Cool! I bought some albums just because she was on them. Love John Prine's In Spite of Ourselves, but Tom Russell's The Man from God Knows Where broke me of the habit. Iris is great, and so are some of the other guests, and I still like the concept of the album, but the execution -- on Russell's part at least -- is everything I hate about folk music (too reverent, too concerned with precision, too lifeless.) Of course, Van Ronk's war whoops and Iris's beauty are why I'm willing to keep trying the form even though I'm not wild about it. Peter Stampfel would have turned that CD into a gem. But Russell... blech. Anyway, if there are any Iris tracks you want but don't have just let me know & I'll see if I have them.
ETA: Link doesn't seem to want to work for me unless I paste it into a new window.
Joe, G says he doesn't have it but he thinks he can trade for it here:
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Is this the right show?
I guess we haven't mentioned the passing of Jimmy Smith. (Damn you Arthur Miller!)
Genius organ jazz player. Which, if you're not familiar, is a fairly disreputable sub-genre within jazz since it was always about dancing. Being a Mod in the UK in the late fifties/early sixties (well before the Who) meant you were a Modernist. That means you liked modern jazz, but most especially you walked around with a new Jimmy Smith LP under your arm.
Heh. From the Pazz & Jop, but ganked from Zoilus.com...
I can't remember if I came/When I read about her latest flame/Britney up and changed her name/The day the music died/So bye-bye, Mrs. Kevin Federline/Our libidos and our Cheetos will forever be thine/And Cameron was choppin' Justin a line/Singin', Hit me baby, one more time/Hit me baby, one more time. - Rob Sheffield, Brooklyn, New York
Somebody needs to record this in a very earnest voice.
I guess we haven't mentioned the passing of Jimmy Smith. (Damn you Arthur Miller!)
Chatty!co-worker, Mod that he is, was very bereft. (And impressed that I knew who Jimmy Smith was. For which I have NPR to thank.)
Being a Mod in the UK in the late fifties/early sixties (well before the Who) meant you were a Modernist. That means you liked modern jazz, but most especially you walked around with a new Jimmy Smith LP under your arm.
Chatty said that, due to his love of thrift stores, he's pretty sure he amassed the complete LP recordings of Jimmy Smith for under $7.
I thought you might be able to offer some good advice.
The Etherwave. It's what I played until I recently traded up. It's good enough (i.e. linear enough, with well-spaced notes) to play musically (as opposed to just making a racket), but still reasonably priced. You can buy one discounted from Zzounds: [link]
It's made by Bob Moog's company, who also made that midi theremin (which was a thing of beauty -- I got to try it out once).
Har. I just clicked on the sample sounds from that theremin, and my cat -- who doesn't react to ANYTHING on the tv, cats, dogs, nothing -- totally freaked out.
Now I'm tempted to buy a theremin and see if I can get my cat to play it. I could give him a treat every time he got close enough to make a noise out of it.
Although maybe a cat could not control both the pitch and volume at the same time. Better get another cat.
