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Post by NoShear on Mar 1, 2024 15:47:16 GMT
Of your remembering the lyrics to "The Magnificent Seven" and your recent Latvian SSR post, galacticgirrrl, I think you might find the following January 1981 description of SANDINISTA ! of interest:
"Presented as a manifesto, the new work stretches over six sides and two-and-a-half hours: like a Russian film of the 1920s, its polemics are relentless, its imagistic virtues first dazzle and then benumb, and its final effect is mainly wearying - unless the listener is still sensorially capable of being baffled and then disheartened."
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 2, 2024 18:04:14 GMT
its polemics are relentless, its imagistic virtues first dazzle and then benumb, and its final effect is mainly wearying - unless the listener is still sensorially capable of being baffled and then disheartened." I love it - relentless, benumb, wearying - baffled, disheartened - YES please, may I have some more. NoShear you are a character from a movie but I can't think which one just at the minute. You are so mauve. I am sorry to report it wasn't political consciousness that drew me to CHURCH OF THE CHEESEBOIGER! but a teenage lust for the lead singer of Skafold after seeing them play The Turning Point. Absolutely shameful but I am trying to make amends. You also conjured up memories of that sketchy Valley Girl year, living in a friend's garage: darling Naomi worried about the curtains always being drawn shut...pulling them wide open....light and bright....but.... Melting my copy of Sandinista lying out in the sun. If you will humour me in switching discs.....this one is no more official than my alter ego is zzz... The Clash - Guns Of Brixton - Official Video |
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Post by NoShear on Mar 2, 2024 18:40:30 GMT
its polemics are relentless, its imagistic virtues first dazzle and then benumb, and its final effect is mainly wearying - unless the listener is still sensorially capable of being baffled and then disheartened." I love it - relentless, benumb, wearying - baffled, disheartened - YES please, may I have some more. NoShear you are a character from a movie but I can't think which one just at the minute. You are so mauve. I am sorry to report it wasn't political consciousness that drew me to CHURCH OF THE CHEESEBOIGER! but a teenage lust for the lead singer of Skafold after seeing them play The Turning Point. Absolutely shameful but I am trying to make amends. You also conjured up memories of that sketchy Valley Girl year, living in a friend's garage: darling Naomi worried about the curtains always being drawn shut...pulling them wide open....light and bright....but.... Melting my copy of Sandinista lying out in the sun. If you will humour me in switching discs.....this one is no more official than my alter ego is zzz... The Clash - Guns Of Brixton - Official Video While I do appreciate being associated with spring and youth, galacticgirrrl, I take issue with the femininity element of the color: I need to start posting more macho outlooks!!  Your Valley Girl period reads like it would be book-worthy, so anytime you care to divulge further, galacticgirrrl, please do. Paul Simonon spent some of his youth living in Brixton so his first writing contribution to the CLASH was appropriately "The Guns Of Brixton" in both its lyrics and its reggae element that Simonon was said to have liked most of all the members of the CLASH... If I'm not mistaken, Mick Jones and Joe Strummer pulled a slippery yield on Paul Simonon when they went to "...a place where every white face Is an invitation to a robbery", Jamaica, and didn't bring their reggae-admiring bassist with 'em. The following is Strummer and Jones' recount of that trip: |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 2, 2024 19:27:07 GMT
While I do appreciate being associated with spring and youth, galacticgirrrl, I take issue with the femininity element of the color: I need to start posting more macho outlooks!! Fret not pink wigged one, we are all fluid now. I will bequeath to you the epic of the sketchy valley girl year (along with the photographic evidence of the barbra/bozo/orphan annie perm - yes, it does exist). And in return: your tome on LA punk. You have had me off now looking for yet another slippery yield I cannot find - lost in the sands of time like Norma poolside with the dolls (I found 3 Loos books I didn't remember I had but cannot find my dream. The BIG FONT book I need I cannot find - so annoying). I could have sworn Mick recorded a big one in secret - I thought Train in Vain - but I cannot find proof. It was in the Ongoing History of New Music I am most certain. Maybe Should I Stay or Should I Go. Oh damn my terrible memory. surely vegan leather. i must repent for my shallowness  10cc - Dreadlock Holiday |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Mar 2, 2024 22:14:29 GMT
I'm just going to sit back and let you two handle this one. Fascinating.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 3, 2024 0:37:59 GMT
I'm just going to sit back and let you two handle this one, Fascinating. There is absolutely no fun in that what so ever ILM. I am loving how every one of your posts recently starts with I was off looking for something else.... And then of course you plop yet another gem on us. Zsa Zsa was simply maarrrrvelous darling. And I thought the Harvey Fierstein clip from someone's TV taping made it all the more haunting & impactful - the watcher watching the watcher talking in the mirror. OK now if I can only figure out why someone had their child pet my tree today we'll be all set. No full moon for quite some time. Can the pussy willows be out already I wonder, global warming and all that? |
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Post by NoShear on Mar 3, 2024 0:51:27 GMT
I'm just going to sit back and let you two handle this one, Fascinating. There is absolutely no fun in that what so ever ILM. I am loving how every one of your posts recently starts with I was off looking for something else.... And then of course you plop yet another gem on us. Zsa Zsa was simply maarrrrvelous darling. And I thought the Harvey Fierstein clip from someone's TV taping made it all the more haunting & impactful - the watcher watching the watcher talking in the mirror. OK now if I can only figure out why someone had their child pet my tree today we'll be all set. No full moon for quite some time. Can the pussy willows be out already I wonder, global warming and all that? Yes, I'd fall away in deference to galacticgirrrl's and your knack of knowledge brought with panache, I Love Melvin. |
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Post by NoShear on Mar 3, 2024 1:31:44 GMT
While I do appreciate being associated with spring and youth, galacticgirrrl, I take issue with the femininity element of the color: I need to start posting more macho outlooks!! Fret not pink wigged one, we are all fluid now. I will bequeath to you the epic of the sketchy valley girl year (along with the photographic evidence of the barbra/bozo/orphan annie perm - yes, it does exist). And in return: your tome on LA punk. You have had me off now looking for yet another slippery yield I cannot find - lost in the sands of time like Norma poolside with the dolls (I found 3 Loos books I didn't remember I had but cannot find my dream. The BIG FONT book I need I cannot find - so annoying). I could have sworn Mick recorded a big one in secret - I thought Train in Vain - but I cannot find proof. It was in the Ongoing History of New Music I am most certain. Maybe Should I Stay or Should I Go. Oh damn my terrible memory. surely vegan leather. i must repent for my shallowness 10cc - Dreadlock Holiday Your Barbra Streisand perm reads oodles of cuteness! (I resisted commenting on the screenshot of Streisand in HELLO DOLLY which I Love Melvin recently posted, by the way, as he already could've told you: He sees Norma Shearer everywhere.) I'd need 3 credits in sociology if not a degree to tackle a scholarly work on the Los Angeles punk scene early 1980s: "They're all waiting around to be the next victim of a serial killer." - John Doe I had a similar thought to your weakness for leather jackets. That's not real leopard fur, is it, Norma:  Of fur, Norma and the Sunset Strip punks...  What the heck happened in those forty years since Ciro's glamour: THE DECLINE of western civilization, indeed. |
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Post by BingFan on Mar 3, 2024 2:49:12 GMT
I first heard about Henry Fonda’s passing from the car radio while driving to see the Clash at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago on August 12, 1982. Sad day for that reason.
The Aragon was like a fantasy world, built for dancing in the 1920s. The wooden dance floor was surrounded by walls topped with parapets, as though you were in the courtyard of a medieval fortress, with the dark ceiling above flecked with constellations like the nighttime sky. The stage was at one end of the dance floor, putting the audience close to the musicians.
The band came out dressed in martial gear; at one point, I remember Mick Jones wearing what looked like a gas mask. I believe Joe had a Mohawk haircut.
It was the Combat Rock tour, but they played some of my favorites from my favorite of their albums, Sandinista: no “Ivan Meets G.I. Joe,” unfortunately, but great to hear “The Magnificent Seven” and “Charlie Don’t Surf,” among others. And “White Man In Hammersmith Palais,” which I’d grown to love a few years earlier, when one of my college roommates played it endlessly.
I’ve always associated that day with Fonda’s passing, but the band gave me something more to remember. I just wish I hadn’t had a five-hour drive back to Iowa City so that I could go to work the next day.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 3, 2024 3:12:33 GMT
which I’d grown to love a few years earlier, when one of my college roommates played it endlessly.
What a great story.
And unique venue from what I see. |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Mar 3, 2024 13:23:21 GMT
I'm just going to sit back and let you two handle this one, Fascinating. OK now if I can only figure out why someone had their child pet my tree today we'll be all set. No full moon for quite some time. Can the pussy willows be out already I wonder, global warming and all that? Maybe it's therapeutic? In an asylum thread we misfits have to take what little comfort we can get.  Back to the subject at hand ( Is there one?)... ![]() |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 3, 2024 19:39:10 GMT
ROTFL. I should be so lucky to have such a creature attend to my shrubbery.
I could find nary a photo (n)or song from the Bing show. Pity. The borrowed tune below kills me I am happy to post. How lovely Paul's wife joined him on stage.
And pity Jimmy Jazz Guitar isn't a misfit - not just because he makes me hum Jimmy Jazz constantly, but because he is one degree of separation from Pearl Harbor, Diane Lane and Al Kooper...and all that is golden.
 THE CLASH - POLICE ON MY BACK (HD)RECORDED LIVE AT SUN PLAZA HALL, TOKIO JANUARY 2, 1982
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Post by NoShear on Mar 4, 2024 16:00:09 GMT
I first heard about Henry Fonda’s passing from the car radio while driving to see the Clash at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago on August 12, 1982. Sad day for that reason.
The Aragon was like a fantasy world, built for dancing in the 1920s. The wooden dance floor was surrounded by walls topped with parapets, as though you were in the courtyard of a medieval fortress, with the dark ceiling above flecked with constellations like the nighttime sky. The stage was at one end of the dance floor, putting the audience close to the musicians.
The band came out dressed in martial gear; at one point, I remember Mick Jones wearing what looked like a gas mask. I believe Joe had a Mohawk haircut.
It was the Combat Rock tour, but they played some of my favorites from my favorite of their albums, Sandinista: no “Ivan Meets G.I. Joe,” unfortunately, but great to hear “The Magnificent Seven” and “Charlie Don’t Surf,” among others. And “White Man In Hammersmith Palais,” which I’d grown to love a few years earlier, when one of my college roommates played it endlessly.
I’ve always associated that day with Fonda’s passing, but the band gave me something more to remember. I just wish I hadn’t had a five-hour drive back to Iowa City so that I could go to work the next day. Ten hours(!!) of driving for the Clash: "The Only Band That Matters!" With your straddling the classics and the Clash, I thought of your namesake's influence on tape recording which I just recently read of, BingFan. |
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Post by BingFan on Mar 6, 2024 21:47:16 GMT
I first heard about Henry Fonda’s passing from the car radio while driving to see the Clash at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago on August 12, 1982. Sad day for that reason.
.... Ten hours(!!) of driving for the Clash: "The Only Band That Matters!" With your straddling the classics and the Clash, I thought of your namesake's influence on tape recording which I just recently read of, BingFan.
Bing’s support of tape recording technology was, I’m sure, seen as a good investment by him, but it was apparently something more personal, too. He didn’t want to have to perform his weekly radio show live at the scheduled time (in fact, twice — first for the east coast and later for the west coast). He saw tape recording as the way to prerecord his show with the high audio quality that the network demanded (they had rejected disc or wire recording, if I remember correctly). Tape also permitted mistakes to be edited out before broadcast, and if the show ran long it could be pared down to fit the time slot. All of this gave Bing more time on the golf course (although he was actually a very hardworking guy, despite his laidback image).
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Post by BunnyWhit on Mar 6, 2024 23:46:09 GMT
Bing’s support of tape recording technology was, I’m sure, seen as a good investment by him, but it was apparently something more personal, too. He didn’t want to have to perform his weekly radio show live at the scheduled time (in fact, twice — first for the east coast and later for the west coast). He saw tape recording as the way to prerecord his show with the high audio quality that the network demanded (they had rejected disc or wire recording, if I remember correctly). Tape also permitted mistakes to be edited out before broadcast, and if the show ran long it could be pared down to fit the time slot. All of this gave Bing more time on the golf course (although he was actually a very hardworking guy, despite his laidback image).
I want to say thank you for this information. I feel a lot better knowing that Bing taped shows rather than always being there live. I sometimes did this during the time when I was a programer for the local public radio station. I felt guilty about it, but my program was on Saturday evenings. What 20-something year old wants to spend every Saturday night in the radio station?
Thank you, and now back to your regularly scheduled shenanigans program. |
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