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[Rufus T. Firefly]

I saw that yes show 90125. In 1984. I was 15. I can't remember if anybody opened for them or if it was a bugs bunny cartoon show for half an hour.

That was probably the tour that started my not going to see Yes. They have evolved to become their own tribute band....

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Jeez, Rufus, all the compositions you've named are unlistenable. For me, anything by Glass heads the list.

Everything is listenable. But a closed mind hears nothing at all.

Wait, you can't listen to Cage's 4'33?

Whatever happened to Bach, Mozart, et al??

Ok, which Bach? Ok, JS? Still in the 18th century with Mozart and as mechanical and predictable in both form and style as ever.

If Bach were alive today he'd be the greatest synthesizer keyboardist alive,

[MurphOnMillerAve]

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If Bach were alive today he'd be the greatest synthesizer keyboardist alive,

Super point! I should imagine you would be right! Yet, you mean, we wouldn't be getting any more Toccatas and Fugues ?!!! But, but, I'm the odd-fellow in the group who listens to the Toccata & Fugue in D Minor, by reclining on the floor with the four speakers arranged around my head; plus, I have been known, more than once, to have gone quietly rushing into a church when I have heard the organ wafting its sounds out and onto the sidewalk on 5th Avenue, NYC.

[Roy]

If Bach were alive today he'd be the greatest synthesizer keyboardist alive,

Or, maybe he'd hate synthesized music.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

If Bach were alive today he'd be the greatest synthesizer keyboardist alive,

Or, maybe he'd hate synthesized music.

I'd like to think that he'd stretch every possible boundary and find all the notes in between the notes that we have yet to hear.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

If Bach were alive today he'd be the greatest synthesizer keyboardist alive,

Or, maybe he'd hate synthesized music.

I'd like to think that he'd stretch every possible boundary and find all the notes in between the notes that we have yet to hear.

How about Rachmaninoff? How much deeper could something like his Rhapsody go, and still be heard thoroughly? Where it takes us now is almost fathomless, from the very first very recognizable few notes. Then, at the B-flat major moment, where he slows it down, the exquisite, beautiful melody begins , and the elegance is far beyond verbal description, isn't it. Only a heart made of stone would not be moved by where he takes us with his variations on so simple a romantic theme, one of the most beautiful themes ever, in all of human history. IMHO.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Or, maybe he'd hate synthesized music.

I'd like to think that he'd stretch every possible boundary and find all the notes in between the notes that we have yet to hear.

How about Rachmaninoff? How much deeper could something like his Rhapsody go, and still be heard thoroughly? Where it takes us now is almost fathomless, from the very first very recognizable few notes. Then, at the B-flat major, where he slows it down, the elegance is far beyond verbal description, isn't it. Only a heart made of stone would not be moved by where he takes us with his variations on so simple a romantic theme, one of the most beautiful themes ever, in all of human history. IMHO.

I'm more of Mussorgsky fan.....

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I'll look him up.

Ooohhhhhh, "Night on Bald Mountain," I should have known! (It's playing now...)

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I'll look him up.

Ooohhhhhh, "Night on Bald Mountain," I should have known!

Yes, and "Pictures at an Exhibition"

The piano version or the orchestrated version from Ravel, and then there's ELP's version, and somewhere I used to have a pipe organ version.....

[healey36]

I'd like to think that he'd stretch every possible boundary and find all the notes in between the notes that we have yet to hear.

How about Rachmaninoff? How much deeper could something like his Rhapsody go, and still be heard thoroughly? Where it takes us now is almost fathomless, from the very first very recognizable few notes. Then, at the B-flat major, where he slows it down, the elegance is far beyond verbal description, isn't it. Only a heart made of stone would not be moved by where he takes us with his variations on so simple a romantic theme, one of the most beautiful themes ever, in all of human history. IMHO.

I'm more of Mussorgsky fan.....

Pictures at an Exhibition...ELP...1971...

Originally for piano, V. Horowitz did a wicked version as well.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I'll look him up.

Ooohhhhhh, "Night on Bald Mountain," I should have known!

Yes, and "Pictures at an Exhibition"

The piano version or the orchestrated version from Ravel, and then there's ELP's version, and somewhere I used to have a pipe organ version.....

That sounds like it would be a rollicking good romp!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I'll look him up.

Ooohhhhhh, "Night on Bald Mountain," I should have known!

Yes, and "Pictures at an Exhibition"

The piano version or the orchestrated version from Ravel, and then there's ELP's version, and somewhere I used to have a pipe organ version.....

That sounds like it would be a rollicking good romp!

Had it on a 7.5" reel..........

[robert.]

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2 intersections a and b. Intersection A has 2 stop signs. Car 1 is stopped. Car 1 will wait for car 2 to stop before moving into the intersection. Even if car 2 is a several lengths away. Now in intersection B there is only one stop sign. That is for car 1. Car 2 does not have to stop. Yet car 1 will almost always pull right out in front of car 2 Why is that?

[rogruth]

Back to Bach.
IMHO if JS were alive and writing music today it would be some form of popular music just as he did when he was alive.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Back to Bach.
IMHO if JS were alive and writing music today it would be some form of popular music just as he did when he was alive.

He'd have been sitting in with Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, Tony Kaye, Patrick Moraz, Edgar Froese, Jon Lord, and Jordan Rudress