Well, where is he?
I’ve sent him emails and private messages but he has not replied for weeks. I did verify that he received a package of whistles that I send him.
Some people say he’s okay, but I think he may have been raptured or something. http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?topic=5994&forum=1
BLOOMIE!!! COME HOME, LAD!
He’s too secular to be raptured.
Bloo used to hit the board strictly at work. He changed jobs very recently, and very probably cannot leave the board sitting on a window at work anymore.
He moved in midsummer, and very likely hasn’t set up his computer there yet.
Further, I have lost the new phone number. I’m just going to have to bit the bullet and toddle up to Scenic Pioneer Valley and do an evening at the Harp to see him.
I’ll let you know.
On 2002-09-18 12:37, The Weekenders wrote:
He’s too secular to be raptured.
Maybe it was the Secular Coming rather than the Second Coming.
naw , that was the Beatles.
That was really funny.
Can you imagine Bloomfield
raptured? Oh, my!
Yeah, he’d give Jesus hell for existing! Ha! And it would be a looooooooong discussion, maybe as long as “Its Sickening.” Heck, Jesus would want to sue us by the time they were finished!
On 2002-09-18 16:43, The Weekenders wrote:
naw , that was the Beatles.
Do you mean, because they secularized a musical sound formerly the domain of Pentecostal revivalists such as Claude Ely?
I do not believe the Beatles were so revolutionary as all that. They just
(1) had a lot of media coverage
(2) were the right age to appeal to teenage girls
(3) were a non-American group performing rock and/or roll, thus it was completely removed from its roots in a sense
(4) had good p.r. (see point 1)
(5) had ‘groovy’ accents
Aw, Walden, i was just referring to the attained knowledge that many nativist American/religious nutballs/sincere rhythm-n-blues fans see the Beatles as taking our momentum of small r republican American music away and replacing it with the product of a monarchical/socialist ethos.
i remember vividly thinking I had to choose between Beatles and Beach Boys (especially as a skateboarding Californian) and as Vietnam-era alienation and America-bashing began, it really did make so many American groups look un-hip. Some very talented Americans were kind of thrown out with the bath water or had their careers diminished. Many black Americans were totally pissed by the covers, but Ricky Nelson and Pat Boone had done the same thing earlier.
it is weird to ponder the early Beatles doing Long Tall Sally for example.
You seem to pick up on a lot of my cultural references, Walden (despite your younger age),and this was one of em. i don’t think the Beatles are as important as many ascribe but there were definitely some pop songwriting high points there.
SOAPBOX
When the Ruttles, I mean BEATLES, first came out in 1964, I was learning to play guitar with those ‘Ventures’ guitar records. In 1968, I was buying DOORS records exclusively.
The Beatles were too commercial and led to the downfall of music as art. Big buisness took music hostage. Originality went down hill from there.
And while I’m on the subject, why is there Black gramy’s, Latin gramy’s, DOVE Awards but no Celtic gramy’s?
/SOAPBOX
You trying to get on my good side Gar? 
Love ya, man, got a beer?
And yes, Walk Dont Run 64 was my very first guitar solo that I learned! Followed by the inevitable house of the Rising Sun and the guitar break from Under My Thumb… Remember when Top 40 was around, they played the songs so very much that you didnt need the Amazing Slowdowner to learn the parts! They were burned in yer brain.
What could really start a flame war is this contention: I don’t really consider the Beatles as much rock-n-roll as a hybrid of the British Music Hall tradition melded with American blues and rock etc (especially McCartney solo songs). A guy named Leo Sayer did a whole album in that vaudeville-like style but with the rock beat. There were some really interesting other styles around just when the Beatles hit, like skiffle and ska. The funniest non-rock is the “classical with drums” groups, like ELP and Rick Wakeman. What were they thinking??
[ This Message was edited by: The Weekenders on 2002-09-19 14:17 ]
On 2002-09-19 13:23, The Weekenders wrote:
(despite your younger age)
I’m in my late 20’s, but I grew up among older people. Most of them too old to have pondered the Beatles.
On 2002-09-19 13:55, Gary wrote:
And while I’m on the subject, why is there Black gramy’s, Latin gramy’s, DOVE Awards but no Celtic gramy’s?
I was thinking the same thing last night. You know there’s even a “Nammy” award for American Indian music.
On 2002-09-19 14:05, The Weekenders wrote:
What could really start a flame war is this contention: I don’t really consider the Beatles rock-n-roll at all as much as a hybrid of the British Music Hall tradition melded with American blues etc.
I’d agree with that.
On 2002-09-19 14:05, The Weekenders wrote:
You trying to get on my good side Gar? >
Love ya, man, got a beer?
If you’re at the Chicago concert in Vegas next week, I’ll buy you one!
And yes, Walk Dont Run 64 was my very first guitar solo that I learned! Followed by the inevitable house of the Rising Sun
Sorry, I forgot to mention House of the Rising Sun and G-L-O-R-I-A, Pipeline, Louie Louie and The Byrds!
and the guitar break from Under My Thumb…
That was a Stones tune. HERETIC!
Remember when Top 40 was around, they played the songs so very much that you didnt need the Amazing Slowdowner to learn the parts! They were burned in yer brain.
I remember. (Am I THAT old?)
What could really start a flame war is this contention: I don’t really consider the Beatles as much rock-n-roll as a hybrid of the British Music Hall tradition melded with American blues and rock etc (especially McCartney solo songs). A guy named Leo Sayer did a whole album in that vaudeville-like style but with the rock beat. There were some really interesting other styles around just when the Beatles hit, like skiffle and ska. The funniest non-rock is the “classical with drums” groups, like ELP and Rick Wakeman. What were they thinking??
ELP & YES’s contribution to music was to take the VERSE/CHORUS, AABA and AAA song format and turn it into instrumental RAP. (Retards Attempting Poetry.)
I guess that would be RAM - retards attempting music! HEHE
Ahem. I thought this thread was about me?
Bloomfield! You’re back!
Not raptured, huh?
K
On 2002-09-26 12:12, Bloomfield wrote:
Ahem. I thought this thread was about me?
Ah, Bloo, don’t you know its ALWAYS about YOU!
Well, yes, it is always about me. Or should be. :roll:
I am back, sorta. Starting new job next week. It’ll be a bit before I am settled in and and have read up on all the stuff that’s been going on between the shopkeepers, Quebequois, whistlesmiths, and Those Who Contribute To This Forum.
Have been home, remodelling, building, doing stuff. I haven’t wanted to touch the computer and mostly haven’t been able to between joint compound, plywood, primer, and paint. Did I mention the traps? Caught four squirrels in the attic. Not bad, eh? Especially with tamari and garlic.
Oh, I forgot. I am raptured only on Tuesdays from 7:30 to 9:00 pm, weather permitting. Tried rapture on Fridays but it upset my stomach. Maybe it’s the water around here. Last month I was raptured on Wednesday, which was a bit of a surprise. Nice, yes, but I like to plan these things.
Now I’ve got to run: time for my weekly contentment session, and I am late already.