heh, miles otm
― an alternate version of his real world dog (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 20:55 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, striking intuitive perception on miles part there.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Thursday, 23 June 2016 00:11 (seven years ago) link
Hahaha. I got as far as 'famous comedian Bill Oddie' and wanted to kill everyone. Miles otm.
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Thursday, 23 June 2016 08:20 (seven years ago) link
Bill Oddie:You won't believe the musical pretensions that went on in my head. I listened to a lot of jazz and a lot of funk, and that period of the '70s for me was fantastic - it was really the era when fusion started. The people I liked were Sly Stone and early Parliament, and I listened to what was happening in jazz at the time, when Miles Davis was coming up with some very interesting hybrid music. With 'Funky Gibbon', I started off - it's almost unbelievable considering how stupid the song is - trying to get the feel of a Miles Davis track, I can't remember which, probably just after Bitches Brew and that sort of era: some really choppy Miles Davis-type rhythm, again with a Sly Stone influence.http://www.alwynwturner.com/glitter/funky_gibbon.html
― mahb, Thursday, 23 June 2016 08:27 (seven years ago) link
what in the ever lovin fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAmx_XdQky8
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 23 June 2016 16:00 (seven years ago) link
forget it shakey its britishtown
― an alternate version of his real world dog (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 23 June 2016 17:13 (seven years ago) link
That was like a nakh afl post filtered through Garrison Keilor.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Thursday, 23 June 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link
RE: Funky Gibbon - "You know, for kids". One of the first singles I ever owned. Growing up in the 1970s, the Goodies were definitely a gateway for kids into Monty Python. Oddie was one of the regulars on the proto-Python radio series I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again at the same time that Derek Bailey was in the house band.
Oddie was also a regular customer when I worked in the jazz dept of a massive chain record shop, and absolutely no trouble at all. This is him answering questions on 'American Jazz' on Celebrity Mastermind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyTD4j1Wcso
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 23 June 2016 19:53 (seven years ago) link
American here who loves Miles and loved The Goodies as a kid when it aired on NYC Public Television. So Oddie's cool with me.
Love the Miles anecdote but I feel bad for Red Rodney going thru all that trouble lol.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 24 June 2016 01:56 (seven years ago) link
To the jazz cognoscenti, Miles Davis’s peak playing years were when he was playing with Charlie Parker right up to when he made the series of recordings collated under the title “Birth of the Cool”.
Peak snobbery.
― Austin, Friday, 24 June 2016 03:22 (seven years ago) link
Peak dumbassery really, I don't think anyone thinks that and it mostly suggests he hasn't heard the records MD made with Parker etc or can't hear the frequent mistakes Davis makes on them. It's good, just super embryonic type stuff. Which I thought was a p much universally held opinion. I don't remember his playing being as tentative on BOTC but that's obv way more of an ensemble thing. Anyway there're pre-fusion periods one could make an argument like that for, but choosing that one seems kinda random/uninformed.
― albvivertine, Friday, 24 June 2016 07:27 (seven years ago) link
I honestly can't tell if this sentence is satire or just ignorance: "the very exclusive Getzen company in Wisconsin, who make only the finest hand crafted trumpets"
Getzen horns are not exclusive in the slightest and are basically middle of the road as far as being considered "fine"
― MrExplorer, Friday, 24 June 2016 09:49 (seven years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 24 June 2016 12:40 (seven years ago) link
yeah I've actually never heard ANYONE suggest that his peak playing was with Parker or BOTC. Not only is it the standard wisdom on him that he was never a "player's player," but his concepts really weren't well-formed yet when he played with Parker.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 24 June 2016 14:01 (seven years ago) link
I mean I thought even straight-ahead curmudgeons preferred the Riverside/early Columbia era.
sry meant to say Prestige
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 24 June 2016 14:02 (seven years ago) link
― Austin, Thursday, June 23, 2016 11:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol yea it took some effort for me to read past that first line, i was just like "wha?????"
― marcos, Friday, 24 June 2016 14:12 (seven years ago) link
like what jazz cognoscenti
second great quintet pretty universally adored too right
wasn't that era wynton marsalis's greatest inspiration
― marcos, Friday, 24 June 2016 14:14 (seven years ago) link
It seems like in the last 10-15 years even most people who hated the electric period either died or went into hiding. But I've literally never heard anyone suggest that he peaked at BOTC.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 24 June 2016 14:45 (seven years ago) link
The Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool documentary on BBC2 tonight. A++
― Psychedics with Rosie Swash (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 March 2020 22:45 (four years ago) link
Also now on Netflix in North America btw.
― everything, Sunday, 15 March 2020 00:51 (four years ago) link
yes it was good. horrific stuff with his wife. i didn't realise she was going to be in the west side story movie.
made me want to hang out with lenny white. 'and it just moved, like an amoeba... every now and again something sticking out, just all moving along together'
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 15 March 2020 01:37 (four years ago) link
I ffwd through most of this tbh
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 15 March 2020 01:43 (four years ago) link
not much there that was new but i ate up actually seeing everyone tell those stories.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 15 March 2020 01:46 (four years ago) link
Missed this, but may still be on PBS.org and/or re-broadcast for fundraisers etc.:
American Masters, starting Tues.:Discover the man behind the legend. With full access to the Miles Davis Estate, the film features never-before-seen footage, including studio outtakes from his recording sessions, rare photos and new interviews.https://aptv.org/schedule/detail.php?epid=2378952
― dow, Saturday, February 22, 2020
― dow, Sunday, 15 March 2020 02:00 (four years ago) link
This was pretty boilerplate but a fun watch. The “never-before-seen/heard” stuff wasn’t a big deal imo. Like abt 98% of music docs, I just wished it had more actual uninterrupted music and performance.
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Sunday, 15 March 2020 03:58 (four years ago) link
Yup
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 15 March 2020 04:02 (four years ago) link
Carlos Santana was funny
― Psychedics with Rosie Swash (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 15 March 2020 08:33 (four years ago) link
Was that West Side Story thing movie or Broadway show? I think film was a translation of a theatre thing to the screen.Yeah, seriously nasty. Glad she was around to tell the tale. Her and Juliette Greco.
I think I'd seen most of the performance video stuff cos a lot of its been around on bootleg for the last decade at least. Not sure about the 'In Performance ' set they used to illustrate On The Corner with the Indian percussion stuff.& I think they used a clip of the band around 1969 with Dave Holland on electric bass to illustrate something a bit later. But not sure.
Quite enjoyed it though.
& had just caught a Fairport Convention doc on Sky Arts before that was mainly good. Missed the start though. Also saw that ZZ Top Little Old Band From Texas thing on Sky Arts the night before. So great week for biodocs.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 15 March 2020 09:39 (four years ago) link
I liked when Stanley Crouch was like “it just didn’t sound good”
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Sunday, 15 March 2020 14:39 (four years ago) link
Wasn’t surprised to hear Crouch say that. Although some of the stuff in the doc I wasn’t that familiar with, so it was worth seeing for me.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 15 March 2020 17:35 (four years ago) link
Crouch is right. It didnt sound good, it sounded AMAZING
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 15 March 2020 18:48 (four years ago) link
go tell that shit to your new leader, Sting
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 22:24 (four years ago) link
All the Complete sessions are being reissued and are available from his store: https://www.milesdavisstore.com/store/
I'm mulling over "The Complete On The Corner Sessions".
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 22:55 (four years ago) link
They gotta reissue the trumpet case!
https://www.popsike.com/pix/20180121/173113313489.jpg
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link
i’m mulling over a “bitches brew” 50th anniversary coffee mug
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 23:39 (four years ago) link
the tshirt with the sketches of spain graphic is tite
― brimstead, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 23:40 (four years ago) link
I need physical copies of the 1965-68 quintet box and the In A Silent Way Sessions box. Thanks for the tip!
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 23:54 (four years ago) link
suprised they don't have VOTE FOR MILES shirts or buttons
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 16 April 2020 00:24 (four years ago) link
All the Complete sessions are being reissued and are available from his store: https://www.milesdavisstore.com/store🕸/I'm mulling over "The Complete On The Corner Sessions".
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 16 April 2020 14:56 (four years ago) link
That’d be Newton Free, GMBB.
Thanks for the heads up! I think I might have to get On the Corner, it's the only one I want that I don't already have. (although I'm kinda tempted to swap out my Jack Johnson set since I only have the long box version that doesn't match the others)
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 16 April 2020 15:16 (four years ago) link
That trumpet case is such a flex--just went through my old CD-Rs a couple nights ago and was v glad to find my burned copies on the Complete On The Corner; going to find some quarantime to put in the work
― Cysteine Chapo (Craig D.), Thursday, 16 April 2020 15:21 (four years ago) link
Hah, we borrowed the same copy! I made a playlist of my favorite bonus bits from the box, still not sure I need it all, my picks:One And One (unedited master) - not the same song!JabaliThe HenPeaceMr. FosterHip-SkipWhat They Do
It makes a perfect companion to OTC with a similar feel.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 16 April 2020 15:33 (four years ago) link
Thanks for the revive, this is great news. Would love to get the 65-68 box (and maybe the OTC one too).
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 16 April 2020 16:14 (four years ago) link
Is it all of them? I don’t see Cellar Door in there (which is another I’d consider). Why the fuck did they wait for a global pandemic/economic meltdown to do this?
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 16 April 2020 19:46 (four years ago) link
no plugged nickle from what i can see
― brimstead, Thursday, 16 April 2020 19:58 (four years ago) link
i just got the Bitches Brew box set last year (the long tall one). for some reason i was under the impression that OtC was the only OOP studio box? maybe just because i don't think i ever saw it in an actual physical store
― brimstead, Thursday, 16 April 2020 20:00 (four years ago) link
in a silent way box i listen to all the frickin time