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Did I dream Weather Report? This was a major, major band. Jazzbo cred out th' ass and a big hit single - who else could claim that? Yet the impression I get out here, in this ancient, rambling house high above the rushing waters of the Mekong River, is they never existed. They haven't left the cultural footprint [do you mean influential? Why not just say influential? - Ed.] of a Davis [Miles - Ed.], or a Herbie, or a John McLaughlin. Here's my theory: their line-up shifted continuously, so they never branded themselves in their audience's consciousness in the way a rock group can. Joe Zawinul isn't the most visually exciting frontman, either, even with his sexy knit hat and 'tache combo. He might as well have been making sandwiches for all the visual impact he made, and the rest - unless you're a jazzbo - are a blur. Over three hundred musicians played under the Weather Report umbrella. Okay, that figure's necessarily approximate because I made it up, but at the very least it serves to back up my theory. Someone who finds it a stretch naming all of Simon & Garfunkel is going to take a pass on Weather Report.
Yep, I blame Zawinul. Here's some albums. Gee, are they ever fantastic.
what started as a giggly laugh turned into that guffaw when she used that feather from her hat
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DeleteOldie but goodie!
DeleteOn Monday, a friend and I went to lunch in Chinatown. The waiter, while taking our order, let out a very loud fart. My friend and I started laughing, and the waiter said, "What's so funny?" which caused us to laugh even harder, and the waiter walked off in a huff. A few minutes later, after composing ourselves, a second waiter came to take our order, and said (in a fake Chinese accent) "Don't worry, me no fart!" which put us into more hysterics.
ReplyDeleteExcellent! We have forgot the fart.
DeleteI've never heard a fart I didn't like.
DeleteFarts are always funny. My favourite was in a large library...years ago...someone let a really loud and fruity one fly and then the giggles from everyone else started...
DeleteSince this is an educational forum, there seems to be little doubt among the knowledgeable that the loudest flatulence on Earth is the hippopotamus fart.
DeletePlease confirm.
Confirmed
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YEcC9xRhDM&ab_channel=KingofWhatever
Much appreciated. I might make it into a ring tone.
DeleteIt's already a ringpiece tone.
DeleteOnce in awhile, I wake myself up laughing out loud at a funny dream. It's a pleasant way to wake up. It happened last week. I was dreaming about a TV reporter on an ice rink who fell down, got up, and fell down again. Slapstick in dreamland,
ReplyDeleteYou're one lucky guy. My dreams are the most boring, dumb, and irritating part of my life. I've always remembered my dreams, without effort, and I can still remember some dreams I had as a very small child. Not many laffs.
DeleteThe laughing dreams are rare. I've had a couple dreams that woke me up in tears. One of them was about a crush from college and a baby polar bear that we couldn't rescue from an ice floe.
DeleteThat same crush once told me that her father laughed in his sleep, and she would hear him from her bedroom and start laughing in her sleep. Her mother said it was like living in a madhouse. My own mother sometimes wakes up screaming, but she can never remember what frightened her in those dreams.
Before waking from a very deep sleep this morning I was being held captive in the Ukraine at a very strange dining establishment. I was upset that I hadn't been served all of my courses (while us patrons/captives had been shuffled to and from various finely appointed rooms to a sort of indoor ferris wheel contraption they had neglected to give me my serving of spaghetti and meatballs. They were also drugging us with some type of hallucinogen/dissociative but it was only affecting some of our group (none of which I know in my waking life but seemed to have familiarity with in the dream. So it was pretty interesting and I was a little perturbed to have been pulled into this much less interesting, though perhaps safer, state of affairs.
DeleteLife's no laughing matter, son.
ReplyDeleteI read that and heard Foghorn Leghorn.
Deletei was listening to some fred allen radio shows last night. i read it and heard senator claghorn.
DeleteI'm still binge-listening Jack Benny. It's a great way of time-traveling, much better than visuals.
DeleteAgreed, Jack didn't need visuals. Except maybe for this one
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GOqSXOOAew&ab_channel=VintageComedyVaultII
"All the news you need." Very sly Simon & Garfunkel reference/paraphrase there, Throck.
ReplyDeleteNote how it's bookended in the piece. Note how "bookended" itself references the NY duo.
DeleteCouple albums, so it's not a daunting prospect for the one or two of the Four Or Five Guys© what is unfamiliar of this swell band; Sweetnighter, and my personal fave (because gateway drug) Mysterious Traveller.
ReplyDeleteNote: this ain't fusion. It's just music. In a time and space all its own.
At risk of veering back ON TOPIC...does anyone have the SINGLE EDIT of Birdland (3 min. 45 sec.)??
ReplyDeleteHEY! WE GOTS A REQUEST HERE, YOUSE BUMS! GET OFF YER THUMBS AN' HELP A GUY OUT!
DeleteI could have sworn it was on the box set "Forecast: Tomorrow", but it's not.
DeleteBut here's the box set, anyway.
CD1
https://mega.nz/file/aEhUhALK#vI8i603ppREkRtcqtV_UA5LklNC6_bCoxRr1SkPBTvk
CD2
https://mega.nz/file/2QhmhSRZ#IaKPXwo8Z83lHRPTq5fKTvUhlNX-kdA2FonKAkctYqI
CD3
https://mega.nz/file/OAhyGILY#yQMzk_uWavC4qAKybNWF2aJdDtp0qyaaFRe0SeH0uFA
Swell loadup, Babs!
DeleteI've been getting a lot of good laughs watching reruns of 30 Rock and Seinfeld with the wife and kids. Some stellar comedic writing and acting on those shows.
ReplyDeleteSEINFE -oops - sorry for capslock - Seinfeld took some inspiration from the old Jack Benny radio show; a show about nothing, about itself. Jack Benny was about the upcoming show, about rehearsals, about traveling between shows. And the central character plays himself, as a comedian. Seinfeld is funnier, though, although I find the later series (especially when they left the apartment set and moved into film) much less entertaining.
DeleteWR's catalogue certainly hasn't been curated like Miles by CBS/Sony. Very spotty coverage. I do wish I'd seen them but they were winding down when I hit upon them. Managed to see Wayne twice and Zawinul once. A big documentary and/or unreleased-archive-box was in the works a couple of years ago IIRC but as is usual with WR's legacy, there is nothing to show for it.
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly it. If the marketing department (Dept.) have given up on them, new generations of potential fans are lost.
DeleteThe problem's even worse with books. There's a vast number of books that are OOP and have then never made it to a digital format. At least much of the older music that we're hoping to see reach a wider audience can be duplicated and distributed fairly easily.
DeleteI really worry about books - I fear (in fact I know) that many have gone for ever.
Very worrying, indeed.
DeleteThis post seems like a good excuse to share some Jaco Pastorius who redefined the bass during his stint with Weather Report and elsewhere (e.g. Joni Mitchell's Hejira). Here is his eponymous album from 1976 and Invitation from 1983. I've got some live Jaco too if anyone needs more.
ReplyDeletehttps://workupload.com/file/NWTVPsSTAb2
Jaco also played in Mingus. "God must be a boogie man" gives me the chills since I'm 12 or so.
DeleteAnd this didn't quite make me LOL but it did give me a quiet snortle:
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Let me tell you one thing son. Nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor.
ReplyDeletePeter Tork
https://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2019/03/tear-top-right-off-your-million-dolar.html
Deletehttps://youtu.be/I2kb1QBkbqw Bill Laswell's "Material" reworking W.R.'s Cucumber Slumber...
ReplyDeleteI love reading the comments here. I rarely DL the tunage, but I love the twisted verbiage. Keep up the good work all! Especially you Fart. Oops that's Farq. Stupid spell check.
ReplyDeleteNice to know you're out there, Blipt99. The thing with the downloads is most of the Four Or Five Guys© (that's you), have most if not all of this stuff already. But the Iof© gives you the opportunity to replace your bloated, Jeff Bezos yacht-style bitrates with sustainable, shade-grown @256s.
DeleteHere's a live WR wit two-thirds of SOS
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Just remembered a recently viewed LOL moment. In this clip from the show "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown", John Cooper Clarke is the judge of contestants' poetry, and Joe Wilkinson’s verse moves the cast to tears:
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/xvz4zqqlCiI?t=68
Hmm...Weather Report...I just find the keyboard sounds off putting in much of the stuff. It's this sort of sludgy midrange sound over which Shorter can't do anything else but stand out. And that's where the texture - just one texture - comes from. I love Shorter, but I'd rather hear him in a simpler framework.
ReplyDeleteAt this point, the IoF© trebuchet is loaded with compacted rotting Durian and pointed with meticulous care at Steve Shark's head.
DeleteOh no, not the trebuchet! He might live in France, but as a knee surgery survivor, the poor dear twat deserves mercy.
DeleteI'm sorry, your plea came too late. IT HAS BEEN RELEASED.
DeleteAs a member of Amnesty International (in good standing, I might add), I must protest this as cruel and unusual (it doesn't get much more unusual than a durian) punishment.
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