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Post by jk on May 4, 2022 10:56:39 GMT
More a rediscovery in fact. "Gary Numan's Porsche" is an absolute gem tucked away on the flip of "The Loyaliser", which gave Irish band The Fatima Mansions a minor UK hit in 1994: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fatima_Mansions
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on May 6, 2022 0:24:56 GMT
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Post by carllove on May 7, 2022 18:13:55 GMT
I’ve never heard this before. Dennis’ voice is so beautiful here.
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Post by B.E. on May 8, 2022 13:49:52 GMT
I’ve never heard this before. Dennis’ voice is so beautiful here. That was part of a sketchy copyright extension release on bandcamp that was discovered and quickly pulled in late January. I expect it to be released on the CATP/Holland box set.
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Post by carllove on May 8, 2022 14:32:34 GMT
I’ve never heard this before. Dennis’ voice is so beautiful here. That was part of a sketchy copyright extension release on bandcamp that was discovered and quickly pulled in late January. I expect it to be released on the CATP/Holland box set. More reason to get excited about the CATP/Holland box set! Thanks for the info B.E.!
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Post by jk on May 11, 2022 9:41:07 GMT
Not exactly random, but almost. I discovered "Battleflag" by a circuitous route that took me from the remixes of Com Truise to the Belgian outfit Arsenal to their guest singer Shawn Smith to his band Pigeonhed and lastly to the stunning remix Lo Fidelity Allstars made of the Pigeonhed song "Battle Flag":
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 2, 2022 22:01:01 GMT
I had this recommended on YouTube and am likely to give it a watch soon. But thought some ( jk?) might be interested in this, a film called Zappa U, about the University of Hawaii Hilo jazz orchestra's annual concerts of Frank Zappa material. The film is years old, so if it's been referenced before and I missed or forgot it, apologies.
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Post by jk on Jul 3, 2022 10:24:53 GMT
I had this recommended on YouTube and am likely to give it a watch soon. But thought some ( jk ?) might be interested in this, a film called Zappa U, about the University of Hawaii Hilo jazz orchestra's annual concerts of Frank Zappa material. The film is years old, so if it's been referenced before and I missed or forgot it, apologies.
I'll try to get round to this, Cap'n -- my span of attention is chronically short these days.
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Post by jk on Jul 3, 2022 14:27:21 GMT
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Post by jk on Aug 13, 2022 12:37:01 GMT
Well this gorgeous random YouTube find is four years old, lifted from my hobby forum that was:
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Post by jk on Aug 16, 2022 19:54:28 GMT
Not exactly random -- it was my guitarist brother who pointed me at Elman Namazoğlu, the pride of Azerbaijan, seen here playing his Soviet-era Czech-made Jolana Special guitar. The setting is pretty surreal -- it's as if he just checked in from another planet!
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Post by Kapitan on Aug 16, 2022 20:04:27 GMT
What a strange tone he gets, almost seeming like a fretless instrument at times and with insane vibrato at other times. I'd also love to know what each knob, switch, and dial on that guitar does.
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Post by carllove on Aug 19, 2022 14:04:20 GMT
Courtesy of the Babylon Bee! Great beach Boys Parody!
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Post by Kapitan on Aug 19, 2022 17:51:39 GMT
Not so much a random YouTube discovery as a chance Wiki discovery that led me to YouTube: while reading about and listening to the Eagles' first post-Long Run albums, I learned that Timothy B. Schmidt had in 1978 sung background vocals on this song ... along with an uncredited Freddie Mercury! I had no idea. (JD Souther also sang backgrounds, and the great Ernie Watts played the sax, though frankly I could do without that.)
Frankly, I'd never even heard of Andrew Gold. But this song was apparently a pretty big hit across Europe and reached #67 in America. It's a pleasant bit of easy listening, and I can understand why Mercury might have liked it.
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Post by jk on Aug 21, 2022 10:48:36 GMT
I already knew of Robert Graettinger's work with Stan Kenton, but not his pre-compositional charts. From his City of Glass (1951), this is the opening movement, "Entrance Into The City": According to uploader Terry Vosbein, "Bob Graettinger was the most experimental composer on Stan Kenton's arranging staff. His multi-colored charts and graphs are legendary. Here are a very small percentage of the many hundreds of two sided pages he left behind." This stuff would not be amiss in a book on Outsider Art. It almost beggars belief that he or anybody else could read this and translate it into music! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graettinger
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