Help, I'm A Rock!
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I saw this cartoon and just had to post it. I remember, bo, bo! This album made a very big impression on me at my tender age of 17. Not just noise and confusion. Note the jazz and modern "classical" compositional techniques. It certainly can happen here, and it does all the time.
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MOG it up!
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I've been reading some stuff about the turkish influence on jazz..this made me think of that. Good stuff.
Ooooh. Lemme listen again. Oh yeah, the beat. (Here:ba boomboom chuk. Some bellydance music: boom chuk, ba boom chuk.) What have you read about it? I just got a compilation of Anatolian Rock, which I was hoping to share, here. Some of it is really traditional and a lot of it is inimitable. Maybe i don't mean that in a good way.
Oh. The other thing about Freak Out! that made it so appealing was it was about as different from all other music available at the time as you could get. Even more so than the Village Fugs. And that's saying something.
A book called the the Roots and Branches of Jazz talks a lot about the instruments that came out of Turkey and the marching band style which eventually had a hand in the beginnings of jazz. I don't know if I buy it altogether, but it is interesting..
Definitely love me some Frank!
Freak Out......i remember it fondly
The first three Mothers albums were monumental. The "musicianship" may have gotten more sophisticated later, but not as interesting. (And the less said about the popular Flo and Eddie years, the better.) This was the original listen-in-the-dark-with-the-speakers-between-your-ears cut.
WAIT JUST A GOL-DANG MINUTE!!!!
speakers between ur ears!!!!!????????
Uh, meant speakers-next-to-your-ears. Go easy on me man. I've been editing marketing letters all day and my brain capacity has shrunk to the size of a ball bearing....
Hell...i was thinkin it would b a good idea.
It is a good idea....
Marching band > funeral marching band > jazz? I donno.
Help, I'm Erkoc! Fatih Erkoc, a popular Turkish singer/trombone player, performs a classical Arabesque song. Really tears up. Note the chord progression and the rhythm.
Wait. wait! Don't tell me. Turks influenced the North African Moors who occupied most of Spain where they influenced Spanish music *See my future post on Flamenco* which influenced ,,. And then some stuff happened ... Or it took a left at Morrocco and into sub-Saharan Africa and then over here?
'Freak Out' was the first 'underground' album passed around like a secret book. I well remember the guy at high school showing it to me. I was amazed that you could have a double album...."Oh, Suzie...Suzie Creamcheese...."