One Chord

[rosco rathbone]

And every Monday night by the light of Moon
Those Meddlesome meddlesome meddlesome bells
And the heavy metal of the heathen bells


Heavy metal of the heathen bells indeed. This chord (or related tonal entity) sounds like the tolling of a plutonium tocsin, cast by dwarves in some chthonic foundry in alloy of lofty atomic number and indited with mystic runes...then rung by Gregg Anderson with the thighbone of a dead god.

The frequency is so low, so gnarly, that you can count the individual wave-fronts as they pass over in sawtoothed succession, causing loose articles of clothing to snap and flutter like flags in the freshening breeze that portends a nautical gale. In Boy Scouts we were taught the "Beaufort Scale", by which mariners estimate windspeed and weather conditions from various signs..."small tree branches begin to sway" and "whole trees in motion: walking an incovenience". Perhaps there should be a musical Beaufort Scale applied to such mighty chords: "trees uprooted, structural damage likely, Wotan awakens from an aeon's sleep, Ragnarok imminent"

It's actually the last in a descending series of 4 that forms the main motif or riff of the tune, but somewhere around the thirteen minute mark, Anderson finally discards the other three and just flails away with that thighbone.


Sunn 0))) My Wall

And Doggen can testify to my claim
That the Christians of Yatesbury are Christian in name...

 

[pointless]

well i heard there was a secret chord that david played and it pleased the lord, but you don't really care for music, do you?

and yes, i did just do that.

 

[rosco rathbone]

well i heard there was a secret chord that david played and it pleased the lord, but you don't really care for music, do you?

and yes, i did just do that.

greetings pointless.

how does this wodensday find you?

 

[beetlebum]

i heard there was a secret one... david knows it it.
some old bearded guy upstairs likes it a lot.

 

[pointless]

greetings pointless.

how does this wodensday find you?

wonderful. sure, i just learned the beetlebum has me on ignore for some reason, but that's life.

you?

 

[rosco rathbone]

wonderful. sure, i just learned the beetlebum has me on ignore for some reason, but that's life.

you?

Perhaps he merely leapt to make the same allusion without consulting the thread.

I am well. Think I'm going to go to the asian health food store for a kale slurpee with ginger, then sack a monastery.

 

[Laurel]

When I was seven I pronounced it as "ch-ord" in front of the class and everyone laughed. True story.

 

[unregistered]

 

[pointless]

sounds like a good day. i'm just going to buy cheap soda, jerk off at some point and inbetween nuke the russians so that ras tafari can be the unchallenged ruler of the world.

and then have a nuclear war with germany.

good times.

 

[beetlebum]

wonderful. sure, i just learned the beetlebum has me on ignore for some reason, but that's life.

you?

haha, we thought alike is all.

 

[Laurel]

Did this make you want to be an exotic dancer later in life?

No, it wasn't that traumatic.

 

[CHNOPS]

Eau d'contraire, which is a perfume I am inventing for people who like to argue: it's a G-pedal, but that A-flat he plays a half step above it is what gives those G's their cumulative ominous thigh-bone power...he said unhelpfully.

The OP is awesome. If it's yours, props, and if it's not, whose?

 

[phrodeau]

Sitting at my piano, the other day
My mind was ill at ease
They were coming to take it away that afternoon
I was all by myself in a mellow mood
Improvising symphonies.

My right hand was playing Mozart's minuet
And at the same time my left hand was playing, "Have a banana" from Carmen
And at the same time my mouth was whistling a sextet from Luicini
And while all this was going on, what do you think my foot was doing?
While keeping time it was cracking walnuts; see I had to eat too.
Then in the midst of my so-quill-o-quee, a strange feeling came over me.
My right hand stopped playing,
My left hand stopped playing,
My mouth stopped whistling,
And my foot stopped cracking walnuts.
Food became secondary.
Why? Because, ladies and gentlemen,
I found it, I found it
The Lost Chord, That's it, the Lost Chord!
So let's celebrate I'm feeling great
I'm the guy that found the Lost chord
That's it, it hasn't changed.
I'll have my name in the hall of fame; cos I went and found that lost chord

Now everyone knows Tchaikovsky wasn't recognised for 200 years
Brahms wasn't recognised for 300 years
Beethoven wasn't recognised for 400 years
But I can't wait that long; I've only got two changes of clothes!

People said I was mad. but that didn't trouble me
They said Mozart was mad
They said Puccini was mad
They said Louis was mad
Who's Louis? My uncle, he was mad!

So let's celebrate I'm feeling great
I'm the guy that found the Lost chord

You know it wasn't easy finding that Lost chord
Working in my attic I didn't sleep for days and days
I'd be in terrible shape if I hadn't slept nights!
First I put an A flat with a B minor
Then I put a B minor with and F major
Then I put and F minor with a B major
Then I tried an A and a B and a B and a C
And a C and a D and a D and E and an E and a F
And a F and a G; What kind of a piano is this? No apostrophe's!

And this is what I came up with (plays wrong chord)

What's happened that isn't the chord (plays wrong chord)
Neither is that (plays wrong chord)
Neither is that (plays wrong chord)
And neither is that! What happened to it? I lost the chord a catast-a-strophe.
Lock the doors. Nobody leaves the place until I find it.
I'm gonna sit down on the keyboard of this piano until the chord is returned.

(sits down, butt plays the right chord)

That's it the lost chord! I found it, I found by sitting on the piano keyboard.
Very strange, I usually play by ear!

So let's celebrate, I'm feeling great
I'm the guy that found the Lost Chord!

--- Jimmy Durante

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q0Ce6Jjqsk

 

[rosco rathbone]

Eau d'contraire, which is a perfume I am inventing for people who like to argue: it's a G-pedal, but that A-flat he plays a half step above it is what gives those G's their cumulative ominous thigh-bone power...he said unhelpfully.

The OP is awesome. If it's yours, props, and if it's not, whose?

Thanks, sometimes I get the urge to channel a bit of early Cormac McCarthy via Lester Bangs.

I was wondering what notes those were. He sounds like he'd need a tugboat winch to detune that ax.

 

[dolf]

I have no idea what anyone is talking about in this thread.

 

[Laurel]

I have no idea what anyone is talking about in this thread.

That's okay. This is the Gee Bee.

 

[Laurel]

Thanks, sometimes I get the urge to channel a bit of early Cormac McCarthy via Lester Bangs.

I was wondering what notes those were. He sounds like he'd need a tugboat winch to detune that ax.

You're so very many shades of rad.

 

[dolf]

That's okay. This is the Gee Bee.

i'm all confused

 

[Laurel]

i'm all confused

That's okay. This is the Gee Bee.

 

[dolf]

is this Valhalla?

 

[Laurel]

is this Valhalla?

No.

I don't think so.

I hope not. I thought Valhalla would be much better decorated.

 

[girlsmiley]

You're so very many shades of rad.

I really like Rosco.

Is it weird to talk about him like this?



Hi Rosco. I swear I am going to reply to your PM. *determination*

 

[IndieSnob]

My ears are still recovering from all the Sunn 0))) shows I went to.

 

[beetlebum]

i've seen my bloody valentine twice. my hearing is definitely poor.

 

[rosco rathbone]

i've seen my bloody valentine twice. my hearing is definitely poor.

My band opened for them. I got to see all the guitar tuning charts and the pedals close up.