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Sculptor1 wrote: ↑July 15th, 2020, 9:02 am I suppose if you have absolutely nothing to distinguish you from the plethora of other purveyors of this sort of (ahem!) music, then breach copyright to get your name noticed is some sort of policy that might work.

TY, always grateful for the enlightenment of my elders.

Papus79 wrote: ↑July 15th, 2020, 9:11 am

Sculptor1 wrote: ↑July 15th, 2020, 9:02 am I suppose if you have absolutely nothing to distinguish you from the plethora of other purveyors of this sort of (ahem!) music, then breach copyright to get your name noticed is some sort of policy that might work.

TY, always grateful for the enlightenment of my elders.

Glad to be of help. Have you tried listening to music?

Beastie Boys. It is incumbent on you to strive to defend the claim that you have on the set of activities collectively knowing as "partying".

Papus79 wrote: ↑July 15th, 2020, 9:50 am

Take out the hi-hats and it would have been perfect for an avant-garde 60s musical experiment. The same with the previous one to this.

Count Lucanor wrote: ↑July 15th, 2020, 12:42 pm Take out the hi-hats and it would have been perfect for an avant-garde 60s musical experiment. The same with the previous one to this.

This one's related to ASC's 'gray area' work. Another album that was particularly strong in this area albeit it's psychedelic in a very cold mineral/inorganic sort of way:

Sculptor1 wrote: ↑July 15th, 2020, 9:06 am

Greta wrote: ↑July 13th, 2020, 8:06 am Shame about the association, Sculptor. For the record, I didn't much care for Joe's Garage, which I found rather sterile and bitter.

I like your choices of FZ songs. I'm also especially keen on The Grand Wazoo album, One Size Fits All and Roxy & Elsewhere, and Hot Rats is pretty fine too.

I saw Dweezil when he came out here. Enjoyable, but my favourite of his bands was this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Jz4UH2_8U. To be fair, the venue they played at is a musical mausoleum IMO, capable of reducing the finest of sounds to a boomy mush. Not even Steely Dan sounded good in there.

I think it was the same tour; Zappa plays Zappa. Not the exact line up maybe.
But seriously the Brighton Centre is pretty sterile. The Dome, though smaller has better acoustics, and more intimate.

The Sydney Entertainment Centre is one of the worst venues I have attended. The acoustics are incredibly bad. The old Hordern Pavilion had a much warmer and cleaner sound but that went long ago. I don't like stadiums per se, and they strike me as a clue that an society has overpopulated :) Stadiums demean the musical experience. The acoustics are usually poor. People are far away from the band. Then there's crowd noise and distractions.

Trying to appreciate music in such an environment is like going to the Sistine Chapel in peak tourist season to soak up the spiritual nuances of the murals. Rather, you're in a crowd akin to an end of season sale with security guards constantly shouting at people to be quiet - more a comedy than a deep experience.

Greta wrote: ↑July 15th, 2020, 5:16 pm

Sculptor1 wrote: ↑July 15th, 2020, 9:06 am
I think it was the same tour; Zappa plays Zappa. Not the exact line up maybe.
But seriously the Brighton Centre is pretty sterile. The Dome, though smaller has better acoustics, and more intimate.

The Sydney Entertainment Centre is one of the worst venues I have attended. The acoustics are incredibly bad. The old Hordern Pavilion had a much warmer and cleaner sound but that went long ago. I don't like stadiums per se, and they strike me as a clue that an society has overpopulated Stadiums demean the musical experience. The acoustics are usually poor. People are far away from the band. Then there's crowd noise and distractions.

Trying to appreciate music in such an environment is like going to the Sistine Chapel in peak tourist season to soak up the spiritual nuances of the murals. Rather, you're in a crowd akin to an end of season sale with security guards constantly shouting at people to be quiet - more a comedy than a deep experience.

Agreed.
Pack em in sell cheap and offer crap.
We are lucky to have the DOME. It's like a closed domed amphitheatre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_Dome.

But the Brighton Centre was built circa 1977 of brutalist concrete.. Its all squared off.

When acts get bigger they generally have to migrate to the BC to accommodate more punters.

Count Lucanor wrote: ↑July 15th, 2020, 10:08 pm

This just reminded me, I really should jump back on news / talk radio. I feel like I get the outline of the lyrics on first blush but just the overtures. It sounds well developed and artful though from what I can glean ATM.

Greta wrote:Trying to appreciate music in such an environment is like going to the Sistine Chapel in peak tourist season to soak up the spiritual nuances of the murals.

Yeah, but I guess people don't go to appreciate the spiritual nuances. They go for similar reasons to why people (used to) go to churches and cathedrals. To worship their gods in the greatest splendor that contemporary architecture can manage. When I saw The Rolling Stones at Wembley it felt a lot like that. We got talking to a French girl who'd followed the tour all round Europe, seeing exactly the same performance over and over again. It's interesting how many obsessives like that there are when it comes to music. (The friend who persuaded me to go to that gig was one of them). When I recently went to a local pub to see a The Smiths tribute band (called The Joneses) it was an altogether different experience. But, then, I suppose I was worshiping a false god and Morrissey might strike me down with a bolt of lightening.

Steve3007 wrote: ↑July 16th, 2020, 4:58 am

Greta wrote:Trying to appreciate music in such an environment is like going to the Sistine Chapel in peak tourist season to soak up the spiritual nuances of the murals.

Yeah, but I guess people don't go to appreciate the spiritual nuances. They go for similar reasons to why people (used to) go to churches and cathedrals. To worship their gods in the greatest splendor that contemporary architecture can manage. When I saw The Rolling Stones at Wembley it felt a lot like that. We got talking to a French girl who'd followed the tour all round Europe, seeing exactly the same performance over and over again. It's interesting how many obsessives like that there are when it comes to music. (The friend who persuaded me to go to that gig was one of them). When I recently went to a local pub to see a The Smiths tribute band (called The Joneses) it was an altogether different experience. But, then, I suppose I was worshiping a false god and Morrissey might strike me down with a bolt of lightening.

I can small the ozone, Morrissey is a nut case!

I've an old friend, John, that started a Bowie tribute band. He's often to be seen in a small club in Brighton The Komedia. An on and off member of the band is Ralph Brown (Camberwell Carrot Withnail and I), who is a great saxophone player.
The atmosphere in that club is absurdly electric. Every person in there is singing along, and the performance is energetic and faithful to the originals. I've never felt anything quite like it in a larger hall. Scale is important. I doubt Bowie himself could have done much better in a larger venue. If you want to feel the sweat this is the gig.