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love this - yeah, I still have a 60 Yr Old Album to put in here as well. Really stuck - think it will have to be based on what we play the most of these days (mostly pretty varied) it's going to have to be between two old Elton albums.
We stopped by Trash & Vaudeville when we visited NYC circa 2012 or thereabouts. Mrs. Eephus accidentally hooked a garment rack with her purse strap and knocked it over.
60 Yr Old Album: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
Those things are just awful. They make me think of the way musicals were back in the early 20th Century before Showboat appeared.
Just so. Except there were 60 theaters on Broadway then - plenty room for Ziegfeld burlesques. Now there are barely a dozen. If Hamilton (the only thing one of our members could cite from the 21st C that was unequivocally better than 20th C art) was workshopping now, who knows if it would get a chance?! My cousin's husband is a producer who specialized for decades in bringing some of Great Britain's more adventurous legitimate theater productions to Broadway. He's SOL now and has had to take work packaging......wait for it......jukebox musicals, so Kathleen has the enemy in her own house.
This kind of makes me think of the Disney sing-a-long that is on TV tonight. Yoikes.
Yeah, her brother Rob did his last three movies (Into the Woods, Mary Poppins Returns - and had the live-action Little Mermaid interrupted by the contagion) for the Mouse and is just sailing along and Kathleen has worked on a historically-accurate revival of Unsinkable Molly Brown for almost ten years with a Colorado school teacher who updated the story and a remarkable young songwriter who wrote three new numbers that sound EXACTLY like Meredith Wilson (most famous for Music Man, who wrote the original), couldnt get a theater, finally got someone to finance it off-Broadway and, when C-19 hit, they couldnt afford to suspend and closed outright. She ain't suffering or anything, but that's basically the two sides of musicals these days.
They were with me at Ford’s Theater for the debut of Our American Cousin. We laughed until we cried.
But we have seen the musicals on TCM. And we know the songs because they were recycled so many times.
I'm pretty sure somewhere in these threads there was a story where wikkid was Rudy Vallee's road manager up until he got really big hosting the "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour" radio program. Said he was a peach of a guy, but a mean drunk.
yeah, we snorted yeastballs (making the morphine bloom in the sinuses) with that big "oh-dody-oh-doh" horn of his
. Are we going to be drafted out after the food one ends?
I'm slightly confused but always willing to try out a music draft - and love the crowd they bring.This would be after the food draft, but putting it out in the world to see how ridiculous it looks. As I type it out, it's pretty damn ridiculous but I think it could also be amazing
I have an idea for a sort of companion draft to this that is all about how cool we used to be. I have no idea if this idea is way too nerdy/out there/look at me... but my idea is for a "Losing My Edge/But I Was There" draft.
It would be categories based entirely on the lyrics to the LCD Soundsystem song "Losing My Edge"
Categories could include:
- I'm losing my edge. - Can use this category multiple times
- The kids are coming up from behind.
- To the kids from France and from London.
- But I was there. - Can use this category multiple times
- I was there in 1968.
- I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
- To the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
- To the Internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1978.
- To all the kids in Tokyo and Berlin.
- To the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets
- Borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered eighties.
- I was there in 1974 at the first Suicide practices in a loft in New York City.
- I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
- I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band.
- I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
- I was the first guy playing Daft Punk to the rock kids.
- I played it at CBGB's.
- Everybody thought I was crazy.
- We all know. I was there.
- I've never been wrong.
- I used to work in the record store.
- I had everything before anyone.
- I was there in the Paradise Garage DJ booth with Larry Levan.
- I was there in Jamaica during the great sound clashes.
- I woke up naked on the beach in Ibiza in 1988.
- To better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
- And they're actually really, really nice.
- I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
- Every great song by the Beach Boys.
- All the underground hits.
- All the Modern Lovers tracks.
- I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra record on German import.
- I heard that you have a white label of every seminal Detroit techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
- I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut
- and another box set from the '70s.
- I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your computer out the window because you want to make something real.
- You want to make a Yaz record.
- I hear that you and your band have sold your guitars and bought turntables.
- I hear that you and your band have sold your turntables and bought guitars.
- I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
- But have you seen my records? This Heat, Pere Ubu, Outsiders, Nation of Ulysses, Mars, The Trojans,
- The Black Dice, Todd Terry, the Germs, Section 25, Althea and Donna, Sexual Harrassment, a-ha,
- Pere Ubu, Dorothy Ashby, PIL, the Fania All-Stars, the Bar-Kays, the Human League, the Normal, Lou Reed, Scott Walker, Monks, Niagra,
- Joy Division, Lower 48, the Association, Sun Ra, Scientists, Royal Trux, 10cc,
- Eric B. and Rakim, Index, Basic Channel, Soulsonic Force ("just hit me"!), Juan Atkins, David Axelrod, Electric Prunes,
- Gil! Scott! Heron!,
- The Slits, Faust, Mantronix, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, the Swans, the Soft Cell, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
- You don't know what you really want - Can use this category multiple times
Every category would be completely up to your own interpretation, so "I played it at CBGB's", could be any band that played there or "I woke up naked on the beach in Ibiza in 1988" could be any song that brings those feelings. The "I heard you sold guitars/turntables and bought turntables/guitars" would be a lot of fun too. I think it's both hugely wide open and then also sometimes very specific but if we said like 20 rounds, you could pick and choose the categories you want to use.
Has quarantine finally driven me completely round the bend? Should we take it farther and add dice and make it a palooza draft
I'm confused, too. But I stil have a pick ready in one of the odd categories.Dr. Octopus said:
my flashbacks might sue you for copyright infringementNorthern Voice said:This would be after the food draft, but putting it out in the world to see how ridiculous it looks. As I type it out, it's pretty damn ridiculous but I think it could also be amazing
I have an idea for a sort of companion draft to this that is all about how cool we used to be. I have no idea if this idea is way too nerdy/out there/look at me... but my idea is for a "Losing My Edge/But I Was There" draft.
It would be categories based entirely on the lyrics to the LCD Soundsystem song "Losing My Edge"
Categories could include:
- I'm losing my edge. - Can use this category multiple times
- The kids are coming up from behind.
- To the kids from France and from London.
- But I was there. - Can use this category multiple times
- I was there in 1968.
- I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
- To the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
- To the Internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1978.
- To all the kids in Tokyo and Berlin.
- To the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets
- Borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered eighties.
- I was there in 1974 at the first Suicide practices in a loft in New York City.
- I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
- I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band.
- I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
- I was the first guy playing Daft Punk to the rock kids.
- I played it at CBGB's.
- Everybody thought I was crazy.
- We all know. I was there.
- I've never been wrong.
- I used to work in the record store.
- I had everything before anyone.
- I was there in the Paradise Garage DJ booth with Larry Levan.
- I was there in Jamaica during the great sound clashes.
- I woke up naked on the beach in Ibiza in 1988.
- To better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
- And they're actually really, really nice.
- I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
- Every great song by the Beach Boys.
- All the underground hits.
- All the Modern Lovers tracks.
- I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra record on German import.
- I heard that you have a white label of every seminal Detroit techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
- I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut
- and another box set from the '70s.
- I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your computer out the window because you want to make something real.
- You want to make a Yaz record.
- I hear that you and your band have sold your guitars and bought turntables.
- I hear that you and your band have sold your turntables and bought guitars.
- I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
- But have you seen my records?
- This Heat, Pere Ubu, Outsiders, Nation of Ulysses, Mars, The Trojans,
- The Black Dice, Todd Terry, the Germs, Section 25, Althea and Donna, Sexual Harrassment, a-ha,
- Pere Ubu, Dorothy Ashby, PIL, the Fania All-Stars, the Bar-Kays, the Human League, the Normal, Lou Reed, Scott Walker, Monks, Niagra,
- Joy Division, Lower 48, the Association, Sun Ra, Scientists, Royal Trux, 10cc,
- Eric B. and Rakim, Index, Basic Channel, Soulsonic Force ("just hit me"!), Juan Atkins, David Axelrod, Electric Prunes,
- Gil! Scott! Heron!,
- The Slits, Faust, Mantronix, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, the Swans, the Soft Cell, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
- You don't know what you really want - Can use this category multiple times
Every category would be completely up to your own interpretation, so "I played it at CBGB's", could be any band that played there or "I woke up naked on the beach in Ibiza in 1988" could be any song that brings those feelings. The "I heard you sold guitars/turntables and bought turntables/guitars" would be a lot of fun too. I think it's both hugely wide open and then also sometimes very specific but if we said like 20 rounds, you could pick and choose the categories you want to use.
Has quarantine finally driven me completely round the bend? Should we take it farther and add dice and make it a palooza draft
Wikkid's words were unexpected at the time, yet they were words I needed to hear, and I suppose still need to hear, as this internal battle continues to rage.
