🎛️ English Progressive Redux
🔗 Andrew Hickey’s ‘500 Songs’ includes a good and interesting summary of why the UK and US musicians who ‘arrived’ in the 60s sounded so different, emerging, he argues, from significant social differences and country histories.
What do you think?
🎵 More thoughts on what I call English Progressive
The Full Podcast: 🎙️ 500 Songs - ‘See Emily Play’ by The Pink Floyd
““Over time players go where the money is. The money is here. Once Americans realize that the sport is moving west …. it’s going to stoke anti-American sentiment around the world. It’s something we need to be ready for.”
💬 Dana Blankenhorn
🔗 Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first
Sorry. Didn’t notice. With good reason.
🔗 Her car died, so she walked to work. One day on the walk, she found $15,000.
Heart warming story, via John Naughton.
🔗 The hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections.
…. disinformation is being weaponised by Team Jorge, which runs a private service offering to covertly meddle in elections without a trace.
Cough - well clearly not without a trace!
🎵One more example amongst the millions of examples that people don’t read.
There is a thread on Reddit talking about genres. I commented that I used a personal genre that I call 🔗 ’English Progressive’ adding the specific words that “an artist didn’t need to be English for me to classify them in that genre”. I then gave three example … Dream Theater, PFM and Focus.
This morning I have been informed that Dream Theater are American.
Thankyou - thankyou very much!
🔗 Why Do 50% of People Live in This Circle?
Absolutely Fascinating.
… and a great reminder of how small America really is.
🎵 Musical Muscle Memory.
Listening to an 🔗 awesome album from my youth.
Back in the day, vinyl - of course AND as ‘well played vinyl’ the middle of one track jumped.
It never bothered me because I automatically compensated.
Listening without the jump just felt wrong.
That’s how bad it is getting .. and not just in New Zealand.
Bernard Hickey reporting that New Zealand has declared a 🔗 National emergency for Gabrielle. The massive storm and floods two weeks …
I have flown this route many, many times (sorry - Twitter), so when I read that 🔗 United flight from Hawaii plunged to within 800ft of Pacific Ocean, I explored.
Not reported at the time (this wasn’t news?) and revealed in The Air Current, an organ that surely everyone reads?