Current song you are listening to(or the Last song you listened to) - by Andarthiel
Kolya on 2/1/2021 at 11:38
Thanks for the Beatles movie heads-up! I had no idea such awesome was coming our way. ��
The horse with no name is following me across media. First it came up on the radio when I still thought it was Neil Young. Then I heard it in Sidorovich's bunker (in the game: Stalker Anomaly) and now it's mentioned here.
Aged Raver on 2/1/2021 at 14:59
Thanks for the comments. Much appreciated.
@Tocky
Watching and listening to your newest post I was thinking you were quick-out-of-the-blocks :D as it only went up yesterday on YouTube. Another song I didn’t know! And thanks, I didn’t know that fett was a TTLG-er although I did see in a YouTube exchange of comments that TTLG was mentioned. Well done him. Very accomplished chap. Yes I’m relatively new to the forum. I was sent a THIEF demo in the late 1990s but as John Lennon said
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. I’m still finding my way around here. Good to hear about your links to Sussex. I can report that this bit of it is cold and grey, but no snow.
@Kolya
Yes. Similarly on it’s first day of posting I stumbled on the Peter Jackson video about his coming Beatles film. It looks like it will be fun. The last film of his I saw was a documentary (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrabKK9Bhds)
They Shall Not Grow Old. As those who saw it know, it’s created from First World War footage, 100 years old, and the jerky old films (I read) were re-timed from 13 frames a second to 24, using computer techniques to create the missing frames. Ten minutes into the film it changes from black and white to colourised, again using modern techniques. Lip-readers had worked out what the soldiers in those silent films were saying, so with added sound effects and synchronised voice acting, plus voice-over from old soldiers of WW1 recorded in the 1960s, you realise these were very much real men and boys and it could have been filmed yesterday. Very moving.
Perhaps
The Horse With No Name is carrying a message. I'm joking. :D
Aged Raver on 6/1/2021 at 09:57
A rousing fun song from sister and brother, with sister Norma in chorus, from their 1972 album
Bright Phoebus. The Watersons, from Yorkshire with Gypsy in their ancestral roots, mainly sang traditional UK songs but this album was way different and described as the Sgt. Pepper of The Folk World. Dark and Sunny Pagan is another description. Allegedly a postman, credited in the liner notes, who was delivering a package during the recording, was invited to join in the chorus of one of the tracks. :D
[video=youtube;TE7YAE8zENw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE7YAE8zENw[/video]
Years ago there was a (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iQkyOoGtSA) BBC documentary about Bright Phoebus.
Gray on 8/1/2021 at 02:45
Wear your masks. Keep your distance. Don't be a dick.
[video=youtube;Or0cXIBBf9s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or0cXIBBf9s[/video]
Gray on 8/1/2021 at 02:58
I'm sure I'm not the only person who has experienced some technical difficulties lately. Frustration building up. So what do you do? Release!
[video=youtube;kazdCU9pzwM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kazdCU9pzwM[/video]
Aged Raver on 8/1/2021 at 09:17
I regularly anticipate technical difficulties. My laptop is very old, like its owner, but both keep going and although the ISPs are overloaded with folks working from home, mine seems OK, which is not what I usually say about it. For some time I lurked and finally joined TTLG for the vibrant Thief forums and over the last week have been playing entries to the (
https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=151009&p=2463593&viewfull=1#post2463593) Thief Million Units contest. So far I’ve played 5 and already chosen the winner (as far as I’m concerned). Not sure when voting starts but a final 4 entries were released this morning so, stocked up with food for the weekend, onward to missions new. :D
Tocky on 9/1/2021 at 05:13
Buckethead is one madass beautiful bastard. I love that I don't know who he is because that makes him everyone.
[video=youtube_share;dyQJH615KwA]https://youtu.be/dyQJH615KwA[/video]
demagogue on 9/1/2021 at 05:54
I've been getting into Buckethead quite a lot over the last year. The guy has crippling social anxiety, so it's not like the mask is even a gimmick. He'd have some kind of psychic break without it. But with it, I think he himself loses who he is, he becomes the mask, and this inner beauty and soul just radiate out of him unfiltered through his music.
I think his total lack of ego makes his fans fiercely protective of him, like he's this rare and vulnerable flower that you want to shield just so it can keep blossoming. And oh man the music that comes out of him, it's such a release of emotion and wit and beauty and stank faced funk power.
But what really rocketed him to the top of my list of one of the GOATs is when I started exploring his Pikes. Sometime around 2015 I think, he went completely independent and just started releasing a new album about every 3 days (at their peak) he called Pikes, and he just kept doing it for years. He brushed off Ozzy and Axyl & the rest of them and just made his own musical world all to himself (his theme park Bucketheadland, for which the Pikes are rides. BTW, the guy has obsessions you'll notice pretty quickly, like theme parks, Michael Jordan, & horror flicks, all just part of his enigma).
I think in one year alone he had over 120+ Pike releases. And when you throw that much up on the wall, some of it is just stunning. Even when some of them are just middle-of-the-road for him (which are still objectively awesome just because his technical chops are so incredible even when he's radioing it in; I couldn't say there's a single "bad" one out of the 100s of releases), you realize he takes the collection of them through phases and tracks refer to each other, and they collectively tell a kind of story where even the rambling, filler ones play a thoughtful role in the bigger story.
But man when they hit, they hit big, like the Pike he released in tribute for his mother (Pike #65), or this last year Through the Looking Garden (Pike #284). If you'll remember, I recently posted a link to Mel (the Indonesian shredder girl with the hijab) playing a cover of my favorite BH piece, Soothsayer (what Tocky posted here), just above the video of her shredding Metallica.
The guy is a bottomless well of musical ideas and emotions to explore. I recommend anyone into thoughtful music catch the fever. You won't be disappointed, and you'll never run out of great music.
[video=youtube;86GJgvF8rP8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86GJgvF8rP8[/video]