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si_twining wrote:If you see anyone’s first post as something competely irrelevant or even surreal, please don’t respond.
That explains the lack of reaction to the “trouser elephant” imagery when responding to David’s skiing dream sequence.
Congrats on the new job, Si.
(breaking into crooning a Christmas holiday classic melody)
… although it’s been said… many times… many waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyysssssss
(breaking out of crooning mode),
I shall hoist a congratulatory pint in your honor, my friend.Rich
There’s a pretty little thing waiting for The King down in The Jungle Room. – M CohnMVF wrote:David, you’re rambling. Just be quiet, and I’ll get your next supply of meds in the mail ASAP.
What impresses me the most about this is that she dinged DAVE for rambling and needeing meds, even after I posted that rather bizarre and inane reply. {{{MVF}}} you rock!
Rich
…and then, just when you thought you were getting closer to learning all that you sought to know, some clown (OK, not ACTUALLY a clown per se, but rather a youngish-looking man who was wearing old and faded blue jeans and a t-shirt with the front cover of the Beatles “Let It Be” album on it) comes walking up on that balcony with his pockets pulled inside out, making what can only be described for polite company as… a “trouser elephant”… and uttering the timeless phrase known to some, although not all, but certainly know to some who have heard it before, whether in a dream or in a real-life scenario that is played out countless times in the memories and/or lives of individuals heretofore not mentioned (and who shall remain nameless because, well, I don’t really know their names – so there ;P).. “how ’bout them Mets?”. Just then, what appeared to be a large, hand-drawn caption block appears in the upper left-hand corner of the dreamscape, and the text appeared as a voice (which some would consider to be some sort of a god, or perhaps a somewhat lesser deity, know to many in certain professions as “the narrator”), saying “Meanwhile, back at the ranch…”. Then the scene changed, and a cartoon drawing that appeared to be a filler scene from an old episode of “The Big Valley” appeared, and all was lost. A female character in that panel had a speech bubble that said only this: “the white zone is for loading and unloading only”
Remember, he also has a lot of other irons in the fire, such as the stage production of “SCK BSTRD”. So, it’s not like he’s just becoming a recluse and sleeping for the rest of the year.
Rich
about a year ago, molo a trois wrote:My dad got me a gag gift/CD, The Bangles “Different Light”. They were my favorite band at the time it came out (I was and I totally had a crush on Susanna Hoffs and Vicki Peterson. I haven’t opened it yet and haven’t decided if I will or if I will take it back and exchange it. I’m guessing the latter. I’m glad this thread got bumped, I missed it the first time around, and now after reading it I have quite a few options for the next time I hit the record store. Yes, I actually still go to the record store. I’m old school like that!I loved that Bangles album when it came out. There are some good tunes on there, although they probably sound a tad dated by now. The title track was always one of my favorites – nice catchy hook!
Rich
“I wanna make a movie. I wanna put you on the silver screen and sit in a darkened room and look at you from a distance.“I wouldn’t worry about the banning stick, folks. If I didn’t get the banning stick on a different thread for suggesting creating a “trouser elephant” while saying “How ’bout them Mets?”, nobody will get the stick! Let the games begin! Or continue. Just watch out when the elephants march through.
Rich
Mary wrote:You’re still upside-down, sweetheart. Nobody else is. maybe I’m the one that needs new glasses. you never were upside-before so we’ll have to see if people are seeing you the same way I am. Hey, isn’t that a song?? Jackie?? Monica?? MVF?? Let me know if it’s me that’s nuts.I found the problem, and uploaded a new picture.
RichJackie wrote:This topic has been neglected for far too long… So before another celebration passes us by,I’d like to ask:Did anyone get any new music over the Christmas holidays (or after)? What did you get?
I got the 4-disc live Tom Petty career retrospective CD set, and the 2-disc Beatles “Past Masters” (with all of the tracks that were singles that never got onto albums).
Rich
Mary wrote:Rich, one quick question: why are you upside-down?? 😆 I don’t think you used to be. Maybe that’s why you’re having problems reading articles.It looks fine to me. Try checking your monitor settings or update your video card driver. After you do that, if it still looks like it’s upside down, I’ll upload a picture that isn’t upside down to begin with
Rich
Thanks for the post, Bryan. I guess I should subscribe to the Daily Press again, so I don’t miss any other important world events. I let mine lapse when I discovered that my work schedule and such left almost a full week’s worth of papers sitting around in a pile unread when it came time to take the recycling out to the curbside. Shame… I’ve always been an avid newspaper reader until recently.
Rich
“If you wanna know about the mad punk rockers, if you wanna know how to play guitar, if you wanna know ’bout any other suckers, you can read it in the Sunday papers.” – J. JacksonJackie wrote:I saw my friend Kebe today & gave him a copy of the Levitate CD. He is originally from Senegal. He became a big Bruce fan after accompanying my husband & me to the Biltmore and Charlotte, NC, shows in “06 and the Greensboro, NC, solo show in ’07.What did he think of the new CD? “I really liked songs #1(Black Rats Of London) and #4(Continents Drift),” he said.
I found this rather interesting, since these two songs are also favorites among fans on the Board & the Levitate page. It always amazes me how music transcends language and culture and brings people together.
Music is a universal language, and it has “words” in its’ vocabulary to express many things that spoken languages can only hope to come close to saying.
Rich
“I’m singing this note ’cause it fits in well with the way I’m feeling. There’s a symphony that I hear in your heart that sets my head a-reeling.” – P. TownshendWe didn’t get The Early Show in Hampton Roads (VA) because they had to do extensive coverage of a snow storm that never really hit. Dave Rich can understand this happening, since he came all the way here for a concert that was canceled by a hurricane that never came! Anyhow, the video is up on cbs.com… just click on The Early Show and it’s there. He played “In The Low Country”. Now… off to Bruce’s Facebook site to see if he had anything more than that.
Rich
I’ll give it a listen when I get home tonight. I expect it’ll be wonderful, so I’m really looking forward to it.
Rich
Wow! The Simpsons seem to be all the rage these days. It wasn’t that long ago that Dave Rich let me know via a Facebook broadcast that Lisa Simpson was part of the 2012 London Olympics logo. Unfortunately, I now cannot see that logo without seeing the image that Dave’s posting conjured up. Bravo, Olympians! Talk about “chariots of fire….”
– Rich
PS Blame God, not the NEA. You were graced with a working brain, and you had the audacity to use it. Look how you turned out
Dana Nejedlova wrote:Great find, Rich!
Today I read the latest entries in Bruce’s guestbook and there was the following link to an interesting interview which also mentions how Bruce searches for a good sound by listening to his shows.
http://www.headcount.org/blog/?p=2825That was an equally wonderful find, Dana. Thanks! I enjoyed reading it, an I enjoyed you sharing it with us.
– Rich
Takavl wrote:The Parsons connex makes me wanna try to spark one of those insufferable “6 degrees o’ ” thangs, only with Hornsby, not Bacon. I’m sure that’s NEVER been done before, right? 🙄Oh we can get into all sorts of trouble here….
Bruce Hornsby was praised by Alan Parsons, who engineered the Abbey Road album that John Lennon played on, who once commented that he was more popular than… NO… DON’T START OUT GETTING YOURSELF INTO TROUBLE!
Rich
Hey, Dave Rich and I run a very expensive and exclusive Music Theory Workshop. What you got was the sampler lesson that’s supposed to whet your appetite for more so that we can clean out your wallet and turn you into the next Henry Mancini or something. Wait till you get the bill.
Rich
“We call it ‘Anything For A Buck.’” – Larry, his brother Darrell, and his other brother Darrell.
“You can get a phonograph record of ‘Minnie the Moocher’ for 75 cents. And for a buck and a quarter, you can get Minnie.” – Groucho MarxVictor wrote:Let us not forget the most profound lyrics of the bunch:“All those cows stepping in holes …
Injured legs and damaged souls.”Vic
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Vic wins.
Rich
David Day wrote:rdiakun wrote:Yeah, Paperboy has that Beatlish sound to it, replete with the heavy use of dominant 7th chords. RichHey Rich!
Would be interesting for you to explain the “dominant 7th cord” thing in Paperboy!David Day
Lake Lanier, GASure… you take you basic C chord, for instance. In its’ most simple voicing, you’d play a C, the E above it (the third), a G above it (the fifth), and the next C above it (the octave). If you take the C on top, and drop it down a whole step to a B-flat, you have your standard dominant 7th chord. It gives the chord a whole new sound while retaining the basic tonal center. Along with a lot of other rock writers, the Beatles did a ton of this in their music, which is why I made that particular connection. Try it out on a piano or guitar, David. It’s hard to explain the change that putting that 7th on the chord makes, but it gives it a hip kind of edge to it.
Rich
“Opposing angels sat there on Bugs’ and Daffy’s shoulders, and baffled and confused them with their clever banter.”
“When I was a boy, there was love for free. Glad to be given and received by me”– Rich
si_twining wrote:Beat me to it in another thread; I heard the Beatles all over Paperboy.I thought the back end of Michael Raphael was Beach Boys/Brian Wilson also.
Cyclone has come out of nowhere as my favourite after a month of listening to the record. I hope for more collaborations with Hunter.
I have this sneaking suspicion that Bruce on the cusp of another of his “I’m starting to get bored and am looking for something new and different to do” phases, and so I think we can expect all sorts of interesting collaborations as he reenergizes his creative juices. One thing he has always done is found ways to recreate himself artistically, whether it’s trying out different musical styles, changing up his setlists every night, or finding new collaborators (i.e. his brother John, Robert Hunter, Chip DeMatteo, etc.). He’s probably his own most fickle fan.
Rich
si_twining wrote:Rich,Do you recall me telling you that i heard the Beatles in just about every bar of one of the new songs on Levitate? (And, separately, Brian Wilson at the tail end of another?)
Be interested to see if you were in agreement…
Yeah, Si. I noticed that on Paperboy. He went for the heavy use of dominant 7th chords that was a sonic hallmark of the middle-era Beatles stuff (put those piano lines on an electric piano, and it could sound like something from the early I Am The Walrus sessions before they layered on the strings and the tapes of Macbeth). That’s a fun, albeit lyrically “dark” tune. Maybe more like a Rutles track, though
Rich
“One man’s civilization is another man’s jungle, yeah.
They say revolution’s in the air. I’m dancing in my underwear, ’cause I don’t care”
and I totally had a crush on Susanna Hoffs and Vicki Peterson. I haven’t opened it yet and haven’t decided if I will or if I will take it back and exchange it. I’m guessing the latter. I’m glad this thread got bumped, I missed it the first time around, and now after reading it I have quite a few options for the next time I hit the record store. Yes, I actually still go to the record store. I’m old school like that!
you never were upside-before so we’ll have to see if people are seeing you the same way I am. Hey, isn’t that a song?? 
Jackie?? Monica?? MVF?? Let me know if it’s me that’s nuts.