Dusty Chalk

Not familiar with the ES7's -- can you describe what it is you like about the ES7's?

You're just going to have to trust me on that particular anecdote.

Yeah, but are your molecules in the perfect ratio of esthetically tuned orthogonally and parallel...uh...paralellily...erm...(insert adverb form of parallel here) oriented molecules? I should write ad copy.

It's true. When I was in college, I worked in a china, jewelry, gifts, & collectibles type store. There was some jewelry that we underpriced so bad, that no-one would buy it except for other jewelry merchants (they knew what it was they were buying, everyone else was like, "I wonder what's wrong with it?"). Once we raised the prices, they started selling.

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Mediggy. So I hear: a guitarist, a drummer, and...how many of you were there? The drums, in particular, sound well-recorded. Sounds almost acid jazz -- have you heard...argh, I forget their name...I'll come back when I remember. I think they did an album called "The Real Thing"...they had kind of a technoy sound, but they used a live drummer.

I will definitely have to find a way to see this -- I named my computer at work "River".

Now you're talkin'.

Camille -- she pretty much had me from the get-go, but by the time she was done, it was "greatest concert evar!!!1!". Early on in the show, she tried to direct a singalong with the audience doing French pop hits, since she was at the French embassy. Hardly anyone knew any of the words, much less the melody. They (we) started talking amongst ourselves. If I weren't still watching her, I would say that she was falling flat on her face, but as Hirsch likes to say, if one doesn't fail, one isn't experimenting enough. That was definitely the case. She had so much exuberance and confidence that I don't think she even noticed she was failing, she just went on to the next number or whatever. Not a few songs later, she sung the most delicate number from Le Fil (I think it was "Pour Que L'amour Me Quitte", don't have the song titles memorized) unamplified. Not just unaccompanied, unamplified. They even turned the mic off. I won't say you could hear a pin drop, but she delivered the song delicately, without much power, and she had such a commanding presence, that you could hear her just fine. From then on, she had the audience's attention for the rest of the night. Bauhaus -- Daniel, David and Kevin mount the stage...with a television. Peter Murphy's image appears on the television and they launch into the first song -- which is always "Double Dare". He's doing this live from offstage, and despite the fact that you didn't come to the concert to watch television, it works. As always, they transition into "In the Flat Field", and he comes out -- he waits an entire song to mount the stage (and this is before we knew that the reunion was going to be anything more than the one tour, so the concert is an event). The man knows how to make an entrance. Pink Floyd -- Division Bell tour. I think it was the second half of the show, after the break. They show up in a giant mirrorball, big enough to encase the entire band. The entire concert was "spectacle", from beginning to end, with giant inflatable pigs during the songs from Animals, a giant round projection screen, and plenty of other visuals. Pretty much no-one can outdo that ever again, except, perhaps... Blue Man Group -- I just love this band: visual, silly, kinetic, engaging. Plenty of people on stage -- mostly drummers, and utilizing dynamics and subtlety in a way that you wouldn't expect from someone to whom The Three Stooges appears to be a primary influence. At one point, they throw out a straw Blue Man into the crowd to get ripped up. At others you are expected to make "rock concert movements" complete with narrated instruction ("above-head fist pump", etc.). And so on. Again, the visual spectacle and the music conjoin in such a way to make the whole better than the sum of the parts. Peter Gabriel -- Big bouncy ball, I'm sure everyone's heard of it by now, he looks like a gerbil in there. Tries to run over the guitarist. Peter Gabriel never disappoints when it comes to live shows -- I've seen him as far back as the 80's (I think it was on the tour for Security).

Seems just a tad "busy" for my tastes, but if you enjoy it then more power to you.

I saw a transformer punching lollipop thingy at the store the other day, and thought, "My, how the mighty have fallen". But then I remembered that Transformers was always about the merchandising.

He's a system administrator, and he's not allowed to post on Head-Fi. That frees up, what, 2 hours a night?

Take your time, it's going to be a dry couple of months. And yes, do watch Buffy and Angel. Quite possibly the greatest shows ever. Firefly was good, too.

Bump.

Try searching on "ALO".

That'd be very cool.

And you thought I was kidding about the shoes.

Actually, a great start into the ECM catalog is the Rarum series. They have them in two box sets on the ECM site.

You're such a playa, Billy.

If someone could figure out how to declip digitized music, he could make a mint.

You Suck, by Christopher Moore, in paperback Buffy Omnibus 3 30 Days of Night 8: Red Snow by Ben Templesmith (! -- I love Ben Templesmith's art and what little of his writing I've been able to find) Hi-Fi Choice January 2008 issue (I really need to subscribe) Absolute Sound new issue (I really need to subscribe) Sunday Washington Post Sigur Ros DVD Heima (I think)

Or better yet, do it on the computer side.

Well, when you use a multimeter checking the ohmage of something, and you touch two ends of a cable that are the same piece of wire, it should say short. When you touch two different wires, it'll say some ridiculously high impedance. That's what it should do.

There's a small chance of "wintery mix" tonight, but nothing to speak of, according to WTOP.