NHL lockout has chilling effect on business -
No kidding!
Notes and observations. Diversions and digressions. All done far too infrequently.
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Thursday, December 20, 2012
JEAN-LUC PONTY, STANLEY CLARKE, AL DI MEOLA "Memory canyon" - YouTube
JEAN-LUC PONTY, STANLEY CLARKE, AL DI MEOLA play "Memory canyon" from the Rite of Strings
Wherein Stanley Clarke allows us to see his soul. Astounding music!
Wherein Stanley Clarke allows us to see his soul. Astounding music!
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Hey Hippies! Ravi was just not that much into your indulgences!
The Telegraph:
R.I.P.
Until Ravi Shankar, most people in the West were familiar with Indian music – if at all – only as background noise in establishments with flock wallpaper, and would not have been in a position to discern the fine distinction between a morning raga and evening one, or even know whether in Shankar they were listening to a virtuoso or a rank beginner.Here is the master:
But Shankar could be a fastidious man. The rock audiences who came to pay homage he haughtily dismissed in his autobiography as “these strange young weirdos”; while his appearances at the Monterey and Woodstock festivals – the great quasi-religious gatherings of the alternative society – were apparently painful ordeals, where the audiences were “shrieking, shouting, smoking, masturbating and copulating – all in a drug-crazed state… I used to tell them, 'You don’t behave like that when you go to hear a Bach, Beethoven or Mozart concert.’” Quite.
R.I.P.
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