blessingx Posted September 1, 2020 Author Report Posted September 1, 2020 The Egging of Frank Sinatrahttps://medium.com/@JPRobinson/the-egging-of-frank-sinatra-1ee5365ad54b 1 Quote
blessingx Posted September 11, 2020 Author Report Posted September 11, 2020 Vinyl Sales Top Compact Discs for First Time in 34 Yearshttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-10/vinyl-record-sales-top-compact-discs-for-first-time-in-34-years Quote
Grahame Posted September 11, 2020 Report Posted September 11, 2020 So what you're saying is that CD sales have collapsed? got it. https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database/ Quote
Sherwood Posted September 16, 2020 Report Posted September 16, 2020 All these dumb vinyl resurgence articles always neglect to mention what percentage of people buying LPs actually listen to them. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 2 Quote
recstar24 Posted September 16, 2020 Report Posted September 16, 2020 1 hour ago, Sherwood said: All these dumb vinyl resurgence articles always neglect to mention what percentage of people buying LPs actually listen to them. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 🤚 Quote
Sherwood Posted September 16, 2020 Report Posted September 16, 2020 Obviously we do, how else would we wear out phono cartridges?Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote
blessingx Posted October 21, 2020 Author Report Posted October 21, 2020 Continuing the 2020 news... Keith Jarrett Confronts a Future Without the Piano The pathbreaking musician reveals the health issues that make it unlikely he will ever again perform in public. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/arts/music/keith-jarrett-piano.html?action=click&module=Editors Picks&pgtype=Homepage 5 Quote
skullguise Posted October 21, 2020 Report Posted October 21, 2020 Oh, man, that's sad and incredible.....ALMOST worse than if he passed away.....very sorry to see that! Quote
Voltron Posted October 21, 2020 Report Posted October 21, 2020 Incredibly sad. I can't imagine Keith Jarrett being unable to play the piano. Ric and I were in one of those audiences that he harranged for coughing too much, and many in the audience turned against him and openly heckled him. A meaner person might suggest a karmic retribution, but even that night he returned to the stage and took requests until he got back into the music and played quite awhile longer. 1 3 Quote
Dusty Chalk Posted October 23, 2020 Report Posted October 23, 2020 Wow, yeah, that’s just what a stroke is like. There’s a cognitive disconnect. The only reason I figured out right away that I was having one was because my mother had started having them and we (my sisters and I) were doing research and sharing with each other. But I will admit, it took me a while. I feel very fortunate that I completely recovered. I can’t even imagine what that feels like, emotionally, to realize it’s permanent. That would be hell. Quote
blessingx Posted October 23, 2020 Author Report Posted October 23, 2020 On 10/21/2020 at 12:31 PM, Voltron said: Incredibly sad. I can't imagine Keith Jarrett being unable to play the piano. Ric and I were in one of those audiences that he harranged for coughing too much, and many in the audience turned against him and openly heckled him. A meaner person might suggest a karmic retribution, but even that night he returned to the stage and took requests until he got back into the music and played quite awhile longer. That concert and hearing for the first time in an concert space, certainly an acoustically great full concert space, but sounds I never had similarly before, a person within sight, but down the isle, rotating his thumb on a water bottle label, a foot slightly shifting, in likely a still shoe, a row back and down... I mean even when I type that it sounds like an exaggeration... except I mentioned both after the show. I'd never experience massive group silence before. That degree of silence anyway. Even it it was interrupted with yells. Artist v. audience is always an interesting battle, but Jarrett made me a convert to his side. I can't thank you enough for the invite. I hope Jarrett can find contentment within his situation and maybe even find a way to still musically create to his high standards. And sorry to hear you've gone through it Dusty. 1 Quote
dsavitsk Posted November 29, 2020 Report Posted November 29, 2020 How to Build a Guitar: For The New York Times for Kids, the photographer Christopher Payne visited the Martin Guitars factory to see how humans and machines make music. 1 1 Quote
Dusty Chalk Posted November 30, 2020 Report Posted November 30, 2020 @swt61 Would love to see what your woodworking skills could accomplish with luthiery. Quote
swt61 Posted November 30, 2020 Report Posted November 30, 2020 I would think you'd need at least a basic knowledge of how to play one in order to build one. Hence my ability to build a great Ebony penis extension. Quote
Dusty Chalk Posted November 30, 2020 Report Posted November 30, 2020 6 minutes ago, swt61 said: I would think you'd need at least a basic knowledge of how to play one in order to build one. Hence my ability to build a great Ebony penis extension. Alas. Okay. Quote
luvdunhill Posted December 4, 2020 Report Posted December 4, 2020 Watching My Father’s Small Business Fade - The Atlantic.pdf 2 Quote
HiWire Posted December 4, 2020 Report Posted December 4, 2020 Great article. It's dark out there but there are still rays of hope on the horizon. Quote
robm321 Posted February 12, 2021 Report Posted February 12, 2021 (edited) I might be abusing this thread a bit with this one. I don't even know what... https://www.guitarworld.com/news/man-builds-guitar-out-of-his-dead-uncles-skeleton-uses-it-to-play-black-metal Edited February 12, 2021 by robm321 1 2 Quote
HiWire Posted February 13, 2021 Report Posted February 13, 2021 (edited) That's the most metal thing ever, short of literally precipitating the apocalypse with your epic brutal chords. Edited February 13, 2021 by HiWire 1 Quote
blessingx Posted March 30, 2021 Author Report Posted March 30, 2021 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s Lost Album, Human Highway https://longreads.com/2021/03/30/crosby-stills-nash-youngs-lost-album-human-highway/ 1 Quote
Craig Sawyers Posted March 30, 2021 Report Posted March 30, 2021 One of the last concerts we went to pre-lockdown was Graham Nash - and evening of music and recollections. Completely excellent in all regards Prior to that Neil Young in one of the weirdest concerts I've been to. At one point he and his band turned their backs to the audience, went to the back of the stage and jammed for 20 minutes. And that was one of the less strange things. Also Graham Nash and David Crosby (who have since fallen out big time). At one point Nash said to Crosby "behave - or you'll have to play with Neil Young and go deaf". Superb, absolutely superb. 3 Quote
blessingx Posted May 22, 2021 Author Report Posted May 22, 2021 Sinead O’Connor / Shuhada Sadaqat Remembers Things Differently https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/arts/music/sinead-oconnor-rememberings.html 1 Quote
blessingx Posted June 20, 2021 Author Report Posted June 20, 2021 50 Reasons to Love Joni Mitchell’s ‘Blue’ Mitchell’s “Blue” exists in that rarefied space beyond the influential or even the canonical. It is archetypal: The heroine’s journey that Joseph Campbell forgot to map out. It is the story of a restless young woman questioning everything — love, sex, happiness, independence, drugs, America, idealism, motherhood, rock ’n’ roll — accompanied by the rootless and idiosyncratically tuned sounds she so aptly called her “chords of inquiry.” https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/20/arts/music/joni-mitchell-blue.html?referringSource=articleShare 1 Quote
Craig Sawyers Posted June 20, 2021 Report Posted June 20, 2021 One of the best albums ever recorded. I have it on vinyl, twice (old original and new 180g reissue), on CD and ripped to NAS, and on Tidal HiFi. Recorded the same year as Carol King Tapestry. 2 Quote
robm321 Posted June 20, 2021 Report Posted June 20, 2021 I have the original vinyl and SACD/CD. I'm do for another listen. It's been awhile. Quote
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