Interesting, but not sure I like what they did. They changed their facial expressions. Almost like a different person.
On another note, it is still yada yada yada from both sides. Nothing changes.
UFOs… sorta: “An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth – scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and many books – might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition, credulity, and consumerism. We keep at it, and through constant repetition many of them finally get it.”
? Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
that notion was echoed in voyage home, when kirk and spock discuss profanity in the late 20th century, and note the classics being ‘harold robbins and jackelyn susann’ popular literature has gotten stupider since then,
RE: The promise of space
This blog has been, in many ways, an exploration of how traditional America, with all of its history, it’s values, and expectations for behavior, has–under constant, determined, and intense pressure from the Left—been shoved ever more leftward, has morphed, and has become–more and more—the antithesis of that traditional America.
Facing admittedly little resistance from a complacent, unaware, often naive, and faint hearted Right, a determined, ideologically driven Left has captured essentially all of the positions of power here in the U.S. (and, indeed, in much of the world) and it is hard to see how those of us in favor of what traditional America used to be and stand for can now muster sufficient force to steer America back in the right direction.
Thus, some here have talked about fleeing and moving to some other country but, realistically speaking, the other countries out there which immediately come to mind are in many ways less free than we are currently here in the U.S., and these various countries all have their own rather serious deficiencies.
One way that I see offering a possible solution to this problem is the opening up of a “new frontier “ i.e. landing on and colonizing some parts of our solar system which, if done right, might give those involved in this effort a chance to set up new governing arrangements–to start over again—to reverse this Leftist takeover, and to arrange things so that the chance of a future leftist takeover are minimized.
This is why efforts to develop the capacity to operate in space by private individuals like Elon Musk–not by our current governments–are so important, and offer such promise.
cb–The problem is that we have become habituated to this kind of fast-moving, violent, sexualized, and twisted “entertainment”–the equivalent of, say, crack–and that, by comparison, traditional, much more tame and wholesome entertainment just seems dull, juvenile, boring, and uninteresting; the equivalent of cold, plain oatmeal.
Great video find. I generally don’t find 19th century women’s hair styles at all flattering, but looking beyond that, some very beautiful women represented and brought to life.
More Biden bank records dropped. Ho Hum…nothing will happen from the spineless GOP. I found it funny how many of the left trolls comments are of the type: “There’s no evidence of any of this money going directly to Joe”. Well, of course not; that’s what shell companies are for. Sigh…
Regarding Victorian era women’s hair; nothing as grotesque as purple, green, pink, stripes, shaved, or appearently, made to be unattractive as is common today.
Some beautiful, handsome, and dynamic persons captured for an instant. Ecclesiasticies has something to say about that.
They even gave his best friend a blink.
om, yep, some of the dyed, shaved styles today on women are just ridiculous. I guess somehow they think it looks good; not sure who their intended audience is though. I have seen some dyed, subtle highlights on regular hair that is not too bad on the younger crowd.
The old noirs that suggested much more than they showed have become more appealing both chandler and hammett
File under ‘Fair and Square’: Poll watcher from 2020 Michigan.
Gleichschaltung is the German term applied to the Nazification of German society following the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. Once Hitler became chancellor, he and the Nazi Party sought to “coordinate” all political, social, and cultural institutions with the Nazi state. This “coordination” was done in the name of national unity. However, it allowed the Nazi Party to extend its power by creating a single party state. Everything was subject to coordination: local government, professional organizations, social clubs, leisure activities—even those for children.
The state enforced coordination from the top-down. At the same time, many Germans responded with a bottom-up coordination of their own. This was known as Selbstgleichschaltung. Even Hitler was surprised with the speed and ease of remaking Germany. He noted “everything is going much faster than we ever dared to hope
In science news, Livermore National Laboratory was able to achieve fusion ignition with net energy gain for a second time (some might remember this was done once already last December), this time with almost 1.5 megajoule surplus. Essentially they blast a very high energy laser at a teeny tiny pellet of deuterium and tritium. It seems like we’re still a long way from being able to do this consistantly and in a way that the excess energy can be easily collected however.
I find that the portraits that include smiling are by far the most engaging. Hopefully, the technology will evolve to permit more substantial animation of other feature beyond the eyes.
Can you imagine the impact of one of these portraits suddenly giving forth with a full eye-rolling, mouth-agape belly-laugh?
@ Nonapod ~ The search for Unobtainium goes on : )
Neo, Thanks for sharing that ‘photo gallery’, amazing, beautiful.
It’s good to recognize that people in the past were not all that different from ourselves. Beyond pictures, they were not all that different than ourselves in terms of virtues, vices, and even intelligence, definately wisdom.
Many of our current political problems are due to a failure to recognize that.
TommyJay,
You mentioned, “Little Wing” on yesterday’s open thread. SRV’s version is great. Gordon Sumner a.k.a. “Sting” has stated it’s one of his favorite songs. I know he recorded it on at least one album and he performs it live often.
I just checked it out on wikipedia. Apparently Eric Clapton is also a fan and has performed it often.
Re: Michigan vote fraud reports. I often wonder what happened to commenter “I Am Spartacus,” who was so active in 2020-2021. I hope he’s okay.
Gibson Girls had beautiful hair; beautiful everything else too. The Gibson Girl look is my ideal of feminine beauty. Gibson Girls are hot.
Little Wing: Two best versions were done, respectively, by Hendrix and Clapton (in his Derek and the Dominoes” incarnation. Hendrix’s version is mysterious and ethereal; Clapton’s is soaring and majestic.
The roll call of rock musicians who have covered “Little Wing” is a serious list. Here’s an article on the song and those musicians including a great quote:
________________________________
It’s just this gorgeous song that, as a guitar player, you can study your whole life and not get down, never get inside it the way that [Hendrix] does. He seamlessly weaves chords and single-note runs together and uses chord voicings that don’t appear in any music books.
The recent news about the cousin of the Uvalde shooter jogged my memory. Many months ago you stated that you intended to wrap up your take on the tragedy with one final column. Unfortunately your close friend passed away and you (understandably) let the whole thing lapse while coping with this grievous loss. Are you still considering writing an ending to this or has this passed from your to-do list? Your takes on this subject were as (if not more) insightful and balanced as any that I’ve read.
My wife recently found a black and white photo of her father, probably shortly after WWII. It was a candid photo of him leaning with his back to a pole while reading a book. She guessed my reaction when showing it to me; he looked identical to one of our sons! It was uncanny! His face was in profile and rather far out of range (they do not resemble one another, facially) so what one really noticed was the pose, the posture, how he had his left hand in his hair as he read.
This particular son never saw his grandfather like that, never knew him that thin or lithe. My wife had never seen her father stand like that! Our son did not learn that stance from observing his grandfather. It’s apparently something innate in them both.
The photo montage neo shared makes me think of a time one or two generations from now when people will do something similar with their family tree; looking at a screen showing their ancestors and seeing them smile, laugh, move… Maybe great grandma has the same dimples as you; great, great Uncle Harold the same laugh…
I was a big fan of Hendrix classic albums like Are You Experienced and Axis Bold As Love in my pre-teen through teen years. So I was familiar with the Hendrix version, and it’s a great song.
I had a music cassette of an SRV album back in the 80’s and loved it, but had lost touch with his music until this recent purchase. I recall that I heard him perform live in Santa Fe.
The first couple times I listened to SRV’s Little Wing, I thought, “Oh, that’s a nice version of song not realizing how extended and different it was.” I kind of like the fact that he left the vocals out. If you pay attention to the song, the guitar playing is so emotive; and for me it gets better with repeated listening.
I haven’t heard the Clapton version or others, so that’s something to check out.
I have lost the connection to the video about The Rose Theater, Shakespeaere, etc. Please re-post the link. Thank you
Anne:
Go to yesterday’s Open Thread, click on the video where it says “YouTube,” and it will take you to the same video at YouTube.
So, that’s why no Atlantic storms and the ‘heat dome’ over southern U.S., just another ‘oops my bad’?
The hot weather is from the enormous water vapor volume expelled into to atmosphere by the Hunga Tonga underwater volcanic eruption in the South Pacific last year. No mystery.
Kate, re H.Tonga water vapor. I’ve read that too. And there is this:
huxley wrote on yesterday’s Open Thread “…the “Axis Bold as Love” album, which is my favorite Hendrix.”
Agree on this album!
Snow On Pine might like the first cut, called “EXP.” Spoken intro:
“Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to radio station EXP.
“Tonight we are featuring an interview with a very peculiar looking gentleman who goes by the name of Mr. Paul Caruso, on the dodgy subject of are there, or are there not flying saucers or UFOs.
“Please Mr. Caruso, please could you give us your regarded opinion on this nonsense about spaceships and even space people?”
“Thank you. As you all know, you just can’t believe everything you see and hear, can you?
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I must be on my way….”
“But, but, but… huh… I don’t believe it….”
Unfortunately I couldn’t find a video of the LP track, just a live version called “EXP/Up From the Skies” which is too much acid rock feedback distortion for me.
huxley,
On yesterday’s open thread you wrote:
I was hoping for an answer to the question, “Why we can’t create plays like Shakespeare anymore?”
I think there are playwrights active in the last century, or so, who have created plays like Shakespeare. Some incredible plays have been written and staged in modern times!
I don’t think there is any modern playwright as prolific as Shakespeare. Some of that may be the nature of the theater business. As the video neo featured pointed out, The Globe theater might show 20 or 30 different plays a month, every month and rarely staged the same play more than 4 times. Being a playwright sounds more like being an editorialist, like Maureen Dowd, or maybe more akin to a novelist like Danielle Steel.
Modern plays take a year or more to get to the stage and may run for years if successful.
Aristophanes wrote 40 plays (only 11 survive). Maybe David Mamet or Stephen Sondheim could produce like Shakespeare if there wasn’t so much money involved in modern theater?
Jordan Rivers,
We were both simultaneously and unbeknownst to one another responding to different huxley call outs on yesterday’s open thread! You posted yours one minute ahead of mine.
well that 2500 years ago, in the Golden age of Athens,
Jordan RIvers:
I’m surprised I’ve never tired of “EXP,” the flying saucer first track to “Axis Bold as Love.”
If I’m listening to the album (and not just jumping ahead to “Little Wing” as I’m wont to do), I never skip “EXP.” It always cracks me up.
Frederick,
You mentioned in other threads that you use a troll-blocking script on this blog. Can you be a bit more specific about that? Thank you.
Miles Davis once said of “The Jimi Hendrix Experience” trio that it took a black man to make those two white boys play their asses off. Classic Miles racial crap. (I can’t seem to find that quote on the web today.)
I would flip that to note that it took two white boys to support Hendrix in creating his greatest work. Mitch Mitchell, the drummer, consistently makes the greatest rock drummer lists.
Hendrix’s next trio, all black, “Band of Gypsies,” was an important source for later funk music, but had nowhere near the impact of the “Experience.”
I don’t know if it was the drugs or the rock’n’roll madness, but as far as I’m concerned Hendrix never again hit the peaks of those first three “Experience” albums.
What Hendrix might have done had he lived longer…? Sigh.
huxley; Rufus T. Firefly:
It’s not Shakespeare (and it’s not all that current, I suppose), but I have been very very impressed by the amazingly clever and funny work of Michael Frayn (Noises Off) and David Ives (All In the Timing).
neo,
I remember you writing about “Noises Off.” I hope to see it performed one day.
Andrew Klavan states the only standing ovation* he has given so far was to Sondheim’s, “Sweeney Todd.” I also want to see that one day.
*Maybe he states it’s the only spontaneous standing ovation he has given.
Rufus T. Firefly, neo:
I know there have been great modern plays, especially when the bracket is as large as a century or so, but Shakespeare strikes me as a civilization-changing colossus like Michelangelo or Einstein.
There’s also the mystery of how he had a consistent audience. I know his audience could hear his Elizabethan English better than I ever will, but still those are long, complex plays to follow.
Maybe the audience was happy enough to drink some beers, be seen in the right place, trade japes with other audience members and watch/hear something/anything without all the competing content we have available today.
huxley wrote “Miles Davis once said of ‘The Jimi Hendrix Experience’ trio that it took a black man to make those two white boys play their asses off….I would flip that to note that it took two white boys to support Hendrix in creating his greatest work.”
How about flipping it all the way? “It took two white men to support that black boy Hendrix in creating his greatest work.”
Rufus wrote “We were both simultaneously and unbeknownst to one another responding to different huxley call outs on yesterday’s open thread!”
Great minds think alike!
John Stossel is making Judith Curry poster-woman against climate alarmism.
“Judith Curry: How Climate ‘Science’ Got Hijacked by Alarmists”
(His 7m edited and illustrated interview, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVi01vJ4nxM)
Interesting, but not sure I like what they did. They changed their facial expressions. Almost like a different person.
On another note, it is still yada yada yada from both sides. Nothing changes.
UFOs… sorta: “An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth – scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and many books – might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition, credulity, and consumerism. We keep at it, and through constant repetition many of them finally get it.”
? Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
that notion was echoed in voyage home, when kirk and spock discuss profanity in the late 20th century, and note the classics being ‘harold robbins and jackelyn susann’ popular literature has gotten stupider since then,
RE: The promise of space
This blog has been, in many ways, an exploration of how traditional America, with all of its history, it’s values, and expectations for behavior, has–under constant, determined, and intense pressure from the Left—been shoved ever more leftward, has morphed, and has become–more and more—the antithesis of that traditional America.
Facing admittedly little resistance from a complacent, unaware, often naive, and faint hearted Right, a determined, ideologically driven Left has captured essentially all of the positions of power here in the U.S. (and, indeed, in much of the world) and it is hard to see how those of us in favor of what traditional America used to be and stand for can now muster sufficient force to steer America back in the right direction.
Thus, some here have talked about fleeing and moving to some other country but, realistically speaking, the other countries out there which immediately come to mind are in many ways less free than we are currently here in the U.S., and these various countries all have their own rather serious deficiencies.
One way that I see offering a possible solution to this problem is the opening up of a “new frontier “ i.e. landing on and colonizing some parts of our solar system which, if done right, might give those involved in this effort a chance to set up new governing arrangements–to start over again—to reverse this Leftist takeover, and to arrange things so that the chance of a future leftist takeover are minimized.
This is why efforts to develop the capacity to operate in space by private individuals like Elon Musk–not by our current governments–are so important, and offer such promise.
cb–The problem is that we have become habituated to this kind of fast-moving, violent, sexualized, and twisted “entertainment”–the equivalent of, say, crack–and that, by comparison, traditional, much more tame and wholesome entertainment just seems dull, juvenile, boring, and uninteresting; the equivalent of cold, plain oatmeal.
Great video find. I generally don’t find 19th century women’s hair styles at all flattering, but looking beyond that, some very beautiful women represented and brought to life.
More Biden bank records dropped. Ho Hum…nothing will happen from the spineless GOP. I found it funny how many of the left trolls comments are of the type: “There’s no evidence of any of this money going directly to Joe”. Well, of course not; that’s what shell companies are for. Sigh…
Regarding Victorian era women’s hair; nothing as grotesque as purple, green, pink, stripes, shaved, or appearently, made to be unattractive as is common today.
Some beautiful, handsome, and dynamic persons captured for an instant. Ecclesiasticies has something to say about that.
They even gave his best friend a blink.
om, yep, some of the dyed, shaved styles today on women are just ridiculous. I guess somehow they think it looks good; not sure who their intended audience is though. I have seen some dyed, subtle highlights on regular hair that is not too bad on the younger crowd.
The old noirs that suggested much more than they showed have become more appealing both chandler and hammett
File under ‘Fair and Square’: Poll watcher from 2020 Michigan.
https://twitter.com/ImMeme0/status/1689008098734665730
How Woke Transformation Grinds Forward in Higher Education
The Left has created a ratchet to move campus culture in a single direction.
https://stkt.co/XYzAB2U4
The Ratchet actually has a name, from a collective past, last century, Germany, 1930s/1940s.
Your living/watching it…
I spoke of it long ago…
anyone remember?
Gleichschaltung is the term along with Selbstgleichschaltung
the latter will be more familiar to you!!!
you all comment on it without a name for it…
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/gleichschaltung-coordinating-the-nazi-state
Gleichschaltung is the German term applied to the Nazification of German society following the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. Once Hitler became chancellor, he and the Nazi Party sought to “coordinate” all political, social, and cultural institutions with the Nazi state. This “coordination” was done in the name of national unity. However, it allowed the Nazi Party to extend its power by creating a single party state. Everything was subject to coordination: local government, professional organizations, social clubs, leisure activities—even those for children.
The state enforced coordination from the top-down. At the same time, many Germans responded with a bottom-up coordination of their own. This was known as Selbstgleichschaltung. Even Hitler was surprised with the speed and ease of remaking Germany. He noted “everything is going much faster than we ever dared to hope
In science news, Livermore National Laboratory was able to achieve fusion ignition with net energy gain for a second time (some might remember this was done once already last December), this time with almost 1.5 megajoule surplus. Essentially they blast a very high energy laser at a teeny tiny pellet of deuterium and tritium. It seems like we’re still a long way from being able to do this consistantly and in a way that the excess energy can be easily collected however.
I find that the portraits that include smiling are by far the most engaging. Hopefully, the technology will evolve to permit more substantial animation of other feature beyond the eyes.
Can you imagine the impact of one of these portraits suddenly giving forth with a full eye-rolling, mouth-agape belly-laugh?
@ Nonapod ~ The search for Unobtainium goes on : )
Neo, Thanks for sharing that ‘photo gallery’, amazing, beautiful.
It’s good to recognize that people in the past were not all that different from ourselves. Beyond pictures, they were not all that different than ourselves in terms of virtues, vices, and even intelligence, definately wisdom.
Many of our current political problems are due to a failure to recognize that.
TommyJay,
You mentioned, “Little Wing” on yesterday’s open thread. SRV’s version is great. Gordon Sumner a.k.a. “Sting” has stated it’s one of his favorite songs. I know he recorded it on at least one album and he performs it live often.
I just checked it out on wikipedia. Apparently Eric Clapton is also a fan and has performed it often.
Re: Michigan vote fraud reports. I often wonder what happened to commenter “I Am Spartacus,” who was so active in 2020-2021. I hope he’s okay.
Gibson Girls had beautiful hair; beautiful everything else too. The Gibson Girl look is my ideal of feminine beauty. Gibson Girls are hot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson_Girl
Little Wing: Two best versions were done, respectively, by Hendrix and Clapton (in his Derek and the Dominoes” incarnation. Hendrix’s version is mysterious and ethereal; Clapton’s is soaring and majestic.
Neo,
You might be interested in this blog, from another person who seems to have gone through a change of thought:
https://sashastone.substack.com/p/did-i-just-leave-a-cult#details
Re: “Little Wing”
The roll call of rock musicians who have covered “Little Wing” is a serious list. Here’s an article on the song and those musicians including a great quote:
________________________________
It’s just this gorgeous song that, as a guitar player, you can study your whole life and not get down, never get inside it the way that [Hendrix] does. He seamlessly weaves chords and single-note runs together and uses chord voicings that don’t appear in any music books.
–Tom Morello “Rolling Stone Tribute to Jimi Hendrix” (2011)
https://happymag.tv/little-wing-from-jimi-hendrix-to-stevie-ray-vaughan/
________________________________
Even Santana covered it with Joe Cocker(!) on vocals. I’m a bit ambivalent, loving the original so much, but it is nonetheless a glory of its own.
–“Santana – Little Wing (Joe Cocker) GUITAR HEAVEN”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KzkCqi94Gs
The recent news about the cousin of the Uvalde shooter jogged my memory. Many months ago you stated that you intended to wrap up your take on the tragedy with one final column. Unfortunately your close friend passed away and you (understandably) let the whole thing lapse while coping with this grievous loss. Are you still considering writing an ending to this or has this passed from your to-do list? Your takes on this subject were as (if not more) insightful and balanced as any that I’ve read.
My wife recently found a black and white photo of her father, probably shortly after WWII. It was a candid photo of him leaning with his back to a pole while reading a book. She guessed my reaction when showing it to me; he looked identical to one of our sons! It was uncanny! His face was in profile and rather far out of range (they do not resemble one another, facially) so what one really noticed was the pose, the posture, how he had his left hand in his hair as he read.
This particular son never saw his grandfather like that, never knew him that thin or lithe. My wife had never seen her father stand like that! Our son did not learn that stance from observing his grandfather. It’s apparently something innate in them both.
The photo montage neo shared makes me think of a time one or two generations from now when people will do something similar with their family tree; looking at a screen showing their ancestors and seeing them smile, laugh, move… Maybe great grandma has the same dimples as you; great, great Uncle Harold the same laugh…
Apparently the DOJ fined Elon Musk $300k over him refusing them access to Trump’s Twitter account.
Rufus & huxley,
I was a big fan of Hendrix classic albums like Are You Experienced and Axis Bold As Love in my pre-teen through teen years. So I was familiar with the Hendrix version, and it’s a great song.
I had a music cassette of an SRV album back in the 80’s and loved it, but had lost touch with his music until this recent purchase. I recall that I heard him perform live in Santa Fe.
The first couple times I listened to SRV’s Little Wing, I thought, “Oh, that’s a nice version of song not realizing how extended and different it was.” I kind of like the fact that he left the vocals out. If you pay attention to the song, the guitar playing is so emotive; and for me it gets better with repeated listening.
I haven’t heard the Clapton version or others, so that’s something to check out.
I have lost the connection to the video about The Rose Theater, Shakespeaere, etc. Please re-post the link. Thank you
Anne:
Go to yesterday’s Open Thread, click on the video where it says “YouTube,” and it will take you to the same video at YouTube.
So, that’s why no Atlantic storms and the ‘heat dome’ over southern U.S., just another ‘oops my bad’?
https://www.science.org/content/article/changing-clouds-unforeseen-test-geoengineering-fueling-record-ocean-warmth
The hot weather is from the enormous water vapor volume expelled into to atmosphere by the Hunga Tonga underwater volcanic eruption in the South Pacific last year. No mystery.
Kate, re H.Tonga water vapor. I’ve read that too. And there is this:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/08/07/hunga-tonga-mysteries/
The uncanny valley is now more like an uncanny crack in the asphalt.
Catch of the day…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/tampa-mayor-catches-70-pounds-cocaine-worth-1/
huxley wrote on yesterday’s Open Thread “…the “Axis Bold as Love” album, which is my favorite Hendrix.”
Agree on this album!
Snow On Pine might like the first cut, called “EXP.” Spoken intro:
“Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to radio station EXP.
“Tonight we are featuring an interview with a very peculiar looking gentleman who goes by the name of Mr. Paul Caruso, on the dodgy subject of are there, or are there not flying saucers or UFOs.
“Please Mr. Caruso, please could you give us your regarded opinion on this nonsense about spaceships and even space people?”
“Thank you. As you all know, you just can’t believe everything you see and hear, can you?
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I must be on my way….”
“But, but, but… huh… I don’t believe it….”
Unfortunately I couldn’t find a video of the LP track, just a live version called “EXP/Up From the Skies” which is too much acid rock feedback distortion for me.
huxley,
On yesterday’s open thread you wrote:
I think there are playwrights active in the last century, or so, who have created plays like Shakespeare. Some incredible plays have been written and staged in modern times!
I don’t think there is any modern playwright as prolific as Shakespeare. Some of that may be the nature of the theater business. As the video neo featured pointed out, The Globe theater might show 20 or 30 different plays a month, every month and rarely staged the same play more than 4 times. Being a playwright sounds more like being an editorialist, like Maureen Dowd, or maybe more akin to a novelist like Danielle Steel.
Modern plays take a year or more to get to the stage and may run for years if successful.
Aristophanes wrote 40 plays (only 11 survive). Maybe David Mamet or Stephen Sondheim could produce like Shakespeare if there wasn’t so much money involved in modern theater?
Jordan Rivers,
We were both simultaneously and unbeknownst to one another responding to different huxley call outs on yesterday’s open thread! You posted yours one minute ahead of mine.
well that 2500 years ago, in the Golden age of Athens,
Jordan RIvers:
I’m surprised I’ve never tired of “EXP,” the flying saucer first track to “Axis Bold as Love.”
If I’m listening to the album (and not just jumping ahead to “Little Wing” as I’m wont to do), I never skip “EXP.” It always cracks me up.
–Jimi Hendrix, “EXP”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rOeELO4v20
Frederick,
You mentioned in other threads that you use a troll-blocking script on this blog. Can you be a bit more specific about that? Thank you.
Miles Davis once said of “The Jimi Hendrix Experience” trio that it took a black man to make those two white boys play their asses off. Classic Miles racial crap. (I can’t seem to find that quote on the web today.)
I would flip that to note that it took two white boys to support Hendrix in creating his greatest work. Mitch Mitchell, the drummer, consistently makes the greatest rock drummer lists.
Hendrix’s next trio, all black, “Band of Gypsies,” was an important source for later funk music, but had nowhere near the impact of the “Experience.”
I don’t know if it was the drugs or the rock’n’roll madness, but as far as I’m concerned Hendrix never again hit the peaks of those first three “Experience” albums.
What Hendrix might have done had he lived longer…? Sigh.
huxley; Rufus T. Firefly:
It’s not Shakespeare (and it’s not all that current, I suppose), but I have been very very impressed by the amazingly clever and funny work of Michael Frayn (Noises Off) and David Ives (All In the Timing).
neo,
I remember you writing about “Noises Off.” I hope to see it performed one day.
Andrew Klavan states the only standing ovation* he has given so far was to Sondheim’s, “Sweeney Todd.” I also want to see that one day.
*Maybe he states it’s the only spontaneous standing ovation he has given.
Rufus T. Firefly, neo:
I know there have been great modern plays, especially when the bracket is as large as a century or so, but Shakespeare strikes me as a civilization-changing colossus like Michelangelo or Einstein.
There’s also the mystery of how he had a consistent audience. I know his audience could hear his Elizabethan English better than I ever will, but still those are long, complex plays to follow.
Maybe the audience was happy enough to drink some beers, be seen in the right place, trade japes with other audience members and watch/hear something/anything without all the competing content we have available today.
huxley wrote “Miles Davis once said of ‘The Jimi Hendrix Experience’ trio that it took a black man to make those two white boys play their asses off….I would flip that to note that it took two white boys to support Hendrix in creating his greatest work.”
How about flipping it all the way? “It took two white men to support that black boy Hendrix in creating his greatest work.”
R.I.P. Robbie Robertson, from The Band.
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/aug/9/robbie-robertson-band-dies-80/
Rufus wrote “We were both simultaneously and unbeknownst to one another responding to different huxley call outs on yesterday’s open thread!”
Great minds think alike!
John Stossel is making Judith Curry poster-woman against climate alarmism.
“Judith Curry: How Climate ‘Science’ Got Hijacked by Alarmists”
(His 7m edited and illustrated interview, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVi01vJ4nxM)
At the end, he teases more to come from his full-length interview with her in the weeks to come. Her new book on climate uncertainty is out, “Climate Uncertainty and Risk.” https://judithcurry.com/2023/06/06/publication-day/#more-30162
Townhall.com has Stossell doing the same, but in text — see HERE, “The Fake Climate Consensus.”
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2023/08/09/the-fake-climate-consensus-n2626776
Could debunking climate alarmist lies become fashionable? Despite this good news, I won’t be holding my breath.
huxley wrote “Mitch Mitchell, the drummer, consistently makes the greatest rock drummer lists.”
I’ve always dug the drums on Purple Haze, despite (or because?) it sounds like construction work.
John Stossel is making Judith Curry poster-woman against climate alarmism.
TJ:
For my money Judith Curry has been the poster-superwoman against climate alarmism since Climategate back in 2009.
And she has been treated viciously by most of her colleagues ever since.