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There is one word in this bit that is kind of the thing that always makes it hard for me to even try to listen to Bill Hicks.
“Alright?”
There’s almost always this smug “I am obviously smarter than you and we should all just accept this” tone smothering the way he would just throw that one word at the end of a punchline or even just a point that makes me roll my eyes almost as hard as he audibly seems to be every time he throws down with an “Alright?” or a clucking, Dennis Miller-esque “Okay?”
I’ve listened to the Dickies a bunch this past week. In particular the Killer Klowns EP, Second Coming and Idjit Savant. But this was the first Dickies record I heard / owned, and the only one I own on vinyl (except for that stupid 10” reissue of Stukas Over Disneyland.)
Speakeasy Episode 3
The great Andy Richter joins me for same day drinking! And some conversation. The subtext of the conversation: day drinking!
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The Black Page sheet music by Frank Zappa.
My guitar teacher just mention this to me and we were talking about this today. This is one crazy piece of music and it was written for drums and percussion but guitar players have to play it too!
“Approximate/The Purple Lagoon” is another hard one by him, but written only for drummers.
“The Black Page” was written as a percussion piece first. The melody was written atop the percussion piece (“The Black Page #1”). That was then rhythmically re-arranged ostensibly for rock band instrumentation with a more obvious steady 4/4 pulse (“The Black Page #2”).
“Approximate” was written to be performed by any and all available instruments (or voice, or dancing). The idea of the piece is that all the instrumentalists play the same rhythms, with the same beats and rests. But the pitches are “approximate” on the score. While there are a points where all instruments are to hold the same note, the pitches in the rest of the piece are left up to the instrumentalists, who can play any notes of their choosing, but they are to adhere to what the score indicates rhythmically.
“The Purple Lagoon” may, but does not always, include “Approximate.”
Tonight I harassed MTV on twitter about letting me develop “Teen Mom Wolf.”
But, really, I’d love to write this show. It could be so awful and hilarious.
So sad to see this go, but I’m selling my first drum kit. Which was used on our Get Better and all of the recordings that created The First Collection. Just don’t have the space for it in my house anymore.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sonor-Force-3001-Maple-Drum-Kit-/270985028555?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f17f763cb
