Totally Lazy And Totally Clean Free Association Chain

[beckyblue]

Ah, Mr. Smith...

 

[WinstonSmith]

I have to post this one too... Paganini was the earliest Robert Johnsonesque devil skills figure I was aware of but then i came across this gem from that article. The song and story are awesome:

Tartini was an Italian composer and violinist. He was one of the most instrumental musical composers having written over 400 works. Unlike most of his contemporaries he wrote no church music or operas, he focused most of his work on violin concerti and sonatas. His most infamous piece is called the Devil’s Trill Sonata. The story behind “Devil’s Trill” starts with a dream. Tartini allegedly told the French astronomer Jérôme Lalande that he dreamed that The Devil appeared to him and asked to be his servant. At the end of their lessons Tartini handed the devil his violin to test his skill—the devil immediately began to play with such virtuosity that Tartini felt his breath taken away. When the composer awoke he immediately jotted down the sonata, desperately trying to recapture what he had heard in the dream. Despite the sonata being successful with his audiences, Tartini lamented that the piece was still far from what he had heard in his dream. What he had written was, in his own words: “so inferior to what I had heard, that if I could have subsisted on other means, I would have broken my violin and abandoned music forever.

 

[NoleintheNati]

 

[beckyblue]

Couldn't have been much of a change from the dream to produce that. Incredible. Okay, I'm not gonna start apologizing for dipping WAY down from lofty heights or I'll never stop. So that there was it .

 

[WinstonSmith]

 

[beckyblue]

 

[WinstonSmith]

 

[beckyblue]

 

[WinstonSmith]

"I don't want the world / I just want your half"

 

[beckyblue]

...in the glow...

 

[WinstonSmith]

 

[beckyblue]

Portishead's one area of overlap w/ Mac. Fresh out of the bin, gotta let him even know of the thread.

 

[WinstonSmith]

 

[beckyblue]

A band to check out when you feel like being off kilter.

 

[WinstonSmith]

wow...that was a tough one...then I read this:"Spit Valve Consonants is from a new record called OOO"...then I remembered:

 

[beckyblue]

 

[WinstonSmith]

Phil Spector:

 

[beckyblue]

 

[Moonlit knight]

Hi'ya

 

[beckyblue]

Glad to see you, MK! See, Jimi, I get; we'll see what I can do with Minsky in the morning.