I am listening to Seeburg Elevator Music

[Taverner]

No, it doesn't just sound like elevator music

It IS elevator music

Not bad

I miss it



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeburg_1000

[talkingmime]

1. I don't know. I'm still partial to Brian Eno's "Ambient Music for Airports", late 70's.

[kentauros]

2. His entire Ambient series was brilliant.

And then there was Devo's E-Z Listening Disk

Here's an excellent ambient music radio station: StillStream

[talkingmime]

3. I didn't know Devo ever DID such an album! Then again, Eno was rather loud at times.

[kentauros]

4. Yeah, it was their "answer" to Muzak

and to do it themselves before a studio band did different versions. You can find some of the cuts on YouTube (I'd link them, but it's blocked here.)

[talkingmime]

5. Okay, now THAT makes sense for Devo. Eno on the other had just seemed to be stoned all to Jesus.

I've done the same sort of thing with my guitars - just pass out on the couch and run through a few chords picking strings individually. It's relaxing. It won't make dinner or anything, but that's what Doritos are for.

[kentauros]

6. I've heard the official term for that is called "noodling".

I don't know about Eno being stoned. I think he might have been high on endorphins, especially after working with Robert Fripp

[talkingmime]

7. "Noodling" - I like that. But hey, Eno and Fripp were both whacked out on drugs for a while.

I haven't heard much of them since the 70's, but I know he worked with Bowie, Fripp, Bruford, Lumley, Manzanera, Byrne, Genesis ("The Lamb" - his credit is listed as "Enosifocation&quot , Belew, and Mu, along with many other bands and musicians. Curiously, I don't remember him performing with King Crimson, but I could be wrong. He's one talented guy. I don't think he does hallusinongens anymore. He's getting kind of old. He has to be in his 60's by now, maybe 70.

[Taverner]

8. I thought Fripp was a teetotaller?

[talkingmime]

9. Not that I know of. How would you explain "In the Court of the Crimson King"'s album cover?

That thing looks like a really bad acid trip.

[Taverner]

10. I often wonder how to reconcile Zappa's 200 Motels w/his sobriety....

[talkingmime]

11. That's easy - "Dynamo Hum".