Comments on the IDIOT: painting with secret notes

forgot to mention: i was working on a project at t...

2004-08-26T13:36:00.000-04:00

forgot to mention: i was working on a project at the mises institute in auburn, AL last march, and ended up staying there all night to try to finish before i had to head home. don't know if you've been there, but they have a donated 97-key, 9'6" boesendorfer in a big room. believe me when i say that i spent a good hour on that on my way out — me, by myself, in the middle of the night, playing 'young and fine' like a big dog on a $150k piano from hell. it had just been tuned that week too.

if i ever got a job at mises.org, they could probably pay most of my salary in piano time.

oh, sir, now you've gone and done it. see my revie...

2004-08-26T13:21:00.000-04:00

oh, sir, now you've gone and done it. see my review of mr. gone at amazon (scroll down to 'context is everything'). played the title track off that with a band my second year of college. you wanna talk about some weird keyboard lines. dude! zawinul was the man. i also recorded a brian may type version of mr. gone at a 16-track studio back in '84. only keyboard i used was piano for some stuff. most of the "horn" parts were done multi-tracked with a lit-up guitar through a screaming 100w tube amp. (that was my big thing in the early 80s.) funny, but i doubt i even have a copy of that anymore. might have something on cassette.

anyway, i saw weather report live many times from '78-'83. saw jaco twice at a DC blues club. so strange to be that close to a deity. it may be trendy to say, but weather report really started to suck around the time jaco left. i almost walked out of the 2 live gigs i went to after he was gone. zawinul turned into a real creep. i think he needed pastorious like van halen needed david lee roth. but don't get me started on van halen.

Wow! I LOVE "Black Market". But "Mr. Gone" is even...

2004-08-26T12:19:00.000-04:00

Wow! I LOVE "Black Market". But "Mr. Gone" is even better, though it takes longer to get into, sorta like drinking Scotch.

Ever listened to those incredible faster-than-you-can-think unison parts in Mahavishnu Orchestra numbers?