1975 09 18 Audience Recording Setlist: Preamble Bogus Pomp Preamble Revised Music For Low Budget Symphony Orchestra Preamble Pedro's Dowry Preamble Rollo (parts on Quadrophiliac and One Shot Deal) Preamble Black Napkins (earliest available version) Preamble Dog Meat Band Intro/Preamble Naval Aviation In Art Preamble Sink Trap (incl. Lumpy Gravy from Quadrophiliac and the orchestral sting heard in Easy Meat on Tinseltown Rebellion) Hermitage (One Shot Deal) Preamble Duke Of Orchestral Prunes Preamble Greggary Peccary Pt. 1 Greggary Peccary Pt. 2 Preamble Strictly Genteel And as a bonus i'll listen to the "Orchestral Favorites Outtakes": Strictly Genteel (alternate take) Duke Of Orchestral Prunes (alternate mix, no guitar) Black Napkins (professional mixdown of the above rendition) Rollo (longer edit compared to QuAUDIOPHILIAC) Pedro's Dowry (possibly different mix) Naval Aviation In Art (same mix)
Listening over the last 3 days: Lather -specifically Greggary Peccary Duke of Prunes, Ocean Is The Ultimate Solution and other great bits. Feeding The Monkies... -a bit to out there for my taste, but I'll give it some time to grow Dance Me This -more accessible than Monkeys and it has Frank's last guitar solo Does Humor Belong In Music?
Hammersmith Odeon. Some very great playing. Frank in good humor and full charisma. An awful lot of songs about sex, but it's hard to deny that sex can be a funny topic and that was sort of Frank's thing in the late 70s. I'll admit I'm not eager to crank some of these with company around (the lyrics having aged badly), but the playing is a thing of wonder and (for me) it's easy enough to hold on to that.
I used to have that on cassette, think it was called Personality though. With the reference about Duran Duran using tape head cleaner
Meat Light last night. I broke down and picked my favorite tracks from the 3 disks to make an Uncle Meat -Choice Cuts playlist.
Spider: I think I can explain about about how the pigs' music works Monica: Well, this should be interesting Spider: Remember that they make music with a very dense light John: Yeah Monica: O.K. Spider: And remember about the smoke standing still and how they they really get uptight when you try to move the smoke, right? Monica: Right John: Yeah? Spider: I think the music in that dense light is probably what makes the smoke stand still. As soon as the pony's mane starts to get good in the back any sort of motion, especially of smoke or gas, begins to make the ends split Monica: Well don't the splitting ends change the density of the ponies' music so it affects the density of the pigs' music, which makes the smoke move which upsets the pigs? Spider: No, it isn't like that John: Well, how does it work? Spider: Well, what it does is when it strikes any sort of energy field or solid object or even something as ephemeral as smoke, the first thing it does is begins to inactivate the molecular motion so that it slows down and finally stops. That's why the smoke stops. And also have you ever noticed how the the smoke clouds shrink up? That's because the molecules come closer together. The cold light makes it get so small, this is really brittle smoke John: And that's why the pigs don't want you to touch it Spider: See, when the smoke gets that brittle what happens when you try to move it is it disintegrates John: And the pigs get uptight 'cause you know they, they worship that smoke. They salute it every day Monica: You know we've got something here John: And, and, and, and that's the basis of all their nationalism. Like if they can't salute the smoke every morning when they get up . . . Spider: Yeah, it's a vicious circle. You got it
I was listening to Hammersmith Odeon this morning. Some great songs mixed with the usual late 70s raunchy mix. Bozzio and Belew are excellent and the synth tones are mostly warm and enjoyable. A good release.
I remember coming home with new speakers for my stereo years ago and this was the first thing I put on. Classic stuff.
