{"id":2348,"date":"2008-06-29T21:43:37","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T19:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/?p=2348"},"modified":"2008-06-29T21:43:37","modified_gmt":"2008-06-29T19:43:37","slug":"2008-06-29-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/?p=2348","title":{"rendered":"2008-06-29 wire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking on writing something on the stupidities of ICANN, new domains, etc., but I don&#8217;t feel like getting angry. It&#8217;s really showing that one of the main supporters of this is Veni Markoski. The way it&#8217;s going, we&#8217;re going to have an ITU of the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve been thinking on writing a bit on music. Not only I have a pretty messed up taste, I also have the ability to listen to something for  a thousand times and to obsess horribly, so it also happens that I collect a few versions of the some track. I&#8217;ll mention them, as they&#8217;ve had some influence on me (and the psychiatrists agree). So:<\/p>\n<p>First is Triad by Tool from the Lateralus album &#8211; one of the songs that inspires me to get a bass guitar. There aren&#8217;t a lot of versions of it &#8211; mostly concert ones and a few pretty bad amateur ones. But that&#8217;s one of the things I find myself drumming in a lot of moments (like after sex, on the girl (it&#8217;s not that good rhythm for sex otherwise :) ) ).<br \/>\n(I&#8217;ve been in my head for at least three years).<\/p>\n<p>Next one is Orion by Metallica, from Master of puppets &#8211; I have the album version I&#8217;ve also found the concert version by Dream Theater, the one by Rodrigo y Gabriela (on classical guitar), and the live version from Rock am ring by Metallica with their new bass player. It&#8217;s also one of the reasons for me wanting to get a bass, and it&#8217;s pretty nice to try and play it in some pipe somewhere (I get weird looks in the bus while doing that). <\/p>\n<p>Then it&#8217;s White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane &#8211; it&#8217;s pretty recent, I got it from The Simpsons (it&#8217;s there three times, every time at a pretty drug-related scenes&#8230; Weird, it&#8217;s also in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but I haven&#8217;t paid that much attention to it there). I&#8217;ve found the version by Collide, a remix of that one and the version of Sanctuary. I should look for a concert one, there should be at least a few&#8230; And the song is the most drugged one I&#8217;ve heard :)<br \/>\n(and the list of movies it&#8217;s in is pretty big)<\/p>\n<p>Misirlou &#8211; mostly known to people like the soundtrack to Pulp fiction, written somewhere in 1927, re-arranged for electric guitar around 1962 by Dick Dale (you can find easily in YouTube one of his performances from 1963), after which it&#8217;s being done by a lot of groups on different occasions (I&#8217;ve listened to Hipodil playing it live a long time ago). There are also versions by the Surf Coasters (Japanese, really good) and Mermen, both of which I&#8217;ve found in archive.org (live recordings, good quality). There&#8217;s also a difference in the way Dick Dale plays it now (who, for my astonishment has been playing in the last 40 years). I&#8217;ve also found a few versions with the old arrangement, also sound interesting.<br \/>\n(the one by black eyed peas is weak)<br \/>\n(somewhere on data.bg there&#8217;s also a live performance by &#8220;Control Panel&#8221;, nice one)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My Kingdom&#8221; by Future Sound of London, from Dead Cities &#8211; really beautiful track, maybe somewhat connected with my childhood memories of Ennio Moricone&#8217;s music (e.g. the OST of La Piovra). The versions I&#8217;ve found are only remixes by FSOL themselves, one EP with 5 tracks which (maybe without one :) ) are really worthy to be listened at a calm and a quiet place.<br \/>\n(it might be possible to rearrange this for bass, drums, flute and something else, I wonder how will it sound&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;O Fortuna&#8221; from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff &#8211; there are a lot of ways it&#8217;s been played, by a lot of different people. I can&#8217;t think of all the versions I&#8217;ve heard :)<\/p>\n<p>YYZ by Rush &#8211; some years ago Mictor gave it to me, on a Tribute to Rush. I&#8217;ve found the original and the version of Dream Theater, pretty nice instrumental :)<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of other things that I&#8217;ve played a lot, but not with this kind of passion :) I&#8217;ll just mention &#8220;In da gadda la vida&#8221; na Iron Butterfly (mostly the cover by Bling Guardian), California uber alles by Dead Kennedys and I&#8217;m too lazy to dig for more &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking on writing something on the stupidities of ICANN, new domains, etc., but I don&#8217;t feel like getting angry. It&#8217;s really showing that one of the main supporters of this is Veni Markoski. The way it&#8217;s going, we&#8217;re going to have an ITU of the Internet. So I&#8217;ve been thinking on writing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasil.ludost.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}