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Beardedone · Post by **Beardedone** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:37 pm

I thought I'd make a psychedelic guitar version of Popcorn (probably the first hit single with Moog synths), but then I found out that Crazy Frog has just done it, so that's canned... Damn that frog.

Maybe do it backwards.

xander · Post by **xander** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:43 pm

You could always dredge up an old Dick Hymen or Less Baxter cover -- among the very first moog musicians...

rockstar_not · Post by **rockstar_not** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:44 pm

Sepheritoh wrote:Oh faq these themes. Just do not bother as they are so vugue no one understands it but everybody is quick to complain "your song is not in the theme".

Last month the teacher said very clearly no faqing hippy songs. And then we end up with people voting only when a song has a hippy feel.

It is getting a bit of a closed private club who is allowed to know what the theme is.

Sepheritoh,

Yes, I voted only for songs that gave me a hippie feel and stated that's how I was voting. What was the harm of that? Until there are voting rules on style (rather than just length of song and song name, etc.) we can't expect to control how people vote.

Regardless, xander won the contest with a track that absolutely had no hippie feel to it at all. It was a killer and creepy track (even though I didn't vote for it).

Now if someone just puts out a drop-D guitar chunkfest as their contest entry, or jungleacidhouse 4/4 thing - without any sonic or lyrical reference to Mr. Moog, I'm not going to be voting for them - just letting it be known up front.

We are paying tribute here. pHz did make that pretty clear with this statement:

only one way to go this month ... without this man we arguably might not be having these contests at all ...

I personally am going to be thinking of artists and songs that got me interested in synthesizers way back in the day. My track will be a surprise as it was an unlikely guy that got me interested.

-Scott

stanlea · Post by **stanlea** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:47 pm

Well, Moog'mood is just the best title, but I won't do a Monk's cover. For my first posting, I want to have time and it's not so easy with all my kids crawling around, maybe I'll kick their asses and record them...

pHz · Post by **pHz** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:49 pm

rockstar_not wrote:We are paying tribute here. pHz did make that pretty clear with this statement:
only one way to go this month ... without this man we arguably might not be having these contests at all ...

erm ...

slainte

rob

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:51 pm

pHz wrote:
rockstar_not wrote:We are paying tribute here. pHz did make that pretty clear with this statement:
only one way to go this month ... without this man we arguably might not be having these contests at all ...
erm ...

slainte rob

yep without teach these monthly contests wouldnt happen.

pHz · Post by **pHz** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:52 pm

...

slainte

rob

rockstar_not · Post by **rockstar_not** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:56 pm

vurt wrote:

yep without teach these monthly contests wouldnt happen.

Agreed.

Haven't said it in awhile - thanks rob/pHz.

-Scott

pHz · Post by **pHz** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 5:00 pm

of course theyd happen ... just some other mug would be taking all the flak (hello mr friedman !!! ) ...

slainte

rob

pHz · Post by **pHz** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 5:01 pm

and thats not what i meant by the 'erm ... ' anyway ...

slainte

rob

xander · Post by **xander** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 5:11 pm

rockstar_not wrote: ...Regardless, xander won the contest with a track that absolutely had no hippie feel to it at all...

You say!!!

Before yer 'hippies', there was the:

Where do you think the term "hippy" came from? eH?

No 'hippy' feel.... Hmfff!

Y I otter

stanlea · Post by **stanlea** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 5:13 pm

Oh I'm shocked...

emdot_ambient · Post by **emdot_ambient** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 5:18 pm

...xander wrote:Before yer 'hippies', there was the...

I dig that, daddy-o!

www.wikipedia.org wrote:In the 1940s and 1950s the terms "hipster" and "beatnik" came into usage by the American Beat generation to describe jazz and swing music performers, and evolved to also describe the bohemian-like counterculture that formed around the art of the time.

The 1960s hippie culture evolved from the beat culture, and was greatly influenced by changing music style and the creation of rock & roll from jazz.

The first use of the word Hippie on Television was on WNBC TV Channel 4 in New York City at the opening of the New York World's Fair in 1964, some young Anti-Vietnam War protesters with long hair like The Beatles were called Hippies by NYPD and reporters. The police swung their batons at them to chase them off the escalators and they fought back. They had long hair and beards and wore T-Shirts and Denim Jeans.

On the East coast of the U.S., in Greenwich Village, young counterculture advocates were called, and referred to themselves as "hips". To be "hip" meant at that time, "to be in the know". Young disaffected youth from the suburbs of New York City flocked to the Village in their oldest clothes, to fit into the counterculture movement, the coffee houses, etc. Radio station WBAI was the first media outlet to use the term "hippie" to describe the poorly-dressed middle class youths as a pejorative term originally meaning "hip wannabes".

September 6, 1965, marked the first San Francisco newspaper story, by Michael Fellon, that used the word "hippie" to refer to younger bohemians. The name did not catch on in mass media until almost two years later.

Hippie action in the San Francisco area, particularly the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, centered around the Diggers, a guerrilla street theater group that combined spontaneous street theater, anarchistic action, and art happenings in their agenda of creating a "free city". The San Francisco Diggers grew from two radical traditions thriving in the area in the mid-1960s: the bohemian/underground art/theater scene, and the new left/civil rights/peace movement.

Los Angeles also had a vibrant hippie scene in the mid-'60s, arising from a combination of the L.A. beat scene centered around Venice and its coffeehouses, which spawned the Doors, and the Sunset Strip, the quintessential L.A. hippie gathering area, with its seminal rock clubs, such as the Whisky-a-Go-Go, and the Troubadour just down the hill. The Strip was also the location of the actual protest referred to in the Buffalo Springfield's early hippie anthem of 1966, For What It's Worth.

Summer 1967 in Haight-Ashbury became known as the "Summer of Love" as young people gathered (75,000 by police estimates) and shared the new culture of music, drugs, and rebellion. However, the Diggers felt co-opted by media attention and interpretation, and at the end of the summer held a Death of Hippie parade.

The hippie movement reached its height in the late 1960s, as evidenced by the July 7, 1967 issue of TIME magazine, which had for its cover story: The Hippies: The Philosophy of a Subculture.

Because many hippies wore flowers in their hair and distributed flowers to passerby, they earned the alternative name, "flower children".

xander · Post by **xander** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 5:25 pm

emdot_ambient wrote:
...xander wrote:Before yer 'hippies', there was the...
I dig that, daddy-o!

www.wikipedia.org wrote:In the 1940s and 1950s the terms "hipster" and "beatnik" came into usage by the American Beat generation to describe jazz and swing music performers, and evolved to also describe the bohemian-like counterculture that formed around the art of the time.

The 1960s hippie culture evolved from the beat culture, and was greatly influenced by changing music style and the creation of rock & roll from jazz.

Well done lad!

emdot_ambient · Post by **emdot_ambient** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 5:27 pm

...xander wrote:
emdot_ambient wrote:
...xander wrote:Before yer 'hippies', there was the...
I dig that, daddy-o!
www.wikipedia.org wrote:blah, blah, blah
Well done lad!

I have certain powers. I use them for good.

september theme ... GOSSIP