Let's Rock Week today: Jimi Part Deux

Lets keep the wagon rolling with Jimi today. & one more for the road... (Play us out Jimi) Beautiful soul that guy had.

Let's Rock Week today: Jimi

Jimi rocking out -- he'd be 69 now, where does the time go? (Not that I was even alive when HE was but still.)

Purple Haze defines cool. Bring it down Jimi Red House More later this afternoon.

Let's Rock Week

Here we are in a new week and I am stricken by a desire for simpler times -- for .. better times. Nostalgia is in the air tonight and that means I gotta have a theme for the week. This one is good rock tunes that I dug since I was a kid... Stuff that for whatever reason got me deep in the gut and resonated with me for one reason or another, it's going to be a little all over the place but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Without further ado the first track on Let's Rock Week...

Huge Breakfast, Enormous Turkey with ALL the fixins' & Antacids

Yes! It's one of the finest holidays ever created - I can finally come out of the closet and be the glutton I actually am! What could be better than indulging in great food for a 24 hour period completely guilt free?

You've got to love those pilgrims and Indians (who really had no idea at the time of what they were getting themselves into.)

Celebrate thanks.

Personally I try to celebrate thanks everyday but the daily grind does get in the way sometimes doesn't it? Here in America we could use a few more holidays like this one -- without some religious affiliation connotation attached... Even the Fourth of July (Our independence day for those who don't know ... or care much) has 'God Bless America' attached to it.

Maybe if we could get away from worrying about deities and what role they might (or don't) play in our lives, we could make some progress as a species instead of teams who are competing in the My God is better than yours contest that simply HAS to happen at most of our 'substantial' holidays.

Halloween and Thanksgiving -- two of the best days of the year... Although I do like the bunny idea that comes with Easter -- if only it was just about the bunnies and not 'resurrection' to bring me down... But I digress...

THANKS GOES TO...

Thanks for all the wonderful things I have been given, or had the opportunity to work for -- thanks for a family that puts up with my nonsense and doesn't bother me about too much of it... Thanks for all of you!; who have been curious enough and have been loyal readers of my 'Broadcast' here and my tweets as @thedrschizoid on Twitter.

Enough corniness, but I genuinely do appreciate y'all and I just wanted to let you know how much you RULE in my book.

Until tomorrow.

P.S. Found this pic and it occurred to me how awesome it would be if this was the face across the Thanksgiving table saying grace...

No, I'm not weird ... I'm UNIQUE.

Change of Plans...

Ok -- here's the deal, the album that was slated for a December 10 2011 release looks like it is going to be pushed back a bit, I can't definitively give an exact date (or if it even WILL be late for sure) but I'm guessing no more than 2 weeks but ...

No one knows what tomorrow brings.

Maybe it WILL all come together well within my time frame.

*shrugs*

Its always the vocals that take the longest, and they always sound the worst to me... Wish me luck with it.

I have some buttons and T shirts and such made, & I will be giving (yes GIVING) away some to some of my Schizoid-o-philes.

I am gearing up for a Thanksgiving feast of cosmic proportions and looking forward to finishing up a few tunes (finally.) It's been years on the back burner and I have just staked out a few minutes here and there in between the business of life to dial in some decent sounds and lay down some tracks(although I doubt I will ever get everything exactly the way I want it.)

Just wanted to post an update as its been awhile, but I have been insanely busy -- hope all is good with y'all and you are all looking forward to to some noise made by the good Doctor...

All for now.

PART II of Only the BEST 70s TV Show intros EVER... Of all time.. or maybe just the 70s.

Continuation from yesterday:

A buddy in real life reminded me of Buck Rogers the CLASSIC 70s show.

Shout out to my twitter bud -- @_reSonans (Check out his website http://gregoryleenewsome.ca/) for reminding me about this OTHER one -- Wonder Woman... (I like Season Two's intro better; simply because Lynda Carter was off the charts in hot-itude-- much more than the cartoon intro from season one. I STILL am totally in love with her.)

Battle of the Planets -- Kick ass show -- people dressed as bird people flying space ships and the voice-over guy was the voice of a generation.

Only the BEST 70s TV Show intros EVER... Of all time.. or maybe just the 70s.

Great music. I love these funky intros.

Starsky and Hutch

Kojak -- Who loves ya baby?

Chips -- I STILL dig the horns

The Incredible Hulk -- LOVED this show -- and the soundtrack for this show was AWESOME.

The Jetsons -- Yes its a cartoon but it had great music Barney Miller -- FEEL that funk -- its alive and well circa 1977.

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Great Space Coaster TV SPECIAL

And now for a real bit of pop culture that formed a lot of the young minds which developed into the old geezers wandering about right now ..

Great Space Coaster SPECIAL Parts 1-5

The GREATEST Cover Songs you've never heard -- Better than the original!

Ahmet & Dweezil Zappa - Rocking out Britney Spears Version Baby One More Time.

What can I say> I am apparently filled with some heavy chunky chunk guitar rage at the moment.

Very cool guys.

& NOW

Fear Factory - Cars

For the AUTHORIZED VIDEO click here -- but be warned there's gonna be an advertisement before it starts -- great vid though -- I hate posting ads MORE though.

More later.

Home Composer: James Schafer

Technology Today: Film Composer James Schafer

One of the best parts of this little vid I found was the camera panning over the set up that this fellow uses in creating film scores. Decent info for some of the hardware required for soundtrack work and what that entails. I like the music -- although I would do it differently it obviously struck a chord with the judges in this contest, and I do appreciate the work put in.

Enjoy.

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Sigmund the Sea Monster, Big Mac, OLD SCHOOL Transformers

Krofft - The sea monster family is chased out of their cave.

Part One

Commercial Break:

BigMacs HAVE been around forever.

Part Two

Transformers Episode 1: More Than Meets the Eye

Vinnie Colaiuta - Solo

Sometimes a good drum solo just makes me smile...

Time to learn a little. Today: Economics

Mike Maloney was lucky enough to interview Congressman Ron Paul. Although the interview itself is dated (filmed in late 2007), the ideals of liberty, free markets, and gold delivering a knockout blow to fiat currency are not.

Composer: Philip Glass

Not my usual cup of tea but I am feeling 'ethereal' and maybe a little 'dreamy' on this fine day. Minimalism: very 'soundtrack-y' and I mean that in a good way. It can be added to just about any images or video and make it an experience that is greater than the sum of it's parts (Think Enya.)

Very pretty. Truman Show Soundtrack - It's a Life

And now for something a little more 'ballsy.'

Powaqqatsi - Anthem - Part 1

Daylight Savings Time,

How I hate thee.

... ... ...

My life is 'off' by an hour for at LEAST a week.

... ... ...

The feeling of being LATE for EVERYthing is constant.

... ... ...

Sleeping late yet still feeling the urge to be somewhere I probably should've been an hour ago.

... ... ...

And what the hell is that 1 hour that repeats?

Now my question is... if I set a meeting at 1:15 AM on the day the clocks change -- which 1:15 IS it?

There ARE TWO freakin' 1:15 AMs for Christ's sake!

I don't know about everyone else, but my world is difficult enough without managing an extra duplicate hour -- and don't get me started on LEAP YEAR.

Why don't we just REWORK the whole system of time once and for all so there are no more bugs or surprises, and not try to "save daylight" as we have wondrous new creations called incandescent (or if you are feeling modern -- fluorescent) lights so we can continue our lives whether it be day or night.

Now that I think about it -- time zones are basically irrelevant as well -- who says 'daytime' has to begin in the AM? You can wake up when ever the hell you want to so in a world under ME : NO Daylight Savings time : NO Leap Year : No Time Zones.

Dr. Schizoid for president 2012.

End of rant.

P.S.

This photo sums up how I feel about who first created and then the person who implemented daylight savings time. Feel free to disagree, (you'll be wrong though). G'Night y'all.

Just a quickie til later..

Since we had one of the strangest weather fronts that I can remember the fall out being that I was forced to take care of real life stuff for a few days to clean up the mess and get life back to 'normal' (for lack of a better word) for myself and my little clan.

It takes a lot of time to be me (actually it takes ALL of mine) and now with the daylight savings time adjustment I am going to be thrown off my game for at LEAST a week...(Hey what can I say -- I fear change.)

Anywho, I am still alive and kicking after the weirdest blizzard in my history, work on the album is coming along, and I don't want any of my faithful minions to worry about their favorite, incorrigible Doctor.

And now -- a totally unrelated photo which just makes me smile that I have to share. (I do so Love that Dita.)

Hope you dig it too, see you soon!

PART II of 'One of the BEST Zappa Bios I've seen'

And now for the exciting conclusion:

PART FOUR

PART FIVE

And now the even MORE exciting conclusion OF the conclusion. Aside from some of the edits (which COULD at times be a bit distracting) There is lots of data here to look at, interpret and incorporate into your own musical idiom.

Music IS the best.

One of the BEST Zappa Bios I've seen

As you all might or might not know I am a complete disciple of all things Zappa, I like his sense of humor, his orchestral work and even some of his 'harder to listen to' music is tops in my book. I only preface this so you know I am not just posting any old vids and claiming them to be the latest and greatest I've seen without having seen much more.

I've studied this guy for years.

But I ... digress.

This is a six parter; 3 of which were set to go live YESTERDAY but I mistyped the date (Blame the good Dr for ruining what could have been your perfect day with Earth-Surface Broadcast included!)

So they are ALL coming at you today. (Three NOW, and three later this afternoon.

GREAT insight into how the master worked in his later years, I think it is well worth watching and making the time for. Footage like this is rare and invaluable into the process behind composing music, it also begs the question:

What would a guy like Frank be doing with today's technology, and how much further COULD he have gone after having a more than 60 record catalog (at the time of his death)?

PART ONE

PART TWO

PART THREE

Check back later -- More in a bit.

Funniest new sport ever!

It looks exactly as you would imagine it.