You’ve finally posted a handsome piece of music. Perhaps the most engaging single song produced in the era. (It’s a favorite of Camille Paglia’s).
One thing to look at (there’s a poorly produced video on Youtube) is Cass’ choreo in their version of Dancing in the Streets. It’s well adapted to the song and she’s astonishingly light on her feet. And, of course, that voice of hers.
The MAMAs and the PAPAs????
Time for a retroactive demotion for these deluded hippies who bought into a mere binary categorization of the human race. Demolish their statues, tear out their chapters in the books.
Kate,
On the previous open thread I was trying to emphasize my mistake, not yours. Consulate vs. Embassy.
TommyJay, no problem! I make mistakes!
Great sound. Sad to think what has happened to “California dreaming” in real life. My ancestors are buried in San Gabriel going back five generations. You couldn’t pay me to go live there.
Feh, Bob Costas is so smarmy.
Michelle Phillips is a pretty strong woman. It is passed over without comment in the interview but John was sleeping with her when she was below age of consent. And apparently took her across state lines. So there! Somehow I don’t think it mattered though. She dumped him pretty brutally when she was done with him and he kicked her out of the group (and later had to let her back in). Under these circumstances, I believe her side of the story, that they wrote it together and not that she got up out of bed when ordered to do so and took notes of his genius thoughts. John is doing the passive aggressive revenge move of hogging credit where it’s not due and clearly has emotional issues.
I had no idea about the mess the Mamas a & Papas lives were in however when I was overseas in the 1960’s in the US Army their songs were appreciated and cherished, especially in Germany in the middle of the winter after a month of snow with two more months of snow heading our way.
“I’d be safe and warm If I was in LA – California dreamin’ On such a winter’s day ”
And the rest of their songs were a lot of fun too, in those old time days over 50 years ago.
@tcrosse -That was very pretty-such a great voice! But my favorite was always her rendition of “Dream a little Dream for me”.
The chords in the song are fairly easy, but it’s the strumming pattern that leads to its instantly recognizable progression. Starts at the end of the phrase “all the leaves are brown” with an Am, then the great G to F…and you hear instantly that it’s California Dreamin”, followed by back to G then Bm…and an E7 transition. There’s then a bit of F , C, E, then back to the original Am sequence with “I’d be safe and warm”…
That flute passage is a nice touch. The whole song is done in a minor key which adds a hint of darkness, though most of it has a very pleasant even exuberant feeling, like the great dream it is supposed to be.
But that flute solo is quite sour and low. I think it is played flat in pitch intentionally, so you can feel the shiver of darkness briefly.
______
John says, “You’ll [Michelle] thank me for this someday.” I guess not.
The flute solo always felt to me like a guitar solo played on a different instrument. You can almost hear the picking and note-bending towards the end.
All these years I thought it was “began to pray” now watching the cc on this video I see it is “pretend”. Heathens. Blasphemy!
There was a California theme, as well as a California sound in those days. Likely popular on campus where the actual summer was when you weren’t there.
I suppose a campus near, say, Orlando would be proof against that. But it can get cold in Georgia and the Carolinas.
The land of endless summers, swim suits, surf, no responsibility…..
You could get a tan in February just by playing a Beach Boys album. Or Jan and Dean–don’t forget muscle cars.
Youtube has a Brothers Four concert at, irrc, UCLA. About 1965. Pix of the audience showed some serious carried-away. Outside, though….
Maybe fantasy music. California was also where you left for and returned from SEA. Best think of Ventura Highway in The Sunshine.
The common stocks of Pfizer and Moderna are down significantly today. Financial news has these stories.
COPENHAGEN, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Denmark said on Wednesday it would buy 280,000 doses of Novavax’s potential COVID-19 vaccine for a total price of 37 million Danish crowns ($5.84 million) or roughly $20.9 per dose as part of a European Union agreement with the U.S. company.
The European Commission said earlier this month it had approved a supply contract with Novavax to buy up to 200 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, which is yet to be approved by the EU’s drugs regulator.
. —
The move to buy Novavax doses is part of the EU’s strategy to diversify its vaccine portfolio after the bloc bet heavily on messenger RNA (mRNA) shots produced by Pfizer-BioNTech, and Moderna.
______
Aug 11 (Reuters) – Three new conditions reported by a small number of people after vaccination with COVID-19 shots from Pfizer and Moderna are being studied to assess if they may be possible side-effects, Europe’s drugs regulator said on Wednesday.
The EU regulators strike back? I would have thought that we would have heard about skin and kidney disorders by now, but I supposed anything is possible in our new age of information manipulation and suppression.
I was half expecting to learn of serious side-effects for the Novavax vaccine eventually, but that hasn’t happened and Denmark is charging ahead.
California Dreamin is a true classic- haunting, really.
Yancey Ward:
To me, the haunting quality comes not so much for the words – although they express the quality of yearning, and that’s somewhat haunting – but the tune. In particular, the beautiful harmonies and the arrangement and instrumentation. When you hear that guitar intro, it’s immediately recognizable and almost immediately haunting, even though you don’t have any idea what the song is about yet.
The song brings back memories of how great California once was. It captures the vibe of California that existed from the end of WWII to the 1990s – easy going, welcoming, a gentle climate, and opportunity galore. That Democrat policies could have ruined such magnificence in such a short time should be a lesson for all.
The rhythms are exceptionally soothing and calming to me`. I don’t care for most of the hippy music of the era, but this is an exception.
John Phillips had such a severe heroin addiction that Keith Richards (the patron saint of junkies) was in awe (terror) at the degree of Phillips’ dependence.
tcrosse: I didn’t think it was possible but Steyn outdid himself with that tribute. Thank you. All the links are wonderful. I’ve been trying to decide what triggers old feelings the most. 1st, I think, is food and a close second is music.
A couple of comments from another blog. I wonder. Is it possible that the Stolen Election will eventually grow legs and be widely confirmed?
CO:
CulturalHusbandry @APhilosophae
“Thread.
Why Mike Lindells Cyber Symposium may end up a way bigger deal than either Party wants to admit.
This Clerk, Tina Peters, just came out and admitted that the Secretary of State’s election office passwords to their voting systems were leaked before Nov. 6 elections…”
9:39 PM · Aug 10, 2021·
“and that she had access that only the Secretary’s office was supposed to have. Now because she shared this information, as well as the passwords, her office was raided today.”
“The Secretary, Jena Griswold, made a press release and threatened an investigation and possible criminal charges.”
FTA – “Colorado’s secretary of state has launched an investigation into an alleged security breach of a county’s election office after passwords for Dominion Voting Systems software were posted online.”….
AZ:
Emerald Robinson Latin cross @EmeraldRobinson
How bad are things? Things are so bad that a 3rd party vendor is refusing to comply with a lawful subpoena from Arizona’s Senate and Arizona hired the 3rd party vendor to conduct the election in the first place.
4:38 PM · Aug 11, 2021
The 3rd party vendor also does not want the public to review the contract between the state and the 3rd party vendor.
How’s that legal?
“… If Facebook can watch you on-line, track your activity through your mobile device, then sell this activity to their customers, it means one of two things. Either you no longer own you or we no longer have private property. After all, your activity is the product of your labor, so if you own you, then you own your activity and Facebook is stealing. Otherwise, you no longer own you.
If we return to the original Western concept of property, then you not only own your activity but also your reputation and your defining attributes. If a company wishes to use these things in a product, then they would need to strike a deal with you in the same way they would if they wanted your physical labor. If Facebook wanted to sell your data, they would need to get your permission every time they sold your data. The mobile devise makers would have to pay you to use their phones.
Of course, this is not present reality. The assumption is that you do not, in fact, own you, so all of this is perfectly normal. The reason enterprising lawyers have not proposed a novel legal theory to the court based on the ancient concepts of private property is that no one questions the right of the tech companies to harvest your property. The state is acting on this new normal as well. New laws, for example, have been passed to require alcohol tracking devices in new cars.
—————->>>>>A world in which you do not own you is called a penitentiary. The phrase “lock down” was quickly normalized, despite being a prison term, because the population has been habituated to the idea that they do not own themselves. Of course, the state can lock you in your home. After all, they can determine your associations and they allow private enterprise to spy on you in your home. You don’t own you. Like a pet, you are the property of powerful interests, and you must do as you are trained.<<<—————
The point of the state is to preserve the people and their way of life. This is its primary reason to exist. The secondary and tertiary reasons, like crime control and tending to the poor are all dependent on the people and their way of life. The defense of property is one of those attributes of culture the state must defend. The failure of the elites to defend the people and their way of life starts with this Western notion that you own you and all that you produce. That failure is the death of the West.”
… and that’s why I’m not on Facebook, or Twitter, or Gab, or, Instagram… (By the way, my name’s not even Rufus T. Firefly. 😉 )
@Rufus:
I should do the deed poll thing and actually become Zaphod.. That would really #@$% The Cyber Man.
Zaphod, get in early. Ford Prefects are already a dime a dozen.
Haven’t had time to watch this yet, but if the Internet can handle two giant egos of this size simultaneously, it ought also to be able to handle the nuclear first strike it was originally designed to withstand.
I asked the Genie for Hookers and Blow and all I got was Om and Art Deco.
Well ‘twould appear you have one more wish. Make it a good one!
Wikipedia: “Michelle Phillips published a memoir, California Dreamin’, in 1986,[104] the same year John Phillips published his. Reading the two books together was, according to one reviewer, “like reading the transcripts in a divorce trial.”[105] As the co-writer and owner of the copyright to “California Dreamin'”, Michelle Phillips was an important contributor to the 2005 PBS television documentary California Dreamin’: The Songs of the Mamas & the Papas.”
I also had no idea they had such crazy lives. It’s amazing they did as well as they did, but it only lasted about 4 years.
The PBS special is not the one Neo linked, which is this one:
The Mamas & Papas, interviewed separately on Later with Bob Costas.
February 21, 1990. John Phillips
May 24, 1990. Michelle Phillips
John died on March 18, 2001. Michelle was the last surviving member of the group.
Xi’s concubine whines.
Democrats – The Truly Insane Party (YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT, HATER?)
Democrats – The Truly Insane Party (YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT, HATER?)
BabylonBee can’t top this.
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Denny Doherty and Cass Elliott had great voices.
You’ve finally posted a handsome piece of music. Perhaps the most engaging single song produced in the era. (It’s a favorite of Camille Paglia’s).
One thing to look at (there’s a poorly produced video on Youtube) is Cass’ choreo in their version of Dancing in the Streets. It’s well adapted to the song and she’s astonishingly light on her feet. And, of course, that voice of hers.
The MAMAs and the PAPAs????
Time for a retroactive demotion for these deluded hippies who bought into a mere binary categorization of the human race. Demolish their statues, tear out their chapters in the books.
Kate,
On the previous open thread I was trying to emphasize my mistake, not yours. Consulate vs. Embassy.
TommyJay, no problem! I make mistakes!
Great sound. Sad to think what has happened to “California dreaming” in real life. My ancestors are buried in San Gabriel going back five generations. You couldn’t pay me to go live there.
Kate:
California nightmare.
Cass at her best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I2Xup9dwW4
Feh, Bob Costas is so smarmy.
Michelle Phillips is a pretty strong woman. It is passed over without comment in the interview but John was sleeping with her when she was below age of consent. And apparently took her across state lines. So there! Somehow I don’t think it mattered though. She dumped him pretty brutally when she was done with him and he kicked her out of the group (and later had to let her back in). Under these circumstances, I believe her side of the story, that they wrote it together and not that she got up out of bed when ordered to do so and took notes of his genius thoughts. John is doing the passive aggressive revenge move of hogging credit where it’s not due and clearly has emotional issues.
I had no idea about the mess the Mamas a & Papas lives were in however when I was overseas in the 1960’s in the US Army their songs were appreciated and cherished, especially in Germany in the middle of the winter after a month of snow with two more months of snow heading our way.
“I’d be safe and warm If I was in LA – California dreamin’ On such a winter’s day ”
And the rest of their songs were a lot of fun too, in those old time days over 50 years ago.
@tcrosse -That was very pretty-such a great voice! But my favorite was always her rendition of “Dream a little Dream for me”.
https://youtu.be/wtTVsfBnyRE
The chords in the song are fairly easy, but it’s the strumming pattern that leads to its instantly recognizable progression. Starts at the end of the phrase “all the leaves are brown” with an Am, then the great G to F…and you hear instantly that it’s California Dreamin”, followed by back to G then Bm…and an E7 transition. There’s then a bit of F , C, E, then back to the original Am sequence with “I’d be safe and warm”…
That flute passage is a nice touch. The whole song is done in a minor key which adds a hint of darkness, though most of it has a very pleasant even exuberant feeling, like the great dream it is supposed to be.
But that flute solo is quite sour and low. I think it is played flat in pitch intentionally, so you can feel the shiver of darkness briefly.
______
John says, “You’ll [Michelle] thank me for this someday.” I guess not.
The flute solo always felt to me like a guitar solo played on a different instrument. You can almost hear the picking and note-bending towards the end.
All these years I thought it was “began to pray” now watching the cc on this video I see it is “pretend”. Heathens. Blasphemy!
There was a California theme, as well as a California sound in those days. Likely popular on campus where the actual summer was when you weren’t there.
I suppose a campus near, say, Orlando would be proof against that. But it can get cold in Georgia and the Carolinas.
The land of endless summers, swim suits, surf, no responsibility…..
You could get a tan in February just by playing a Beach Boys album. Or Jan and Dean–don’t forget muscle cars.
Youtube has a Brothers Four concert at, irrc, UCLA. About 1965. Pix of the audience showed some serious carried-away. Outside, though….
Maybe fantasy music. California was also where you left for and returned from SEA. Best think of Ventura Highway in The Sunshine.
Here’s Mark Steyn’s excellent tribute to Denny Doherty:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/04/the-other-papa/305680/
The common stocks of Pfizer and Moderna are down significantly today. Financial news has these stories.
The EU regulators strike back? I would have thought that we would have heard about skin and kidney disorders by now, but I supposed anything is possible in our new age of information manipulation and suppression.
I was half expecting to learn of serious side-effects for the Novavax vaccine eventually, but that hasn’t happened and Denmark is charging ahead.
California Dreamin is a true classic- haunting, really.
Yancey Ward:
To me, the haunting quality comes not so much for the words – although they express the quality of yearning, and that’s somewhat haunting – but the tune. In particular, the beautiful harmonies and the arrangement and instrumentation. When you hear that guitar intro, it’s immediately recognizable and almost immediately haunting, even though you don’t have any idea what the song is about yet.
The song brings back memories of how great California once was. It captures the vibe of California that existed from the end of WWII to the 1990s – easy going, welcoming, a gentle climate, and opportunity galore. That Democrat policies could have ruined such magnificence in such a short time should be a lesson for all.
The rhythms are exceptionally soothing and calming to me`. I don’t care for most of the hippy music of the era, but this is an exception.
John Phillips had such a severe heroin addiction that Keith Richards (the patron saint of junkies) was in awe (terror) at the degree of Phillips’ dependence.
tcrosse: I didn’t think it was possible but Steyn outdid himself with that tribute. Thank you. All the links are wonderful. I’ve been trying to decide what triggers old feelings the most. 1st, I think, is food and a close second is music.
https://twitter.com/DTehrany/status/1425177572887908353?s=20
A couple of comments from another blog. I wonder. Is it possible that the Stolen Election will eventually grow legs and be widely confirmed?
CO:
CulturalHusbandry @APhilosophae
“Thread.
Why Mike Lindells Cyber Symposium may end up a way bigger deal than either Party wants to admit.
This Clerk, Tina Peters, just came out and admitted that the Secretary of State’s election office passwords to their voting systems were leaked before Nov. 6 elections…”
9:39 PM · Aug 10, 2021·
https://mobile.twitter.com/APhilosophae … 9341206535
“and that she had access that only the Secretary’s office was supposed to have. Now because she shared this information, as well as the passwords, her office was raided today.”
“The Secretary, Jena Griswold, made a press release and threatened an investigation and possible criminal charges.”
links to – Colorado election office investigated after equipment passwords appear online
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics … ar-AANa44k
FTA – “Colorado’s secretary of state has launched an investigation into an alleged security breach of a county’s election office after passwords for Dominion Voting Systems software were posted online.”….
Here are the truncated links from above:
https://mobile.twitter.com/APhilosophae/status/1425270609341206535
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/colorado-election-office-investigated-after-equipment-passwords-appear-online/ar-AANa44k
AZ:
Emerald Robinson Latin cross @EmeraldRobinson
How bad are things? Things are so bad that a 3rd party vendor is refusing to comply with a lawful subpoena from Arizona’s Senate and Arizona hired the 3rd party vendor to conduct the election in the first place.
4:38 PM · Aug 11, 2021
The 3rd party vendor also does not want the public to review the contract between the state and the 3rd party vendor.
How’s that legal?
https://mobile.twitter.com/EmeraldRobin … 4519552000
Full link:
https://mobile.twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1425557194519552000
It’s not First Things. It’s also not Obscurantist Self-cuckoldry, so there’s that.
You Own You:
https://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=24731
“… If Facebook can watch you on-line, track your activity through your mobile device, then sell this activity to their customers, it means one of two things. Either you no longer own you or we no longer have private property. After all, your activity is the product of your labor, so if you own you, then you own your activity and Facebook is stealing. Otherwise, you no longer own you.
If we return to the original Western concept of property, then you not only own your activity but also your reputation and your defining attributes. If a company wishes to use these things in a product, then they would need to strike a deal with you in the same way they would if they wanted your physical labor. If Facebook wanted to sell your data, they would need to get your permission every time they sold your data. The mobile devise makers would have to pay you to use their phones.
Of course, this is not present reality. The assumption is that you do not, in fact, own you, so all of this is perfectly normal. The reason enterprising lawyers have not proposed a novel legal theory to the court based on the ancient concepts of private property is that no one questions the right of the tech companies to harvest your property. The state is acting on this new normal as well. New laws, for example, have been passed to require alcohol tracking devices in new cars.
—————->>>>>A world in which you do not own you is called a penitentiary. The phrase “lock down” was quickly normalized, despite being a prison term, because the population has been habituated to the idea that they do not own themselves. Of course, the state can lock you in your home. After all, they can determine your associations and they allow private enterprise to spy on you in your home. You don’t own you. Like a pet, you are the property of powerful interests, and you must do as you are trained.<<<—————
The point of the state is to preserve the people and their way of life. This is its primary reason to exist. The secondary and tertiary reasons, like crime control and tending to the poor are all dependent on the people and their way of life. The defense of property is one of those attributes of culture the state must defend. The failure of the elites to defend the people and their way of life starts with this Western notion that you own you and all that you produce. That failure is the death of the West.”
You Must Not Notice.
https://vdare.com/posts/gannett-bans-crimethink-about-crime-in-its-newspapers
Unless the perp is White.
Zaphod @ 8:42pm,
… and that’s why I’m not on Facebook, or Twitter, or Gab, or, Instagram… (By the way, my name’s not even Rufus T. Firefly. 😉 )
@Rufus:
I should do the deed poll thing and actually become Zaphod.. That would really #@$% The Cyber Man.
Zaphod, get in early. Ford Prefects are already a dime a dozen.
Haven’t had time to watch this yet, but if the Internet can handle two giant egos of this size simultaneously, it ought also to be able to handle the nuclear first strike it was originally designed to withstand.
3.5 Hours of Nassim Taleb and Stephen Wolfram talking about stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8j1XZ0N_wE
And (just) another item from “The Smartest Guy I Know” files:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hunter-biden-tells-hooker-russians-stole-different-laptop-have-videos-me-doing-fcking
^^^^—— Why does this guy get to have all the fun?
I asked the Genie for Hookers and Blow and all I got was Om and Art Deco.
Well ‘twould appear you have one more wish. Make it a good one!
Wikipedia: “Michelle Phillips published a memoir, California Dreamin’, in 1986,[104] the same year John Phillips published his. Reading the two books together was, according to one reviewer, “like reading the transcripts in a divorce trial.”[105] As the co-writer and owner of the copyright to “California Dreamin'”, Michelle Phillips was an important contributor to the 2005 PBS television documentary California Dreamin’: The Songs of the Mamas & the Papas.”
I also had no idea they had such crazy lives. It’s amazing they did as well as they did, but it only lasted about 4 years.
The PBS special is not the one Neo linked, which is this one:
The Mamas & Papas, interviewed separately on Later with Bob Costas.
February 21, 1990. John Phillips
May 24, 1990. Michelle Phillips
John died on March 18, 2001. Michelle was the last surviving member of the group.
Xi’s concubine whines.
Democrats – The Truly Insane Party (YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT, HATER?)
Democrats – The Truly Insane Party (YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT, HATER?)
BabylonBee can’t top this.