I did. If I remember rightly {it was a long time ago, either 2011 or 2012}, it was in doing that song that I learned how to re~amp. It's on my list of songs to mix but way down the list. I can't even remember how it goes ! I do remember that I sang it in a growly voice that is not my usual voice and I had a raw and sore throat afterwards.
I record corny all the time
Same here. I love the music of some of those 60s bands like the Beatles, the Stones, the Who, the Kinks, the Pretty Things, Blossom Toes, Family and Pink Floyd, among others, that weren't afraid to parade the music hall influences and sounds of their '40s and cornball pre ~ rock'n'roll '50s childhoods in some of their songs and they helped make 'corny' both intelligent, humorous and by extension, cool. Along with Tolkein stories and fairy tales by HC Andersen and the brothers Grimm {no relation !
} it was a staple of British psychedelia once mixed with acid.
Have you visited Paris a lot?
As far as I can remember, I've been 3 times. I've been to France more times than I have fingers and toes to count them on. To drive to Holland, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Switzerland and Belgium and other European countries from England, I've always gone through France. I kind of like France and I've spent time on holiday there. I've never been a great fan of Paris but I do remember picking up records by Ravi Shankar and Vasant Rai in a second hand shop the first time I went there in 1990. The Shankar ones were a hard listen and I eventually sold them to pay for something else but all these years later I still listen to the Vasant Rai one. It's called "Spring Wind." Not all of it is good but there are 3 or 4 absolute pearlers on it. Whenever I listen to it, I think of Paris. Most cities do, but Paris really has a seedy side to it and an underground train set up that feels unnecessarily complicated !
My Mum turned me onto Piaf. She was a master of mispronunciation and she would always call her "PF" ! She had this greatest hits double album and she played the absolute heck out of it for a few months in the summer of '76 and as is often the case when you're young, you drink in what your parents or siblings are listening to even though you pretend you hate it. But I really dug those tunes. I used to make up my own terrible French lyrics to them although those comprised mainly of noises, made up words and vowel sounds, but done in an impeccable accent so they
kind of sounded French.
When I was putting together my music collection, some of her stuff became part of my lexicon. Ironically, I've listened to her far more than my Mum ever did.
Sadly one the more aggressive HR cyber bullies (who was finally permanently banned) in his typical jack ass ways ...didn't like that people were giving Harvey the respect he so very much deserved. He was rude and obnoxious enough to Harvey enough times to make Harvey say Fuck this I don't need the aggravation. In a flash one of the more knowledgeable members of HR.com was gone never to return..
I remember that. I PM'd Harvey in the aftermath of that to let him know that he was appreciated and valued {and also that I loved a song he'd co~written for the Byrds called "It won't be wrong"} but he'd had enough of being trampled on. The daft thing about the attack on him is that it had nothing to do with Harvey. It's not like he was pontificating or bragging or name dropping or saying that his view was the only view in town. The attack on him wasn't even because of anything he'd said or his attitude. It was purely because people on the board appreciated him and that person just had to shoot down anyone that many people liked, then would hide behind that whole "LOL", "it's only words on a screen" "Why are you so angry" cop out.
The cave wasn't a place that I'd venture into on a regular basis but I did go in quite a bit. Some of it was good, some of it was boring and some of it was definitely populated by some that seemed to evince either full blown or emerging mental health "issues."
Hey, Casey ! How are you doing man !! My oldest son {who is now a man at 18 ~ about to start a new job} still asks after you and we both still listen to Little Purple Circles. I dig all 4 albums but I've still not heard an album this century to beat "Cloud."