MLT Club Member Chris Weber
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Happy Birthday Mona and Lisa!
I had a lot of different ideas of what to say, or maybe even send,
but it comes down to wishing everything good for you.Health, success, whatever makes you happy,
That’s what I pray for, for you and yours, now and forever.
Thinking of you smiling makes me smile,
you make me happy, and for that I thank you.
Enjoy your day, and many more.
All the best.
Chris Weber
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Interesting. I’ve always really liked that song and both Queen and Bowie too of course. It’s very good.
It looks like they built this up a track at a time in separate places?
I’m not sure how you could do it all playing together that far away; you’d have latency issues. You know, how would you sync it together?
I have no idea what that little 2 octave keyboard is atop the piano. (?) And it sounds like the patch from it changes, not sure how he’s controlling that either.
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Jacki,
One reason the weather got a little cooler is all the sunlight getting reflected back into space off the smoke particles.
In the future some aliens looking at earth might wonder why it shown a little brighter for a while.
When we were driving into New York city around 11:30 this morning I took this pic of the skyline. Yes, it’s there, you just have to expand the photo until it’s really big and you can see the shadowy skyscrapers.
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I drove from Detroit area to north of NYC for my niece’s wedding at Lyndhurst Mansion on Friday, wore my N95 mask most of the way, and still have a sore throat. Feels like I smoked 2 packs a day. Going into the city for lunch today, so we’ll see how that goes.
Glad everyone’s ok
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Another Detroit musician.
Unfortunately she had to go abroad to get the attention due her, but her hometown still remembers her.
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“…Mingle with the good people we meet, yeah
Good friends we have had, oh good friends we’ve lost along the way, yeah
In this bright future you can’t forget your past
So dry your tears I say, yeah…” -
Yep. That’s how a couple other musicians I know of do some of their sessions too. Get it right in the studio first, and then make it look good.
He really does sound like Freddy in some of that.
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Steve,
I do remember Sparks. There’s a creative band. Haven’t heard of them in a long time though.
And there have been other American bands that found some of their best success offshore too.
I’ve lived my whole life in areas on the midwestern blues trail, so I remember Luther Allison who went for 20 or so years to live in Paris after being underappreciated here. He eventually came back and I saw him again before he passed, playing with his son Bernard’s band. I still have a t-shirt from him around here somewhere.
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Jung,
I’ve thought for some time that Mona and Lisa can accomplish anything they set their minds to, and I certainly agree Theremin falls in the category of “anything”.
With regard to Good Vibrations, I see now that it was not a traditional theremin. The co-inventor of the Electro-Theremin, Paul Tanner, who played on the song, had been a trombonist in the Glen Miller Orchestra. The passage below was excerpted from a piece published just after Tanner passed away in 2013:
“The signature theremin sound in ‘Good Vibrations’ was produced not by a traditional theremin but by an invention created in the late 1950s by big band trombonist Paul Tanner and actor Bob Whitsell. They called it the Electro-Theremin. It created a sound similar to the theremin, but was easier to play. Instead of passing your hands over two antennae (which required a lot of practice to get right), you would mechanically control an audio oscillator. A simpler process, but far less beguiling to watch than the traditional method of playing the theremin…In addition to ‘Good Vibrations,’ Tanner played his Electro-Theremin on The Beach Boys’ ‘I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times’ and ‘Wild Honey,’ as well as on the soundtracks of movies and TV shows ‘My Favorite Martian’. He also recorded two albums of Electro-Theremin music: ‘Music from Heavenly Bodies’ and ‘Music from Outer Space’.
Tanner’s proto-type was the only authentic Electro-Theremin ever made. He didn’t see much of a future for his instrument. He correctly read the writing on the wall: synthesizers. Therevox created a variation on Tanner’s invention that worked using the same basic principals.”
They also mention that the Moog ribbon controller was developed for the Beach Boys for the sole purpose of simulating the sound of Tanner’s invention.
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Long ago I had heard of a Theremin, and then I learned more about it when it was discussed here in the Club not long ago.
But I hadn’t yet realized that that singular sound in Good Vibrations was a Theremin. Interesting that it was played by its creator. But then if I remember correctly, it’s kind of a challenge to learn how to play.
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Tomás, as you say, at 20 seconds in, that’s definitely a Minimoog. You can see the Moog label in the lower right, and the layout is unmistakeable anyway.
The second board at 3:33 is a Clavinet. What’s underneath it I’m not sure, could be a Hammond but I only see one manual, B-3s have 2. Hard to tell, like you say, but really, what else could it be? It’s big, looks like draw bars, 400# keyboards do tend to get put on the bottom of the stack, and we know this band had a Hammond 2 years later because the video I posted shows it clearly.
And I suppose if there’s still any doubt, we could probably tell by seeing if anything sounds like a Hammond. 🙂
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You might find the TESS project interesting.
Most exoplanets are found when they transit in front of their star. During the time a planet orbits between its star and earth, the planet blocks a little of the light from the star so it’s slightly dimmer, so even though you can’t see much or any of the planet since the star is too bright, you still know it’s there.
But there are other reasons a star’s light can fluctuate too, and so far, the automated solutions they have for deciding which of these are actually planets are not as good at doing it as humans are. So NASA looked for volunteers to help find planets. That’s the TESS program.
Once they find a real planet, they can swing JWST and friends over to check it out in detail, and see if it’s got water, oxygen, etc., in the atmosphere, so maybe it’s got life.
Wouldn’t it be cool to be known as the person who found the first planet that had life on it? Small chance, sure, but even if they don’t find life on it, your name would be attached to that planet forever, since you found it.
I’m not sure this is still ongoing, but NASA does a lot of cool programs, and people can get involved sometimes.
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I don’t have any MLT songs that aren’t my favorites, but Starman is also right up by the top for me among their covers.
Unbelievable, like a Duo Session on Mars. As I’ve said before, the genius of Bowie + the genius of the Twins.
Oscar for Best Picture and Best Cinematography.
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I enjoyed hearing Janitor Joe was originally Lisa’s idea. I love that song. I’m wondering if Joe’s up there right now, wrenching with his channel lock, laughing as he sends these weird JWST pics back to earth. Maybe that’s what he was up to.
It has that awesome guitar lick right off the bat that always has me dancing. And my recent look into what viral songs have in common suggests, duh, dancing. Makes sense to me. Music is a total body experience.
I’ve always been interested in Astronomy. This is quite a time period we’re living in — Janitors going interstellar and the best music in the multiverse.
Astronomer is a great job, kind of like Economist. Facts are optional, but you get to pretend like you know what’s going on.
And it reminded me of something else…..Jai Guru Deva — Om
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I’ve had a theory for a while that the Twins are doing their marathon running since they know they’ll have to outrun crowds of fans soon, like the Beatles did. Twinmania. I’m only partially joking about that.
I think the explosion is already in progress.
