From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #199 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, July 22 2009 Volume 17 : Number 199 Today's Subjects: ----------------- cancer [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Ambient NASA [lep ] bingo [lep ] Re: bingo [kevin studyvin ] Re: Ambient NASA [kevin studyvin ] Re: who's hot on keyboards? [Gene Hopstetter ] Re: who's hot on keyboards? [ross ] Re: Ambient NASA [Tom Clark ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #198 ["Bri N" ] Re: who's hot on keyboards? ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: who's hot on keyboards? [kevin studyvin ] fucking squid [lep ] REAP [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Totally No Robyn (NR) [Rex ] Re: who's hot on keyboards? [Rex ] Re: fucking squid [Rex ] Re: Totally No Robyn (NR) [2fs ] Re: who's hot on keyboards? [Steve Schiavo ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:31:29 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: cancer http://www.relix.com/Features/Daily_News/Beastie_Boys_Cancel_Shows,_MCA_Diag nosed_With_Cancer_200907204062.html my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221823310x1201398722/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=62&bcd= JulystepsfooterNO62) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:48:00 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Ambient NASA tc says: > "SomaFM celebrates NASA and space explorers everywhere with our new channel > Mission Control: ambient electronica with live NASA audio. Currently > featuring the 40 year anniversary Apollo 11 rebroadcast- exactly how it > sounded back in 1969 (only now with a great soundtrack)." > > I think the astronauts are in rest period right now, but it's pretty awesome > to have this channel on in the background and then all of a sudden hear the > radio chatter come up. It's extremely cool. > > http://somafm.com thanks for posting this. the moon -- my favourite. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:23:28 -0400 From: lep Subject: bingo after a mere 6+ years, netflix is beginning to close in on me**: this evening, i received a recommendation for "storefront hitchcock" (i believe it was after adding a jeff tweedy dvd to the NetQ.) although perhaps this isn't triangulation - i believe they have their new million-dollar algorithm at this point (or is it an agent?) xo ** for some reason, i tend to be both comforted and repelled when my robot friends get it right. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:00:20 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: bingo On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:23 AM, lep wrote: > after a mere 6+ years, netflix is beginning to close in on me**: this > evening, i received a recommendation for "storefront hitchcock" (i > believe it was after adding a jeff tweedy dvd to the NetQ.) > > although perhaps this isn't triangulation - i believe they have their > new million-dollar algorithm at this point (or is it an agent?) > > xo > > > ** for some reason, i tend to be both comforted and repelled when my > robot friends get it right. > They haven't got me lined up quite right yet. Just because I like Will Ferrell they seem to think I'm also going to be a big Adam Sandler fan. They are mistaken. My wife likes him, though; I think it was Punch Drunk Love that did it. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:02:07 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Ambient NASA > thanks for posting this. > > the moon -- my favourite. > > I prefer a nice sharp cheddar...the really pungent stuff... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:51:34 -0500 From: Gene Hopstetter Subject: Re: who's hot on keyboards? > From: ross > > I've been asked by my nephew, who just bought himself a Moog, to > refer him to some interesting keyboard players. Anybody got any > suggestions, old or new? Edward Ka-Spel. Mort Garson (the god of Moog). Dave Sinclair (Caravan and Matching Mole). Gary Numan (Cars!). Greg Hawkes (The Cars!). Roger Eno. Brian Eno (Burning airlines!). Geddy Lee (red barchettas!). Oh, and Daryl Dragon, of course. And he *must* hear Musie Michanique's album "Hold This Ghost." It's full of mellotron, Chamberlain, and other such interesting retro keyboard sounds. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:54:05 -0400 From: ross Subject: Re: who's hot on keyboards? Steve Schiavo wrote: > > > Barry Andrews? The guy from The Stranglers? Mike Ratledge (Soft > Machine). Dave Stewart (the Hatfield and the North one). Ratledge was the only one of those three I'd thought of so far. Thanks. > Depends on what you mean by modern, I guess. > Dolph offered Money Mark as a "modern" keyboard player. Most of the examples I could come up with made their reputations more than 20 years ago. The "old-tyme" players are good too; my nephew had asked who was playing when I had Al Kooper on the stereo, and he told me he wanted me to play him some Rick Wakeman. So have keyboards fallen from fashion? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:26:09 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Ambient NASA On Jul 20, 2009, at 11:48 PM, lep wrote: >> http://somafm.com > > thanks for posting this. > > the moon -- my favourite. I sat alone in the dark listening as the "first step" was happening. Freakin' cool. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:26:35 -0700 From: "Bri N" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #198 Ross- How about Billie Currie from Ultravox. Any of the post 80 Midge Ure stuff are incredible examples of interesting keyboard playing. A couple of his solos sound like guitars actually, but he did alot with his synths... - -Nuppy Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:15:36 -0400 From: ross Subject: who's hot on keyboards? I've been asked by my nephew, who just bought himself a Moog, to refer him to some interesting keyboard players. Anybody got any suggestions, old or new? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:04:53 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: who's hot on keyboards? E from eels has done some sweet stuff on keyboards. Mr Dolby is quite nifty too. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:21:08 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: who's hot on keyboards? On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > E from eels has done some sweet stuff on keyboards. Mr Dolby is quite > nifty too. > Well, John Cale's turned in some interesting performances (All Tomorrow's Parties, Sister Ray, and check the live sets John Cale Comes Alive - if you can find it - and Fragments Of a Rainy Season). Gregg Allman plays a nice B3, as does Al Kooper. Some of that Danger Mouse stuff is worth a listen. There's Keith Jarrett, when his ego's not out of control - some very sweet work with Miles Davis in his psycho 70s period (Miles Davis At Fillmore, the Cellar Door Sessions, Another Kind Of Blue) too. The late great Bill Evans, of course, and Herbie Hancock turned in some wonderful fonk playing in the early 70s. The early Crimson is a gold mine of insane Robert Fripp mellotron, and David Cross played some nasty piano with the 1972-74 version of Crimson too. Ian Underwood contributed great keyboards to various Zappa projects roughly 68-73 (Hot Rats, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, Over-Nite Sensation, etc.). And if you go to Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue there are some remarkable piano parts. Also Eddie Jobson contributed some nice stuff to UK before that project fell apart - he can be heard to good effect on Zappa In New York and Viva Roxy Music too. To go to the arty axis, any of John Cage's keyboard music is worth a listen - - Sonatas & Interludes For Prepared Piano is great, as is the monstro Music For Keyboard 1935-1948 issued back in the sixties. Most of Terry Riley's Records are worth studying - A Rainbow In Curved Air, Persian Surgery Dervishes, Shri Camel, and the awe-inspiring Harp Of New Albion. The early Philip Glass work is fascinating stuff - Music In Fifths, Music In Similar Motion, and the unforgettable Music With Changing Parts (which will have people fleeing the room and screaming at you to turn it off every bit as fast as Metal Machine Music). Not to forget one of Steve Reich's early phase-shift experiments, Four Organs, in which four organists (what else?) playing the same chord gradually shift out of time with one another with wonderful results. Then you got one of the most maddening records ever (which I no longer own, sad to say) - the 1969 vinyl version of HPSCHD by John Cage, which involves, if memory serves, seven amplified harpsichords playing assorted fragments of Mozart to the accompaniment of multi-tracked electronic noise. Brain surgery without anesthesia - if you can stand it, it induces a sort of endorphin trance state. I've always liked Nicky Hopkins' work with the Stones, Jefferson Airplane, Jeff Beck, Quicksilver, et al. And of course there's always Wakeman. That's all I got at the moment... np Godspeed You Black Emperor / Yanqui U.X.O. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:19:40 -0400 From: lep Subject: fucking squid i caught part of an episode of "nature" called "superfish" ( i think it was an older episode. it had some gorgeous photography (those sailfish are especially lovely.)) http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/superfish/introduction/1003/ at any rate, it mentioned a woman had caught what was thought to be the largest (black?) marlin, but when they went to weigh it, tail up, 150 pounds of squid fell out of its mouth. so no record for her. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:56:52 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: REAP John Dawson, 64 years old: http://www.nrpsmusic.com/ If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:32:47 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Totally No Robyn (NR) On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:36 PM, 2fs wrote: > I'll second the WTF... I'll attempt an explanation. Ahem... Bitch is nuts. All in favor? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:36:56 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: who's hot on keyboards? On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Gene Hopstetter wrote: > Mort Garson (the god of Moog). > > I thought about tossing that one out there, but I thought it might not be contemporary enough. Glad someone did. Remember those Smylonylon cassettes I reviewed at excruciating length a few years ago? Everything on them. That's where I picked up the Garson. Some of the Moog sounds on later Enoch Light records are fucking sick, in the best way. > And he *must* hear Musie Michanique's album "Hold This Ghost." It's full >> of mellotron, Chamberlain, and other such interesting retro keyboard sounds. > > Is this contemporary? Sounds very intriguing. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:39:12 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: fucking squid On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:19 PM, lep wrote: > i caught part of an episode of "nature" called "superfish" ( i think > it was an older episode. it had some gorgeous photography (those > sailfish are especially lovely.)) > PBS FTW! REX ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:02:56 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Totally No Robyn (NR) On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Rex wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:36 PM, 2fs wrote: > >> I'll second the WTF... > > > I'll attempt an explanation. Ahem... > > Bitch is nuts. > > All in favor? > Well yes...but that doesn't explain why she isn't ranting about a wood-composite table, a flamethrower, and a 14-foot replica Donald Duck made entirely of bat guano. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:50:40 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: who's hot on keyboards? On Jul 21, 2009, at 9:54 AM, ross wrote: > So have keyboards fallen from fashion? As a lead or second lead instrument, maybe for now. There must be a standout keyboard player or two among the neo-prog bands, but I haven't listened to enough of them to say. A very cool keyboard dominated album is The First Seven Days by Jan Hammer. Richard Barbieri is integral to the Porcupine Tree sound, but you wouldn't think of him as a lead player. (I have not heard his solo album). Maybe Tin Drum by Japan would be of some worth. I've always thought it was too bad that Yes didn't keep Patrick Moraz on after Relayer. The Story of I might be worth a listen. And the first two Greenslade albums. The guy from The Brains. Larry Fast? I was listening to A Rainbow in Curved Air a while back and it struck me that Joe Hisaishi must be familiar with it. There are bits of the Nausicaa soundtrack that are very similar, including the keyboard sounds. - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #199 ********************************