Sad news: Soul Train creator Don Cornelius dead in apparent suicide
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
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.
That is so sad.
Hayden may be too modest to link to this (even though he doesn't play on these recordings), but here's his new band: [link]
Also, I am embarrassed to say that I only just now got the Zeno joke.
Thanks, Jon!
Unplayable Piece Used to Test Player Pianos
It’s called “Circus Galop” or “Death Waltz”, and it’s used to test the performance of player pianos. No single person has ever played it…so far. But if we can put a man on the moon, surely we can genetically engineer a superhuman species that can perform it.
I'm guessing a human would need at least six hands to play it. Sounds cool and fun to watch.
The composer Conlon Nancarrow composed primarily on hand-punched player piano rolls creating music that humans couldn't play. I always thought that was so cool.
For Beatle fans, in case you ever wondered what a Helter Skelter really looked like.
what the fuck is that?
what the fuck is that?
That is a Helter Skelter, which is a British fairground attraction.
Hence, "When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide / Where I stop and I turn and then I go for a ride..."