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By on April 5, 2016 11:31 pm in open thread

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  • Jeffrey 6/6 Smith

    Er, well er……..

    Seriously, more advanced, enduring forms of music can be energetic and even forceful, but their power is from the complex developed over time structure. More sdvanced music doesn’t need to be grossly loud to be arresting and very enjoyable. Less advanced music needs loud volume to be effective.

    The more advanced the listenership is the less they need or crave high volume. The less advanced or primitive the audience is, the more they absolutely require and crave the highest volume possible.

    Guess what audiences Regina’s park is tuned to…..how many Verdi & Vivaldi events does BBPC plan this season?…….

  • Jeffrey Smith

    Today on the promenade I got into a thread on you tube on Bugatti and the great era when, well, one of the sites you can access is: “When French cars dominates the world Quand Led Voitures” they have all the greats Dellage, Delahaye, Talbot Lago, Hissos,
    Et all. Then, there is a YT Site which details the true history of the original Bugatti type 41’s the Royales.. Amazing…THEN, there is a new firm in New Jersey(!) whom has gotten authorization from Dalahaye to build updated, increasingly noted, versions of the timeless classic Delahaye designs. So sitting there, looking out at much as possible to sea, and trying to ignore the BBP below, I was transported to France and to an age before the uglyness and binality.

  • Jeff Continental SC Smith

    It’s a Rolls, at least in the picture. But if he does drive a Bentley, what year, and more critically, what MODEL Bently is it? Because, different social levels/groups and mindsets gravitate to different models of Bentley’s. Much, much more than with Rolls.

  • Jeffrey Smith

    That’s not the way to handle the situation there..

    When they start talking across you in Spanish, which is believably rude, or better yet, if they do it across a line of PC customers, I wait for a break and then loudly remark: yeah!, that’s what I say too…” Then a lot of people start to goof on them, they get mad, but they realize they can’t do anything about what I said (without me further escalating my remarks) so they have the quiet down and burn. All this while the PC types on the line shift uncomfortably and wonder if this is being recorded and reported somehow…

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlsiLOnWCoI Arch Stanton

    So by your “logic” Rockabilly is less advanced music as it is played LOUD.

  • Jeffrey Smith

    It’s really next to impossible to interact with a bot or bot-like entity.

    No, Rockabilly is often moderately loud, but it doesn’t have to be to be interesting and highly involving. The music does have lower level volume passages.

    But besides the above, I wanted to ask why whatever is directing this post front may have changed the name of these posts from “Winston Smith” to the present “Arch Stanton”…

    Perhaps it’s just speculation, but when a hostile entity appears that has 99.9% the same functioning as an earlier suddenly ceased hostile “entity”, I have to ask what may be in truth occuring here? Are one or both names real or fabrications?

    Mr Moderator, you know me to be a real person, can you say that of both or either of these two name entities?, who have so often been egaged in hostile, provocative behavior.

  • Floyd Burney

    Wrong you are daddy-o
    Rockabilly is meant to be played loud, the louder the better!

  • Andrew Porter

    I have alerted them to street water leaks and they always respond to those in less than a day. They’re also excellent about replacing missing street signs and burned out lights.

  • Andrew Porter

    I noticed a year or so ago they’ve spelled my name wrong on my Half Price MetroCard, but it’s a very small misspelling.

    Still have the Oyster card I got last time I was in London. Eventually, we’re going to get the equivalent technology here.

  • Andrew Porter

    I sent the link for that to Claude and to others.

    There’s a new café coming to Montague, replacing, I think, the place that was Grand Canyon.

  • Jorale-man

    Yes, B.Good – I’ve been watching the opening build-up. It seems like stuff like that should be covered on the blog more. I’m sure Claude and company don’t want to be in the business of giving free advertising, but it would be nice if there was some recognition of retail changes in the area. I remember when there used to be video reviews of new restaurants on the site, for instance. It was quite helpful and generated a lot of discussion among readers.

  • Jeff Ray Harris Smith

    I been listening to Rockabiily since the mid 50’s I remember Junior Thompson on Meteor, and yeah RAB is a room filling music it has its classic authority. But if you reduced the volume a bit would it loose all its dynamic power? No it would not. Now if you take the Blasting level away from, say, rap it becomes just some dope muttering to itself. RAB has a lot of things great about it besides volume. But yeah its played with authority. But Warren Smith on “trouble bound” doesn’t need blasting volume to be involving to anyone.

    A LOT of kids who just discovered the music and have come out of metal or rap or corporate rock and think that RAB is all volume Yeah its loud often, but its the brilliant series of factors which make it powerful and great…

  • Andrew Porter

    I think the big problem is that Claude has little or no “and company” to cover things. I routinely send him links, but often things fall by the wayside. Or between the floorboards, or somewhere else.

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