mrcompletely

mrcompletely, 8 months ago to bluegrass

I shared this privately before, but I just got the okay to share it in public. The Bluegrass Archive is online with a website and everything. This is a MASSIVE trove of legal live #bluegrass recordings from earliest days right up to now, which you can download and listen to for free. It is one of the greatest achievements of the fan-driven #music archiving community I've ever seen. I contributed a small number of filesets out of the thousands here. #music

https://bluegrassarchive.com/

mrcompletely, 1 year ago to random

Well, apparently this is the new #GratefulDead box set - the big stadium shows from May/June 1973. Certainly one of their peak years! People have been waiting for the RFK shows in particular, and Kezar is also a long time favorite of many, though it's not one mine relative to the year (meaning it's still very good, just perhaps slightly longer than it is good, being very long).

https://store.dead.net/en/grateful-dead/special-collections/here-comes-sunshine/here-comes-sunshine-1973-dead.net-exclusive-%5B17-cd%5D/081227847036.html

mrcompletely, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

😘🤌
#film #kubrick #madness #mugshot

mrcompletely, 6 months ago to nba

some lunchtime #nba thoughts after absorbing the weekend

• the take that trading for Harden doomed the Clips is both true and silly. That team wasn't anything anyway. Russ will be fun on the Heat or whoever though

• Philly is finally the team they should've been the last...3? 5? seasons: a fun, high-energy lineup around Embiid. They're enjoyable to watch for the first time in ages. Maxey making the leap isn't news anymore but it's deeper than that. Their team isn't perfect but it is coherent 🧵

mrcompletely, 9 months ago to music

With #StopMakingSense in the news, this seems like a good time to repost the stunning Rome 1980 Talking Heads live concert video. Without taking anything away from that magical film, believe it or not, it was filmed after the band's live performance apex which I think is fully captured in this incredible hour-plus of #music. I love SMS, but to me this is better, and it's not even very close. You may not agree but every #TalkingHeads fan should def check it out!

https://youtu.be/GwWW742T0Wc

mrcompletely, 6 months ago to nba

Lmaoooooo okay thank the #nba basketball gods the Wolves didn't lose to that scrubby ass warriors lineup after the ejections

The Draymond headlock is iconic of course and Rudy has been first team all-unlikeable for years so Dray is gonna win the PR battle among fans but really Rudy wasn't doing shit wrong there, looked like he was trying to cool it down not heat it up. But from Dray's angle it probably looked bad so he threw that lock on him from behind

Serious knuckleheadery afoot regardless

mrcompletely, 7 months ago to nba

Ok now that the smoke has cleared it's time for some offseason #nba takes. Note I live in #pdx and root for the Blazers but I am first and foremost a fan of the game in general. Some thoughts post trade flurry:

I still have Denver at the top until someone beats them in a playoff series. I don't think even a lot of smart hoops watchers have really accepted how great that Nuggets team was. There are a lot of potentially great teams out there, but there's one that's already great, and it's Denver.

mrcompletely, 8 months ago to BillyStrings

Not a bad wedding band for #BillyStrings - congrats, young fella!
#phish #GratefulDead #primussucks

mrcompletely, 2 months ago to random

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, 7 months ago to fediverse

What would a decentralized #fediverse #BandCamp service look like? I'll obviously support bandcamp until the bitter end and I hope it ends up fine and this is all nothing to worry about. But I think it's an interesting question.

I have some ideas but I'm interested in hearing from others.

mrcompletely, 6 months ago to jazz

Alice Coltrane, John McLaughlin, Carlos Santana and Friends
3.4.1974 Kabuki Theater, SF
Live performance FLAC download

A new to circulation recording of an essentially unknown show. There are not many live recordings of Alice from the 1970s so this is quite special. Quality is good, not great, but also not bad.

Thanks to @bourgwick for the connection and @theheatwarps for expert insight and analysis.

Illuminations album sessions coming tomorrow!

#jazz #music

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TRsvP1m_nUtMo7kGKE_aqHOt458LC-TC?usp=sharing

mrcompletely, 2 months ago to books

Pet peeve:

• #Reading a seemingly reasonably well written period #sff novel (Babel by RF Kuang)
• setting is early 19th century Oxford U
• explicit focus of the novel is on language
• character uses modern idiomatic phrase in dialogue ("say more")

Friends, I almost DNF'd it right there. You can't do that. Obviously that's on the editor as much as the author, but what are we doing here? Suspension of disbelief is a privilege not a right.

I'll stick with it tho. Silly premise but fun.

mrcompletely, 3 months ago to random

Here's a William Tyler jam to check out. Choogly & rockin'

https://youtu.be/V2RXB8cvoKU?si=X4zP3dgt5O72tQnU

mrcompletely, 9 months ago to random

I've been listening to a lot of live #Prince recently and among many takeaways I'm wrapping my head around is confirmation of what I've long suspected - to my ear he was the greatest electric rhythm guitar player there's ever been. He was also an astonishing lead player in the post-Hendrix blues rock style of course, but his time sense was so ideal, so razor edged sharp that it could make an atomic clock feel sloppy, and of course his feel for funk and swing accents was quite literally perfect

mrcompletely, 7 months ago to bluegrass

Molly Tuttle is a fantastic performer. Highly recommended. Very charismatic. Strong band. Excellent singer. Good songs, some very good ones. She's also the best acoustic player of her generation that I've seen so far. Her technique is exquisite without letting it get in the way of art. The moments when she switches into precision flatpicking/crosspick mode are astonishing! Her wrist freezes rock solid and all the motion goes into her fingers. And her left hand reach is immense. Wow! #bluegrass

mrcompletely, 1 year ago to random

Ya know I think I've dropped just about enough breadcrumbs to get everyone started on the UK #jazz scene though there are still a lot of great (or at least popular) names I haven't gotten to but I want to close with one of my favorites from just before most of the current wave - a huge track from Kevin Haynes Grupo Elegba. Haynes is a serious Santeria devotee and his music blends spiritual jazz, #Cuban and West #African styles; when the kora drops at about 8:30 🤯

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QICN7lriQUU

mrcompletely, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

There's not shit for sports content on Mastodon yet. Big content gap. One of the weaker points.

EDIT: I mean that the only breaking news/analysis sports content I see is from Twitter bots. Professional content, not fan chatter

mrcompletely, 10 months ago to random

Lmaoooooo Stuart Semple and his company Culture Hustle just rolled out a pre order for the newest version of their ultra matte black, Black 4.0, priced it at $8000 a bottle and gave a $7950 discount code to anyone who is not Anish Kapoor. Oh Stuart you beautiful troll, never change

Hell yes I pre-ordered that shit, Culture Hustle stunt paints are the fucking bomb. I use 2.0 and 3.0 blacks all the time. His metallics are genius, and some of the copyright breakers too

#MastoArt #painting

mrcompletely, 2 months ago to pdx

We saw the great Shabaka Hutchings last night at the lovely Newmark Theater in downtown #PDX. As expected, the focus of the performance was his exploration of the flute, or I should say flutes, as he played a very wide variety of instruments, including several we didn't recognize. The band was excellent and did include Esperanza Spalding as hoped.

He is, of course, a genius. For my taste he's the most interesting voice in modern jazz by a wide margin. The performance was fascinating

🧵

#jazz

mrcompletely, 1 year ago to random

Well, that was just an abysmal performance in the second half by the kings and some nice ball by the warriors. Steph remains legendary. Both the warriors and Lakers seem to be getting stronger as the #nba playoffs go on.

I like this Kings team a lot in the medium term. It's normal for young teams to get their ass handed to them once or twice in the playoffs on their way up. Hopefully this is just the first of many runs for them.

mrcompletely, 3 months ago to jazz

"Mwandishi-esque" #jazz YT playlist

This playlist was made by posing the question "what other #music actually sounds right when mixed with Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi albums?" back on the birdsite. @theheatwarps was a major contributor to the discussion. Alice Coltrane is the other major pillar here.

As always, suggestions for additional tracks are always welcome, but whether or not I feel the fit is right or not is a visceral and elusive thing

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0Y1zBGaRKgNEjagpF_Nb2yzODU0D2gHP

mrcompletely, 3 months ago to jazz

Ill Considered & special guests incl. Theon Cross - Precipice (Live)

I was just wondering when Ill Considered might have new music out and here it is, ahead of a single coming out tomorrow. Since their most recent album was their finest yet (in fact it keeps moving up and is entering rare air in my personal hierarchy, I think it is a masterpiece) I'm quite excited for anything new from them.

As usual for them, this is improvised.

#jazz #music #ukJazz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoDsxgDiS5c

mrcompletely, 5 months ago to random

As a Mastodon admin/moderator I'm not ready to advocate for blocking threads at the instance/server level bc I think a lot of our users will want the connections. But I am going to block the Threads domain personally over AI/LLM data harvesting/training set concerns. I don't want Zuck training his robots off my posts. I also don't trust him at all, and am more skeptical of the integration the more I think about it.

mrcompletely, 8 months ago to random

Yay

mrcompletely, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

We need a word, short phrase, acronym, or perhaps ideally an otherwise semantically null emoji to indicate that you are aware of, and have taken into consideration, the crimes, misdeeds or personal failings of an artist or other creative figure and have decided to continue enjoying or appreciating that person's creative work, perhaps by way of a postmodern view centering artistic meaning in the act of interpretation rather than creation.

I suggest 🤹🏾‍♂️ unless that already means something kinky.