This Friday I'll be appearing with Peter Hook at the Skylight bookstore in Los Feliz, LA, to discuss his Joy Division memoir Unknown Pleasures.
Time: 7.30 pm
Date: Friday, February 1st
Address: Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Telephone: 323 660 1175
Admission: free
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Showing posts with label JOY DIVISION. Show all posts
Showing posts with label JOY DIVISION. Show all posts
Monday, January 28, 2013
Monday, December 24, 2012
drummage #6
That Sorrows song, "Take A Heart", the drumming touches a little on this thing I always picture as "rim of the crater"...
"Rim of the crater" = that circling, panoramic sweep thing drummers do. Involving the toms, right? The slower it's done, the more crater-ific...
E.g. "For Your Pleasure" -- at moments throughout, but especially from 2.20 onwards (when the "ta ra"'s start fading to the horizon).
Paul Thompson says his hero is Jon Bonham, but on that track he's nearer Jaki Liebezeit.
Well I was going to play Can's "Quantum Physics" next but it is not to be found on YouTube. Indeed the rest of Babulama is blocked. "Quantum" is a case of cosmic crater. But it also has something insectile about it... chittering and thorax-y.
Liebezeit-fan Steve Morris's most crater-y moment is probably this:
"Rim of the crater" = that circling, panoramic sweep thing drummers do. Involving the toms, right? The slower it's done, the more crater-ific...
E.g. "For Your Pleasure" -- at moments throughout, but especially from 2.20 onwards (when the "ta ra"'s start fading to the horizon).
Paul Thompson says his hero is Jon Bonham, but on that track he's nearer Jaki Liebezeit.
Well I was going to play Can's "Quantum Physics" next but it is not to be found on YouTube. Indeed the rest of Babulama is blocked. "Quantum" is a case of cosmic crater. But it also has something insectile about it... chittering and thorax-y.
Liebezeit-fan Steve Morris's most crater-y moment is probably this:
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RIM OF THE CRATER,
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