http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2002-2006 by the authors Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:30:49 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/08/17/101423.php#comment-391985 thanks bill. i may have to do the same. ]]> 391985@blogcritics.org Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:30:49 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/08/17/101423.php#comment-391972 YAMASHITA, KAZUHITO - Pictures at an Exhibition / The Firebird Suite Is available on CD at /www.gspguitar.com I just ordered it. ]]> 391972@blogcritics.org Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:17:36 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/08/17/101423.php#comment-80005 yea, i know...i shoulda added the smiley thing at the end. ]]> 80005@blogcritics.org Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:28:38 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/08/17/101423.php#comment-80004 I'm just going by the title, Mark ]]> 80004@blogcritics.org Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:27:01 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/08/17/101423.php#comment-80003 well, it's got some odd stuff on it...including some nice italian love songs. besides, i don't think "Connie Francis: Shitty Leftovers" would have been such a brilliant marketing move. ]]> 80003@blogcritics.org Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:24:42 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/08/17/101423.php#comment-80001 "Very Best of No. 2" ... sounds kind of, uh, SHITTY if you ask me... ]]> 80001@blogcritics.org Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:15:59 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/08/17/101423.php#comment-79999 yes, that of the futuristic, vaguely Egyptian blow job ]]> 79999@blogcritics.org Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:02:42 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/08/17/101423.php#comment-79997 ooooh, i still have my original tri-fold record of that one. pure 70's excess, i tell ya. ]]> 79997@blogcritics.org Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:00:22 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/08/17/101423.php#comment-79996 speaking of ELP, I have been astonished to learn how many people don't know that they are the perpetrators of the ubiquitous "Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends," used all over the place as a radio bumper, talk show theme, etc. A person who shall remain nameless asked me if it was The Who, which caused me to nearly cough up a lung. ]]> 79996@blogcritics.org Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:58:03 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/08/17/101423.php#comment-79993 I like that version too, although a classical musician friend of mine once got seriously annoyed when I played it. She was a bit of a purist - she'll grow out of it. ]]> 79993@blogcritics.org Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:49:46 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/08/17/101423.php#comment-79991 i have to admit that my first listen to that chunk of music probably came by way of Emerson, Lake & Palmer ]]> 79991@blogcritics.org Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:41:05 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/08/17/101423.php#comment-79990 Yeah, that Yamashita dude had some serious audacity. I also have a version of "Sheherazade" he recorded with his sister on second guitar. He also transcribed the "Firebird Suite" and Dvorak's "New World" Symphony, but all his stuff seems to be out of print now. Apparently he made over 60 albums. By the way, "Pictures At An Exhibition" was originally a piano piece. You don't usually hear anything other than the Ravel orchestration, but it's such great music it works on just about any instrument. ]]> 79990@blogcritics.org Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:39:34 EDT