OFF/HW: double bass...who's on first? what's on second?

[Karen Kusic]

Hey gang!

I'm drinking wine and "in the zone" so I hope I'm coherent.

I just want to put in a plug for a couple members of this BOC-L list who
have inspired me over the years.

I'm fond of all list members but Keith Henderson is my guru and Larry
Boyd is my bud.

I agree that the pettiness on this list has got to stop.  I don't get
it.  We aren't living up to our potential.

Both Andy G's are good guys too.  I would think that Andy Gilham would
be honored to turn over hawkwind.com to Dave.  There's no reason that he
can't be the featured fan site under another URL.  Let's be glad he had
the domain and is not a total cybersquatter.

And, I believe we are "The Church of Hawkwind" but there
are a lot of other bands out there that deserve our support.

I for one am *totally* looking forward to the Mr Quimby's Beard/Harvey
Bainbridge tour coming up in the next couple weeks!

Reminder link:  http://www.strange-trips.com

And, in the words of MQB:

Nebulae ( Ray )

Soaring high with wings unfurled
The time of quiet lies on the land
Reaching out for the becoming sky
Let it take you so high
The passing stars recall the way
The paths which leads to a new born day
And erase all fears from your mind
And live in peace until the end of time

See my space it's there for me
See your space it's yours to see
See my space it's where I'll be
See your space your future's free

My orbits set, I can't change the line
Endlessly travelling on limited time
The chosen course it isn't mine
Chaotic theories of future kinds

Where there's no more chaos
And there's no more law
No more peace
And there's no more war

Where nothing's lost and naught is gained
The moon shimmered and the stars waned
This astral path will be my bane
I've never been here before, but nothing's changed

I will myself to be refreshed and free from paranoia......

Please listen to MQB here:

Nebulae
http://www.btinternet.com/%7Efreakyfungi/DefinitiveUnsolved.htm

In space we trust,

Karen

Jon Jarrett wrote:
>
> On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Gesticulates Very Expressively wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 21:51:16 +0100, Jon Jarrett
> > <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK> wrote:
> >
> > >> personally, i would much prefer the sound of 'driving straight ahead'
> > >> to the sound of a hovercraft or helicopter.
> > >>
> > >> to rock is to be driving straight ahead.
> >
> > I don't disagree with this, I just think there's a little more to it.
>
>         Well, FWIW, I was quoting Larry Boyd there, they're not my
> words. I'd have to swallow a rather spiky etymology before I'd say that
> for all that I know what he means.
>
> > Think about walking down a street. To move forwards perpendicular to the x-
> > plane takes two different pairs of sweeps in the y-plane, two springs
> > working perpendicular to the z-plane and a torso doing its torsion thing in
> > the z-plane. Eccentric motions and perpendicularity all over the shop.
> > Striding around, it's not the passing scenery that tells me I'm making good
> > progress, it's the nested pattern of rotation modes in assorted ball and
> > socket joints.
> > The music that feels like rock to me, the music that makes me feel like I'm
> > driving straight ahead, has to have these epicycles too.
>
>         And again, since Larry's a drummer I'm sure he would recognise
> this were he still on-list. His kind of noise can't be made except by
> continuous cyclical action.
>
> > I mean, really, everything going forwards all together in a neat straight
> > line is a bit boring. It's like sitting in a nice tin box on wheels with a
> > nice soundproofed engine bay and nice sealed doors and moving smoothly
> > along, looking at as much view as you can get through a single plane of
> > tinted windows.. Speed, maybe, but speed like the only point is getting
> > there fast, with no idea of enjoying the ride. And who wants to travel that
> > way?
> >
> > How do you know you're going unless you feel the bite as you kick back
> > against the ground?
>
>         Sit yourself in a plane, shut your eyes and ask yourself how you
> know when it goes through a turn. G-force, is what I'm getting at.
>
>         Now of course, that's meaningless with music, I grant you, as
> unless the drugs are better than I give them credit for you won't get G
> pulled on you listening to `Born To Go' for all that it sounds like a
> Saturn 5 taking off. And to explain I'd have to burble about stars going
> straight-line and how I can hear that in Brock's guitar and then an
> argument would follow based on how I'd ideally be doing this flat on my
> back motionless with the lights out which might go to illustrate that
> there at least two different grades of listening going on here.
>
> > *ahem*
> >
> > who, me?
> >
> > I'll go back to lurking, then.
>
>         Scared seven shades out of me and induced language I'm not
> normally capable of at nine a. m., did reading that From: line. How long
> have you been putting up with this level of noise-to-signal you strange
> woman you? Yours (no, that really is my usual sign-off),
>                                                          Jon
>
> ObCD: Spiritual Beggars - _Per Aspera Ad Astra_
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