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Great memory, Rocker!

Do It Again

Michael talks longer than normal (prearranged) giving me extra time to set up for drum effect.

Note use of Phillips unit to produce Drum effect LIVE and Dennis love’s it

In second verse effect backs off to regular drum sound

Missed Mike cue while dealing with Phillips unit for next effect

Piano brought up to push beat along with organ

So where's Reynaldo? Did the Mike stuff chase him off?

The transfers of City Lights and Gold Rush on the Criterion collection are great . Last two I watched were those. City Lights I feel foolish only now for having finally the clarity to discern that chaplin in the final scene does not get the girl. The sentimental decorations and my own youth in the past blinded me. Blinded me to many things. Filmic, or otherwise.

Love both of those movies. Saw City Lights just recently. I feel like the ending is more ambiguous - I'm not sure if he does or doesn't get the girl. What's even more intriguing to me is that if he doesn't get the girl. is that smile on his face an expression his naiveté or does he know and he's just trying to persevere in the face of crushing humiliation? Or is he genuinely about the embark on a great romance? The ambiguity of it is what makes it one of the great final shots in cinema.

The new live set is up on Spotify.  It's really interesting to hear them recreate the sound effect on the intro to Do It Again.

Totally. Would love to hear Stephen Desper talk about how that was done for live shows. I'm assuming it was just duplicating the studio trickery in a live method on the fly on the mixing board?

IIRC Stephen Desper has talked about that on this messageboard. Maybe you'll find it with the search function. It was connected to this show in France in '69: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHdi3zW78pg

I've always known the tanpura by the name tamboura.

I think there are two things at play, one, is that in the North they call it taNpura and in the South they call it a taMpura.  Or possibly vice-versa.  That plus inconsistant romanization of Devanagari script, and you have plenty of orthographical issues!

Haha yes. Thanks for clarifying!

I've come across YouTube videos of tanpuras where you can clearly hear the individual notes being plucked, like an ostinato, when surely they should blend into a spiral of sound, such as here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QX9a5-SS1A

I could listen to this all day, in fact I probably will.

It changes throughout.  Or more accurately, it has none.

Interestingly, I think I can get it to work in 4/4, with the occasional breath mark and fermata. "On earth as it is in heaven" has to straddle a few bar lines but emerges fairly unscathed. (I may change my mind about this section.)

I'll post it once I find the time to organize it.

I'll be interested to see how you situate it rhythmically.  I think it makes more sense to leave it unmetered, like one might an edition of 16th century polyphony.  Let it be free from the shackles of pulse!

You've convinced me, H. I'd hate to put Brian's gem of an arrangement in a straitjacket! Maybe there need only be a bar line between each phrase. To be continued.

Which songs are Dennis playing drums and which are Kowalski?

So many questions!

All of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mcg-iCBivbw

Not available for purchase in my country.  Oh well, I can spend that money on the McCartney box, I guess.

Today's song is The Waltz.