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brighn
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response 50 of 70:
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Jul 10 13:57 UTC 2002 |
That I'll buy. He was a very low-key drummer. Actually, I'd say he was
probbaly doing closer to what the job of a drummer (as opposed to a
percussionist) really is: Provide an interesting but non-intrusive beat.
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jaklumen
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response 51 of 70:
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Jul 10 17:30 UTC 2002 |
Yeah. I forget which Beatle movie it was (either Help or Hard Day's
Night) in which it starts putting in a drum beat to another act.
Pretty talented.
resp:36 Yes, I saw VH1's "Behind the Music." Peter Tork had been a
Greenwich Village musician (i.e. East Coast hippie), and Michael
Nesmith was indeed a folk composer-musician. They explained that
Nesmith was really frustrated by the corporate machine, punching the
wall when "Sugar Sugar" was offered to them (quite ironically, it was
given to a band comprised of comic strip characters). It was
interesting to see "Video Killed the Radio Star" as well, in which they
explain Nesmith's contribution to the launch of MTV.
Nesmith wasn't the most polished and proficient of composers; a lot of
his Monkee tunes suffer in the light of what studio wizards were doing,
and he wasn't a consistent hitmaker. But he did have some talent.
However, he didn't need to worry about money-- he was the heir of the
fortune of the woman who invented paper clips.
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slynne
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response 52 of 70:
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Jul 10 18:01 UTC 2002 |
She didnt invent paper clips, she invented White Out or Liquid Paper (I
forget which)
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brighn
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response 53 of 70:
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Jul 10 18:19 UTC 2002 |
Michael Nesmith's mother invented Liquid Paper.
The only Monkees movie, Head, deals almost exclusively with the issue of them
being little more than a commercial product. Its surrealism reminds me a lot
of Nesmith's later work, including the much more acerbic but about as strange
Estevez cult classic, "Repo Man."
The life of a repo man is *always* intense.
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jmsaul
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response 54 of 70:
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Jul 10 18:25 UTC 2002 |
Nesmith worked on Repo Man?
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brighn
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response 55 of 70:
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Jul 10 18:35 UTC 2002 |
He's listed as Executive Producer.
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jmsaul
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response 56 of 70:
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Jul 10 18:39 UTC 2002 |
Any idea what he actually did? That title can mean a variety of things.
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brighn
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response 57 of 70:
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Jul 10 18:54 UTC 2002 |
Nope, no idea. Given that it does have a similar surrealism, it's hard to tell
whether he had some creative input, or just agreed to underwrite it because
he clicked with the script. It's definitely darker than the few other things
he's been involved with (although Head did have a few dark moments, like the
wraparound pseudosuicide of the band that it begins and ends with).
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jaklumen
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response 58 of 70:
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Jul 11 06:55 UTC 2002 |
resp:53 Whoops, that's right.
"Head".. I *loved* that movie, but I swear, Jack Nicholson and the
others must have been on mondo drugs.
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omni
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response 59 of 70:
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Jul 11 09:32 UTC 2002 |
John Denver was the idiot who ripped on Toledo for being boring.
Ok, it is, but he didnt have to write a song about it.
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brighn
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response 60 of 70:
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Jul 11 13:24 UTC 2002 |
I think my favorite bit is where Peter apes back the words of the guru,
talking about the nature of reality for a few minutes before concluding with,
"But why ask me, for I know nothing." Instead of being as wowed by Peter as
Peter was with the guru, the other Monkees get disgusted and slap him around.
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slynne
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response 61 of 70:
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Jul 11 13:48 UTC 2002 |
I loved their "pad"
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jmsaul
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response 62 of 70:
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Jul 11 13:57 UTC 2002 |
Re #59: I grew up in Toledo, and we were never offended by that.
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russ
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response 63 of 70:
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Jul 12 01:17 UTC 2002 |
Re #49, #50: As I recall from listening to Beatles tunes (which I seldom
do any more), Ringo almost NEVER did anything other than keep time. I'm
familiar with exactly one drum solo on a tune that gets airplay, and it's
hardly an artistic tour de force. I guess he supports the stereotype.
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scott
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response 64 of 70:
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Jul 12 01:27 UTC 2002 |
Ringo does what few musicians ever manage to do: Be reliable, solid, and
never blow his part by trying to be a flashy player.
Listen to Steely Dan albums, and reflect on the fact that the players they
used were typically 10 times better than the parts they were playing. The
result is that those parts are nearly perfect. It's tough to get really good
players to limit themselves to a simple part.
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jaklumen
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response 65 of 70:
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Jul 12 10:44 UTC 2002 |
btw, is this linked to the music cf, Scott?
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mynxcat
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response 66 of 70:
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Jul 12 15:07 UTC 2002 |
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scott
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response 67 of 70:
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Jul 12 17:45 UTC 2002 |
No, actually it isn't.. I'll fix that soon enough.
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mynxcat
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response 68 of 70:
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Jul 12 18:39 UTC 2002 |
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tpryan
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response 69 of 70:
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Jul 13 00:17 UTC 2002 |
Okay, who is the one with Liquid Paper on their monitor?
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krj
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response 70 of 70:
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Dec 7 05:07 UTC 2002 |
Tonight the CD burner has started producing discs with clicks about
half the time. I suppose it's possible that this actually represents
the looming failure of our 15-year-old primary CD player, but no
manufactured discs are skipping.
Separate copy runs from the same source disk will produce
different results: some skip and some don't.
Unfortunately everything in the computer has changed recently.
We rebuilt the Windows 2000 system on an 80 gig disc.
The old 10 gig system had Easy CD Creator 5 basic from a Plextor
2.00 disc. When the Plextor 40/12/24 USB drive which came with that
2.00 disc was destroyed, we got a 40/12/40 USB drive; we didn't install
the 2.01 disc which came with the new drive because the old software worked.
On the new 80 gig system, however, I could not get the Plextor 2.00
version of Easy CD Creator to recognize the 40/12/40 Plextor drive,
so I had to "upgrade" to 2.01. Sigh.
Things were working so well...
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