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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2011 at 17:23
Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

All the best Slarti as you settle into the new home.

Much thanks. 

it's really weird to have some people being being totally wiped out of their homes and actually killed at the same time I'm getting moved back in to a house that was repaired from a disaster while others on the other side of the planet are experiencing an event that is totally devastating.  I'd like to talk about the nice things happening here but it just doesn't seem appropriate.


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The music room is taking great shape.  I got some indoor/outdoor carpet for the floor.  The space had been a converted carport.  I put it in with the help of my wife.  It's not a professional installation but it works for the room.   I was just playing my acoustic guitar in there and the acoustics of the room are rather interesting.  It's got one brick wall and the rest are drywall including the ceiling.  It's kind of funny how she and I quarrel over the particulars as we get settled in but we eventually come to a consensus.  I am really pleased at the house.


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Time to make that album I was talking about Slart. Tongue
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Originally posted by Lark the Starless Lark the Starless wrote:

Time to make that album I was talking about Slart. Tongue

Thanks again for the outline.  I'm seriously considering putting something together.  It will probably be about a month before I can start working on it.  I think it will take the form of me taking a section and just improvising on it.  Haven't worked out the details of how I'm going to get it recorded and into a format I can share.  I don't have any microphones.  I could do DVD video though. Big smile


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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by Lark the Starless Lark the Starless wrote:

Time to make that album I was talking about Slart. Tongue

Thanks again for the outline.  I'm seriously considering putting something together.  It will probably be about a month before I can start working on it.  I think it will take the form of me taking a section and just improvising on it.  Haven't worked out the details of how I'm going to get it recorded and into a format I can share.  I don't have any microphones.  I could do DVD video though. Big smile
 
You're welcome. I'm aware the length may be a bit too much. EmbarrassedLOL
 
That would be great. I'll be looking forward to that. Cool
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Tonight a full moon has risen in the east.  It will traverse to the west and beam in through the bedroom windows in early morning.  Sweet. Big smile 

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It's a really great moon here tonight as well...just watched it shine through the leafless trees, kinda foggy out. Big smile
...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"
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Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

It's a really great moon here tonight as well...just watched it shine through the leafless trees, kinda foggy out. Big smile
Nothing beats it being clear at night and you can see out. 

Hope to have all the CDs back on the shelving units today.


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I've found the ideal storage system for your collection Brian:
 
 
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Oh I hope so, Slart, you deserve to kick back and pull a CD off your shelf and rock out!  Beer

Let us know what the first official CD is once the stereo is reconnected. 

 
...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

I've found the ideal storage system for your collection Brian:
 
 
You're not suggesting I should store my CDs in Kayaks are you? Tongue

It's been a great day.  Got two window mistreatments up in the library and music room.  A temporary installation until I can hang them properly. My honey donated a couple pieces of fabric to me to use.  One is this black shear piece which is rather ordinary but I folded it over in half and you get these really cool fluctuating interference patterns as you walk by it.  My sister and brother in law came over for dinner.  Our first guests.  The CD and music DVDs are in place though will be elevated. 

For Finn, I'm overdue for a random load, so let's see what comes up first...

353 Holdsworth, Allan/ Gordon Beck    With a Heart in My Song




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Well, the last detail to complete the bathroom was completed today: the handle for the shower valve.  some sort of mixup apparently.  We made do.  I am so completely pleased with how the bathroom turned out.  About the only thing that was good about the old one was the blue and pink mosaic tile.  Let's just say it had major issues.  Now it's state of the art.  Still small, but all new fixtures, cabinets, accessories.  I really like the tile color I picked out.  I will follow through and make some pics of the place as more things get into place.

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As figures, glitches.  The new circuit breakers in the electrical panel started tripping too easily all of a sudden.  Probably an easy fix but limits the devices we can have active at once.  Fortunately the most vital stuff is on good quality original breakers from when the house was upgraded by previous owners.  The ones that started tripping are new and probably just defective.  The wiring went through a county inspection.  Still we have a great contractor that will get it taken care of and it's not likely to be a difficult fix.

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The moving in pains continue and once again you get back to the old house problems, or more appropriately at this stage, lot problems.  The old tree near the front creek and the driveway collapsed mostly.  Had not been able to get it taken care of before the flood.  Got a good company to saw it up and take it away.  The trees on this lot are both a gift and a menace sometimes.  

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Life's little victories: the wireless network adapter that works with Windows 7 arrived and now I can access the internet from my best computer which has a home in the music room.  I still have to work out all the particulars with getting the home network to communicate, Cakewalk to MIDI communicate with my MIDI communicateable keyboard and sequencer.  The current signature view is the library room.  The CPUnit and monitor and keyboard are now Residents Tongue of the music room.

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Well, I video'd my first take for the first segment of Crap We're About To Be Flooded (It Happened). Still trying to figure out how to get it off of the DVD into a format I can post...
Making progress, I think.

Well I can't sign in to the stinking utube can't get the stinking windows video program to work for me.  I'm calling it a day but I think I have something halfway decent for starters.


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Well, the ordeal is mostly over.  There's something I wanted to write about that happened today not related to the flood.  Not necessarily worthy of a separate thread at least I couldn't find one on animal cruelty.

My wife goes out the front door early in the morning and there's this brown and mostly black dog laying down on one side of the bridge looking at the house.  She's didn't grow up with pets like I did so she walks up to shoo it away to no avail.  Turned out it was a Rottweiler that had apparently chewed off the rope she was tied to and escaped from a jerk of an owner.  The dog was in fairly good shape though badly in need of a bath.  The rope was made into a collar and there was a bandanna underneath as if that helped any.  The rope had dug into her neck as we found out later when some rescuers showed up.  My wife had called county animal control but the rescuers showed up first.  I did try to help her (the dog, not my wife, have to be careful with use of pronouns) out of the bandanna which she had caught one of her front legs in after she had been wandering around for a while.  She snapped at me when I tried to help but had been following my wife all over the place as if to say please take me in.  We couldn't but I think she's in good hands now.


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Oh boy, another round of storms again.   Doesn't seem like we need to be worried.

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Oh this is weird.  When I got the Kawai K1 synth hooked up at the apartment the patches stored on board weren't working, just the ones on the memory card.  They are back.  The water got to the front right side of the keyboard and I assumed I would have to reconstruct them the hard way as there is no interface program that works with computers past Windows 3.1.   I'll have to do some playing around to see if it will work with my latest Windows 7 computer.  The amp that you see in current sig sounds great in the music room. Big smile 

Eh some of the onboard patches are still scrambled.  But the really freaky ones seem to be working. LOL


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Abercrombie, John    Characters    1978
Abercrombie, John, Dave Holland, Jack Dejohnette    Gateway 2    1978
Airto    Airto : Identity    1975
Akkernan, Jan    Oil In the Family    1981
Akkernan, Jan & Kaz Lux    Eli    1976
Ambrosia    Somewhere Never Travelled    1976
Bach, Johan Sebastian    Four Concertos For Harpsichord And Orchestra    1730
Bach, Johan Sebastian    Das Orgelwerk    1746
Bach, Johan Sebastian/The Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra    Musical Offering    1747
Badger    One Live Badger    1973
Banks, Peter    Two Sides Of Peter Banks    1973
Banks, Tony    Fugitive, The    1983
Banks, Tony    Soundtracks    1986
Baumann    Strangers In The Night    1983
Berlin, Jeff & Vox Humana    Champion    1985
Bernhardt, Warren    Solo Piano    1978
Bernhardt, Warren    Manhattan Update    1980
Bernhardt, Warren, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Mike Mainieri, Larry Coryell    Blue Montreaux    1979
Brainbox    Brainbox    ????
Brand X    Is There Anything About?    1982
Bruford    Bruford Tapes, The    1979
Bruford, Bill's Earthworks    Earthworks    1987
Burton, Gary    Turn Of The Century    1972
Burton, Gary    New Quartet, The    1973
Burton, Gary    Seven Songs For Quartet And Chamber Orchestra    1974
Burton, Gary The Quintet With Eberhard Weber    Ring    1974
Bush, Kate    Kick Inside, The    1977
Bush, Kate    Lionheart    1978
Byrne, David    Music For The Knee Plays    1985
Captain Beefheart    Abba Zabba    ????
Cheiftans, The and the RTE Orchestra    Year Of The French, The    1983
Cobham, Billy    Crosswinds    1974
Cobham, Billy    Total Eclipse    1974
Connors, Bill    Theme To The Gaurdian    1975
Coryell, Larry    Fairyland    1971
Coryell, Larry    Real Great Escape, The    1973
Coryell, Larry    Basics    1976
Coryell, Larry    European Impressions    1978
Coryell, Larry    Standing Ovation    1978
Coryell, Larry With The Eleventh House And Mahavishnu John McLaughlin    Planet End    1975
Coryell, Larry, John McLaughlin/Chick Corea/Mirosalv Vitous/Billy Cobham    Spaces    1974
Coryell, Larry/Philip Catherine    Twin-House    1977
Crack The Sky    Animal Notes    1976
Danser's Inferno    Creation One    1975
de Grassi, Al    Altiplano    1987
Debussy    Le Martyre De Saint-Sebastian    ????
Debussy & Ravel by Budapest String Quartet    Debussy & Ravel by Budapest String Quartet    ????
Debussy, Claude    Etudes For Piano Books I & II    ????
Debussy, Claude    Les Grands Maitres de la Musique    ????
DeJohnette, Jack    Pictures    1977
Di Meola, Al    Tour De Force - “Live”    1982
Di Meola, Al, Project    Soaring Through A Dream    1985
Double Image    Dawn    1978
Eleckrosonics    Electronic Music    1962
Eleventh House With Larry Coryell, The    Introducing The Eleventh House With Larry Coryell    1974
Eleventh House, The Featuring Larry Coryell    Level One    1975
Eleventh House, The Featuring Larry Coryell    Aspects    1976
Emerson, Lake & Powell    Emerson, Lake & Powell    1986
Ethos    (Ardour)    1977
Flash    Out Of Our Hands    1973
Flying Island    Another Kind Of Space    1976
FM    Black Noise    1978
FM    City Of Fear    1980
Fripp, Robert    Let The Power Fall    1981
Fripp, Robert And The League Of Crafty Guitarists    Live!    1986
Frith, Fredd and Henry Kaiser    With Friends Like These    1979?
Gabriel, Peter    Ain't That Peculiar? (Bootleg, Cleveland 1977)    1977
Gabriel, Peter    Plays Live    1983
Gabriel, Peter    Games Without Words (Bootleg from home studio)    ????
Garbarek, Jan    Dis    1976
Gaslini, Georgio    Meets Jean-Luc Ponty/Steve Lacy/Harry Beckett/Tony Oxley...    1976
Genesis    Seconds Out    1977
Genesis    Duke    1980
Genesis    Genesis    1983
Genesis    Invisible Touch    1986
Genesis    Story Of Genesis, The    1979?
Gentle Giant    Octopus    1973
Gismonti, Egberto    Solo    1979
Gleeson, Patrick    Beyond The Sun – The Planets    1976
Gong, Pierre Moerlen's    Downwind    1979
Gong, Pierre Moerlen's    Live    1980
Goodrick, Mick    In Pas(s)ing    1979
Grappelli, Stephane    Afternoon In Paris    1980
Grateful Dead    For The Faithful    1980
Green, Mike    Midnight Mirage    1976
Gruntz, George    Percussion Profiles    1978
GTR    GTR    1986
Hackett, Steve    Highly Strung    1982
Hackett, Steve    Bay Of Kings    1983
Hampton Grease Band, The    Music To Eat    1970
Hannson, Bo    Music Inspired By Watership Down    1977
Harrison, Jerry    Red And The Black, The    1981
Hassel, Jon/Brian Eno    Forth World Vol. 1 – Possible Musics    1980
Hendrix, Jimi    Rare Hendrix    1966
Hendrix, Jimi    Roots Of Hendrix, The    1966
Hodgkinson, Tim    Improvisations    1985
Holdsworth, Alan    i.o.u.    1982
Holdsworth, Alan    Atavachron    1986
Horslips    The Book Of Invasions – A Celtic Symphony    1976
Horslips    Aliens    1977
Howe, Steve    The Steve Howe Album    1979
Iron Butterfly    Scorching Beauty    1975
Jackson, Joe    Will Power    1987
Jarre, Jean Michel    Equinoxe    1978
Jas    Volcano    ????
Jethro Tull    Living In The Past    1971
Jethro Tull    Thick As A Brick    1972
Jethro Tull    Passion Play, A    1973
Jethro Tull/London Symphony Orchestra    A Classic Case    1985
Johnson, Alphonso    Spellbound    1977
Johnson, David Earle    Route Two    1981
Joos, Herbert    Philosophy Of The Flugelhorn, The    1974
Jordan, Stanley    Magic Touch    1985
Kawasaki, Ryo    Juice    1976
King Crimson    Earthbound    1972
King Crimson    Doctor D    1973
King Crimson    The Young Person's Guide To King Crimson    1976
King Crimson    Unpronounceable    198?
Kitaro    Astral Voyage    1978
Kitaro    Millenia    1982
Kitaro    Asia    1985
Kitaro    Full Moon Story    1985
Klaatu    Hope    1977
London Symphony Orchestra    We Know What We Like – The Music Of Genesis    1987
Mainieri, Mike and Warren Bernhardt    Free Smiles    1978
Morning Sky    Morning Sky    1973
Ogerman, Clause Featuring Jan Akkerman    Aranjuez    1981
Oregon    Crossing    1985
Osanna    Landscape Of Life    1974
Rivera, Scarlett    Scarlett Fever    1978
Shadowfax    Watercourse Way    1975
Skeleton Crew    Learn To Talk    1984
Sky    Cadmium    1983
Sky    The Great Balloon Race    1985
Toya & Fripp    Lady Or The Tiger, The    1986
Various Artists    Guitar Player    1977
Various Artists    Music And Rhythm – A Benefit Album For A World Of Music, Arts And Dance    1982
Various Artists    Against All Odds – Sountrack    1984
Various Artists    Jazz Flavours At The Atlanta Jazz Festival    1985
Wakeman, Rick    Journey To The Center Of The Earth    1974
Wakeman, Rick    The Myths And Legends Of King Arthur And The Knights Of The Roundtable    1975
Wakeman, Rick    White Rock    1976
Wakeman, Rick    Rhapsodies    1979
Wakeman, Rick    Country Airs    1986
Weber, Eberhard    The colours of Chloe    1973
Weber, Eberhard    Fluid Rustle    1979
Weber, Eberhard Colours    Silent Feet    1978
Weisburg, Tim    Dreamspeaker    1973
Wheeler, Kenny    Around 6    1979
Winwood, Steve, Jim Capaldi, Dave Mason, Chris Wood, Rick Grech, Reebop Kwaku Baah, Jim Gordon    Welcome To The Canteen    1971
Yes    9012 Live – The Solos    1985
Zappa, Frank    Bongo Fury    1974
Zappa, Frank    Joe's Garage Act I.    1979
Zappa, Frank    Joe's Garage Acts II & III    1979
Zappa, Frank    Orchestral Favorites    1979
Zappa, Frank    Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch    1982
Zappa, Frank    London Symphony Orchestra Vol. 1    1983
Zappa, Frank    Meets The Mothers Of Prevention    1985

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