Kaylee ,'The Message'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
They sound like something I'd be vastly entertained by.
I 'listened' (read: gave half an ear to them as I worked) to the songs they have up on their MySpace page, and the overwhelming impression I got was of a gothed-up, punked-out B-52's. That kind of sound.
Also?
It's easy to hear Swordfishtrombones as a fistfight between Kurt Weill and Nino Rota with xylophone keys flying out of the orchestra pit while Howlin' Wolf announces the bout.
LOVE.
Jeez, David, don't you know that you're supposed to write dull and lifeless prose? That's how you write about music you love!
I kid, natch. It's fantastic, and I'm very excited to read the rest.
Jeez, David, don't you know that you're supposed to write dull and lifeless prose? That's how you write about music you love!
Maybe I should note that the songs are awesome because Tom Waits is awesome?
That would be awesome.
Ha! I like the commenter who said "This would be really neat if you had a second wiimote set to control volume so you could do vibrato and swells."
And then there's this comment exchange:
zerolr(12 hours ago): the control was made for that song.. lol Great idea, is there anything the wiimote can't do?
IsThisInfected (3 hours ago): It can't find you a girlfriend.
Speaking of Theremin, I got my copy of The Sandanista Project yesterday. I only got around to listening to The Lothar's track, but it was fun.
Thanks, Frank!
We had ouf baseball team's season ending potluck tonight.
So, I'm chatting with David B., father of Eli B. (one of my players). I knew he was a journalist, but he's also a jazz musician and has interviewed a lot of jazz musicians. Like who? I ask. Ella Fitzgerald, Wayne Shorter, Gil Evans, Tony Williams....
Cool, huh?
Even cooler, he mentions Emil Richards. I say, "That's interesting Emil Richards has a part in the Tom Waits book I'm writing. Victor Feldman took Tom Waits over to Emil Richards place, and Tom chose all the exotic percussion he used on Swordfishtrombones from Emil's collection."
Another parent standing by, Lee (father to Eli T. - the other Eli on the team - pipes up) - "Oh we recorded Emil Richards once at my studio."
Now I knew Lee was some kind of sound engineer but had never really talked to him about it.
Turns out that Lee and his wife Phyllis not only run this studio, but they're also Bill Frissell's manager.
In short, I'm on the guest list the next time Bill plays locally.