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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] [OT] Despair

From: lsf5275@aol.com
Date: 2010-01-10

It appears to me that when David said that he "scanned through" a preview copy, it probably meant that he read the inside of the cover (quoted here) and threw it in the trash. I just looked it up and this book was published by Douche Bag Press. 
 
In a message dated 1/10/2010 12:35:02 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, rick@rickblechta.com writes:
 


On Jan 10, 2010, at 12:01 AM, lsf5275@aol. com wrote:

In a message dated 1/9/2010 10:15:40 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, mike.dickson@gmail.com writes:
 

Even as a KC fan, this sort of thing makes me ∗despair∗. 

From David Cross' diary:

"I have just scanned through a preview copy of Andrew Keeling’s ‘Musical Guide to Larks’ Tongues in Aspic by King Crimson’. In this book Andrew has applied some powerful analytical tools, deconstructing tonal and metrical materials using Bartok’s Axis system of tonality, the Golden Section and the Fibonacci series. He has also engaged with the ritualistic, occult and mystical components implicit in the album through the lens of Jungian psychology and revealed some fascinating numerical symbolism (particularly around the number 5) whilst developing a finely argued view of the music’s place in the spectrum of rock. Andrew recognises the developmental importance of LTIA in uniting disparate musical features within a shared language as opposed to the polystylism of earlier progressive rock."

I firmly believe that 99% of the musicologists are completely full of shit. The other 1% don't like music.