Vale...and thanks! “When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk” ― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Another guitar great gone.
At a time when the normal set up was Guitar-Cord-Amp, stomp boxes didn't exist and studio tricks were few and far between he created a distinctive sound and a new genre which will live forever. And lets not forget inspiring countless others to create music.
Keep on Twangin' Duane.
@tbb
Yes, drummers have their own sheet music.
It's all explained here: https://www.schoolofrock.com/resources/drums/drum-notation-for-beginners
And another.
Mike Pinder, a founding member of the Moody Blues passed away recently.
Another whose work inspired many who followed.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/30/mike-pinder-obituary
great tribute @tbb..
(I knew a band who locked their keys in their tour van, they missed their gig as a consequence, but they did manage to get their drummer out eventually..
- apologies @Salty & @thermalben ; )
Ben's swellnet Drum Circle : We can read Tabloids and roll our own scrolls!
Thanx basesix & yes A Salty Dog picked up on a few neat tricks there...
Pioneering Guitarists and indeed Moodies all hacked up gear & pimped it to pioneer new gear
Only fair to point that out...last few years we lost a lot of Rock Tech Gurus without fanfare!
Today we salute them & another...Mike pulled the Guts outta his Mellotron & Pimped the Strings.
They found a way to flow the sound waves which forged Moody's orchestrated sound.
Story goes...First US Concert Mike's dodgy Mellotron blew out it's guts (20mins) Toons & all good to go!
Mike was a musical synthesis consultant to Atari Computer Corp.
His son consults/ edits music for Pirates of Caribbean / Da Vinci Code.
Mike often stands & sings equal lead & recites the Band's Poetry...wrote a few as well.
Very much frontline Vocal Harmonies that you will hear!
A Salty Dog ~ Mike Pinder tribute continues
Very sad...tbb grew up with Moody Blues LPs more so than Duane's records.
Yes! Still got many of their records...
Need a run of early 60's / '70's Live Clips just so we can spot Mike on Keyboards...
Quite often he appears in front Left from the side / behind otherwise in a brief pan.
If yer not familiar with the band...
This is the Moody Blues is a Double LP...has most good tracks.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mFCTUUyJrldE32S2WgSvbiCFBP...
Here's a run of high rotation super cool hits that intro / feature Mike Pinder
2nd (Daily Motion link) French "Peak Hour" is included as Mike's organ controls the crowd.
Should make for great listening as well...super hot tunes the lot of them.
{r.i.p} Mike Pinder...thanx for yer Swirling Dervish...keepin' the dream alive!
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Peak Hour
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x86wfoo
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One of the sounds of the 70's and early 80's new wave, Ignatius has left the building. Vale.
R.I.P. Steve Albini
https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/may/08/steve-albini-us-al...
scott_scott wrote:R.I.P. Steve Albini
https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/may/08/steve-albini-us-al...
Shitty news to wake up to. Didn't follow him much in later years but his Big Black and early Shellac stuff moved me. Also admired both his early provocations and the insightful way he owned it later on.
One of many faves, Albini guitar ching, Santiago Durango guitar vroom, and a suitably fucked up take on boredom in mid-west America.
?si=3F3bsBWt8V4xGimi Sad loss, genius.
Produced albums for some Australian bands including The Lizard Train and Mark of Cain
Yes he had his hands on many of the songs that formed my "playlists" (= mix tapes) back in the day. A sad day, way too young but died doing what he loved.
Albini.. big one, shit what impact and influence.
https://www.angelfire.com/in/stierch/albini.html
^ this site is a great tribute, I reckon. It's the equivalent of an ancient much-recorded-over 2" tape reel. The handful of links that do actually work are a crack up, like: http://www.savoymag.net/ and https://mintrecs.com/bands/pansy/
rip, Steve.
Swellnet tribute continues ... Big Black last year lost their Bassist now their Guitarist Steve.
Ben's Tunes Drum Circle Exemption for innovators...(1983 Loose Bass / Sharp Guitars + Drum Machine)
Albini's US Big Black Band imitated UK Cabaret Voltaire but here they blend harder NZ sound...
There is another Live Vid...you'd swear they were an NZ Flying Nun outfit...lends some insight into Albini.
Much more worldly than most Yanks...
Goldie Punkz tribute a similar 1980-83 NZ cutting edge brutally honest sound bossed the era.
Likely hear similar in SA Spikes also...(punkz uniformed last Jab ~ Gotta Kill it before MTV spoons it out)
Killer sound originates from The Gordons "Future Shock"(Blank Gen Epitaph!)
Steve was very familiar with Oz Pub Rock Scene...hear exact same Oz riff rips in his US Artist's Work.
Anyhow...live Vid of 'Cables' is a sharp enough Attack that gave US a bit of a jolt.
wicked. they are going for it tbb. No compromise
Some great live shows.
More of Steve Albini...
Diagonal label boss Oscar Powell releases music as Powell. One of his singles, 'Insomniac' features a vocal sample from Steve Albini that dates to his time fronting Big Black. Ahead of its release, Powell emailed Albini to get sample clearance and explain how much Big Black's music meant to him. However, Albini gave more than his approval—he also included a long rant on how much he hates dance music.
Powell asked if he could use the email to promote the single, and when Albini responded, "still don't care," the text was turned into a billboard on London's Commercial Street.
Although he said he hadn't heard 'Insomniac', Albini wrote:
"I am absolutely the wrong audience for this kind of music. I've always detested mechanized dance music, its stupid simplicity, the clubs where it was played, the people who went to those clubs, the drugs they took, the shit they liked to talk about, the clothes they wore, the battles they fought amongst each other...
Basically all of it: 100 percent hated every scrap.
The electronic music I liked was radical and different, shit like the White Noise, Xenakis, Suicide, Kraftwerk, and the earliest stuff form Cabaret Voltaire, SPK and DAF. When that scene and those people got co-opted by dance/club music I felt like we'd lost a war. I detest club culture as deeply as I detest anything on earth. So I am against what you're into, and an enemy of where you come from but I have no problem with what you're doing...
In other words, you're welcome to do whatever you like with whatever of mine you've gotten your hands on. Don't care. Enjoy yourself.
Steve
^ ha, wow, hard to know if oscar is techno-punk genius, or callow opportunist..
either way, steve was on it. horrible track. was going to post "powell insomniac", but decided not.
basesix wrote:^ ha, wow, hard to know if oscar is techno-punk genius, or callow opportunist..
either way, steve was on it. horrible track. was going to post "powell insomniac", but decided not.
My guess, callow opportunist who noted the vitality of Albini's letter to Nirvana and realised he had his own version on hand using it to promote his music.
In the process, SA was both unduly commodified and connected to a truly shit piece of music.
reckon that's spot on. so funny though isn't it, now punk ethos is decades old.. if you buy into the idea that punk is simply an irreverent pastiche of popular culture, stuck disposably onto a media style anyone can do, in a way the previous gen is huffily dismissive of...
perfect greying of it all though, cos then it just comes down to good taste.
Love Albini's response:
"So I am against what you're into, and an enemy of where you come from but I have no problem with what you're doing..."
True to the ethos
im a big fan of shellac. saw them a couple of times. Last time at Sydney Metro not sure when - 2010 maybe? I remember it pretty well despite being pretty full of piss (pre gig did the obligatory china town dinner at BBQ King). I remember Albini had his mic stand full of guitar picks different colours, all lined up. I took a very good mate who didn't know them - saffa blow in- the biggest snake / arrogant fcker in the water I've ever met- i called him the traffic cop coz we would rock up to line ups and he'd start just hassling crew and trying to direct the line up - so embarrassing. Fkn saffas. Anyway, halfway through the gig Albini stops suddenly for a Q&A session. I can't remember specific audience questions but I recall they were fan-nerd highbrow stuff, as you'd expect for a shellac gig - anyway my saffa mate puts his hand up to a ask a question, steve turns to him and in his most sincere loudest saffa accented voice asks "yes I was wondering what your favourite guitar pick colour was?". Without missing a beat Albini responds very clearly and furiously "Fuck off!!".
I was mortified.
Listened to a few Albani related podcast this week.
Bandsplain remembering Albani
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1xc2rY9DGAu8KBJdpIEtbS
And
Vinyl guide - re run of an interview with him
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2W3CxVFcgEQZxDaVCytqm6
Not really into his bands or him but he did produce some of my fav Albums
And it's goodnight from him...