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mcnally
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response 25 of 76:
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Apr 23 04:51 UTC 1997 |
Scott basically sums it up. At least two and possibly all three of the
California Guitar Trio are ex-Crafties. For my money, "Invitation" by
the California Guitar Trio is the best of the Crafty-Guitarist-related
projects I've bought. There's also the "Robert Fripp String Quintet"
which I think was basically Fripp, Trey Gunn, and the CA Guitar Trio..
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orinoco
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response 26 of 76:
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Apr 26 16:44 UTC 1997 |
It would be a lot more convenient if Fripp would stop doing these damn
collaborations with everyone and confusing the hell out of me. NOt that I'm
arguing....
I heard the California Guitar Trio opening for King Crimson when they were
in town a while back, but haven't been able to find their stuff since. I was
truly impressed, especially by some baroque-ish stuff they played. All three
were playing acoustic guitars which had been electrified somehow and were
*loud*. I was amazed by how rhythmic their music got, being as they had none
of the traditional 'rhythm instruments', or even a bass guitar.
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katie
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response 27 of 76:
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Apr 30 03:20 UTC 1997 |
Working Classs Hero: A Tribute To John Lennon. One good song--Mary-Chapin
Carpenter's "Grow Old With Me", and the rest are heavy metal versions of
Lennon songs. Pure crap.
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katt
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response 28 of 76:
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May 11 16:59 UTC 1997 |
Hmm tough one.. .
I think it's a tue between "Andy Grifith-Someone Bigger than you and I" and
"Music to Moog by".
The Andy Grifith was given to me by a friend who mistakenly thought it would
have the theme from the Andy Griffith show on it(it's a bunch of sappy TV god
songs), and Music to moog BY has all these covers of sixties and seventies
pop-love somgs done on a moog. There's a cut and paste pictur on the front
of it with a piture of a pink bed with lips in the middle of it and a patch
bay sticking out the back., . .
eek.
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orinoco
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response 29 of 76:
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May 16 21:41 UTC 1997 |
Any relation to the Moog Cookbook?
I heard the version of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" off of that a while ago.
It was frightening.
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arianna
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response 30 of 76:
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May 20 04:01 UTC 1997 |
I own my very own copy of "Dive" by Sarah Brightman, whom you all may know
of as the woman who sang Christine in "Phantom of the Opera" on the most
prolific recording of that show (the London cast). She went and did her very
own album of stupid new age crap.
A close second or even tie with that one is the copy of a demo made by
Majesty, which was a band that later became known as Dream Theater. Dream
Theater is okay, but Majesty sucked hard.
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kewy
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response 31 of 76:
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May 30 19:03 UTC 1997 |
what's a moog? just thought i'd ask..
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scott
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response 32 of 76:
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May 30 23:54 UTC 1997 |
Early brand of synthesizer. "Switched on Bach" used one, it is the giant
panel of knobs and wires in the album cover shot. Moog made same very cool
stuff, but didn't make it into the digital world.
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katt
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response 33 of 76:
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Jun 2 18:00 UTC 1997 |
You can see one in the sterns collection at the Music ASchool if you're really
curious, and if you look there's a HOST of bad cover records that are just
the height of kitch put out with them. .
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krj
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response 34 of 76:
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Jun 5 04:50 UTC 1997 |
Curiously, Dick Hyman's Moog synthesizer album has just been released
on CD. I assume this is part of the campaign to cash in on all
sorts of 60's cheesy things.
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katt
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response 35 of 76:
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Jun 9 14:46 UTC 1997 |
Undoubtedly. . .I guess moogs-which used to be sold for next to nothing in
flea markets-go for quite a bit these days as a result. I'm sorry I didn't
pick one up when they were still cheap; I'm way into music concrete from,
like, the fifties and sixties. . .
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orinoco
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response 36 of 76:
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Jun 12 01:41 UTC 1997 |
Yeah...I was over at the newish used instrument store (The store is newish,
the instruments are used) in town, and they had and old Moog and an ARP
Oddysey and some other crazy old stuff. Didn't check the prices, though...
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katt
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response 37 of 76:
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Jun 13 02:00 UTC 1997 |
Which store?
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orinoco
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response 38 of 76:
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Jun 15 15:33 UTC 1997 |
I don't actually recall the name...it's up on North Main, I belive.
I may actually be imagining the whole thing :)
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orinoco
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response 39 of 76:
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Jun 29 14:05 UTC 1997 |
The store's name is Boss, katt.
And I'm afraid I'm going to have to update my vote for 'worst recording' to
*another* King-Crimson-related album: Thrakkatakk
The idea was promising--an album of live improvisation. Having seen King
Crimson perform live, and been quite impressed, I was hoping to hear something
worthwhile somewhere on the album.
I didn't.
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scott
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response 40 of 76:
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Jun 29 17:43 UTC 1997 |
It's great programming music. I don't listen when I program much though.
THRAK itself got me thr a long hard weekend of programming once. :)
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mcnally
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response 41 of 76:
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Jun 30 06:19 UTC 1997 |
Fripp usually controls himself in the studio but he's completely capable
of producing god-awful crap and/or phenomenally self-indulgent tripe on
a bad day. Thanks for the warning about "Thrakkatakk"
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orinoco
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response 42 of 76:
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Jul 4 20:39 UTC 1997 |
Speaking of live crimson, a while ago, at the Rock and Roll hall o' fame, I
looked up KingCrimson on their little touch-screen computer deals out of
curiousity. Amazingly enough, it had a nice little blurb on them, which
mentioned a live EP from around the time of Red and Starless. Has anyone
heard of this?
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mcnally
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response 43 of 76:
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Jul 5 17:27 UTC 1997 |
The only official live Crimson releases I can recall were
"USA", "Earthbound", and recent stuff like the boxed sets
and live performances of the new lineup. As far as I know
both USA and Earthbound were deleted from the catalog when
Caroline started releasing the old Crimson stuff after JEM
folded..
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orinoco
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response 44 of 76:
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Jul 6 19:15 UTC 1997 |
damn.
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diznave
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response 45 of 76:
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Sep 14 22:42 UTC 1997 |
Ken, I know what you went through with Iron Butterfly. I went through the same
thing with Boston. Gawd!! I listened to their _Don't Look Back_ album last
year, for the first time in at least 10 years. Now I know why. Putrid! I look
back at my taste in music, circa. 1980-84, and try not to cry. Boston,
Blue-Oyster Cult, Kansas, AC/DC,Van Halen....sickening (no offense, llanarth).
My days of listening to bad music are OVER (although my roomate insists that
this is NOT the case, whenever I throw on an old Spyro-Gyra album).
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orinoco
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response 46 of 76:
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Sep 14 22:51 UTC 1997 |
I've got a new nomination, myself.
Magnets At the Bottom of the Sea - a compilation of local punk bands. Truely
painful.
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mcnally
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response 47 of 76:
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Sep 15 14:53 UTC 1997 |
I don't own it so it doesn't really qualify but I heard some
amazingly awful, discordant, and pretentious music by an act
called "The Shadow Ring" on WDET (or was it WCBN?) last night.
Apparently they're playing a show in the area soon so if any
of you are looking for the perfect setting to enhance the
mood when you break up with your SO or tell your parents that
you're changing your name to "La" and re-forming the Heaven's
Gate sect and by the way, can you have some money for some
new black Nikes then look no further than this show..
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orinoco
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response 48 of 76:
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Sep 15 21:19 UTC 1997 |
<grin>...that must be pretty bad...
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goroke
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response 49 of 76:
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Sep 27 14:04 UTC 1998 |
Worst album I own is also one of my most prized possessions: Mrs. Miller's
Greatest Hits. I absolutely *cringe* to her rendition of "Downtown"...
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