World’s Worst Pop Albums? Easy answer, but each genre has its very own. However, I have a few examples to offer — at the very top of the list is one of my closest friends in 1966-69, Wildman Larry Fischer, who appears with Frank Zappa, his mentor and producer:
And then there was the inimitable and thoroughly “Star Quality” diva of the 1960s,
Come on into my WayBack Machine to The Time That Usta Was:
If you’ve no idea how the great theatrical music came to be written, this will interest you greatly:
Do you properly cherish your steaming hot relaxing bath? A bath is composed of many important elements, just as you’d expect from any alchemical preparation … Click on “continue reading” down below, to see the rest of this blog … discover what a hot bath is really all about.
Painting a Reunion Blues Gig-Bag for a sax player. They are pricey, but they last 10 times longer and are 100% tougher than any competitor’s gig bag.
I hand paint about a dozen a year. Each one is uniquely designed, no two alike. The bag itself runs about $300 and my signed painting job is an additional $500. Guitar bags tend to be about $200-$700 new — don’t buy one used — and are typically easily and cheaply available on eBay and Amazon.
Is this worth a half-million hits? I think it is.
Here are a few interesting experiments with the HAPI drum. You’ll note that it does not always have to be used as a percussion instrument — it has plenty of melodic punch as well. The videos are intended by me to be viewed in the sequence given for the best effect.
Here is a UFO being played at Mount Fuji:
Yep, I just couldn’t resist taking a few moments from my HAPI drumming class live on www.//justin.tv/gorebaggtv to post this extra-funny Spike Jones sendup of the famous Blue Danube, which most folks today associate with the Earth to Moon travel in 2001 A Space Odyssey. Here it is…get a good grip on the arms of your favorite chair before you press the “play” button:
http://youtu.be/hZXP4wCUtS0
http://youtu.be/k1YbjCDdhfo
I’m delighted with the 8 hours of studio work we did yesterday. Here are Continue reading
Yep, it’s true. The image above is from my 2012 calendar, which is still available. I’m painting miniatures (5″ x 7″ landscapes in acrylic) again. Original paintings and high-grade art-prints can also be ordered.
Been up to my eyeballs in preparation of several very exciting new apps for the marketplace. At the same time, I’ve been working on PogTown this past week — a few surprises there for you for sure…
To be fair, not all Gurdjieff’s music was from Gomidas. Actually a number of them were reconstructed from memory and were Arabic and tribal songs from the Caucasus and general region of Greece and Armenia, from which Gurdjieff had come when he arrived in Russia. Here is a very good example of what Gurdjieff could not present to his dance students in France, but which we can construct today from what little remains of the cultures he encountered back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Well, first off, a good deal of Gurdjieff’s Sacred Music wasn’t Gurdjieff’s music in the first place; Continue reading