An Open Discussion about Music. New and Old, Local and all.

[billbo]

I have a buddy coming into town, and he was wondering where all the good stores for records are.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[second_pancake]

Uh...Ock, we're talking music here.  All this talk about lines, Valium and Xanax are starting to make me question whether or not I actually want you running the transportation here.  We might all hop a train and end up through the looking glass or down a rabbit hole somewhere, lol.

"You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."

[gatorback]

lol.  I never thought that about 2pk.  Who would have guess it would have been getting on the "Crazy Train" owned and operated by the Blizzard of Ock., Inc.

[Ocklawaha]

Second Pancake, OF COURSE WE ARE... speaking of music that is. My Valium post was an answer to reply Number 16 in this thread. A song "Mothers little helpers" and nobody (still living) could remember what the heck "mothers helpers were".  As I studied Rock Music and Pharmacy during my mis-spent youth in California, I recall very well what they were giving out as Mom's Helpers. In fact it was RX for everything from ingrown nails to IBS to depression.

But it was such experiences that brought us classics such as "Timeless" by John Abercrombie. They held workshops where groups like "Oregon" would go into the South East Oregon desert and study the sound of rocks and trees, lizards and running water. Okay maybe the trees or rocks didn't make a sound but the object was, if you could express their shape, mood and color only in music, how would it sound? The resulting pioneers along with Emerson, Lake and Palmer's instrument experiments are largely the first attempts at "NEW AGE" it's just nobody knew it at the time.

Nope, no "Riding my train, high on cocaine..." if you'll recall wasn't that Jerry Garcia?

Ocklawaha

[gatorback]

I recently watch the jane paully Gerry Garcia interview from circa 1987. What. Was way cool was when The King of psycodellic explained the making of a Touch Of Grey.  Did anybody catch that interview?

[Ocklawaha]

Get out "Mothers little helpers", accept a "little help from your friends," "grab your hats and swing your hips, and don't forget to bring your whips, we're freakin' at the freaker's ball, y'all..."

This is what brought us the sound of the Aliens, the little green men, and the moonbeams they rode in on...
Don't believe it? Give Radio SOMA a try!

http://somafm.com/

Of course the music was always just sound until one added the drug of choice, In this case those who were prescribed both Lortab and Soma, and made the accidental discovery of "the Soma Coma". A harmless state of mind where you climb into the music, ride on it, and see those rabbits. Alice and I once dated...LOL

Ocklawaha

[gatorback]

I've not been to a Greatful Dead show but Ive seen impersonators. Gerry said his shows routinely went for 6 hours? I couldn't sit still long enough for that. Anybody catch a dead show?

[gatorback]

But did you ever convince somebody to "Hold a dollar bill up to the mirror?" It really is a fast buck. "but it's a so hard to make that kind off money!"

[Ocklawaha]

Lets get back to something wholesome like BLACK OAK ARKANSAS!

Ocklawaha

[Ocklawaha]

Stephendare, I have about 1/2 of the old records here, the other half is (I hope) still in my buddys garage in Orlando.

Lot's of progressive/fusion/new age/jazz in it... rare finds like Mandrill, the impossible to buy or find Ahmad Jamal 73 lp (which isn't in good shape), Timeless (with one small scratch) but 90% of that album is killer good.
As well as weird stuff like "Flying Frames", "Oregon" and "Shadowfax". Still good listens.

Ocklawaha

[David]

Are there any places in town anymore that play downtempo/triphop, anything on the chiller side of the electronica music spectrum anymore? Back in early part of the decade you could get some of that at fatkat, the pearl even had a triphop night before it started leaning mainstream, and I believe Mr. Dare said he used to play it at boomtown. As for now though, I dont know of any places. Maybe I can talk starbucks into turning their XM to chill 84

[Ocklawaha]

Nice image from the "Mandrill" LP records painted on the side of Shantytown... Good work y'all.

Ocklawaha