Members Karma1 Posted September 18, 2009 Members Share Posted September 18, 2009 Last night I was watching VH1 and they had a couple documentaries on The Doors. In an interview, they were talking about how the trend (back in 1968) seemed to be going retro - back to the blues and roots music. At that point Morrison said that he thought eventually a new element of music was going to be electronic and that "some day" there will be just one person up on stage surrounded by a bunch of machines and electronic devices making music, instead of a whole band. Back then a statement like that was very far fetched and probably inconceivable to most musicians of the time. But here we are now, and Morrison was right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Metrosonus Posted September 18, 2009 Members Share Posted September 18, 2009 i think it's interesting that musical trends tend to move in circles of nostalgia and shock with the glam element thrown in every third go round or so. there's exceptions of course, but that seems to be the main rotation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Diametro Posted September 18, 2009 Members Share Posted September 18, 2009 Electronics scatteredon fawn's high stage bleeping Most crowds ...the young mild fauxshell mind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Crawling Wind Posted September 18, 2009 Members Share Posted September 18, 2009 I actually saw that when it was broadcast. That particular show was cool in that whatever band was the guest performers played live for about 30 minutes, and then they had a "rap session", usually about "the revolution", it being the late 60's and all. On that show the Doors debuted the Soft Parade live, I remember how dissapointed I was when the studio version came out later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Diametro Posted September 18, 2009 Members Share Posted September 18, 2009 I really enjoy "The Soft Parade ... " Though I much prefer hardware ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gribs Posted September 18, 2009 Members Share Posted September 18, 2009 Well the mechanical one-man band thing has been going for who-knows-how-long. I knew a guy in my home town who did that - mostly at charitable occasions and town functions like parades and whatnot. His main jobs were as a school bus driver and a farmer, and his farm was full of electro-mechanical gadgets, gizmos, and models of all sorts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Crawling Wind Posted September 18, 2009 Members Share Posted September 18, 2009 I like the Soft Parade - the version they played on that show was pretty vicious. I prefer hardware also. 996 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soundxplorer Posted September 18, 2009 Members Share Posted September 18, 2009 In the year 1626, Francis Bacon wrote "New Atlantis", in which he predicted the Eventide Harmonizer: "...strange and artificial echoes, re-flecting the voice many times, and, as it were, tossing it; and some that give back the voice louder than it came, some shriller and some deeper; yea, some rendering the voice, differing in the letters or articulate sound from that they receive..." http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/bacon/atlantis.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kilon Posted September 19, 2009 Members Share Posted September 19, 2009 Last night I was watching VH1 and they had a couple documentaries on The Doors. In an interview, they were talking about how the trend (back in 1968) seemed to be going retro - back to the blues and roots music. At that point Morrison said that he thought eventually a new element of music was going to be electronic and that "some day" there will be just one person up on stage surrounded by a bunch of machines and electronic devices making music, instead of a whole band. Back then a statement like that was very far fetched and probably inconceivable to most musicians of the time. But here we are now, and Morrison was right. I am not really surprised, he was a spiritual person and obviously very intelligent with very powerful beliefs. However you must bare in mind that electronic music is alot older than people think . And certainly much older than Jim's statement. So his statement is far from a prediction. Take the Barons for example, they made the first 100% electronic soundtrack, which even this day is groundbreaking for the movie "Forbidden Planet" in 1956 (which is probably the best sci if I have ever seen, you wont believe the sophistication of the special effects!!!) !!! But they earliest work was in 1950 that is almost 20 years before Jim Morrison's Statement. So electronic music was there for a long time its just had not exploded yet. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4486840 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_and_Bebe_Barron [YOUTUBE]juhdbifA4vQ[/YOUTUBE] [YOUTUBE]Gfz1XrV8x04&NR=1[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hogberto Posted September 19, 2009 Members Share Posted September 19, 2009 hmm. he must have been a mysterious visionary. or maybe he was just a screwed up spaced out hippy who spewed a lot of stuff on a lot of subjects before dying in a bath at the age of 27. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Metrosonus Posted September 19, 2009 Members Share Posted September 19, 2009 i saw JFK at a waffle house once Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Diametro Posted September 19, 2009 Members Share Posted September 19, 2009 It's better to burn out than to fade away ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members myfriendfive Posted September 19, 2009 Members Share Posted September 19, 2009 My my hey hey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members asynchro_nous Posted September 19, 2009 Members Share Posted September 19, 2009 The Barrons were incredible pioneers of electronic music -- thanks for the links Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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