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    • taiwan_girl
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      • Aqua Letifer
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        (Fun fact: they used Aerochrome film to make the cover.)

        Please love yourself.

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        • Copper
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          I had a vinyl copy of Hot Rats, it was a big deal in 1969. There were 3 guys from my neighborhood who worked for Zappa at the time, just some roadie type work. So his music was well known to us at the time.

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          • Aqua Letifer
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            @Copper said in What are you listening to now?:

            I had a vinyl copy of Hot Rats, it was a big deal in 1969. There were 3 guys from my neighborhood who worked for Zappa at the time, just some roadie type work. So his music was well known to us at the time.

            Yeah, he was from Baltimore, so he's kind of a big deal in Maryland. His interviews are interesting. He always looks like he's being interrogated by a hostile enemy, which is probably exactly how he saw it.

            Please love yourself.

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            • mark
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              • taiwan_girl
                taiwan_girl last edited by taiwan_girl

                My new favorite song. Kind of makes me a bit sad however. Growing up in a rural village, the loss of family farms is happening all over, so I can relate to this song.

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                Driving through the Land of Lincoln always gets me thinking
                Of the flatlands where I come from and the life I left behind
                The corn grew high on Grandpa's farm
                Now they boarded up the barn
                That way of life from long ago just withered on the vine

                You can take a girl out of the heartland
                But you can't take the heartland from the heart
                Of a flatland girl

                You can plant your dreams in God's green acre
                Send 'em to Heaven in a grain elevator
                But prayers don't run a tractor
                or promise a summer rain
                And I found out when I was young
                Thet a farmеr's day is never done
                And whеn the hard times hit the heartland
                And I had to move away

                You can take a girl out of the heartland
                But you can't take the heartland from the heart
                Of a flatland girl

                Then one day from the Windy City
                In blew a man who could talk too pretty
                Had a long look and Grandpa shook
                That's been five years ago
                Nowadays when I'm up in the Land of Lincoln
                I ask myself, "What were they thinking?"
                All that's left is a photograph of the flatland fields of home

                You can take a girl out of the heartland
                But you can't take the heartland from the heart
                You can take a girl out of the heartland
                But you can't take the heartland from the heart
                Of a flatland girl

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                • George K
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                  Just released on Apple Music. I'm a huge fan of the the Handel keyboard suites. Just started listening to this now, so no opinion yet.

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                  "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                  I wish Sam Kinison was still alive so he could talk to some of your about your "hurt feelings."

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                  • George K
                    George K @George K last edited by

                    @George-K said in What are you listening to now?:

                    Just released on Apple Music. I'm a huge fan of the the Handel keyboard suites. Just started listening to this now, so no opinion yet.

                    Meh.

                    Very dry. No passion or joy in it.

                    Gimme Ragna Schirmer's or Murray Perahia's performance any day.

                    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                    I wish Sam Kinison was still alive so he could talk to some of your about your "hurt feelings."

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                    • mark
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                      • Horace
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                        This guy's WTC is very good IMO. He also has a WTC2 performance on youtube.

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                        You will take my mask when you pry it off my cold, dead face.

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                        • George K
                          George K @Horace last edited by

                          @Horace at 3:02, does he repeat the G in measure 9?

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                          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                          I wish Sam Kinison was still alive so he could talk to some of your about your "hurt feelings."

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                          • kluurs
                            kluurs @George K last edited by

                            @George-K said in What are you listening to now?:

                            @George-K said in What are you listening to now?:

                            Just released on Apple Music. I'm a huge fan of the the Handel keyboard suites. Just started listening to this now, so no opinion yet.

                            Meh.

                            Very dry. No passion or joy in it.

                            Gimme Ragna Schirmer's or Murray Perahia's performance any day.

                            That's disappointing to hear. I've liked Cho in some things I've heard though I've not heard him in Handel. I have both the Perahia and Schirmer recordings - and agree that they're excellent.

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                            • George K
                              George K @kluurs last edited by

                              @kluurs said in What are you listening to now?:

                              That's disappointing to hear. I've liked Cho in some things I've heard though I've not heard him in Handel

                              Yeah, it was, of course, technically very good, but didn't have the "soul" or "joy" that Perahia and Schirmer have. Jarrett's recordings of the suites are a bit on the dry side, but I still enjoy them.

                              "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                              I wish Sam Kinison was still alive so he could talk to some of your about your "hurt feelings."

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                              • Horace
                                Horace @George K last edited by

                                @George-K said in What are you listening to now?:

                                @Horace at 3:02, does he repeat the G in measure 9?

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                                I don't know. Are you familiar enough with that piece that it sounded wrong to you?

                                You will take my mask when you pry it off my cold, dead face.

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                                • George K
                                  George K @Horace last edited by

                                  @Horace said in What are you listening to now?:

                                  I don't know. Are you familiar enough with that piece that it sounded wrong to you?

                                  Yep. I learned it many moons ago. In fact, I tried to hack my way through it this week.

                                  "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                  I wish Sam Kinison was still alive so he could talk to some of your about your "hurt feelings."

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                                  • Horace
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                                    @George-K said in What are you listening to now?:

                                    @Horace said in What are you listening to now?:

                                    I don't know. Are you familiar enough with that piece that it sounded wrong to you?

                                    Yep. I learned it many moons ago. In fact, I tried to hack my way through it this week.

                                    He misses the G and hits A instead. Then repeats the A, which follows the score.

                                    You will take my mask when you pry it off my cold, dead face.

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                                    • George K
                                      George K @Horace last edited by George K

                                      @Horace said in What are you listening to now?:

                                      He misses the G and hits A instead. Then repeats the A, which follows the score.

                                      That's right. I mis-heard.

                                      I just found it glaring, because that's the fugue subject - the ascending 5 note motif.

                                      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                      I wish Sam Kinison was still alive so he could talk to some of your about your "hurt feelings."

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                                      • Horace
                                        Horace @George K last edited by

                                        @George-K said in What are you listening to now?:

                                        @Horace said in What are you listening to now?:

                                        He misses the G and hits A instead. Then repeats the A, which follows the score.

                                        That's right. I mis-heard.

                                        I just found it glaring, because that's the fugue subject - the ascending 5 note motif.

                                        Yep. Well, he recovered well.

                                        You will take my mask when you pry it off my cold, dead face.

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                                        • kluurs
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                                          Hey George - Thomas Schwan does the Beethoven Pathetique.

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                                          • George K
                                            George K @kluurs last edited by

                                            @kluurs LOL.

                                            Listened to it earlier today.

                                            It's quick, but not as frantic as Claude Frank.

                                            Still quicker than I can play (esp the 2nd theme).

                                            "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                            I wish Sam Kinison was still alive so he could talk to some of your about your "hurt feelings."

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