Do You Ever Wish You Could Be Like This Guy?

It would make life so much simpler, wouldn't it?

what's a seamy technology dive?

i'm not quite sure. a radio shack, maybe?

could be! Or maybe like a cell-phone kiosk. Those things ARE kind of annoying, he's got a point there. Well, I don't know what the heck it is, but it sure is fun to say out loud. It sounds like something Spiro T. Agnew would say.

From Revolution in the Head by Ian Macdonald (generally a very good book about the story behind the discography of the Beatles):

"Yet the effect of presetting the rhythms of pop by drum machines, and later by drum samplers saved to sequencers, has been to elevate 'the groove' over every other musical priority. At its simplest this means that songs nowadays are written from the rhythm track upwards, rather than from a melodic/harmonic idea, as was the case with almost all sixties music... Dominated by the synthetic slam of the modern sequenced off-beat - crashing down tyrannically like some monstrous industrial timekeeping device - all modern songs are regularised and formularised, their harmonic movements restricted and predictable, their vocal lines devoid of independant melody and constructed out of prefabricated melodic and lyric cliches bolted together as if by mechanics on a production line.'

This I find especially patronising:

"Arguably pop music, as measured by the singles charts, peaked in early 1966, thereafter begining a shallow decline in overall quality... While some will date this tail-off to a little later, only the soulless or tone-deaf will refuse to admit any decline at all."

ARRGHHH!

And what would MacDonald and the other bloke say about the fact that the majority of virtuoso Indoan musicians are now touring with these:

http://www.keshav-music.com/electronics.htm

I've got no problem with it. I would like to have that digital tanpura, in fact. Imagine the hours of fun, just letting it run all day long ...

That's "Indian" musicians, of course.

It's hard to believe this guy really exists. I mean, the sixties nostalgia, OK.

But the Hare Krishna chant... woah.

"I walk the streets without expectation, chanting my mantra"!

"I walk along the city streets, you used to chant along with me ..."

Is he saying the Beatles don't suck?

'Cause they do.

seamy technology dive:
sounds like a couple of scenes in blade runner. if mr. jagannatha giuliano thinks it's too much like blade runner now, he should pull his head out of his ass around 2014. hope he can chant in double time....

seamy technology dive = any nyc internet cafe after 10pm

yes, I wish I could be like that

because then I would know where to find me to give me a good slap

"Arguably pop music, as measured by the singles charts, peaked in early 1966, thereafter begining a shallow decline in overall quality... While some will date this tail-off to a little later, only the soulless or tone-deaf will refuse to admit any decline at all."
That writer is a fucktard. It didn't peak in 1966. It peaked in 1982!
(And it keeps threatening to get good again.)

"Listen to the Beatles records, but dig Queen or Clash or whatever is going on now."

-- John Lennon, 1980