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Post by clive gash on Feb 15, 2021 19:37:46 GMT
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Post by Charlie O. on Feb 16, 2021 1:58:23 GMT
If I ever knew that he wrote it for Harrison, I'd forgotten! Crosby always said he wrote it in 1967, while still a Byrd; I'm not sure whether the song was specifically rejected by his bandmates (as "Triad" famously was), or Crosby was fired before they had a chance to hear it. (They did finally record it - on their Croz-produced 1973 reunion album.)The Beatles' romance with the Maharishi began in August '67 and The Byrds fired Crosby in October, so the timeline checks out. |
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Feb 17, 2021 14:03:41 GMT
For some reason I decided on my walk into work today that I would force myself to listen to the new Foo Fighters album. I'm on the second track and it's really fucking awful so far...
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Post by clive gash on Feb 23, 2021 12:56:26 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2021 14:11:29 GMT
Didn't know about his drinking. I kind of admire him . Then again, he is just the fella who you would expect to be Victoria Woods dad and the kind of singer who performes after one of Cyril's odes on that's life. I couldn't take him seriously back in the day. |
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Post by clive gash on Feb 27, 2021 11:09:15 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2021 13:05:47 GMT
Thanks. I enjoyed reading that. |
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Post by clive gash on Feb 27, 2021 13:22:17 GMT
It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track, his collection of essays that came out a couple of years ago, is the best music book I’ve read in a long time.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2021 13:30:48 GMT
It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track, his collection of essays that came out a couple of years ago, is the best music book I’ve read in a long time. I can find him a little too verbose and unwieldy. But I did enjoy that, so may give it a go. |
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Post by rayge on Feb 28, 2021 17:40:10 GMT
Thanks. I enjoyed reading that. Me too. I'm glad he's finally emerged from the semiotic soup he swam in in his early days on the NME, when he vied with Paul Morley for prolix incomprehensibility. |
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Post by Charlie O. on Mar 1, 2021 18:26:11 GMT
Sounds probable. If you examine an original US pressing of the LP, it has just the title on the spine; on the label, it lists the band members (and their producer), with no band name. The only place it says THE BAND is in the gatefold, directly over the list of names - as in, "this is the band that made this music." Likewise, the single of "The Weight"/"I Shall Be Released" doesn't say "The Band" anywhere - just the members' names (and, confusingly, "MUSIC FROM BIG PINK").
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Mar 2, 2021 17:58:40 GMT
Sometimes when I'm walking to work I'll be singing a song in my head and get to the end and give the last line of the song a big drawn out Broadway musical-style ending. I don't know when or why I started doing this, but it's been happening for a while.
For example, today I was humming 'Iko Iko', and when I got to the end I gave it a big "Jock-a-mooo feeeeeeee naaaaaaAAHHH-NAAAAAAAYYYYY! I-KO!! (imagine a large group of people all singing at once).
Perhaps I've said too much.
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Post by "BING E BONG" on Mar 2, 2021 18:16:26 GMT
Fabulous!
but only in your head?
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Mar 2, 2021 18:17:52 GMT
Fabulous! but only in your head? Fuck yes! I wouldn't do it out loud! |
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Post by "BING E BONG" on Mar 2, 2021 18:22:55 GMT
I sing in the street all the time!
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