My First CD?
posted by jm at 2:52 AM
Monday, October 02, 2006
About Me
- Name: jm
I am a brilliant creation of the universe formed from the cosmic protoplasm sailing into eternity. I have two hands, two feet, a couple of great ears, and I'm clipping through life at a moderate pace; minding my p*s and q*s, crossing my t*s, dotting every i.
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56 Comments:
dear jm, i am over the moon with your cd art. (snicker) Yes, the hair needs a little work. You could nest a bird in that hair.
I had a little anecdote to relate, that perfectly shows how Neptune and Pisces work. It is about one of my favorite Pisceans, George Harrison. And how the Traveling Wilburys came to be. (This is SO Pisces.) One day, George was working on an album with Jeff Lynne of ELO acting as producer. They broke for lunch and Jeff brought Roy Orbison whom he was also working with. They all had a good time and George agreed to sing back up on Roy's album. So they needed to book a studio and the only one open was Bob Dylan's. So they tootled off to ol' Bob's place. And HE thought it sounded like fun too. But George had left his guitar at Tom Petty's house the week before so they had to go get it. So they all traipsed over to Tom's house. And HE thought it would be fun too to sing with them. So the next thing anybody knew, the Traveling Wilburys had recorded an album. True story. And SO Neptunian. Nothing planned. Just goin' with the flow.
Things happening cuz they were all just flowing from one place to the next.
But George was always the catalyst. The driving force behind it all.
Hahahaha!!!
You're funny casey!
Things happening cuz they were all just flowing from one place to the next.
Love it that way. My Mars ruler conjuncts Neptune, so this is really my story.
What were George's specs?
Besides the Pisces, I mean.
Found it:
http://www.astrodatabank.com/NM/HarrisonGeorge.htm
Libra rising, Cancer on the Midheaven, Sun in the 5th, Moon conjunct the Asc. 0 degrees Scorpio.
Most interestingly like our neith in that way.
Interesting Moon. 0 Scorpio.
BTW, Venus just went into Libra.
Saturn conj Uranus in the 8th.
N.N. in Leo in the 10th. As is Pluto.
Oh, lookie there...he has his Sun on my Venus and his Venus on my Sun.
Neptune 1 degree Libra in the 12th.
He DOES have an interesting chart, doesn't he?
Wonder what John Lennon's looks like...
And Mercury into Scorpio . . . where it will stay until Dec 9th~!! So we're all going to be digging around in our psyches like good little Scorps do . . :-)
BTW, George Harrison is one of my favorites too. And I also like Roy Orbison, felt he died too soon. The TWs were so much fun.
Well he always sounded to me like he whined more than the others. Lennon the least. So the Moon on the ASC and the cancer MC could explain part of that. All the water.
I used to think I liked Orbison but my hearing has changed. Now I have to leave the room when his high pitched relentless cry goes full tilt. What's his face?....does it better. That one who wears suits made out of upholstery fabric.
Ooh...not nearly so fun:
http://www.elemental-astrology.com/astrology-articles/Lennon/Lennon_Natal.html
Libra Sun, Moon in Aquarius, but Sat conj. Jup in Taurus (Aries rising)in the first...And Uranus there too in Taurus and BIG intercepted houses. Mercury in Scorpio in the 7th. N. N. in Libra in the 6th.
And Mercury into Scorpio . . . where it will stay until Dec 9th~!! So we're all going to be digging around in our psyches like good little Scorps do . . :-)
Of course. That's why the tone of conversation just changed so dramatically.
Or digging around others' psyches being as everything is in Libra. Jupiter will be egging things on too. Maybe some new discoveries are on deck.
That definitely explains his less whininess. Much more intellectual.
The one that rules Las Vegas? Wayne Newton?
That's funny. I couldn't stand Roy Orbison the first time around (Pretty WOman. gag me.) But by the TWs, he was cool.
And George absolutely DID not whine. He had a deadpan sense of humor with a total appreciation of nonsense. He put up with a lot from Paul.
The Crying song gets excessive for me.
Well, I have to say I like his version better than Carrie Underwood's. She hurts my ears. Something about the pitch. So we must have opposing ears?
As a musician, don't some people just make your ears hurt? I heard a video clip yesterday of Enrique Iglesia's real singing. Owwwww. It was painful. Just a pretty package with no substance. Really. Painful.
Are you going to be selling your CD over the 'Net? Such a boon to independent musicians.
As a musician, don't some people just make your ears hurt?
Almost all of them do.
I like good singing technique, which almost none of them have. Not required. This does not endear me with the public but I have to leave the room when their icons sing. It's unbearable. But I have amplifiers in my ears. Unbeliveable. I'm glad they're not plumbers trying to ply their trade so badly.
The Net is unbeliveable. A recent Grammy winner sold her work entirely on the Net.
Actually, I'm strictly live. I like theater, so I'm not sure if I ever will record. maybe one or two for posterity.
One of the hardest parts for me was trying to eat in restaurants and the shrieking was coming through the ceiling. I stopped eating out.
I did hear one good song in the last 20 years. I don't know who it was, but the song was Blind Faith's Can't Find My Way Home. Not done by them.
Perception variations fascinate me . . . not only what we hear, but what we see. Being a primarily visual person, I have paid more attention to the degree some individuals can discern subtle differences in color. And now watching this discussion between two music lovers, I am becoming aware of the differences in what we hear.
Female singer? Sweet pure voice?
Female singer? Last night I had the shock of my life. It was a real singer and it happened to be Carrie Fisher in Thumbelina. Low, loose throated, perfectly on key, and gorgeous. No strain whatsoever. I didn't even know she sang. Did my heart good to hear technique like that. Sounded like she wasn't even trying.
Really, just ran across a note that George thanked Carrie Fisher for something on his album. Asked later, he said it was for a lyrical phrase he got from her. She said she wrote it when she was a teen.
I was thinking of Alison Krause who also does "Can't Find My Way Home."
But it makes sense that Carrie Fisher can SING, considering her pedigree. She's an interesting, funny woman, is Carrie.
I have paid more attention to the degree some individuals can discern subtle differences in color
Attention is the factor. I hear the music in everything. The pitch of car horns, or a garbage can being set down. Lot's of percussion. The sound of footsteps. And pins dropping in my sewing room. Last lifetime when I was there!
And, supposedly, James Blunt recorded his album in her bathroom which has a grand piano in it. In London.
Fascinating casey about George and Carrie. I thought about the pedigree, but she's better than her parents. I was stunned. I think she's really talented. I always feel so good when talent like this slips through the cracks.
Could be Alison on the song. I'm going to check it out.
And, supposedly, James Blunt recorded his album in her bathroom which has a grand piano in it. In London.
OMG. You do know a lot.
This is really interesting casey. I'm not the only one who recognizes her.
That sounds almost like a form of tinnitus? Or you're still hearing frequencies that the rest of us have lost the ability to hear?
Have always thought that perfect pitch is NOT a blessing. More like a curse.
Musicians have nore nerve endings going to the sound center of the brain, so they do hear other frequencies. This is probably from practice, attention, and use. And sometimes I think it does resemble tinnitus.
The neural pathways won't form unless required. Probably a good idea to teach children music. Hasn't been done as much in recent years I don't think.
I don't have perfect pitch. I can't tell what note it is all the time. But I think perfect pitch probably IS a curse.
Also in musicians, I think the recall of sounds is sharper. The memory works differently.
I think my eldest godson has musical ability. He's four years' old. I've talked his father into getting music lessons for him. The uncle has some musical ability.
My godson has been asking for a red guitar. He was very specific about the color. His father went with him to the music store to look at instruments. The salesman said that it was great that the father had brought his kid in. The saleman wished he'd started young himself. "Oh, I didn't bring him in -- he brought me!", my godson's father said with a laugh.
jm, you gonna have stars in your hair for that CD cover? :-)
I think it's because using the region of the brain that "hears" music causes better interfacing between the hemispheres. Doesn't that sound just like proper psychobabble?
Anyway, music is making a HUGE comeback because of the "Mozart Effect" fad. In early child development, Mozart is KING. Also, there's a huge movement going on, spearheaded by people like Bobby McFerrin (Ferron?) and Yo-Yo Ma, to make music accessible to children at the elementary level, especially inner city. It seems children exposed to music learn better in general. And are more motivated.
I went to a concert at the Ravennia Festival in Chicago where Bobby McFerrin conducted Kathleen Battle (ooh...wince, wince) and another Diva (can't remember who though I actually liked her better), and then the Children's Choir of Chicago which just BLEW. ME. AWAY. OMG. Those kids were amazing as was their choirmaster. They did one of Bobby's songs while he, the choirmaster, two other adults and one teenage girl sang scat over it. A cappella. Unbelievable.
Stars in your hair would be lovely.
you gonna have stars in your hair for that CD cover? :-)
OMG. You remembered. Didn't even think of that.
I think it's because using the region of the brain that "hears" music causes better interfacing between the hemispheres
I think you're right. I bet if we combine learning with musical passages it would stick.
It was a stunning image you described. Anyway, it'd be a nice tribute to the goddess energy.
It was a stunning image you described. Anyway, it'd be a nice tribute to the goddess energy.
You have no idea what I'm going through with this. I've been battling a decision about whether or not to drop the goddess stuff and go with the cool jazz image solely.
Very very difficult. I know the suggestion would be to do both, but it's hard to do the goddess without getting too drippy and sometimes annoying. The cool blues is almost never annoying. But the poetic longing remains. They don't go together and the marketing is tricky.
For example.
I could go onstage in my satin suit and fedora.
Or in a beautifully wrapped gown and glittery somethings in my dark hair.
The ideal would be costume changes and maybe that's in store. Would require a move from lounge music to musical theater.
Another decision.
Hmm. Okay. I wasn't wanting you to channel Enya, actually. What about earrings?
No seriously. I like the goddess and it's a sacrifice to delete her. I can still do it for myself. And Enya's rather good. I took a yoga class and her song ended it. It was moving. Very sad.
Earrings are extremely interesting.
I hate wearing them. but they are beautiful and shimmer.
I don't like wearing any jewelry these days. Feels like bondage on my flesh. But I totally love rhinestones and wear them at every opportunity.
And I especially love my black sequined dress jacket.
Oh, which song was that, do you happen to recall? Maybe I'll look it up.
I tried looking up some of the other songs you posted, too, to hear what they sound like, such as the one about having heart.
That jacket sounds delightfully elegant and scintillating.
Don't remember.
The heart song is an old standard. I love the old songs and vaudeville and burlesque. The humor and happiness were so much more than today. I suppose it was a more innocent time. Or maybe it was related to the post depression era when dance really swept the nation. Music was one big way they got through it.
here's one from 1926, my favorite era.
Shut the Door
I know a certain feller by the name of Andy Gooch
Who started seein' funny things from drinkin' too much hooch.
Around his bed pink elephants and zebras played about
A purple monkey kissed him twice and he began to shout:
Shut the door! They're comin'through the window
Shut the window, they're comin' through the door
Shut the door, they're comin' through the window
Oh the room is full and won't hold anymore.
Serious music back then.
Of course, in the 70's this theme of altered states was popular but their songs dragged on for hours. Had to be there. And altered.
I'm charmed by the humor and colorful hyperbole. Much more entertaining. Good humor restores perspective.
One day in the 80s, I was at the laundromat, and I got to talking with someone who rolled her eyes at the music playing on the radio there. We laughed at how the songs, one after the other, were incessantly making statements of dysfunction. "I love you, I need you, I'll die without you, my heart is broken, I'll never recover, that's it -- life is over, etc., etc." They were pretty much on the same level, hours of the stuff repeating. There was something inauthentic and formulaic about it all.
Oh, in music class in intermediate school, we had to learn a song where someone sang drearily about suicidal ideation and sad memories. What were they thinking to ask us to sing that! :-)
We laughed at how the songs, one after the other, were incessantly making statements of dysfunction. "I love you, I need you, I'll die without you, my heart is broken, I'll never recover, that's it -- life is over, etc., etc." They were pretty much on the same level, hours of the stuff repeating. There was something inauthentic and formulaic about it all.
Hallelujah Brother Kad and the Laundromat Gal! My exact sentiments only they get angry when I say it.
Thanks.
The dysfunctional theme of all of it amazes me. A symbol of our time, I'm afraid. But a lot of it is hype. The experts, the music, all tell you you're psychologically damaged and there everybody goes. Lots of money to be made on dysfunction.
The dependency is even manifest in how they can't let go of the notes or finish the song.
The older tunes had a lilt and people popped on and off the singing notes often with glee.
"Hallelujah Brother Kad and the Laundromat Gal! My exact sentiments only they get angry when I say it. Thanks."
Hmm...It'd be fun to study how comedians mock society and get away with it.
The banal themes of the endless rounds of pop songs were ridiculous. Few would tolerate listening to that, if not for the anesthetic music. Well, maybe mainstream channels are losing their grip in these days of the Internet, and we'll hear more music that doesn't insult our emotional IQ's.
"The dependency is even manifest in how they can't let go of the notes or finish the song."
Ha! I hadn't thought of it that way before.
It'd be fun to study how comedians mock society and get away with it.
Huge question for me. Maybe it keeps me from being one, so I have to face the music.:)
Well, maybe mainstream channels are losing their grip in these days of the Internet, and we'll hear more music that doesn't insult our emotional IQ's.
Amen, Brother.
Earrings are key.
Tell me more kj.
So, JM, cool satin with one star in your hair?
Well that'll solve it.
They drive me out of the building with the dramatic endings that repeat...repeat....repeat, and FINALLY fade into nothing only to return in some other box in an hour. It's awful. Absolutely awful. Then they have to get throat surgery for nodes from straining so much. Such is the way of our modern day pop singer.
Lapis is the throat chakra, helps with the voice. Powerful little things, those.
OMG! Didn't know that. Thanks kj.
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