JB's Miscellaneous Ramblings

So, we're planning on another BaitContra, as is by now traditional.

To the best of my knowledge, and due to my very limited recruiting so far, I think I know about 2 fiddles and 2 woodwinds players. There might well be a bass coming, but he hasn't actually RSVPd yet.

If you play music - esp. guitar, bass, keys (if you can bring your own), or really, whatever, and are willing to play for the Contra on Saturday night, let me know?

Also, we may or may not have a caller. This might be interesting. I've done a fair amount of calling-from-the-line to try to fix what's broken, but I've never done it in a full, proper, 'official' sort of way.
I'll try, if it comes to it. If you're interested in trying, too, let me know... or if you have experience doing so, and want to do more...

Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance
Maria Bartiromo

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There have to be more songs about newscasters out there... I'm still debating if "What's The Frequency, Kenneth" counts.

Any suggestions?

[Poll #1546705]

The last entry was Artist: Track - Album and that felt weird.

This is Ar: Al - Tr - though it's too long to fit, so I've taken out all the extra spaces and still can't fit it all.

The Residents
Nash The Slash
...
Who else?
(and yes, I know that Nash is almost certainly Jeff Plewman, and I know about all the "The Residents are Hardy Fox and Homer Flynn" stuff, but really, I'm in search of "Musicians who can play a gig, and then hang out at the bar after and NOT be recognized".)

Looking at the instrumentation (I couldn't SEE the sound check), I did pick right.

2 fiddles, 2guitar, bass, 2 trumpet, trombone, hurdy gurdy, tuba. Drums, banjo, accordian, piccalo, flute, oud(!), dadouk(!!) and a Svengali-like lead vocalist. 3 Mustaphas 3 meets Lo'Jo with a hint of Gong and a pinch of The Residents. Win!

Gig's over now! Omfg. WIN!!

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(ETA: To make everyone's lives easier in finding the band: The Destroyers!

So, a couple of months ago (late Mar., it seems), I was poking around the net, looking for various music of my childhood - The Rousers, Dizzy And The Romilars, Nastyfacts, Hi-Sherrifs Of Blue - the various artists who were on Jimboco Records for its short and not-well-known lifetime around 79-8(3?)ish. (I _think_ someone in my middle/high-school might've been related to Ramona Lee Jan of Dizzy... or just had a taste for obscure pop/etc. in the 7th-10th grade.)

So there was one more band on Jimboco - one that actually became vaguely well known: The Nails. You know... 88 Lines About 44 Women...
Back when I was buying ALMOST all of Jimboco's catalog - which was 5 singles and 3? eps, I think - I bought only 4 of the singles for some reason and now can't remember the name of the last band - I bought The Nails' single and EP.

The Nails were seemingly founded by a guy named Marc Campbell - (www.marccampbell.com), and included among others brothers Dave and George Kaufman.

So, during that night of surfing, I found that googling "Ramona Jan" will end you up at Nastyfacts myspace page and from there it's not too far over to http://www.gmkmg.com/ - George Kaufman's site.

It was there that I discovered that their 2 major label albums, "Mood Swing" and "Dangerous Dreams" had been finally released on CD (I ordered them from CDBaby that night), and that I found that George had a whole pile of random Nails (and others) tunes available for download, as well as having done various interesting things over the years, which he'd documented online. I pulled a pile of stuff that night which I've been enjoying since.

Tonight the "Seven Points Gang" tunes started playing, and as I'd just gotten them not that long ago and I didn't remember from where, I googled my way back over to http://www.gmkmg.com/ and found on the front page:
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To all the friends and visitors of George's website:

We are deeply saddened to announce the untimely passing of

George on 3/8/09.
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Damn. I didn't know him, but I've been listening to his music for 25+ years, and am saddened by his passing - just as I'd found him again, pretty much.

Timing. The essence of... something.

(Hm. I thought I knew the timeline here, but it may be that, due to the links described in the 1st paragraph, I was looking at the stuff in the 2nd paragraph a couple of months before the stuff in the 1st, so there's not actually any linkage there. I don't know. Ah well.)
= = = = =
To tie this to the post I made back when I was 1st re-finding all of this (See: this)
(Nastyfacts, Nails, Rousers songs are all easily available. I haven't gone looking for the Hi-Sherrifs yet. Dizzy isn't. I'll be ripping the single (and the flexi-single cover of Bowie's TVC-15) and maybe the EP tonight.)

http://www.locatetv.com/tv/wife-swap-usa/season-2/2007258

(http://www.google.com/search?q=dizzy+and+the+romilars - the lead singer was on this episode, it seems.)
(I have their single and EP, and a 12" single she did as "Nursery School"... I found http://www.myspace.com/nastyfacts (which lead me to "KB TuffNStuff, drag king of the blues", and also to the handy tool http://file2hd.com/ ) and http://www.therousers.com/ as part of all this digging around, but I've not found this episode...

I have this vague notion I might've come across it once via tivo, but I really want to see it with full awareness of who I'm watching.

(Edited 4/11: It's airing within the next 2 weeks. Tivo's getting it for me.)

This struck me a few days ago. I don't know why it took so long to sink in.

1 fullest-length CD ~= 700MB
10 = 7GB
100 = 70 GB
1000 = 700 GB
2000 = 1.4 TB
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080710-seagate-breaks-terabyte-barrier-with-new-1-5tb-hard-drive.html
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148337
http://www.lse.org/~jailbait/cds.html

$400 (2 drives + raid1 case) = mirror copy of ALL OF MY CDs,
uncompressed.

I love the future, but I still want my flying car!

(Yes, I know the drives format to about 1.3TB, and I know I'm ignoring
various binary vs decimal conversions and lots of rounding, but not all
my cds are full length, and I don't have 2000, anyway, only 1500.)

Thanks to sensesurfer's pointer in reply to my last post, I now have 4 tickets to see The Residents, Sunday night at Showcase Live in Foxboro.

Who wants to go?
(Or you could get your own. I'll give away my extras at the door, though really, I doubt there'll be many people showing up without tickets in hand already.)

(If you know the world of odd music, you should be able to get a feel for my musical history when I tell you that, in 8th grade, my music teacher, led our class in developing a cover of Santa Dog (Or maybe SD '78)...)

Sunday night, The Residents (and if you don't know who they are (collectively, as no one (in theory) knows individually), I can't explain them. :) are playing down in Foxboro as part of The Bunny Boy tour.

I have no idea what this album sounds like, nor if there are even tickets available.

Should I go? Want to come with? Have you heard the album? Do you have comments about it?
(Wormwood didn't grab me, The King & Eye was great...)

Tickets seem to be $25+fees.

Does anyone have an mp3 of Weekend-Only World, by T.J. Burnside-Clapp?

I have it on tape someplace, and I have her hand-written original lyrics someplace, too...
but neither of them are easily findable, and even if I find the tape, it's hard to play it.

Thanks...

Now playing is the last track of non-podcast, non-audiobook I have that I haven't listened to since adding it to my itunes library.

Now it's time to listen to everything, in order. (Artist, Album by Year).

(http://www.lse.org/~jailbait/cds.html - plus a lot of downloaded music.)

It's odd, given that I've been listening to fairport and steeleye for so many years, but I'm still unnerved when bands I like change lead singers... Let alone half of the lineup.
(Entrain is now a 6-piece, with new (to me) vocals/gui/keys, sax, and lead guitar. Trombone, drums and bass are unchanged.)

(Originally written on Saturday. Post-by-email from my phone has been... hit or miss... recently for me.)