the title track is the only one that has finished. I'm listening to it right now! (AIFG)
Don't know about FG, but FF(unny) and FW(eird), albeit more selfconsciously weird than I usually like. Dig the more or less unplugged approach, but the effect on the lead vocal is pretty irritating. Granted I haven't listened to much of him, and what I heard was many years ago, but this reminds me of Eugene Chadbourne. According to Lou Reed the fuzziness of WHLH came from overdriving the instruments and the recording equipment. I think he said he almost came to blows with the engineer. "The sound's all fucked up. I'm turning it down." "Don't touch those fuckin' dials! That's the sound I want." So the extreme buzziness of the Ergo Phizmiz vocal strikes my ears as an affectation, not an unavoidable by-product of the overall sound. Yes, I know he'd say that it IS part of the overall sound he wants -- but I still don't like it. That said, I'm still downloading "Sister Ray" because... well because it's "Sister Ray" and I gotta hear it. Of course at the rate it's going I won't hear it until the middle of next week.
Ken Burns is this week's contestant on Leonard Lopate's "Survival Kit". He's taking his Jazz boxed set and DVDs. Just kidding. (Although he could prove me wrong. Or would it be "right"?)
One of my favourite blogs just linked to Joe's High Hat Crossword.
Yes!
ETA: And two people from the Other Thread I post to have pieces in the new HH. Worlds Collide!
(Though not all that shocking, since we all started out at TT.)
Maud rocks! And writes like a freakin' monster! She's promised us another article for the next issue.
Speaking of: I hope some of y'all will consider pitching articles to the HH. We're hoping to get Issue #5 up by the end of September, and the current proposed theme is "democracy in pop culture". Send pitches (or even send me an email if you have something half-baked that you'd like to pursue) to: hayden@thehighhat.com, please!
Cool! Do you have a link? ("Fuck no! But there's a poster." </Ed Wood> I'm sorry: I can't restrain myself from the asides, so I'm spoiler fonting it. Tourette's arcana.)
I've given up on "Sister Ray" (yep, no more trannies for me), but if someone else manages to download it I'm anxious to hear an assessment.
Maud's blog pretty much overloaded my "6 Degrees of Cultural Referents to Me" fuse. Yes, my name is spelled J-o-e but it's pronounced Narcissus.
Must leave my office before hypothermia sets in. I fear I'm already too late. Au revoir, mes amis!
Tenor sax legend, Illinois Jacquet died.
Didn't he play on "Flying Home," Joe?
btw, I've got the proofs. They look good.
