Thomas Dolby
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kelsin (hi! your 18-year-old photo's so adorable!) went to see Thomas Dolby (of "She Blinded Me With Science" fame) at the Iron Horse. OMG, orgasmatastic! It was so amazing to see how he built the layers of sound: multiple layers of rhythm, keyboard sometimes saved sometimes real-time, voice on top either clean or with chorus or echo effects, occasional sound clips. I was blown away by the fact that he had just some simple sounds saved, and then was creating 90% of it right there as we watched. He was a one-man-band. Well, he had a guy behind the curtain doing the video mixing: prerecorded segements alternating with two cameras atop his keyboard and one head-mounted - developed for the US's War in Iraq, after which explanation he had a protest song with Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend sampling. At another point, he went on for fifteen minutes about SOHO, and while he mistakenly said it was located closer to the Sun than Earth, a minor detail really, I was clapping my hands with glee as he described the effects of solar flares on mankind, and how he tried to map images and flare data to his instruments but it sounded like crap. :-P He then had EIT images in the background during the next song - not real time, though. I don't doubt he could've done it, but the overhead wouldn't've been worth it for the dull pictures we'd get currently - we're just coming out of solar minimum. I was geeking out on two levels, it was awesome. Add the rockin', his slick aviator goggles, and awesome moves (man, for a 40-something he's got good hip thrusts!), and I was NOT creaming my pants, no sirree T$. :* I wish he had CDs for sale, I need to buy them ALL.
kelsin (hi! your 18-year-old photo's so adorable!) went to see Thomas Dolby (of "She Blinded Me With Science" fame) at the Iron Horse. OMG, orgasmatastic! It was so amazing to see how he built the layers of sound: multiple layers of rhythm, keyboard sometimes saved sometimes real-time, voice on top either clean or with chorus or echo effects, occasional sound clips. I was blown away by the fact that he had just some simple sounds saved, and then was creating 90% of it right there as we watched. He was a one-man-band. Well, he had a guy behind the curtain doing the video mixing: prerecorded segements alternating with two cameras atop his keyboard and one head-mounted - developed for the US's War in Iraq, after which explanation he had a protest song with Martin Luther King Jr. 
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Date: 2006-09-28 11:31 am (UTC)the song with the MLK samples was "the flat earth", which is one of my new favorites. he has a videocast of it on his page, with director commentary. the one with the EIT images was "windpower", probably
(my favorite is "one of our submarines", which was probably the second song he played.)
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Date: 2006-09-28 11:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 11:49 am (UTC)the only CDs you'll probably find in print are "the golden age of wireless" and "retrospectacle".
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Date: 2006-09-28 02:49 pm (UTC)Great Show
Date: 2006-09-28 02:47 pm (UTC)I liked it a lot more then I even thought I would so great stuff. We should definitely grab that DVD that he's talking about!