honkytonk/saloon/mechanical piano - claude bolling etc

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the borsalino soundtrack specifically. i adore this soundtrack (and not just the title theme), this mix of like saloon bar mechanical piano with french period shit (you'll have to forgive me, i don't have the reference points)

so, what else is like this?
what are the reference points?

gareth, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

anyone?

gareth, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Could it have been a dream?

K-reg, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

7 months pass...
has nobody seen borsalino?

gareth, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...
i think it was a dream, thinking about it

gareth (gareth), Monday, 2 December 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

8 months pass...
borsalino mp3

gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 10:35 (9 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...
dont all talk at once

charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 6 December 2003 21:54 (9 years ago) Permalink

We're just taking our time, sir.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 December 2003 23:22 (9 years ago) Permalink

It's kind of beautiful if you imagine the seasons going by in high-speed why Gareth sits in expectation at his computer, checking daily.

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 6 December 2003 23:27 (9 years ago) Permalink

8 months pass...
now that summer has passed, perhaps, we could turn our attention, once again, to this matter

david acid (gareth), Sunday, 29 August 2004 22:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

6 months pass...
now that summer is here again, perhaps, we could turn our attention, once again, to this matter

charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 12 March 2005 23:06 (8 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...
now that summer is here again, perhaps, we could turn our attention, once again, to this matter

http://snow-day.blogspot.com/2006/03/this-months-thrift-store-vinyl-sharity.html

and, indeed, here is a copy of it

terry lennox. (gareth), Monday, 19 June 2006 10:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

6 months pass...
now that another new year is here, perhaps, we could turn our attention, once again, to this matter

Storefront Church (688), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

i don't know what y'allz is talking about, but you should check out Colin Nancarrow. one of the early american experimentalists, all of his compositions were for player piano, and they are totally fucking bonkers. and sort of beautiful.

the table is the table (treesessplode), Monday, 8 January 2007 23:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

i am teaching myself to play the can-can if that helps gareth (check back in a year)

(ps it's conlon nancarrow not colin)

mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 00:01 (6 years ago) Permalink

8 months pass...

i thought about this, again, perhaps you did too

Filey Camp, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 10:43 (5 years ago) Permalink

The saddest thread ever.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 10:59 (5 years ago) Permalink

Believe it or not: player pianos are not what they seem. There is actually a little man inside hammering away at the strings. I learned this in 1983 on a field trip to a museum located on the eastern seaboard of the U.S. My friend, who was something of a "bad-ass" at the time, loitered behind our tour group, and did a little firsthand investigation. The tiny man inside apparently had a wicked rye whiskey habit, as well as a substantial collection of cartoon pr0n flipbooks.

There was also a mechanical harpsichord in the same museum, but we, or my badass friend, rather, didn't have a chance to investigate the down'n'dirty truths behind that apparatus. Suffice it to say, that, said museum still exists, and I have every intention of seeking out that tiny plucker at some point.

dell, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 11:04 (5 years ago) Permalink

Maybe he's a relative of the 12 inch pianist?

Tuomas, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 11:10 (5 years ago) Permalink

I'm just saying-- there's only one man, for 88 strings to be hammering down! Mad respect! It's like playing 5 dozen "Whack-a-Mole" games at one time!

dell, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 11:18 (5 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

88 is a lot

cherry blossom, Thursday, 9 July 2009 07:25 (3 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

now that summer is here again, perhaps, we could turn our attention, once again, to this matter

PappaWheelie V, Monday, 12 July 2010 12:47 (2 years ago) Permalink


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