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David Gray on Tim Buckley …
"He's like a magical spirit, plugged into something far out. ‘Earth Is Broken’ on his live album Dream Letter is as mysterious a piece of music as you will ever hear, but it’s just him and a 12-string guitar that is slightly out of tune. That shows you how far you can travel with nothing at all."
Buckley was a mere 21 years old, didn’t have his regular supporting musicians with him due to a restricted budget so was playing with unknown (to him) quantities, and yet he held that picky London audience in thrall. The whole concert was recorded with no cuts and no edits – it has an incredible quality of sound and atmosphere - weird to think it was made just shy of half a century ago!
The original article from which that quote was borrowed -
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music...leeve.html
And the track David Gray speaks of ...
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“If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.”
Bob Marley
He was something of a natural mystic if you ask me … and even if you don’t! Lol!! …
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Well at least no-one can say they don't know what he means!!!
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'So much wasted time' - David Cassidy's final words.
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'Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune' - Igor Stravinsky
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^^Very sad - those last words!! Probably happens a lot.
Not exactly a quote, but some of these ‘NEW MUSICAL TERMS’ are quite funny, I thought … all credit to 'Unknown' ...
ALLREGRETTO
When you’re 16 measures into the piece and realize you took too fast a tempo
ANGUS DEI
To play with a divinely beefy tone
A PATELLA
Accompanied by knee-slapping
APPOLOGGIATURA
A composition that you regret playing
APPROXIMENTO
A musical entrance that is somewhere in the vicinity of the correct pitch
CACOPHANY [aka CACOUGHONY]
A composition incorporating many people with chest colds
CORAL SYMPHONY
A large, multi-movement work from Beethoven’s Caribbean Period
DILL PICCOLINI
An exceedingly small wind instrument that plays only sour notes
FERMANTRA
A note held over and over and over and over and …
FIDDLER CRABS
Grumpy string players
FLUTE FLIES
Those tiny mosquitos that bother musicians on outdoor gigs
FRUGALHORN
A sensible and inexpensive brass instrument
GAUL BLATTER
A French horn player
GREGORIAN CHAMP
The title bestowed upon the monk who can hold a note the longest
PLACEBO DOMINGO
A faux tenor
THE RIGHT OF STRINGS
Manifesto of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Violists
TEMPO TANTRUM
What an elementary school orchestra is having when it’s not following the conductor
VIBRATTO
Child prodigy son of the concertmaster
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Going through a pile of John Denver records and noticed that he quotes Joe Henry here and there. Henry, who is still around and was a great friend to Denver, and, I suspect, mentor, co-wrote a good few songs with him and has written for other musos, as well as having published essays and a book.
This is on the back of the Spirit album cover ...
And the spirit fills the darkness of the heavens
It fills the endless yearning of the soul
It lives within a star too far to dream of
It lives within each part and is the whole
It's the fire and the wings that fly us home
-Joe Henry
It's the last verse of "The Wings That Fly Us Home" ...
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