From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V4 #147 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Monday, May 31 2004 Volume 04 : Number 147 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] A visit to the Dr. (Dr. Rhythm, that is...) [Gil Ray ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 20:32:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Gil Ray Subject: [loud-fans] A visit to the Dr. (Dr. Rhythm, that is...) On to the next song.....(god, these are boring. It's a nice hot day, so a cocktail is in order, I think! MMMmmmmm. going with a vodka on the rocks with a slice of lemon...glug glug glug) Ok, this next number is a rocker that I sucked inspiration from Mountain and West,Bruce and Lang. I even decided to go with a dang cowbell in the riff-y part! You youngsters don't have a clue about what I'm talking about here.. Just something us oldsters can relate to? Hell no...everybody knows Mississippi Queen! It's funny that a year ago, I spoke to Mitch Easter about the stuff I've been listening too, and it was great to hear that he's been channeling some of the same riff heavy rock that I've been into. Probably figures tho, we're about the same age, did the same rock things, born in the same region....His hair is hanging in there a little bit better than mine, though. Anyway, no title for this one yet. That comes very last. It's always a struggle. So are the lyrics. I'm glad I am sticking with the plan for these tunes to be loosely sci-fi themed. That is a forgivable, built in license for bad lyric writing. I hope. It took me 2 nights, probably 3 or 4 hours with my trusted Dr. Rhythm drum machine to finish the drum tracks for this one. I got pretty fancy with a bridge in 7/4 and a pretty radical tempo change at the very end. It's about 130 measures long, with about 20 different drum patterns stuck in there. The cool thing is the Dr. don't drag. Next step will be to record the drum track (just 1 track-the hell with stereo drums! I think there are 2 songs that will have stereo drums. It does sound better, but I like all the tracks for the other stuff.). Out for now. Gil __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 01:48:44 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: [loud-fans] Re: soccer moms On Sun, 30 May 2004 22:58:20 -0400 (EDT), "Jill Brand" said: > Natalie wrote (probably not trying to offend anyone on this list): > > "Seeing the soccer mom next to us FREAKING > OUT to "It's the End of the World" was also rather entertaining...." > > There are leftists and centrists and somewhat rightists, there are > straight people and gay people, there are metal fans and those with more > Nick Drake sensibilities on this list. But there are also soccer moms. > Or there is at least one. Me. My daughter was in a tournament this > weekend and I went to four games. I also saw REM open for the English > Beat somewhere around 1983. etc. But surely you recognize that the phrase "soccer mom" no longer merely means "mom whose kids play soccer," right? I am assuming your entire identity isn't tied up with shuttling your kids hither & yon in your minivan, etc. - i.e., the fact that you're singing "UCPT" en route *means* you're not what is meant by the phrase "soccer mom." Language is cruel: phrases go on ahead and mean things unliterally, and inevitably end up stereotyping (because if it didn't, we'd need a new word for every object, action, thought, etc.). - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: Solipsism is its own reward :: :: --Crow T. Robot ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V4 #147 *******************************