Hey, a good day! Here’s a long song of the week. What are you listening to tonight?
Pharoah Sanders, “The Creator Has a Master Plan” (1969)
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Hey, a good day! Here’s a long song of the week. What are you listening to tonight?
Pharoah Sanders, “The Creator Has a Master Plan” (1969)
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KG
at the moment, I’m listening to the NBA draft on ESPN radio, can’t wait to see how Jordan screws up this year (as a Laker fan, I’m hoping it’s “trade the #2 pick for Pau Gasol” but would put money on “taking Harrison Barnes because he’s the UNC guy”). Later, it’ll be shuffle on my iphone at the gym, probably.
DFH no.6
Shearwater’s new album “Animal Joy”.
They’re psychedelic rockers, I suppose, something like a modern and more “tribal”-sounding Yes for the 21st century.
I really liked their earlier stuff from a couple years ago, and, as is usually the case, it’s taking a bit to get into their new sound (I like it, but not yet as much as their older music).
This has happened countless times over the decades with many bands, and often as not I end up liking the newer material as much or even more than the old favorites.
I’ll be checking them out live for the first time in a couple weeks, so that should help my appreciation of the new stuff.
Here’s where I do my plug for the other denizens of Joe Arpaio County who comment here, and say you all should really check out the new (since last October) Crescent Ballroom in downtown Phoenix, if you haven’t yet. Best venue in town, with good live music almost every night.
Particularly if you enjoy what the kids are listening to today (Coachella-type bands, mostly) there’s a lot of good music going down at the Crescent (like Shearwater on Friday the 13th).
Oh, and SCOTUS upholding Obamacare? Big fucking deal, all right.
Fuck all fucking fascists.
MikeJ
For three days I’ve been listening to Rockpile’s Seconds of Pleasure, and then all the associated acts. Nick, Dave, Elvis, Brinsley Schwarz. When I hit genius mix in itunes, Apple adds NRBQ, the ‘mats and Graham Parker to the mix. So that’s ok.
Q.Q. Moar
I am listening to the lamentations of the wingnuts on my local AM station. Also, am I a bad person for … let me start over. I am a bad person for hoping that Michelle Malkin’s house burns down.
Sapient
Thanks, JPK – one of my favorite jazz pieces of all time.
beltane
The wingnut explanation for Justice Roberts’ vote is coalescing around two main conspiracy theories: 1)Roberts was hallucinating under the influence of his anti-seizure meds; and 2)He was blackmailed by the Kenyan Usurper.
I’m sure there will be better CTs forthcoming but so far our friends on the Right are off to a good start.
Dr. Squid
“Song 2” by Blur. Followed by “You Suffer” from Napalm Death.
bemused
For some reason, Your Brains, Jonathan Coulton, has been playing in my head all afternoon.
burnspbesq
Dr. John, Bill Evans, Monk, Hilary Hahn
the Conster
@beltane:
WOW. In my fever dreams where I might think like a wingnut neither one of those would occur to me. Clearly, I don’t speak wingnut in my dreams.
Omnes Omnibus
@the Conster: Lucky you.
the Conster
My wingnut FB “friends” are all butthurt. The only question I have is how hard to spike the ball. I’m chomping at the bit here.
J. Michael Neal
I have no idea what I’m going to be listening to tonight. I’ve been playing the same 6-7 albums over and over for the past ten weeks because they fit (at least in my own fevered imagination) what I was writing so very well. The one that I would push is Sylvan’s Sceneries, which is in all ways fabulous. They’re a German prog rock band more in the style of Marilion than the harder prog metal I find most of the time. Their albums Artificial Paradise and Posthumous Silence are probably the two best.
Omnes Omnibus
@the Conster: You could just do it by telling them that you aren’t going to spike the ball. Say it was an obvious result and you are glad that the Court acted responsibly so that we can move on to expanding coverage to more people.
Then wait for them to explode.
J. Michael Neal
@Omnes Omnibus:
Then spike the ball.
lamh35
TIME magazine cover next week on healthcare:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6clrnq7JD1qanm80o1_1280.png
Roger Moore
@the Conster:
Hey, no spiking the football! A prepared touchdown dance routine would be fine, though.
dmsilev
@beltane:
Wonkette found a good one:
That tape will undoubtedly be archived in the Barack Obama Library on the same shelf as the Whitey Tape.
Omnes Omnibus
@Roger Moore: Like this?
Roger Moore
@Omnes Omnibus:
I was thinking of something like this.
beltane
@dmsilev: Too bad “later this afternoon” already happened. I was hoping for a double feature of the Whitey tape and the Roberts blackmail tape. These wingnuts are such teases.
Mouse-Bear
I’m listening to Danish talk radio (DR P1) and the squeaking harangues of The Horde.
DougJ
AWESOME! I remember listening to this in college.
dmsilev
@beltane: See, that just proves that Obama’s Chicago Thugs got to Our Hero and took the tape before he could release it.
Omnes Omnibus
@Roger Moore: Meh. Too much Tom Cruise, not enough Raji.
Hal
So was the Holder vote scheduled today because they thought it would be a 1-2 punch to Obama, or to potentially distract from a ruling that would have upheld the law? I’m betting on the former, and now this bullshit will be relegated to the “and in other news” story of the day.
Omnes Omnibus
@beltane: A Science Fiction Double Feature?
Raven
@the Conster: I just had to private message my half brother and explain that I was not going to be engaging in political discussions with him on facebook. He’s moderately right wing but his douche wife is full blast tbag. He’s got to keep the peace at his crib but I told him I’m a fucking left wing bomb thrower and to back off my shit!
burnspbesq
Holy shit. Check this out. Jeff Beck and Tal Wilkenfeld blowing up the old Billy Cobham tune “Stratus.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Alo3Zpqmmc&feature=related
Litlebritdifrnt
I was listening to Hannity this afternoon and a woman called in who was in tears. She said that when she heard the ruling this morning she sat on her bed and sobbed, she was afraid for her children, she was afraid for her grandchildren, she just didn’t know what to do. There was a pause, and you could actually hear Hannity realize what his fear mongering had actually wrought. There was dead air, and you could almost feel him saying “shit”. He then went into his “let not your heart be troubled” bit and said that the country could vote Obama out come November, but there was a real sense of him realizing what his fucking lies had led to, people absolutely terrified of what this ruling meant. It was quite illuminating.
Raven
@Hal: They didn’t really know exactly when the ACA vote would be so proly not.
Hal
@the Conster:
I always hesitate to make political comments on FB because you just can’t seem to make a point in a few words. Plus, the right wing comments drive me insane.
I totally accept that everyone has a difference of opinion, and I admit I am completely biased, but the right wing comments almost always seem to be mostly or completely wrong and/or based on some ludicrous conspiracy theories someone picked up from the Internet.
You could spend all day on FB linking to snopes and people still wouldn’t believe you.
JPK
@burnspbesq: I like that!
Steeplejack (phone)
@JPK:
Great song! Check out Pharoah’s “Elevation” from around the same time.
Watching the Bethesda Big Train play some summer league ball.
the Conster
@Hal:
So, this is what I did. I linked to this article about the history of the mandate and did ju jitsu, pointing out that everything Obama has done was conservative until he did it, and then used cleek’s definition: conservatism is just what pisses liberals off, updated daily. Guess what? I haven’t gotten any response. [[spikes ball]]
Rita R.
@Litlebritdifrnt:
I doubt anything that human coming from Hannity. He probably just hit the cough button.
Since it was a surprisingly good day, what with the court’s decision and Italy advancing to the Euro 2012 finals, and I’m in a good mood, I just watched YouTube video of REM doing “Furry Happy Monsters” on Sesame Street. Don’t judge.
Scribe9
“Creator Has A Master Plan” is one of the greatest pieces of music ever recorded. It’s like an unofficial sequel to Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme.” It may it quite rise to those lofty heights, but it’s close. Thanks for posting!
burnspbesq
@Scribe9:
I know it’s a minority opinion, but I completely love the Branford Marsalis/Joey Calderazzo version of “A Love Supreme.”
ImJohnGalt
@burnspbesq: It’s a better minority opinion than that written this morning, that’s for damned sure.
Omnes Omnibus
@ImJohnGalt: At least it was the minority opinion; that made it good in my eyes.
lacp
Holy shit. Hadn’t heard this in forever. First (and one of the few) concerts I ever heard at the Fillmore. The Creator Has A Master Plan, Hum Allah….All I knew about Saunders was one listen to this album and his work with Coltrane….never heard of Leon Thomas before…then my buddies and me went up to NYC. Jesus, that was a long time ago.
ankh hotep
Karma was was voted album of the year in 69 by Jazz & Pop mag. The Creator Has A Master Plan is a supremely uplifting and inspirational piece of music. Leon Thomas went on to do his own solo version. Also covered live by Zephyr (with Tommy Bolin) and King Crimson (somewhere in their massive live archives).
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack (phone):
Pharoah Sanders, “Elevation.” First part. The song is broken into two parts on YouTube.
Also: “Astral Traveling.”
M. Bouffant
Very long version (52:06) live in Montreux, 1978.
I was living in Paris in 1969 when a guy played a cassette of “Creator” for me on his boom box. Had never heard (or heard of, even) “free jazz” before, but I was sold from the first few bars.
Brachiator
Great selection in “The Creator Has a Master Plan.” A companion piece might be “Thembi.” The lightness fits my mood, still feeling the victory, and enjoying the ongoing wingnut freak out.
It’s morning in America again. Well, OK, not morning yet, but good enough.
piratedan
@the Conster: ask yourself this…. would they restrain themselves on your behalf? and then let that answer guide you….
Music? Little Village…. She Runs Hot…….
Big E
Saw Sanders during the ‘The Creator Has a Master Plan’ period, along with Herbie Hancock’s M’wandishi group…..and….. Freddie Hubbard’s band….. all in one incredible concert…… an amazing night of music
russell
whatever it was i was planning to listen to has just been put aside in favor of pharoah sanders’ “the creator has a master plan”.
and Big E you have my undying envy. holy crap, that must have been a hell of a show.
Estell Wormington
If Howard’s going to go to Brooklyn, I’d like to see the Cavs get something out of it. It would also bring a smile to my face to see him get traded to a team he doesn’t want to go to, like the Rockets.