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David Day wrote:
Is your mind in the gutter? 👿 Having difficulty controling your thoughts? 😆 Do you need a Bruce fix? 😆
Have you had your “daily dose” of “Stacked Mary Possum” today? 😆
Maybe, just maybe, you need some “Stacked Mary Possum”!
Check it out! Listen to it! Now, how do you feel? 😆Why, thank you, Dr. Day. I followed your prescription, and I feel better already! Ah eez healdt!
David Day wrote:Have you had your “daily dose” of “Stacked Mary Possum” today? 😆
Maybe, just maybe, you need some “Stacked Mary Possum”! Naah…. I changed my mind. I could really get myself in trouble with what I was thinking of posting.
Rich
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trent wrote:All the jokes aside, this is scary! 😮 😯
On the other hand, I can tell that Allisa, one of our “Global moderators”, loves her job analyzing “property records”! 😆 😆 😆
[/list:u:a19d7]Unfortunately, zooming in on this piece of land via Google Earth is blurry. I guess they haven’t gotten a decent satellite photo of the area yet. However, they do have an awesome image of the supposedly secret prototype Chinese submarine sitting at a pier near Dalian
If you have Google Earth (and you should – it’s that cool!), go to Latitude 38º49’4.17″N Longitude 121º29’39.55″E. Some secret, eh?Rich
Allisa wrote:well, that was my quick lookabout for the evening – things to do, places to go, people to see!
Have a good evening, gentlemen!Have a great evening. Glad you could visit with us. We really have to stop meeting like this… people might talk
Allisa wrote:yes, here we all are. What ever happened to the ‘chat room’ Si set up in the old forum?That certainly would be useful right about now
David Day wrote:Must be the brown acid gdwoman was talking about! 😆 😆 😆
Mon, you gots to remember… only eat the little pieces of paper with a picture of Donald Duck on them.
This must be prime time for stalkers… I’m casually looking throug the postings and trying to come up with smart-aleck comments, and I see that Alyssa and David are online at the same time. Hmm…. here comes the chill
Rich
David Day wrote:-
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How many Bruce shows have you been to?
I’ve been to 53!
There are several of you that have me beat! [/list:u:48661]Nope… not even close. I think my number is at an even dozen. It could go a bit higher if you were to include the accidental Hornsby sit-in back in the early 90s at a Bruce Cockburn show in Richmond, or the Leon Russell show at the same venue (The Flood Zone, RIP) a month or so later (when Bruce was producing Leon’s album). I think most of us spent our hard-earned $5 in the anticipation of Bruce showing up and playing, but he just hung out over on the side at a table and listened to Leon and chatted with a few moderately starstruck folks. Heck, he even stayed off the stage when Leon started playing Stranded On Easy Street and the crowd was chanting for him. In hindsight, it was very cool of him not to hog the spotlight of one of his heroes!
Rich
PS: Here’s an odd little trivia question that helps fill in yet another line in the “6 Degrees” game if you were trying to connect Bruce Hornsby with The Beatles…. What was the hit record that was recorded on Apple Records (owned by The Beatles) which featured a fairly prominent piano part and solo played by guest-artist Leon Russell? It was a studio recording, so you can’t throw in the Bangladesh concert recordings! For those of you who were regular listeners to top 40 radio in the early ’70s, you’ve probably heard this piano part thousands of times and might not have ever thought it was Leon Russell (of course, who knew it was him on The Monster Mash?). OK… start them guesses…
“every day my mind is all around you” – P. Ham
Allisa wrote:This same AP interview appeared in my Sunday newspaper on September 2nd. Different picture, though…
Yeah, this interview is making the rounds. It’s a pretty good read, tho. Only one thing bugged me about this – the picture. Mabe it’s a trick of the light or the angle of the pic, but it overemphasized his cheeks when he smiled and made him look kinda like…. well… see for yourself :
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Repenting Rich
“I don’t believe you. You’ve got the whole damned thing all wrong. He’s not the kind you have to wind-up on Sunday” – I. Anderson
daverich wrote:Crikey. I’m old.
Aren’t we all?
Mine goes back to 1979, when I was working as a front desk clerk at hotel in Williamsburg with a woman named Susan Watson, wife of Bruce’s then-guitarist, Steve Watson, who was all excited about whatever the latest thing the band did. That sort of excitement was contagious!
Rich
Miss Virginia Former wrote:Nuh-huh. Too graphic, gory, and embarassing! 😳
But….. we live for this stuff!
Common Rich
Jackie wrote:Thanks for the article,Victor! It seems Jack DeJohnette and Christian McBride both asked Bruce to make a jazz album with them-very interesting… Will this fact give the purists who might think Bruce is just “dabbling” in jazz food for thought?
Purists are rarely anywhere near as cool as the people performing whatever it is that those people are purists of. Jazz purists, baseball purists, bluegrass purists, etc. Same deal. “I love this, and I don’t ever want it to change. It must always be as it once was.” Right. A lovely recipe for stagation and death of whatever it is.
Rich
PS David, here’s your challenge du jour… try to come up with a socially acceptable ending for a sentence that starts with “Jazz purists can…..”
Victor wrote:The Ricky+Bruce album is nominated for an award from the IBMA — International Bluegrass Music Association. This is significant since these are the Bluegrass diehards who DON’T normally accept piano with their bluegrass. The category is “Recorded Event.” Ricky and his band are up for seven awards in all, mostly for their “Instrumentals” album.
Does anyone know when nominaitons for Grammy Awards go out. I’m pretty sure that the time period covered in each year’s awards is 10/1 to 9/31. I’m sure a lot of us have probably already had some sort of thought about how cool it’d be if Bruce got nominated in 2 different categories this year and none of them be his normal stomping grounds. Crosseth thine fingers.
Rich
PS This is the place where someone feels honor bound to tell me what an idiot I am for even thinking such things, or something along those lines. I think it’s a topical direction worth bouncing around, whether it’s likely or not.
gdwoman wrote:I really like Rainbows Caddilac and Tango King… but the problem is it might take some time, and creative breeding, to “manifest” these names. If I’m not mistaken, race horses names are chosen based on thier parentage. So I believe that the names must incorporate some aspect of at least one of the parents, if not both….
it might take a while to come up with some of the appropriate pedegree’s for the cooler names./list]
I don’t think that it all that tough to get most of these names registered by the Jockey Club. There have been horses named after songs even when the song name had nothing to do with the pedigree. Mull Of Kintyre had his name taken from a Wings song about the area where McCartney’s farm is. Homeward Bound’s name came straight from an S&G classic. Afternoon Delights, a top California horse recently, was named after the Starland Vocal Band song, even though owner Burt Bacharach didn’t write that one!
Some horses named after people, such as Giacomo (Ky. Derby winner the other year, named by one of the owners of A&M Records after Sting’s son’s nickname) and Dreaming Of Anna (last year’s Breeder’s Cup Juvenile Filly winner and the winner of the Virginia Oaks this year, named after the horse owner’s mother who had passed away recently).
The one I wanna know the background to was a horse that ran the New York/Florida circuit back in the early 90s, named Bodacious Tatas. Hunting that pedigree down on Google gets you some interesting results, especially the Images page!
Rich
“It’s the chance of a lifetime in a lifetime of chance, and it’s high time you joined in the dance.” – D. Fogelberg
David Day wrote:Must have been the brown acid. 😆
Heh… that’ll teach ya! Always keep some litmus paper and a tape of either Hawkwind, Caravan, or early Airplane in your First Aid kit! (Floyd is cool, too, but mostly rookie stuff – or so I hear).
Uncommon Rich
“Tell ’em a hookah smoking caterpillar has given you the call” – G. Slick
David Day wrote:-
Sorry about that! That was a “Freudian slip”! (Speaking of which, you owe me a dream interpretation!
I was trying to give you was a “southern slag” thing. In other words, “Come on Rich”! Instead, I gave you a Patois thing. In Patois, that would be “Common Mon!” (Come on man!)
Sorry about that! Please don’t take that as an insult! It was my attempt to get you fired up and respond. That it did!
I’m very proud to be Common Rich!!! I mean, there’s that killer Copland fanfare thing, and then the whole political side to it that kinda strikes a nice chord (Eb7#9, I think). I look forward to our exchanges in this forum. I’m impressed that you are willing to incite me and be incited by me in these brief forays across the line of comedy that they call “normal.” Speaking of which… wasn’t Patois the chick in Peanuts who wore the sandals and had the other girl who called he “sir”? This could be a clue in interpreting the dream. It could be that you have an overwhelming fixation with the art of the late Charles Schulz. Hmm… You may have given me very valuable guidance.
David Day wrote:-
I still need some more begging!
You heard the man… let’s give the man something for his honest, heartfelt and continuous (albeit somewhat on the lukewarm side) begging!!! Step on up to the challenge! The only request I have is that none of you guys out there say that you’d make the necessary wardrobe adjustments such that you do a “trouser elephant” and whistle Dixie as you walk by.
Commonly known as Rich
“Nothing could be finer than to have your ham an’ eggs in Carolina” – M. Gordon
Oh gosh… I’m not altogether sure that Bruce has done “Valley Road” anywhere near the way it was doe on the original album since he was touring with the Range back when that song was on the radio. Probably the closest to that version that I can remember might have been on the “Sensitive Ones” (touring with Bonnie Raitt, Shawn Colvin, Jackson Brown, and David Lindley) tour back in the late 90s. I’m sure someone in this group has some recordings from the early days. Good luck.
Rich
PS The other option is to step up to Si’s bar, drink the Kool-Aid, and become one with our legion who lives for nothing short of complete spontaneous rewriting of hits every time he takes the stage
David Day wrote:Thanks Larry for your interest, but I need some more begging than that! 😆 Rich, where are you? Should I send a pose’ out after you? 😆 Rick does some great begging! 😆 Common Rich! What would you have done?
Oh, the pressure……
I would’ve tried to be as nonchalant as possible, and walked like I was gonna go right by him. When I got to where he was, I would’ve acted like I had no idea who he was, tipped my head at him, and said “Yo, man… How ’bout them Mets?”
Common Rich
“Could I interest you in a pair of zircon-encrusted tweezers?” – F. Zappa
David Day wrote:Before I blabber on, I realized that some of you in the rest of the world may not know what is meant by “Camp Meeting”. I honestly don’t know if Bruce meant it to mean this, but “Camp Meeting” is sort of a “southern expression”. That is southern USA, not southern UK or southern whereever. It’s a “southern thing” like from Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia or Tennessee.(You cant’ trust anyone that wears orange! 😆 ) I’m a tellin ya! :lol:(Another southern cliche’!)
As a PK (preacher’s kid), “Camp Meeting” has it’s roots in southern black gospel. That may fit McBride and DeJohnette very well! The teminology really fits what Bruce is trying to accomplish here! “Camp Meeting” basic meaning means “revival”. Here is a definition that I found to help you understand better:
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1 : an act or instance of reviving : the state of being revived: as a : renewed attention to or interest in something b : a new presentation or publication of something old c (1) : a period of renewed religious interest (2) : an often highly emotional evangelistic meeting or series of meetingsCamp Meeting is meant to be a “renewed attention or interest in something” and a “new presentation of something old”! That it is!
If you keep that in mind, you will love it!
[/list:u:f9323]That’s what I thought it was referring to – the old timey camp meetings in the south during one of the many periods of “awakening”. I thought he put a slightly different twist on it, though. I thought he was referring to this CD being his “Come to Jesus” moment with the jazz world. While I can see where you’re coming from with the whole revival angle, I thought it was more a facing up to a part of him that’s been there but that he’s never felt up to tackling. Oh well, that’s my 2¼ cents worth!
Rich
“There’s no good kind of killing, just power taking life. It’s all good blood that’s spilling to make a bigger knife” – P. Ham
OK, first impressions time…
Admitting that I haven’t really paid much attention to jazz in over 20 years, and have so little familiarity with the non-originals that were done on this CD that I wouldn’t recognize them by name, I decided to take in the CD “as a whole.” In short, it meant that the bulk of my listening was done in the car going to and from work, or at work while occupying myself with the pressing needs of the school district that helps me to pay my bills.
By the way, for those of you who think summertime is “easy livin'” for school district employees, especially us IS geeks, you must only be thinking of teachers. The rest of us have to jam into 3 months about a year’s worth of work because the teachers just expect it’ll all be there and waiting for them when they get back a few weeks before school starts. OK, there’s my rant-du-jour!
Meanwhile, back at the ranch… I was struck with how familiar it all felt and sounded, and yet how different it was. There’s no mistaking that it is Bruce Hornsby playing the piano. Even when shifting genres, he manages to have a signature sound that is all his own. I’m sure that Bruce could probably play a note-perfect Rhapsody In Blue with a full orchestra, or an album of J. S. Bach etudes, and we’d still be able to instantly identify it as him. I think that’s part of what the fascination with his music is – he doesn’t just chunk out versions of tunes and go through the motions. He makes them his own and this makes it a much fresher, more personal listening experience. He did with Ornette Coleman and the others what he has done in the past with the music of The Grafteful Dead, Elton John, and even Rick James.
I won’t go song-by-song on this, because I thought it was wiser to concentrate on traffic than to read the disc jacket to see what song it was.
I did, however, hear some very familiar licks and thought, “wow, that’s pretty cool the way he slipped that in.” But then, we who have discovered the treat that is a live Bruce concert have been exposed to his musical thinking for decades, and it’s not all that surprising.My general impresison was that it was a very tight album by a trio of musicians who were very comfortable with each other and quite confident in their own respective powers. You could hear the communicative interaction all over the place, and it sounded like the generally had a gas jamming with each other. It had a lot of the feel that I remember from my college days at the clubs in Richmond that featured a lot of “dark basement jazz” playing, except that it had a much stronger spark and these guys are sooooo much better than the Richmond crowd. Of course, I was the odd duck back then, being the rock and roll guy who hung out with the wanna-be jazzers, so who knows what I was really listening to at that time in my life. It was all kinda new to me then.
I’m sure I’ll come up with single-track impressions later, probably as soon as I listen to this in an environment where I can tune the world out, throw on the headphones, and read the liner notes. The one thing about what liner notes I saw was this reference to some web site (bruuuce.com, I believe) and the subsequent thanking of some mysterious figure named Si Twining. Who is this man? Is he some newfangled jazz impressario who seeks to use his superpowers for good (and not evil, as is the comic-book hero credo) to promote this music and bring it out of the dark, dirty basements and bring on the dawn of a new day with this music as its’ centerpiece? I guess we’ll have to wait and see how this plays out. Who knows? He might be the guy in the shadows at those depraved rock concerts who selects which girls get with the band, which get with the sound crew, and which end up being ritually defiled by the roadies or the bus driver.
Rich
PS I read a lot of the reviews that Dana posted links to (thanks!). Wow… those jazz folks are pretty snobby about their niche! Well, in the truest rock and roll spirit, they can stuff it!
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David Day wrote:Methinx thou dost oweth us a dream interpretation now! 😆Fair enough. Methinx meshouldst thinkethest upon this one. Interpretation shallst be forthcoming over the weekend.
Which angle should I use? A connection to the innocence and simplicity of childhood themes, yet another advancement in the human condition by a creative mind, latent Cold War-era fears of nuclear warfare, idiopathic schizophrenia, bad tuna, mushroom flashback, or something else? The whole pallette seems available at this time. 😆
Rich
It’s way to early for a congo, so keep a rockin that piano – C. Berry
Jackie wrote:The only two I can think of are Bruce’s “Lost In The Snow” and The Buoys “Timothy”Ooh, “Timothy”! Yeah, that one has a high-level freak factor to it!
“Lost In The Snow” is another excellent choice. Bruce has a thing about dark lyrics, but he usually fits them into equally dark background music. “The Chill” is freaky, but it’s not really in disguise as anything other than a really cool song about feeling freaked out about things.
There are some very dark songs that have been recorded in the rock era, but most of them are just dark all around. My favorite dark songs that are not in disguise would be Suicide’s “Frankie Teardrop,” Pere Ubu’s “30 Seconds Over Tokyo,” Ultravox’s “Mister X,” and “The End” by the Doors.
If you want a charge out of a disguised tune, though, you have to check out “Marie Provost” by Nick Lowe! Why isn’t HE in the RRHOF yet? He’s written and produced the better part of the 80s post-punk (non-syntho-pop) soundtrack.
Rich
David Day wrote:To bring in Atlanta, my hometown, and running, one of my passions, took a lot of thought!… and here I thought you were going to like the porn part 😆
David Day wrote:I somehow made it downstairs and turned on the TV and my surrond sound system. The TV came on and before my eyes and ears was a Peanuts Cartoon special. Before I knew it, a Schroeder scene came on. But, it was not Schroeder playing piano, it was Bruce!Kinda like this?
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– Rich
“Your mind’s guaranteed. It’s all you’ll ever need. So, what do you want with me?”-M.Balin/J.Kaukonen
Thanks for posting the interesting article, Si. The discussion on that site of the story is interesting, too. Some of those folks brought up plenty of other fine examples of the seemingly happy mainstream pop tune (or what suffices for it these days) with lyrics that are a bit on the demented or scary or depressing side.
I chimed in to mention my favorite song of this genre, Nick Lowe’s “Mary Provost.” It sounds so nice and happy and boppy, and then you hear the words in the chorus, “She was a winner… who became the doggy’s dinner. She never meant that much to me.” Great stuff.
I also think the unquestioned masters of this are the Bee Gees. Before their SNF disco makeover, they wrote and recorded some of the darkest lyrics masquerading as a pop song ever. “I’ve Got To Get A Message To You” might sound like a desperate, pleading love song, but the poor guy’s on his way to get hooked up to “old sparky” for that little jolt that refreshes. Although the first half of the song is pretty maudlin, the second half of “Lonely Days” almost makes being dumped sound cool. And there’s the masterful way that they gave a sweet, lovely melody to a tale of miners being trapped and dying in “New York Mining Disaster.”
Someone else mentioed a Beatles classic, “Run For Your Life.” What a nice way to end an album with a lasting sentiment that will stick in the minds of the listener… “you better run for your life if you can, little girl. hide your head in the sand, little girl. catch you with another man, that’s the end, little girl.” No more poignant love song hath ever been penned.
Anyone else in the forum got any favorites that fit the category of the dark tale disguised by a catchy pop melody/arrangement?
Rich
“I know you’ve deceived me. Now, here’s a surprise. I know that you have ‘cuz there’s magic in my eyes.” – P. Townshend
If you have Google Earth (and you should – it’s that cool!), go to Latitude 38º49’4.17″N Longitude 121º29’39.55″E. Some secret, eh?