Where's your name, David?
I hope some of y'all who contributed to this book will also contribute to the High Hat at some point.
I don't fancy spending the next month trying to get librarian out of the carpet.
Spike ,'Chosen'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
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.
Hayden - Mar 04, 2004 9:42:28 am PST #1324 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Jon B. - Mar 04, 2004 9:52:46 am PST #1325 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I am honored to be in such company. I love that there are (at least) nine Buffistas on the list. By the way, David, I sent out my release form yesterday, but if you're rushed for time, the bio I included with it is the same as the one I emailed to you.
Lyra Jane - Mar 04, 2004 9:57:31 am PST #1326 of 10003
Up with the sun
That's a great list, Hec. I'm looking forward to the book.
DavidS - Mar 04, 2004 10:42:58 am PST #1327 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Where's your name, David?
We're listed above the contributors as The Editors. Same with our bios.
I am honored to be in such company. I love that there are (at least) nine Buffistas on the list.
It'll be the most Bufistaful book ever!
By the way, David, I sent out my release form yesterday, but if you're rushed for time, the bio I included with it is the same as the one I emailed to you.
Shouldn't be a problem.
That's a great list, Hec. I'm looking forward to the book.
It's reallly really good. I think it's stronger than the Bubblegum book (and I was very happy with that). It's all assembled into one megafile with the vintage reviews (from some legendary 70s zines - did you know Bob Mosely from Moby Grape had a solo album? I sure didn't) and sidebars slotted in so you get a sense of how the whole thing will read. It's tremendously fun just getting the cross-genre frictions generated by the alphabetical listings. To wit: Hayden's Richard Buckner piece follows immediately after Buckner and Garcia's Pac Man Fever.
Hayden - Mar 04, 2004 10:49:02 am PST #1328 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Hayden's Richard Buckner piece follows immediately after Buckner and Garcia's Pac Man Fever.
This makes me insanely happy. Like Jon, I'm just freakin' honored to be in such company.
DavidS - Mar 04, 2004 11:26:22 am PST #1329 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
This makes me insanely happy. Like Jon, I'm just freakin' honored to be in such company.
It's interesting for me to be publishing with music writers I read when I was 15 years old.
Current favorite alphabetical stretch of contrasting styles:
Swervedriver
Sylvester
Television Personalities
Temptations
10cc
erinaceous - Mar 04, 2004 11:55:23 am PST #1330 of 10003
A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.
Hec! I finally ripped that Western Swing box set that you rec'd and it is AMAZING. Whoo!
And Steph, while I'm thinking about it, finally, I loved the rest of Snake River. (Except for "How Soon Is Now?" which was covered much better by taTu.) Thanks!
DavidS - Mar 04, 2004 12:10:41 pm PST #1331 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hec! I finally ripped that Western Swing box set that you rec'd and it is AMAZING. Whoo!
And such a deal too, huh? I love Western Swing, might be my favorite pre-rock American music. I had a big epiphany when I realized that Bill Haley and the Comets were really a small group Western Swing band (hence the accordion and steel guitar in their lineup).
Steph L. - Mar 04, 2004 12:15:16 pm PST #1332 of 10003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
And Steph, while I'm thinking about it, finally, I loved the rest of Snake River. (Except for "How Soon Is Now?" which was covered much better by taTu.) Thanks!
You're welcome! And on the "How Soon Is Now?" cover -- I'm amused by how many sets of the same song performed by different artists I have on my iTunes.
For instance:
Bird On A Wire -- Willie Nelson
Bird On A Wire -- Leonard Cohen
It's Your Thing -- The Isley Brothers
It's Your Thing -- Milli Vanilli (yeah, yeah -- save your mocking)
My Favorite Things -- John Coltrane
My Favorite Things -- The Sound Of Music SoundTrack
Smile -- Lyle Lovett
Smile -- Rickie Lee Jones
Some Kind Of Wonderful -- Soul Brothers
Some Kind Of Wonderful -- Joss Stone
Summer Wind -- Frank Sinatra
Summer Wind -- Lyle Lovett
...etc.
DavidS - Mar 04, 2004 12:30:41 pm PST #1333 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm amused by how many sets of the same song performed by different artists I have on my iTunes.
Heh, if you were a serious exotica type record hound in the 90s you became intimately acquainted with the notion of "standards" and why the "R" in A&R Guy stood for "Repetoire." A common game was making 90 minute tapes of the same song by different groups and different arrangements. The Big Three exotica songs - "Caravan" (originally a Duke Ellington hit), "Quiet Village" and "Tabooo" literally have hundreds of covers each.
Esquivel's the key figure for learning this mindset because his arrangements were so off-the-wall loopy you could begin to understand why anybody bothered doing the same songs over and over. It wasn't the song - it was the arrangement.