my dad's favorite band was yes :'-(
― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
I have a friend who teaches a class in criticism and music writing, a post-grad class, and she says the quality of student and in particular their writing is overwhelmingly abysmal. I have a feeling their idea of funk - or jazz, for that matter - may be the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
Before the first time I saw Charles Mingus, I thought bass could only be played flat on the ground. But then one day I drove my Hyundai Elantra over to my grandparents house. It was only a three minute ride, but when i pulled into the driveway, there was Charles Mingus, playing the bass upright. Some say he is the godfather of the upright bass. Including me!
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
taste in music and quality of writing don't necessarily correlate; my dad could write amazingly and convincingly about Vanilla Fudge and it would not change the fact that he was lionizing Vanilla Fudge
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
I dunno, the ability to lionize Vanilla Fudge is an achievement unto itself!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
That would be my assignment if I were teaching music writing: in 800 words or less, convincingly praise Vanilla Fudge.
(although I'm listening to a remastered version of "You Keep Me Hanging On" on Spotify right now and I'm starting to get it)
also Hurting, you know that "upright bass" is actual terminology, right
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
dan i think i have a project your dad might be interested in
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1828132368/uncool
― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think I've ever heard Vanilla Fudge. They fell through the same crack that caught Uriah Heap.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, November 13, 2012 4:36 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol of course
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
http://open.spotify.com/track/4R2Zih6jIGEpANAYdFCRaf
the Vanilla Fudge version of "You Keep Me Hanging On", which my dad played to death
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
There should be something called downright bass.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
i'm gonna see my dad in a week or two cuz he's coming down from upstate new york to see the louis hayes trio in brattleboro. he bought tickets online. 2+ hour drive does not keep his 75 year old self from the jazz.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
imo vanilla fudge should not just be heard but seen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFabNBveHOk
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
i can't load all, can anyone relink to the post that set off this conversation?
― Everybody did shit, art happened! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
some douchebag twentysomething wrote a jazz listicle for a once venerable publication
― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
you ain't missin much
so I click on this thread and you guys are discussing Vanilla Fudge
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
you know it kinda freaks me out that djp's dad and my dad would have a common point of connection at all and that it would be vanilla fudge
― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that Vanilla Fudge video is like a master class in psychedellic stage hamming
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
you know, after watching that video I kind of have to say I'm regressing back to childhood and deciding that Vanilla Fudge pwns
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
wait holy shit @ that video
― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
more classic tim bogert o face for u
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yl8u2vGuwc
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
^ junior wells' "shotgun"
lol junior walker's i mean
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
this article doesn't really chive with me
― flopson, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
There's a hilarious line in Townshend's autobio about Vanilla Fudge: "Yes, they were louder than us. But they were still Vanilla Fudge."
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
I'm going to replace the "laser on" sign that lights up outside of our lab with "At one point, Head Hunters was the best selling jazz album of all time. Be warned though, there is experimentation happening here."
― Eccsame the Photon Guys (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
I've performed with Dave Brubeck twice btw, I just wanted to throw that out there </insufferable>
i once delegated the task of buying dave brubeck a six pack of heineken
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
drumstick twirls are A+
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
reading vv now is kinda lol but mostly sad
― flopson, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
getting phil freeman vibes from this guy tbh
Rock & Roll is probably my fave Fudge album. great title too.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
from the Rock & Roll era. just mayhem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXvIOKBp1vQ
― scott seward, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
more keyboardists need to flail their left hand when they're not using it
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
at first I thought he was directing the band, and then I realized he was communing with the infinite wonder of an ever-expanding, unknowable universe
also I'm super-impressed that he can flail like that and still support his breath
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
When he would sit down on the piano, he would strike two half notes (notes next to each other that sound awful when played together) to simulate the imaginary notes between the two piano keys.
It's like a game of telephone that started with Hermann von Helmholtz in 1880 just finally made its way to Joseph Lapin, and he wrote down the message.
― Eccsame the Photon Guys (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
i really hope that nothing i write ever ends up in this thread.
― borntohula, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
write exclusively about vanilla fudge and you will be ok
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
write about vanilla fudge with your right hand while flailing the left
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
huge fan of the low-budget tv in-out mindzoom
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
Wait does this fuck also review classical music for VV or are those (astonishing) bits pulled from elsewhere?
― Antonin Scylla (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
the dude that wrote the "ten jazz albums to hear before you die" piece also got a "top 5 multiplayer nintendo games" post up today at the oc weekly so i'm not surprised if he's covering classical too
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
top 10 tyrannical dictators
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
DJP tell your pop to stay tuned for my Vanilla Fudge thinkpiece
― borntohula, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
done and done
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
the classical bit was pulled from elsewhere and is Joseph Lapin, i didn't think the Jazz article was the same dude?
― only Brod can judge me (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
jazz article is also lapin
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
same dude
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
There should be something called downright bass.― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, November 13, 2012 4:38 PM (37 minutes ago)
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, November 13, 2012 4:38 PM (37 minutes ago)
― What Kind Of EOY POLL Do You Look Like Now? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 22:18 (eleven years ago) link