Random Music Photos

[Ojai Sam]

Those are the regular 18 inchers, as we used to call 'em.

ETA: Oddly, there's no trace of them any more.

ETA(A): ...as the Orcas started wearing them as hats.

Actually they were 16 inch radio transcription discs.



Here’s a shot of me handling one of them from about the same time period.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

 

[Unsomnambulist]

 

[axolotl]

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I've seen something similar with Robert Smith.

 

[Nickyboy]

I've seen something similar with Robert Smith.

"Why can't I get overly applied mascara like this guy?"
"Hey"

 

[axolotl]

"Why can't I get overly applied mascara like this guy?"
"Hey"

Having learned from the best, the VP Elect is much more discreet in his application.

 

[Ojai Sam]

 

[Nickyboy]

^ That seems like one of those cards based on alligators making peeping noises to each other and the locals quaintly refer to it as the "alligator chorus" so some artist took it five steps further. Except everyone knows alligators can't keep time for shit.

 

[Ojai Sam]

^ That seems like one of those cards based on alligators making peeping noises to each other and the locals quaintly refer to it as the "alligator chorus" so some artist took it five steps further. Except everyone knows alligators can't keep time for shit.

Yeah, it’s a croc.

 

[axolotl]

^ That seems like one of those cards based on alligators making peeping noises to each other and the locals quaintly refer to it as the "alligator chorus" so some artist took it five steps further. Except everyone knows alligators can't keep time for shit.

'kay, man. I think it's outstanding. We'll run it bayou first.

 

[Nickyboy]

'kay, man. I think it's outstanding. We'll run it bayou first.

Parish the thought!

 

[Ojai Sam]

 

[Unsomnambulist]

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MacArthur Park?

 

[Nickyboy]

MacArthur Park?

The poster doesn't ask where it was found.

 

[axolotl]

The poster doesn't ask where it was found.

Has anybody asked?

Jimmy Webb: The Meaning of MacArthur Park

It's Not Melting in the Dark. From a 1993 Conversation

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WR: I WAS FASCINATED BY THE IMAGERY, DARING FOR A POP SONG AT THE TIME.

Webb: I would take issue with that. I don't think the imagery is any more daring...I know you're itching to ask me, 'what the cake out in the rain means.' I know you are.

WR: I DON'T LIKE TO GET THAT LITERAL. (faked the hand-off, but Webb stopped me at the line of scrimmage)

Jimmy Webb: I know you are. Maybe I'm gonna conduct the interview, ask the questions. Who are the Nights in White Satin'? What is 'A Whiter Shade of Pale'? What is a "chrome-horse diplomat"? You know it was an era of surreal imagery. Believe me, I have come to regret that song, I have paid my dues! It was really the fashion of the time. What is "the cake out in the rain"? I don't know. It seems on a certain level to be very clear to me, even after all these years, what I was trying to say. What I was saying was, something beautiful, something precious, had been left untended and lost, and could never be regained. I don't understand why that's a mystery.

 

[axolotl]

"Robert Fripp’s contributions to the David Bowie albums ['Heroes' and 'Scary Monsters'] are of a singular nature. He is a unique musician who doesn’t do ‘sessions’ in the normal sense: when people work with him it is not only for his prodigious gifts as a player, but even more for his unusually fruitful and original imagination. (… ) Regarding 'Heroes': Robert arrived one evening from New York and we played him one unfinished song after another. There were no chord sheets and indeed no indications of song-structure at all. He reacted to each song with little or no direction from anybody else in the studio – and in each case discovered parts and moods that really were not implicit in the music. David, Tony [Visconti] and myself watched in awe – I think we were all dazzled. Nobody else would have come up with what he brought to the project. The title song of the Heroes album is a case in point: the guitar motif that underlies the whole song ( – and which is integral enough to its identity to be quoted in every other version of it I’ve heard) was entirely Robert’s invention. (…)" (Brian Eno)

~ From King crimson (Facebook page)

 

[Nickyboy]

The video on Youtube of Tony Visconti breaking down the different tracks of "Heroes" really puts a spotlight on Fripp's contributions to that song.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

 

[Nickyboy]

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Pavlov's frothing Zappas.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Pavlov's frothing Zappas.

That's William S. Burroughs.