music in the shed

Way back in '99, I got a CD of Paul Galbraith playing Haydn. He used an 8-string, I believe to play Brahms. Collaborated with his luthier on it. He plays on a resonator box he sits on, and plays cello-style, with a steel pin resting on the box. I find this song to be my favorite. It sends chills at 2:30 - 3:30. Usually in the 'shed' I'm listening to weird psychadlic rockabilly or some sort of rubbish, but once in a while I need some 'cultcha'. Listening in the sweet spot of my 40-year-old AR98LSi speakers I got new in Athens, Greece is blissful.

 
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Oscar`s son sees ELP play live , so gets dad to invite Keith onto his show ............

If you`re expecting Oscar to jump over his piano and start throwing knives around the place , then I`m afraid you`re going to be disappointed ..........


Which is an excuse to repeat two old Keith Emerson stories ........

One is where Jimi Hendrix was watching ELP play live from the side of the stage , whilst filming the proceedings on a cine camera ........ Hendrix kept motioning to Keith , trying to get him to throw the knives at the speaker stack he was stood next to , so he could capture it on film .......
Keith was reluctant to do so , for fear of hitting Jimi , but Hendrix kept on motioning him to do it ....... So in the end he thought Oh bugger it , threw the knife which missed the speaker , hitting the wooden cabinet instead ,,,,,,,, which caused the knife to rebound across the stage , hitting bass player Greg Lake on the back of the head ...... With the handle end presumably ........ Whether Hendrix got all this on film is unknown ........

The other is when ELP were playing a venue with a small stage with an orchestra pit in front of it ..... meaning Keith had to set up his keyboards much closer to the edge of the stage than normal .........
Once the gig was underway , Keith forgot all about this ....... jumping over his piano half way through one number , and ending up six foot down at the bottom of the orchestra pit .........
The other two were up on the stage , looking at each other and going ...... " Where`s he disappeared to , he was here a second ago .... " ........
 
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..... and finally ...... ( reprise ) ...........

Flo and Eddie ( aka The Turtles ) exercise their vocal talents in order to help out some bloke with a moustache and a big nose .......
 
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....... and finall...... ( ok , forget it ..... ) .......

The Turtles take over the show completely ......... Uncle Frank just lets them get on with it ..........

An old favourite but always a joy to hear again ............


BTW ...... Leo G Carroll was in SIX Alfred Hitchcock movies ........ but is most fondly remembered as Mr Waverly in The Man From U.N.C.L,E ............

John Provost was in Lassie..........
 
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Good ol' Frank at his best - Flo and Eddie certainly added their own touch to the ensemble. I wonder, did they write the lyrics? A tale of incest meets paedophilia! That would go down very well these days! I've always wondered if there was some criminal trial of the 'guy in Montreal'?!

Saw Frank and the Madres live around this time at Brisbane Festival Hall.
 
I used to have the album .... ( now sold along with all my other vinyl ) ..... so can`t check the label ........ but as far as I know , it was written by Zappa and Howard Kaylan ( Eddie ) ..........
 
Paul Marx said:
Angine de poitrine, from Québec.
Guitar and bass fretted by 1/4 tone.


Paul
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Well observed Mr M.

Many are the anomalies, pre 1920 instruments were tuned to A=442hz, post 1920, A=440Hz. A small however crucial difference, making pre 1920 instruments as not acceptable post 1920 to the present, in a combined instrument situation Relative as it were. When you remove the frets irregular intervals are at any desired time, 99% of what i use at gigs, electric bass 6 string fretless and upright 4 string fretless. Dependent on song, will slightly "detune" to pickup sub resonance as well as tonic and hetrodyne harmonics.... pretentious of course. ** if these folk want to play the irregular intervals, then remove the frets.. play to ear. j.
 
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