How Do You Like Petula Clark, and other Ladies Who Sing?

[sleepy]

The movie tickets are $11 or $12 dollars and $19 for 3D.
You should know that I haven't been to a movie since 2005.

 

[sleepy]

That Fender could be beat because of that stretch tremolo bar.
I like the modern roller tremolo, and so do my folks...

 

[sleepy]

So that guy's name is Murry? Like the "Merrell" shoes? All I remember is an old farmhouse on a hill with a parakeet and a pump organ, and that it burned down in '59, killing the parakeet.
And Dennis talking to "Al Schmitt" about "a Jimi Hendrix revival" in '77 while we were sealing up Beach Boy Frisbees for the execs to play with...but I believe "Al" was pulling a fast one. He looked like Rance.

Something like...
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And everthing I know is Wrong.

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

That Fender could be beat because of that stretch tremolo bar.
I like the modern roller tremolo, and so do my folks...

i've never liked tremolos because the wear the strings out faster and get them quickly out of tune. you can do most of the same stuff with your fingers... not to mention more stuff with your toes on pedal fx.

this is the unit i have: (big image so i'll only link it)
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under $100 on ebay. it's like having dozens of pedals all connected together, including tremolo.


EDIT: i looked up the details on that fender jaguar. pretty interesting switch set up... sort of like having some pedal fx built in. you could be all john lennon one moment, flick a switch, then instantly morph in to george harrison.

 

[sleepy]

The stretch tremolo might snap the strings and knock them out of tune. That's the reason for the roller-bridge tremolo. It just shifts like moving the bridge under the strings instead of stretching them.
The tremolo bar is normally used for chord bends where you have too many fingers and bar chords involved to be able to bend the chord. That's where the tremolo bar comes in handy.

And...I'm trying to remember a tune right now, but lost chords are a bitch.

EDIT: Ahhh! i found it. it's F#m. :)

 

[LeeVanCleef]

@pinballdaveh I, too, haven't been to a theater since the last Batman movie. Before that, the other Batman movie. Tickets are just way too expensive and it's easier to wait a couple months for the films to be available for download. I did find out that Madison is one of four cities that has a Sundance movie theater. I've been keeping my eye on that one, just in case something good comes along.
Whoops! I did manage to see The Good, the Bad and the Ugly on a big screen during the Madison Film Festival a few years back, but that doesn't give me any idea for what regular admissions are going for today. I think it cost me $7 to see it.

 

[sleepy]

Here's one for all the Murry boys and psycho dykes around me, for allowing me no sleep after giving me strokes because of their sleep deprivation. Total Hollywood bastards.
I love this one.

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[sleepy]

She was on the later Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour on NBC in...1988.

 

[sleepy]

I installed an epub plugin for Firefox, but how do you handle the epub file itself? Assuming that I unzipped the download, which file do I open?

 

[sleepy]

It's Saturday night, and in the very old days that means I'm sitting in my room strumming an electric guitar that has no amp...

This one is bothersome due to evil latency issues, so I played it out slow and I still fumbled the ball.
Computer latency is a bitch...

Here, you take this before they do. They're already talking from over there about it. Somebody was saying "Frampton". Not him.

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[bha19]

You got it, PD! Are those scenes from the movie they're showing in the clip? Because it's been about 35 years since I've seen it.

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This was going to be my answer. I just saw the movie again about a month ago and what a great movie. This song has to be near the top of the list for songs of that era and genre.

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

The stretch tremolo might snap the strings and knock them out of tune. That's the reason for the roller-bridge tremolo. It just shifts like moving the bridge under the strings instead of stretching them.
The tremolo bar is normally used for chord bends where you have too many fingers and bar chords involved to be able to bend the chord. That's where the tremolo bar comes in handy.

yes i know what a tremolo bar is for.

okay i did a lil reading on the roller saddle and it also sounds like a poor idea. maybe if you're playing some kind of music that heavily requires six-string tremolo created on the bridge then it's a good idea. otherwise you're going to screw with your strings or screw with your tone. (choose your poison)

 

[LeeVanCleef]

I installed an epub plugin for Firefox, but how do you handle the epub file itself? Assuming that I unzipped the download, which file do I open?

I'm not really sure how the FF plugin works. I use Calibre. Easy to use and free! After downloading, all you have to do is drag and drop the epub file and you're ready to read! It also allows you to send files to any reading device you happen to have, freeing Kindle users from the Amazon leash.

http://calibre-ebook.com/download

 

[sleepy]

Uh oh...My old man's name was "Ray". He ruled with an iron fist and a leather belt, threw me across the room once for telling him that he was not God over a stupid stipulation of his, and he flirted with Rhonda (Fleming) behind my Mother's back in or around '64. I held my silence about that, and I was Expected to.
And always, always saying "goddamit" became his stock in trade.

Say, does anybody here have the phone number for Doc Levy? Never mind. He would be their personnel...

 

[sleepy]

This is definitely one of my favorites.
But it couldn't win The Grammy...
WTF?

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Ah, if only I were strumming again...

 

[LeeVanCleef]

Speaking of Brian Wilson, this looks like... something. I'll withhold from judging a book by its cover (or sappy dialogue in its trailer), but, man, Paul Dano was born to play a young Brian Wilson! And Paul Giamatti as "Dr." Eugene Landry means it will have that much going for it, at least.

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[Isaac Sauvage]

that looks pretty nice. so they have cusack to play the older brian? and i'll take giamatti to play pretty much any character role he wants to, even if they're kind of variations on each other. he's just that good.

btw, i'm slowly reading that book you shared. brian sounds like a hell of a sweet, fun guy when he was young. haven't really come to the part where love shows what a flaming a-hole he is, but i'll let you know.

 

[LeeVanCleef]

I've seen Paul Giamatti in some less-than-good movies, but I have never seen him be anything but awesome in a less-than-good movie. I recently heard an interview with Larry Wilmore, talking about how he was working as a writer on a late-'80s sitcom pilot. The studio absolutely hated the leading actor and wasn't shy about saying so. Despite the fact that the actor had another role on his plate, they decided to film the pilot anyway. So Larry says they had to call the actor who knew the studio hated him and tell him to report for filming. He agreed to, even though he made it clear that he wasn't gonna do a series for those assholes if it got picked up. The pilot was done in front of a live studio audience and this guy absolutely killed, amazing Wilmore and everyone else who worked on the show. And, yeah, that guy was Paul Giamatti.
LOL! If Mike ain't an asshole before the author interviews him, he sure will fulfill the mandate then!

 

[sleepy]

Dr. Landry? I thought his name was "Eugene Levy". So I checked it...

WHOAH....His name was "Landy". My nickname at the old farmhouse in '59 was "Lindy".

WHOAH...That's enough of this...

 

[LeeVanCleef]

That's just freaky. After I wrote that, I thought "was his name 'Levy'?" But Eugene Levy's the guy from Second City... right? YES! I win the Battle of the Eugenes!

 

[sleepy]

You should have heard the pump organ before it burnt to the ground.

That movie...I dunno. It might be a modest hit given a small budget. Jersey Boys made $47 Million domestic. Else it's a dog like "Jobs" that only made $16 Million.
Does anybody really want to see a movie about the end of a sound?

 

[sleepy]

"The Doors" did $34 Million. It was considered a financial disappointment.

 

[LeeVanCleef]

I think they're working on a much smaller scale than those movies. This is an independent film that was picked up after a showing at the Toronto Films Festival, so out-of-pocket probably isn't more than $10 million for the studio releasing it.
That Jersey Boys movie was horrible! Not one prank phone call! The first one was much better, and didn't have any of those shitty Four Seasons songs in it.

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[LeeVanCleef]

And while we're on the subject of Brian Wilson (weren't we? Somewhere in this Petula Clark thread?), I thought those "Hitler" videos were over and done with... until I saw this one where Mr. Schicklegruber makes a fine argument for why Pet Sounds is a better album than Sgt. Pepper's.

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[Isaac Sauvage]

i'm at p56... it's talking about a crazy recording session of "rhonda" in which murry shows up drunk and pretty much ruins the whole thing.

actually found it on the tube!

the description has a lot of fun info-- like how they eventually gave murry his own mixing panel which wasn't actually hooked up to anything.