**"We thought turntables were for playing records until rappers began to use them as instruments, and we thought airplanes were for carrying passengers until terrorists realized they could be used as missiles," says Mr. Baxter, who sports a ponytail and handlebar mustache. "My big thing is to look at existing technologies and try to see other ways they can be used, which happens in music all the time and happens to be what terrorists are incredibly good at."**
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:11 (eighteen years ago) link
Anyway, he's a classic just for his Steely Dan work (especially his solos on "Countdown to Ecstasy") and his solo on Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff," which is, like, my favorite ever.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBcen1w6NQs
he's a funny guy
― niels, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 16:13 (five years ago) link
Is that Skunk in the back here?
https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2018/10/11/PDTF/9f3e297e-4b09-4a05-ae7e-d66df84afca7-AP_Trump_DCEV118.jpg?width=534&height=401&fit=bounds&auto=webp
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 16:38 (five years ago) link
gotta be
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
supporting the modern epiphone of presidents
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
sovtek morelike
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
lmaohttps://youtu.be/xEBtK96o44Q?t=87
― Οὖτις, Monday, 10 February 2020 21:21 (four years ago) link
The other day I learned that "Skunk" is actually playing a guitar synth on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKYQNtF11eg
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 10 February 2020 22:05 (four years ago) link
christ could they look any more bored
― Οὖτις, Monday, 10 February 2020 22:09 (four years ago) link
that tequila video has made my day
― zuck zuck lucify (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 00:07 (four years ago) link
zero people are bored during that performance
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 00:10 (four years ago) link
i said "let me do the 'skunkie shuffle', and you'll get what you want."
― zuck zuck lucify (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 00:14 (four years ago) link
It's an overlong interview but there are some interesting nuggets in that Skunk Baxter video with that Nashville musician musician guy.
This story with Segovia is pretty cool. Starts about 17:10 if my link is screwy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zpTY20TL44
― earlnash, Thursday, 18 November 2021 04:59 (two years ago) link
10:23 is the time where the Segovia story starts. I always screw this up.
― earlnash, Thursday, 18 November 2021 05:00 (two years ago) link
watching pbs i learned that leonardo da vinci fibbed about his national defense qualifications to get a gigthought of skunk
― A street taco cart named Des'ree (Deflatormouse), Friday, 23 February 2024 02:29 (two months ago) link