ATD, page 302, 3rd paragraph

[Clarkson Fisher III]

Wow these insights helped me too. Thanks Dave.

I'm reminded of *In Tune and On Time. *
http://www.djshadow.com/release/dj-shadow-live-tune-and-time

An amazing live performance recording where DJ Shadow not only matches
tempos (In Time) but also tunings (In Tune).


On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Alex Nunez <penarecords at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> "Pandemonium did not begin to amount to a patch on what seemed to be
> >> approaching them instead of they it, swelling to surround them, a
> >> valley-wide symphony of gunshots, screaming, blaring on musical
> >> instruments..."
> >>
> >> Specifically the first segment. In what way does pandemonium (chaos,
> >> disorder) "patch" things?
> >
> > Wilkommen!
> >
> > ... but do note, "did not begin to amount to a patch," i.e., ...
> >
> > 5:  someone or something equal or comparable --usually used in negative
> > constructions <the new chairman isn't a patch on his predecessor>
> >
> > http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/patch
>
> "Spike Jones Jr., whose father's orchestral effects had a deep and
> indelible effect on me as a child, said once in an interview, 'One of
> the things that people don't realize about Dad's kind of music is,
> when you replace a C-sharp with a gunshot, it has to be a C-sharp
> gunshot or it sounds awful.'''
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=mTlDf5j2en0C&pg=PT13#v=onepage&q&f=false
>
>    "Welcome, music lovers, to the cheerfully deranged world of Spike
> Jones and his City Slickers. There's gunshots and cowbells aplenty,
> not to mention class hostility, first-rate musicianship, subverted
> expectations, hair-trigger timing, and more than enough material for
> that interesting subset of folks looking to be offended ...
>
> [...]
>
> "'. . . if you made planned mistakes in musical arrangements and took
> the place of regular notes in well-known tunes with sound effects,
> there might be some fun in it.'
>
> [...]
>
> "... Spike running around deploying his pistol shots like a symphony
> conductor waving a baton ...
>
> [...]
>
> http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_music_jones.html
> -
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