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

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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

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

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

idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link

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"

da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link

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

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

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

flopson, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link

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)


Some call it the doghouse bass

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

Vanilla Fudge, rocking the ascot!

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 22:19 (eleven years ago) link

Downton Abbey Bass.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 22:19 (eleven years ago) link

Downward Facing Bass

Moodles, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link

Downtrodden Bass.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link

yeah so i read that piece and strongo was right except that I now have the phrase "a jazz bucket, filled with masterpieces" stuck in my head

Everybody did shit, art happened! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 22:25 (eleven years ago) link

KFC currently offering an awesome jazz bucket special.

I once saw Eleventh Dream Day, and I was trying to figure out the type of fish on the back of Doug McCombs's bass. "Trout?" I asked my friend out loud. "No, idiot," said some other guy. "It's a bass.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 22:26 (eleven years ago) link

one of my college friends wrote the following poem while in high school:

I like to sing bass
Because it rhymes with 'ass'

I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link

trout
how low can you go

multiple decades of jazz (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 22:32 (eleven years ago) link


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