The Delicate Sound

I never seem to get tired of movies about bands - or mostly about bands. Here are a bunch I like - what do you think? 1. A Hard Day's Night (1965) - the first and king of all band movies (to me). Legend has it that George Martin asked John Lennon to write a title track because they needed another tune to fill out the sound track for the movie that w as still in production. John (legend has it) went upstairs and came back down an hour later with "A Hard Day's Night" and said "there you go - now stop bothering me!" The world is still talking about whatever the heck the first chord is... 2. That Thing You Do! (1996) - a never was, could have been group from Erie, PA. Song by Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne and that new "supergroup" Tinted Windows). Tom Hanks and his Rita Wilson at their finest. Even though they play the main tune 5-6 times during the movie, it never gets old. 3. Almost Famous (2000) - where were you when Robert Plant yelled ...

I play in a cover band . We play live less than 6 times a year. That makes for a lot of fun at gigs because they occur so far apart. For us, one of the pinnacles in performing is that exquisite moment when someone in the audience recognizes what you are playing. Usually this moment is punctuated by a "yeah!" or on occasion "dude! That's [______] (insert artist/song name)." Whenever it happens we all get a little jolt of pride in our playing and a little bit of confirmation that we are playing to "our crowd." I call that moment the threshold of recognition . I also listen to a lot of music - sometimes live music. On quality live recordings I often enjoy hearing that moment on a macro level: the crowdsourcing version. One in particular that I like is from Underworld's Everything, Everything Live album . Underworld is a group that has been around since the 1980s and for the past 16 or 17 has been making excellent music that sits somewhere between ind...

I am hoping that I am the first person to use this term but I am sure that is not true. Schizofriendia (SKIT-zoh-frend-ee-ah) The common affliction amongst digerati that causes one to respond to a message received on one social platform with a message on a different social platform. Ex. She pinged me on Facebook but I replied on AIM