#NowPlaying - revisiting early santana for the first time in eons at the behest of a (drummer) pal who suggested trying to background carlos & focus on the next-level collectivity of this specific group of players. and, like, shit yeah! it's probably just stating the obvious to say that santana were an incredible band, but it made them feel fresh to me. @vinylrecords
@bourgwick@vinylrecords I'd say the original (and best) version of the band is on the Fillmore 1968 album. Doc Livingstone on drums, Marcus Malone on congas, David Brown on bass.
#NowPlaying - @SunRaUniverse at montreux, july '76. coincidentally, almost exactly concurrent with the previous don cherry session. but, maybe not coincidentally, also near the end of the arkestra's furthest-out period, before they headed for more inside orbits. not inside yet, though. sprawling full-spectrum 20+ member 2-drummer ensemble #jazz arrangements blowing apart & back again, led by sunny's powerful (& wonderfully recorded) #piano & noisy starstuff #synth. @vinylrecords
So the day after the Nuggets notch a nice statement win, the Celtics drop 44 in the first quarter and are absolutely flexing all over the Warriors today, without one of their best players. These teams are fucking READY for the #nba playoffs and despite a very strong field with several really good teams at the top it sure looks to me like Boston and Denver could pulverize everyone in their paths if everyone stays healthy. No such thing as a sure thing obviously though
@mrcompletely Denver's second half was incredible. They are so in sync and fun to watch. Boston can be punked, again (Miami). Something about their formula feels playoff vulnerable.
@mrcompletely@noirlover I just want to see a healthy Knicks team because they were rolling post OG trade. Give me Knicks vs Boston 2nd round and let's go.
@mrcompletely@noirlover 100%. A lot of cashiers now get flummoxed by the coins. And it was like $7.87 change. As a former cashier...87 cents is a tough one--a lot of coins involved. This dude ATTACKED those coin trays.
Some thoughts on nostalgia in art/culture, especially music
Of course nostalgia is weaponized to sell you back your youth and defang any revolutionary aspects of your chosen counterculture, everyone gets this by now.
But we also live in a temporally flattened aesthetic environment, meaning all prior eras of art exist equally in the present through digital mediation, outside of commercial retro marketing cycles. So your youth genres sit as part of an enormous network in aesthetic space
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@mrcompletely I'm GenX and my clique HATED the 80s. The production techniques, the clothes, Ronald Reagan. Still don't like it. Millennials started embracing that era. They didn't have to live through it.
@mrcompletely There's something about 80s music that resonates with millennials. Maybe similarly there was something about the 60s and 70s that sounded good to us in the 90s (still does). We had boomer parents record collections to roll j's on. They have Spotify and no cultural fault lines. Disliking 80s era of production...puzzled how Toto's Africa became a millennial anthem. Maybe the 2010s tech boom referenced 80s consumerism / careerism. Or things just go in cycles.