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― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 20:08 (eighteen years ago)
keybrd fucked.. lat
BLOW
― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 20:09 (eighteen years ago)
URGENT!
EMERGENCY!
URGENTURGENTURGENTURGENT!!!
― Eazy, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 20:09 (eighteen years ago)
If this is a TS, I vote Saxophones.
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 20:10 (eighteen years ago)
YOU BELONG TO THE CITY!!
YOU BELONG TO THE NIGHT!!
LIVING IN A RIVER OF DARKNESS
BENEATH THE NEON LIGHTS!!
― Eazy, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 20:10 (eighteen years ago)
I have a saxophone. I do not have a cocaine.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 20:11 (eighteen years ago)
http://ickmusic.com/pics/miles71.jpg I CAN HAS BOTH???
― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 20:12 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.cashboxmagazine.com/review_pix/Sanborn.jpg
― chaki, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 00:20 (eighteen years ago)
Sorry for the earlier burp. My keyboard started malfunctioning.
Anyhoo, the question is: what came about to strongly associate saxophones and cocaine in a musical context? In the former, I guess I'm talking more about gratutious sax (yeah yeah, I smell the pun) in late 70s and 80s music moreso than bizjazz, although I'm sure the two overlap to some degree.
I guess I'm coming from informal conversations where people talk about albums where the artist was "totally coked out", and almost always, there it is: the saxophone, ironically calm and collected and belting away over whatever the fuck.
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 00:24 (eighteen years ago)
Obviously, pre-80s jazz artists and drugs is a whole 'nother forum of discussion, and I'm well aware of it, and it may very well be the pre-cursor to what I'm aiming at here.
That said, it's not as if we go back to a Miles record and just non-stop talk about "dude, you can SMELL THE HEROIN on that solo!" (apologies, if I'm mismatching drug abuse and artists here), however no one will pause to say the same thing about, say, Lou Reed on any given track between Transformer and Sally Can't Dance. Or Thin White Duke era Bowie. Or anything featured on a Miami Vice episode.
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 00:28 (eighteen years ago)
it would be an interesting challenge to play the sax with coke mouth
― Charlie Howard, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 15:01 (eighteen years ago)
miles played the TRUMPET
― braveclub, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 15:07 (eighteen years ago)
but that's clearly a picture of miles holding a sax-a-ph... oh wait
― Charlie Howard, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 15:10 (eighteen years ago)
This is a brilliant thread. And I think the answer, though he might not have planned it that way, is David Sanborn guesting on Bowie's Young Americans album throughout.
"Play sax that reflects my state of mind!"
"Hmmmm."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 15:12 (eighteen years ago)
"Ayo, Miles Davis played the sax/Me myself I like to max..."
― mike a, Thursday, 20 March 2008 20:22 (eighteen years ago)
It's "Dizzy Gillespie", motherfucker.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 20 March 2008 20:27 (eighteen years ago)
If a certain kind of late 70s/early 80s rock suggested decadence, then the sax solo (in a song like "Urgent") is where the band reaches a new level of intensity and craziness, not unlike a cocaine high.
― Eazy, Thursday, 20 March 2008 20:43 (eighteen years ago)
So it's like the song gets you in the club, and the sax solo gets you into the VIP room.
― Eazy, Thursday, 20 March 2008 20:48 (eighteen years ago)
the sax solo (in a song like "Urgent")
Junior Walker, wasn't it?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 March 2008 20:51 (eighteen years ago)
Looks like it. And synths by Thomas Dolby.
― Eazy, Thursday, 20 March 2008 20:54 (eighteen years ago)
I no longer have a saxophone. I still don't have a cocaine. :(
― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Friday, 3 February 2012 06:19 (fourteen years ago)
tinwhistle and a klonopin
― corportate/Illuminati controlled (crüt), Friday, 3 February 2012 10:06 (fourteen years ago)
Thought this revive was going to be about Destroyer tbh
― two lights crew (seandalai), Friday, 3 February 2012 14:53 (fourteen years ago)
if someone had started a band called Saxophones And Cocaine in 2008 they would've topped the 2011 ILM albums poll
― some dude, Friday, 3 February 2012 14:55 (fourteen years ago)
lol
― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Friday, 3 February 2012 18:22 (fourteen years ago)