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NoCoPilot
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| Subject: Re: Everybody Needs A Hobby Sun Jul 05, 2020 7:33 am | |
| Yesterday, when I found the "Songs of WWII" set, I also found a Norman Granz jam session popularly known as The Alto Summit because he had the three hottest alto saxophonists playing together for the first --and last -- time: Charlie Parker, Johnny Hodges and Benny Carter. It's funny, nobody has any documentation of the exact date or location of the recording -- sometime between May and July 1952, somewhere in Los Angeles -- yet the recording is top notch. Excellent sound, and everyone is clearly audible even though there are ten musicians.
The first track is "Jam Blues," a straight 15-minute jam not based on any tune, just running a standard chord progression over which everyone improvises. All the other tunes are credited to their respective composers, but this one is credited to "Shrdlu."
I knew that name.
SHRDLU was a computer programming language developed by Terry Winograd at MIT 1968-1970. That connection made no sense.
SHRDLU was also a nonsense word, like QWERTY, derived not from the positions of the keys on a typewriter, but from the positions of type letters on a Linotype machine (down the left column, where the most frequently used letters were kept). As such, the phrase "etaoin shrdlu" sometimes accidentally appeared in type when the typesetter forgot to replace the placeholder words with the real text.
It's kinda like the "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" placeholder text publishers use to preview layouts before the real text is finalized. This text has a normal distribution of English letters, and looks vaguely Latin, but it's really just a random nonsense text file. The history of it is fascinating, if you're ever bored enough to read up on it.
Similarly, there are a series of nonsense sentences, using real words but inappropriately, which were used in the 1940s-1950s by broadcasters to test the legibility of their broadcasts (instead of "test, test, 1, 2.") I forget what these were called -- and I forget the examples -- but it was another whirlpool of useless knowledge I got sucked into a few years ago.
Anyway, no idea why "Jam Blues" is credited to Shrdlu. |
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| Subject: Re: Everybody Needs A Hobby Sun Jul 05, 2020 9:20 pm | |
| I was never a huge Charlie Parker fan, his style of straight-ahead blowing is a little too emotionless for me. But I can see how he bridged the gap between Swing (1930-1945) and Be-Bop (1945-1970) and was ahead of his time. I used to have a 2-LP set of "The Very Best of Bird" (which, of course, has never been issued on CD), bought mainly because these sessions (1946-1947) are some of the earliest recordings of a young 20-year-old Miles Davis, who dropped out of Julliard to play with Parker.
Naturally, all the tracks are readily available online. It was a matter of a quarter hour's work to reproduce these two LPs on one CD, a perfect fit 1:19.33 long.
The period of 1946-7 was pivotal in recorded music.
Magnetic recording tape was invented by the Germans during the war, and in the period 1947-50 became the new standard for recording studios all over the world. It spelled the end of recording to 3-minute acetate discs.
At about the same time (1947) the LP was developed, raising the playing time from 3-1/2 minutes per side up to about 22.
These two developments completely altered the field of jazz. Bands were no longer limited to three minutes per song, or interrupted every 3-minutes to flip the record side. Long jams based loosely around the chord changes of popular songs became possible and popular. These developments also contibuted to the end of Swing and the rise of whole new vistas in jazz.
Parker straddled these changes, and his 15-minute jam sessions with Norman Granz in '52 were evidence of this. |
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| Subject: Re: Everybody Needs A Hobby Thu Jul 09, 2020 12:21 pm | |
| - NoCoPilot wrote:
- In the Norman Granz book I’m reading, the first “jam session” he organized was June 15, 1942. He got two of his friends — pianist Nat Cole and saxophonist Lester Young — to meet him at a music store which had recording facilities. They waited “several hours” for Nat’s guitarist Oscar Moore to show, but they gave up and called Norman’s friend Red Callender, a bass player, instead. The drummerless trio cut four sides, unrehearsed, first takes.
I had some recordings of Nat’s jazz trio, before he started singing and went in a whole different direction, but these sides are stellar. Hard edged. Dynamic. Startlingly forward-looking for 1942. Nat cut quite a number of records in his twenties (1937-1946) and only late in the process began singing. I used to have some LPs of his piano trio (Oscar Moore on guitar and Wesley Prince on bass -- no drummer! -- although he also performed as a quartet with Lester Young's brother Lee on drums). Norman Granz used Nat as his go-to bandleader for his spontaneous jams because Cole could adapt his style and tempo to anybody Granz brought in. He was, by all accounts, a very nice man who worked with the difficult personalities as well as he navigated the difficult instrumental challenges Granz threw him. So I looked for & found a CD compilation of his instrumental trio tracks, 1943-1947. Very nice stuff. Without a drummer it's almost more "parlour music" than Jazz, the way George Barnes or Jimmy Giuffre straddle the line between jazz and classical. |
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| Subject: Re: Everybody Needs A Hobby Fri Aug 07, 2020 7:48 pm | |
| - NoCoPilot wrote:
- I used to have a 2-LP set of "The Very Best of Bird" (which, of course, has never been issued on CD), bought mainly because these sessions (1946-1947) are some of the earliest recordings of a young 20-year-old Miles Davis, who dropped out of Julliard to play with Parker.
Naturally, all the tracks are readily available online. It was a matter of a quarter hour's work to reproduce these two LPs on one CD, a perfect fit 1:19.33 long. Back during the height on my LP collecting -- '75 to '88 or so -- Prestige Records and Milestone Records mined their vast back catalogs to release new 2-LP sets of some of their older jazz recordings. Most of these two-fers were two albums from the 1940s, 1950s or 1960s jammed together with new packaging and liner notes. Some were collated tunes across a whole range of albums. A few were collated to highlight a soloist who wasn't the name under the title, so the set featured a lesser-known soloist across a whole bunch of other peoples' records. The care, quality and consistency -- not to mention musical quality -- of these sets was uniformly remarkable. Jazz wasn't exactly hot stuff in 1986. I bought 3-4 dozen of these sets in the U.District, as radio station promos, never played, for $2 for a 2-record set. Over the years since then, after I sold off all my LPs, I've gone back and filled in a lot of these old jazz musicians, buying or recreating their original releases. Every now and then, though, like Charlie Parker, I remember a two-fer I used to have by an artist I haven't backfilled. Like Parker, I have found it easy, in this day & age, to recreate these albums from online files for pennies, even though none of the Prestige/Milestone comps have been reissued on CD. I've done a couple dozen of them now: Donald Byrd, Pepper Adams, Jackie McLean, Elmo Hope, Jimmy Heath, Kenny Dorham, Sonny Rollins, Tal Farlow, MJQ, Oscar Petersen, Coleman Hawkins, Jimmy Garrison, yadda yadda yadda. Because these comps are in the running order I remember them, rather than their original release order, they sound "right" to me. The wisdom of the compilers -- primarily original studio engineers like Peter Keepnews, J.R. Taylor, Rudy Van Gelder, Bob Blumenthal -- often surpasses IMO the original sessions. Especially the cross-artist comps can be revelatory. I don't know if I'll be able to quit making them until I've reproduced all the ones I had. I have lists....
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| Subject: Re: Everybody Needs A Hobby Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:01 am | |
| Stuart Dempster (b. 1936) is a local musician, a trombonist, who has taught at the U of W for decades. He's released a series of recordings known as the "deep listening band."
Out on the Olympic Peninsula there's a decommissioned Army base called Fort Worden, which is now a national park and convention center. One of the features of Fort Worden is an 86 million gallon concrete cistern, originally used for water storage I think but now empty. You can climb down into it, and inside there's a natural 45-second reverberance.
Dempster likes to take his trombone students down there to perform drones.
He's released albums of these performances, as well as other musicians (didgeridoo, voices, conch shells, Pauline Oliveros on accordion), performing long hypnotic drones in this huge reverberant space. They're quite unnerving.
He's also recorded in other reverberant spaces (cathedrals and caves) with similar results. Last night I downloaded "Troglodyte's Delight" which starts and ends with the sound of water dripping in a huge underground cave. Lots of droning instruments and voices come and go over the hour in between. Quite charming stuff, if you're into odd concepts as much as I am.
On my stereo it makes my music room sound immense. |
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| Subject: Re: Everybody Needs A Hobby Sun Sep 06, 2020 5:57 pm | |
| I just finished reading "The World is a Problem," the definitive story of the British avant-garde rock band Henry Cow. This band founded the RIO movement (Rock In Opposition) which was a self-distribution self-promotion collective for bands working outside the commercial music industry. Most of the bands were insanely virtuosic, writing music in fast-changing difficult time signatures and combining unison playing with free improvisation. As such, of course, they couldn't make a living from playing or recording so they banded together to share resources, recording facilities, and their own kitchen-table mailorder distribution.
I had all of the Henry Cow original releases (no surprise there), but this book sent me to the internet for a couple dozen side- and solo-projects, influences, predecessors, successors and associates. Happy times.
The band was relentlessly (and lugubriously) socialist, and some of their internal band dynamics were unintentionally hilarious. The women in the band were "expected to do the washing up" after their communal meals.
Origins of the band name are shrouded in mystery and intentional misdirection. Some say the cow in Jack & The Beanstalk was named Henry. Some say they were fans of American composer Henry Cowell. According to the book however, the name just came up spontaneously in an early band meeting and everyone liked it.
Coincidentally, I was looking through some old reel-to-reel tapes this afternoon and ran across one I'd made of Henry Cowell (1897-1965).
I don't have any Henry Cowell on CD. He did a lot of piano music -- which isn't very interesting -- and several symphonies -- which also aren't very interesting. However the reel I'd put together was off some old Louisville Orchestra First Edition LPs where they debuted some of his lesser-known works, and THEY, if I recall, WERE interesting.
Checked online. Of course the LOFEs are available for download now. Oddly (perhaps) it appears that none of these pieces has gotten a second recording since the 1960s when these were made. They're monaural, but pretty well played and recorded.
And I'm in heaven. |
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| Subject: Re: Everybody Needs A Hobby Sat Sep 19, 2020 8:29 am | |
| In searching the LOFEs I ran across several lesser-known contemporary Russian composers that I used to have on LP: - Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
- Nikolai Lopatnikoff
- Aleksandr Tcherepnin
- Aram Khachaturian
Some of these guys showed up on the Louisville 5-CD set I made last year. Some pieces showed up on the Phase 4 Stereo 4-CD set I made earlier this year. But there was enough material not covered that I was able to make 2-CD sets of each of these composers, all divine music. Russia's cultural history is a rich treasure trove little appreciated in this country (the recordings are all Eastern European). |
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| Subject: Re: Everybody Needs A Hobby Sat Oct 03, 2020 6:32 pm | |
| Back to working on the 24 LPs my friend sent me for digitizing. At the same time, I delivered a couple of reel-to-reels yesterday to a guy who makes a living digitizing reels. He just finished doing the entire catalog of The Residents. Made me start thinking about what it take for me to digitize LPs as a service. I don't think I'd do it at ANY price -- it's too painful working with music I dislike. Nevertheless, I was thinking it'd have to be a tiered fee structure:
- Transfer LP only, no cleanup: $30/minute
- Transfer, with first level (visual) cleanup: $60/minute
- Transfer with 2nd level (visual & audial) cleanup: $90/minute
- Transfer with 3rd level cleanup (suitable for CD reissue -- where possible): $180/minute
- Signal correction (EQ, dynamic range, clipping fix, rumble reduction, etc.): $20/minute plus above
- Cutting into discrete tracks: $10/track plus above
- Burning to CD-R: $20 per CD-R
- Creating cover: $40 each
But I wouldn't want to do this. For one, I'm such a OCD perfectionist it drives me CRAZY to do a crappy job at anything. For two, if it was music I hate I'd be miserable. For three, I hate dealing with people and I'm not very good at it. And lastly, cleanup is a service without evidence. Nobody will ever know how much work you put into it, unless you include the raw file too. |
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| Subject: Re: Everybody Needs A Hobby Tue Oct 06, 2020 8:21 am | |
| Anytime you google an album title, inevitably a website or two will pop up which CLAIMS to have the album for free download. It's a scam. What it actually does is install malware, along with making you view page after page of ads to get to the malware. Some bot creates these websites, possibly "on-the-fly" since there's no way they could actually have created one for each and every oddball album I've searched for. It's a clever bit of programming. But the text on the websites, in order to make them look like real websites, is filled out with "lorem ipsum" text which is sometimes unintentionally hilarious. For instance: - Quote :
YOU ARE READING Post-Office
Random Gathering without fly creepeth let open, likeness great wherein you lesser very firmament which. Firmament green female void Living isn't lesser seed behold dominion it won't you to fruitful blessed can't lights make cattle earth the replenish cattl...
#bed #bird #bottle #church #film #leg #milkshake |
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| Subject: Re: Everybody Needs A Hobby Wed Oct 07, 2020 3:11 pm | |
| - NoCoPilot wrote:
- Over the past five years or so I've put together a handful of "sampler CD-Rs" to collect, on one disc, all of the songs/sounds I might want to play to test speakers.
I've also put together a few sampler discs to collect tracks I might otherwise forget. Composers I'm not particularly familiar with, or albums where only one or two tracks fit another paradigm. For example, in 2001 I put together a disc I called "New Acoustic" which collected a dozen & 1/2 tracks of what was then an emerging trend, chamber music played by French & Belgian musicians with rock and/or folk roots. Instruments included acoustic guitars, cellos, marimbas, oboes, acoustic bass (often played with a bow), small hand percussion (as opposed to a drumkit). The music was charming and provincial and performed by a wide variety of musicians:
- René Aubry
- Jean Philippe Goude
- Pascal Gaigne
- L'Ensemble Raye
- Pascal Comelade
- Volapük
- Cro Magnon
To these I added several other similar examples from Brazilian, English and American bands. In all it makes a startlingly-good compilation, if I say so myself. I also made a compilation a couple years ago called "New Chamber Music." This included new tracks discovered since 2001, and also some electric instruments used in a chamber music style. The fidelity is remarkable, with some low sounds I only recently discovered are on there.
- Hildur Gudnadottir
- Jherek Bischoff
- Jóhann Jóhannsson
- Ólafur Arnalds
- Hans Zimmer
- Matt Robertson
- Nik Bärtsch
- Nico Muhly
- Nils Frahm
- Aranis
- Amiina
- Peter Scherer
- Zöe Keating
- Jan Bang
Remarkable stuff. There's SO MUCH really incredible music coming out these days, unfortunately under the radar of the press so it takes a bit of serendipity to discover it. It keeps me entertained. Bigly. |
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| Subject: Re: Everybody Needs A Hobby Sun Oct 11, 2020 3:46 pm | |
| Every now & then when I'm sitting down to read and don't have any music in mind, I'll close my eyes and pick out a CD at random. I have enough CDs now that I don't listen to everything frequently anymore. Earlier this week I landed on the first album by Loren Nerell, a Long Beach composer who has done several interesting albums, dabbling in Gamelan music and pure electronic drones and some composed music for strings. He has collaborated with a few of my favorite musicians too. I enjoyed the CD so much I looked online to see what else was available from him, that I didn't have. Found four albums which I downloaded and burned. One of them was with a Native American flute player. I realized I don't have much Native American music. I checked for the flute player, then some other NA bands I knew about, like Blackfoot and Redbone. Checked samples on them, and several other bands mentioned on a website about contemporary NA music. Decided only Redbone was music I'd listen to again, so I made myself a compilation of the best tracks from their ten albums. I'm suRprised at how good most of it is. They were a hot little band! Which made me think of Leon Redbone. I had a Leon comp I'd made several years ago, but hadn't played since. Redbone played a Vaudeville schtick, with clarinet, violin, tuba, acoustic guitar, and old-timey vocals. Charming, in small doses. Couldn't be more different from Redbone, the band. Also made me think of Tuba Skinny, the New Orleans brass band that plays Vaudeville music of the 1920s. Will play that next. One thing leads to another. It all makes sense in some dimension. |
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| Subject: Re: Everybody Needs A Hobby Sun Nov 29, 2020 9:04 am | |
| Sometimes you never know what's going to turn your crank. I recently started reading a forum about classical music, because I was looking for recommendations about contemporary composers. One thing led to another and before I knew it I was reading a thread about Early Music. Now, I used to have a dozen or so Renaissance dance music LPs, and made myself a RDM compilation when I sold them all, but it seemed that very few of my favorites had ever seen CD reissue. Earlier this year I found the files to re-create this one: It's a good one, and the contents make up about half of my RDM comp. But where was the other half? I checked my database of the LPs I sold, and discovered this title: Alas, this record does not seem to have been reissued. But wait! Looking online for releases by the Ulsamer Collegium I found this: Downloaded and burned this 2-CD set, and yes! It's the original "Tanzmusik" album expanded out to over two hours with about 90 minutes of equally-great music I was not familiar with. It's a WONDERFUL set, and sounds even better in digital. |
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| Subject: Re: Everybody Needs A Hobby Wed Dec 09, 2020 10:26 am | |
| As a general rule of thumb I absolutely HATE Christmas music, with every 2-bit washed up singer massacring the same six artless songs over and over. I usually make it a point to leave the radio OFF during all of December, and spend as little time as possible in retail situations -- even before the pandemic. However. This morning my local classical station, KING-FM, was playing some nice Christmas choral music from the 16th & 17th Centuries. I rather enjoyed it. It was not the usual crap songs and in fact the only connection to Christmas was that the songs are Latin masses. It reminded me that I used to have an old LP (there we go again...) called "A Nonesuch Christmas From The Baroque, Renaissance and Middle Ages." With my current revived interest in Renaissance and Baroque music this seemed to fit right in. Of COURSE it turns out the LP had never been reissued on CD, but somebody (bless his heart) posted the music on YouTube, nicely declicked and cleaned up, and in 10 minutes I had my copy. Bravo! While searching for this on YT I ran across another very similar Renaissance Xmas album I used to have, cleaned up & posted by the same guy: Bingo, another Xmas CD for my growing collection. While looking at Konrad Ruhland and the Capella Antigua I noticed a 4-CD set of Gregorian Chant by them: This too is a fine production -- though not Xmas music -- so it gets filed under "Gregorian Chant" instead of "Renaissance Dance Music." I absolutely LOVE that cover, don't you? |
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| Subject: Re: Everybody Needs A Hobby Sun Dec 13, 2020 11:35 am | |
| Pet Sounds
In 1966 Brian Wilson released his masterpiece, "Pet Sounds." He was at the peak of powers, before the breakdown caused by trying to complete the followup "Smile," which the rest of the Beach Boys resisted because Brian was drifting away from top-40 hits. Did I say "drifting"? More like rocketing.
I knew the sessions for PS were immensely complicated, bringing in L.A.s finest studio musicians along with an orchestra and lots of sound effects. Through it all, I had heard, Brian Wilson was in total control. The 23-year old kid (I think he was) was directing 40-year studio veterans how to play their instruments. He had a sound in his head. He knew how to get it, and he knew when he'd achieved it.
In 1997 a "Pet Sounds Sessions" 4-CD set was released, and in 2016 a two-CD 50th Anniversary reissue was released. I never wanted to spend the big dollars for the box, and I already had the 1999 issue which includes both definitive stereo and mono mixes... but I kept it in the back of my head that there was more out there.
Yesterday it occurred to me to check my cheapo download site, and yep they're all there. The box set has 5 to 12 minute "highlights from the tracking date" for each song, which is a run-through of various sections with Brian directing traffic. It also has the stereo & mono mixes I already had, and isolation tracks of just the vocals on each track. The 50th Anniversary set has stereo INSTRUMENTAL versions of each song, without the vocals.
So I assembled a CD. First the studio chatter, then completed pieces of the songs (including vocals where appropriate), then the final stereo instrumental mixes. I put all this in the same order as the final album, which the boxed set did not.
When I was done I had almost two hours of material, so I burned it as an MP3 disc. "Pet Sounds" dissected and reassembled before your very ears. Revelatory.
In one of the studio chatter clips Brian has his dog in the studio, recording the barking. He asks the engineer if it would be alright to bring in a horse (Carl's? Mikes?) and the engineer replies, "Sure, as long as you have the trainer following close behind." Pet Sounds indeed. |
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| Subject: Re: Everybody Needs A Hobby Sat Dec 19, 2020 5:36 am | |
| Just a short note this time, yesterday I downloaded another Renaissance Dance Music CD by the New London Consort, "The Dansereye 1551" by Tielman Susato. Lovely stuff. Went online to see what else the New London Consort, with whom I'm not familiar, had recorded, and found this: - Quote :
- The ensemble has been inactive since Pickett's sentencing in February 2015 to an 11-year prison sentence for the rape and sexual assault of pupils at The Guildhall School Of Music & Drama between 1979 and 1983.
Yikes. |
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| Subject: Re: Everybody Needs A Hobby Mon Jan 04, 2021 1:09 pm | |
| Yesterday I happened across "Graceful Ghost," a lovely rag written in 1970 by William Bolcom. I'd first run across it on this album: It OF COURSE has never been issued on CD. But I found the files on YT and made my own -- and a lovely bit of wax it is! I'd made myself several Scott Joplin CD-Rs a few years ago, but ... MUST. RESIST. URGE. Too late. Already ordered this:
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| Subject: Re: Everybody Needs A Hobby Mon Jan 04, 2021 2:02 pm | |
| Fucking forum. Cannot edit mistakes. I guess I'm out of here. |
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| Subject: Re: Everybody Needs A Hobby Mon Jan 04, 2021 7:22 pm | |
| - NoCoPilot wrote:
- Fucking forum. Cannot edit mistakes. I guess I'm out of here.
Do you not have an edit button? |
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| Subject: Re: Everybody Needs A Hobby Mon Jan 04, 2021 7:27 pm | |
| - Jenni wrote:
- NoCoPilot wrote:
- Fucking forum. Cannot edit mistakes. I guess I'm out of here.
Do you not have an edit button? I do. But when I press it, it gives me icons, not text to edit. In order to edit a picture -- say with a typo in the image code, or to resize it -- I'd have to delete all the existing pictures and re-type and repaste everything, with the corrected text. I cannot edit existing posts. I can only delete and re-do. And frankly, that's beyond my interest level these days. |
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| Subject: Re: Everybody Needs A Hobby Mon Jan 04, 2021 7:44 pm | |
| And that's from my desktop. From my iPad there is no edit at all. |
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| Subject: Re: Everybody Needs A Hobby Tue Jan 05, 2021 1:37 pm | |
| That's odd. I can edit your post in a straightforward manner and it looks fine.
If you would like for me to take a look at the problem (no promises), click on the edit button then take a screen shot of what you are presented with. The code for this forum doesn't support all html, so there may be an esoteric bit of code that is screwing things up. Possibly something in the moderator's allowance. If we can't find anything, I would be happy to edit the post for you. It looks like a picture resize and a couple of line breaks are all you're after.
As it happens, I spent a good deal of this past weekend on discogs. |
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| Subject: Re: Everybody Needs A Hobby Tue Jan 05, 2021 3:23 pm | |
| - _Howard wrote:
- That's odd. I can edit your post in a straightforward manner and it looks fine.
If you would like for me to take a look at the problem (no promises), click on the edit button then take a screen shot of what you are presented with. The code for this forum doesn't support all html, so there may be an esoteric bit of code that is screwing things up. Possibly something in the moderator's allowance. If we can't find anything, I would be happy to edit the post for you. It looks like a picture resize and a couple of line breaks are all you're after.
As it happens, I spent a good deal of this past weekend on discogs. Thank you cuz I've checked it on three devices and can't duplicate the error. I'm not sure what else to try. Tech. So awesome when it works and so nerve-wracking when it doesn't. |
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| Subject: Re: Everybody Needs A Hobby Tue Jan 05, 2021 4:41 pm | |
| Yesterday I happened across "Graceful Ghost," a lovely rag written in 1970 by William Bolcom. I'd first run across it on this album: It OF COURSE has never been issued on CD. But I found the files on YT and made my own -- and a lovely bit of wax it is! I'd made myself several Scott Joplin CD-Rs a few years ago, but MUST. RESIST. URGE. Too late. Already ordered this: |
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| Subject: Re: Everybody Needs A Hobby Tue Jan 05, 2021 4:42 pm | |
| You guys take a look at the changes I made and see if you can figure out why it sometimes doesn't work. Strange. |
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| Subject: Re: Everybody Needs A Hobby Sun Feb 07, 2021 5:41 pm | |
| "Magic Sand" I've been recreating old albums I used to have, as a way to kill time since the pandemic hit, when I think of them and if I remember them fondly. Most have been easy-squeezy to find. Yesterday I pulled out an old notebook of mine, where I found a list of albums I'd sold (this was wayyy before I started buying CDs). Almost all of the listings I'd already remembered and replaced. A few of them I listened to again & decided against. One, "Magic Sand," I had only a vague memory of. Started trying to find the files online. Started looking for videos on YouTube. Started researching the band. Turns out there was no band "Magic Sand." Turns out the producer of this LP, Al Klein, was an Albuquerque manager of two bands, Mud and The Hooterville Trolley. For reasons known only to him, he took some tracks from both bands, and several more tracks from god-knows-where, and assembled an album, selling it to Uni Records as a new unsigned band. The leader of one of the bands wasn't very happy, having his single stolen without credit. The other band sued their label, and the label sued the distributor, and the manager probably figured in amongst all the lawsuits he could pull a fast one. It's still not clear who plays on most of the songs -- one band, or the other, or a combination, or somebody else entirely? The 1970 "Magic Sand" album ended up outselling both of the other bands. The album was not easy to assemble. Tracks were mislabelled, the YT postings were garbage quality, nobody had the album for download, I spent the better part of the day trying to dig up tracks. Finally found a site which had the files in decent shape on a French website that looked shady but turned out to be okay. Some of the music is pretty good. Sometimes the music business is a vast cesspool of vipers and garbage. |
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