Sidewalk Appraisal showed up on February of 2019. We’ve gotten to know each other quite a bit since and it has turned out to be a lot of fun to play.
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Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
The Sand Bats of Manark IV – demo track
May 4th, 2020 by Corey A. Edwards
Lord of the Angles – demo track
February 27th, 2020 by Corey A. Edwards
16 Different Delights – Parodies of the Herb Alpert Album Cover
February 19th, 2020 by Corey A. Edwards
American Idle – Steamy Creamy Beanness
March 27th, 2015 by Corey A. Edwards
I’ve been getting back into guitaring, as I like to say, and this has gotten me back into … looking back at things which have sprung before, unbidden from the instruments I torture.
Steamy Creamy Beanness is a musical idea I’d almost forgotten about – a bit of doggerel, a knock off – but I rather like this short edit of my initial concept combined with this silly, time-lapse video, here. Doop-de-doo … what else lies in these vaults, I wonder
Once again, please forgive the sound quality (much less the hamhanded playing) – this is recorded live onto boombox sometime in 2002.
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Hey, That’s Not What I Ordered! – Pleasureboaters
May 13th, 2013 by Corey A. Edwards
It’s November, 2007 and at my suggestion, my 12 year-old daughter, Mel, is busy shoving wads of toilet paper into her ear canals.
It’s her first rock concert, you see, and we’ve already walked 20+ blocks from the ferry terminal in downtown Seattle to a place called “Neumos” and here I went and forgot the earplugs.
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Taking You Out for a Spin
May 9th, 2013 by Corey A. Edwards
I’ve really been enjoying my record collection now that I have a new turntable (a Pro-Ject Debut Carbon – incredible value for the price) and, from time to time, have encountered a few aspects of listening to rekkids that you just don’t get with any other medium – especially with the now ubiquitous digital files!
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Sound –
My First Pop Record: Blondie – “Parallel Lines”
April 22nd, 2013 by Corey A. Edwards
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Werner Müller and His Orchestra – “Percussion In The Sky”
April 15th, 2013 by Corey A. Edwards
In early spring of this year, I returned to my hometown for a short visit with family and friends. During the visit, I managed to collect two recordings of my youth, one of which is the album I can pinpoint as having been instrumental (*snicker*) in awakening my interest in sound.
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American Idle – Part the Second; Still In The Basement
June 30th, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
The last few months have seen my return to music creation at the cost of much else in my life. I remain obsessed with regaining – and then hopefully surpassing – all past musical endeavors and, as such, have spent much time in pouring through the audio diary I’ve kept (more off than on these last five years) since 1991.
Thinking quite correctly that the better bits would be at the end rather than the beginning, I started transferring the most recent tapes to digital and sifting through the resulting tracks for nuggets with which to kick start the practice and aim of my renewed passion.
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You Spin Me Right Round
April 21st, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
Back before you could steal music from the internet, you actually had to go to the effort to drive all of the way into town to shoplift it from a store. And if you were into vinyl, it was a bitch to get that shit under your shirt without anyone noticing.
Oh, record stores, how I miss your once, near ubiquity.
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MODULAR: Sonic Explorations – The Recordings of 2011
December 20th, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
I stumbled across “MODULAR: Sonic Explorations” while hunting for an Eyvind Kang track on YouTube. Situations such as this make me reflect that, while I miss record stores terribly, dammit, I love the internet.
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Ruins Alone – The Recordings of 2011
December 10th, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
When I first heard about Yoshida Tatsuya’s “Ruins Alone,” a solo version of the band by its composer and drummer, I have to admit I was dubious. I guess I was expecting something along the lines of John French’s “O Solo Drumbo” – essentially Captain Beefheart songs stripped down to the drums. Interesting but … not necessarily something I listen to very often.
Ruins is primarily known as a Japanese drum and bass unit, cranking out heavy, hard to categorize, start and stop on a dime, jazz/prog/avant-garde music fit for weirdoids like myself.
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American Idle ~ or ~ The Early Recordings of CAE
November 26th, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
I fell in love with music very early on in life but, as with the visual arts, never really caught the bug to create any myself until well past said age.
In 1989, I began work as a security guard and there met Bruce Norton, an amateur blues guitarist. In casual conversation with him, I voiced the guitar-playing pipe-dream most young men of our culture have and he assured me that the dream could be realized. In short order, he sold me a guitar and showed me a few tips and tricks.
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Brian Eno and Rick Holland – Drums Between The Bells – The Recordings of 2011
July 8th, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
Brian Eno, in collaboration with poet Rick Holland, released a new album called “Drums Between The Bells” this 4th of July, giving me more than one reason to revel in noise.
Diverse in scope, “Drums Between The Bells” features numerous approaches to the sound poem, a form Eno has been experimenting with since the release of “Dead Finks Don’t Talk” on his first solo album “Here Come the Warm Jets,” in 1973.
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Blooming Idiot
June 21st, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
Hammerfist Odious
December 1st, 2010 by Corey A. Edwards
So, I am a good little donkey: dutifully ordering Frank Zappa releases when they are announced and in as timely a fashion as finances allow.
This latest, a 3-cd set of live recordings from performances at London’s Hammersmith Odeon in 1978, I was able to nab at preorder – joy!
Somehow, however, the company that handles the sales sent my CD to an old address, long-since sans forwarding.
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Song Of The Week: Nothing, Then
May 17th, 2009 by Corey A. Edwards
Need a band for your party?
May 9th, 2009 by Corey A. Edwards
(gratefully “snipped” from the 10/23/65 issue of KRLA Beat)
Zappa Fans: Have 3 Hours to Kill?
April 26th, 2009 by Corey A. Edwards
Thanks to a post on alt.fan.frank-zappa, I was made aware of an excellent, 3-part documentary series on CBC Radio 2 about Frank Zappa called I am all Day and Night: The Music of Frank Zappa by Philip Coulter (it’s about half way down the page).
This amazing series allows tons of insight into Frank, his vision, and his process, revealed through in-depth interviews with Gail Zappa, Ruth Underwood, Arthur Barrow, Bruce Fowler, Warren Cuccurullo, Steve Vai, and The Man, himself via a previously unreleased, 1992 CBC interview; what better way for a Zappa fan to spend three hours?
There are some other real gems on the page as well: programs on Paul Bley, Daniel Lanois, Don Thompson, and many more. Very cool stuff – check it out!
(trying to figure out how to collect the Zappa content as I type this – the Ruth Underwood bits alone are priceless)
