http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:57:42 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/27/085500.php#comment-749792 Every now and then I would pull out Touch, put it on the turntable, plug in the headphones jacked way up and relive listening to it on my old RCA record player in the middle of the night, listening only to the sounds coming up off the needle so I wouldn't wake my parents. Man those were good days. The music has never lost its appeal and after being able to find a fairly unused version at a record store in New York in 2001 I started listening to it more often. I then came across a CD version in 2003 and listen to it even more now since I can't wear it out. But nothing can replace the sound of it on vinyl. Does anybody know if new vinyl versions are available anywhere? I saw one available at the Tower Records website but there is no photo or song listing so I'm not sure it's the same album. 749792@blogcritics.org Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:57:42 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/27/085500.php#comment-715291 I know I mentioned this in a thread once, but when I was about 11 or 12 years old, through a series of trivial circumstances, I ended up down my block hanging out with a cool 16 - 17 year old who really knew his music. "Lookit this crap my mom got me for my birthday (Neil Diamond's Hot August Night). Jusy because he has long hair." He showed me a few more from his collection, then said, "Lookit this - it's by a band called Touch. No one knows who they are, bu they might be the greatest band EVER." I spent years looking for that record, but literally, no one I ever met had ever heard of them - most people thought I was crazy or had misheard or misread the name. I finally forgot about it, but about a year ago, Touch was mentioned right here on bc. Now I just gotta track one down and lissen to it....... 715291@blogcritics.org Sat, 3 May 2008 19:54:23 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/27/085500.php#comment-715276 Thanks all for the kind words about our group Touch. It was a labor of love and intended to evoke a positive life experience in/for the listener. The Fourth Way was the original/1st name of Touch and we performed at two locations using that name. The Avalon Ballroom thanks to Family Dog Productions/Chet Helms and The Galaxy Club on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles thanks to Rose & Michael Dietch. We got the name from The Fourth Way and In Search of the Miraculous, books by P D Ouspensky which relate the teachings of G I Gurdjieff in a format designed to be understood by people of the Western World on a path to consciousness. Gurdjieff: "A man does not see the real world. The real world is hidden from him by the wall of imagination. He lives in sleep. He is asleep. Only by beginning to remember himself does a man really awaken. And then all surrounding life acquires for him a different aspect. He sees that it is the life of sleeping people, a life in sleep. All that men say, all that they do, they say and do in sleep. How can one awaken? How can one escape this sleep? These questions are the most important, the most vital that can ever confront a man." Now it's nearly 40 years later and that aspect of the human existance hasn't really changed. So we continue to seek and hope that Touch's music may have awakened us if for only a moment. Thanks & best regards, 715276@blogcritics.org Sat, 3 May 2008 18:03:14 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/27/085500.php#comment-701820 Oh man, I'm so glad just to see someone even MENTION the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, let alone actually know something about them. I absolutely love the albums, as well as the Markley album(well, it's basically just the next WCPAEB album, seeing as it's the same band). I can't imagine how well they grooved live, I wish I could've seen them. I've tried to dig up more stuff that anybody in the band did or any bootlegs (I'd do anything for some live material), but with no sucess. Do you know of any other acts any of the members were part of that I could find any material from? 701820@blogcritics.org Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:21:45 EDT