From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V7 #261 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Sunday, September 5 2004 Volume 07 : Number 261 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [idealcopy] Why the beat is in my Feat (was Wire On The Box Is Here) [Ari ] [idealcopy] try this instead...... [Ari ] Re: [idealcopy] Why the beat is in my Feat (was Wire On The Box Is Here) [Derek White Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Why the beat is in my Feat (was Wire On The Box Is Here) - -- > > These days Gillian Welch is about the only country I > need - both haunting > and spiritual. Who'd have thought I've grown to like > her music even better > than Johnny Cash's! Bart If you really want 'country' with 'attitude' you should try Jim White,right Alistair? Ari __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 03:39:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Ari Subject: [idealcopy] O.T/just some fun...... www.http://tinyurl.com/6hnac you'll have to use internet explorer (won't load in Mozilla) keep watching,it doesn't 'end' when you think it has.Ari __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 04:04:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Ari Subject: [idealcopy] try this instead...... .and scroll down to 'J.Leno does Bush'.Ari http://www.msn.com/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 06:11:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Derek White Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Why the beat is in my Feat (was Wire On The Box Is Here) Andrew Walkingshaw wrote: On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 06:39:27AM -0700, Derek White wrote: > Fair enough. ;-)..... To be honest, quite *why* I like L. Feat so > much is a bit of a mystery and indeed surprise to me, too I've never got it, but I reckon the appeal (presumably there is some :) ) of ZZ Top and AC/DC is much the same kind of thing. Not really:-The appeal of THESE two particular outfits has *always* mystified me. Their 'rendition' of the 'blooze', in the case of AC/DC is pastiche only, rendered mediocrely. Songs for mysogynististic denim-clad lager monsters, played badly IMHO. None of the 'swing' here, just endless headsdown mindless riffing. ZZ Top are , or rather, were, a bit more 'authentic', but in Mr Gibbons they have surely one of the most cack-handed , hamfisted guitarists ever to trot out a unison string-bend. Deeply unnappealing to me. If I stumbled over my frets as badly as that, I'd wear a bloody big beard, too. ** ( I told y'all my liking of the 'Feat was a one-off....;-) except perhaps for Jeff. Airplane offshoot 'Hot Tuna' & their 'Burgers' album.) **Trivial fact: the only one of ZZT *without* a beard is called Frank Beard.....! According to somebody I read an interveiw with recently, HE was described as "the single most unpleasant character I've met in the music business, anywhere, anytime......" .Forget who it was that said it, though.......some producer, methinks. New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 06:52:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Derek White Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Why the beat is in my Feat (was Wire On The Box Is Here) Keith Astbury wrote: Actually, I was interested in hearing them, because I hadn't heard them in a long time, and although not my cup of tea (apart from Long Distance Love) I wondered what I'd think of them now. Dunno what the track was but...it was rubbish basically. Whilst on a country-ish sort of thread, ..... No, no, NO!! Alright, there IS a big country strain in the LF brew, but there's New Orleans boogie, funk, jazz and allsorts of other stuff in there, too.......Aw, hell, I'm just not going to win this one. ! ;-) Mark, I dunno *which* album you've been listening to, but "all noodling away at their own unrelated riffs" I'm not sure about at all. I can only conclude it's from the 75-onwards stuff, where the Jazz leanings of Bill Payne the keyboard player *did* tend to overwhelm to some degree. Earlier stuff had restraint, and leaving 'gaps' as one of it's hallmarks. However, the description of "lumpy beats like a club-footed dancer" *did* make me smile. :-) As I said, It's one of the elements I like. It suits *my* dancing style to a T.......:-) OK, I give in. Little Feat's appeal will remain a mystery to you, in pretty much the same way that The Fall remain one of life's utterly inexplicable phenomena to me. ......;-) Music, eh? The glory of it is that what grabs one person, just completely misses the spot elsewhere. The reasons why this happens would make a *very* interesting research project, I suspect. Before we put away the stetsons, did anyone in range of the Beeb see that Emmylou Harris Docu. on Beeb 2 last night? Interesting for the stuff about Gram Parsons, if nothing else.......... Yee-haw....... np "Dixie Chicken" ;- Little Feat.(! ;-) ) Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 07:01:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Derek White Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Why the beat is in my Feat (was Wire On The Box Is Here) Tim wrote: > I've said it before, but I wonder what Jim would make of producing Wire.... Would be fascinating but I don't think Wire know enough notes and chords to satisfy Jimbo. //// I've never been sure that it's the case that they "don't know the notes and chords", rather than that in the interests of the elegant, streamlined economy of their style, they just don't or rather WON'T use them . I've oft had suspicions that Our Swimmers actually are more musically adept than they display in their deconstructed approach. Or does anyone know for sure that isn't the case? dw New and Improved Yahoo! 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