Kevin Spence listened to a lot of Phish concerts and came up with the fact that jams tend to peak around 74% mark, which is not surprising as such, but there is a big difference that makes the Vermont quartet rather special:
Phish jams peak three-quarters of the way through. So do the same songs played straight, and so do most rock songs. The structure is familiar. What's not is how they get there.
Musical maverick Johnny Dowd has the recipe to scare the shit out of those kids who demand free candy: a face mask with his signature smirk or the drawn version from his Family Picnic album, both available from his webshop. Strapped for cash? Help yourself to a free Halloween card.
Back in 1993 tyres manufacturer Dunlop gave Tony Kaye the green light to make an ad ("Tested for the Unexpected") to sell their product, using Venus in Furs by The Velvet Underground. Crows, a gleaming car, fires and plenty of S&M references.
A landmark of sorts: 2500 single reviews on Here Comes The Flood. Plenty more to come. Watch this space.
HCTF is also on Post. as of now. As Twitter is heading for the abyss this microblogging option will also serve as an outlet for regular updates about my long running music blog.
Update: Post. has called it quits.
HCTF is also on Mastodon as of now. As Twitter is heading for the abyss this spot will also serve as an outlet for regular updates about my long running music blog.
Update: website has disappeared. Oh well.
15000 posts on Here Comes The Flood. Plenty more to come. As you were.
A landmark of sorts: 2500 album reviews on Here Comes The Flood. Plenty more to come. Watch this space.
Landmark of sorts:
2424 album reviews on
Here Comes The Flood.
Watch an animation by The Brothers McLeod of David Bowie explaining why he wore a clown suit in the Ashes to Ashes video.
Anil Prasad, editor of the in-depth music website Innerviews, has posted an open letter to Spotify employees:
Dear Assholes,
I know more about your business than you do. I am in direct contact with musicians at the highest levels, as well as industry executives that hate every fiber of your beings and all you represent. They have explained everything about your business to me. In particular, I know all about your “social media ops manipulation squad” sent to pepper comments in posts made by people like me revealing the truth about what you are.
Today, I removed multiple fake comments from fake accounts created by Spotify employees or agencies posting on your behalf. The language was VERBATIM what you’ve told my musician friends and industry people. The fact that you don’t have the balls to post as yourselves speaks volumes about the pernicious bullshit and lies you spew. I’m on to you.
Watch the Teletubbies in B & W, messing about using Joy Division's Atmosphere as the soundtrack.
The cure for Alumni Blues is here for Phish fans. The School of History, Philosophy, and Religion of Oregon State University is offering an online course as part of their PHL 360: Philosophy and the Arts program:
Tired of chalk dust torture? Sign up for this year's Philosophy School of Phish course! Class begins June 26th.
The Philosophy School of Phish is a special online section of PHL 360: Philosophy and the Arts, which uses Phish’s live performances as “field sites” for exploring the philosophy of art and music. The class is offered online through Oregon State University’s Ecampus. This makes it possible for anyone, anywhere to register; you do not have to be a current OSU student to take the class. The online format also permits each student (and the Professor) to travel to Phish concerts, instead of requiring physical attendance in an OSU classroom.
(thru phish.net)
Peopl who like good music, like good books, and vice versa. So why not reinvent classic albums as a bunch Penguin pockets, which each book representing a track? London based Standard Designs is selling 193 different ones as posters thru Etsy.com.
The Royal Mail goes out on a limb with a wealth of Pink Floyd stamp sets. Album covers (The Endless River made the cut - odd), live shots and even a Syd Barrett Souvenir Cover. Did somebody say Money?
Flemish comedian and avid DIY builder Henk Rijckaert has posted the instructions on how to build your own "Tennis Rock-it":
Sooner or later, every child pretends that his tennis racket is a real-life guitar that you can actually play. Imagining endless encores, we all play on the stage of our bunk bed for screaming audiences going wild.
That’s why I made this tennis racket into an electric guitar: as a noisy tribute to the ten year old boy standing in front of the mirror, jamming on air and dreaming of being the next guitar hero.
Does it work? Well, kind of. And here he is playing Enter Sandman for the Belgian radio station Studio Brussel.
Full instruction (in Flemish) here.
