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― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link
And yet they still played the standars in such a fuck-you style.
Maybe it's also that some of those originals were so complicated?
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link
Also, IMO that the quintet's records weren't really selling as well as Miles' earlier records had more to do w/the way rock music developed in the 60s than in the way Miles' band's music did. (which is maybe one reason I have a hard time putting a timeframe on his "experimental" period)
― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link
But they both tie into the experiments with modes; so it's an accessible experimental phase.
― mark 0 (mark 0), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ernest P. (ernestp), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 00:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― lurker #2421, inc. (lurker-2421), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 01:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 01:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 04:03 (seventeen years ago) link
What the hell took me so long to get around to Get Up With It? And why did it take me a Lou Reed interview in The Wire to do it?
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 8 November 2009 07:12 (fourteen years ago) link
ha, that lou reed jukebox interview was funny. "this is MILES?????"
― mark cl, Sunday, 8 November 2009 14:19 (fourteen years ago) link
finally got around to dark magus and feel like a douche for not getting around to it years ago
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 22 January 2010 05:07 (fourteen years ago) link
just checked out the Tingen electric Miles book from the library today!
― when I met you last night, baby, before you opened up your GAPDY (The Reverend), Friday, 22 January 2010 05:09 (fourteen years ago) link
One of many great things about Miles Davis: you pick up a record once in a while that you haven't heard before and it's another "Where you been all my life?" moment.
― Mark, Friday, 22 January 2010 05:22 (fourteen years ago) link
another great thing about those 70s electric albums like Dark Magus & Get Up W/It: there's enough to chew on that you'll be listening to em the rest of yr life
― the eagle laughs at you (m coleman), Friday, 22 January 2010 11:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Been really feeling Big Fun lately.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 22 January 2010 14:12 (fourteen years ago) link
dark magus is really helping me to ~get~ this period even more because the cacophony is scaled back enough that i can actually hear the incredible solos being played
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 22 January 2010 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
"He Loved Him Madly" is my turn-the-lights-down record of choice (30 min vinyl side, yar)
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Friday, 22 January 2010 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
haha i fucking KNEW geir would be on this thread saying shit like kind of blue wasn't experimental because it's mellow
― you forgot what a hardcore blogger is (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 22 January 2010 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Can anyone comment with any authority (or indeed point the way to an article) detailing exactly what it was Laswell actually did on the Panthalassa CD Remix/Reconstruction. Always been curious about that record.
― Joe Pass Filter (MaresNest), Saturday, 23 January 2010 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
He took a bunch of album cuts and some previously unreleased material (though not a whole lot, so don't start drooling just yet) and shaped them into three long medleys and a 13-minute edit of "He Loved Him Madly." A lot of it is sort of Laswell-ized, in that it has just a little bit more of a traditional (and bass-heavy) groove than it did when Miles and Macero released their versions, but he didn't bring in any of his friends and associates to play on top of it or anything like that. It is ultimately just a remix album, and it's not awful. I play it sometimes.
― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Saturday, 23 January 2010 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
i like it (i know some people round these parts loathe it) -- it's not a replacement for the albums, but I think it's a nice-sounding re-imagining of this era.
― tylerw, Saturday, 23 January 2010 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I love the Laswell disk; it works well when I want something time-compact to listen to from this era.
― Euler, Saturday, 23 January 2010 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
btw the Miles exhibit at the Cité de la Musique in the Parc de la Villette Paris is terrific and I hope it now travels elsewhere. They have a room with "On The Corner" playing really loud with surround sound and it's glorious. They also have a room set up playing a pretty-big-screen and LOUD movie of Miles' last set at the Parc de la Villette in 1991, shortly before he died.
― Euler, Saturday, 23 January 2010 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link
wow, that sounds great! hope it comes to the states ...
― tylerw, Saturday, 23 January 2010 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah it's closed here but they had so many great pieces together, I hope it will travel around now.
One thing they had showing was this awesome interview on the Arsenio Hall show (this clip has the performance too):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uxC2MYO7hA
― Euler, Saturday, 23 January 2010 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
This exhibit has traveled here now (Montreal) and its pretty great. Sounds a little different though... footage from his appearance at the Jazz Festival here in the 80s, "Bitches Brew" room rather than "On The Corner". There was a big screen playing concert footage from the 70s (Isle of Wight maybe) that was pretty spectacular.
― sofatruck, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Just started to chew on my Columbia box set (birthday present), but it's daunting in it's sheer scope, like sharing the house with the monolith from 2001.
― disastrous sixth series (MaresNest), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Agharta & Pangaea are super-ripping over-the-top feedback-painted funkjazzkraut beauty.
― ImprovSpirit, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link