OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

xp: at least you did not say your life was clucked in ignorance

i think my dad might have owned "headhunters" but it also might have been too funky for him

and there was experimentation going on in there

to be fair discharge would have been too funky for my dad

funky discharge is unfair to everybody.

my parents didn't do enough experimentation to listen to funky jazz

when i first started listening to jazz my mom just called me maynard g. krebs a lot

when i was little, my dad sung me a blood, sweat & tears song every night before i went to sleep.

my dad played a lot of Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, James Brown, Steely Dan, The Beatles, Average White Band, Stevie Wonder and Vanilla Fudge

claire de lune is used in lullabies

my dad's favorite band was yes :'-(

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.

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!

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 dunno, the ability to lionize Vanilla Fudge is an achievement unto itself!

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

dan i think i have a project your dad might be interested in

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1828132368/uncool

I don't think I've ever heard Vanilla Fudge. They fell through the same crack that caught Uriah Heap.

also Hurting, you know that "upright bass" is actual terminology, right

― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, November 13, 2012 4:36 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol of course

http://open.spotify.com/track/4R2Zih6jIGEpANAYdFCRaf

the Vanilla Fudge version of "You Keep Me Hanging On", which my dad played to death

There should be something called downright bass.

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.

imo vanilla fudge should not just be heard but seen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFabNBveHOk

i can't load all, can anyone relink to the post that set off this conversation?

some douchebag twentysomething wrote a jazz listicle for a once venerable publication

you ain't missin much

so I click on this thread and you guys are discussing Vanilla Fudge

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

yeah that Vanilla Fudge video is like a master class in psychedellic stage hamming

you know, after watching that video I kind of have to say I'm regressing back to childhood and deciding that Vanilla Fudge pwns

wait holy shit @ that video

more classic tim bogert o face for u

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yl8u2vGuwc

^ junior wells' "shotgun"

lol junior walker's i mean

this article doesn't really chive with me

There's a hilarious line in Townshend's autobio about Vanilla Fudge: "Yes, they were louder than us. But they were still Vanilla Fudge."

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."

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

yeah that Vanilla Fudge video is like a master class in psychedellic stage hamming

drumstick twirls are A+

reading vv now is kinda lol but mostly sad

getting phil freeman vibes from this guy tbh

Rock & Roll is probably my fave Fudge album. great title too.

from the Rock & Roll era. just mayhem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXvIOKBp1vQ

more keyboardists need to flail their left hand when they're not using it

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

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.

i really hope that nothing i write ever ends up in this thread.

write exclusively about vanilla fudge and you will be ok

write about vanilla fudge with your right hand while flailing the left