Three Or Four Guy© Torgo has labored mightily to bring us the latest in the revolutionary musical initiative that everybody is talking about! That's right, friends! Vulvene and Enis Everybody, of Mons Veneris, NM, are unanimous in their enthusiasm for the Thirty Minutes© servings of psychedelic-style smörgasbörd! "Well," laughs Enis from their luxury duplex home at Happy Heinrich Himmler's Trailer Park, "the wife ain't too keen but I like 'em well enough I guess. Ain't played 'em yet - who has the time? Whut happen to Kreemé?"
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Gee!! Thanks FarQ !!! Da moozik is flowing, flowing!!!
ReplyDeletePlease direct all thanks, praise, threats, monetary offerings, sympathy and blame to TORGO, whose creation this is. I just did the cover.
DeleteThanks, listening to it now, this sounds seriously psychedelic, no need for Thai weed for breakfast!
ReplyDeleteI'll give this a listen in the morning on my walk.
ReplyDeleteIt'll last you three circuits of the compound, Babs!
DeleteYeah, on the outside, I can walk a fourteen-minute mile. But in here, this freakin' orange jumpsuit slows me down. Now, if you'll excuse me, the woman in the next cell got out of line at breakfast, and needs her sorry ass spanked hard.
Delete***Babs lights a cigarette, and walks into the next cell***
"Whaddup, BIATCH?"
Amazing cover art, Farq. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteoops... that's me.
DeleteAt some point I'll probably spell out the details of the bits of music involved, but first I'll let everyone have fun figuring out the various artists responsible for this half hour of madness.
I planned it out along a hint of a story line. You've somehow ended up on a world in another dimension. It's the alien characters you meet (or are YOU the alien?) and the places and things you see on your journey into this strange realm before you find your way back home.
There are 11 pieces of music and 4 overlay items. The music should range from simple (three or four) to extremely difficult (also three or four) to identify, though I'd say only three of the groups are obscure. The overlays are all pretty obvious, except for the first - and that one identifies itself, which makes it obvious too.
Two parts of the music have extra stories behind them, which I'll cover later.
I'm still not sure if I'm totally happy with the way the mix turned out towards the end (I sort of forced one short piece of music in there just for the sake of including it). But I've listened to it several times over the last couple of days and I do think it generally came out well.
Enjoy!
Fine work, Torgo!
DeleteGreat job, Torgo!
DeleteThanks
Thanks Torgo -- I'll give this a spin once the mescaline hits!
ReplyDeleteAs usual, fabulous prizes for identifying the artists, including:
ReplyDeleteDo-it-yourself origami boulders (made from 100% recycled junk mail)!
Solar powered tanning bed!
and perhaps more downloadables...
These sure are swell prizes!!!!!!
DeleteThanks Torgo!
ReplyDeleteI'm getting Grace Slick, but not as I know her ...
ReplyDeleteIt is indeed Grace Slick. I was hoping someone would get that one right away because the voice is unmistakable.
Delete"Officially", it's Paul Kantner, Grace Slick and David Freiberg, from the 1973 album Baron von Tollbooth & the Chrome Nun. But Kantner and Freiberg sit it out for this song ("Fishman"), leaving it to Grace and some of their many pals who sat in for the album.
So the lineup for this track is Grace Slick on vocals and piano (!), Jack Casady on bass, John Barbata on drums, plus future Jefferson Starship guitarist Craig Chaquico and some old and in the way guy named Jerry Garcia on guitar.
Surreal lineup for a surreal track. Fabulous prize upcoming...
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DeleteHilarious!
DeleteBaron Von Tollbooth & The Chrome Nun:
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I'm surprised no one has named any of the other bits of music yet. I had figured that at least three of them would be dead easy for the IoF gang.
ReplyDeleteIf anyone's interested, here's the full episode of the "Dimension X" radio program that I pillaged for the intro and voice-overs (not the music) in the first 1:28:
https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Dimension_X_Singles/Dimension_X_1950-06-03__09_Embassy.mp3
I know at least a couple, but it's harder than I thought. When I did mine I was convinced they were too easy.
DeleteCute comp, kudos to Torgo.
ReplyDeleteWell, there’s “Vanilla Queen” by Golden Earring in there (from circa 15:00 ‘til about 18:00, shortened/edited by torgo, I assume). From Earring album ‘Moontan’, quite well-known globally I think.
Here’s what Wik sez:
“Vanilla Queen" twice samples Marilyn Monroe's character in There's No Business Like Show Business: "Well, in simple English I'm..." from the "Lazy" performance and "What's your name, Honey?" from the "Heat Wave" performance.
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moontan )
And closing the trip is Vangelis’ “Albedo 0.39” - ‘from the album of the same name’, as the old cliché goes.
By the way, does the intro contain some mixed-in mellotron parts from one of Tangerine Dream’s many slices?? Not too familiar with their entire(some) discography. Edgar Froese solo perhaps? Or Peter Baumann?
BINGO on Tangerine Dream for the opening musical number. I chose that segment partly because it makes great background music for the "Dimension X" introduction. But there's also a story behind that particular piece of music...
DeleteA while back Farq did a post of "Velvet Underground For Girls" and the conversation naturally mentioned Nico. I gave the story then about how a clueless and somewhat unscrupulous concert promoter (yes, that's redundant) talked those in charge at Notre Dame de Reims cathedral into hosting a music concert, with Nico opening for Tangerine Dream. He convinced those in charge at the cathedral that Nico and TD were some form of neo-classical peformers.
He didn't plan out the pesky details like limiting the number of tickets, security, or providing restroom facilities. From the standpoint of the Church, the event was a disaster. Everyone in charge at the cathedral was sacked, and the Roman Catholic Church officially excommunicated Tangerine Dream. (Now THAT is a bad concert review!)
There are videos on U2oob that claim to show the Reims concert. Don't bother. Those are really just slide shows of the group setting up to play (possibly at their later gig at Coventry, as Protestant churches immediately jumped to book TD to come and play in the wake of the Reims incident) while the music in those vids is actually from their album "Ricochet".
But yes indeed, the opening segment of music in this Thirty Minutes is the real deal. It's actually a pretty boring show, and it's much longer than 30 minutes. So the bit that I included is enough to expose you to the music that actually got a band excommunicated - while not inflicting too much of the full concert upon you...
I'll probably post a few TD goodies from that period later, so stay tuned.
Likewise, Vanilla Queen is too long to include in its entirety, so I used the middle portion, which ends with the Marilyn bit you referenced and a bunch of weird sounds.
That part ends with an overlay (at 17:58) of higher pitched notes ending in repeated staccato notes that sound almost like Morse code. It's repeated four times (getting them to sync was a minor challenge) with a bounce from side to side before the final one returns to the center.
If it sounds familiar but you can't quite place it, that was the CBS radio news stinger. You'd hear it before any news updates on stations on the CBS network. I used it to lead into the other bit of music (starting at 18:09) that has a story behind it.
Oops, sorry, I ain't Anonymous, I'd like to identify myself as Henk P, as I do in a couple other places. Should've commented with me Google account,silly ol' moron, me
ReplyDeleteAs you can see if you scroll up, I do the same thing all the time.
DeleteYep, Albedo 0.39 and Vanilla Queen were two of the other three that I thought would be identified in no time flat.
There's one more that I'm almost certain Farq knows and that I'm really surprised that no one else here has tagged yet. It's a band that is well known to most of the 4/5, and the song comes from what is arguably their most famous album.
Sounds very much like Dragonfly by Fleetwood Mac in there.
ReplyDeleteCha-ching. Indeed it is.
DeleteFor anyone not familiar with it, Dragonfly was a single released by Fleetwood Mac after the Kiln House album but before Future Games. Kiln House didn't have a single in the UK, so Dragonfly was their first single in their own country that featured Christine McVie as a full member of the band.
It didn't chart well, which is a shame because it's an interesting track with beautiful guitar work.
Yes, it was included on the remastered Kiln House. The song was written by Danny Kirwan.
DeleteFive pieces of music have been identified so far. I think one of the others should be pretty easy. Two more are well known bands though the specific bits of music will be difficult if not impossible to identify. The other three are groups that I would say are obscure, though the singer of one of them is quite well known.
ReplyDeleteThe other two overlays are quite obvious - I threw in the "there's no place like home" soundbite to set up the going home aspect of the Vangelis track that closes out the set. The spoken words in Albedo 0.39 are simply statistics about the planet Earth. (Albedo = the proportion of light that is reflected by an astronomical body. Earth reflects 39% of light.)
And the spoken stuff right after the news stinger (following the Vanilla Queen excerpt) is, as you have no doubt already guessed from the "oh, the humanity" ending, the Hindenburg disaster. A few decades ago I pulled out Cool Edit 2000 and took a stab at speed-correcting Herb Morrison's on-site reporting, as the original was too fast and too high a pitch due to errors in the original transcription process. The sound bites included here are portions of my circa 2001 edited version.
There's a better explanation for it once you know about the music behind it. But I'll wait a little longer in case someone recognizes that band's style. (It's a band you know. I'm sure of that much, though I'm guessing most people probably didn't know this particular piece of music existed let alone having ever heard it before.)
I'll start posting some extra goodies tomorrow, after I've had some sleep.
Thanks Torgo, I got round to listening last night, and very much enjoyed it, however without being told (this morning) I wouldn't have worked out any of the tracks other than the Vangelis at the end, great stuff.
ReplyDeleteWell if that isn't Spirit's Street Worm I'll eat my hat. Great stuff, Torgo
ReplyDeleteYes!! Someone finally named it! Considering how Spirit is held in such high esteem on the IoF, I had thought that would be the very first song that someone named.
DeleteIt was one of the very first tracks that I chose for this set, mainly because it's an incredible song where the entire band just lets it rip - yet it's largely unknown.
Now that it has been named, the story line for the first half of the set is the strange creatures you meet on this alien world - the Fishman, the Dragonfly, the Street Worm, and the Vanilla Queen.
(You also find a really strange town by the seaside. The more I listen to the song, the more I think the whole town has almost been completely abandoned. The fountain and the sewing shop are new, but the children singing etc might be connected to the campfires up on the hill rather than the town itself. Only the leathercraft shop actually has anyone inside. Seriously, WTF is wrong with this place?? It's a beautiful song, but damn, it's disturbing...)
I got the Spirit and the Fleetwood Mac (and I'm sure Babs did too) - maybe others thought they were mainstream obvious?). I disagree with your premise that Street Worm is "largely unknown" - it's off their best-selling and best-known album fercrissakes!
DeleteKnowing your story line really adds to the listening! Beautiful!
Torgo NOT disagree with premise! I meant it in the sense that while you and I know The Twelve Dreams Of Dr Sardonicus well enough to hear every note in our minds without the record playing, it didn't have the kind of promotion that many of their other songs received. It wasn't a single, it's on side two of what was initially the worst selling of their first five albums (sounds impossible, but it's true), has to my knowledge never been on a greatest hits or other compilation album, and has never been a staple of their live shows.
DeleteSo we know and love it well, but we're in a tiny (but blessed) minority on this one.
FT3 agree with premise as reconfigured!
DeleteAs noted earlier, yes, I only included the middle portion of Vanilla Queen because a 9-minute song takes up too much space in a 30-minute set. And the Moontan album is indeed internationally famous, but a lot of listeners in the USA might not know this: the international versions of the CD have two extra songs that haven't been included in the American releases. Also, the other songs are in a different running order.
ReplyDeleteAnother noteworthy point: if you've only heard The Continuing Story Of Radar Love compilation disc, the version of Candy's Going Bad is the single version. It's butchered, leaving out the jazzy ending - which is hands down the best part of the song.
So here ya go - a Japan remaster of the international CD version.
https://workupload.com/file/pQJbQqka3zT
In the mid-1970s, Golden Earring added an extra guitarist. It made a difference in their live sets. Here's the album Golden Earring - Live, which was recorded March 25, 1977 at the Rainbow Theater in London. Like most Golden Earring albums, it has never officially been released in the US. So... enjoy!
https://workupload.com/file/ggp4BbXBwvt
Thanks first of all for the Japanese Moontan. Your Vanilla Queen edit turns out to be preceded by a lovely Holy Mackerel gem entitled '1984' (running from 10:38 to 14:55). Went on a lyric search after some close listening, and ended up here : https://genius.com/The-holy-mackerel-1984-lyrics.
DeleteSome of the other Holy Mackerel LP tracks have lead vocals by Mentor Williams, who wrote the Dobie Gray classic, Drift Away. How appropriate a title, regarding your comp.
The Holy Mackerel album is a favorite, and I'm surprised it's not on th' IofF© (I thought it was). Mentor Williams' album is here (but nowhere else I can find):
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jAuzunn3lc
If anyone has a decent rip, here's a good place for it!
I'll also go ahead and spill the beans on one of the three obscure groups.
ReplyDeleteThat ripping guitar piece ["It totally rocks out, man!" - Neil Young] starting at 19:36 is a portion of the song Sunshine In My Window by the band Farm.
Here's their one and only album:
https://workupload.com/file/B6GSDjBzTXJ
Thanks for all the bonus shares, Torgo! I don't think I've ever given Golden Earing a proper listening and while I have Farm's s/t album from 1971, like most everything I download I ain't never listened to it yet so I'll add these to my shortlist (which ain't so short but at least there's a chance of making it to my ears)
ReplyDeleteHere's that remastered / expanded Kiln House. Dragonfly and its B-side (Purple Dancer) are included as bonus tracks.
ReplyDeletehttps://workupload.com/file/AydyVLZnD4A
And I'll go ahead and spill the beans on that music playing behind the Hindenburg radio broadcast (starting at 18:09)... it's Pink Floyd.
ReplyDeleteThe BBC commissioned Pink Floyd to play music for a portion of their broadcast on July 20, 1969 as the feed of the moon landing came in from Apollo 11. This gave me the idea for a sort of "For All Mankind" or "The Man In The High Castle" type of twist. Pause and think for a moment about how easily something could have gone horribly wrong (and almost did) and Pink Floyd could have ended up providing a musical score for a historical disaster.
So instead of the moon landing, in Another Dimension the big event is the heralded arrival of a zeppelin from overseas, about to land near the creepy-as-hell seaside town you found in the still unnamed song starting at 10:38.
The radio news theme plays, and the newscaster starts narrating the arrival of the big airship...
...which then turns into a horrible disaster, and you run (to the frantic guitar work of Farm's "Sunshine In My Window"), and at this point you're becoming aware that this Other Dimension really isn't a place where you want to be.
I only included a small portion of the Pink Floyd bit. Mainly because that's all that was needed to cover the bits of the Hindenburg broadcast that I wanted to include, but also because the whole thing comes across as mostly just dreadful noodling. After the section that I used, PF pretty much dropped into what later became the main bass line from Money - and played it non-stop (without lyrics) for something like the next four minutes.
It's also a fairly low quality source recording, because that's all that is known to exist of this particular performance. But for the Floyd die-hards out there, it's something of a rarity. So if you want to hear it in its entirety WITHOUT the Herb Morrison coverage of the Hindenburg, knock yourself out:
https://workupload.com/file/3kuSL5aG4dP
But I'm guessing that after hearing it once, most of you will decide that my under two minute edited version with Herb Morrison as a guest vocalist is a huge improvement over the original...
Fantastic post, Torgo! And great comment *curation* too. I didn't get the Floyd, Farm (although I have the album), or Golden Earring (not a fan).
ReplyDeleteAnd a note to the other 4/5g© - if you feel like building your own 30 Minutes mix, go ahead! If it's good enough, I'll paint you a cover!
Well, thank you kindly! It was fun putting this thing together.
DeleteThere's a short bit of about 30 seconds starting at 21:41 that sounds kind of like music you'd hear as you pass by a cantina. Is it Tito Puente? Nope. Some other offshoot of Santana's lineup? Nope. It's Manassas.
ReplyDeleteNo, I'm not effing kidding. It really is Manassas.
It's a tidbit called Tan Sola Y Triste. I'm not so sure about that title, because it doesn't sound lonely or sad to me at all. It was released in a bits and pieces collection called Pieces. (Much more appropriate title.) It's around 80-85 seconds in all, but they basically just play the same damn thing over and over, so I mercifully chopped most of it off.
Here's the full Pieces collection:
https://workupload.com/file/6dd39gq94J6
That jazzy but morose thing starting at 22:10 is the most obscure group in the set. Don't feel bad about not having a clue who did it. You didn't stand a chance on this one. The name of the group is After All. It's basically some friends from Tallahassee who played music together in the late 1960s and got someone to let them record an album.
ReplyDeleteThey also gave us the definitive answer to the age-old question... if a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, then nobody will buy the record. Case closed.
But these guys were pretty good musicians, so give the full album a listen.
https://workupload.com/file/L4FV8M3dJWC
I said earlier that I'd probably upload some Tangerine Dream from the period around the Reims hullabaloo. In those days, they improvised every concert, which can be great or torture, depending on your point of view. (Imagine a Dead show from the 1990s, except they skipped the rest of the set list and the entire show was 2.5 hours of Drums/Space.)
https://workupload.com/file/HHuBwXDDW6U
If you haven't heard their album Ricochet, side one was entirely done in a studio but based on some of those improvised themes they had played in concert. Side two is considered a highlight by most TD fans. I find it interesting in that it's a mixture of live and studio work. For example, the piano intro is studio, and it then blends into a section of about 8 minutes that was recorded in concert. A middle section of sound effects was done in the studio as a bridge between that part and another long section from the concert.
https://workupload.com/file/Uma9pnLGwU3
Thanks, Torgo!
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