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Titolo: Concerti su myrem + Intervista BBC6

concerti aggiunti su myrem
Tour 2004>2004-10-20 - Murat Theatre, Indianapolis, IN, USA
                   2004-10-25 - Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL, USA
                   2004-10-26 - Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL, USA
 
BBC6 Interview Wednesday 3rd November
http://www.murmurs.com/talk/showthread.php?t=76946
ne riporto una parte, alcuni punti sono troppo divertenti tipo quando
Peter e Michael si scambiano battutte sui tempi delle canzoni... e
Michael si rende conto durante l'intervista di aver cantato in 4/4 su
una canzone in in 7/8..ovvero Final Straw ahahahah :)) (Cosa già
successa con New test Leper)...
 Peter che suona la chitarra davanti alla TV accesa ma senza
volume....per rendere consapevole la musica che gli viene
dall'inconscio.... e quando Mike e Peter prendono per il culo Michael
affibbiando a lui il termine "gullible" (credulone) perchè ha creduto
a una storia che Patti Smith gli ha raccontato riguardo una sua
canzone che si riferiva a un presentatore di un talk Show di cui si
era invaghita per 20 anni!!! ... :))
Se nn avete capito niente del mini-riassunto leggete :)))
TR
Do you find it easy to have real life experiences when you are in the
kind of bubble involved in touring and stuff or does that distance you
from it?
MS
I don’t have that much of a problem with it. I realised really early
on that it is a bubble. The very fortunate aspect of this is that we
do travel to all these places that other people in my life have never
been to or never had the opportunity to visit. I think we are all so
adrenalised when we are touring that we don’t sleep a great deal and I
make a special effort and I know Peter does and Mike does from time to
time to get out and discover the place where we’re at...(adds,
probably in response from a look from Mike)...Well it is from time to
time! Usually at nigh...
PB
What he’s trying tp say is that I’m the guy that can’t sleep so I get
up in the morning and wander around the city and Mike is prowling the
darker reaches of the Metropolis...
MM(laughing)
Jesus ! What are you guys doing to me over here...well I’m a night
person. Ok its true...
MS
I am too. I’m not a morning person.
MM
You know, for us the bubble is real life as much as anything else.
Travel is something I do even when I’m not working and it just doesn’t
change all that much.
TR
That kind of takes us neatly on to Wanderlust really on the record.
I’m intrigued by that 7/4 intro where you’ve got seven beats and
you’re expecting the eight and suddenly the whole thing turns round
and you’re just getting used to that and it goes back into 4/4
again...
PB
You know, I remember writing that and I didn’t really...or some reason
I wrote two songs in the space of a couple of months that had one bar
of 7/4 in it and I don’t know why. The other one is Final Straw.
MS
Is that what it is?!
PB
Sorry! 7/8 I mean and yeah Final Straw drops one beat in the ...chorus
I was writing this and (I’m thinking) what am I doing here? And I
didn’t realise until I played it for Mike and he’s like 7/8 ?! Why did
you do that?! But it seemed to make sense. I don’t know why. I
couldn’t play it any other way.
MS
But hang on a second. With Final Straw I was able to do the same thing
I do with New Test Leper right?
I’m singing a kind of 4/4/ part on top of a song that isn’t really
4/4..
PB
Yeah, you kind of end and I kind of end...its just that one bar in the
verse actually.
MS
Yeah, it’s the verse in Final Straw right?
TR
Lets take a listen (plays Wanderlust)
TR
Have you anything to add to the discussion of the 7/8 aspect of the
music to the actual content of the song Michael?
MS
No but I’ve just made that realisation...I was really proud when I
found the lyric to New Test Leper which is off our dark horse record
in the past, New Adventures in Hi Fi...because its kind of an Irish
jig, or what I call an Irish jig and its hard to sing a song like that
except as an Irish jig vocal but I somehow manage in that song to sing
a vocal part that the meter is more a regular beat and I did the same
thing with Final Straw but I didn’t realise until this interview that
actually it’s the same as the Wanderlust thing.
[CUT]
TR
On that basis, what are the opportunities and the liberations this
trio line up has offered you?
PB
When we started doing this record, before we had the three other guys
come in it would just be the three of us and we would put down things
were I would play drums or Mike would play drums or we would play
drums together , terrifying thought that that is...It gave us the
chance to kind of work out the songs in a... I hate to use the word
but in a kind of organic way. Its just what we ended up doing was the
end result of the three of us sitting in a room, the three of us
playing whatever instruments we needed to. The Outsiders is a song
that was kind of a demo but we kept it for the record, that’s me
playing drums.
TR
How did the actual storyline come about in the Outsiders?
MS
I say this a real lot but I always feel like the interpretation of the
writer is like the least important interpretation of what a song is.
For me music is an exploration of my self so when Peter tells me how
brilliant the new Bjork record is and I can’t wait to hear
it.....what’s it called? Medulla?
PB
Medulla....
MS
I can’t wait to hear it but I don’t want to read or hear Bjork or Thom
York or PJ Harvey telling me what their songs are about.... I want to
explore that myself and then maybe later I’ll find out and if I’m
blowing it for anyone here....but when Patti Smith told me that
Johnny, from ‘Johnny ‘s in the hallway drinking a glass of tea’ is
none other but Johnny Carson ....(the others start laughing) the talk
show host who she has huge admiration for and I think she had a crush
on him for 20 years.....can you believe that?
PB
No, I think she’s pulling your leg, Michael.
MS
No! Its in her book ! If you get Patti Smith Complete there’s a
portrait of Johnny Carson. She loves Johnny Carson. (Pause). Maybe
she’s pulling my leg. I don’t know. I’m pretty...what’s the word?
MM
It’s a good one though..
PB
You’re gullible
MS
Yeah, I’m pretty gullible..
[CUT]
PB
You look for the magic accidents. For me, I know Michael’s discussed
this, but for me I always try to not be...I don’t sit down and say
I’ll try to write a song in 6/4 time in the key of F or whatever. 
MM
Don’t you dare! 
PB
F and B Flat, my two least favourite keys
MS
I accept that as a challenge..
PB
Half the record is in B flat ! So I end up just playing and things
occur and I’ll wander what these things are some times and I know that
sometimes it pays to be real conscious about what you’re doing and
sometimes just not is really good. I used to like to have the
television on which I never watch with the sound turned off and play
guitar in front of it...nature programmes or whatever....and your
start playing and after a while you find you are playing something
over and over and over and if it makes sense subconsciously it must
make sense consciously....in some way. 
Do you end up with libraries of cassettes with fragments of little
bits.of songs which you then come back and refer to?
PB
Mostly actually closer to finished. Mike and I write a ton of stuff .
For this record we had 35 things that with vocals would be considered
songs and without they‘re instrumentals and they sit around and
sometimes they come back. Final Straw was one I had sitting around for
10 or 12 years but I never showed it to anyone and I played it as a
warm up exercise as its very fast picking and I’d use it and Pat, our
producer, heard me just warming up with it in the studio and said Why
don’t you record that / so I put it down and Michael immediately came
up with lyrics. 
MS
Within a day and a half I think.
MM
If we ever get around to the box set ther’s going to be a full CD of
instrumental songs. ..because there’s no way as prolific as Michael
could be there’s no way he could write to all the stuff Peter and I
give him and so there is a lot of good stuff sitting around that’ll be
heard one of these days. 
PB
I’m not superstitious about anything except songs. For me, Where do
they come from? You don’t ever want to think about that but also what
happens to a song that’s written that no one ever hears...not just on
a record that non one really buys but the record that never actually
comes out? That’s in the vaults. For some reason that gives me an
eerie feeling and I don’t know why.
TR
That’s like the tree falling in the forest that nobody is there to
hear..
PB
I’m not worried about the tree.
TR
Mike, can you tell us about Final Straw?
[CUT]
TR
If you were to make a whole load more cover versions as you have done
in the course of your career , I’m kind of curious as to what stuff
you are listening to that you might be interested in doing your own
reinterpretation of individually, the three of you...Peter, what would
you go for?
PB
I’ve had this on my schedule for several years and I actually recorded
a version with no vocals but haven’t got round to doing anything but
there is a band called the thirteenth floor elevators . There last
record is kind of a compilation of studio outtakes and there is a song
that Rocky Ericsson who was soon to be committed to a mental
institution, probably the last thing he did with the band called ‘May
the circle remain unbroken’ and its just the most demented piece of
music I’ve ever heard. Its basically an echoplex, a bass player who
can’t figure out what key its in and Rocky moaning this ghost like
voice. it’s a beautiful piece of music. I don’t think you could do it
twice. I actually recorded it. At one point we were going to put it on
a B side but we never got round to finishing it. That would be my
number one choice.
TR
Mike, how about you? 
MM
That’s a very difficult question. A lot of the musicians I keep
thinking of we’ve been lucky enough to work with and play some of the
songs with them. If I were a better piano player I would say Rhapsody
in Blue. That’s way over my head. 
PB
What would Michael do?
MM
Write some words!
MS
I would perch on the piano and have a Martini.
MM
There you go!
MS
And have a cigarette..
MM
Another thought that came to mind was Jimmy Webb but then I remembered
that we have done Wichita Lineman live before. Michael does a
brilliant job with it. So since you are asking me today, the thing
that pops into mind is to do a cover of Beat on the Brat. I would
throw that one out.
(Plays the Ramones’ Beat on the Brat - the interviewer later admits
that the BBC library didn’t have a copy of Peters’ choice !)
TR
Michael, what would your choice be?
MS
I would choose a song by Patti Smith called We Three.
TR
Why?
MS
Probably because of the title. Its one of my favourite songs of her
old catalogue. She surprised me with it one New Years’ Eve in New
York. She plays the same show every New Years’ Eve in New York city
and I’ve had the opportunity to see that a couple of times. She said
what do you want to hear? And I said that song and she played it. Its
such an awesome song. I think we could really wail on it . Maybe we’ll
try that.
(Plays We Three)
TR
Thank you for your time this afternoon. I hope the writing of the next
album goes on apace while you are on tour. You are going to be back
here in February I believe and then you return again in June just
before you sign off , to do some big festival dates?
PB
The summer in Europe is always great. Wouldn’t miss it.
Ciao!
Vero - High Speed Train Jumpers #2
--
I told you I wanted to be wrong, 
but everyone is humming a song
that I DON'T UNDERSTAND


sembra molto divertente,ma si tratta d video?
Vero sai che non sono piu riuscito a vedere quel video che condividesti su
altervista,e non e' solo una questione di codec perche ho scaricato l'ultima
versione di windows media player e non dovrebbe piu dar problemi.
Hai qualche idea?
grazie
Davide

Hai qualche idea?
hai scaricato anche i codec divx e hai provato ad aprire il video col
programma divx? ( 
http://www.divxmovies.com/codec/
 )
Altrimenti non so... come avevo scritto anche io ho avuto problemi di
visualizzazione dei video e ho risolto tutto installando un DVD player
(WinDVD o Power DVD) 
chi ha qualche altro suggerimento?


 chi ha qualche altro suggerimento?
Per visualizzare correttamente il 90% dei filmati presenti in internet con
Windows Media Player, basta scaricare i codec divx e xvid
Per il primo, è sufficiente installare Divx Player
(
http://www.divx.com/divx/download/
), che automaticamente installerà il
codec Divx.
Per il secondo: 
http://download.divxmovies.com/XviD-1.0.2-29082004.exe
-- 
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persone irreprensibili! (E. Hemingway). 
Giaaaanniiii! Ma come si fa a nn essere ottimiistii?!? (Tonino Guerra)
Penso che a chiunque ascolti il nostro album arrivi un messaggio
di speranza, se si ascoltano i testi e ci si lascia penetrare dalla
musica. Siamo tutti ottimisti, abbiamo fiducia nella speranza 
(e penso che questo venga fuori ascoltando il disco) (Mike Mills)
-ALEC- fondatore del Club 8mista