Musical Curiosities

Wake up & time allowing I like to put in some tunes & read while I suck back some caffeine.

Usually find stuff from FB groups, Twitter, music biz publishers, etc.

Figured I'd try starting a repository here & if you got anything interesting to share- by all means-please do

This morning it's been-

100 sine wave synthisizers:

http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/10/ikeda-tech-feature

the story of the Big Muff:

http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/10/instrumental-instruments-big-muff

The story of one mans quest for/restoring of a Juipter 8 while waiting for tostadas-

https://jup8restoration.wordpress.com

as I said to you on facebook, i am glad SOMEONE is this brave.... synth restorations ain't easy. or cheap!

"Why Califonias Musical Road Sounds Terrible"

https://youtu.be/Ef93WmlEho0

Took the words outta my own amature mouth:

"Digital Revolution Fosters More Hurried, Less Skillful Creative Process"

http://www.socanblog.ca/en/digital-revolution-fosters-more-hurried-less-skillful-creative-process/?utm_content=buffere781e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

"True tastemakers are becoming endangered. There has been a vast and exponential growth in output and content in the last 20 years. While reviewers and consumers are drowning in choice, paid arbiters of taste are being laid off and replaced by amateurs."

Desolation Center:

"Featuring the likes of the Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Savage Republic, Einstürzende Neubauten and, most famously, Sonic Youth, these events were the work of Stuart Swezey, an LA post-punk promoter previously famous for putting on a series of concerts in galleries and rehearsal spaces under the Desolation Center banner."

http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/10/stuart-swezey-the-desolation-center?linkId=43587381

Musical curiosities.....most of mine involve guitar design...

Did Fernandez ever Sell the Artwave V7 guitar outside of Japan, in the USA perhaps? http://dreamworks.fc2web.com/yamaki_daion/image/artwave_v7.jpg

Why does Fender hollywood have a Jag-Stang that looks like a Indonesian made Squier VM series instrument hanging on their wall and is there ever a chance that model will ever come out? https://www.jag-stang.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/BillEliaFenderCelebratesHollywoodOfficeaATmVVesCnrl.jpg

Who used the Hondo/Kramer Paul Dean body shape first? Was it Paul's own design, Attila Balogh/Odyssey's, or Larrivee's? Did Larrivee run off with the Kramer variant? Is the Larrivee Langcaster supposed to be like a modern day reissue of that style of guitar?
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/06/80/a1/0680a18e859eb1c172924d6405dd12dd--guitar-players-guitarist.jpg https://sites.google.com/site/deanmachine2016/_/rsrc/1494008884367/the-guitars/unnamed.jpg https://s13.postimg.org/gd5bzrogn/pdo3.jpg http://www.halkans.com/images6/1236larivee.jpg http://www.vintagekramer.com/stagesig/pdyellow.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Basd-kDCMAE4zMy.jpg

And who the heck made this thing? Someone found it in a dumpster, I can't find info on it so that's one way to pique my curiosity EASILY. https://imgur.com/a/Byigg https://imgur.com/a/dulsy https://imgur.com/a/7H9Io https://imgur.com/a/w4qEd

Margaret Thatcher’s Briefing on Punk for a 1987 Interview:

https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/zm3jz4/margaret-thatcher-briefing-punk-pop-smash-hits-1987-interview

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/apr/09/margaret-thatcher-smash-hits-interview

Lil' story on the FBI files on The Fugs (as well as The Doors, John Lennon & Yoko Ono)

https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/bj7x85/fbi-foia-the-fugs-the-doors-v24n8

Margaret Thatcher’s Briefing on Punk for a 1987 Interview:

https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/zm3jz4/margaret-thatcher-briefing-punk-pop-smash-hits-1987-interview

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/apr/09/margaret-thatcher-smash-hits-interview

you know, the 4 points aren't entirely off-base... if it was for any politician but Thatcher, Regan, Bush or the current idiots in the USA and UK? I would just shrug that shit off. I really like the erroneous spelling of synthesizer too. SynthesizOR is kinda cooler in print. Maybe if the "I" were a "1" and the "O" were a "0"??? Synthes1z0r.

Synthes1z0r.

thats really synthy souding

A new name for soft syths?

Synthes1z0r

That whole article made me nostalgic for a time when an underground music scene existed that scared the shit outta the elderly.

problem being that if there was a scary udnerground music scene now we would be afraid of it very soon or it wouldn't be doing its job

Of late I don't think that kinda thing can grow long enough unnoticed to become scary. New scenes & trends get memed into your grandparents hands with in a year & loose something.

The "what the fuck is this & where did it come from?!" that an established scene could do but remain unknown to the "ol folks" thing of the past- just don't happen like that anymore. It's widely known early on & maybe before a new scene can gird itself & dismiss the incoming meme-ification.

Trippy new landscape...

"A Vancouver Music Company Tried to Release New Music from Prince. They Didn’t Get Very Far."

http://www.portlandmercury.com/feature/2017/11/08/19453126/deliverance-interrupted

The Power of Anacrusis: Engendered Feeling in Groove-Based Musics

http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.06.12.4/mto.06.12.4.butterfield.html

taking the morning off & reading:

The Father of the Digital Synthesizer DX7

https://priceonomics.com/the-father-of-the-digital-synthesizer/?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email

poor chowning, stanford and yamaha ganged up to screw him royally for his work!

Seriously.