54 posts tagged “music”
Okay, this is a good one. I mean, I think they're all good. But this one...this is a good one.
Yes, it's time for another track from Chaos Town, the 1998 CD by my old band The Practical Man. (This track and more are available as free, no-bullshit downloads at Slaw Wagon Records.)
Inspired by The Minds of Billy Milligan by Daniel Keyes, "Always Making Up for Lost Time" tells the story of Billy Milligan, a real guy with multiple personality disorder.
Some tasty guitar work on this one, if I do say so myself.
I think if you graphed my overall Vox activity by time of day, there'd be this total spike around 10:30 PM.
Sheesh. So predictable.
This calls for some 80s time travel! (File this under "Holy crap--I haven't seen that in at least 20 years!")
Show us your guitar.
Submitted by Sean J. O'Rourke.
I can't believe I'm not putting my Vox here--so appropriate, especially with that subject line--but it's late and I grabbed what was closest. Maybe later.
Early 90s American Stratocaster. Hum-cancelling Duncan bridge pickup, stock Fender Lace Sensor, Jackson neck pickup, and Roland GK-2 synth pickup. Whammy that I seldom use, with roller nut. Pretty blue metallic finish that is lost in this half-assed picture. I also have a black one.
If you had asked me to choose our one most likely "radio hit" out of all the originals we played, this would've been it.
(This track and more from Chaos Town, the 1998 CD by my old band The Practical Man, can be had for free at Slaw Wagon Records. The CD is also available for an embarrassingly low price.)
Last year Robert Fripp indicated that a frightening new King Crimson lineup is afoot, featuring veterans Fripp, Belew, Levin, and Mastellotto--and newcomer Gavin Harrison, drummer for Porcupine Tree. Batten the hatches!
Some marvelous personal photos and observations from Mr. Fripp during the band's early days of rehearsal, just a few weeks ago, are over here. (Read subsequent days for more.)
Tour dates are so far given for Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York. Well, if I have to drive that far, so be it, but I'd rather they landed closer to Cincinnati. After all, Mr. Belew grew up around these parts; isn't that reason enough for them to stop here? No? Oh.
And now on to "Side 2" (as it were) of Chaos Town, the 1998 CD by my old band The Practical Man.
This song evolved from a jam with old pal Rick. What you have here is the third version, or perhaps the fourth, depending on which of my fuzzy memories is less misleading.
We were playing this song at the now-defunct Ivory's when someone in the audience shouted to a friend, "THESE GUYS ARE COOL!" The song ended just as he said it, so we all heard it. I think that was pretty much the high point of our performing days. It certainly beat the time in Oxford when a guy came downstairs from his apartment and wanted us to turn down. (Um...you don't like loud music and you live above a fucking bar? Dumbass.)
For the sounds at the beginning, early one morning I stuck a couple of mics out the side door of the little house in Valleydale where we recorded and mixed the CD. (Give yourself a gold star if you know where Valleydale is without looking it up. Give yourself eight gold stars if you know what municipality it's in.)
As always, easy, free, no-bullshit downloads are available at our web site.
A post, now, in memory of my brother Ross, who died suddenly at the age of 35 on March 4, 2001.
Ross was a programmer, a musician, a biker, and a great brother. He would have been a terrific uncle.
I regret not having a song of my own to put here, but I haven't had much in the way of songs since then. So I offer instead a beautiful piece of 70s fusion, a long-time favorite of mine that I nonetheless haven't heard this millenium. (Sometimes you put something down and are afraid to pick it up again.) The music is perfect; I didn't pick it out just because of the title. Fair warning: this is a long one.
This year I've reinstated Ross's web site, which has been mostly absent since the day that March when I turned off the Linux box it ran on. I like the list of cars. Also the sounds. Especially that one sound. (Eww!) That was my brother for you.
If you've been severely depressed about your lack of direction in life, you might want to skip this one. Or at least not dwell on the lyrics.
Dating back to pre-Practical-Man days, this Mark-penned song debuted on our cassette The Book of 1,000 Songs under the band name Mohammed Chang.* What you have here is the full-band re-recorded version from our 1998 full-length CD Chaos Town. Free song downloads are here.
"Nobody else gives a damn if you make it or not before you're gone."** You can take that to the bank.***
*There's an old joke that, since Mohammed is the world's most common given name and Chang is the most common family name, Mohammed Chang must be the most common full name.
**There should probably be a line-break slash in there somewhere. I don't care. Nyah.
***Actually, the bank metaphor is totally inappropriate, seeing as this is indie music and all the bank-related flow was outward, not toward.
Spotted here, an iTunes meme. Or an MP3 meme, if you're not using iTunes. (I won't call it an MP3eme, because someone cleverer than me already used that.) I added a couple of lines. Here we go.
How many songs total: 2,525
How many hours or days of music: 7.3 days
Most recently played: Iverson Minter, "Sittin Here Wonderin"
Longest since played: Sheryl Crow, "Strong Enough"
Most played: The Bravery, "Time Won't Let Me Go"
Most recently added: Mahavishnu Orchestra, "Dream"
Longest since added: Leo Kottke, "The Banks of Marble"
Sort by song title:
First Song: Pearl Jam, "●"
Last Song: The Connells, "'74-'75"
Sort by time:
Shortest Song: "Dante's Lament" (Dialogue from the Clerks Soundtrack) (0:04)
Longest Song: Brian Eno, Thursday Afternoon (1:00:52)*
Sort by album:
First album: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Abattoir Blues
Last album: Sigur Rós, ( )
First song that comes up on Shuffle: Queen, "Fight From The Inside"
Search the following and state how many songs come up:
Death - 6
Life - 74
Love - 84
Hate - 5
You - 267
Sex - 6
*The longest track in my iTunes (1:44:59) is actually part of a concert bootleg, but since it's a raw recording containing a lot of unindexed songs, I decided not to count it.
How did you celebrate Valentine's Day?
Submitted by Stephen.
I went to see The Bravery by myself. We aren't too sentimental about Valentine's Day around here.
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