Tommy in Quintophonic Sound!

[Ghoulish Delight]

Timmy

[flippyshark]

Oh, that's spectacular! Love the"robot"

[innerSpaceman]

Thanks for all those Tommy tips, flippy. I'm gonna start by revisiting the original album, and then move on to some of those others. BTW, could NOT help thinking of your hysterical Jaws-take on Quintophonic during all the highlighting of the spelling and sound-system that went on at the presentation the other night.

I am incredibly bummed Quadrophenia is no longer available on DVD. Fvck! I don't own that one, and love that movie. Bah and double bah.


Lastly, I don't see eye-to-eye with you on the bitterness of the Wall. Oh, no mistaking it's a bitter piece compared to Tommy, and the bitter-pill origins of the piece infuse it greatly. But prior to experiencing the visuals of the stage concert or the movie, I did not feel it nearly as oppressive and nasty a piece - and still don't today.

I remember really hating the music video phenomenon when it first came about, because I don't like others' (even the artist's) visual ideas contaminating my own interpretation of music.

But everything bleeds together a bit in the modern world. I picture film characters when I re-read a book that's been made into a movie. I get snippets of music vids and film adaptations when I listen to music that's had a video treatment. But I've largely recaptured my music-only sense of The Wall, and I hope to do the same with Tommy - even though the screening on Friday was by far my favorite experience of that film.

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Timmy

Hahaha, fresh from seeing the movie, the segment where Timmy is running away from camera with the background preposterously changing is my favorite part.

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Hahaha, fresh from seeing the movie, the segment where Timmy is running away from camera with the background preposterously changing is my favorite part.

Forrest Gump so ripped-off Tommy on this

[flippyshark]

iSm - It's true, my downer perception of The Wall is very much rooted in the visual experience, which I'd have a hard time shaking off. (and wouldn't really want to. It's certainly a go- to for me in certain moods.) I'm awfully jealous you get to see the live show. FWIW, all Floyd kind of creeps me out, in a good way. As a young child, I found the wailing of " The Great Gig In The Sky" terrifying, to the point of running from the house when my brother put it on. It still makes me want to cry in a weird way.

All this talk makes me want to write my own bombastic rock opera!

[mousepod]

Thank you to the blogger who taped the interview, transcribed it and put it all up on his blog!

[flippyshark]

That was amazing. It sounds like the other fellow at least caught on eventually to the fact that he was being had.

[innerSpaceman]

BwaHaha.

I don't think KR was hysterical or particularly witty. If it was a bit of performance art, I forgave the hamhandedness of it for his being a frail old coot, but that goal could have been pulled off much more successfully by a wittier fellow. Stick to films, Ken.


Actually, my favorite part about Ken's "performance" was the guy who talked with us in the lobby afterwards - and was a little worried because he'd booked Russell for several weeks worth of Q&A's at festivals in 3 cities - and was experiencing a terrific bout of buyer's remorse.

[flippyshark]

Oh dear. I would certainly worry if I were that guy.