My aunt and uncle have a new television.
It is the size of a bay window. I've seen these giant televisions in the office and in stores but tonight was my first home encounter with one.
Big. It's big. Yep. Loud too.
My aunt and uncle are showing me things, new lights, fresh paint, new furniture...but I can't get past the TV.
Wouldja lookit that? That's 1969 footage of Led Zeppelin! Black Sabbath! Stevie Wonder!
Look, they are interviewing George Clinton-it's the Funkadelic Mothership and it's eight thousand miles high, right here in the living room...is that Jeff Beck? Clapton? Yardbirds? Cream?
Which Allman Brother is that? The dead one or the Cher one?
I hope my relatives didn't have anything important to say- I'm not used to such massive TV exposure- combine the big screen with music that I actually like and I'm lost. I can only gape.
Ooo...Pink Floyd! See, that's how Alan Parsons got famous and turned studio engineering on its head in the 1970's- Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon...see , Parsons added vision to music production that very few producers-George Martin, Norm Smith, maybe- had ever shown. He's a freakin' technical wizard, and he just plain thought BIG...I can't explain it, but if you listen , you can hear BIG ideas and not all of them are from the band...hey, that's David Gilmour and he's agreeing with me...I'm not a true fan of Alan Parson's music per se, but everything he records sounds good-really good...and he did an album based on Poe's works, and no, it's not a coincidence that my name is spelled like Poe's and I'm lucky I didn't wind up named Edgar...
... is that albino guy a Winter brother?
Holy Smoke! That's Marley and the Wailers!
Tosh is so stoned looking, hah, but he's a deadly guitarist, maybe deadly is not such a good word, that M-16 was a cool guitar until he got shot... the rock steady rhythm section is none other than Sly and Robbie, and did I tell you they played on Grace Jones' Livin' my Life LP and how that album has the most perfect sounding kick drum ever?
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Breath deep............deep Breath
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Here, let me show you how he gets that guitar sound... adjust the attack, lengthen the release, give it that long sustain even though I'm barely moving the string until right ...there...and then pull off that last note, bend it just right...yeah, that's it.
I like music.
8 comments:
I'm kinda into the home theater thing a small bit. I built a poor man's way out for under a thousand last year using a projector. 4'x8' man. Of course those plasmas and lcds do look better but hey..
I think you would die in my basement heh. The basement in our house was unfinished. My handy husband turned the largest room into a home theater and put in a 110" screen with a dlp projector. You'd feel like you were on stage with Alan Parsons lol. My husband just hooked up the XBox 360 to it and if you put Project Gotham in first person, you almost feel queasy going 200 mph and spinning out.
Grish, isn't it great to watch movies at home?! I friggin love that room of our house!
You have a basement? Cool!
Can I crash there?
Just until my Mom mellows out...
Got any extra beer?
oh my..i would be packing up my tote bag and moving in...
S-
"I think you would die in my basement heh"
Didn't John Wayne Gacy used to say that?
I can't believe you even KNOW about that Poe album! Wow. One of my fave's. Although I thoroughly dig APP.
sus - I love it as well, it's fantastic. The only downside is that I have to wait for the consumer dvd releases but it's a small price to pay...
A - that's the OTHER part of the basement. =P
Grish - yep, but seems like movies come to dvd so fast these days that I keep busy just trying to keep up with what is released. We use that blockbuster online too with 1 movie at a time - can return to the store so we have plenty of movie watching time.
We already have friends that live in our basement pretty much lol. Everyone loves the room heh. Which is good by me since I love friends over all the time.
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