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Bob - 2005-01-29 13:32:59
Gee, even my fishing fool self didn't read that as an ocean of bass the fish at first, but now I cannot read it as an ocean of bass the instrument. In fact now I can't even THINK "base" rather than "'bass' the instrument" while writing this. Thanks, Paula.
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Pass the Instrument - 2005-01-29 13:55:28
My "county superviser of skateparks" restraining-order petitioner didn't show up for court the other day (and not because I had her murdered, as her injunction maintained I had threatened to - even though this woman's behavior is beneath our contempt), but - speaking of an ocean of malaprops - the petitioner right before me did tell the judge, regarding her ex: "And he needs to keep the vulgarity intact, because it's not like I'm the town whore".
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Sharps - 2005-01-29 14:14:14
I'm glad you got to go to the Sinclair/Warnick/Fumes happs (I was stuck here at work). I suppose Laila is OK, but I can't abide basement performance spaces. Among other things, that bill featured an ocean of bass players I wouldn't mind floundering in. All three bands feature really good bass players, but good in three very different ways. Dorbin in solid (but needs to turn up), Dolingo has all the moves, and Lianne is extremely interesting - angular and melodic. For me, she gives Sincliar their distinctive sound.
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Pass the bass, and keep the vulgarity intact - 2005-01-29 14:15:24
But I digress.
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Bob - 2005-01-29 14:21:22
And I thank Sharps for praising the bass, and am out of nonpertinent ammunition.
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Paula - 2005-01-29 14:52:00
Lynnea is an interesting and melodic player indeed, and as I was telling my friend at the show last night, whenever I watch Sinclair perform, I feel like I am watching an as-yet-unmade Jonathan Demme film, and they are the band in the film, and Lynnea has a small speaking part, saying something like "Yeah! That's unfair!"
This probably makes sense to exactly no one, but it is a compliment.
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Sharps - 2005-01-29 15:05:36
Lynnea. I gotta stop calling her "Lianne." Didn't Jonathan Demme use The Feelies as a sock-hop band in one of his movies? I saw KILL BILL VOL 1 on cable late last night, and I think the scene with the 5, 6, 7, 8's is one of the best uses of a real, live band in a moovie, evah. (Some stupid car company is running ads with a facsimile of "Woo Hoo" but it totally blows. Has guys singing it. Urg!)
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anne - 2005-01-29 18:39:03
we replayed the 5,6,7,8's scene several times while watching KBV1 dvd. there was also some additional footage of them in the "special features". so awesome. the Feelies were in Something Wild.
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Bob - 2005-01-29 22:52:31
Ah, Paula, the places you (accidentally, and not in person, and not with your permission) take us. Or the more digressive amongst us. I couldn't think of who had coined the apropism "Praise the lord, and pass the admonition" (I think during the ascendency of the "Moral Majority"), and when I googled it, all I got was a modern columnist in Mobile appropriating it, but when I googled "Praise the lord, and pass the ammunition" I was surprised to see that that song was more modern that I had thought, and was a hit in 1943, built around that phrase, which a chaplain on the U.S.S. New Orleans had told fellow sailors during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Still nothing to do with the songs or bands you were writing about, but, um, music is good?.
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Bob - 2005-01-29 23:16:47
And come to think of it, that song is probably what popularized (at least long enough to spawn another song) the term "sky pilot". Which is not such a "what other kind is there?" after all, because sailors called their chaplains that, (and who knows, may have been doing so for centuries), as opposed, of course, to the ship kind of pilot. (Dare you to sing "Sky Pilot" next time you do karaoke....)
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Bob - 2005-01-30 00:22:29
And while I'm being compulsively digressive, but at least going on about music, I have to take issue with your once having used the term "major props". Props is an absolute, and thus there can be no such thing as major or mad props, cuz I'm just sure it comes from the non-contracted usage seen in the Aretha Franklin song "Respect". (When she sings that she wants: "my propers when I get home".)
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