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@thane16 Wow, what an experience! Did you continue playing oboe after that?

I had something similar happen last April, when my five-piece local band was still rehearsing together. We were about a third of the way into our first piece when I fainted. I was only out for a few seconds. Fortunately we were seated in chairs on a thick rug in the home…[Read more]

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Land/Sea will be on Disney+ next month. Or you could use a VPN to access BBC iPlayer and see if it is there. Otherwise, it’s looking for one of the less legitimate streaming services.

I’m going to wait for D+.

And, if you are happy to say, where and when will you be doing your Brahms gig?

@nerys oh oboe! Never was I more embarrassed when I auditioned for uni, played 16 bars of ‘When Johnny comes Marching home, Hoorah…” & promptly fainted. Not my finest, but panel placed loo rolls under my head to avoid too much pain 🙂

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whichever way you look musicians are cult figures of their time & rock jumps on the societal hills…[Read more]

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Floyd… ah, that’s Rog that is. The music became his idee fixee because the rest gave up. Money was a huge issue, everywhere. There is such a sharp distinction between the post rock collective approach of Radiohead (and others but not everywhere) and the nastiness that preceded.

Even bands like Cream, a band formed specifically to wri…[Read more]

@thane16 Oboe is a gorgeous instrument! Also very difficult to play. IMO, oboe is the most challenging woodwind instrument, and french horn is the most challenging brass instrument. Both make a gorgeous sound … when played well. Mastering the technique to create that beautiful sound is what’s so difficult. I admire the players who do it!

Oops spelled your name wrong ! 😑

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Floyd’s interesting…. After awhile they lost their dreaminess, becoming doleful tragedians;  with huge cutting movements of electronic, uniform mass.  Their much earlier wry, and ungovernable, music, left.  And yet we all went with them…..

@dentarthurdent I remember when a neighbour showed me this album & I said, wait for it….“it’s nothing like the white album, is it?” Later, I asked “who are Dink Floyd?”

He buried his hands in his head at that point. Fortunately he took it upon himself to educate me (as so many men tried to do!).

I got better!

@nerys the “when you’re small…[Read more]

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Hipgnosis covers are very cool.

DSotM was a breakthrough; Floyd had some success earlier but, as a band they were unaccountably down on it. Lots of sterling work, largely the setlist of their ‘69 stage show, was frittered away on movie soundtracks and b-sides.

Richard Wright had been Syd Barrett’s biggest collaborator, but Wat…[Read more]

@thane16 Congratulations on your upcoming conducting job! Brahms is challenging, but mastering those pieces gives us such a thrill of achievement.

My father taught music in public schools until he switched gears to teach counseling and teacher education at the university level. He was primarily a high school band director, but early in his career…[Read more]

@thane16  @winston   Dark Side of the Moon is still my favourite album of all, musically.   And also, the cover is perfect – a simple strikingly individual design undiluted by any text  (which I thought showed supreme confidence).

@thane16     Happy New Year!  Congrats on conducting, it sounds exciting.

I give up on resolutions because I hate starting a new year with abject failure. It is hard to stay fit in the winter unless there is a gym or pool nearby or you like winter sports. These are a negative for me. I will admit that I am afraid of falling and hurting my leg aga…[Read more]

@devilishrobby I really hope your health improves -it sounds very scary indeed. I also hope you have some music to focus on during the tough wait time for the pacemaker & defibrillator .❤️❤️

@winston  I almost always fail my NY resolutions so I’m trying to call them something else! Our local pool offers very cheap entry fees for us oldies so…[Read more]

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I must concur with @winston – Stay devilish!

Hoping for a great year for all in ‘26 with as much Who as possible.
@JanetteB have you had any access to the War Between Land and Sea (what an overblown title)? Have any of our UK or possibly U.S. & Canadian members seen the series/season?
I’ve heard Russel Tovey’s brill…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent Well, who’s to say? If cassette tapes can come back into vogue, then why not VHS tapes? Though it could be that the player mechanism for cassette tapes is much simpler than for VHS, so there’s that. We gave away our VHS tapes back in 2011, so I think there was still demand for them then.

@nerys   I was joking about the VHS.   I can’t see it ever coming back into fashion, for several reasons:   Compared with DVD’s, or other electronic storage, it’s much lower quality, much bulkier, VHS players are mechanically  highly complicated, the tape wears with each playing, jumping to a specific place on a track requires the whole tape t…[Read more]

@devilishrobby I’m so sorry about your health issues. This must be a scary, overwhelming experience. I hope that your wait for a pacemaker/defibrillator is not long, and that once it’s implanted, it restores your heart back to proper function.

@dentarthurdent Wow, you scored in the collectibles department! LPs and turntables are indeed in demand.…[Read more]

@nerys That happy circumstance happened to me just once. Decades ago I had a turntable and a couple of dozen LP’s. When cassette tapes came along, they were so much more handy (even though of doubtful sound quality) that I never listened to records any more. Still, I couldn’t bring myself to get rid of my LPs in their artistic sleeves. Then CD’s…[Read more]

@devilishrobby      Thank you for the well wishes! I am sorry that you have been facing such health problems and I really hope you start to feel better.

I have not had a chance to watch the new series but I will as soon as I can, I am glad you liked it.

stay devilish