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

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

huge fan of the low-budget tv in-out mindzoom

Wait does this fuck also review classical music for VV or are those (astonishing) bits pulled from elsewhere?

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

top 10 tyrannical dictators

DJP tell your pop to stay tuned for my Vanilla Fudge thinkpiece

done and done

the classical bit was pulled from elsewhere and is Joseph Lapin, i didn't think the Jazz article was the same dude?

jazz article is also lapin

same dude

There should be something called downright bass.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, November 13, 2012 4:38 PM (37 minutes ago)

Vanilla Fudge, rocking the ascot!

Downton Abbey Bass.

Downward Facing Bass

Downtrodden Bass.

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

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.

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

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

trout
how low can you go

catfish, surely.

an imprint of strange and beautiful blaps

i bought a packet of circus peanuts today b/c of this thread.

ew

How many people buy circus peanuts a year, or were they just made all and once years ago and have been sitting on shelves ever since?

Just before birth, the fates allot each man a certain number of circus peanuts; when the last is eaten he is visited by death.

the first one was OK, but I tired of them midway through the second & threw the rest away. I was just kind of curious about them b/c I haven't eaten them since I was prob age 5 or so. Impressively, the texture & taste is even more artificial-seeming than you'd think, given their appearance.

I'd rather eat packaging peanuts.

This is like from a high school newspaper!

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/2012/09/john_coltrane_a_love_supreme.php

http://josephalapin.com

Yeesh.

Funny how the "high school newspaper" genre now includes random facts from Wikipedia.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that Flying Lotus, born Steven Ellison, is a special artists, guiding our ear palettes and rhythmic intuitions into complex and undiscovered territory.

i kind of like this guy for saying things like "And of course, Coltrane was just straight-up killing the sax."

flopson stop being okay w/ everything

Happy belated birthday, Trane!

Could have just got him a card, Joe.

And then there's Trane's A Love Supreme which all the lovers of the NOW SOUND swear by and all it is is the precursor of the Vanilla Fudge, Coltrane's worst and its good that he's dead I would say it worse than that

-- Not a bad excerpt from not a bad piece of writing by R. Meltzer to be found in Gulcher (and perhaps originally in the Voice)

not bad piece of writing, just so there is no confusion..

but quote inaccurately, blame the lack of coffee.

It turned out that John Coltrane, like many of the great beboppers (Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Charlie "Bird" Parker), would fall victim to the black-tar bug -- in other words, heroin.

All this needs is for "beboppers" to be in quotes and it'll be perfect.

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