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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 27, 2012 11:26:00 GMT
Old ghosts... watching you watching me smiling up from the silver sea of Blackpool... Blaaackpool!!
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 8, 2012 21:50:45 GMT
"Come On get your Lairdship here..." www.highlandtitles.com/Deerstalker... check Hounds....check Gun under the bed... check Albums that have sold millions......eh
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 21, 2012 8:58:37 GMT
How the world's first rock concert ended in chaosBy Jude Sheerin "Sixty years ago the world's first rock concert was staged in Cleveland by two men whose passion for music bridged the racial divide in a segregated US.
Jimmy Sutphin was playing poker and drinking beer in a hotel room with some hockey team pals when they heard the commotion outside.
Peering out of the fifth-floor window, they saw thousands of people besieging the indoor arena across the road.
The 20-year-old student and his friends abandoned their card game and piled downstairs to investigate.
It was Friday evening, 21 March 1952, in Cleveland, Ohio, and they were about to witness history being made."More at www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17440514
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Post by futureshock on Mar 21, 2012 17:12:26 GMT
It may be possible to return to high fidelity via analog process: consider this, that the primary problem of phonograph needles was the weight of the tone arm rested on the needle, which produced a carving effect on multiple plays, and added a resistance to sensitivity factor to the diamond reading the vinyl. Therefore, if the diamond/needle could be held in place with the position of the free-floating tone arm working without adding weight to the needle, the fidelity would radically increase and the wear and tear on both the vinyl and the needle greatly decrease.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2012 19:52:27 GMT
Blu-ray is a beautiful thing.
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 24, 2012 19:03:18 GMT
So what's Pink Floyd planning for next year?
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 29, 2012 20:05:24 GMT
Random question off the top of my head
Has there been any band/musician of 40 + years standing made a new album that surpassed any of their early offerings?
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 29, 2012 20:25:45 GMT
I think Neil Young's 'Greendale' is as good as anything he has ever done...probably about 40 years into his career if you count really early stuff... and I think Lou Reed's 'Magic and Loss' in about the 30th year of his career is his best ever.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2012 21:02:40 GMT
I think Neil Young's 'Greendale' is as good as anything he has ever done...probably about 40 years into his career if you count really early stuff... and I think Lou Reed's 'Magic and Loss' in about the 30th year of his career is his best ever. I hope you have the CD/DVD of Greendale. The DVD of Live At Vicar St. Dublin, Ireland is a must. When I think masterpiece, 1994's Sleeps With Angels is a must in this ghost town. Doesn't everyone have their own Rock Island? Their own little patch of sand? Where the slow waves crawl and your angels fall and you find you can hardly stand. And just as you're drowning, well, the tide goes down. And you're back on your Rock Island.
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Post by tullist on Mar 29, 2012 21:12:27 GMT
In short my answer to that Patti would be no. But I am taking your question at its most literal, were it broadened to highly credible outings past such and such a date. But extending that into hundreds of years both Beethoven and Bach made some of their greatest works shortly before death, additionally the famed blind itinerant Scots/Irish harpist Turloch O Carolan, with a long career, wrote possibly his most famed work on his deathbed, Farewell To Music, as did Ellingtons co writer and muse of sorts, though I am quite sure given his death date his career was not that long, but Billy Strayhorn wrote likely the most plaintive plea and final embrace of life on his deathbed with Blood Count. Here is the definitive version recorded directly after his death by the Ellington orchestra. While it has become a standard of such bearing that pretty much any jazz tenor cuts his teeth on it at some point, notably Stan Getz but many others, this is the best version. youtu.be/7Ckls62nZHwWere there a version of O Carolans tune up there that passed my smell test I would post it, a version done on Irish or Celtic harp as the man himself did. Lots of versions, but at a glance none that make the cut, I can usually tell in the first 5 seconds. But I think alot of folks would be surprised by how many O Carolan tunes they have heard of, some played w Tull during Peggy's tenure.
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Post by tullist on Mar 29, 2012 22:06:09 GMT
Random question off the top of my head Has there been any band/musician of 40 + years standing made a new album that surpassed any of their early offerings? In short my answer to that Patti would be no. But I am taking your question at its most literal, were it broadened to highly credible outings past such and such a date, the list would grow long. But extending that into hundreds of years both Beethoven and Bach made some of their greatest works shortly before death, additionally the famed blind itinerant Scots/Irish harpist Turloch O Carolan, with a long career, wrote possibly his most famed work on his deathbed, Farewell To Music, as did Ellingtons co writer and muse of sorts, though I am quite sure given his death date his career was not that long, but Billy Strayhorn wrote likely the most plaintive plea and final embrace of life on his deathbed with Blood Count. Here is the definitive version recorded directly after his death by the Ellington orchestra. While it has become a standard of such bearing that pretty much any jazz tenor cuts his teeth on it at some point, notably Stan Getz but many others, this is the best version. youtu.be/7Ckls62nZHwWere there a version of O Carolans tune up there that passed my smell test I would post it, a version done on Irish or Celtic harp as the man himself did. Lots of versions, but at a glance none that make the cut, I can usually tell in the first 5 seconds. But I think alot of folks would be surprised by how many O Carolan tunes they have heard of, some played w Tull during Peggy's tenure.
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 29, 2012 22:34:41 GMT
Random question off the top of my head Has there been any band/musician of 40 + years standing made a new album that surpassed any of their early offerings? In short my answer to that Patti would be no. But I am taking your question at its most literal, were it broadened to highly credible outings past such and such a date, the list would grow long. But extending that into hundreds of years both Beethoven and Bach made some of their greatest works shortly before death, additionally the famed blind itinerant Scots/Irish harpist Turloch O Carolan, with a long career, wrote possibly his most famed work on his deathbed, Farewell To Music, as did Ellingtons co writer and muse of sorts, though I am quite sure given his death date his career was not that long, but Billy Strayhorn wrote likely the most plaintive plea and final embrace of life on his deathbed with Blood Count. Here is the definitive version recorded directly after his death by the Ellington orchestra. While it has become a standard of such bearing that pretty much any jazz tenor cuts his teeth on it at some point, notably Stan Getz but many others, this is the best version. youtu.be/7Ckls62nZHwWere there a version of O Carolans tune up there that passed my smell test I would post it, a version done on Irish or Celtic harp as the man himself did. Lots of versions, but at a glance none that make the cut, I can usually tell in the first 5 seconds. But I think alot of folks would be surprised by how many O Carolan tunes they have heard of, some played w Tull during Peggy's tenure. That video is sublime. If there's any chance of hearing someone play an authentic O'Carolan it might be here and you've given me the notion to visit it - unlike a Tull concert (this year) I don't have to cross water to get to it; www.ocarolanharpfestival.ie/index.php?pageid=13How wonderful to have heard Turlough O'Carolan play in a small village Hall; "It is said that weddings and funerals were often delayed until he could arrive to perform.." I only found out recently that one of the patron families that took him in were the Maguires of the county where I live - Fermanagh and that he married a Mary Maguire of that family. I've just remembered this girl Catriona McKay, who was harp champion at the O'Carolan International Harp festival. www.footstompin.com/artists/catriona_mckayan orgy of string sweetness and one of her compositions
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 30, 2012 2:11:37 GMT
I agree that Sleeps with Angels is a stone, cold, sincere, inspired masterpiece...I picked on Greendale to address the total years part of NonRabbit's query.....I have the CD and DVD of Greendale and separately a CD of an all acoustic performance which may well be the one you're talking about...plenty of mumbling talk between songs...a longer Bandit and countless other indispensable highlights.
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 30, 2012 15:49:01 GMT
I can't see that image TT and my nose is twitching with nosiness but then again my computer is completely f*cked
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Post by tullist on Apr 2, 2012 18:28:23 GMT
Random question off the top of my head Has there been any band/musician of 40 + years standing made a new album that surpassed any of their early offerings? I knew that if I let a little time pass names would begin to present themselves, though I think cases where the best work was all done after 40 years might not exist. But on Facebook today I was reminded of what I consider a automatic consideration, Birthday girl Emmylou Harris. Now I am not certain of the actual start of her career, but seems I have had an awareness of her since about 1970, and I don't just mean what she looks like, although folks who may know f**k all about any of her music probably would be aware of how pretty she is. But I suspect that was the mid or late sixties when she was playin the folk clubs around DC, pretty sure that's where she met Gram Parsons, another story. Her fame was pretty much in place by the time I thought she really began to flower, starting in 92 with that s**t hot bluegrass/newgrass band the Nash Ramblers, though I am aware her Hot Band was pretty well known. Just seems to me it was right then, in 92, that her boundaries started to expand to this day. I would guess her performing career is something past 40 years. And it is possible to maintain a crush for 35 to 40 years, what a lady, aging as well as it can be done. Albums of hers of the past 20 years that would get my strong recommendation are Emmylou Harris and the Nash Ramblers live at the Ryman (where IA will be playing later this year, I assume everyone knows this is the mecca of country music)from a couple years later one that gets 5 stars, cannot imagine she has done a better record as this one veers so close to perfect, Cowgirls Prayer, one of the better records I have ever heard by anyone. And from what seems like a few years ago but it is probably more like 10, Wrecking Ball, also excellent.
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Post by futureshock on Apr 2, 2012 19:11:31 GMT
I was fortunate enough to be in Nashville several years ago in summer, and took in one evening of the "Bluegrass Nights", featuring about 4 top bluegrass bands playing at the Ryman, the original ultimate Country performance hall, still thought as that by many. Country may have been partly ruined by the formulas and "hat acts" coming out of the "star maker machinery", but there is a lot of high talent and worthy music and cultural history in Nashville and the Ryman authentic Country, not the cookie cutter crap.
Highly recommended would be to take a long day-time and evening pub crawl on Broadway, which is the famous area about three blocks long where almost every place is another Country bar with an all-day live stage of acts showing off their talent. This is almost directly down the hill, two blocks from the Ryman. This is the area where talent agents and artists from around the country play to gain some exposure and try to get noticed. Going from bar to bar you really get a sense of high intensity, the momentum and involvement in Country and how much of a pull it has. Performers of all ages, instruments, it's an amazingly concentrated two or three blocks. Then you can go across the street and buy a vinyl record of some nobody from the 1950's who had the corniest record cover ever and sang covers that shouldn't be on the same album together......among the gems also there. I found that afternoon of incredible musical value. Few places on Earth have as much concentration of the arts or music, perhaps only Times Square/Broadway in New York and spots in LA.
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 2, 2012 21:47:11 GMT
I was fortunate enough to be in Nashville several years ago in summer, and took in one evening of the "Bluegrass Nights", featuring about 4 top bluegrass bands playing at the Ryman, the original ultimate Country performance hall, still thought as that by many. Country may have been partly ruined by the formulas and "hat acts" coming out of the "star maker machinery", but there is a lot of high talent and worthy music and cultural history in Nashville and the Ryman authentic Country, not the cookie cutter crap. Highly recommended would be to take a long day-time and evening pub crawl on Broadway, which is the famous area about three blocks long where almost every place is another Country bar with an all-day live stage of acts showing off their talent. This is almost directly down the hill, two blocks from the Ryman. This is the area where talent agents and artists from around the country play to gain some exposure and try to get noticed. Going from bar to bar you really get a sense of high intensity, the momentum and involvement in Country and how much of a pull it has. Performers of all ages, instruments, it's an amazingly concentrated two or three blocks. Then you can go across the street and buy a vinyl record of some nobody from the 1950's who had the corniest record cover ever and sang covers that shouldn't be on the same album together......among the gems also there. I found that afternoon of incredible musical value. Few places on Earth have as much concentration of the arts or music, perhaps only Times Square/Broadway in New York and spots in LA. That would be a great experience even as you say just to blow away the stereotypical images that some might have of country/ bluegrass. I'd love to do a musical journey through different parts of the States. I love the Transatlantic sessions on BBC Scotland. and the young uns reviving the sound
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Post by tullist on Apr 3, 2012 7:37:40 GMT
..mentioning O'Carolan a few posts up there - this bloke introduced himself via youtube. I'm not quite sure R what you mean by the clear original sound but have a listen to this minstrel playing Eleanor Plunket I'm not entirely sure what I meant either Patti and as its very late, not going to scroll down. But I could tell from the initial bits of what u post, a familiar one, that person has a good sound. I think I may have been mentioning that while there were plenty of versions of a particular O Carolan tune up there, Farewell To Music, not enough were on Celtic or Irish Harp, as he performed on, for me to find one to post to my liking. The one well known American guy Patrick Ball is up there, but its part of some stage play, they want you to pay attention and everything, its boring. I just know what I like in the realm when I hear it, with that Alan Stivell, Renaissance of the Celtic Harp one I would alway recommend, though other of his records that venture into a kind of Breton Prog I can take a pass on for a goodly part.
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 17, 2012 11:13:00 GMT
They're all at it www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/12/jk-rowling-the-casual-vacancy"J K Rowling's first book for adults will be a "blackly comic" tale about an idyllic town ripped apart by a parish council election"
"The 480-page book will be set in Pagford, a dreamy spot with a cobbled market square and ancient abbey which becomes a town at war with itself."If it's turned into a film and they need a soundtrack then may I suggest some TAAB2 ( a wee commision for the suggestion would'nt go amiss)
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 17, 2012 17:41:12 GMT
They're all at it www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/12/jk-rowling-the-casual-vacancy"J K Rowling's first book for adults will be a "blackly comic" tale about an idyllic town ripped apart by a parish council election"
"The 480-page book will be set in Pagford, a dreamy spot with a cobbled market square and ancient abbey which becomes a town at war with itself."If it's turned into a film and they need a soundtrack then may I suggest some TAAB2 ( a wee commision for the suggestion would'nt go amiss) Thomas Hardy announces the imminent publication of "Far From The Madding Crowd 2". Meanwhile EMI prepare to release "Dark Side Of The Moon 7" and "War Of The World 42" in delux 8cd sets, in 78.5 surround sound and all mixed by Steve Wilson. (Not "the" Steve Wilson but the bloke who normally works behind the bar in the "The Dirty Duck" pub in St Cleve)
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 21, 2012 12:23:55 GMT
Following on from the sad passing of Bert Weedon and Levon Helm comes the news of Jack Ashley who was about the only major UK politician I ever had any time for. He was the UK's first deaf MP and a campaigner for equal rights for people with disabilities. I hope his death does not go unnoticed by the people of the UK because without him those less fortunate than ourselves would not have had a voice in parliament to fight on their behalf. One of the good guys. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ashley,_Baron_Ashley_of_Stoke RIP
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 21, 2012 12:30:46 GMT
Following on from the sad passing of Bert Weedon and Levon Helm comes the news of Jack Ashley who was about the only major UK politician I ever had any time for. He was the UK's first deaf MP and a campaigner for equal rights for people with disabilities. I hope his death does not go unnoticed by the people of the UK because without him those less fortunate than ourselves would not have had a voice in parliament to fight on their behalf. One of the good guys. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ashley,_Baron_Ashley_of_Stoke RIP Yes I remember him - a rare breed amongst that lot. Sad. Didn't he have a daughter in politics or journalism? Very sad too about Bert Weedon and Levon Helm. Bert Weedon must have been a good age - I remember watching a documentary about him in the early 60's and he looked about 50 then . RIP
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Post by tullist on Apr 23, 2012 17:09:18 GMT
O man. That one is full blown happenin'. Gonna have to grab that one as a potential avatar. Tull a go go baby. Ok. Maybe not.
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