From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #526 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, March 4 2008 Volume 16 : Number 526 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: guitar stuff [2fs ] Re: Divine Wind! ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: Divine Wind! ["Stacked Crooked" ] Reap [Jeff Dwarf ] Cephalopod News Flash [Rex ] B flat chord [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] Jeff Healey tribute [Barbara Soutar ] RE: B flat chord ["Bachman, Michael" ] RE: B flat chord [Dolph Chaney ] Reap: Gary Gygax... [The Great Quail ] Fulminated Mercury [Jeff Dwarf ] RIP - Gary Gygax ["m swedene" ] Help/The Outlaws _In the Eye of the Storm_ [Jeff Dwarf ] Question for Buffyites [Steve Schiavo ] Re: Question for Buffyites [Rex ] RE: B flat chord [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] Re: B flat chord [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 18:33:33 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: guitar stuff On 3/3/08, Christopher Gross wrote: > > Willow: Well, don't you have some ambition? > > Oz: Oh, yeah! Yeah. E-flat, diminished ninth. > > Willow: Huh? > > Oz: Well, the E-flat, it's doable, but that diminished ninth, y'know, > it's a man's chord. You could lose a finger. What's funny about this, also, is that the diminished ninth step of an E-flat scale is an F-flat - a/k/a E, a/k/a an open string. So if we're talking the sort of diminished ninth that essentially plops a regular diminished 7th chord on top of a root, you could fret the D string on the first fret, the G string on the third fret, the B string on the second fret, and leave the E string open. It's actually easier to play than a non-diminished E-flat 9th chord (which you might manage by barring the first fret to give you an F on the E string and fretting the G and B strings as above). What I'm forgetting, of course, is that Oz is a werewolf, and so this presumably affected his digital flexibility. Those claws would make a mean slide, though. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:22:22 -0800 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: Divine Wind! well, that's obvious. but it nevertheless begs my question, which i'd be thrilled to see get answered. <"Masturbating to thoughts of Eb's magic johnson."> hmmm...i don't think i'd call it *"magic"*, precisely. but then again, i could be wrong! (or, perhaps you didn't intend for "magic" to've been taken literally?) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:22:22 -0800 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: Divine Wind! well, that's obvious. but it nevertheless begs my question, which i'd be thrilled to see get answered. <"Masturbating to thoughts of Eb's magic johnson."> hmmm...i don't think i'd call it *"magic"*, precisely. but then again, i could be wrong! (or, perhaps you didn't intend for "magic" to've been taken literally?) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:05:36 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Reap The Brett Favre era http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3276034 "I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them." -- Tom Lehrer "The eyes are the groin of the head." -- Dwight Schrute . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:42:20 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Cephalopod News Flash http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/03/04/octopus.uk/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:34:12 +0000 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: B flat chord "Cold Feet" by Albert King mentions the same problem: - - Mike Godwin n.p. "Crosscut Saw" Albert King ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:35:02 -0800 From: Barbara Soutar Subject: Jeff Healey tribute Here's an article link to The Toronto Globe and Mail about Jeff Healey. I am sad that I never got the chance to see him in person, but glad that he lived his dream. Barbara Soutar Victoria, BC http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080304.whealey04/BNStory/Entertainment/home?cid=al_gam_mostview Jeff Healey: 'He had so much joy' The blues guitar legend also had a passion for old jazz and a drive that kept him touring even while fighting cancer GUY DIXON March 4, 2008 "In the case of guitarist Jeff Healey, his death from cancer on the weekend wasn't an occasion for those who knew him to reflect in astonishment on how much he accomplished in his 41 years. They knew every day how much he had going on. From his start as a Grammy-nominated rock and blues prodigy - with his guitar blazing on his lap, his mind's eye reaching for euphoria - Healey's true passion nevertheless tilted toward the jazz of the twenties, thirties and forties. And that is what he dedicated his later career to, after having reached rock stardom. He never completely let go of blues rock, which he played with a unique verve, slide and scream on par with his friend Stevie Ray Vaughan. He also recorded with such artists as George Harrison, Mark Knopfler and B.B. King, and he still toured now and then performing blues rock (particularly in Europe), although playing trumpet and acoustic guitar in Jeff Healey's Jazz Wizards had became his main gig. But there was much more to Healey. "He was somebody who moved ahead very quickly on all fronts. He had so many different things going on all the time in his life," said Holger Petersen, president of Edmonton-based Stony Plain Records, which issued some of Healey's later albums. Jeff Healey, a 41-year-old blind musician, won a Juno in 1990 for Entertainer of the Year. He was also running his downtown Toronto nightclub, continuing his long-running radio show My Kinda Jazz, building his collection of more than 30,000 78 rpm records that fed his radio show and were stored in his Etobicoke basement. The list could go on exhaustively." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 13:35:41 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: B flat chord Mike Godn.p. >n.p. "Crosscut Saw" Albert Kingwin wrote: Mike, I have read in that past that the Layla riff was based on a riff in Albert's "Crosscut Saw" or "As The Years Pass By". Care to comment as I am now familiar with either AK number? Thanks, Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:26:54 -0600 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: RE: B flat chord I'm aware that Clapton played "Crosscut Saw" with the Bluesbreakers, but naught else. On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 13:35 -0500, Bachman, Michael wrote: > Mike Godn.p. > >n.p. "Crosscut Saw" Albert Kingwin wrote: > > Mike, > I have read in that past that the Layla riff was based on a riff in > Albert's "Crosscut Saw" or "As The Years Pass By". Care to comment as I > am now familiar with either AK number? > > Thanks, > Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:01:05 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Reap: Gary Gygax... ...has finally run out of hit points. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 22:22:09 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Fulminated Mercury Walter White is a bad motherfucker. "I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them." -- Tom Lehrer "The eyes are the groin of the head." -- Dwight Schrute . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:07:11 -0500 From: "m swedene" Subject: RIP - Gary Gygax Gary Gygax, 'Father of D&D,' Dies at 69 | The Underwire from Wired.com http://blog.wired.com/underwir... Gary Gygax, one of the co-creators of the Dungeons Dragons role-playing game, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, according to Stephen Chenault, CEO of Troll Lord Without Gary Gygax we wouldn't have WarCraft, Tom Hanks' film career, the best Chick tract ever, or billions dead in the great D&D global suicide wave of the '80s. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 11:23:20 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Help/The Outlaws _In the Eye of the Storm_ My brother and his bandmates have been working on this project they call wikisongs, where they hit the random button on the wikipedia home page, and then write a song on whatever happens to come up. The lastest page to come up is an album called In the Eye of the Storm, by a band called The Outlaws, and while they had found a vinyl copy of it cheap, it has since been lost, and they are trying to find another one -- format doesn't matter -- without spending an arm and a leg on it. So, is it possible than any of you fine bastards and bastardesses have a copy either already ripped or readily rippable that you could e-mail to me to send to them, or even a CD/LP/cassette of it that you desparately want to get rid of? http://www.mantisongs.com/wikisongs/ http://www.mantisongs.com/music/ "I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them." -- Tom Lehrer "The eyes are the groin of the head." -- Dwight Schrute ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 13:31:54 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: B flat chord On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Dolph Chaney wrote: > I'm aware that Clapton played "Crosscut Saw" with the Bluesbreakers, but > naught else. Kinda pathetically, I think the first version I heard was the Hindu Love Gods'. I just kinda like the way that punctuation looks right there. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:33:01 -0800 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Question for Buffyites Is it a big deal that Buffy is sleeping with Satsu in the Season 8 comic? - - Steve ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:10:57 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Question for Buffyites On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Steve Schiavo wrote: > Is it a big deal that Buffy is sleeping with Satsu in the Season 8 comic? > Spoiler warnings, please! (smiley emoticon here if I used them) - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:17:19 +0000 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: RE: B flat chord Hi Dolph and Michael and Rex! Eric Clapton also covered Albert King's sensational 'Born under a bad sign' with that Cream trio - the inexorable pentatonic riff on that chugs: do do-do do-do DO, do do-do do DAH over and over again between verses, and I suppose if you speed it up and tweak it slightly it could easily mutate into duddy duddy duddy DO, de dah do dah DO duddy duddy duddy DO, DEE dah do dah do - - Mike "if it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all" Godwin PS Strongly recommend any compilation of Albert King's Stax hits: try to find one that has "Oh Pretty Woman" (not the RO song), "Cold Feet", "Crosscut Saw", "The Hunter", "Born Under a Bad Sign" and that one that ends "When the train leaves the station, you've got to hang your head and cry". He only plays those five notes, but he does it in de luxe style... Quoting Dolph Chaney : > I'm aware that Clapton played "Crosscut Saw" with the Bluesbreakers, but > naught else. > > On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 13:35 -0500, Bachman, Michael wrote: >> Mike Godn.p. >> >n.p. "Crosscut Saw" Albert Kingwin wrote: >> >> Mike, >> I have read in that past that the Layla riff was based on a riff in >> Albert's "Crosscut Saw" or "As The Years Pass By". Care to comment as I >> am now familiar with either AK number? >> >> Thanks, >> Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 20:25:02 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: B flat chord On 3/4/08, hssmrg@bath.ac.uk wrote: > > Hi Dolph and Michael and Rex! > > Eric Clapton also covered Albert King's sensational 'Born under a bad > sign' with that Cream trio - the inexorable pentatonic riff on that > chugs: > > do do-do do-do DO, do do-do do DAH > > over and over again between verses, and I suppose if you speed it up > and tweak it slightly it could easily mutate into > > duddy duddy duddy DO, de dah do dah DO > duddy duddy duddy DO, DEE dah do dah do Uh, yeah, well...any blues riff can turn into any other blues riff by being sped up, slowed down, and having one or two notes altered. Seriously: there's only the five notes in the pentatonic blues scale, and if you stick to them, the stock of riffs is relatively meager. That's not a criticism - mood and feel is everything, and "Layla" is miles and miles away from "Born Under a Bad Sign," even if there's some vague similarity of notes and rhythm. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #526 ********************************