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Fri Jan 06, 2006 3:50 am
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Hey Steve,
I've been listening to this piece a lot lately. I never fully appreciated it until recently. It's bad as...um...heck!
Anyway, I just throught I'd throw that out there...
Matt
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Fri Jan 06, 2006 10:35 am
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They like you Steve, they REALLY like you!
(Matt, I told Steve the same thing a few weeks back...the piece is frickin' BRILLIANT...)
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Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:32 pm
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| KHowlett wrote: | | (Matt, I told Steve the same thing a few weeks back...the piece is frickin' BRILLIANT...) |
(Sorry, I musta missed that thread. S'ok, the piece deserves two threads.)
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Fri Jan 06, 2006 6:19 pm
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Fri Jan 06, 2006 6:35 pm
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Right right.
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Fri Jan 06, 2006 9:39 pm
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Hey guys, no need to fight - there's plenty of Monkey to go around... 
Seriously, thanks - that piece gets overlooked (I'm guessing) because of the silly title and program, and how insanely difficult it is.
Did you know it was born out of a joke I made right after a bunch of us went to hear Godzilla Eats Las Vegas for the first time at Rutgers? I said to Eric, while standing on the train platform waiting to go back to New York, "I'm going to write a piece called Monkey and it'll start like this" and then I sang the first bar (picture me shrieking like a monkey and jumping around the train platform).
I was just kidding at the time. I should be careful what I joke about.
Anyway, coincidentally, I just found old sketches for the piece a couple of days ago, including a written-out, prose description of what happens in the piece - a sort of "blow by blow." I think I packed it away, but if I come across it again, maybe I'll scan it in and post it. I (re)discovered that I'd originally planned to open the piece with a jungle ambience, birds chirping, trees rustling, odd animals in the distance...and then the monkeys erupt onto the scene. Not sure why I cut it, but it was interesting to find that - I'd completely forgotten about it.
I also quote Godzilla in there as well...see if you can spot it. It's pretty obvious...
Sorry for the self-indulgence here - was just a funny coincidence to find that right when you posted this. |
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Fri Jan 06, 2006 9:54 pm
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| steve wrote: | | Sorry for the self-indulgence here - was just a funny coincidence to find that right when you posted this. |
Yeah, I'm psychic like that. 
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| nevsky wrote: | | steve wrote: | | Sorry for the self-indulgence here - was just a funny coincidence to find that right when you posted this. |
Yeah, I'm psychic like that. |
Dude, get out of my brain!! Also, where did I put my keys?
So, I posted those sketches on my blog, and a thread about it here, in case anyone is interested. |
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Sat Jan 07, 2006 3:10 pm
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| steve wrote: | | nevsky wrote: | | steve wrote: | | Sorry for the self-indulgence here - was just a funny coincidence to find that right when you posted this. |
Yeah, I'm psychic like that. |
Dude, get out of my brain!! Also, where did I put my keys? |
They're on the front table underneath the mail and the latest Musician's Friend catalog sitting there.
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