Posts by Simon Grigg
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RIP to the Black Moses.
Yeah, totally gutted. Nobody else could write (and successfully deliver) a lyric like this.
np: By The Time I Get To Phoenix, with MoonLight Loving queued
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You're not going to be of any help at all in the impending aviation disaster, are you?
But they're not anyway are they...chances are if the plane goes down at an altitude of more than 100 metres you are royally screwed anyway.
Has any aircraft ever happily landed in the water so those bright lifejackets can be inflated and the whistles tooted?
When I fly, which I do a lot, I assume I'm either gonna make it or not, with no middle ground. Then again, many of my flights are on Indonesian airlines and the odds are much shorter.
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But to just watch and enjoy the spectacle without considering and actively supporting the voices of the disenfranchised, well in my view
One thing which stood out in the interview in Tiananmen I mentioned above was his claim that most of what they wanted to achieve in 1989 has been achieved..freedom of association and movement, a voice (officials all the way to the Central Congress level are elected or elected by those you elect...a little like the POTUS, albeit from one of a few official parties), and despite gaping holes, huge leaps in freedom of expression and availability of information.
The reporter also walked around the square with a photo of the tank man, asking Chinese what they thought (there was general disinterest, with some saying they took no interest in politics and others saying it was in the past), but he noted that he was free to do so. That would never have happened even five years back.
I would suggest that the disenfranchised, as a generalisation, are feeling perhaps far more enfranchised
than at any stage in China's history and that any boycott would do no real good in moving that progress forward.I feel for the people who compulsorily lost their homes, but it's interesting to se that the official Chinese press agency is covering that, and are you seriously telling me that didn't happen in any of the Olympics of the past few decades.
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What's stopping us? The "spectacle"?
About a billion rather pissed off Chinese for a start.
There was a piece on Al Jazeera last night here, dunno if it was in the NZ feed, about a guy who spent five years in jail after he was arrested at Tiananmen in 1989. He was back in the square being interviewed again and he was a huge supporter of the Olympics and he doesn't seem to be out of step with Chinese opinion.
It's folks outside of China who are getting righteous about this, not the Chinese population who seem to be very supportive.
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Conversely, Nick Cave 1995 (or thereabouts) was a big disappointment.
for a variety of reasons I don't like Nick Cave at all but I saw The Birthday Party in Melbourne at Bombay Rock in 1981, home ground, and it was an amazing hour or two (and went to a BP recording session).
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For an intimate, I'd go with BB KIng, 2am seedy(ish) bar in Sydney,him, Lucille, and about 10 of us.
In a different style altogether, Carl Craig upstairs at the Studio in 2004. It was the worst promoted, and over-priced gig I'd seen for years. There were about 50 of us and it was like having him play in your front room.
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his music? the copyright issues would see it as him giving other peoples music away, that he hasn't cleared rights for.
Well, yes, his music. There are legal questions relating to the way he created it, that have yet to be decided, if you read the article, but it's still his creation. The Fair Use argument is very grey and I think he's wrong but that's a different question to his distribution mechanism / model.
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-- you don't need to sell your album to do that, you need people to hear it.
exactly.
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simon,
lets have your...Not sure if I can narrow things that much and and these are strictly off the top of my head
NZ bands..6 ok?
1. Split Enz at the Christmas Pandemonium gig, His Majesty's 1975
2. Nathan Haines, St James, 2003
3. I'm gonna go generic and say Toy Love any Saturday afternoon at the Windsor Castle, 1979
4. The Features / Sobs, Liberty Stage 1980
5. The Newmatics / Shoes This High / Screaming Meemees..XS Cafe, 1980
6. Lava Lava, Cause Celebre 1996
Best foreign in NZ..god...a few..
The Clash, 1982: New Order, 1981; Ice T at the Box, 1989; Public Enemy at Ak Town Hall, Run DMC at Powerstation 1989; Beasties there same year; Bowie at Western Springs, 1978; Zappa, 1974; Teardrop Explodes, Mainstreet, 82; Lou Reed circa 74 at His Majesty'sI've already given two non NZ but Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5 in London in 82 and the DMC gig in 1990 at Wembley with Mantronix, Public Enemy, Jungle Bros, De La Soul, Boo Ya Tribe and a whole lot more, James Brown in London 84
But to be honest any weekend night at The Box between 1990 and 1997 listening to Rob Salmon or Greg Churchill's epic sets was the equal of any of those.
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re: Radiohead, albeit at a grassroots level, the model isn't dead yet