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Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: OT-Future ax slingers

2011-05-20 by lsf5275@aol.com

I'm sold. She's awesome! Reminds me of a young Lydia Pense.
 
 
 
In a message dated 5/20/2011 6:10:58 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
pj4000@btinternet.com writes:

 
 
 
thanks for recommending Grace Potter, Bill. Had never heard of her before.  
Would love to see her live. There's Mellotron credited on You May See Me on 
 the This is Somewhere CD but I haven't spotted it yet. 
Paul 

--- In  _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) ,  william Beith <wbeith@...> wrote:
>
> He is my  contribution......Just discovered Grace Potter
> 
> Grace  Potter    _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYrdfFpxTXQ_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYrdfFpxTXQ) Â Â Â Â   watch the whole 
> song. IÂ  hope that at some point she adds  Mellotron to the Hammond and 
Wurlie.
> 
> Bill
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
>  From: Tom Doncourt <tomdcour@...>
> To: _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) 
>  Sent: Mon, April 25, 2011 8:27:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup]  Re: OT-Future ax slingers
> 
> Â  
> They still have  soul....
> 
> On Apr 25, 2011, at 9:22 AM, lsf5275@...  wrote:
> 
> Â  
> >
> >This is what happens  when these kinds of experiments go horribly wrong.
> >
> >_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfK-UzQ48JE_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfK-UzQ48JE) 
>  >
> >
> >
> >In a message dated 4/25/2011  9:17:49 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
> >tomdcour@... writes:
>  >Â  
> >>getting my bodily fluids drained has always been  a concern of mine- I 
figure the 
> >>chinese and russians do as  good a job 
> >>
> >>Â as anyone else
>  >>P.S. I like what you wrote Chris
> >>
>  >>
> >>
> >>On Apr 25, 2011, at 8:56 AM, John  Hammaren wrote:
> >>
> >>Â  
>  >>>
> >>>
> >>>It’s full of commies,  draining the rest of us of our natural 
bodily fluids! You 
>  >>>think it was coincidence that video was posted? I think  not.
> >>>From:_newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com)   
> >>>[mailto:_newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) ]  On Behalf Of Thomas C. Doncourt
> >>>Sent: Sunday, April 24,  2011 5:37 PM
> >>>To: _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) 
>  >>>Cc: _'newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:'newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) '
>  >>>Subject: RE: [newmellotrongroup] Re: OT-Future ax slingers
>  >>>Â  
> >>>OH GOD NO !!! not on the tron site  for pities sake
> >>>
> >>>> Communist more  likely. The Soviet Russkies weren't much different. 
The
>  >>>> removal of individualistic thought does not promote much  
innovation. .
> >>>>
> >>>> From: _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) 
>  >>>> [mailto:_newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ (mailto
:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) ]  On Behalf Of Gary Brumm
> >>>> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011  4:00 PM
> >>>> To: _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) 
>  >>>> Subject: RE: [newmellotrongroup] Re: OT-Future ax  slingers
> >>>>
> >>>>
>  >>>> Chris, I agree with most of this except "The emphasis on  imitation 
over
> >>>> invention (largely an American  ideology)"
> >>>> I think it is overwhelmingly an Asian  ideology.......
> >>>>
> >>>>
>  >>>> From: _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) 
>  >>>> [mailto:_newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) ]  On Behalf Of Chris Dale
> >>>> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011  10:43 AM
> >>>> To: _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) 
>  >>>> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: OT-Future ax  slingers
> >>>>
> >>>>
>  >>>> Well if not mistaken, the letters next to the video say DPRK,  
which means
> >>>> "Democratic People's Republic of  Korea".
> >>>>
> >>>> Those of you  familiar with history might remember that it's a 
misnomer of
>  >>>> sorts - a propaganda title used by North Korea and Stalin's  puppet
> >>>> counterpart Kim Il Sung.
>  >>>>
> >>>> As an educator of Korean students  and having gone deeply into the
> >>>> Demilitarized zone at  the South / North Korean border, I can tell 
you
> >>>> that  these students have it ingrained in them to duplicate or copy
>  >>>> perfectly - without any thought of improvisation or  expression 
because it
> >>>> is immediately extinguished at  the slightest emergence.
> >>>>
> >>>> Now  before the automaton reaction of 'politically incorrect' enters 
the
>  >>>> conditioned and malleable mind, consider that the country was  
largely
> >>>> destroyed during the Korean War and that  their entire culture has 
been
> >>>> based upon copying  either Americanism and it's influences (South 
Korea) or
>  >>>> Communism and it's influences (North Korea).
>  >>>>
> >>>> With 5000 years of culture reduced  to almost nothing in 3 years, the
> >>>> people had no  choice but to copy everything else and to do it very 
well,
>  >>>> to the point where copying it better took over and  originality or 
anything
> >>>> resembling it was  discouraged.
> >>>> This idea is shared by many Koreans by  the way!
> >>>>
> >>>> The emphasis on  imitation over invention (largely an American 
ideology) is
>  >>>> almost second nature to pr esent day students. I have  witnessed 
this first
> >>>> hand and attempt to drastically  reduce it for the student's sake.
> >>>>
>  >>>> Of course, these children will gradually learn the bigger  meaning 
of what
> >>>> it is they're doing, and let their  artistic sides emerge, but for 
now
> >>>> let's take comfort  and enjoyment in what they've achieved (and had 
drilled
>  >>>> into them) to do, and the fact that they've even eaten and  have
> >>>> electricity as more than half of North Korea  doesn't. It's a 
completely
> >>>> different world than you  can imagine, with rampant starvation, 
propaganda
> >>>>  speaker systems in every house, and picures of the "Dear Leader" 
hung  up
> >>>> on bedroom walls and larger than family  pictures.
> >>>> There's even an incident where a man's home  caught fire and he 
saved the
> >>>> pictures of the "Dear  Leaders" first while his family burned to 
death.
>  >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Anyway -  this is a singular performance because of where these kids 
are
>  >>>> from and it needs to be seen in it's proper social, political  and 
economic
> >>>> context, and not through the views most  of us would normally hold.
> >>>>
>  >>>>
> >>>> As far the North American hockey  dad's and soccer mom's - in my 
opinion,
> >>>> these people  (although well meaning) are just as bad as the 
oppressive
>  >>>> totalitarian governements of the world because it's the exact  same 
thing
> >>>> on a much smaller scale. These people also  reduce and suppress 
their kids
> >>>> to death by ruining  any individual expression, in the guise of 
being in
> >>>>  their best interests.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'd  have no difficulty at all lashing out at those troublemaking 
parents
>  >>>> out if I was a school coach. It might be the only time they  ever 
question
> >>>> their righteous behaviour before  ruining part of their kids 
childhood.
> >>>>
>  >>>>
> >>>> Going back to what I said about  musically copying - here's a modern 
Korean< 
>  >>>>br>> pop song. It's simultaneously humourous, tragic,  and 
irritating.
> >>>>
> >>>> This is the  legacy of years of exposure to the worst and most
> >>>>  unforgiveable modern North American pop music.
> >>>> What a  shame that our vapid music industries have influnced someone 
else
>  >>>> to make bigger mounds of sonic garbage than  ourselves.
> >>>> And check out the guy dressed as Robin  (from Batman). He likely has 
no
> >>>> idea who Robin  actually is at all, and was just impressed by the 
fashion.
>  >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIRW_elc-rY_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIRW_elc-rY) 
>  >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
>  >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
>  >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
>  >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
>  >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
>  >>>>
> >>>> On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 4:45 AM,  Noel
> >>>> <noel@...<mailto:noel@...>>  wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
>  >>>> I don't o ften comment on groups, but in this case I have to.  I 
agree with
> >>>> Mike on this one (hello Mike). This is  the very peak of 
soulessness. These
> >>>> poor mites have  been programmed out of their very humanity. It 
doesn't
>  >>>> bear thinking about what they have had to endure to get them  to do 
what
> >>>> they are doing. Please make them stop. Let  them out to play in the 
fresh
> >>>> air and the fields. Let  them find their souls again.
> >>>>
>  >>>>
> >>>> --- In
> >>>>  
> >>_newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) <mailto:newmellotrongroup%40yahoogroups.com>,
>  >>>> fdoddy@ wrote:
> >>>>>
>  >>>>>
> >>>>> Mike,
>  >>>>>
> >>>>> You actually thought the  five children playing was soulless? It's 
mind
> >>>>>  numbing how cynical and bitter you are. If there is pity to had, 
it's  on
> >>>>> you, I'm afraid.
>  >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>  fritz
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
>  >>>>>
> >>>& gt;>
>  >>>>>
> >>>>>
>  >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>  -----Original Message-----
> >>>>> From: Mike Dickson  <mike.dickson@>
> >>>>> To:  newmellotrongroup
> >>>>> 
> >>>><_newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) <mailto:newmellotrongroup%40yahoogroups.com>>
>  >>>>> Sent: Fri, Apr 22, 2011 12:47 pm
>  >>>>> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] OT-Future ax  slingers
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
>  >>>>>
> >>>>>
>  >>>>>
> >>>>> Watched them both. One is as  pitifully soulless as the other, I'm
> >>>>>  afraid.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On  22/04/2011 16:02, Tom Doncourt wrote:
> >>>>>
>  >>>>>
> >>>>> Cool! From that to  this-
> >>>>>
> >>>>> _http://youtu.be/IN21lcvIsvM_ (http://youtu.be/IN21lcvIsvM) 
>  >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>  On Apr 22, 2011, at 10:54 AM, johnm400s911 wrote:
>  >>>>>
> >>>>>
>  >>>>>
> >>>>>
>  >>>>>
> >>>> > For the guitar players on  the board. This will make you smile.
> >>>>>
>  >>>>> _http://www.youtube.com/embed/yE7waNi5dc0_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/embed/yE7waNi5dc0) 
>  >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
>  >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
>  >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>  >
>

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