#abbey and eric

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Eric Dolphy - The Gaslight Inn, New York City, October 7, 1962

Since kicking off a few years back, the Vintage Music Experience YouTube channel has been a ridiculously overstuffed treasure chest of rare jazz recordings. Things have slowed down slightly in recent months, but VME is still coming up with the goods with frightening regularity. You could probably devote all of your listening hours to keeping up ...

Here's one I got caught up with — Eric Dolphy in 1962 with a very young Herbie Hancock. This vibe-y radio broadcast takes us over to Red Hook, where the Gaslight Inn enjoyed a brief lifespan as a new jazz hot spot. It sounds like a fun spot, maybe a bit rowdier than the clubs across the water in Manhattan. Nevertheless, Dolphy is able to quiet down the crowd early on with a gorgeous version of Mal Waldron and Billie Holiday's "Left Alone," Eric's bewitching flute leading the way. I don't think Billie ever actually recorded this typically devastating song, but you can hear Waldron accompanying Abbey Lincoln on it right here, for some idea of what that might've sounded like.

[a-star-that-burns-brightly]

I think if till listened to lush by mitski he would stare at a wall for 13 hours

[tilbageidanmark]

[patermater]

mitski in the lush photoshoot

[stonergirlfilmcanon]

want to make a fanvid of Louis performing hegemonic masculinity contrasted with his feminine/gendered role in the narrative as a Gothic heroine (housewife, mother, femme fatale, mad woman etc) and the masculine influences in his life (specifically Lestat but lets not forget Patriarch 2 Armand) set to Real Men by Mitski. does that make sense

[abd-artblog]

Manifoldness

[pearl-d1ver]

Lush (2012) // Mitski

[krispyweiss]

If Days are Numbers, then Today is No. 75 for Alan Parsons

From the Dark Side of the Moon to the Eye in the Sky and beyond, Alan Parsons’ life thus far has been a sonic and celestial voyage.

And if, as he says, days are numbers, then today is No. 75 for the traveler who is the subject of this blog post.

Born Dec. 20, 1948, Parsons started big, engineering the Beatles’ Abbey Road and Let it Be LPs - he appears briefly in 2021’s “the Beatles: Get Back” - before handling the same task for Pink Floyd and Dark Side.

From there, Parsons and Eric Woolfson formed the Alan Parsons Project, a studio-only, revolving cast of singers and players who issued 11 albums between 1975 and 1990.

Parsons then launched a solo career and has subsequently taken his eponymous band on the road as the Alan Parsons Live Project.

There’s really nobody quite like Parsons in the musical universe. But any number of folks in the field would probably want to be like him.

Some of those folks - including friends and colleagues Michael McDonald, Al Stewart, the Hollies’ Terry Sylvester, Wings’ Laurence Juber and Ambrosia’s David Pack, all of whom he’s worked with in some other place, somewhere, some other time - are joining Parsons tonight for a 75th-birthday concert benefitting One805 and the First Responders of Santa Barbara County, Calif.

It’s the game these people play.

12/20/23

[medicallymercury]

so many good (sad) paramedic songs on Lush… all ones I know it would be pretty hard to edit

[saintsgrrl]

lush is the best album. btw. if you even care.

[harrisonarchive]

Photo by Steve Morley.

“Eric Clapton gave me the Les Paul, and then it got kidnapped and taken to Guadalajara. I had to buy this guy a Les Paul to get it back!” - George Harrison, Guitar Player Magazine, November 1987 "The [Les Paul] guitar was stolen while Harrison was in L.A. [in 1973]. Through a complex of phone calls and contacts, it was found that the instrument had been hocked and re-sold to a fellow of Mexican descent. 'I called him up,' Harrison says, smiling wryly. 'I said, "That’s my guitar. I want it back, and I’ll give you your money back." He said, "How do I know it’s really you?" I said, "Okay, I’ll meet you." A meeting was arranged, but the guy just took off, jumped in a car, and drove to Guadalajara and kidnapped my guitar! Ravi Shankar was in Guadalajara doing tv or something—it was just after the Bangladesh concerts—and Ravi went on tv saying, "He’s very upset because his guitar’s been stolen and it’s in Guadalajara!" Then he read the guy’s name on tv! In the end it became a bit of a ripoff. I had to pay this guy to keep flying to Guadalajara doing deals with the other guy, and I ended up having to go out and find a Les Paul of the same period and swap it for mine. I finally got it back, but it was a really good guitar, and also it had that personal thing, because it was the "[While My] Guitar Gently Weeps" guitar that Eric played, and I used it on the white album and Abbey Road.'" - Guitar World, April 1988 (x)

[sid-the-sandwich]

For my Mitski and Obm lovers

These are just songs that I feel fit/describes the characters

Lucifer -

Working for the Knife

Two Slow Dancers

Real Men

Geyser

Bug Like an Angel

There's Nothing Left for You

Mammon -

I Will

I Don't Smoke

A Loving Feeling

Why Didn't You Stop Me?

Remember my Name

Levi -

When Memories Snow

I Don't Like My Mind

Nobody

That's Our Lamp

Heat Lightning

The Frost

Satan -

Buffalo Replaced

Drunk Walk Home

Crack Baby

A Burning Hill

Class of 2013

Humpty

Asmo -

Brand New City

Liquid Smooth

Townie

Thursday Girl

Beel -

Abbey

Me and My Husband

I Want You

Valentine, Texas

Belphie -

Bag of Bones

Francis Forever

A Pearl

Shame

Last Words of a Shooting Stars

Fireworks

Dan the Dancer

Diavolo -

Once More to See You

Blue Light

Because Dreaming Costs Money, My Dear

I Guess

Everyone

Barbatos -

A Horse Named Cold Air

Should've Been Me

Pink in The Night

The Only Heartbreaker

Simeon -

Wife

Carry Me Out

Your Best American Girl

Strawberry Blonde

Stay Soft

Solomon -

Eric

I Bet on Losing Dogs

Happy

Come Into the Water

Star

MC -

My Love Mine All Mine

Heaven

I just thought this was a silly little thing to do. If you want me to explain myself and why I think a certain song fits a brother, please message or comment and I will reply

Prepare, it will be angsty

[nightcolorz]

here r some very Armand songs (with lyrics) that r literally about him bcus I have a nine hour long Armand playlist and nothing to do with it 💀 I could explain in depth how these r Armand core but that would be wayyy too long so for now here’s a list (I’ve been making a lot of lists lately…autuatuc??) that I hope is self explanatory lmao

Brand new city by Mitski

the fruits by Paris Paloma

The Moon will Sing by the Crane Wives

First love/late spring by Mitski

Eric by Mitski

Thing to do by Alex G

Not Strong Enough by boygenius

I don’t smoke by Mitski (I wrote a whole fic about this lmao)

Abbey by Mitski

Cassandra by Florence + the machine

Bark Like a God by Sloppy Jane

Howl by Florence + the Machine (this one is specifically amadeo era, human Armand to me)

A Pearl by Mitski

[retropopcult]

"Something" is a song by British rock band the Beatles from their eleventh studio album, Abbey Road (1969). It was written by George Harrison, the band's lead guitarist, about his wife Pattie Boyd and is widely considered one of the greatest love songs of all time.

Apple Records issued the single as the flip side of "Come Together" (not as a "B" side, but as an "alternate A side") insisted by John Lennon, who considered "Something" to be the best song on the album. The single reached #1 in the US and three other countries (and was Top Ten in dozen more). The release marked the first time that a Harrison composition had been afforded A-side treatment on a Beatles single. In a 1990 letter to Mark Lewisohn, Alan Klein rebutted a claim made in the book The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions that the single was intended as a money-making exercise: Klein said it was purely a mark of Lennon's regard for "Something" and "to point out George as a writer, and give him courage to go in and do his own LP. Which he did."

Together with his second contribution to Abbey Road, "Here Comes the Sun", it is widely viewed by music historians as having marked Harrison's ascendancy as a composer to the level of the Beatles' principal songwriters, Lennon and Paul McCartney.

Harrison began writing "Something" in late 1968 during a session for the Beatles' White Album. In his autobiography, I, Me, Mine, he recalls working on the melody on a piano at the same time as McCartney recorded overdubs in a neighboring room at Abbey Road Studios. But Harrison suspended work on the song, believing that with the tune having come to him so easily, it must have been a melody from another song (something McCartney also wrestled with on "Yesterday"). Only after months of checking with other artists (and borrowing the opening lyric from fellow songwriter James Taylor, another Apple Records client), Harrison was able to work out the middle eight and finish it. Finally sometime in 1969, Boyd recalled: "He told me, in a matter-of-fact way, that he had written it for me. I thought it was beautiful. He first played it to me in the kitchen."

The promotional film for "Something" was shot in late October 1969, not long after Lennon privately announced that he was leaving the band. By this time, the band members had grown apart. As a result, the film consisted of separate clips, edited together, featuring the Beatles walking around the grounds of their homes with their respective wives. Harrison's segment shows him and Boyd together in their garden at Kinfauns. The four segments were edited and compiled into a single film clip by Neil Aspinall. Allan Kozinn noted: "What Mr. Aspinall's idyllic film avoided showing was that the Beatles were at that point barely on speaking terms. In the film, no two Beatles are seen together."

"Something" received the Ivor Novello Award for the Best Song of 1969. By the late 1970s, it had been covered by over 150 artists, making it the second-most covered Beatles composition after "Yesterday". Shirley Bassey had a top-five hit with her 1970 recording, and Frank Sinatra regularly performed the song, calling it "the greatest love song of the past 50 years." In 2000, Mojo ranked "Something" at number 14 in the magazine's list of "The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time".

A year after Harrison's death, his good friends McCartney and Eric Clapton performed a loving rendition of the song at the Concert for George tribute at London's Royal Albert Hall. Pattie Boyd said she was "moved to tears" by the performance.

[jennathearcher]

taken by the view: a playlist inspired by black leg sanji (one piece)

i. hey sexy lady - shaggy ft. brian & tony gold ii. lovefool - twocolors iii. adore you - harry styles iv. crazy in love - emeli sande & the bryan ferry orchestra v. careless whisper - postmodern jukebox vi. on fire - switchfoot & ingrid andress vii. you have stolen my heart - brian fallon viii. hunger - florence + the machine ix. iris - colm r. mcguinness x. jealous - labrinth xi. wild uncharted waters - jonah hauer-king xii. burnin' up - jonas brothers xiii. water - pentatonix xiv. body talks - the struts ft. kesha xv. abbey - mitski xvi. song to the siren - rose betts xvii. smooth - santana ft. rob thomas xviii. be our guest - jonathan young xix. woman is - eden espinosa xx. hungry eyes - eric carmen xxi. bubble dance - julien rey xxii. sway - michael buble xxiii. give me everything (stripped) - archer marsh xxiv. a man without love - engelbert humperdinck xxv. le monde - richard carter xxvi. burning love - elvis presley xxvii. south of the border - ed sheeran ft. camila cabello & cardi b xxviii. paris - taylor swift xxix. hello hello - elton john xxx. nicotine - panic! at the disco

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@piratespencil @gellavonhamster

[letters2fiction]

Welcome to Letters2fiction!

The concept here is to send in a question or a letter request, and you’ll get a response from your fictional character of choice, from the list below. Please stick to the list I’ve made, but of course, you can ask if there’s some other characters I write for, I don’t always remember all the shows, movies or books I’ve consumed over the years and I’m sure I’m missing a lot 😅

Status: New Characters added - Thursday March 21st, 2024

TV SERIES

A Discovery of Witches:

Matthew Clairmont

Baldwin Montclair

Gallowglass de Clermont

Marcus Whitmore

Philippe de Clermont

Jack Blackfriars

Sarah Bishop

Emily Mather

Diana Bishop

Ysabeau de Clermont

Miriam Shepard

Phoebe Taylor

Gerbert D’Aurillac

Peter Knox

Father Andrew Hubbard

Benjamin Fuchs

Satu Järvinen

Meridiana

Law and Order:

Rafael Barba

Sonny Carisi

Joe Velasco

Mike Duarte

Terry Bruno

Peter Stone

Hasim Khaldun

Nick Amaro NEW!

Mike Dodds

Grace Muncy

Kat Tamin

Toni Churlish

Amanda Rollins

Olivia Benson

Rita Calhoun

Casey Novak

Melinda Warner

George Huang

Sam Maroun

Nolan Price

Jamie Whelan

Bobby Reyes

Jet Slootmaekers

Ayanna Bell

Jack McCoy

Elliot Stabler

One Chicago:

Jay Halstead (Could also be Will if you want)

Antonio Dawson

Adam Ruzek

Greg "Mouse" Gerwitz

Dante Torres

Vanessa Rojas

Kevin Atwater

Sean Roman

Matt Casey

Kelly Severide

Joe Cruz

Sylvie Brett

Blake Gallo

Christopher Hermann

"Mouch"

Otis

Violet Mikami

Evan Hawkins

Mayans MC:

Angel Reyes

Miguel

Bishop

Coco

Nestor

911 verse:

Athena Grant

Bobby Nash

Henrietta "Hen" Wilson

Evan "Buck" Buckley

Eddie Diaz

Howie "Chimney" Han

Ravi Panikkar

T.K. Strand

Owen Strand

Carlos Reyes

Marjan Marwani

Paul Strickland

Tommy Vega

Judson "Judd" Ryder

Grace Ryder

Nancy Gillian

Mateo Chavez

The Rookie:

Lucy Chen

Tim Bradford

Celina Juarez

Aaron Thorsen

Nyla Harper

Angela Lopez

Wesley Evers

BBC Sherlock:

Greg Lestrade

Mycroft Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

Moriarty

Molly

Bridgerton:

Anthony Bridgerton

Benedict Bridgerton

Simon Basset

Daphne Bridgerton

Eloise Bridgerton

Kate Sharma

Edwina Sharma

Marina Thompson/Crane

Outlander:

Jamie Fraser

Claire Beauchamp Randall Fraser

Frank Randall

Black Jack Randall

Brianna Fraser

Roger MacKenzie

Fergus Fraser

Marsali Fraser

Jenny Fraser Murray

Ian Murray Sr.

Ian Fraser Murray

Murtagh Mackenzie

Call The Midwife:

Shelagh Turner / Sister Bernadette

Dr. Patrick Turner

Nurse Trixie Franklin

Nurse Phyllis Crane

Lucille Anderson

Nurse Barbara Gilbert

Chummy

Sister Hilda

Miss Higgins

PC Peter Noakes

Reverend Tom Hereward NEW!

Narcos:

Horacio Carrillo

Peaky Blinders:

Tommy Shelby

Downton Abbey:

Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham

Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham

Lady Mary Crawley

Lady Edith Crawley

Lady Sybil Crawley

Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham

Isobel Crawley

Matthew Crawley

Lady Rose MacClare

Lady Rosamund Painswick

Henry Talbot

Tom Branson

Mr. Charles Carson

Mrs. Hughes / Elsie May Carson

John Bates

Anna Bates

Daisy Mason

Thomas Barrow

Joseph Molesley

Land Girl:

Connie Carter

Reverend Henry Jameson (Gwilym Lee's version)

Midsomer Murder:

DCI Tom Barnaby

Joyce Barnaby

Dr. George Bullard

DCI John Barnaby

Sarah Barnaby

DS Ben Jones

DS Jamie Winter

Sgt. Gavin Troy

Fleur Perkins

WPC Gail Stephens

Kate Wilding

DS Charlie Nelson

Sergeant Dan Scott

NEW! Once Upon A Time

Regina / The Evil Queen

Mary Margaret Blanchard / Snow White

David Nolan / Prince Charming

Emma Swan

Killian Jones / Captain Hook

Mr. Gold / Rumplestiltskin

Neal Cassidy / Baelfire

Peter Pan

Sheriff Graham Humbert / The Huntsman

Jefferson / The Mad Hatter

Belle

Robin of Locksley / Robin Hood

Will Scarlet

Zelena / Wicked Witch

Alice (Once in Wonderland)

Cyrus (Once in Wonderland)

Jafar (Once in Wonderland)

Gideon

Tiger Lily

Naveen

Tiana

Granny

Ariel

Prince Eric

Aladdin

Jasmine

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Hercules

Megara

Tinker Bell

Merida

Red Riding Hood

Mulan

Aurora / Sleeping Beauty

Prince Phillip

Cinderella

Prince Thomas

NEW! The Vampire Diaries / The Originals

Stefan Salvatore

Damon Salvatore

Caroline Forbes

Elena Gilbert

Bonnie Bennett

Enzo St. John

Niklaus Mikaelson

Elijah Mikaelson

Kol Mikaelson

Rebekah Mikaelson

Freya Mikaelson

Finn Mikaelson

Mikael

Esther

Marcel Gerard

Davina Claire

MOVIES

The Pirates of the Caribbean:

Captain Jack Sparrow

Barbossa

Will Turner

Elizabeth Swann

James Norrington

Kingsman:

Merlin

Harry Hart

Eggsy Unwin

James Spencer / Lancelot

Alastair / Percival

Roxy Morton / Lancelot

Maximillian Morton / The Shepherd

Orlando Oxford

Jack Daniels / Whiskey

Gin

BOOKS

Dreamland Billionaire series - Lauren Asher:

Declan

Callahan

Rowan

Iris

Alana

Zahra

Dirty Air series - Lauren Asher:

Noah

Liam

Jax

Santiago

Maya

Sophie

Elena

Chloe

Ladies in Stem - Ali Hazelwood books:

Olive

Adam

Bee

Levi

Elsie

Jack

Mara

Liam

Sadie

Erik

Hannah

Ian

Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros:

Xaden Riorson

Dain Aetos

Jack Barlowe

Rhiannan Matthias

Violet Sorrengail

Mira Sorrengail

Lillith Sorrengail

Bodhi Durran

Liam Mairi