@thane16 – that’s a brilliant connection to We Can Work it Out!

and will admit I keep learning how great a drummer/ percussionist Ringo is.

Also (entirely unconnected) bit on re-listening I realise I sometimes (usually?) shudder when time rhythms (signatures?) change in prog rock songs – like they’re trying a bit too hard to show off how…[Read more]

So for our amazing astronauts fifty years ago, this is the last day of the trip.

They’ve become passengers again, maybe slept a bit more.
Sometimes sleep is a release from reality and its certainly a World to run away from then as now, but you have to come back.

But as they go through their drills,…[Read more]

That’s such a great clip @Arbutus.
Lucky they knew the guy on the soundboard who – just for their set – flicked up all the stadium speakers’ volumes!

;¬)

Not much seems to have happened this day 50 years ago for the astronauts returning home.

Possibly a boring day.

Maybe it was just silly japes between the crew; maybe they played hide & seek, eye-spy… I bet they wish they’d brought board games for this day.

Probably Armstrong and Aldrin just spent the time telling Collins all about their day…[Read more]

So apparently on this day fifty years ago, the astronauts slept (kinda deserved that and they’re also back to being passengers).
Also after heading back to Earth they reached the point where Earth’s gravity started pulling it home. But I can’t find anything even remotely interesting for that.
So a couple of sleepy…[Read more]

@Blenkinsopthebrave –
Those of us with embarrassing musical tastes???!!!??
Why I am an arbiter of taste and style and have never strayed from the true path of what is GOOD (even when I had to blaze it before me).

Do you think I was the yoof who thought Phil Collins’ Tomorrow Never Knows was such a great tune that I breathlessly said how great…[Read more]

@pedant – that video of the descent you posted was incredible.
Do you know if Aldrin and Armstrong heard all the chatter?

Also what is the time delay between Earth and Moon for radio??
Whatever – piloting that craft down to the surface was as extraordinary an achievement as bouncing around on the surface afterwards.
So much could go wrong yet…[Read more]

@pedant – I share your amazement at the calm of Armstrong and Aldrin.
The heartbeats that were monitored were also amazing (especially Armstrong’s in the music @thane16 shared).

I think I mentioned after the article from @blenkinsopthebrave shared about Ed Dwight, that actually, the decision to use test pilots was probably the right decision…[Read more]

So, this day 50 years ago, the astronauts are on the surface getting final bits and pieces done, back to the Eagle and reconnecting to Columbia on the far side of the moon (itself an amazing manoeuvre of flying!).
That’s a helluva few hours these guys have spent!

So, lets have something monumental about giant…[Read more]

Hello ladies and gentlemen, I’ll be your captain for this section of the flight….

… no, not Beefheart, why do you ask?

I’m Captain Obvious.

fwiw when I was growing up, I never gave the Police enough credit for just how avant garde they were.
I guess they fall under the category of Post Punk (ie…[Read more]

Hi @thane16 – Syzy (sorry but I will just use that if yous don’t mind)

That is a fantastic video of someone learning the Theremin from an expert (who even developed her own technique that others now use!).
I really enjoyed it as he is obviously a decent musician, but is confounded by the precision that Karolina(?) shows you need.

Which is why…[Read more]

@thane16 – ah cheers. I think you did remember my birthday (end of Feb) but thanks again!
oh – and (even) I remember Callan. More the film they did later which itself was probably a rerun on TV that I saw and then re-runs. Recently (last year) a channel hidden in the depths of the somethinghundreds had all the seasons from B&W to colour.
Hit and…[Read more]

@thane16 – Syzy! That Louise Gold piece was amazing!
Never heard that before (nor do I think I’ve heard of Louise Gold).
Wonderful!

For tonight’s music I think I’ll try these two (both similar and very very different).

From Neil Armstrong’s tape that he brought.
I would be surprised if Aldrin and Collins didn’t think about throttling him with it…[Read more]

ha ha @thane16 – only Bowie could mime la-la’s.

@pedant will be wanting me to post Starman.

So I’ll post this

So, still in space.

Basically the crew are… highly involved passengers.

though only Iggy had a certain starman la-la-ing in the background
{cough}

;¬)

oh wow – thanks @mudlark @winston @thane16 @pedant @blenkinsop and @ everyone I’ve forgotten or who is yet to jump in with a memory. I’m gonna ask my brothers and sister what they remember (I’ll let you know!).

Unfortunately I just wasn’t quite yet alive when this happened so my main ‘space’ memories are either Challenger or Star Wars when I was…[Read more]

So its a 3 day(?) flight to the moon.

I should have paced my “space” and “flight” songs!

;¬)

erm, well pop-pickers, this apparently was number 1 in the Billboard charts which is kinda futuristic (if you want a better version but sadly without the crevates…)

But for something that I actually like(!)…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave – wow both those posts of yours were wonderful (though that’s no surprise).

Like many perhaps I’d not seen the Superman ‘poster’ nor its history as something on the front of notebooks, many American kids may have had.

Although I remember the slightly corny Superman “don’t smoke” adverts, the fact is they did it and doing a…[Read more]

Hi @thane16 still trying to figure out how to give sense to the cleaner thang.

But, wanting to say something positive to the universe (after my Music thread postngs tonight) I just wanted to say….

James Burke is still alive.

Anyone with any particular memories of him?
I remember watching one of his Connections docs and it mainly going over…[Read more]

something a bit more positive(?) maybe

we’re all floating in space after all (ooh there’s a Flaming Lips song that mentions that…)

Anything else from people’s memories or thoughts of space and hope and strivng for something better?