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  1. Hi Lee.  Thanks for all that you do. I can't log in. I'm a 73 year old computer ignoramus who can provide you with my IP address if needed.  Miss posting to my thread!  Be well and happy. Mark B.

     

  2. Cool. I have an original BOSS CS-1. I love it for guitar of course but... as a secret weapon? On bass! It sort of slices things off at around 80Hz maybe, so it's not good as a track compressor. But as a solo boost and girth enhancement (think Extenz for Bass) it is mind blowing. It always gave the impression that I just sort of made my bass stand out for 8 bars with some finger trickery. A seriously great sound. BUT!!!! Your idea of parallel processing changes everything, Why didn't I think of that. I'm going to pretend I did. This is going to make my next bass track bitchen!
  3. That is a cool idea. Will be trying it on my current tune
  4. Not to generalize, but I just watched the Olympic parade and the Greeks were pretty strong in the looks department. The Italians...maybe, maybe not. Ha! Well... there's that...
  5. The question is over-generalized bull{censored}, but.... Precisely why I gave an over-generalized bull{censored} answer. But yeah, Ram, you make a great point. The Greeks had many cities situated from from each other and not sharing all that much is common with what the stereotypical view of them is.
  6. The Romans prided themselves on conquering and ruling. Then, wanting to tie all the conquests together. All roads lead to Rome. You know what they say about the Roman roads. Very well made. So they were doers. They appropriated things as their own. Even the Roman gods were "borrowed" from the Greeks via the Iliad. The Greeks, on the other hand, made many discoveries and were as a result well versed in mathematics, geometry, astronomy. The Romans used all those discoveries. Used them. Doers. The Romans built aqueducts, dams, roads, bridges, architecture. Much of this doer mentality of the Romans was facilitated by the discoveries of the Greeks. The Romans were realists, the Greeks, dreamers. A Roman statue of a leader has a big nose, the Greek version would be idealized view of that leader. And a pretty nose.
  7. XTC's Respectable Street is like this...so yes, it starts with the bridge. It's in the order of their hedgerow oh-oo-ohs it's in the way their curtains open and clo-oo-ohse it's in the look they give you down their no-oo-ohse all part of decency's jigsaw I suppose
  8. Is this done? http://www.youtube.com/user/KnightLee1#p/a/u/2/unYVVt8LPhk
  9. You have your convictions, Lee. I have mine. One thing I won't do is heap shame on you for not upholding mine. A little balanced reciprocity seems appropriate about now. Maybe I should've added a I do really think it's a shame that you're missing out but of course I respect another's opinion. I used to say "I hate BACH!" and lots of guys would say, that's a shame. I disagreed then, now... I bow to the man. But I'm not being serious here. Just playin' with ya.
  10. Pass. Wear these designer jeans, you'll be (and everyone else) the talk of the town. Think this way, it's good for you. You ask to conventionalize the unconventional, which has been so-ascribed because it doesn't stand up to the popular vote. I know Dylan's voice. Don't hear the music in it. I do hear air stumbling out of his voice box, some of it taking the olfactory bypass, but it doesn't do for me what I want music to do. Been tuned in for most of my 55 years but him I tune out. Him and Ethel Merman. That is a shame...
  11. that's ridiculous. you think confusion is an ad-hominem attack? i should ad-hominem attack you for saying something so backwards. I don't believe in an angry God.
  12. There are some interesting bits in the lyrics but man, that music, oof. Why would people my age (apparently) want to play such puerile stuff? Can't they think of anything meaningful to do with their lives? Rock really did die back when... Wow. Not trying to be contrary but I really liked that.
  13. I'm still of the mind that "making sense" is a moving target. Does Come Together make sense? Even with the Leary explanation it doesn't in the traditional way. But does it move you? Engage you? Absolutely. Does it take you somewhere like a great work of art? Yes. Job done. Like Byrne said, Stop Making Sense. That works too...
  14. I think sometimes an artist, myself included will do scratch lyrics just to get a melody and rhythm/meter and phasing going, then switch them out later. Some leave them in on occasion, which is what Come Together feels like to me. Anthony Keidis does it a lot in RHCP too. I think he might have left them in cause he looked at his splattered wall and said, "That's... pretty freakin' cool."
  15. He roller-coaster, he got early warning He got muddy water, he one mojo filter He say "One and one and one is three" Got to be good-looking cos he's so hard to see Come together right now over me Oh Come together Yeah come together Yeah come together Yeah come together Yeah come together Yeah come together Yeah come together Yeah oh Come together Yeah come together ^^^Those lyrics^^^ make sense. In an artistic capacity they absolutely leave a very clear impression of some very vague images. And some very crystal clear images as well. The meaning, if there is one in the conventional sense, is secondary to the impression. But, to some degree, that's the way a literal song works too. The words leave an impression. It might be starkly literal like "School's OUT... FOR... SUMMER!" or it might be splatters of Pollockesque image-word-phrases like: He got feet down below his knee Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease Hold you in his arm(s)... chair? That's pretty cool. Leaves an impression on me. One that wouldn't be possible in a literal lyric. Considering he shoots coca-cola I can actaully see his arms. Cah-reepy. So... ...does it make sense? Well, maybe not. Did he have a vision he was trying to get through to you and me... absolutely. Can't you see that guy? He wear no shoeshine, he got toe-jam football He got monkey finger, he shoot coca-cola ^^^ That guy^^^ the above phrase conjured in my mind used to scare the hell out of me as kid. But in a good way. Creepy Crumb-like 60's Sunset Hipster Jamesdeaniewithlonghiar Junkie Loser Handsome Svengali Seer Dude. Keep On Truckin' You Spinal Cracker. Over me. CRACK! Right through to my jaw. Scary. Makes sense to me. No?
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