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...And so now that you've broken the ice....whatcha been listenin' to? Watcha been playin'? Doin'? Sayin'?
Well, my external hard disk where I kept all my music died a coupla months ago. Now that's not such a disaster as it might be, because only maybe 20% I didn't have backups for, and a lot of what I lost was crappy MP3s I bought from EMusic. And I had already decided to go with .WAVs whenever possible, because they sound so much better. So it was ok that I would have to re-rip my cds as wav files. But that said, I kind of got a wild hair and discovered bittorrent, and downloaded a bunch of stuff...like all of Steve Miller, Fleetwood Mac, and Elton John. I couldn't afford to listen to ALL this stuff when it came out, and it sounds really good to go back to 1969 to 75 and really listen again. So I've been making playlists of my favorite early SM, FM, and EJ. Genius's all of them! Coinkidinkally, I'm right now listening to Athem of the Sun on MediaMonkey, which is my music librarian program which I highly recommend, it plays ALL files.
Yeah, I prefer WAVs myself....its a pissa that we can't upload them to the MOG.
Playlists & mixes Rule!
Why hello there!
Glad to hear that the unfortunate HD event didn't cost you too much sonically.
Yeh, I'm resourceful. For some reason, it seems important to organize all this music.
That's why I like soy sause on plain white rice... flavah flavah, y'know!
I derive guilty pleasure from that same era you mention, generally dismissed by my garage punk pals...
Certain tracks however lengthy or sonambulistic on "Future Games" (Bob Welch '72 period Fleetwood Mac) especially: Woman Of A Thousand Years; Morning Rain; Sands Of Time.
Supposedly too uncool for the room but I still play 'em when no one's micro-managing me!
Were you with me the time 2 of us crashed Grace Cathedral circa 1971?
Steve Miller Band were out of sight up in the balcony.
They only played 2 songs: Songs For Our Ancestors, complete with whale calls and fog horns, followed by Dear Mary.
Again, sleepy time music perfect for the flock.
Then in '70, Laurie Morris moved 2 alternative school kids into my room on Bronte Street - John Lee (the piano player who's party we went to a few years later, but we were not duh enough to fit in);
and the blonde 15 yr. old "let's party on the bus" girl (Kissy? Ditzy? Herpie? Skanky? I can't recall her name) who was the first one I knew with Elton John's debut or breakout LP.
She kept trying to tell me "Your Song" was me in a nutshell.
I liked "Take Me To The Pilot" more.
And I thought "Expecting To Fly" (Buffalo Springfield) was more my song.
Also that "The Boxer" (Paul Simon) was my Dad's story in song.
And that "Little Girl Blue" (Janis) was Lucy's song.
I remember having a lot of fun playing and strutting to "Aftermath" (Rolling Stones) with you and Lucy at Roger Zelazny's flat, in June '71, the last nite I spent in SF with my 2 best friends before leaving on a jet plane to London town.
My point is, 40 years later, these album tracks bring back memories.
"It's All Too Much" and Beethoven's 6th "The Pastorale" were the apex of our young and innocent days, recalling the multi-media party you organized. at the 45 Cameo hardwood floor large-size den that felt that evening as though we were at the Family Dog.
Until the cops made a Cameo appearance and bopped our nogins with their batons.
Then they swilled all the orange juice, ridiculed the cartoons in New Yorker for not being funny, yet laughed at my crudely rolled kinik-kinik ciggies, calling them "pregnant joints".
Otherwise it was a starry starry night... we were kids doing a thing called the Crocadile Rock
Y'know, I feel the same way about Woman Of A Thousand Years;Morning Rain; Sands Of Time...some of the best songs ever written and recorded! They are unique, and I love how they go from section to section, completely subverting the normal structure of a typical pop song.
By the way, bro, your writing has gotten so good these last few months...you rock!
Thx MU, U-2.
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