QUOTE(Dr. Blofeld @ Wed 9th February 2011, 6:00am)
Well I learned classical piano from age of 7-14 I think. But I never learned to play without music until recently. Yeah I love Chopin, absolute genius. Easily my favourite composer. Ballade no.1 is possibly the most astounding piece I've ever heard in terms of technical quality. Who plays it best, mmm I'd say Zimmerman just edges Horowitz on that one. Liszt and Bach are also my favourites. Admittedly Mozart doesn't really do it for me, I prefer Beethoven. For somebody who never used to like classical and was solely a rock fan for many years I've come to appreciate it in recent times. A lot of classical music doesn't float my boat and a lot of jazz I find too avant garde. I generally like very melodic "emotional" sort of music.
Both Rocky himself and Horowitz do this one stightly better, but you can't see their technique as we have mostly sound recordings.
This piece itself is appropriately dark and only the Russians use E-flat minor for keyboard. This one to me always sounds like old boarded up Russian mansions full of prerevolutionary furniture, ala Dr. Zhivago. You can hear the melancholy of the artist for his lost homeland. It has a buildup to a nice satisfying climax 2/3rds of the way through (for you, Horsey), and a spooky wind-down, all with a listenable theme.
QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Wed 9th February 2011, 11:39pm)
Harmony, melody-- if I can get those, I'm fine. That includes rock and roll and pop. I even absorbed the blues-y shock when Barry Gibb went falseto in 1975.
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.
QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Wed 9th February 2011, 11:39pm)
Rap and hip hop? Not music. If your tastes differ, fine. But for me:
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QUOTE(Dr. Blofeld @ Wed 9th February 2011, 6:00am)
Well I learned classical piano from age of 7-14 I think. But I never learned to play without music until recently. Yeah I love Chopin, absolute genius. Easily my favourite composer. Ballade no.1 is possibly the most astounding piece I've ever heard in terms of technical quality. Who plays it best, mmm I'd say Zimmerman just edges Horowitz on that one. Liszt and Bach are also my favourites. Admittedly Mozart doesn't really do it for me, I prefer Beethoven. For somebody who never used to like classical and was solely a rock fan for many years I've come to appreciate it in recent times. A lot of classical music doesn't float my boat and a lot of jazz I find too avant garde. I generally like very melodic "emotional" sort of music.
Back in music school, when somebody practiced this, everybody smoking outside the practice rooms would all chime in at the beginning with "THIS...IS THE PIECE OF DEATH!"
QUOTE(the fieryangel @ Thu 10th February 2011, 2:15pm)
Back in music school, when somebody practiced this, everybody smoking outside the practice rooms would all chime in at the beginning with "THIS...IS THE PIECE OF DEATH!"
sing along and see if that doesn't work....
It works, it works! There's no misery like Russian misery.
At least that other piece of death has some comedy!
You wouldn't have had a god damn clue that A half diminished (A minor 7 flat 5th) works with a frickin E flat augmented chord... The flat 5th of A though is an E flat so I guess that makes some sense...
This post has been edited by Dr. Blofeld: Thu 10th February 2011, 11:40pm
"I blog, you suffer". What a fucking moron. At least I have more constructive things to do with my time than paint art a cap onto a picture of Clint Eastwood and advertise "Penis Plugs And More" you fucking prick.
QUOTE(the fieryangel @ Thu 10th February 2011, 2:15pm)
Back in music school, when somebody practiced this, everybody smoking outside the practice rooms would all chime in at the beginning with "THIS...IS THE PIECE OF DEATH!"
sing along and see if that doesn't work....
Damn, damn. Now I can't play the bit of this that I know without thinking that.
Think of how many fairly nice pieces of music are diminished as cliches by association with something else, often films. For me:
William Tell --- The Loooone Ranger Flight of the Bumblebee -- The Green Hornet 1805 Overture --- The only cereal that's shot from guns! Meditation from Thais-- one dozen boring weddings Guadalcanal March from Rogers Victory at Sea --- Garg, Richard Nixon's favorite march. Der Landesvater bit of Brahms' Academic Festival Overture-- Animal House Rachmaninoff 2nd piano concerto-- Full Moon and Empty Arms That Handel Sarabande (noooos! Barry Lyndon/O'Neal It means having to say I'm sorry!) Also Sprach Zarathustra -- Man-apes and tapirs and man-apes and tapirs... Copeland Rodeo Hoedown -- Beef Beethoven's 6th-- Soylent Green euthanasia. A satyr or too from Fantasia. Dance of the Hours-- Hippos in tutus, Camp Grenada Anything else from Fantasia: Fantasia
Hmmm, I see two Stanley Kubrick films up there, and it comes to me that besides the musical "synesthesia," there are quite a lot of images and associations from Kubrick films that I sort of wish were not stamped forever into my brain. All the way from the evil French army in the Paths of Glory to Strangelove ("We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when.."), Sparticus, Clockwork Orange.
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"I blog, you suffer". What a fucking moron. At least I have more constructive things to do with my time than paint art a cap onto a picture of Clint Eastwood and advertise "Penis Plugs And More" you fucking prick.
Oh, excuse me. Instead of posting hundreds of useless stub articles on WP servers, I'll just go back to running my company. Having trouble keeping up with demand.
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QUOTE(Dr. Blofeld @ Thu 10th February 2011, 8:09pm)
At least I have more constructive things to do with my time than paint art a cap onto a picture of Clint Eastwood and advertise "Penis Plugs And More" you fucking prick.
@Eric. You think I'm this OCD freak who can't bare to live without wikipedia. Well I'm formed an opinion of here that you Eric clearly have issues. You fit the bill of somebody suffering from Autism or Asperger syndrome in that you have the inability to treat others as you'd yourself like to be treated. All you do here is bad mouth people and find it very difficult it seems to actually communicate with people. You come across as a bully which reveals much inadequacy about your strength of character; it clearly makes you feel better about yourself to take swipes at others and mock them. While I know there are many decent editors on here (and with good musical tastes) who comment on this site because they really care about the running of wikipedia or are reasonable people, I find it incredibly double standards that you are passing me off as some sort of compulsive freak when between you and Somey you can make over 15,000 posts on this site which is arguably not much more than a forum for complaining. What I find amusing here is that you two think you are too "cool" to edit wikipedia or to say a good word about the sad people who edit it and bad mouth those who have genuinely been passionate for increasing its scope but are clearly obviously mentally disturbed by something which happened in the past on wikipedia which obsesses you enough to keep on posting here in a disgruntled manner day after day. If you truly did not care about wikipedia or thought you were above it you would not comment and be compelled to do so. If you truly could not give a shit about wikipedia, Jimbo or any of its pathetic contributors why do you give a shit to spend so much time commenting here? What motivates you to post here then? What exactly do you have to gain on here notching up 15,000 comments between you and being so unpleasant other than having some serious personality flaws and inability to communicate with others in a half decent manner without attacking them or being sarcastic?
I've edited wikipedia because I am a very creative person and see big potential in it as a resource. However much certain people here seem to detest wikipedia, it does have potential. Sure, I've created lots of sub stubs at times when I've perhaps been overly passionate about the project and too enthusiastic that others will develop them article as (even I it would seem) don't have the time to write them all, but I've also created a lot of worthwhile content which I'm proud to have contributed. My relationship with wikipedia believe it or not blows hot and cold and actually I find it very hard to actually stay on the website for too long without going elsewhere. Some days I love wikipedia to bits, other days I really wonder why we bother and it seems incredibly bland... Given that I work out first thing in the morning for at least an hour and have RL things to do in the morning I generally do not even log into wikipedia until late morning or midday and I rarely am on the internet beyond 11pm (with the exception of today). So even if potentially I was editing wikipedia for 12 hours or even an extreme 16 hours you'll find a lot of time gaps between my edits when I get bored and you'll often see half hour or more between my edits when I'm not actually on the website even if you look at the overall day and it seems I've been there all the time. Completely untrue. I actually don't read very much on the site because although I've read some excellent content, I generally come across such shitty articles in browsing that it prompts me to edit again or (more often) causes me to despair at how much work needs doing and try to forget about it. Think what you like about me, but anybody who truly knows me is aware that I am a very creative person and a passionate one which is what drives me. I'm not OCD, or if I am then you suffer from Asperger's. That true? I agree I've spent way too much time editing wikipedia and should spend more time on me and developing more projects to benefit me personally. But no amount of you ranting on about me is going to change my interests. You have no right to tell me what I should be doing or cite whatever musical hobbies and other interests I might have as being part of some "disease". As for you being this "successful businessman" Eric and wikipedia contributors "suffering", I hardly get the impression of you having much success if that blog is all you have to brag about. Maybe you are more successful than the nature of that blog would let on... But its not my business what you do with your time and efforts in the same way it is none of your business what I actually do and how I spent my time. But all I know is that however much time you believe I spend editing wikipedia I have time to devote to other interests and to get by financially. Anyway I'm done with posting on here.....
It actually seems like a cool product and I have been meaning to get a drum machine for some time to record my own music. I would have wished you well on it, but given your nasty attitude to me and everything in general I won't bother. You clearly are still disgruntled at the way you were treated on wikipedia and your block and take everything out on anybody who has had influence on the site. Either that or you are pissed off at losing your hair. Anyway I wish you the best of luck.
So where can I order a "Butt probe" or a "Scrotum Smasher " Eric? I bet it's way better than my Boss GT-10 processor. After all the more digusting the distortion, the more people want them eh?
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QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Fri 11th February 2011, 4:22am)
QUOTE(the fieryangel @ Thu 10th February 2011, 2:15pm)
Back in music school, when somebody practiced this, everybody smoking outside the practice rooms would all chime in at the beginning with "THIS...IS THE PIECE OF DEATH!"
sing along and see if that doesn't work....
Damn, damn. Now I can't play the bit of this that I know without thinking that.
Here's another one that I've always enjoyed, because it's so perverse :
Jimbo causes Blofeld to quit
Thu 10th February 2011, 6:25pm
It means having to say I'm sorry!) 
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 
