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mta
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response 25 of 202:
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Jul 28 19:19 UTC 1991 |
I understand that there won't be any new Uncle Bonsai...true?
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morel
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response 26 of 202:
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Jul 28 19:48 UTC 1991 |
True, the band split up a year or two ago. As far as I know, the only
member still in the music buisness is, um, I can't think of his name.
Anyway, the male member of the group. He has one recording out under the
name "Electric Banzai Band", though he's neither electric nor a band. ;-)
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mcnally
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response 27 of 202:
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Jul 28 20:56 UTC 1991 |
True, from what I hear. One of the members started another band, though.
(Electric Bonsai Band?)
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mew
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response 28 of 202:
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Jul 29 17:51 UTC 1991 |
Andrew Ratshin is the sole member of The Electris Bonsai Band.
I haven't heard much of his solo work but friends tell me it is good.
I do know that he wrote almost all the lyrics and music for Uncle
Bonsai.
kjh re # 22: Dunno! Sounds like our tastes in music
mesh pretty well. I mananged to get tix to early show of Richard
Thompson so perhaps I will see you there?
Finally subscribied to Dirty Linen (folk magazine that specializes
at least somehwat in celt folk) after picking up a form at the Pentangle
concert.
I liked the Pentangle concert but I must admit I like them much better
on cd where the blend in cleaner and you can make out the words.
Also I have a prejudice for old pentangle . I miss Terry Cox and John
Renbourn.
Maybe we should have a grex music party to listen to brit folk eh?
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krj
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response 29 of 202:
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Jul 30 17:00 UTC 1991 |
Hmmm, this reminds me that I meant to start a magazine item...
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ragnar
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response 30 of 202:
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Aug 4 14:08 UTC 1991 |
For me, it's largely hard rock (with structured musicality, please) and
the better classical works.
Tops for me: Boston, Badlands, Extreme, Bach, Beethoven, Haydn, Van Halen
Ygnwie Malmsteen, and Queen.
My recent passion is for blues, led by (or course) the late great
Stevie Ray Vaughn, followed far behind by a few others.
I listen to the occasional experimental or new-age work, such as
The Art of Noise, and Jean Michel Jarre.
But mostly it's SCREAMING SIX STRINGS TIL I DIE!!!
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hype
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response 31 of 202:
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Aug 5 04:44 UTC 1991 |
Extreme kicks ass man... I must admit :)
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ragnar
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response 32 of 202:
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Aug 8 18:15 UTC 1991 |
Yes, and I was on to them 3 years ago with thier first album.
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hype
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response 33 of 202:
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Aug 8 21:28 UTC 1991 |
I didnt even know of them till the newest album... Is their first as good?
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ragnar
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response 34 of 202:
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Aug 15 02:02 UTC 1991 |
The first album was more straight-ahead rock, this one seems more experimental
as it runs amok through several styles and combinations.
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hype
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response 35 of 202:
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Aug 17 03:47 UTC 1991 |
Yikes, I just bought the first one, and I LOVE it!
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ragnar
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response 36 of 202:
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Sep 4 00:07 UTC 1991 |
Good, though now it's not as much of a personal experience for me... ;-(
Oh well!
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graham
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response 37 of 202:
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Sep 5 19:32 UTC 1991 |
Bruce Cockburn, of course! (Surely it must be time for a new album by now?)
I'm not *quite* stuck in the 70s, but sometimes it seems like it because
there are few current "acts" that I want to listen to an album's worth of.
So I'm really sorry to see the 45 die. Even 12-inch singles are getting rare.
(Yes, some of us are still doing vinyl (or even styrofoam, in the case of
some singles... oh, uh, I mean polystyrene. Pardon me, CBS...)
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mcnally
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response 38 of 202:
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Sep 25 08:13 UTC 1991 |
I have an annoying little Andy-Rooney-esque question. Why is it that
computer disk (hard disk, floppy disk, etc..) is always spelled with a "k"
while compact disc is always spelled with a "c"?
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arthur
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response 39 of 202:
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Sep 25 14:45 UTC 1991 |
Probably so that people don't try and put the computer disk in the
compact disc player, and vice versa.
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mcnally
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response 40 of 202:
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Sep 26 07:01 UTC 1991 |
Unless, of course, it's a CD-ROM.. Somehow I think that someone careless
enough to make a mistake like that wouldn't be stopped cold by a spelling
difference, though.
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md
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response 41 of 202:
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Sep 26 13:20 UTC 1991 |
I listen to all kinds of music. I don't think I have very good taste.
I don't like Mozart much, for example, and you won't find anything in
my record collection by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Buddy
Holly or Elvis Presley, but I do have the LP by Lipps, Inc, with the song
"Funkytown" on it, as well as two albums of music by France Jolie.
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mcnally
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response 42 of 202:
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Sep 26 21:53 UTC 1991 |
I won't pass judgement on whether your taste is "bad" or "good".
It's certainly different from mine, though. As long as *you* enjoy
the music you listen to, that's what counts.
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polygon
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response 43 of 202:
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Sep 28 13:11 UTC 1991 |
I'm baffled by #41. You're saying that if you had three or four Elvis
Presley albums, it would mean you have good taste?
"Starkist isn't looking for tunas with good taste; they're looking for
tunas that taste good!"
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bad
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response 44 of 202:
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Oct 13 06:26 UTC 1991 |
I began to enjoy Extreme in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
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keats
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response 45 of 202:
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Mar 17 14:24 UTC 1992 |
could i ask a question? why does the login banner say that we "used to
discuss" music here? did somebody close down the conference while i wasn't
looking (listening)?
re 41: despite owning a fair amount of mozart, i have to say truly that only
his piano concertos get me particularly excited. mozart recycled a lot of
his own themes--in a way, after you've heard a certain percentage of mozart,
you've heard him all (and no, the percentage in question is not 100). i
was also very unimpressed with his requiem. i think anything gloomy or
gravely thoughtful was beyond him. as to symphonies...well, thank God for
beethoven and brahms.
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remmers
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response 46 of 202:
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Mar 17 22:35 UTC 1992 |
Now that I have a piano in the house, I've been rediscovering the joys
of performing Mozart, which I've always liked to play, and Beethoven,
which I'm discovering more or less for the first time. (I performed
a couple of movements of Beethoven sonatas in my youth, but can't say
I ever got deeply into it). I think there is nothing I like better
than Mozart at his best.
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keats
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response 47 of 202:
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Mar 18 03:27 UTC 1992 |
fine. be that way.
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remmers
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response 48 of 202:
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Mar 18 12:38 UTC 1992 |
MOZART RULES!!!
(as the Grex Music cf. degenerates into a warboard... :-)
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arabella
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response 49 of 202:
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Mar 18 16:53 UTC 1992 |
Mozart's Requiem is one of my favorite pieces of choral music.
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