Christmas lights

[JeffR]

Staring at the green and red LEDs in the wee hours of the morning, it occurred to me that it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

[JeffR]

1. To paraphrase Bernard Goetz:

"You don't look too bad. Here's another."

[Blue_In_AK]

2. Music, my favorite subject...

...and that looks like my flute there. :)

[JeffR]

4. A garden-variety Artley

which nevertheless deserves better playing skills than I bring to the table.

I was doing some overdubs with the sitar before I took these. I keep meaning to get a snap of it to share; it's a gorgeous-looking instrument.

[Blue_In_AK]

6. Too bad you live so far away...

I'd love to jam with you sometime. I don't think I've ever played along with a sitar. It has to be better than the bluegrass that everybody wants to play up here. :rofl:

[JeffR]

7. I love bluegrass

but it has a major lack of sitar and flute parts.

I've actually collaborated with a techno musician in Denmark recently. Ain't technology grand?

[Blue_In_AK]

8. Right. I like bluegrass, too,

and I CAN play it, it's just kind of too easy or something. The chord progressions are too straightforward usually -- I like the more jazzy bizarre ones, or like blues progressions. They're a lot more fun to play.

[JeffR]

9. I think I've recommended this before

but if not, seek out Harmonium, a wonderful band out of Quebec in the mid-Seventies. Clean acoustic guitars, nice harmonies, and some fairly jazzy instrumental breaks, with flute and trumpet bits. Like theme music for a better world than this one.

ON EDIT: The title track of the first album, called "Harmonium" (strangely enough) is lots of fun to play along with.

[F.Gordon]

3. Wow.... you are really wired

No, not you personally.

It is looking a lot like xmas....

I'm trying to go for maximum clarity in my posts. Is it working? :crazy:

[JeffR]

5. I grok you.

The local utility co probably assumes I have a grow-up going here when everything is switched on. Little do they know I'm way too pressed for space as it is.

[xiamiam]

10. wow..i thought i made max use of space,,,you win...tell us about your music..ok?

[JeffR]

11. OK, you asked...

mostly ambient electronics mixed with 'real' instruments: dulcimer, sax, flute, guitars, oboe, African percussion, sitar, found sounds. My 'band' name is Gray Son, which consists of me. You can hear free 45-sec previews of a couple dozen pieces at:

http://www.musicfreedom.com/GraySon/

These pieces are for sale, but I'll have some free tracks up there soon, also. A very cool remix of one of my tracks by a mad genius from Denmark is at:

http://www.musicfreedom.com/techno7/

There are two kinda frightening free downloads at:

http://music.download.com/grayson/3600-8363_32-100821779.html

Right now, trying to finish up an album I started recording in 2001, and scoring an experimental film for a wildly talented young director.

You'd never know that in real life I'm a person of very few words. Put me behind a keyboard and apparently I can't shut up...:blush:

[xiamiam]

12. thanks for sharing..checked out the sound on the links...appreciate the genre

and the obvious superhuman effort to be all things...have a friend who used to create the ambient rooms at the raves in the early 90's...reminds me of his music...atoi....i tend to be a sucker for a good lyric and melodious line...spent a lot of my life singing profesionally...with some great jazz musicians...hated the broke all the time part ...but i have a pretty strong understanding of the thousands of hours necessary to make it seem effortless...keep it up...

[JeffR]

13. Thank you, xiamiam

I have a CD or 2 of singer-songwriter stuff, but I've never tried to sell it.

The next best thing to working with a great drummer is working with a great singer. I miss the band days sometimes, and I love the occasional opportunity to do session work, but it's best for society if I stay locked away in my Caligari cabinet trying to contact the aliens.

[F.Gordon]

14. Fripp and Eno???!!!!

Wasn't a huge fan of their duo work but I'm a long time King Crimson fan. All the progressives... Yes, Gentle Giant, Genesis, Gryphon, PFM.... can't remember them all. Tons of european music that never made it in the states. I have some rare bootleg and promo albmus I think you'd really enjoy. My ol' Thorens Turntable died years ago so I just have all my albums in storage.

There was a bit about Hendirx I can't remember. He was looking to join, I believe, Yes... prior to his death. The first time I saw King Crimson they got booed off the stage.

Disco... then MTV... killed Music forever. This old man did find a guy that does studio work that I sorta' kinda' like.... it's called VAST.

Thanks for the links. Enjoying the vibe....
:smoke:

Who knew you were so fucking talented?

[JeffR]

15. PFM!

Finally I run across someone who remembers those guys. Saw them live way back when... just an amazing concert. That whole era gets me misty-eyed. Close to the Edge, Brain Salad Surgery, Photos of Ghosts, Larks' Tongues in Aspic... ah! I did a double album a few years back with 4 30-minute "suites"; my humble homage to Tales from Topographic Oceans. Good thing Jimi never joined Yes. My brain would have melted like butter on a windowsill. Oh wait, it did anyway. I did a death-techno cover of Twenty-First Century Schizoid Man a while back. They truly don't write 'em like that anymore.

I checked out VAST's excellent website. Thanks for the tip.

Shame about the Thorens. Always wanted one but ended up with a Technics. Put a new belt in that recently and it's as good as new, but seldom used.

[Blue_In_AK]

16. I like those, JeffR.

Do you sell those CDs directly? I don't "do" MP3 downloads.

[JeffR]

17. I burn copies for myself & to give to friends

You (or anyone here) can PM me if you want a CD or 2. Free, of course.