Pip Notes: Art and Musings By Pilar

Happy Birthday

to Jimmy Page

 

Happy Birthday, Jack White

To celebrate Mr. White's birthday, here is an amazing clip of The Raconteurs performing Rich Kids Blues on From The Basement.

In Love...

with The Dead Weather's new release

Happy Birthday...

to Jimmy Page

Happy Birthday

  

to Jimmy Page

Here is a video of Mr. Page with the Foos from this last summer with other Zeppelin Birthday boy, John Paul Jones.

Sharing Song- Ray LaMontagne: Empty

She lifts her skirt up to her knees
Walks through the garden rows with
her bare feet, laughing
I never learned to count my blessings
I choose instead to dwell in my disasters

Walk on down the hill
Through the grass grown tall and brown
And still it's hard somehow to let go of my pain
On past the busted back
Of that old and rusted Cadillac
That sinks into this field collecting rain

Will I always feel this way
So empty, so estranged

Of these cutthroat busted sunsets
These cold and damp white mornings I have grown weary
If through my cracked and dusty dimestore lips
I spoke these words out loud would no one hear me

Lay your blouse across the chair
Let fall the flowers from your hair
And kiss me with that country mouth so plain
Outside the rain is tapping on the leaves
To me it sounds like they're applauding us
The quiet love we've made

Will I always feel this way
So empty, so estranged

Well I looked my demons in the eye
Laid bare my chest said do your best destroy me
See I've been to hell and back so many times
I must admit you kinda bore me

There's a lot of things that can kill a man
There's a lot of ways to die
Yes and some already dead who walk beside me
There's a lot of things I don't understand
Why so many people lie
Well it's the hurt I hide that
fuels the fires inside me

A Day of Sharing Song: Challenge by LK

LK has posted another wonderful challenge: Here are the specs-

 A Day of Sharing Song

The idea:  Songs can move us to places we haven't been in a long time, places we long for every day, or places we some day hope to be.  The combination of music and poetry can transport us across distances, and through the years. While we listen,  perhaps we grin wildly, or are moved to tears.  We all have songs that  are "ours"  in our very hearts. We have songs that touch us, move into our hearts and resonate, creating a feeling, taking us some place- past, present, future- perhaps some place we have never been and may never go, but for whatever reasons, the song sings for us.

Meeting new music, musicians, composers, poets,  new ways for my soul to sing, is an intruiging concept. Want to go on this adventure with me? It will be easy to travel along.

Many of us already do this sharing; this idea is just to help us find each other and hear the words we have to share.

The Date: Wednesday, December 3.

The idea:  Songs can move us to places we haven't been in a long time, places we long for every day, or places we some day hope to be.  The combination of music and poetry can transport us across distances, and through the years. While we listen,  perhaps we grin wildly, or are moved to tears.  We all have songs that  are "ours"  in our very hearts. We have songs that touch us, move into our hearts and resonate, creating a feeling, taking us some place- past, present, future- perhaps some place we have never been and may never go, but for whatever reasons, the song sings for us.

Meeting new music, musicians, composers, poets,  new ways for my soul to sing, is an intruiging concept. Want to go on this adventure with me? It will be easy to travel along.

Many of us already do this sharing; this idea is just to help us find each other and hear the words we have to share.

The Date: Wednesday, December 3.

Happy Birthday, Jeff

Jeffrey Scott Buckley

Nov. 17. 1966 - May 29, 1997

J'aime et espirit, mon ami

 

In Memoriam

Richard Wright

Pink Floyd Founder and Keyboardist

1943-2008

Bauhaus-Go Away White

BAUHAUS - ‘GO AWAY WHITE’

“I come with this darkness and go away white.”

Bauhaus slid fully formed from punk rock's womb in late 1978. Over the course of four hot years, they unintentionally birthed a genre (Goth), moved on, moved forward, and surged mercurial through the post-punk music scene, tearing into tense, stark, dub bass-driven new-wave, T-Rex-esque glam, and swirling, clattering, orchestral atmospherics, whilst churning it all into a grand velvet, Rimbaudian hallucination. It was a wild, inspired, enthralling sound. And it still is. Now there is a new record.


‘Go Away White’ was recorded in 18 days at Zircon Skye in Ojai, with singer Peter Murphy, bassist David J, guitarist Daniel Ash, and drummer Kevin Haskins playing together as a band in one room, taking first takes as final cuts. So, a new record but apparently a final one, the band having decided to release it as a posthumous swan song.


‘Go Away White’ is everything you would
hope Bauhaus would deliver as their final statement. Fronted by a cover photo of Bethesda, the angel of the healing waters in New York's Central Park, the music inside is pure cathartic renovation, a psychedelic glimpse into an enchanted moment. Aided in part by guitarist Daniel Ash's inspired use of Jimi Hendrix's own personal Vox wah wah pedal, gifted to him by Peter Murphy at the start of the sessions, it is pop as much as it is experimental.


The 10 songs on ‘Go Away White’ channel the kind of magic timelessness you could imagine on a mighty bill with Joy Division, Bowie, Devo, the Creatures, Antony, My Bloody Valentine, and Kraftwerk--with Oscar Wilde playing master of ceremonies.


As the NME once said, "Bauhaus are to Goth, what Radiohead are to Prog." It's all building blocks. Give ‘Go Away White’ an honest minute and you'll realize that The Klaxons, The Killers, The Rapture and Foals all got their beats from Bauhaus, and how--without them--there would be no Nine Inch Nails or Jane's Addiction or Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, AFI, TV on the Radio, Interpol, Hot Hot Heat or LCD Sound System.


The accomplishments of the band are too many to list here but to touch lightly, there are the four studio albums: ‘In the Flat Field’ (1980), ‘Mask’ (1981), ‘The Sky's Gone Out’ (1982), and ‘Burning from the Inside’ (1983). There is the riveting appearance with David Bowie in the movie,‘The Hunger’. There are the classic Peel sessions and the hits--seismic rumbles such as ‘She's in Parties’, ‘Kick in the Eye’,’Stigmata Martyr’, and the great, epic, pillar of ether and brooding, psychedelia, that is 'Bela Lugosi's Dead.'


So, an end but an end with one final sonorous statement. Behold ‘Go Away White’.

Watch as night comes, as day breaks and the light . . . pours . . . in. --- Adam Gnade

from http://www.bauhausmusik.com