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Here's another absolute peach from Selective Service...I'm expecting great things from these lads this year. If you dig, then share... Tomas

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Man, everyone needs to watch and listen to this today - feel free to share if you dig it!! Tomas

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Lou Reed

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The Velvet Underground and Nico is the debut album by experimental rock band The Velvet Underground and vocal collaborator Nico. It was originally released in March 1967 by Verve Records, a subsidiary of MGM Records. Recorded in 1966 during Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable multimedia event tour, The Velvet Underground and Nico would gain notoriety for its experimentalist performance sensibilities, as well as its focus on controversial subject matter in songs such as "Heroin". Though largely ignored upon its release, it has since become one of the most influential and critically lauded rock albums in history, appearing as #13 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time[1] as well as being added to the 2006 National Recording Registry by the Librarian of Congress. The Velvet Underground and Nico is sometimes referred to as the "banana album" as it features a Warhol print of a banana on the cover. Early copies of the album invited the owner to "Peel slowly and see"; peeling back the banana skin revealed a flesh-colored banana underneath. A special machine was needed to manufacture these covers (one of the causes of the album's delayed release), but MGM paid for costs figuring that any ties to Warhol would boost sales of the album.[6][3] On the 1996 CD reissue, the banana image is on the front cover while the image of the peeled banana is on the inside of the jewel case, beneath the CD itself. Much of the album's sound was conceived by John Cale, who stressed the experimental qualities of the band. Cale, who was influenced greatly by his work with La Monte Young, John Cage and the early Fluxus movement, encouraged the use of alternative ways of producing sound in music. Cale thought his sensibilities meshed well with Lou Reed's, who was already experimenting with alternative tunings. For instance, Reed had "invented" the ostrich guitar tuning for a song he wrote called "The Ostrich" for the short-lived band The Primitives. Ostrich guitar tuning consists of all strings being tuned to the same note. The method was utilized on songs "Venus in Furs" and "All Tomorrow's Parties". Often, the guitars were also tuned down a whole step, which produced a lower, fuller sound that Cale called "sexy". Track History: The song was written on the back of an envelope by Lou Reed while he and the band were on their way to a gig at the Café Bizarre.[1] The song details a number of characters living in New York City, including Teenage Mary, Margarita Passion, Seasick Sarah, and Beardless Harry; all of whom are detailed using or seeking drugs. In addition to mentioning New York scenery such as Union Square and 47th Street, the song makes use of drug terms paired with religious imagery. The song is also well known because of Lou Reed's guitar solo, because of its 'total lack of convention'.

What a track.  What a record.

Tomas

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Dead Skeleton's playing Liverpool Psyche Fest. Tomas

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Dead Skeleton's playing Liverpool Psyche Fest. Tomas

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Yes!!

Tomas

Mary Oliver

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A photo i took on Sunday.  I've tried to make what was such a beautiful scene, dark and forbidding as that's what kind of mood i am in today.

Tomas

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New album out today!!

Tomas

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The main man is back with another peach of a record.

Tomas

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Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

Rabindranath Tagore

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A note on this video:

This is by any description, a project that almost never happened. Rushing to get to Wisconsin for fresh snows and still frozen air, Director Matt Amato arrived in Eau Claire, hometown of Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, in late January. In the midst of warming up after a long journey and excitedly telling Justin about all the projects he had on the horizon, Matt received a phone call. One of his best friends had suddenly and tragically passed away. All logic and reason were thrown out. Nobody knew what to do. Matt didn't know whether to stay or go, or how he would even manage to get back to the airport in his state of shock. Justin just tried to stay calm. Between a flurry of phone calls and attempting to contact some of Matt's family to accompany him home, night fell. Almost by default, Matt remained in Eau Claire in the company of his newest acquaintance. Something about it was safe, and that was enough. The next morning, Matt read the lyrics to "The Wolves" and felt as if those were the exact words he needed to hear from his departed friend. That pretty much sealed it. Matt would stay and work, even as the thought of making a video became the last thing on their minds. They built a bonfire and just let it burn all day and into the night, and Matt filmed. The weight of the circumstances propelled the collaboration to a place these sort of projects don't often go. The cathartic spirit of Bon Iver's music had found its kindred spirit in imagery.

Having read this, i love this song even more.

Tomas

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This is simple and beautiful and everyone should ease into their Mondays by listening to it at least once.

Tomas

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A photo I took today. Tomas

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I was put onto this band yesterday and i am very much digging them.

Tomas

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I've posted this a couple of times but for anyone who's not heard /seen it before, here it is just for you...

Tomas

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The piano has been drinking, not me.

Tom Waits