Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.
—Chet Atkins
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Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Here is one of the allegations The Dread Pro-Se Kimberlin made in his Kimberlin v. The Universe, et al. RICO Madness which was recently dismissed.
Personally, I believe that the implosion of his musical career was caused by his music videos be exposed to the public on the likes of YouTube, but, whatever the reason, it is true that his “appeal is becoming more selective.”
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Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.
—Frank Zappa
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Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
The most viewed post here at Hogewash! is my review of the CD Nothing Else by Epoxy, a band fronted by Brett Kimberlin. It’s still available via Amazon.
The following is from Amazon’s product page and was apparently provided by Kimberlin.
Product Description
If you take the best of guitar based punk and garage rock, add vintage analog technology, replace the theatrics of most modern bands with the real pain of being a real U.S. Government political prisoner, stir well, and you have Epoxy’s Nothing Else — the definition of rock for the 21st century. People are saying that this album will define the standards and the sound of alternative rock for years to come. Here’s what some people are saying about this album.
About the Artist
Brett Kimberlin, guitar and vocal, wrote all the songs on Nothing Else while incarcerated as a political prisoner by right-wing elements opposed to his First Amendment rights to speech and political activity. Many prisoner rights groups came to his rescue, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, American Civil Liberties Union and Families Against Mandatory Minimums, and he was released after several years of suffering. A portion of each album sale will be contributed to these four organizations.
Have I ever mentioned that Brett Kimberlin was convicted of perjury?
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Percy Sledge, R. I. P.
Percy Sledge died this morning at his Baton Rouge home. He was 74.
Thursday will mark the 49th anniversary of the release of When a Man Loves a Woman, the hit single for which he was best known.
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Imperial President Entertained by Prince
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I know only two tunes: one of them is Yankee Doodle, and the other one isn’t.
—U. S. Grant
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Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.
—Claude Debussy
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Never hate a song that’s sold a half million copies
—Irving Berlin
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Bei einer andächtigen Musik ist allezeit Gott mit seiner Gnaden Gegenwart. Where there is devotional music, God with his grace is always present.
—J. S. Bach
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Musica est exercitium arithmeticae occultum nescientis se numerare animi. Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
—Gottfried Leibniz
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul; on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.
—Plato
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It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Make the people out there become a part of the life of this song that you’re singing about.
—Ray Charles
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Dave Brubeck, R. I. P.
He was 91. This past weekend was the third anniversary of his passing. While he will be remembered by most people for his jazz recordings in uncommon time signatures (Take Five, Unsquare Dance, etc.), he was also the composer of religious works such as A Light in the Wilderness, an oratorio with texts from the book of Matthew.
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Pierre Boulez, R. I. P.
Noted composer and conductor Pierre Boulez has died. He was 90.
I had a couple of opportunities to hear him conduct, once in New York and once in LA. The New York performance was near the end of his tenure with the Philharmonic. I was in town for a convention of the Audio Engineering Society, and a group of us were given comp tickets to hear the performance in the recently retooled Avery Fisher Hall.
I greatly enjoyed the first half of the concert which included an interesting interpretation of a Mozart symphony. I found the second half … odd and a perfect example of why Boulez’s tenure in New York was a bit rocky. The closing piece for brass, winds, and percussion was Et Expecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum written by Olivier Messiaen. (Boulez studied harmony and composition under Messiaen in the ’40s.) It was weird, but I liked it. However, over half the audience walked out on the performance.
He was a brilliant conductor of 20th-century music who was equally at home with Bach and Mozart.
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Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.
—Chet Atkins
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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
—John Lennon
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Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?
—Jimi Hendrix
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
—Charles Mingus
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