[quote=__HRB__;196988][URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmV9MsFnUbk[/URL][/quote]
The introduction is epic! I have always been a fan of most forms of Swedish/Scandinavian metal (ever since Dimmu Borgir).

[QUOTE=xilman;197081][url]http://new.uk.music.yahoo.com/blogs/snapcrackleandpop/31194/bohemian-muppetry[/url]
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Apropos* chickens: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GFtkPJU1WE[/url]

[I]When performing in his theatrical persona, Buckethead used to wear a KFC bucket on his head, emblazoned with an orange bumper sticker that read "funeral" in capital black block letters, and an expressionless plain white costume mask. [...] Buckethead's persona represents a character who was "raised by chickens" and has made it his "mission in life to alert the world to the ongoing chicken holocaust in fast-food joints around the globe."[/I]
[SIZE="1"](from [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckethead[/url])[/SIZE]

*Never is there a 'loose association thread' when you require one.

Just stumbled on this
 

[URL]http://crashsite.org/[/URL]

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czuf0JaYf90[/url]

I love this song (all their other songs are crap), but I really don't know why. It took me about 10 minutes to get the feel of the 3 riffs right. I know of no other song that can make a simple chord change (at 1:36) sound like genius.

[quote=__HRB__;198145][URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czuf0JaYf90[/URL]

I love this song (all their other songs are crap), but I really don't know why. It took me about 10 minutes to get the feel of the 3 riffs right. I know of no other song that can make a simple chord change (at 1:36) sound like genius.[/quote]

I think it may owe something to beating your head against a brick wall:smile:

Although telegraphed, I think the chord following
de da da da, de da da da heralding the climax of the fugue
takes some beating.
Lovely views of Notre Dame (dear to my heart partly through
my Parisian girlfriend of 68/9).

[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM1SLmASyhQ[/URL]
[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UE-ZURUeZo[/URL]

David

[QUOTE=davieddy;198421]I think it may owe something to beating your head against a brick wall:smile:

Although telegraphed, I think the chord following
de da da da, de da da da heralding the climax of the fugue
takes some beating.
Lovely views of Notre Dame (dear to my heart partly through
my Parisian girlfriend of 68/9).

[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM1SLmASyhQ[/URL]
[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UE-ZURUeZo[/URL][/QUOTE]

While other kids were enjoying their childhood, I was hating my piano-lessons. My teachers were total morons and they absolutely loved Bach! Compared to Bach even Alfred Stockhausen's, uh, compositions, resemble music.

My first computer program was:

[CODE]10 PRINT "I F***ING HATE BACH"
20 GOTO 10[/CODE]

I hated him so bad, that I thought Barbara Bach and Catherine Bach were hags. I still can't say the word 'Brandenburg' without throwing up a little in my mouth.

Victor Borge on Bach:

[I]"What a monotonous life this man must have had!"[/I]
[I]"I guess when he wrote this, he was thinking of something else!"[/I]

As an adult, I felt I should give Bach a second chance and finally read GEB. Now I don't care for M.C. Escher as much as I used to.

GEB needs to be rewritten as Goedel-Escher-Norwegiandeathmetal, because everybody with a sense of artistic value knows that any decent Hi-Fi system will refuse to play Bach for aesthetic reasons.

Here's a recording of a pianist using a piano to play actual music:

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSO6dfTgVOY[/url]

Love the Rach
 

At least you. me and fluoride don't beat about the bush arguing the toss
about terminology, unlike some people who shall remain nameless
(Cheesehead and Zeta Flux).

Re Bach: "Strong meat from Sam Peckinpah (Anyone for Tennis?)"

A few modulations in this one:
[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l06wDJIjQ2M[/URL]

[QUOTE=davieddy;198445]Re Bach: "Strong meat from Sam Peckinpah (Anyone for Tennis?)"[/QUOTE]

That's very clever!

At least I hope it is after I figure out what the answer is. The champion is buried 6 down? I think I need to buy a couple of vowels to get that one...in any case variations 4 and 5 of [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variations_and_Fugue_on_a_Theme_by_Mozart[/url] are secret favorites of mine. Couldn't find a version with orchestra and I'm too lazy to upload non-porn to public servers, so here's a performance by two Japs riding huge Yamahas*. Variation 4 starts at 7:04.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll8CwRZjXZM[/url]
[QUOTE=davieddy;198445]A few modulations in this one:
[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l06wDJIjQ2M[/URL][/QUOTE]

Did someone say string-quartet?

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTD2lKew4iI[/url]

*The Steinway-people have asked me to announce this.

[quote=__HRB__;198451]That's very clever!

At least I hope it is after I figure out what the answer is. [/quote]

Like the reason for "believing" in God - always wise to take
out insurance.

In this case "strong meat" could apply equally to Bach's organ
or your passionate dismissal thereof.
The rest is just my usual "stream of consciousness" stuff:
I can't use the metaphor "strong meat" without recalling

[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmcrreUVBeo[/URL]

[QUOTE=davieddy;198532]Like the reason for "believing" in God - always wise to take
out insurance.[/QUOTE]

Hm...did you mean un-wise?

[QUOTE=__HRB__;198063][I]This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Possibly the gods exist, and possibly they do not. So why not believe in them in any case? If it's all true you'll go to a lovely place when you die, and if it isn't then you've lost nothing, right?" When he died he woke up in a circle of gods holding nasty-looking sticks and one of them said, "We're going to show you what we think of Mr Clever Dick in these parts..."[/I]

-- (Terry Pratchett, Hogfather)[/QUOTE]

Supposedly some of Dick Wagner's Goetterdaemmerung could be appropriate here, but unfortunately nothing from 'Ring' is actually worthwhile listening to. So, here's an early MTV-clip of the prelude to act III of Lohengin, instead.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlwdTa47esE[/url]

[QUOTE=davieddy;198532]In this case "strong meat" could apply equally to Bach's organ or your passionate dismissal thereof.
The rest is just my usual "stream of consciousness" stuff:
I can't use the metaphor "strong meat" without recalling

[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmcrreUVBeo[/URL][/QUOTE]

I had found that clip with google, but didn't make the connection between 'strong meat', 'organ' and that Bach had approximately 20-30 children.

Another thing I hate/love is "classicly trained" musicos
doing pop.
[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45pIvr4gJD4[/URL]

More to cum.

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