much of pleasure from these bands............somewhat reminds me of the cadre of like-minded bands from the 80s such as dBs/Zeitgeist/Guadalcanal Diary/Game Theory/Lets Active/REM/Don Dixon/Mitch Easter............very very similar.....
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