Moderators Lee Knight Posted March 6, 2015 Moderators Share Posted March 6, 2015 hi. _____________ I've never know anything about this guy from the late 60's/early 70's. Harvey Mandel. Just starting to dig in and I love him. Completely of the era and yet unlike anyone. [video=youtube;oWcyNJ_bwhc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWcyNJ_bwhc [video=youtube;t_IGj-dTDW8] [video=youtube;FxHCISZZ5-w] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted March 6, 2015 Author Moderators Share Posted March 6, 2015 Orrin Keepnews died this week. He was a jazz record producer. A great one. The Adderlys, Wes, Sonny Rollins, Chet, Monk... he produced some the crazy geniuses of jazz. A lot of them. But more than that, for me, he produced a couple of my favorite jazz albums of all time. Everybody Digs Bill Evans, and the groundbreaking Fly With the Wind by McCoy Tyner. [video=youtube;UZIXDTH-sLA] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted March 6, 2015 Members Share Posted March 6, 2015 Mozart - Symphony #40 Been listening to this a lot - one of my dad's favorites. Check out the development section in the 4th movement where Mozart uses every note in the chromatic scale EXCEPT the tonic note of G. [video=youtube;c8yjdmNBaZk] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted March 6, 2015 Author Moderators Share Posted March 6, 2015 Passenger. AKA Michael Rosenberg. I hadn't heard the studio version of this till right now. But I really like the song each time I hear it played live on performance shows, etc. At first listen it struck me a little like, "Oh {censored}, more leprechaun rock. Break out the hurry gurdy and tights clad midgets. But its WAY better than that. But of course... the vid takes place in a magical forest. So maybe those pesky little people are watching on. I like him... [video=youtube;kBqqlW6-99M] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted March 6, 2015 Members Share Posted March 6, 2015 hi. _____________ I've never know anything about this guy from the late 60's/early 70's. Harvey Mandel. Just starting to dig in and I love him. Completely of the era and yet unlike anyone. Great stuff! It really swings! Then the strings come in and are followed by fuzz guitar! Amazing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted March 6, 2015 Members Share Posted March 6, 2015 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Mandel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted March 6, 2015 Author Moderators Share Posted March 6, 2015 Thanks for that ^^^. Cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nat whilk II Posted March 6, 2015 Members Share Posted March 6, 2015 This influence is not musical, but nevertheless this writer is having a big impact on my lyrics. Or maybe I should say "will" have a big impact on my lyrics. His style has set off some sort of big kebang deep in my literary subconsiouness, and I expect strange newly-planted species to start poking small fronds and buds out into the light of day in time. I read a lot, and admire so many writers and poets, but this guy is one of the rare ones that has quickly taken a place on my personal shortlist of life-changers. John Banville. Another brilliant Irishman with the pen. Must be the stout or something. A long excerpt - may the copyright gods not be wroth with me. From The Sea, Banville's Booker Prize-winning novel. An old man well into his 60s, an art critic (note the "Vincent" reference) with a practiced eye, a proud and sensitive has-been, mercilessly critiques his own reflection in the morning mirror - and then his mind wanders - does it ever: This morning it was the state of my eyes that struck me most forcibly, the whites all craquelured over with those tiny bright-red veins and the moist lower lids inflamed and hanging a little way loose of the eyeballs. I have, I note, hardly any lashes left, I who when young had a silky set a girl might have envied. At the inner extremity of the upper lids there is a little bump just before the swoop of the canthus which is almost pretty except that it is permanently yellowish at the tip, as if infected. And that bud in the canthus itself, what is that for? Nothing in the human visage bears prolonged scrutiny. The pink-tinged pallor my my cheeks, which are, I am afraid, yes, sunken, just like poor Vincent's, was made the more stark and sickly by the radiance reflected off the white walls and the enamel of the sink. This radiance was not the glow of a northern autumn but seemed more like the hard, unyielding, dry glare of the far south. It glinted on the glass before me and sank into the distemper of the walls, giving them the parched, brittle texture of cuttlefish bone. A spot of it on the curve of the hand-basin streamed outward in all directions like an immensely distant nebulae. Standing there in that white box of light I was transported for a moment to some far shore, real or imagined, I do not know which, although the details had a remarkable dreamlike definition, where I sat in the sun on a hard ridge of shaly sand holding in my hands a big flat smooth stone. The stone was dry and warm, I seemed to press it to my lips, it seems to taste saltily of the sea's deeps and distances, far islands, lost places under leaning fronds, the frail skeletons of fishes, wrack and rot. The little waves before at the water's edge speak with an animate voice, whispering eagerly of some ancient catastrophe, the sack of Troy, perhaps, or the sinking of Atlantis. All brims, brackish and shining. Water-beads break and fall in a silver string from the tip of an oar. I see the black ship in the distance, looming imperceptibly nearer at every instant. I am there. I hear your siren's song. I am there, almost there. Actually, I think some of the above must have worked it's way into that recent song of mine I posted - The Sea and the Sky and the Land, the verse about standing by the lake. nat whilk ii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members oldgitplayer Posted March 6, 2015 Members Share Posted March 6, 2015 hi. _____________ I've never know anything about this guy from the late 60's/early 70's. Harvey Mandel. Just starting to dig in and I love him. Completely of the era and yet unlike anyone. [video=youtube;oWcyNJ_bwhc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWcyNJ_bwhc I especially like this track. I vaguely remember him from a weed-filled afternoon in the late 60's. There was a guy who used to import records from everywhere and he had an amazing collection of non-mainstream music. We used to take a stash round to his place and listen for hours. It was probably guys like Harvey who shifted me from structured songs to sitting around and playing just 2 chords. Everybody would join in - bass, bongos, flute, lead guitar, scat - long 20 minute grooves. Good times……... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted March 7, 2015 Members Share Posted March 7, 2015 A trippy, jazzy Donovan song (and one of my favorites) covered in 1970 by a Czech singer and actor named Václav Neckář. [video=youtube;I8cR-6vt5yU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8cR-6vt5yU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted March 7, 2015 Members Share Posted March 7, 2015 Some songs produced by Donovan's producer, Mickie Most. "I Love Rock and Roll," by Arrows (original), 1975. [video=youtube;8AT_Pbtyid0] "Brother Louie," Hot Chocolate (original), 1973. (Most also produced their hit, "You Sexy Thing.") [video=youtube;YUY9Y9RFiHY] "It's My Life," The Animals, 1965. (Most also produced their bigger hits, like "House of the Rising Sun", "We Gotta Get Outta This Place," etc.) [video=youtube;s0KlOmrqdyY] "There's a Kind of Hush," Herman's Hermits, 1967. [video=youtube;pk5DBwa5wJ8] And of course, saving the best for last, all of Donovan's hits and album tracks. [video=youtube;hTuPbJLqFKI] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tbry Posted March 7, 2015 Members Share Posted March 7, 2015 Always got a melancholy feeling when I heard this song and wanted to head out on the road to distant sights and places I had heard about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted March 10, 2015 Members Share Posted March 10, 2015 Dave's True Story. [video=youtube;mKSblbomN3A]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKSblbomN3A Leave a Light On for Misery She owns a mint-green EldoradoShe's given lectures at the PradoShe moves through air so easilyLeave a light on for Misery She got her Masters in DerisionShe likes the big screen televisionThis makes for thrilling companyLeave a light on for Misery ...MiseryLeave a light on for MiseryThey speak her nameIn KatmanduThey know her wellIn Ghana tooBreak out the bowlBut she won't stirIt's not her faultIt's not her faultYou're not like her Her evening wear is understatedShe thinks Foucault is overratedShe says she has big plans for meLeave a light on for Misery...MiseryLeave a light on for Misery [instrumental Break] Watching the sunriseFrom Big SurThe ocean holdsNo charm for herBreak out the bowlAnd she'll take twoIt's not your faultIt's not your faultShe's just like you She spans the globe like CoronadoKnows all the words to "Desperado"She says she has big plans for meLeave a light on for Misery...MiseryLeave a light on for Misery © Sept. 12, 1998 David Cantor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted March 11, 2015 Members Share Posted March 11, 2015 Dave's True Story, "I'll Never Read Trollope Again." [video=youtube;kQ8mvfACSFY] "I'll Never Read Trollope Again" Verse:I've an appetite for fiction no post-modern work can slakeI refuse to buy a book unless it's thicker than a steakNow Gordon Lish and Barry Hannah have their partisans and shillsBut I prefer Victoriana for my literary thrills And of all the British authors who were writing at that timeThere's one special British author I find especially sublimeNow Austen is awesome and Dickens is a kickBut no one packs a wallop quite like Trollope Yes Trollope is the one I most adoreBut my days of reading Trollope are no more 1.I was sitting in a quaint cafeWith a favorite tome and some cafe au laitBut my luck ran out when you came my wayNow I'll never read Trollope again 2.You spied the cover as you slithered nearAnd said "The 1800s--that's my favorite year."And then you sat right down and now I fearThat I'll never read Trollope again Bridge.Armed with Trollope and a cup or twoI could while the day awayNow just a dollopMakes me think of youAnd that's too high a price to pay 3.I'll read Kafka's tale about that lonely verminI'll read every Jonathan Edwards sermonHell, I'll read Emmanuel Kant in GermanBut I'll never read Trollope again Bridge 2.I used to read him with a friend or twoI used to read him by myselfBut just to read him now only makes me blueSo I've tossed him from my shelf 4.I'll read Don Quixote five or six times throughI'll read Jackie Collins till my face turns blueHell, I'll even read Bukowski tooBut I'll never read Trollope againNo I'll never read Trollope again © David Cantor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members oldgitplayer Posted March 11, 2015 Members Share Posted March 11, 2015 Cool lyric writer this Dave Cantor - I've never come across him before now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted March 11, 2015 Members Share Posted March 11, 2015 Cool lyric writer this Dave Cantor - I've never come across him before now. I came across the group while looking for Dylan covers by various artists. They have a whole album full of them. Including this one, which is one of my favorites. [video=youtube;sYwcnMjYtoI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYwcnMjYtoI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members oldgitplayer Posted March 11, 2015 Members Share Posted March 11, 2015 ^^^ Really enjoyed that.Both Bob and Leonard are expressive singers rather than melodic singers, so I always love it when someone mines their melodies for the riches that have been left behind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted March 11, 2015 Members Share Posted March 11, 2015 ^^^ Really enjoyed that. Both Bob and Leonard are expressive singers rather than melodic singers, so I always love it when someone mines their melodies for the riches that have been left behind. Nice way of putting it. Yes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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