Monday, September 24, 2007

purplE k'niF LIVE ON WFMU!











purplE k'niF plays Maximum Surf!


Taped Live in the studio on Friday,

Airing Tuesday, Sep. 25 at
1 PM EASTERN Time on WFMU

Free-Form Radio, 91.1-FM NJ/NYC
and 90.1-FM Lower Hudson River Valley.

Purple k'niF on Joe Belock's
"Three Chord Monty" Show, WFMU-FM,
Tuesday Sep.25, Noon to 3 PM Eastern Time.

Catch the wave on the radio or various
live streaming, webcast, podcast,
online listening and archival retrieval
options at http://www.wfmu.org

PURPLE K'NIF:
Ted Lawrence - electric guitar
John Teagle - electric guitar
Baker Rorick - electric bass
Chris Butler - acoustic drums

NP: saw pal Debbie Schwartz on Saturday
at Maxwell's playing with P.G. Six.
damn...what i great band.
i have 9 musical buttons, and she/they pushed
7 of them.

http://www.myspace.com/pgsixband

PEEVE DE JOUR: headache...the beginning of sinus season?

JOIE DE JOUR: a burnin' blue sky day!

ROSATI'S FLAVOR-OF-THE-DAY:

Chocolate
Peanut Butter
Swirl

cb...where are you?







NEW JERSEY

Monday, September 17, 2007

GREAT BALLS OF FIRE!



















the caption read:

"Jerry Lee Lewis looks on back stage as Half Cleveland performs at the Chrissie Hynde and Friends concert to benefit the Akron Civic Theater on Saturday Sept. 15, 2007, in Akron, Ohio. (Phil Masturzo/Akron Beacon Journal)"

...except as RSM in NJ wrote - that's most likely Kenny Lovelace, Jerry Lee's longtime guitarist.

(aside: or as BBob in NYC suggested - leave a caption of your own as a comment!)

read a review of the show here: http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/9809247.html

a great show/great night tho...we done very good, but seeing Jerry Lee Lewis is...wow...someone who not only was around when rock 'n' roll was dangerous, but someone who made rock 'n' roll dangerous!

NP: Radio Nigel

PEEVE DE JOUR: a brutal week ahead...

JOIE DE JOUR: Happy Birthday, Liam!

...and having Wunder Gurl here to make everything okay. seeing JK and ol' pals at the show. saying hi to older pal Chrissie. playing with Eboy. DS playing bass with only three working fingers and just killin'!

mas goodies in abundance...

ROSATI'S FLAVOR-OF-THE-DAY:

Black Raspberry Chip

cb...where are you?






PENNSYLVANIA

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

BIG ROCK SHOW!!

CHRISSIE HYNDE & FRIENDS


















THIS SATURDAY, September 15th, 8pm

The Akron Civic Theater
182 South Main Street
Akron, Ohio 44325

JUST ADDED - JERRY LEE LEWIS!!!
















ALSO FEATURING:

The Diffi Cult
If These Trees Could Talk
Pat Sweany
Half Cleveland
The Bizzaros
The Numbers Band

TICKETS & INFO -

http://www.akroncivic.com/eventlist/event_detail.php?id=501

NP: 9/11 commemoration on WNYC. my god...all those names....

PEEVE DE JOUR: banged up knee for me, sprained hand for The Kid

JOIE DE JOUR: both doing okay.

ROSATI'S FLAVOR-OF-THE-DAY:

Chocolate Covered Pretzel

OR

Strawberry


cb...where are you?






OHIO

Saturday, September 08, 2007

SKRONK!














from my bro in FL. the writer gets it wrong, tho...this was 64 minutes of "fuck you" to RCA Records so Uncle Lou could fulfill his contract obligations and jump to another label:

AN IMPOSSIBLE NOISE

- Dave Simpson on an attempt to play Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music unplugged

Friday September 7, 2007
The Guardian

Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music has been called many things. The Rolling Stone review of its original 1975 release called it "the tubular groaning of a galactic refrigerator" and compared listening to it to a night in a bus terminal. One reference book described the two vinyl set as "ear-wrecking electronic sludge guaranteed to clear any room of humans in record time". Reed - perhaps slightly tongue in cheek - claims it invented heavy metal. Meanwhile, biographer Victor Bockris insists that the album, which made number two in the 1991 book The Worst Records of All Time, is "the ultimate conceptual punk rock album", the logical extension of the Velvet Underground's most confrontational songs.











That's because Metal Machine Music consisted, in its original form, of four 16-minute sides of guitar feedback, the last of which ended in a locked groove, so you could have continual noise, if you so wanted.
Now, however, Metal Machine Music can be described as "an acoustic score for a classical ensemble". That is because of an extraordinary adaptation of it by German 11-piece orchestra Zeitkratzer, who have reworked Metal Machine Music as an instrumental piece and released it as a CD. You might think 65 minutes of noise could not be converted into actual written music - Lou Reed didn't think it could - but the doubters have been proved wrong. "He said it would be impossible," says Ulrich Kreiger, Zeitkratzer's saxophonist, who transcribed the music. "So we sent him a demo," he explains, "and he was blown away." Though Metal Machine Music almost killed Reed's career - its crushing commercial failure forcing him to rapidly record a conventional rock album, Coney Island Baby, to placate punters and record company - Krieger suggests Reed is now delighted to hear a new generation of younger musicians taking his outermost extremes even further. For Krieger, a fan of the original, reworking the album felt like "giving something back".

When Krieger was a teenager, he listened to Metal Machine Music alongside Throbbing Gristle, free jazz, punk and composers such as Schoenberg and Stockhausen and says the idea of attempting to transcribe it as written music was natural. Metal Machine Music, he says, mirrors the modal use of sound and rhythm found in archaic ritual music and could be adapted to draw on classical instruments' ability to create "weird sounds". Specifically, wind instruments can mimic feedback, which, because it has a pitch, can actually be played. These notions delighted Reed, who became involved in rehearsals. When it was performed at MaerzMusik Haus Der Berliner Festpiele in 2002, he played an electric guitar to bridge the ensemble version with his own. Five years later - after legal, rather than sonic complications - the collaboration has finally been released as a CD/DVD where it stands not quite alone, but perhaps as the original's perhaps slightly more complex sibling.
"The arrangement emphasises the orchestralness I heard in Lou's original," says Krieger, who talks of "intricate, beautiful and daring sound colours". Still, some things never change: Zeitkratzer's Metal Machine Music now causes uproar in the classical world.








[AN 8-TRACK OF MMM!]


"When we played it in Berlin some of the audience were really angry," says Reinhold Friedl, the ensemble's conductor. "Someone shouted 'This is mayhem.' Later a critic wrote that 'John Cage said everything is music. This is not music!' It does not bother us. We are provocateurs." · Lou Reed Metal Machine Music Performed by Zeitkratzer is released on CD/DVD by Asphodel Records on Monday. Further info at www.loureed.com and www.zeitkratzer.de

FLASH: roomie MB just sent me this amazing links page on the history of electronic music:

http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/

NP: "Hippie Chick"/Soho. one of my favorite tracks. used to play it with a Hoboken hippie band i was in called the Legendary Wild Ensemble (time for a reuion, b's & g's??).

PEEVE DE JOUR: 30%??? no fucking way...

JOIE DE JOUR: rashrot on my left forearm is healing.

ROSATI'S FLAVOR-OF-THE-DAY:

Pumpkin Pie

OR

Pumpkin Pecan


cb...where are you?






NEW YORK STATE - Kelder's Farm

Thursday, September 06, 2007

ARTTHURSDAY!

it's "opening" day, boys & girls!
























"IRON RIDGE: SUNSPLASH" Oil, ferric oxide in steel

A. D. PETERS * NEW WORKS @
"TEASE" a group Inaugural Exhibition:

GARSON FINE ART
511 W. 25th Street/
Chelsea 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10001

OPENING: Thursday, September 6, 2007
5 - 9 PM

Matthew Garson
Owner/ Director
P-216 990-3349
F-216 651-2307

mgarson@mpercent.com
www.garsonfineart.com

- and -


















"Twenty-Twenty"

September 7 - 29, 2007

Works by:

Betsy Friedman
Joseph Belden
Justin Valdes
Neil Whitacre
S. Clay Wilson
Haeri Yoo
Daniel Zeller

Reception: Friday Sep. 7, 5:30 - 7:30 P.M.

Geoffrey Young Gallery
40 Railroad Street
Great Barrington, MA

413-528-6210 or 413-528-2552

- and -


























G. A. LEWIS


SCULPTURE

MILLWORKS GALLERY
106 N. MAIN STREET AKRON, OHIO 44308

SEPTEMBER 1 - OCTOBER 13, 2007

GALLERY HOURS FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS 5-10 PM
AND BY APPOINTMENT

330.730.2113

- and -

...so i have not been able to update this blog lately.

sorry...life intrudes.

but here's some fun stuff for you to enjoy:

- from RD in Akron:



- from KM in the UK: UNUSUAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS!

THE ODDMUSIC GALLERY

- from KH in LA: DOLEMITE!



- from RSM in NJ: JEFF BECK 1974!



- from KH in LA again: NORTH DRUMS!

NORTH DRUMS GALLERY

- from BC in NYC: VVALE & GERRY CASALE DO DEVO!

MONGOLOID

- from LS IN NYC: LULLABY - GRIZZLY BEAR!



- from GB in AKRON: THE ONE CLICK AWARD!

VIEW

- from NT in AKRON: RACHMANINOV HAD BIG HANDS!



- from KO in NJ: A RECORDING OF CONCERT INTERMISSIONS!

(COUGH...CLICK HERE)

- from BBOB in NYC: FUN SHORT FILMS!

(INCLUDING THE SUBMISSION TO THE NYC 48-HOUR FILM DERBY)

- from IC in NJ: THE SPOTNICKS - THE ROCKET MAN (1962)!


N.P. (NOW PLAYING...er...PRACTICING): for The Big Rock Show!

CHRISSIE HYNDE & FRIENDS

Summary:

Concert with Hynde and other local artists including Half Cleveland
(THAT’S ME, B’s & G’s!),
The Bizzaros, The Numbers Band, Patrick Sweany, The DiffiCult & more!

Venue:

Akron Civic Theatre
182 S Main Street
Akron, OH
(330) 535-3179

VIP entitles you to an invitation to a private performance. An invitation to a celebrity VIP preview of the restaurant and samples from the menu. Front-row seats to the Civic performance. A special invitation to the public opening night.

Price: $30 concert; $500 VIP (330) 928-1988

Phone: (330) 945-9400

Web Page: http://www.chrissiehynde.com

Age Suitability: All Ages

PEEVE DE JOUR: i think i have scabies...eeewwww!

JOIE DE JOUR: ...or maybe just poison ivy.

ROSATI'S FLAVOR-OF-THE-DAY:

German Chocolate
(Pecans, coconut, caramel in chocolate custard)


cb...where are you?






NEW JERSEY