Interesting discussion in Prog Music Soceity......

[kirk]

Originally posted by Bob Lentil
Animaniacs was an awesome show. I'm also a big fan of Batman: The Animated Series, which never dumbed itself down to appeal to kids. If you've got a chance, watch Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, which I consider one of the greatest movies of all time (animated or otherwise). It certainly blows the live-action Batman movies away.

hi bob- admittedly, animaniacs was one of the best
of the 90's. of course, the competition was "flintstone kids",
those god awful babs and buster...
sort of like "the best prog of the 90's" IMO.
it wouldn't have been a standout in classic times.

again IMO- i doubt if we'll be going to midnight film
fests featuring animaniacs the way we did max fleischer
in the 70's.

re:batman~ one of the best superhero adaptations,
the boyd kirkland episodes, standouts.
much of the look was influenced by the 40's
fleischer superman series, a "must have" for collectors.
the dvds look fantastic, can be had for around $9.
the series is a time capsule of that superman era,
one where he wasn't quite as "super" as the 60's
planet-hopping weisinger-era comics.

cool the AM forumfolk are into cartoons and comics!
the first word i leaned to read was "superman" (seriously).

i should mention that i probably contributed the
ponytail and beard to the simpsons "comic book guy".
groening lived in eugene ore. at the same time i owned
the left coast's largest comic shop (comics plus),
at the same time was apprenticing w/ michael t. gilbert
of moorcock's "elric" fame.
according to groening, CBG is an amalgam of everyone
in eugene that was in the biz. 75% of the character
was/is (he's still there) an employee of my competition,
stu at emerald city comics.

k

[prythm]

OK, now that we've destroyed an excellent thread with another interesting topic, Any other epics? Anyone?

I'll ramble on about more Genesis. Apopolypse, as mentioned before, which I thinks is the ultimate example of plateau musical form. In this structure the piece evolves through a series of vertical steps, each at different levels of dissonance (tension), climbing its way through the most tense area (9/8s) then resolving at the top level (As Sure As Eggs Is Eggs ) and fading into the clouds. I love this structure. It can also be seen on the 3 Sides Live, the ‘In the Cage’ medley builds ultimate tension finally breaking into AfterGlow at the top, which in turn has it’s own build. Powerful stuff.

In other worlds Keith Jarret’s Vienna concert part 1 takes you through an insane tense segment which results in such a heavenly resolve , a sweet plateau that you can only fully appreciate if you make it through the journey of the previous parts. Another minor example is Alan Parsons ‘Silence and I’ (not exactly epic) which takes you through a high powered orchestrated mid section that elevates the remaining section.

[Rick and Roll]

Originally posted by prythm
OK, now that we've destroyed an excellent thread with another interesting topic, Any other epics? Anyone?

yes, this thread is an epic!

While waiting to go "under the knife" today I was listening to Mr 10% by Triumvirat. I found myself waiting for the bit at the end where the acoustic gitar comes in and they sing "Aren't you a lucky girl..........."

I must RQ that again some time just for Spaz.

[kirk]

Originally posted by prythm
[b]OK, now that we've destroyed an excellent thread with another interesting topic, Any other epics? Anyone?

as conversation does among friends, good threads evolve.
as people w/ varied tastes and lives, it's interesting
to know what else makes forum goers "tick",
other than the obvious .
personally, i'm interested in keith and roger's love of
classical, jim's interest in astrology, if members play
anything other than the radio...

as the rickster stated, "...classic AM forum".

so... what exit you from? i attended the kubert school
in dover, lived in parsippany for a year.

keith- i just caught your post-
thoughts and prayers man!
let us know how you're doing.

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[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by Keith Waye
While waiting to go "under the knife" today I was listening to Mr 10% by Triumvirat. I found myself waiting for the bit at the end where the acoustic gitar comes in and they sing "Aren't you a lucky girl..........."

I must RQ that again some time just for Spaz.

Ya know, when I was going through all that overrequester crap, I looked up Mr 10% just to see if it had been a victim of OFO.

That song got more play in two weeks than any other single song.

And it was NEVER requested by the same person twice during that period.

Proof positive that we love our spaz.

Roger -Dot- Lee, still giggling over that one.

[Yesspaz]

Originally posted by Keith Waye
While waiting to go "under the knife" today I was listening to Mr 10% by Triumvirat. I found myself waiting for the bit at the end where the acoustic gitar comes in and they sing "Aren't you a lucky girl..........."

I must RQ that again some time just for Spaz.

I like the song! I just heard it three times one day and tha got old. That was before the 3hour/8hour restrictions.

Originally posted by kirk
keith- i just caught your post-
thoughts and prayers man!
let us know how you're doing.

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www.songplanet.com/zenpool

Thanks kirk....bless you.

It hurts like hell at the moment but the doc says it will be OK in 24 hours or so.

[Yesspaz]

Originally posted by Roger Lee
Ya know, when I was going through all that overrequester crap, I looked up Mr 10% just to see if it had been a victim of OFO.

That song got more play in two weeks than any other single song.

And it was NEVER requested by the same person twice during that period.

Proof positive that we love our spaz.

Yeah, people love it and requested it toooooo much, but never the same person. The 8hour rule really helps regulate that. BTW, whats' OFO?

[Rick and Roll]

Originally posted by Yesspaz
Yeah, people love it and requested it toooooo much, but never the same person. The 8hour rule really helps regulate that. BTW, whats' OFO?

I too would like to know OFO.

As the Who says...."Too much of anything is too much.....for me".

Got to get some back of the rack Who on sometime...........

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by Yesspaz
Yeah, people love it and requested it toooooo much, but never the same person. The 8hour rule really helps regulate that. BTW, whats' OFO?

Yah, the 8 hour rule's been a life saver on a number of occasions.

And OFO is Our Favorite Overrequester, since I was feeling lazy at that moment and didn't want to have to type the whole thing out.

Roger -Dot- Lee, should set up a Macro for it or something.

[prythm]

Kirk, I worked a couple jobs in Parsippany (multimedia stuff). I now live around exit 7, remember to wave as you drive by. Princeton area is cool cause its within an hour of NYC and Phili.

Keithie, hope all is well. Thanks for all the giggles.

[Rick and Roll]

Originally posted by prythm
Kirk, I worked a couple jobs in Parsippany (multimedia stuff). I now live around exit 7, remember to wave as you drive by. Princeton area is cool cause its within an hour of NYC and Phili.

Keithie, hope all is well. Thanks for all the giggles.

I spent an enjoyable 24 hours at the vax place in Jackson. Went to a show Saturday night at the NJ proghouse. We may have seen you on the road there.

Keith, my current week promo has a light-hearted dig at your cackles....look for it at 10PM and 1 PM your time each day.

[kirk]

prythm-

the kubert school is at the bottom of the hill
from the parsippany mall, in the old dover high school.
joe kubert's the dc senior editor/artist famous for
tarzan, hawkman, sgt. rock...the co-inventor of the
3-d process along w/ moe howard's son-in-law
norman maurer.

living in NJ was an...interesting experience.

a group of kubert students were standing around
talking in my living room when someone
threw a sting of firecrackers from a car (i assume).

i looked back, and it was like everyone had disappeared..
until i looked down. everyone was flat on the floor,
hands covering their heads.
the were all screaming at me~ "if you hear something
like that, you get down!!"

btw- i can't believe no one called me on that
matt groening story!
matt graduated from lincoln high in eugene, began
"life in hell" in the late 70's, the same time i got there.
before it hit, he hand delivered small runs of the strip
to the local shops, talked us out of shelf space.
if only we knew, we might've been a little nicer!

k

[Rick and Roll]

Originally posted by kirk

btw- i can't believe no one called me on that
matt groening story!
matt graduated from lincoln high in eugene, began
"life in hell" in the late 70's, the same time i got there.
before it hit, he hand delivered small runs of the strip
to the local shops, talked us out of shelf space.
if only we knew, we might've been a little nicer!

k

I have a three-book "Box full of hell" set. A little bio says born in Portland in 1954 and moved to LA in 1977. I remember the Simpsons stuff on the Tracy Ullman show, but who knew then either? D'oh!

[kirk]

"springfield" the simpson's town, was named for
springfield ore., sort of the industrial/rough section
of eugene.

i think that's right, matt was from portland.
eugene was like an art magnet in those days.
jerry garcia hung out, ken kesey and the merry
pranksters lived in the area, john belusi was
filming animal house....
belushi hung out at the eugene hotel,
where he got the inspiration for the blues brothers
from curtis salgado...
it was sort of where the counter culture
escaped from berkley.

[prythm]

Kirk, interesting stuff. The Simpsons are brilliant. I appreciate the fun the production staff has down to the music (no, not Elfman). I love the wit and obscure references.

That's pretty cool that you're the one immortalized as 'the comic book guy'. That's friggin awsome.

[kirk]

ah, it's fun to think so... but it's a persistent rumor
in eugene that he slapped a bunch of us together.
i hadn't heard until a visit to eugene last year.

all i can say, if you met stu at emerald city,
it's not much of a stretch.

k

[Yesspaz]

This is completely randon, but Kirk, why do you always write in incomplete lines? It's like you hit "enter" or "return" in the middle
of a sentence even
if you're not through with
a thought. You never just type and type until the field moves you down itself. Just wondering...

[kirk]

haha no problem. it's a habit i developed from some ez board, ect. sites i'm on.
spreading a line too far across the page causes the boxes to expand, the reader has to scroll to take everything in.
it pisses forum goers off royally, not why i maintain a site.


i have to say though, that what i'm seeing on my screen
isn't always what goes to the post.
i'm not sure if it's the screen rez level that i have to maintain
to avoid going blind using sonar or what.
i'm connected by my studio/audio computer, it's main
(and only) function. the net is a concession, mainly for
software updates, sending files to my virtual bandmates.
i have many sites to maintain, tend to hit them
"on the fly". i left my computer for one day last week,
and returned to 173 messages!
a google this week returned almost 800 entries
on zenpool, so we're growing fast.

my bassist's (von babasin) band ONOFFON
maintains over 3000 sites, you should see his typing!
caps went out the window long ago.

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