Happy Halloween!

[rv_bass]

Happy Halloween from your friends in New England

[lbpesq]

Hope everyone had a happy and socially responsible Halloween!  We stayed in and watched “The Shining”.   No one can leer like Nicholson.

“Here’s Johnny!“

Bill, tgo

[edwardofhuncote]

Love the Dragon, Rob. That's a mighty brave passenger though! 

All the youngsters around here are long-grown-up-and-moved-away. Very few people decorate, or observe the holiday at all since I've been here. I played the last gig on the 2020 calendar, so I wasn't home until late anyway. I did sit up and watch a movie, but not a scary one. (it was a Sean Connery flick we liked years ago; "Medicine Man".)


*At least Josh was in the dress-up spirit. If you ever thought someone in your band had issues... our frontman showed up to the gig dressed as Buzz Lightyear. It. Could. Always. Be. Worse.

[StephenR]

Happy Halloween!

We never get any trick or treaters (interesting that the spelling correction tried changing trick to trip). There are finally a few new families in our neighborhood that have young kids and it was sad they couldn't go out and celebrate because of the virus. We also stayed home. I turned down a gig at a private party for 30 guests, they offered us excellent money and individual hotel rooms but we have gotten reports from musicians that have been playing parties and the guests start off masked and socially distance until they get buzzed. I am in a high risk category and so is our rhythm guitarist so no parties for us. Breaks my heart to not be able to go out and gig.

I marked the occasion by playing the Sun Ra song "Halloween in Harlem". We also watched Jack and Jorma's Halloween stream with Larry Campbell and Friday night's Shakedown Stream offering, Dead Ahead. Volume was really low on this weeks Jorma stream but Jack's new Ribbecke acoustic bass still sounded excellent.

[pauldo]

Local college radio station played War of the World’s. 
Welles’s narrative is gripping.

[rv_bass]

Stephen, cool tune, I hear Harlem in the 50s and 70s in there, as well as a hint of The Munsters and Adams Family! very interesting stuff! 

[gearhed289]

Hung out with the family and neighbors a little bit. We just put buckets of candy by the sidewalk for kids to help themselves. The neighbors across the street go crazy decorating every year, so there's always kids swarming around there which is fun. We did the house up pretty good ourselves! Also listened to Black Sabbath's Paranoid album. 

[cozmik_cowboy]

Volume was really low on this weeks Jorma stream but Jack's new Ribbecke acoustic bass still sounded excellent.

Is that the one with a bit of his late wife's blood used in the build?  If so, yeah - as near as I can tell on a computer, it is one sweet instrument!

Local college radio station played War of the World’s. 
Welles’s narrative is gripping.

When I was in high school, the local college station ("WMCO: The Rock Of New Concord!") played WOTW every year; classic!

Peter

[StephenR]

Stephen, cool tune, I hear Harlem in the 50s and 70s in there, as well as a hint of The Munsters and Adams Family! very interesting stuff! 

Love the head on this one and the slinky processional-sounding groove with appropriately spooky instrumental embellishment. Definitely a tune that shows Sun Ra's sense of humor. There are two really beautiful flute ensemble pieces on the same album, "Pleiades" and the opening track "The Soul Vibrations of Man". The original LP on Sun Ra's Saturn label is pretty rare and came with no track listings but did have a printed cover, a lot of the Saturn releases had plain covers that the band painted or drew on, same with some of the labels.

Volume was really low on this weeks Jorma stream but Jack's new Ribbecke acoustic bass still sounded excellent.

Is that the one with a bit of his late wife's blood used in the build?  If so, yeah - as near as I can tell on a computer, it is one sweet instrument!

I am aware that there is documentation about the build of this bass but haven't seen it. Pretty sure that some of Diana's hair was incorporated into one of Jack's four "Diana" Ribbecke basses so if there is blood incorporated in this one it wouldn't surprise me. Another cool instrument Jack broke out for two of the earlier Jorma streams was his bass balalaika which was heavily modified by Rick Turner back in the early 70s. Even though Jack doesn't own the largest variant of bass balalaika his is still huge. It has no pickups but sounded amazing.

[cozmik_cowboy]

I am aware that there is documentation about the build of this bass but haven't seen it. Pretty sure that some of Diana's hair was incorporated into one of Jack's four "Diana" Ribbecke basses so if there is blood incorporated in this one it wouldn't surprise me.

OK, that sent me looking, and it seems my memory failed me; hair it was. 

Of course, it also quotes Tom Ribbecke as saying "There will only ever be one true "Diana" bass."  I guess that would be to differentiate the original from those without her hair.

Peter

[edwardofhuncote]

Could be, a little bit of the plot from "The Red Violin" crept in, and corrupted your file. Been there. 

[cozmik_cowboy]

As an archivist, I hold to the motto "If it isn't eye-readable, it isn't preserved"  (Remember that next time some one talks about digitizing something to "save" it).

And if anyone could eye-read the files in my brainpan, I'd spend the rest of my days strapped to a bed on a Thorazine drip; I mean, talk about corrupt!!

Peter

[peoplechipper]

I'd hate to have my brain pan read, would not be good for my continued freedom...loved the Sun Ra; never really heard him before but loved his quirky take on things and music. He sounds in this tune like a Twilight Zone episode soundtrack gone even more off the rails than the script...I will have to listen to more, Tony

[StephenR]

Glad you enjoyed the Sun Ra Tony. He had a unique vision and over the years the band released a ton of music, much of it on his own Saturn label. A lot of stuff can be found on youtube but the easiest way to sort through, and check out the breadth of styles, is to head to the Sun Ra Music Archive page on Bandcamp. You can listen to entire releases before purchasing, or not purchasing. If you poke around, IMO, there is something there for everyone.
https://sunramusic.bandcamp.com/music

Did you ever do anything with the Alembic pickup you got from me?