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"This critically acclaimed band counts Peter Gabriel, Robbie Robertson, and Jim Kerr among it's biggest fans. So what are you waiting for? This is a Call well worth heeding."- Rolling Stone
Chicago Tribune written by Lou Carloza June 1998
While some might consider The Call's best days behind them, the compelling, urgent set delivered by Michael Been and company at the Subterranean Cafe and Cabaret Thursday night decisively proved otherwise. Playing without a bassist (but with original members Scott Musick on drums and Tom Ferrier on guitar), Been wowed the standing-room-only crowd with a balanced mix of old standbys and thoughtful, new originals - including the hypnotic, steam rolling, "All You Hold On To" a bonus track on the just released "The Best Of The Call".
In strong voice through 17 songs and a generous encore, Been held nothing back, bringing a biting rock brilliance to the group's semi-acoustic lineup. He's also a spiritual, anthemic songwriter who flows easily between the searing and the soaring, and the night's set offered strong evidence that The Call, unsung or not, may well be the closest thing America has ever had to its own U2. No wonder Bono, Peter Gabriel and Bruce Cockburn are Call fans.
If pressed to pick a highlight - the entire night played like the crest of a wave - this reviewer gives a nod to "Everywhere I Go" from 1986's "Reconciled". Ferrier and Been stretched the songs middle with atmospheric solos long on emotion and absent of cliche before hammering home the song's thunderous tag. Likewise, it was impossible to resist "The Walls Came Down" - especially when Been, clearly taken by the crowds enthusiasm, let fly a mighty, celebratory whoop at the end of the song. Rock shows may come bigger, flashier and costlier, but they don't get much more immediate and passionate than this.
"Spiritual adventuring by a California band that dances well clear of high seriousness into a unique groove" says TIME magazine of "Into The Woods", rating Into The Woods as one of the top ten rock albums of 1987.
"The Call opened the evening with an urgent , driving set, highlighted by songs from the band's new album, "Into The Woods", and it's previous one, "Reconciled", and proved why this band deserves more attention than it's been receiving."- David Kronke, Dallas times Herald
"The Call consciously avoids trendiness and continues making music from the heart. This is a band to watch."- Dave Golladay, Pittsburgh Leader
"The Call's music is just good well-crafted rock and roll. By the middle of their set, the sold-out Chrysler Hall was crammed with people dancing in, on and around their seats. The Call were great in concert. The crowd loved them, and so did I."- Lia Braganza, York Town Crier
Since The Call released their self-titled debut LP in January, 1982, the group has made it abundantly clear that this is a band with bigger issues on its collective mind than mere chart success.
"We were never impressed by fashion, or the latest haircut or the newest trend", says Michael Been, The Call's vocalist, bassist and main songwriter. "With us, it was always the music. The music is everything. The cult of personality and celebrity that surrounds rock and roll and the modern pop culture in general, never really interested us. I would say that if it got to a point where music was just a function of making money, and we had to play a song we didn?t believe in, or present ourselves in a way that wasn?t true to us, I don?t think we?d do it anymore. I'd get into another line of work because that?s not why I play music. Don't get me wrong, we would love to be able to do a song that everyone loved and have it be a big hit. We'd rather have a hit record than not have one, but I don?t think it's in our nature to fake it or try and create something our of nothing".
Many of the lyrics unflinchingly examine the dark side of human nature, while acknowledging the redemptive potential of our capacity for love. Michael Been considers his compositions "basically love songs. I'm talking about the love between us all. I think it gets down to what love demands of us. Unconditional love and acceptance - - where you love not only what is lovable in a person, but you also love their weaknesses as well as their strengths, their failures as much as their success, and their ugliness as well as their beauty - - to me this is true love, God's love. And I'm not even sure it's humanly possible. I'm still working on that one."
How did the CALL start? The Call was formed in 1980 in Santa Cruz, California, with Michael on guitar, Scott Musick on drums, Tom Ferrier on guitar, and Greg Freeman on bass. Yet the genesis of their music goes back much further.
Michael Been grew up in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. "I grew up on rock and roll; Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, The Beatles, Stones and Yardbirds. I started playing guitar and as soon as I was old enough, I had a band," says Michael.
He moved to Chicago at age 16, attending high school during the politically charged late 60's. There he saw lots of blues greats such as Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, and Jr. Parker. He listened to Bob Dylan and especially THE BAND, a strong influence musically, lyrically and spiritually.
Michael headed to California in 1972. In Los Angeles, he met drummer Scott Musick, a fellow Oklahoman who also shared an affection for the music of THE BAND. Scott and Michael played in a variety of bands in the Los Angeles area before moving to Santa Cruz in 1976. For the next three years, Michael worked on his songwriting while playing in several different bands with Scott. The band Motion Pictures was formed when Michael and Scott joined forces with two musicians from the Bay Area - guitarist Tom Ferrier and bassist Greg Freeman. "It all fell together so naturally. We played together so effortlessly and trusted each other," Michael says.
Ultimately, Motion Pictures became The Call. By January of 1980, the band was sending around demo tapes to record companies, eventually signing with Mercury/Polygram. Their debut LP The Call was recorded in England with Hugh Padgham producing. The album featured the keyboard talents of THE BAND's Garth Hudson, who had been impressed by the group's lyrics and improvisational abilities, and who remained a friend and occasional sideman, also appearing on the band's next two albums. The debut album won a considerable amount of critical acclaim, as did the following year's Modern Romans, on which the band took over its own production responsibilities. Modern Romans gained mainstream acceptance despite subject matter that radio programmers ten to shy away from. Their single, "The Walls Came Down" and its video, earned an enormous amount of radio and MTV play. This was followed by the band's 1983 tour of the United States and Europe opening for Peter Gabriel.
The Call's 1984 release, Scene Beyond Dreams, demonstrated continued growth for the band and offered evidence of Michael's increasing tendency towards lyrical introspection. It was during this period that Jim Goodwin, originally form Oregon, joined the band on keyboards. Also at this time, Greg Freeman left the group and Michael switched to bass guitar.
In 1985 The Call attempted to get away from Polygram Records and its management company and found themselves embroiled in a legal battle. "The band didn't play for quite a while and it took a lot out of us but I really feel we became a much stronger group because of it, ? says Michael.
With The Call's first Elektra LP, 1986's Reconciled, featuring radio favorites like "I Still Believe" and "Everywhere I Go", Michael's songwriting carried a more forgiving, less confronting tone than much of the material on the earlier discs. Legendary guitarist Robbie Robertson of THE BAND appeared on this album, as did Jim Kerr and Peter Gabriel. Michael returned the favor by singing on Gabriels' LP So, as well as Simple Minds' album Once Upon A Time. The Call opened for Simple Minds on their Spring ?86 tour of the United States and Canada.
Unlike Reconciled, however, The Call's new Elektra LP Into The Woods, is played and sung entirely by the group. "That was intentional," says Michael. "We wanted it to be just the band this time. We also made an effort to incorporate different styles of playing that we learned over the years. I can hear blues, soul, gospel, folk, country, of course rock and roll, and even classical influence. But it still sounds like The Call."
Into The Woods clearly demonstrated just how far The Call has come in the six years since its vinyl debut. Tracks like "I Don't Wanna", "It Could Have Been Me", "Day or Night" and "In The River" (the latter featuring a rare co-lead vocal by Scott, who co-wrote the song with Michael) mark this The Call's most intense and compelling effort to date.
When asked about the other members of the band, Michael said, "They're extraordinary people. Very unshowbusiness, very bright and extremely talented, and all very different in their approaches. Jim is the youngest, he?s full of life, loves life, Scott's very intense, but he?s also the funniest guy I?ve ever known. And Tom, a.k.a. Dickie, is an original - indescribable - there's nobody like him."
The most important thing that has happened in the last few years to The Call, as far as Michael Been is concerned, is that the group has solidified into a cohesive unit of players struggling toward a common end. "Without a doubt, we all absolutely love this band. We know that when the four of us play together, it's better than any one of us and more than the sum of the parts. There's a sense of fulfillment that we have never experienced from playing with anyone else and that's rare. That's what it is. That's why we do it."
Based on the novel Nikos Kazantzakis. Director: Martin Scorsese. Screenplay: Martin Scorsese and Jay Cocks. Producer: Barbara De Fina. Director of Photography: Michael Ballhaus. Music: Peter Gabriel. A Universal Pictures Release.
Cast: Willem Dafoe (Jesus), Barbara Hershey (Mary Magdeline), Harry Dean Stanton (Saul/Paul), Harvey Keitel (Judas Iscariot), Victor Argo (Peter), Michael Been (John), John Lurie (James), Andre Gregory (John the Baptist), Verna Bloom (Mary, Mother of Jesus), David Bowie (Pontius Pilate), Juliette Caton (Angel).
The Story: Michael gives the following synopsis of The Last Temptation of Christ. "The movie is a fictional account of the life of Jesus, not the biblical story - - although, they certainly interweave. I think the purpose of the movie is to show Christ's struggle with his humanness - - feeling all the joy and pain, and struggling with the same confusion and temptation we all go through. The movie never denies Jesus' divinity, but it focuses on His human side."
The Actors: Willem Dafoe played the heavy in several films before starring in Platoon. Barbara Hershy, one of the movie industry's most respected actresses, has been in many movies; most recently Hannah and Her Sisters, Tin Men, Shy People, and Beaches. Harry Dean Stanton's credits include Paris Texas, Pretty in Pink, Repo Man, and Slam Dance.
Filming of the movie took three months. It began in October of 1987 in Morocco and was completed in late December. It's was released to theaters in September, 1988.
Martin Scorsese is best known as the great director of big city street life. His films have long been a vanguard for excellent drama. From Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, and Raging Bull to The Color of Money and After Hours the saga continued with the symbolic plot of one man giving up his life for another man. Scorsese call The Last Temptation of Christ "a deeply religious film ? an affirmation of my faith."
Michael Been is one of Scorsese's biggest fans. "I have been a fan of his for years," Michael said of Scorsese. "He was like my favorite director from when I saw Mean Streets."
Likewise a longtime Call fan, Scorsese invited Michael to screentest and ultimately offered him the role of the disciple John in the Biblical epic, The Last Temptation of Christ. Michael said of their first meeting, "I met him a few years back when he came to hear us play in New York. I found out he followed the group, knew the songs, and liked the music. He felt there was a similarity in what the band was singing about and the purpose of his movies."
Michael described his time in Morocco as an "amazingly intense, loving experience." He attributes the overall success of the casting and filming to Martin Scorsese's technique as a director. "He's an extremely intense filmmaker. He elicits such convincing performances from his actors simply by choosing people who would naturally fit the role. He's not an acting coach, but rather he sets the mood and level of drama. The ultimate sin to him is overacting - - he likes real drama but not overdone. He's very concerned that movement and facial expression not be exaggerated, since he expects the content of the dialogue to put the scene across."
"And Willem Dafoe I cannot say enough about. He's a brilliant and intuitive actor. All the actors and crew were extraordinary people - - very serious about their work, but at the same time very humorous and real. I made some close friendships during the filming. All the actors were very musical. If we weren't acting we were together making music. Harry Dean Stanton and I became great friends and wrote a song together called "Watch", which is on the new album. All these gifted people confined together for three months - - a very creative atmosphere, so much passion and expression. It was one of the greatest times of my life."
When asked about his role in the movie as an acting experience, Michael replied, "My role is a good first-time supporting part, not too small, not too big." Would he like to do another film? "Let's wait and see how this one turns out. But I did enjoy doing it."
The LINER NOTES from the "Best Of The Call" CD:
You can sum up the water mark for rock and roll music in one word:
Passion. In the beginning it was there in Elvis' growl and Little
Richard's trademark wail; it's what made Chuck Berry's anthems to after-school
hedonism so dangerous. It could be sussed in the visionary lyrics
of Bob Dylan and John Lennon, the souled-out voice of Van Morrison, the
rebellion of the Stones and in the gut-bucket roots of the Band exploring
America's history and terrain. Passion also wrote its name in the
rage of the Sex Pistols, the ad hoc politics of the Clash and the beautiful,
barely contained sorrow of Joy Division. And in the midst of the
tumult we could hear passion sing a new song in the heart-on-a-sleeve proclamations
of U2, Peter Gabriel's quest for new musical languages and in the searing,
pulse of the Call's urgent melodicism, a passion that sought truth at any
price while employing rock and roll as its gorgeously tattered vehicle.
And while it's true that the Call may well be the least recognizable
name on that list, they did more than anybody else to embrace all of rock
and roll's lineage in their sonic mission. Over 10 years and seven
albums, the Call forged a virtual poetic that sought to include not only
everything fine and rare in the music's pantheon, but each of humanity's
qualities and flaws as well.
From the release of their self-titled debut in 1982, the Call, hailing
from California's Bay area, established themselves as a breed apart.
Led by Michael Been's songwriting and voice, they burst on the scene like
they knew everything was up for grabs--because it was. They understood
that punk's promise was a jaded one and that nihilism, excess and corporate
greed were swallowing popular music wholesale. They didn't wade into
the water, they charged. And with only one personnel change in their
history, Been, Scott Musick, Tom Ferrier and Jim Goodwin kept on charging
all the way through to the band's disbanding in 1 990, where the mantle
was picked up again by Been in 1995's " On The Verge On A Nervous Breakthrough".
This collective gift, this melding of mood, emotion and technical
skill, won the Call many critical accolades and the praise of their peers
who often guested on their recordings. Musicians such as Robbie Robertson
and Garth Hudson from the Band, Gabriel, T-Bone Burnett, U2's Bono and
Simple Mind's Jim Kerr, all participated in recording sessions at one time
or another. In fact, the Call were celebrated by their peers, which
is an achievement not so easily come by in this hypercritical age. What you hold in your hands is an historical document of a great rock and roll band to be sure, but it is also a social,
spiritual and aesthetic one. What is contained in these 1 4 songs
is a chronicle of passion's many faces as exemplified in the vision of
a particular group of people at a certain place in time who remained true
to their collective muse in the face of doubt, success, turmoil and pleasure.
In Been's clear and jarring baritone voice, we hear the emotional
landscape of the human heart as it shapeshifts its way across different
territories where love was so intense it threatened to consume itself to
gardens of stark confusion to the seemingly endless desert of doubt.
With a band that could swirl itself into a fury or whisper like a southwind,
Been walked the tightrope as the group's frontman; he descended into he
shadows willingly because he believed resolutely in the hope that there
was indeed light and grace on the other side. The Call's sonic echo
and rhythm were compelled by human bloodlines reaching out from their longing
for something more.
While it is easy to hear the earth shake in the band's anthems such
as "The Walls Came Down" and " Let The Day Begin", it is in the more subtle
material that listener finds the depth and dimension that defined the band's
spirit, and in particular Been's muse. From the intricate guitar
lines woven into the resolution of "I Still Believe" to the faltering yet
hopeful questions of "What Happened To You?" driven by keyboards and stuttering
guitars to the haunted, textured elegance on "To Feel This Way," the many
faces of Been and the Call reveal themselves to listeners, bringing them
into a soundworld where images and colors are alive, and the answers to
questions are never easy.
In this writer's memory, never has a band so courageously put its
vulnerabilities so close to the foreground in its music. In the Call's
brand of rock and roll, there wasn't room for screening personality from
presentation, it was simply all loaded into the mix with shadings, angles
and frays all given equal room to express themselves. Whether a pounding
beat, a futuristic funk a soaring melody or a restrained chorus, all one
had to do was listen to be able to grasp, even for a moment, a glimpse
of everything.
True, the Call, despite a few hit singles never became megastars.
But it didn't matter, they were a band that sought the role of working
musicians and playing with each other as more important than mass acceptance.
They were always aware that the music they were playing wasn't for everybody,
but it only furthered their reason to create it. And as consummate
musicians who sought balance, they knew when it was time for restlessness
to have its due when they disbanded in 1990; they called it a day after
painting their masterpiece with " Red Moon."
But the story doesn't end there, or with Been's celebrated solo album.
At this juncture, this collection stands only as a summation to part one
of the Call's story. Been and company are planning a reunion to explore
what they left unfinished. What we have here, then, in this stellar
and provocative collection, is a testament to be sure. But it is
also a door; one that opens out onto a new day, where rock and roll's prime
element--passion--can be adorned and displayed by men who understand thedivine secrets embedded in its name. One which takes us, indeed,
to heaven and back. --Thom Jurek
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This is from the September,1990 Notified. Enjoy!
Hello fellow Call fans! Talk about timing! This issue of Notified is arriving in your mailboxes just days before the Call's seventh album, Red Moon, hits the stores ? and the date to circle on your calendars is September 18 1990!
Red Moon is an album that plays directly into the Call's musical roots. Not that the band are waxing nostalgic ? not even near it! This is the Call now, with a decade of record making to their credit, playing in the musical vernacular they grew up with and were inspired by.
Red Moon covers many musical bases. How's yer blues? (my passion for blues/rock was certainly indulged). There are moments of jazz, some fleeting, some ponderable ? with equal parts of head and heart. Great harmonies; tasteful, well-arranged horns; and some of the best percussion I've heard by anyone. It's all here under this rubric called rock ?n' roll, and all within the framework of the Call's own distinctive sound.
This time out, Notified devoted all space to a recent interview with Michael Been. Michael spoke candidly with me about the music of yesterday and today. He also lucidly describes the recording of Red Moon. So consider this issue sort of a companion piece to the album. With that said, read on!
P.S. U2's Bono sings on this record. Bono shares vocal harmonies with Michael on the album's first single, "What's Happened to You", which will be released to radio on September 12, 1990.
Red Moon is a wonderful album and I think it's unique because it seems to be a real studio album.
Well, these days that's a little misleading. The way most records are recorded today is they'll go in and just have two or three musicians lay down a track, and they'll play with a drum machine or click track and keep recording it until at least one and hopefully more instruments have played it well. Let's say the bass player played great, but they didn't think the guitar player or drummer played that great, so perhaps they'll keep the bass track because the bass will be locked into this consistent clock time. And then the drummer ? if, in fact, there even was a real drummer, since most records you hear, especially Top 40, are drum machines and not a human drummer at all ? will go into the studio by himself and play just to that bass guitar and that click track until he plays it the way they want it played. They'll then bring in the guitar player and he'll play to those two people. Usually nobody is really in the studio together playing at the same time.
That sounds rather boring. But what I meant by studio album is that once the basic song is recorded you take advantage of subtle techniques ? add lots of interesting things to the song.
Right. With this album there were more overdubs, more "production". It was exactly the same process as Let the Day Begin: we went in with a P.A., no headphones, and played the basic tracks live. Although, we didn't play loud this time ? Let the Day Begin was played very loud at live volume. But the nature of these songs didn't call for that. We wanted a lot of little subtle interplay, so we set up in this tiny area, a corner really, of this big studio. We were all right next to each other. With Let the Day Begin, we were going for the way it would sound in a live concert; whereas, with this one we were going for the way it would sound if we were playing in your living room for you.
What the Call does in the studio is we play a song until everyone has played well. Sometimes we've played until three of us have gotten it right, then we'll have the fourth guy fix his part. But we've rarely fixed on entire part. There might be a section where someone didn't play it well or thought he could play it better, and he'll fix that section.
This album is so diverse ? it has everything from funky blues to jazz. This is the first Call record that the lyrics are almost secondary to me. Not to say the lyrics are inferior ? they certainly aren't, they're incredibly moving ? but it's a musical album. With each listen the music just washes over me.
I think we were inspired by the sounds we were using. We used old amps, old drums, keyboards, everything. We intentionally didn't want to use anything made after 1970, except for some synthesizer sounds that we modified to get away from that standard sterile synth sound. There's an inherent quality with the modern sounds. There's a tonal quality that the old records have that the new ones don't have. The new sounds are considered better in a certain way, but I personally question whether or not they're really better. On this album we used Mellotron and Chamberlin, which were sort of the first synthesizers; but they used tapes.
I'm not a fan of the new technology. I recently saw Steven Spielberg being interviewed, and he was asked whether or not he wanted to use, or looked forward to using, the modern advances in technology in his moviemaking. He said, "I think I have all the tools I need. If I can't make great movies with what's available today, which is basically what they used twenty, thirty, and forty years ago, then I shouldn't really be making movies." He went on and said, "Can you make a better baseball bat ? without cheating?" I liked that.
I remember Mellotron from the Beatle days. Didn't the Beatles pioneer instruments like Mellotron and Chamberlin? Companies would make new, innovative instruments, and the Beatles would use them in the studio.
Yeah, but it wasn't really companies ? it was this guy Chamberlin. They're the most incredible instruments you've ever seen ? very primitive. Chamberlin, in the early 60's, recorded symphony musicians ? not as a group, but individual instruments, like a violin, a cello, french horn, every instrument of an orchestra. He recorded them onto a tape recorder, using quarter inch tape. And he had great microphones, those old 40's tube microphones that are so ambient. He would have, for example, the cello player pick a note or bow across the string forward and back for 8 seconds or so. He did this with each instrument plus other sounds like a dog barking and all kinds of things, but the main thing are these instruments from the orchestra. He then put each tape on some sort of electric pulley system with a weight, so when you hit the key it releases the weight and the weight goes down and pulls the tape over the tape head. So you hit the note and it plays, and when it stops you have to push it down to start the tape again. It's a rather awkward way of playing, and you rally have to master the touch of it. Jim played it on this record for the cello and french horn sounds.
But, regardless of the technology of it, the reason the Call used it is because the sounds are so fantastic. They're the old sounds before digital came in ? this beautiful, rich sound of an acoustic instrument.
The way that most music is going today, technology-wise, is sonically unacceptable to me. If you hear the sound of an actual cello ? say a cellist goes out in a room and runs a bow across a cello, and you have a nice microphone on it ? compare that to the digitized sound of the cello setting on a synthesizer, and the synth is so inferior. It's the difference between fresh peas out of your garden, and frozen processed peas. And I think it's a good analogy because we're getting so far away from a natural approach that the music is losing it's humanness. I personally feel it would be best to use an actual cello player or whoever.
But that's not always desirable if you want to keep a band fairly self-contained. But I think you can use an acoustic instrument or Chamberlin-style organ and still create great sounds.
I think many of today's musicians naturally gravitate toward synthesizers and drum machines because computers and their technology have become so ensconced in our everyday lives.
Computers and technology are taking over our lives in all kinds of ways. We've been warned about this for years ? that the more technology comes in, the less the human being will be involved. It's like the difference between the great old hand-drawn movie cartoons and computer cartoons. How can you compare them? One is wonderful and one is cheesy.
I guess I'm on a crusade to ask musicians to avoid using drum machines and these tasteless synthesizer sounds that are so sizzly and thin. You can get good sounds out of them, but it's very difficult. Many of the things being recorded now are so synthetic it's destroying our hearing. Synthesizers can create overtones and extreme highs that people are getting used to and our senses are getting dulled to natural tones. Musicians and engineers are saying, "I need more high-end, I need more high-end" ? it's like a drug ? "I need more, I'm not getting off on it anymore." It's like an aural addiction. I think it's best to stay within the acoustic instrument sound range, except for maybe the occasional special effect for dynamics.
I'll tell you a story. They were recording Elvis Costello's album and they had a synthesizer player in the studio, and he had access to like literally a thousand different sounds through Midiing up all kinds of synthesizers. And they were in there, going through all these squeaks and beeps and blips, trying to find a sound, and they're getting frustrated because none of the sounds are right. And what happened is somebody goes out into the studio and hits a note on a piano and they all go, "What was that? That's fantastic!" True story.
But, Michael, some people will tell you it's a matter of taste ? that these modern sounds are superior to the old ones.
I don't think so. Those drum sounds of the 40's, 50's, and 60's were so wonderful, so real ? they've got a very primitive quality. And a drum set is a primitive thing ? there's supposed to be a wildness to it. But instead we have all these synthetic, triggered sounds ? a lot of which is just gated white noise. They take that sound and mix it together with the sound of an actual drum and all kinds of digital reverb sounds. I just find it to be abrasive and unmusical.
I agree. But if you were to ask anyone who frequents a dance club, he or she would tell you that they like dancing to the drum machines.
Drum machines keep perfect time ? it's like dancing to a clock, it's unhuman. But that perfect time is also addictive. People don't even know they're addicted to it, it's very subtle. And I don't think it's good for dancing, it's too inhibiting. I suppose you can do the latest choreographed steps to it, but you can't really lose yourself in it and just move to the music. It's very disco to me. It's self-conscious, posing-type dancing. Real drummers, on the other hand, speed up and slow down continuously, following the dynamics of the song.
I was driving home today and on the radio they played "Stand!", by Sly and the Family Stone, and oh, it's just brilliant ? it has this trashy ass primitive drum feel. And musicians, especially young musicians, here and in Europe, and terribly inspired by this soul feel ? Motown, James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone. The drum beat at the end of "Stand!" is the drum beat used by most dance music currently on the radio. It's this high hat playing 16th notes ? clanging around, kind of sloppy and flying by the seat of the pants. Now these musicians took this dru machine that reproduced that drum beat in a most clinical way. Instead of it being sloppy ad wild and funky, it became very clean, mechanical and robotic.
People who use these machines should go back and listen to those old records, and hear how twisted and soulless this interpretation of it has become. Young drummers are even trying to play like drum machines. Think about it. It's ridiculous.
And it goes through the whole synthesizer spectrum. You know, you should be able to get almost everything out of different organs by adding outboard sound effects, like choruses, flangers, and harmonizers, or the old original analog digital domain it's like, "we went too far guys, let's go back." I've been tempted by it myself. We've experimented with a lot of those sounds on our albums, but it isn't satisfying to me anymore. Now don't get me wrong, I like many of the bands who use this stuff.
But I know they would be infinitely better if they used teal drummers and more natural instruments. I think this equipment being used is ultimately a dead end.
When you use a real instrument the sound and interpretation of that instrument will depend entirely on the style and soul of the player, so the possibilities are as infinite as the differences between each human being. But these machines take away so much of the style of the player ? anyone who sits at them is basically going to sound exactly the same.
Now someone like Garth Hudson or Jim Goodwin can use synthesizers and create exciting, original sounds because they're aware of these inherent dangers. They know how to EQ all the undesirable tones out of these instruments. But remember these men are professionals, so don't try this at home (laughs). Seriously, though, in the hands of a lesser keyboardist who maybe didn't even learn on an organ or piano, the results can be disastrous.
Some people, young people in particular, might argue that much of the music of the 60's and 70's sounds exactly the same to them.
Well, I hated most of the 70's sounds. But if a person would go back and listen to the instruments of the 40's, 50's, and 60's, and actually studied them, I don't believe they would think that. I don't think all the old sounds were great on every record, but far more than now.
I really liked some of the early 70's heavy metal bands. I thought AC/DC was great.
Yeah, they were ? but I don't think of them as metal. For me it was just a louder, exaggerated version of the blues ? bands like Zepplin, Hendrix, Cream, T-Rex ? that was a wild, sometimes drug induced, interpretation.
Talking about drums, I remember in the 60's there was so much cymbal.
The Beatles did that for effect ? they liked it. Another reason for it was that musicians and engineers didn't know miking techniques well enough to keep the high hat and cymbals out of the snare drum and tom tom. But even that I like better than what they've come up with today. For example, this loud overdone bass drum sound, where you have all this music playing and then sitting out on its own is this kick drum to show you where to tap your foot. It's stupid.
Did you put any effects on the drums for this album or did you record them differently this time ? they sound so great.
Scott used a 1957 Gretsch drum set and an old Ludwig set. The old drum sets were lightweight so that the set would kind of rattle when you hit it. For us it was all very intentional to get back to a real set of drums, no samples. The modern drums are made of really heavy, very thick wood, and the whole reason for that is to get each drum to be such a self-contained sound so that it doesn't ring into another drum. And they are designed for effects to be put on them. But they don't sound like a trap kit, where everything should connect to each other. When you hear them they sound like you've taken each drum and put it in a different part of a gymnasium. So, what we did was we got this old drum set where when you hit one drum the other drums resonate ? they're lightweight and they all shake so that you get the sound of a real drum kit.
You added a lot of additional percussion on this album like wood blocks and maracas and lots of horns and vocal harmonies. How will you duplicate some of the songs live?
We really can't totally duplicate it live unless we bring in other players. And for some shows we may bring in a small horn section for a few of the songs.
I think your first and second albums were more like Red Moon as far as studio albums. After that it was more in the synthesizer vein.
Yeah, well, Jim brought a lot of that in and it was good because he's very creative with programming. But he's starting to dig the more natural instruments.
You have a lot of high separation on this album.
That was really from playing quietly. You can get separation by gating instruments or by putting amplifiers in different rooms, but we got it from just playing quietly. If you turn it kup loud on your stereo, that's probably louder than we played it.
Aren't there double tracked guitars on this record?
No, not double tracked exactly, but Tom and I overdubbed quite a few guitars.
I counted four guitars plus bass on "A Swim In The Ocean". You come in on guitar to start the song, then Tom on slide, and then the wah-wah, and there's also one more guitar.
There are actually only three guitars on that song. That's not a guitar through a wah-wah ? that's Jim playing a clavinet through a wah-wah. Then I overdubbed another guitar playing some licks and fills. Also, that song doesn't have a bass guitar on it. It's just a floor tom, and I think Jim may have added some low piano or clavinet.
On "The Hand That Feeds You", what is that synthetic crash sound at the beginning of the song?
It isn't synthetic. I hit the inside of a grand piano with a drum mallet. I was looking for an ominous kind of sound to set the mood in the introduction. I played percussion and piano on that song. I used the piano as a drum and we put a lot of reverb on it. It was a grand piano with the lid up and I hit the strings and the music stand with a drum mallet.
You don't usually play bass chords, but in the song "Family" you did.
I have done it before, but on that song I do it a lot.
What song has the backward guitar?
"Floating Back". The solo is Tom. It's actually two different solos playing at the same time. We turned the tape over so that it came out backwards. It was Tom's idea t do that ? to fit the song "Floating Back". It was a great idea.
The bass on "What A Day" is so great ? you play a lot of high notes. Your bass reminds me of Jack Bruce on that song.
I played a little Ibanez fretted bass ? it felt right for that song. On the rest of the album I use my Ampeg fretless bass.
What microphones did you use for this album?
We used old stuff. We recorded at Oceanway Studios, and they've got one of the best selection of microphones in the world.
T-Bone Burnett was involved with this record. How did you meet him?
Scott and I have known T-Bone for about fifteen years. Last March we started talking with him about music and that we wanted to make a different type of record this time; more natural, more organic. He agreed with our approach, mainly about the things we've been talking about in this interview. We talked about him co-producing the album with me, but he was already producing his wife's, Sam Philips, album and Tonio K's album at the same time. So, we booked Oceanway Studios in L.A., where he was working with Sam and Tonio. Oceanway has about five different studios in one building, so he could at least pop in and be involved. He'd come in from time to time and offer his opinion and suggestions. He had some great ideas; for example, the horn line on "Like You've Never Been Loved" was his idea. He's a very talented guy.
Bono sang with you on "What's Happened To You". How did that come about?
Well, Bono came into town for a vacation, but he wanted to record this song he had written. It's a country song and I think he wrote it with Willie Nelson in mind. He tried recording it a few different times and couldn't get it to feel right with the musicians he was playing with. T-Bone heard the song and suggested to Bono that he have Jim and I play on it ? it was during the mixing of the album, so Tom and Scott had gone home. So Bono came in and we did the song. It's a really beautiful song and it sounded quite great. After that he wanted to hear some of the things we were doing. He told us he was "a fan from afar". T-Bone wanted him to hear "Floating Back". He liked it and wanted to hear more. We played "What's Happened To You" for him and at the time we didn't have the harmonies, only my lead vocal. So I said how about singing on this one and he said sure. So he and I sang the chorus and the la, la's, and the voices sounded really good together.
Bono doesn't do a lot of harmony singing ? his voice is so distinctive. But we wanted the voices to blend like a chorus ? to create a dreamy effect. And I knew he would be great on the la, la's because it's kind of an Irish melody. He was a very nice man, and it was good to meet him after all these years.
Did he mention anything about when we can expect a new album from U2?
They're working on songs, but from what I gathered they are not going to put anything out until 1992. I think they want to get into different types of music, and if they make a new album now there wouldn't be a big enough difference from what they've done in the jpast and what they want to do in the future. I know Edge is listening to a lot of different kinds of guitar playing. He's just recently been influenced by many of the old blues players and country players, and I think they want to take their music in a different direction.
I've loved them since 1980 and I know that they certainly weren't schooled in music.
That's right. And I think that was a great value because if you're not schooled you come up with something really unique and your own, but it's also a limitation after a while. It's great for a time, but then you can't do much other than that. And if you're a serious musician, and I think they are serious musicians, you'll want to expend your possibilities.
I read an article around the time the Sun City album was being recorded in which Bono told a story of how one night he was sitting around with Keith Richards and several other musicians playing songs they had been influenced by ? songs they had loved in their early days. Bono said that he had felt so removed from that moment because he really had no major influences and no songs to sing from his past. He then decided he would learn all he could about the early music of the blues greats. H also said that he regretted not studying Gaelic, and becoming more proficient in his history through Irish folk songs.
Yeah, we talked about that. To be able to continue and grow musically you've got to become a student of it, a fan, that sits and listens to it. You've got to study it with the diligence that you study anything else.
There are some young artists who are going back to the early sounds and instruments. I really love the Lenny Kravitz record. I saw him line and he was incredible. He had these wonderful blues players with him. He's so 60's in his approach to music in the way you've been describing.
Lenny Kravitz is really getting some wonderful sounds. He's thrown out the modern stuff and I respect that. And I think it's a consciousness. All of a sudden you wake up and go, "Wait a minute. All this modern stuff is weak."
Recording has gotten into the hands of computer people, people who get off on technology. They're not musicians ? they don't have good ears. They're going more for efficiency and quantity of choices. Rock ?n' roll to me was always about primitive expression and limitation ? limitation in a good way. "Here's the instrument, make something out of it" ? rather than ? "Here's a synthesizer with a thousand sounds ? pick one you like."
The good things about the digital world, however, are CD's and digital audio tape. Once you record a song using real instruments on analog equipment, the reproduction onto digital is quite good. You lose some of the warmth of vinyl, but it does have great clarity.
You play an old electric Gretsch hollow body guitar on this album and it sounds so good. Rather than having that short, twangy sound of the Telecaster, the Gretsch is still twangy, but it has more style and body. It sounds better than your Telecaster because it has more tonal value.
That's right, and tonal value is what we've been talking about.
You told me a little while back that Red Moon is the kind of record the Call would have made years ago, before you had to concern yourselves with what record companies want and what will sell.
An interesting thing about Red Moon is that this is the first record that we've made in many years that I did not think one thought about whether it's commercial, whether it will sell. I was talking with our engineer, Jim Scott, and it simultaneously dawned on us that if we don't resurrect this approach, records are not going to be made this way anymore. It will be a forgotten art. We have to do it, because not enough people are doing it. But we're hoping it will create a consciousness. If we can at least get this through to the musicians, if we can get them to hear what we're talking about, I think they'll know it.
I've always found it so interesting to learn something about each song on an album, such as who played what instrument and who sang on what songs. Tell me about the instrumentation and vocals for the songs on Red Moon.
Well, on "What's Happened To You" Jim played Mellotron and electric piano. Tom played guitar and solo. I played the piano and bass and Bono and I sang it. And, of course, Scott played the drums.
"Red Moon" is Jim on a grand piano. Scot played the drums with brushes. Jim and I and Scott sang the harmonies. I played a short bass solo. Jim played Chamberlin and Tom is on guitar.
"You Were There" has Tom playing the guitar solo, one of my all-time favorite solos. Jim played all the horn parts on saxophone. It was so great watching him do it ? he's a one-man horn section.
On "Floating Back" Scott played drums and overdubbed maracas. Tom Played two tracks of backward guitar and made it work as a solo. I had some chorusing effect on the bass. And Jim and Scott and I sang the vocals. Jim also played an old ARP string ensemble.
On "A Swim In The Ocean" Tom and I played guitars. Tom played slide guitar and I overdubbed another guitar. Jim played piano and overdubbed a clavinet. I changed the sound of my voice on this song. Scott played drums. I really love the feel of that song.
"Like You've Never Been Loved" has Jim on saxophones and electric piano through a Lesley speaker. Scott overdubbed wood blocks. Other than that, it's pretty much straight ahead. T-Bone sang background vocals with us.
"Family" was recorded basically like "Red Moon" ? bass, drums, guitar and grand piano. Jim then overdubbed Chamberlin and Mellotron. The pedal steel sound is the Chamberlin. Jim also played a KX-88 synthesizer, but we eliminated all those tones that are equated with that sizzly synth sound. We EQ'd it all out to create a flute-like organ sound, and ran it through a Lesley. It's Jim and Scott and me singing once again.
"This Is Your Life" is the next one. Recording it was fun. We had a lot of our friends in the studio that night and everybody was screaming and yelling and having a good time. It was just the kind of energy we needed ? a celebration-type song. I overdubbed a twelve-string guitar and Tom played the solo.
On "The Hand That Feeds You" Jim and I played piano. I played bass and percussion by using the piano as a drum. I wanted the song to sound kind of jazzy and dark. Jim played saxophone just beautifully ? it reminds me of Chet Baker. Tom played guitar and that's me on the short guitar solo. Jim also played organ. Scott played the tom to drum pattern.
The basic track for "What a Day" was recorded during the Let The Day Begin sessions. Tom really liked the guitar, so I was busy writing words as I was singing them, Jim overdubbed a Chamberlin playing trombones.
One last question, Michael. Much of music now is very short term-one trend after another. How have the Call maintained a philosophy of seriousness in their music, an attitude of credibility as a band, in today's musical climate?
We play according to a tradition. It's a tradition where music is not a fad, or a trend, or a style. It isn't theatre, or a beauty contest, or a fashion show. It can be used, or rather abused, to serve those things because music can't defend itself. But musicians can.
The answer is YES!!
Michael Been's music is personal...intensely personal with an
exploratory edge. It's intelligent without being pretentious or
coldly cerebral; emotional, but artistic with spiritual overtones.
His former band The Call created music that was driving and
rhythmically oriented; subject-wise, their songs were full of
gripping and gritty images of conflict, compelling portraits of
cataclysm and deliverance, making their music genuinely provocative.
Now, unfortunately for the group of discriminating fans that held The
Call's music in high regard, the band as a band no longer exists.
With eight albums to their credit-such as their unacknowledged
masterpiece Modern Romans (a hard-hitting raw musical essay of
singular power concerning the spirit-numbing violence of contemporary
culture), Reconciled (an album chock-full of potential radio songs
left inexplicably unreleased as singles by their record company), the
hauntingly introspective Into the Woods, and the sparkling Let the
Day Begin showcasing a variety of musical moods-The Call as a band
will be sorely missed.
Fortunately for The Call's fans, lead singer and songwriter Michael
Been is continuing his music career as a solo artist. Two members
from his former band-drummer Scott Musick and guitarist Tom Ferrier-
are continuing their musical association. Both are featured on Been's
new solo release On the Verge of a Nervous Breakthroughand played on
the accompanying tour.
With the addition of guitarist Ralph Patlan, On the Verge takes on a
predominantly heavy guitar sound. Except for the undifferentiated
grunge of "In My Head" (which doesn't really seem to put the song
across in an interesting way musically), the new guitar lineup seems
to pay off with a lot of new vitality.
The opener chugger "Us" sets the mood for a series of hammering
rockers with its keening guitar volley and tense rhythmic guitar
intercutting. The musicians really let loose with an all-out barrage
on "When You're With Me." Its exuberance is matched by the roiling
guitars and telling and moving vulnerability of "Nearly Fell": "Deep
are the wounds that shaped me/I was vain/Struck by the hand that
shaped me."
The catchy boogie behind "This World" is a rumbling mix of resonant
spasmodic bass runs and high-pitched nervous guitar feedback. It's
definitely the most distinctive hard rocking cut, with great lyrics
to boot: "I look high through the trees/To the depths of the
seas/Will I find me a place in this world?" Just to add a little
vintage variety, On the Verge includes a kicking cover version of the
Yardbirds' "For Your Love."
AFTER THE RELEASE of The Call's last album in 1990, Been wrote and
performed the soundtrack to filmmaker Paul Schrader's Light Sleeper
(1992). His music wells up throughout the film, the backbone to a
night tableau of florid city images that serve as the backdrop to the
story of another one of Schrader's troubled cinematic pilgrims. The
soundtrack, only available as an EP in Britain, is full of fiery mid-
tempo songs.
The new solo effort features a significant mix of the same type of
slowed-down ru-minations in mid-tempo that are-with few exceptions-
very effective. One of the songs, "To Feel This Way" (in two
different versions), was actually slated for the Light Sleeper
soundtrack, but found its way onto On the Verge . Been's husky vocal
theatricality comes off with almost stunning effect on a couple of
slower moody atmospheric gems-"This Way" and "Lumi-nous"-when he
sings about the specter of a past relationship rearing its head, and
the sense of losing and finding himself in the clarity of a
transcendent light.
With his voice filtered and some electronic flourishes, "Now I Know
High (Part 2)" is another hypnotic mid-tempo song that is extended
out almost eight minutes with some spacey dreamtime guitar play. The
languid theme of falling asleep and dreaming in the arms of grace is
some of his best new work.
With the anthemic rockers of The Call behind him, Been needs to get a
little more daring than he does on On the Vergeso that he can
continue to create powerful music which is more unpredictable and
stylistically varied. Some nice surprises are to be found in this
particular mix of hard rockers and slower songs, but not enough of
them to create a fresh feel in terms of its musicality.
Bringing a distinctive counterpoint to his more hard-driving songs,
while continuing to expand his repertoire of dramatic mid-tempo
songs, Michael Been's edgy intelligent musical introspection shows
stylistic spark. With a string of flat record deals for The Call and
a series of record management changes, Been's current recording label
Qwest (headed by Quincy Jones) hopes that Been's solo career will
provide the fresh start he deserves.
The Call to a Solo Career. by Brent Short. Sojourners Magazine, March-
April 1995 (Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 60-61). Reviews.
This can be found originally at this Source: http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?
Is there an e-mail talk list?
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Now one studio is taking the decision-making process right to the people who will be buying the Blu-rays. To celebrate breaking the 100,000 fan mark on its Facebook page, Universal is doing a "Director's Decision" poll where you can vote for your favorite catalog title on Blu-ray and receive a coupon for $5 off any regular-priced Universal movie on Blu-ray. The choices include Back to the Future, Backdraft, The Big Lebowski, The Blues Brothers, The Breakfast Club, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Lost in Translation, Meet the Parents, National Lampoon's Animal House and Psycho. Since this isn't a presidential election and more like an American Idol popularity contest, Blu-ray Bob has no qualms about admitting that he was torn between the Dude and Norman Bates, but ultimately went for Hitchcock's seminal thriller. The promotion expires on May 30, so which title will you choose?
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Tevez to Manchester City is now a done deal subject to a medical. If the Adebayor transfer goes through as well, we can only guess this means that Citeh is hording strikers like a James Bond villain ("All the world's strikers are mine, mine, MINE...bwahhhahaha").
Monday, July 13, 2009
UF Quick Throw: Citeh Land Carlos Tevez
Posted by Spectator at 3:30 PM
Labels: Carlos Tevez, Manchster City, Quick-kicks, spectator
8 comments:
- The Fan's Attic said...
That gives them Robinho, Santa Cruz, Tevez and who else? Bellamy, Caicedo? Jo back out on loan. Vassell gone.
Tevez - Santa Cruz
Robinho - Ireland - Barry/de Jong - Wright Phillips/Elano
Bridge - Richards - Kompany/Dunne - Zabaleta
Not a bad lineup. - July 13, 2009 at 3:40 PM
- hadley said...
I'm going to laugh if Carlito gets the shaft like he did at ManU.
He didn't want to go to Liverpool out of respect for the United Supporters - how are they going to feel now that he's at City? - July 13, 2009 at 3:52 PM
- Spectator said...
Also Bojinov and Benjani, although both probably on their way out the door.
But if Citeh nabs Adebayor, that's five players (Robinho, Santa Cruz, Tevez, Ade and Bellamy) vying for two starting roles. Not even SAF could juggle that one. - July 13, 2009 at 3:58 PM
- WhiteSpeedReceiver said...
He didn't want to go to Liverpool out of respect for the United Supporters - how are they going to feel now that he's at City?
I thought Tevez wanted to play for a top flight team, but in the end it's his decision. - July 13, 2009 at 4:29 PM
- The Fan's Attic said...
doesn't robinho play winger for brazil and played it for madrid? I imagine he could slide over to make it a bit easier.
bellamy is certainly gone as well as bojinov (although he will probably be on loan). i have a hard time believing they will sign adebayor. - July 13, 2009 at 4:51 PM
- Ibracadabra said...
now that Tevez is there (and I don't think they'll sign Ade) - Robinho will play on the left wing in an attacking Ronaldo like role cutting inside - RSC and Tevez will play up front doing the dirty work. There is room for all three. The only odd man out is Bellamy - who actually looked like a great player for some stretches last year at both WH and City - but at the end of the day, is fucking mental.
- July 13, 2009 at 5:46 PM
- Mike Georger said...
Bellamy will land on his feet somewhere in the EPL, the others I'm not so sure. I still wish Rafa hadn't sided with Riise over Bellamy, could have used a decent backup striker last year.
- July 13, 2009 at 6:29 PM
- hadley said...
Bellamy looks like he's going to Spurs.
- July 13, 2009 at 10:48 PM


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Title: Genetic contributions to yield gains in US wheat, 1980 - 2010) AuthorGraybosch, Robert - Bob | |
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Publication Type: Book / Chapter Publication Acceptance Date: 10/17/2013 Publication Date: 6/1/2014 Citation: Graybosch, R.A., Bockelman, H., Garland-Campbell, K., Garvin, D.F., Regassa, T. 2014. Wheat. In: Smith, S., Diers, B., Specht, J., Carver, B., editors. Yield Gains in Major U.S. Field Crops. CSSA Special Publications 33. Madison, WI: American Society of Agronomy, Inc., Crop Science Society of America, Inc., and Soil Science Society of America, Inc. p. 459-487. Interpretive Summary: Malthusian theory held that human population growth would one-day outstrip agricultural production. Due, in part, however, to the outstanding accomplishments of the Green Revolution, the vision of Malthus remains unfulfilled. Wheat grain yields in the 20th Century, due both to improved agronomic practices and plant breeding, rose at a steady rate. This paper reports on the rate at which wheat grain yield in the US increased in the years since 1980, and the contribution of genetic improvement (wheat breeding) to this increase. Using data from long-term USDA-ARS coordinated regional breeding trials, and data from the University of Nebraska fall-sown winter wheat breeding trials, it was demonstrated that wheat breeders have achieved average increases in grain yield potential of approximately 0.8% per year. This average rate of improvement is slightly less than that achieved by US wheat breeders in the time period 1958-1980. Using identical statistical procedures, previous reports had estimated the rate for the earlier time period at 1.2%. The rate of 0.8% achieved by US breeders was found to be identical to that achieved, on average, in wheat breeding programs across the globe. In two of the analyzed trials, evidence of a yield plateau was revealed. Meeting future world demand for wheat likely will require implementation of an array of techniques for genetic improvement beyond those of classical wheat breeding. Technical Abstract: Increases in wheat grain yield (kg harvested per hectare) over time derive from improved agronomic practices, and from enhanced genetic potential of wheat cultivars. Estimation of the rate of genetic improvement over time is important as it allows prediction of whether future grain supplies will meet future demands of world population. In this study, wheat grain yields relative to check cultivars in USDA-ARS coordinated regional performance trials were calculated for the time period 1980-2010, and regression analysis used to evaluate changes in relative grain yield potential versus year of the trial. The results were compared to those of previous investigations in which an identical approach was used for the time period 1958-1980. Averaged across all trials, the genetic potential for grain yield increased from 1980 to 2010 at a rate of approximately 0.8% per year, lower than the value of 1.2% reported for the time period 1958 – 1980. The observed rates of increase were statistically different (p=0.05) from zero for all USDA-ARS performance nurseries with the exception of the Southern Regional Performance Nursery and the Pacific Northwest Soft Winter Wheat nursery. These two trials represent the lowest, and highest yielding environments, suggesting that genetic progress has been difficult when either moisture is often limiting, or when wheat yields are approaching biological limits. The average rate of improvement observed for US wheats (0.8% per year) was identical to that observed from a literature survey of experiments across the globe. Future prospects for enhanced genetic potential for grain yield in wheat might very well depend upon the application of the tools of genetic engineering, if the exploitable genetic variation for grain yield already has been utilized. |


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The pockets on this bag remind me of a kangaroo pouch. I love pockets in purses and bags. It helps separate out those important items or the really small ones that tend to get lost. So, I designed this completely reversible bag. Because of the way it is made it has four pockets. I love making new designs. I'm seriously considering publishing patterns for sale again. This bag pattern may be one of the first.
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Hey, can you guys help me out? I want to buy some wool felt but I'm not really sure where to begin.
Of course, I read all this from True Up but I don't even think I've made it to that level yet. I know I want to buy some sheets -- a sampler pack with several colors, to start. But I honestly don't even know if I want 100% or a blend. I got the new Wee Wonderfuls book and I want to make some dolls and I want to make some doll clothes -- stuff like that. Nothing major. Nothing big.
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Creamy Tarragon Chicken Salad 12 Reduced-fat sour cream and mayo make a sumptuous, creamy dressing for a considerably lightened take on chicken salad. Oven-poaching the chicken in broth intensifies its flavor and keeps it moist and succulent. Combined with sweet grapes and aromatic tarragon, this is an elegant version of chicken salad that's wonderful on a bed of mixed greens or a sandwich with nutty whole-grain bread.
Chicken Cutlets with Grape-Shallot Sauce 10 One of the Test Kitchen's favorites, this quick sauté pairs wine and grapes in a luscious sauce for pan-seared chicken breasts. If you've never used grapes in a sauce before--try it--you won't be disappointed. This is simple enough for a weeknight, but elegant enough for entertaining. Make it a meal: Serve with brown basmati rice or mashed sweet potatoes and sauteed chard.
Curried Tofu Salad 8 This vegetarian nod to the classic curried chicken salad is perfect for spreading on toasted whole-wheat bread or scooping onto a pile of crispy salad greens for lunch.
Chicken Waldorf Salad 7 Leftover cooked chicken makes this chicken Waldorf salad, loaded with apples, grapes, celery and walnuts, a snap to assemble. If you use rotisserie chicken, keep in mind that it's salty and omit the salt in the dressing. Serve over watercress, with a chunk of whole-grain baguette.
Good Green Tea Smoothie 7 This green smoothie is packed with grapes, spinach, green tea and avocado. A touch of honey adds sweetness.
Pork Tenderloin with Roasted Grape Sauce 5 Here, we roast grapes to bring out their succulent sweetness, then combine them with thyme, mustard and Madeira in an easy, savory sauce for pork tenderloin. Serve with barley and steamed green beans.
Green Gazpacho 5 Forget the tomatoes--this green gazpacho is full of cucumber, green bell pepper, green grapes and lots of fresh herbs.
Chicken, Arugula & Butternut Squash Salad with Brussels Sprouts 4 Hot roasted vegetables lightly wilt the arugula in this healthy dinner salad recipe. Keep prep time minimal with leftover chicken, precut butternut squash and trimmed Brussels sprouts.
Roasted Grapes 5 Roasting isn't just for turkey. Roasting fruit, in this case grapes, brings out its inherent sweetness.
Grape & Fennel Salad 4 Crunchy fennel and celery are combined with grapes in this delicious salad recipe.
Mixed Greens with Grapes & Feta 4 Contrasting sweet grapes with savory feta cheese and crisp, colorful greens, this salad makes an elegant first course.
Seared Steak with Pan-Roasted Grape & Port Sauce 3 This recipe for quick pan-seared steak with a savory-sweet port wine and grape sauce makes a delicious weeknight dinner.
Orzo & Grape Salad with Feta & Mint 2 This brightly flavored, healthy orzo pasta salad recipe is a bright, refreshing and easy side dish to pair with chicken or lamb. Great served warm, room temperature or cold, this healthy pasta salad recipe is also delicious when made with quinoa instead of orzo.
Rhubarb Fruit Salad 2 Rhubarb cooked with a little honey and orange liqueur makes a bright, tangy "sauce" to toss with grapes, melon, mango and strawberries.
Peach-Melon Frozen Yogurt 1 Start with frozen fruit and you'll have a delicious, fresh-tasting frozen yogurt 5 minutes later. For convenience, we have used commercially packaged mixed frozen fruit; strawberries, bananas and blueberries (alone or as a combination) are delicious, but avoid seedy fruits, such as raspberries.
Classic Dill Chicken Salad 1 We lightened up the creamy dressing in this healthy chicken salad recipe with a combo of mayonnaise and plain Greek yogurt. Dill, grapes, celery and walnuts make up this classic chicken salad but feel free to experiment with your favorite fruit, vegetables and herbs. Serve it open-face on toasted bread or scoop it on top of fresh salad greens.
Grape-Rosemary Focaccia 1 The topping on this fast grape-rosemary focaccia recipe is a sweet/salty combination of grapes, Parmesan cheese and rosemary. Serve it instead of dinner rolls or as an appetizer, or cut it in half for an out-of-this-world turkey or ham sandwich.
Cranberry-Grape Relish 1 A sweet-tart accompaniment for Peppered Turkey or other poultry or meat dishes.
Frosted Grapes 1 The perfect summertime dessert, these frozen grapes are healthy mini-popsicles. Try freezing other fresh fruit, like raspberries, peach wedges or cubes of watermelon.
English Trifle Fresh fruit and angel food cake lighten this classic. A light custard, made with meringue and fat-free milk, drops the calories by half. Store-bought angel food cake works fine here.


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Basic Rose is an original crochet pattern by June Gilbank.
This basic rose pattern is a perfect introduction to crocheted flowers, and it's so versatile - make it in any size and colour you like!
Here are some ideas for use:
Yarn: worsted weight yarn in any floral colour (plus green for the optional calyx and stem)
Hook: US G / 4mm
Additional info: You'll also need a pipe cleaners or length of floral wire to make the optional stems.
Size: approx 2" diameter, when made in worsted weight yarn. (Your gauge and yarn choice will affect the finished size slightly.)
Option: This pattern will work with any size yarn, provided you choose a suitable hook size for your yarn. For example, using size 8 perle cotton and a size 7 (1.5mm) hook produces a tiny 3/4″ diameter rose.
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Weekend Reflections: Stormy Puddle Bridge Reflection
Photo taken late this afternoon after a strong storm sweapt thru the area. More Weekend Reflections here.
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Rainbows and Wind Machines
Scene in the neighborhood after a pretty intense storm passed through the area earlier this evening.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Body Shop Arc Welding
Old and worn out building south of Shoals, Indiana, needing a bit of repair of its own. Wouldn't expect anything real soon. Monochrome Weekend. More b&w's from around the world here.
Weekend Reflections: Hopping a Lift
One of the many country critters I came across one day last week down by our place on the Lost River. This little buddy is going to end up a long way from home as he hops a ride on the front windshied of my Jeep. More weekend reflections here.
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lovely rainy day...
It's totally raining away today, but the good kind of rain! When it's warm out, and it falls straight down onto your umbrella, instead of sideways in your face, lol. It's like a lovely Breakfast at Tiffany's moment... I swear that movie relates to everything in life. Don't you want to watch it again?
Photos: Breakfast at Tiffany's
6 comments:
- Blair said...
Oh, I love that kind of rain! Oh, I so want to go home and watch Breakfast at Tiffany's right now:)
- May 27, 2009 at 1:17 PM
- megan and melissa said...
I just watched this again the other night-- I love it even after multiple views. Love and the rain...the perfect combination.
Melissa - May 27, 2009 at 2:31 PM
- Little Gray Pixel said...
I <3 this movie. I'll have to pop it in the DVD player when I get home tonight. :-)
- May 27, 2009 at 5:56 PM
- Erin said...
I just re-watched this movie the other day for about the hundredth time. I've loved every moment of it since I was a little girl. :)
- May 28, 2009 at 12:20 AM
- Sarah Klassen said...
I love this movie! :) It's brilliant and beautiful~
- May 28, 2009 at 12:08 PM
- Brandie said...
Aw, my favorite movie! Everytime I see stills or hear Moonriver I'm overcome with the desire to watch it again.
- June 1, 2009 at 11:10 PM
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Data compression in SQL 2008 is best for data warehouses, where they tend to be very IO constrained and can take a wee hit on CPU and latency.
So how much space will you save with data compression? Well I just took a sample table from our SCOM data warehouse and applied compression. Results are below. The total size went from 1.7 Gb to about 740 MB. Not bad for one table and its supporting NC indexes.
Type |
Rows |
Total (Kb) |
Data Space |
Index Space |
Uncompressed |
10,006,556 |
1,714,632 |
700,352 |
1,010,544 |
PAGE compression |
10,006,556 |
739,744 |
289,360 |
450,112 |
ROW compression |
10,006,556 |
1,027,672 |
387,832 |
639,576 |
In total the data warehouse went from 17GB to 10 GB when all the tables and indexes were compressed with page compression.
How long does it take to compress? Well on a two core laptop and a modest disk drive the 17GB database took 30 minutes.
Which Compression is better page or row ? It depends – while page compression seems to always give better compression, if your query only wants one row in a page the whole page needs to be uncompressed, so you'll take a cpu and latency hit. If you are doing a large table scan then page compression should work great.
How can you compress and entire database at once ? AFAIK you have to compress each table and index separately. Here is a quick script to generate code to compress an entire database in one go. Just don't try this on your 3TB data warehouse in one go…
select 'ALTER ' + case when si.type =1 then 'INDEX [' + si.name + '] ON ' else 'TABLE ' END + ' [' + s.name + '].[' + o.name + '] REBUILD PARTITION=ALL WITH (DATA_COMPRESSION=PAGE); ' from sys.indexes si inner join sys.objects o on o.object_id =si.object_id inner join sys.schemas s on s.schema_id=o.schema_id where si.type>0 and o.type='U' order by s.name, o.name, si.index_id


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PVL-D/SCSI - Dual Intel Xeon, EM64T 2M L2 3.6+ GHz,12.0" * 10.5", CEB
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With Intel's latest dual core processor platform, leading DDR2 400, PCI-E I/O and so on, Asus PVL-D/SCSI is able to provide customers with most advanced technologies and superb performance.Leading technology included in PVL-D/SCSI:
Dual Paxvillie with 800 MHz FSB, DDR2 400 and PCI Express bus interface are the latest high-performance technologies for those that demand the very best.
Superior Data Security:
Onboard AIC7902 SCSI Host offers U320 RAID 0, 1, 0+1, while onboard Mini PCI-X socket provides optional ZCR board solution to upgrade the SCSI Storage to RAID 5.
Dual-PCI Express Gigabit LAN deliver s most eff icient network connectivity
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4 x PCI-X 64bit/133MHz slots and 1 x PCI Express x 8 slot combine d to offer excellent flexibility for future system expansion.
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ASUS PVL-D/SCSI, 16 GB, Intel, Socket 604 (mPGA604), Broadcom BCM5721, Intel E7520, EEB
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ASUS PVL-D/SCSI. Maximum internal memory: 16 GB. Processor family: Intel, Processor socket: Socket 604 (mPGA604). LAN controller: Broadcom BCM5721. Motherboard chipset: Intel E7520, Motherboard form factor: EEB. Maximum graphics adapter memory: 8 MB, Graphics adapter: Rage XL
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Socket 604 (mPGA604)
Internal I/O
USB 2.0 connectors*
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Floppy disk drive connector
ATX Power connector (24-pin)
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Back panel I/O ports
USB 2.0 ports quantity*
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LAN controller
Broadcom BCM5721
Motherboard chipset
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Intel E7520
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Graphics adapter
Rage XL
Expansion slots
Expansion slots
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4 x 64bit/ 133 MHz PCI-X
1 x 32bit/ 33MHz PCI
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1 x 32bit/ 33MHz PCI
1x [PCI-E x 8]
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Window Server 2003 Stndard/Web/Enterprise, 2000 Server/ Advanced, XP Professional SP1
Redhat Enterprise Linux AS3.0,
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Redhat Enterprise Linux AS3.0,
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Lot 3421: Corgi No.267 "Batman" - Batmobile - finished
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Description: Corgi No.267 "Batman" - Batmobile - finished in black, blue tinted windscreens with "Batman" figure only, red Bat hubs, grey plastic aerial - Excellent nice bright example - inner pictorial stand is Good Plus in a Fair to Good (slightly grubby blue and yellow carded box) - comes with secret instruction pack containing folded leaflet and some missiles attached to sprue only - see photo.