#2 2008-06-02 15:53:58
To Bo Diddley
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#4 2008-06-02 17:36:20
And thank you Sarge for the trip down memory lane with Quicksilver Messenger Service. I attended many of their concerts back in the 60's. There was nothing like the sound of John Cipollina's guitar floating on the air at an outdoor event. He had horns in stacked on his amp that replaced the treble speakers. Shit, he's gone too.
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#5 2008-06-02 17:54:22
phreddy wrote:
Shit, he's gone too.
Music is still here.
We are all dead sooner or later.
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#6 2008-06-03 08:42:39
Cipollina's sound was unique. It must have been the horns Phreddy describes, it created a piercing jangly-trebly tone that was immediately recognizable. I never got to see him or Quicksilver live, nor Bo Diddley for that matter. Cipollina also did some great things with Zero, Dinosaurs and the other incarnations of bands with Barry Melton.
The Mona/Who Do You Love riff is propulsive and great, borrowed and recycled many times over, all tracing back to Bo.
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#7 2008-06-03 16:51:45
I can still hear clear as a bell in my head a Zero show Cipollina did a few years before he died. Little Wing. I have a soundboard tape we made of that show. I should see if my friend with the the PCM tape has loaded it to hard disc. You guys would appreciate it.
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#8 2008-06-03 16:59:17
Johnny_Rotten wrote:
I can still hear clear as a bell in my head a Zero show Cipollina did a few years before he died. Little Wing. I have a soundboard tape we made of that show. I should see if my friend with the the PCM tape has loaded it to hard disc. You guys would appreciate it.
I would love to hear it.
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#9 2008-06-03 17:27:39
Yeah if he hadn't transfered it in the late 1990s we will have to find him a betamax player as at the time I made it on a Sony PCM rig we owned that was paired to a betamax recorder.
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#10 2008-06-03 19:29:33
Johnny wrote:
betamax recorder
Sony really fucked up that deal. The Betamax was superior to VHS, but Sony got greedy and wanted to keep everything proprietary.
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#11 2008-06-04 08:04:06
Johnny_Rotten wrote:
I can still hear clear as a bell in my head a Zero show Cipollina did a few years before he died. Little Wing. I have a soundboard tape we made of that show. I should see if my friend with the the PCM tape has loaded it to hard disc. You guys would appreciate it.
I too would love a copy. I have seen Zero and a variety of Kimock bands, often performing Little Wing, but never got to see Cipollina. (Also, back when we were bouncing around names of great drummers, I should have mentioned Rodney Holmes.)
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#12 2008-06-04 08:08:10
phreddy wrote:
Johnny wrote:
betamax recorder
Sony really fucked up that deal. The Betamax was superior to VHS, but Sony got greedy and wanted to keep everything proprietary.
And how many years later, they still haven't learned a damn thing.
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#13 2008-06-04 08:30:48
I'm tempted to say Sony has done a little better with BlueRay, but what's the story with the inability to produce the players? Did they set some sort of not-to-exceed number, or are they afraid the market is just not there?
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