[LAU] Re: That must suck. For me it's about beauty--musicisjustone path

[david]

Vince Werber wrote:
> One of the 'Duets in Odd Meter' was used as an interval signal for a 
> pirate radio station in New England...  the station was short lived of 
> course :-)

Sort of the nature of the beast.

> I'm glad you replied... I was beginning to feel very errr... old... <heh>

You're never old as long as you're this side of the grave. That's my 
statement and I'm sticking to it. ;-)

> later
> vince
> 
> 
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, david wrote:
> 
>> Vince Werber wrote:
>>> Silence ehhh???  That could be a windfall of bux...
>>>
>>> I am sure that copyright of silence would include every CD that has 
>>> 'silence' between any grouping of different tunes...  There IS money 
>>> to be made here!!!  So much for the 'art factor' of such things...
>>>
>>> Was it too long ago when a 9th chord was considered 'way out there' 
>>> even in jazz???  It wasn't all that long ago but today a jazz piece 
>>> without a 9th would be considered odd...  hmmmm... what makes that...?
>>>
>>> Let's all make music in pure sine waves... I know it has been done 
>>> but has it been taken to it true point of the art???
>>>
>>> Has anyone every heard and album by Dick Hymen on the synth?  It was 
>>> on Command records and in the 60's if I remember correctly.  I 
>>> enjoyed that album but it failed in commecial circles so I guess it 
>>> must be art... 
>>
>> IMHO, it failed in commercial circles for a couple of reasons:
>>
>> * No one singing (that seems to be a near-unanimous requirement for 
>> commercial success)
>> * Outside of The Minotaur, the songs are nice but not particularly 
>> standing out.
>>
>>> He also used scales that broke down our common worldly scales into 
>>> much smaller pieces...
>>
>> Yes, I have that album here. It's called Moog. He didn't use many 
>> unusual scales in it, although I recall one piece in which the notes 
>> in the scale were a fifth apart. Also, he finishes the album with 
>> three short pieces grouped under the title of "Duets in Odd Meters," 
>> where he was doing things with uncommon meters.
>>
>> Keith Emerson played "The Minotaur" as part of his extended solo on 
>> ELP's live album, "Welcome Back, My Friends, to the Show That Never 
>> Ends." He never gave credit to Hyman, rude fellow.

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David
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