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krj
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response 25 of 87:
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Jul 23 23:24 UTC 1997 |
Beats me. The chorus on side 1 of the LP goes "Ommadawn Eggroll,"
or something like that.
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mziemba
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response 26 of 87:
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Jul 24 04:30 UTC 1997 |
Ken- I'll have to go back and listen to the older ones, again. I did enjoy
_Ommadawn_ and _Hergest Ridge_, but I favor the early 80s stuff. I have a
solo album of Maggie's, by the way, too.
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mziemba
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response 27 of 87:
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Jul 30 14:45 UTC 1997 |
Who's Maddy Prior, by the way? I'm only familiar with Maggie Reilly's vocal
work with Mike Oldfield.
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anderyn
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response 28 of 87:
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Jul 30 15:54 UTC 1997 |
Maddy Prior is the lead singer for a folk-rock band
called Steeleye Span. Lovely soaring voice. Just beautiful.
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krj
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response 29 of 87:
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Jul 30 20:08 UTC 1997 |
Ah, I was wondering if Mark had confused Maddy Prior and Maggie Reilly
after my response #23... for more on Maddy Prior, see music cf. items
40 and 48.
Me, I always get Maggie Reilly mixed up with Maggie Boyle; Maggie B. did
some stuff with John Renbourn (SHIP OF FOOLS) and then moved on to a duo
gig with guitarist Steve Tilston; but as we have moved to talking about
acoustic guitarists, we are drifting far away from the topic of
electronic music.
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mziemba
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response 30 of 87:
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Aug 1 16:36 UTC 1997 |
True, but an enjoyable drift, nonetheless...
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lumen
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response 31 of 87:
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Aug 6 07:30 UTC 1997 |
I've been away much too long! I have truly been enlightened. Mark-- nice
work, as usual. but good gravy, doesn't your well of music resources (as far
as recordings) ever run out?
Thanks DV for your corrections..it makes perfect sense. I'd been confused
because the machine I used was called a digital reverb machine. It duplicated
several different reverbs (including the use of tubes and metal strings) and
flanging techniques. I'm getting careless-- but I haven't spent as much time
in a studio as some of my musical colleagues.
(In case you didn't know, I have a bit of an inferiority complex in regards
to music-- they didn't regard me as 'talented' as the others in school.)
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lumen
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response 32 of 87:
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Aug 6 07:48 UTC 1997 |
Not DV-- I mean, Scott. (Damn it, my scroll doesn't reach that far.. so no,
Mark, it wasn't an enjoyable drift for me!)
One thing I must know for certain: Is Thomas Dolby in any way connected with
Dolby Laboratories, Inc.? That would be far-out-- a British 80's pop star
had a hand in noise reduction technologies?
Speaking of Thomas Dolby, I know this is old news, but the following article
appeared in the April 21 edition of Newsweek:
What was a British pop star from the '80s doing at Sun Microsystems's recent
JavaOne conference? Thomas Dolby, the musician in question, was there to
debut Beatnik, an audio-software product for the Web. The Beatnik plug-iin
works by loading a small "software synthesizer" onto your hard drive, which
gets instructions for reproducing sounds whever you encounter a
Beatnik-compatible file on a Web page. Download the plug-in at
www.headspace.com.
I wonder how it works. Anyone heard about this technology yet?
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scott
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response 33 of 87:
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Aug 6 13:36 UTC 1997 |
Thomas Dolby was sued by Dolby labs at one point, but came out OK (no heavily
overlapping product). He got the nickname "Dolby" by being into electronics,
and later made it his stage name.
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mziemba
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response 34 of 87:
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Aug 6 16:41 UTC 1997 |
I might add that Dolby's skills are far beyond "Blinded Me With Science".
He moved to America in the late 80s, got a backing band, and put out two
brilliant albums: _Aliens Ate My Buick_ and _Astronauts and Heretics_.
His bassist, Terry Jackson, was also the bassist for Reba McIntyre's
country band. Dolby's strengths are as a synthesizer wizard, of course,
but he's also a pretty good arranger and composer, as well. Either of the
two aforementioned albums clearly demonstrate that...
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mziemba
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response 35 of 87:
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Aug 6 16:42 UTC 1997 |
Jon- as long as I'm still breathing, I'll be curious...
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mcnally
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response 36 of 87:
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Aug 6 17:17 UTC 1997 |
re #34: And then there's the forgotten Dolby album, "The Flat Earth".
Much better than "Aliens Ate My Buick", I think, but then I never much
cared for that one (except for the Robin Leach intro to "The Keys To
Her Ferrari" He also did a soundtrack to a computer animated film
called "The Gate to the Mind's Eye", which I picked up in a cut-out
bin the other day and haven't had time to evaluate.
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mziemba
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response 37 of 87:
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Aug 8 07:16 UTC 1997 |
Dunno. I've heard _The Flat Earth_, and it didn't grab me like his stuff with
a backing band did. But, then again, I heard it a long time ago, too. I need
to revisit those old Dolby albums, some time.
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mziemba
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response 38 of 87:
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Aug 9 16:20 UTC 1997 |
Hmmm...live performances of electronic music I've heard: Tangerine Dream,
Mike Oldfield...that's it, so far... I really want to see Jean-Michel Jarre
one day... Perhaps a trip to France?
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bmoran
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response 39 of 87:
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Aug 10 23:31 UTC 1997 |
Save your bucks. He comes to the states every few decades. I heard about a
show he did in San Antonio. Played music while colored lights did up
various parts of the city. Sorta like cristo with a soundtrack?
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mcnally
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response 40 of 87:
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Aug 11 05:52 UTC 1997 |
Unless he struck Texas twice I think that concert was in Houston.
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mziemba
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response 41 of 87:
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Aug 11 15:08 UTC 1997 |
I know he did one concert in Houston, back around '84 or '85... Haven't heard
of any here, since.
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lumen
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response 42 of 87:
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Aug 12 07:38 UTC 1997 |
re #36: Jan Hammer did the soundtrack to the sequel to "The Gate to the Mind's
Eye," titled "Beyond the Mind's Eye." It's nice work. I didn't know Dolby
had done the first, so I'll have to find it somehow.
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mziemba
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response 43 of 87:
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Aug 14 03:56 UTC 1997 |
I think Dolby did the newest one, not the first one. Although I am not
exactly sure how many "Mind's Eye" videos there are, other than two (possibly
three?)...
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lumen
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response 44 of 87:
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Aug 14 07:50 UTC 1997 |
"Beyond the Mind's Eye" is indeed the second in the "Mind's Eye" series. I
have it, so I know Jan Hammer did the music for it :P
Also, I am fairly positive "The Gate to the Mind's Eye" was the first video.
As for a third sequel, I am unsure if it exists.
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mcnally
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response 45 of 87:
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Aug 14 17:23 UTC 1997 |
Thomas Dolby did the soundtrack for "The Gate to the Mind's Eye", (c) 1994.
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lumen
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response 46 of 87:
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Aug 15 03:41 UTC 1997 |
Ok, the one Dolby did is the latest-- "Beyond" was done 1992. "The Mind's
Eye" was the first. I finally checked the credits and did a little deducing.
:P
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mziemba
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response 47 of 87:
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Aug 15 09:19 UTC 1997 |
Good job, Sherlock!
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lumen
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response 48 of 87:
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Aug 16 08:38 UTC 1997 |
thanks :P
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mziemba
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response 49 of 87:
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Oct 26 10:11 UTC 1997 |
They were playing an ambient album of Pink Floyd tunes on WDET the other
night. I only heard the first part, but it sounded pretty interesting.
Apparently the album's a little hard to locate, too.
That reminds me of another similar album of Kraftwerk tunes, something like
_Trans-Slovakian Express_...Eastern European electronic bands covering
Kraftwerk material...
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