Jason Das

I got first position chords sus2 and sus4 from playing rudimentary Neil Young and Bowie in the early 90s. Instant Harvest Moon, Ziggy Stardust, etc. Probably via REM too?

I think I internalized the Townsend approach very early, but because I found Daltrey so annoying it’s taken me decades to acknowledge it. I accepted it secondarily via the Clash and Mick Ronson.

Yep. That the G string goes out of tune more often than the other strings is a common problem for reasons unrelated to overall guitar intonation.

To me, Paperback Writer *is* the classic Rick sound. (And Chapman Stick is the quintessential prog bass.) But I was a mere toddler in the 70s, and I can see how the Chris Squire, Geddy Lee, et al sound would be more associated via visual media of the era.

Hmm… McCartney switched to Rickenbacker in 1965. And Foxton was very visibly playing Rickenbacker in the Jam by 1977 when they were still “punk”

Both that and the Country Music one could have been fine if they just stopped their histories earlier. They are decent on origins (the first ~50 years) and then fumble the “recent” past (the following ~50 years) in unforgivable ways.

Just been walking in South Philly post rain and sorry to report everything is still grimy and there are still giant piles of snow

By This River Download and print in PDF or MIDI free sheet music of by this river - Brian Eno for By This River by Brian Eno arranged by jasondas for Piano, Vocals, Synthesizer (Mixed Ensemble)

This seems like an ok place to drop a link to my transcribed score of "By This River" ... maybe it will lead to even more versions! musescore.com/user/3596370...

The common idea being they were prioritizing their own creative exploration/expression over other motivations for making music: high sales, making people dance, advertising products, praising divinities, pleasing patrons, etc.

I've actually been considering using it more. It's "rock" music (more a description of cultural lineage than of sound) with artistic goals in line with the art world/contemporary art. It's what separates "Tomorrow Never Knows" from "Michelle" or Talking Heads from Tom Petty.

The movie more brought up questions of NAY-mohr vs nah-MOHR

Reading aloud would change it for sure. And given Pullman's thoughts about storytelling (vs novel-writing) and his place in the traditions, I think he'd get it, too. Things like the Odyssey, Paradise Lost, The Faerie Queen, Journey to the West are not exactly structured like page-turners.

That’s the greatest purpose of art! I love that you got that from this book, even if I didn’t. (I have felt that way about earlier installments.)

The interaction between Dust and Alkahest was way too unexamined for me to get more invested in the metaphors. Everything worth getting excited about re Dust was established in the original trilogy.

my three-star Goodreads review of the Rose Field: “Could have been much shorter or much longer and had exactly the same effect. It's a bunch of adventures. Some characters deserved more pages, others needed fewer. Very little is resolved; for the conclusion of an epic, it's not much of one. The metaphors are ... heavy and ok, but don't make up for lack of real stakes in the story. (I should have re-read The Secret Commonwealth, as this picks up exactly where that left off.)”

I read it because I read all the others … I enjoyed some aspects very much, but the whole much weaker than the parts.

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Very honored to be opening for JaJaWeDa (Jaap Blonk and some Flying Luttenbachers) on Valentine’s Day! I’ll be playing cello etc with the 52nd St Planetary Ensemble. At 2223 Fish in Philly. www.firemuseumpresents.com

Now it’s a pencil cup or remote control/phone caddy and you can look at it even more often.

I also may be missing the point. Your dozens may be my hundreds. It is definitely a common thing for songs to be mostly I-IV-V but then use another chord or two for a special bit.

I hear you that blues is something else. The “folk” style of John Prine, Woody Guthrie, Springsteen’s Nebraska, etc has lots of examples, no? Even more if you allow V7. (Not to say a steel player never gets fancy on top of the core progression.) And “La Bamba” style garage rock?

Seems like lots of country and blues songs should qualify?

Paper zines as a compromise?

I absolutely wish you success, however!! Just sharing my own frustrations in this space.

Even if you convince them that Elon Musk is a grifter, they will believe in their exceptional powers to get out before the bubble pops.

Investing significantly in individual stocks is already the wrong approach if the priority is “good investment” though. Stock prices rarely correlate to strong business fundamentals/stability/longevity. For those who prefer to gamble and play around, why not treat Musk’s hype as a game piece?

Which ”classic rock” band is this *not* true for, though? Isn‘t most of it going back to that stuff, just post-psychedelia with higher production values, longer tracks, and less anodyne lyrics?

I’m not envious of anyone dealing with it these days!

Seems like a problem for the kid to do most of the work on rather than the parents?

I want to pronounce it like “wood” rather than any Moog variant!

Glad you’re ok and I understand the urge. I have been desperately wanting to ride this week, but it just doesn’t seem possible outside of a few major roads.