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I just found this clip...great stuff...monsters of dino-rock

 

 

 

I still like the original better...heavy metal classical.  2:48 sees the most dynamic symphonic brass choir chord ever played...ever.

 

Edited December 1, 2018 by ByeByeBye

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they sound interesting, do you know anywhere in europe i can find them? cause i lost my passport 2 years ago so it's be very hard for me to get out of europe.

Uhhh, get a new one?  

 

Dating sites I guess...say you are interested in Polynesian ladies.  There may be some Tongans in Germany since in the late 1800s many Germans immigrated to Tonga.  There have to be many Tahitians and Marquesans in France.  The best would be to hop a flight or find a freighter going through the canal and on to New Zealand via several island chain stops.  Some of the Kiwi Maori babes might be right up your alley too :)

 

It is a whole other world in the South Pacific.  Tonga, Samoa, Cooks, Society, Marquesas, Kiribatti, Tuamotus, Marshals, Fiji, Solomans, and more.  Tonga and Samoa are probably the easiest to get to and least expensive to stay.  The Societys are very easy to get to but ungodly expensive since tons of Westerners want to see Tahiti and Bora Bora...plus the massive French influence hasn't helped that part of the South Pacific.  There are people from all ove the South Pacific in New Zealand and NZ is a lovely country...fairly inexpensive too with almost no culture shock to a European.

 

Do some online research.  I like the Tongan islands the best, but New Zealand might be the most efficient, easiest, and most do-able overall.

Edited December 1, 2018 by ByeByeBye

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Here's one of my fav Christmas pieces,  Emerson, Lake, and Palmer took parts of this for their "I Believe in Father Christmas" and while it is good, it falls woefully short of the original.  This Andre Previn version is pretty close to a proper rendering of Prokofiev's winter time treat. 

 

It's short...try it, you'll like it :)

 

Edited December 1, 2018 by ByeByeBye

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talking of emmerson lake and palmer

just loved that band

 

my favourite track

written by greg lake when he was 12 years old

talented guy

 

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My favorite Chance 4 single so far + this new deluxe edition of the Odesza album is pretty impressive too.

 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIqA5EZNGn8&list=RDHIqA5EZNGn8&start_radio=1

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talking of emmerson lake and palmer

just loved that band

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my favourite track

written by greg lake when he was 12 years old

talented guy

 

 

 

Interestingly this is not the original version...at least not all of it at the end.  In the original, you can hear Emerson's Moog going a tad flat on a sustained pitch.  It was a garf in the studio but they left it in and, to me, the dissonance it created always added a mesmerizing color to the ending...almost eerie in nature.  A great song and probably my favorite of from ELP also :)

 

This one one of the first uses of a synthesizer in pop music.  Moogs had been around for awhile already an there was lots of music featuring them as a solo instrument similar to a piano or organ (Dick Hyman comes to mind), but this is one of the first improvisational-like solos incorporated into a normal rock band piece.  Emerson does a masterful job forcing that wave-form to his will...it wasn't easy like it is today.  And that ancient Moog sound is so very very phat.  A very hard sound to get now-a-days in the sampling era.  Guys are refurbishing old Moogs and Leslie amps just to get that vacuum tube rich phat tone.

 

I had no idea he wrote it that young...pretty amazing.

Edited December 2, 2018 by ByeByeBye

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this is the first known use of a moog sythersizer in a recording

it was the third one ever sold and bought by mickey dolenz of monkees fame

 

nice track

 

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this is the first known use of a moog sythersizer in a recording

it was the third one ever sold and bought by mickey dolenz of monkees fame

 

nice track

 

 

 

Who knew?  Wow, The Monkees.  I liked them back in the day and like them now.  Back in dino-rock times they really got critically thrashed because they were a "synthetic" band...individuals cast for a TV series.  That wouldn't even cause a ripple today, but back then it was shocking and anti-art...sell-outs.  So their music always had a not-as-good-as "real" stigma attached to it.  Hell, music is music to me whether it is created by a musical genius, a guy pounding sticks rhythmically, or an AI emulating what it computes as music. 

 

The thing is The Monkees turned out to be a brilliant band that ended up creating some great music...and they were certainly innovative.  I think I did a post here already about Michael Nesmith creating the fisrt music video.  I had no idea M. Dolenz was one of the first Moog owners.  He doesn't do much with it in this song (must have just gotten it) other than make some freaky noises where Keith Emerson is using it as a dynamic melodic instrument.  There are some great shots of all the wires, dials, and 1/4 inch phono plugs involved with what is now done with just a few mega-bytes on a tiny chip.  The original Moogs were a mad musical scientist contraption...how far we have come :)

 

I looked up Moogs in Wikipedia and the article gives Daily Nightly credit as one of the first rock tunes to use a Moog.  Another article credits Quincy Jones for a previous use (by a few months) for the first commercial use in the Ironsides Theme. Cool.  Ironsides is what introduced me to Quincy Jones who became one of my very favorite musicians ever.  Who knew?   I really like picking up these little tid bits...fun.  It also goes on to say that Keith Emerson of ELP got the second Moog available in the UK and collaborated with the inventor when some tuning problems arose which led to more commercial production of the Moogs and other early synths.  It's a small musical world :)

 

This is a 1971 re-orchestrated version of the original TV theme.  Hubert Laws does a simple but completely memorable flute passage.   The brass section has a brilliant big band brass sound...love the bass trombones playing their pedal notes :)  This is still one of my favorite albums of all time...back in the day it was breathtaking.  The original theme didn't have quite the impact, but it did use a Moog.

 

 

 

 

Here is the pilot episode of Ironsides...the original orchestration of the theme is pretty raw by comparison, but it's here if anyone might be curious.

 

 

 

 

thevideo.me    .....link works

 

https://www1.swatchseries.to/serie/ironside

 

 

 

Edited December 3, 2018 by ByeByeBye

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while on the subject of moog

i still have this album 

claude denjean at the time took moog to another level

 

 

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this is just an outstanding song

once heard never forgotten

 

 

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This is usually what I listen to (NCS), not into rap or hip hop or the new BS trap
other than that i also enjoy the old, bassy trap and dubstep :)

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this is just an outstanding song

once heard never forgotten

 

 

 

I never heard of these guys before.  When listened to through early 70's ears, they are very very good.  They have a bit of that Rolling Stone sound that was ubiquitous back in that era.  I really like these guys...I would have been gonzo for them back in the day had I known about them.  I will look on YouTube for more from them....good stuff, thanks for the post :)

Edited December 3, 2018 by ByeByeBye

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This is usually what I listen to (NCS), not into rap or hip hop or the new BS trap

other than that i also enjoy the old, bassy trap and dubstep :)

To be honest, whenever I see one of these NCS or similar organizations, I'm immediately skeptical since there is just so so so much drek and insipid pap published under their auspices, but I always try anyway because it was recommended on this forum.

 

This piece that you posted is a real surprise!  It is really good....I like it a lot.  It's fun with lots of energy and it goes somewhere instead of just sitting there in a pool of its own electronica burbbling.   There is some variation and structure to this instead of just a hook getting repeated over and over and over.  They are certainly using a catchy hook and they repeat it a lot, but they are treating it more like a theme instead of just putting it on a loop and build sequence.

 

Good post, thanks for the new tune (to me anyway) :)

Edited December 3, 2018 by ByeByeBye

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Back in 80s they had so many good songs

 

 

"Year '85"   (Lyrics)

Finnish language might be weird I know..  XD

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I woke up with this bouncing around in my brain.

 

Play both videos at the same time.  Listen to the sound on this first one, but watch the second one with the sound turned off  :)

The video and music go together quite well...Timing isn't critical an together they make a great music video.  Even the credits fit well.  It would be very cool if the white screen at the end stayed a bit longer, but for an impromptu music video, it's pretty neat.

 

"I'll find myself some wings"  

 

 

Turn off the sound on this one and watch it while listening to "No Time"

Edited December 5, 2018 by ByeByeBye