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loud-fans-digest         Monday, June 25 2007         Volume 07 : Number 150



                               Today's Subjects:
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  [loud-fans] Free to a good home (and a wardrobe request)  [zoom@muppetlabs]
  Re: [loud-fans] music industry cynicism  [Phil Fleming <spin_jen@yahoo.com]
  Re: [loud-fans] Free to a good home (and a wardrobe request)  [Scout82667@]
  Re: [loud-fans] music industry cynicism  [Jenny Grover <sleeveless@zoomint]

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Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:07:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: zoom@muppetlabs.com
Subject: [loud-fans] Free to a good home (and a wardrobe request)

I have one burned-up copy of Charlotte Gainsbourg's 5:55 available.  It
doesn't contain the two bonus tracks from the American release, and
probably doesn't contain the videos added to that release, but you'll get
the initial experience; and hopefully upgrade to a purchased copy.  Let me
know if you'd like it, first come first served.  Offlist is fine.

On an odder note, does anyone have a white laboratory jacket they can send
me, for loan, purchase, or donation?  I'm supposed to make a movie in
about a month, and the director wants me in such a jacket.  Again, offlist
is fine.

If you see a black man wearing the Stars and Bars on his t-shirt, should
you say something?

Andy


"1. Who or what is a truck driver's gear change?
Many writers and arrangers feel that when their song is in risk of getting
a bit tired, it can be given a fresh lease of life by shifting the whole
song up a key, usually in between choruses, towards the beginning of a
"repeat-till-fade" section. You may have heard this technique informally
referred to as 'modulation', but the correct ethnomusicological term for
the phenomenon is the truck driver's gear change. This reflects the
utterly predictable and laboured nature of the transition, evoking a tired
and over-worked trucker ramming the gearstick into the new position with
his  or, to be fair, her  fist.

Contrary to what many people seem to think, the truck driver's gear change
is in no way inventive, interesting or acceptable: it is in fact an
utterly appalling and unimaginative admission that you've run out of
inspiration and the song should have ended one minute ago; but you're
under pressure to make something which can be stretched out to the length
of a single. The concept of the truck driver's gear change seems to
transcend all musical styles, from Perry Como to The Misfits, although my
investigations reveal that it's most prevalent in mainstream pop, and,
let's face it, it's unlikely to feature in hip-hop. But who's to say.

This may perhaps all sound a little abstract. So for recommended
initiation into the concept of the truck driver's gear change, I suggest
you check out Crazy Crazy Nights by Kiss, which is a perfect example of
the, ahem, oeuvre. Many experts agree that the single greatest gear change
of all time is Michael Jackson's Man In The Mirror, though you should be
aware that it may make you physically sick. In a subtler vein, gear
changes like Gabrielle's Sunshine are for the experienced listener only.

For a more theoretical look at the phenomenon, please check out the
excellent article 'A muso's introduction', which author Dominic Pedler has
kindly contributed to the site."

- --from the FAQ at http://www.gearchange.org/

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Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:23:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Phil Fleming <spin_jen@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [loud-fans] music industry cynicism

I was just listening to this song today... 
in this context,

"I picture you
A petulant shrew
With a little drug problem"

I wonder who they were talking about when they wrote
those line.

- --- Amy Lewis <editrix@mwmw.com> wrote:

> > Which of course reminds me of Melissa Ferrick's
> terrific "Girls with
> > Guitars,"  which is about the marketing of both
> women's music.
> 
> Poundcake's "Statue of Liberty" is another reaction
> to the Women in Rock hype 
> in the '90s.
> 



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Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:46:47 EDT
From: Scout82667@aol.com
Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Free to a good home (and a wardrobe request)

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Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:45:14 -0400
From: Jenny Grover <sleeveless@zoominternet.net>
Subject: Re: [loud-fans] music industry cynicism

zoom@muppetlabs.com wrote:
> Well my buddy Jim Bass he's a-workin' pumpin gas,
> And he makes two fifty for an hour.
>   

I always thought he was saying, "And he makes $2.54 an hour."  LOL

Jen

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