Miley Cyrus and Who The Hell is Mark Ronson

I am critical, perhaps even hyper-critical but this is about musical performance.

My criticism is not like making calls to Police or By-Law or defaming a person to aid an insurance company to deny claim. Calling another person unworthy or degenerate or perverted or insane is bad medicine, dangerous to the target of discrediting accusations. The more The Authorities are involved the worse it is.

I criticize a lack of perfection where that is possible in musical performance. There is often a gross lack of perfection, then what else could I do but to try to mock the posturings of greatness presented with mediocre chops.

Mark Ronson, I do not get it at all. There have been many situations where the other headlining was a significant other. I  thought as I viewed and listened: perhaps Ronson is responsible for writing, putting the band together and directing the performance. So what, even if all that were true, so what? The gut string guitar Ronson performs with on " Nothing Breaks like a Heart " is hardly audible and when it is louder is really basic. A million people like it but I am unimpressed.

  Miley's outfit: Her pants have that low hanging crotch fault that old time 1950's jeans had. I remember shopping and trying on jeans to avoid the unsightly and possibly dangerously leg grabbing low crotch.                                                      

Miley Cyrus is not awe inspiring, the expressionless recitation seems rushed and I do not find her vocal performance to be dynamic enough to furnish a lead to all that schmaltzy background music.

               THIS IS CHRISTMAS (WAR IS OVER) 

Lame again, lame Christmas song, lame recitation of lyrics, lame Ronson guitar.

On CNN, some weird Yo-Ho Republican wished Chris Cuomo a Merry Christmas to which Cuomo did not reply. On the web, a lot of talk about a Feminist Santa Baby and Miley's lack of a brassire. Playing Christmas songs and showing your tits are signs of a fading career as is the taking refuge with Mark Ronson in Schmaltz. Mark Ronson is carrying a red and white Gibson 335, one of the greatest guitars of all time, I should get my Gibson ES 347 a big black sister to the 335 out, in any case the 335 Series Gibsons are CAPABLE OF MAKING INCREDIBLE SOUNDS and I cannot for the life of me figure out why Ronson does none of that, possibly a Schmaltz Convention.

The second musical showcase number was so bloody conventional. Christmas songs are passe are they not and the droning dirge of the Middle Ages as well. To call what was performed a Jam is absurd, probably neither of the bass nor the 335 guys could Jam. Ronson's guitar is virtually inaudible as is the guitar Lennon plays. What a missed opportunity guys in the grip of Quiet Schmaltz.

I thought, I will look for a super lame picture of the lame Christmas song and the picture in particular of the Poseur in the Homo Erotic outfit and it is Sean Lennon! His performance as well was so Fairy affected. I am an awful person to be so critical, I really do feel bad about all of this, especially I am feeling bad about the lack of great innovative fresh transporting music.

I almost forgot that Ghoul Guy who was going to kill himself on YouTube or something like that, formerly engaged to Aria Grande, possibly she is a ghoul fancier, the purple lips greyveyard hair and googly eyes ghoul guy introduced the X-MAS number it says on YouTube. If ghoul guy crawled out of the grave X-mass of dirt would have to be lifted probably a Ton. It is called Christmas! Not Xmas.

A bunch of bloody blandos are taking over the earth. Eg: Blando the presidente of the new Banana Republic. MacDonald burgers and Kentucky Fried Chicken and Hookers, all bland but salty and greasy remnants of the Bland old days before the Sixties. Trump has Hairspray for his jellyroll hairstyle previously Brylcream hair grease for men's jellyroll hairstyles. Christmas too, get out and shop until you drop.  Or listen to Christmas music and dream of a Miley Cyrus Sex Robot under the Christmas Tree. Coming soon! Order online or shop in person for Christmas delivery.

  

DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR

  LIVE ROCK CRITIC 2018    "BREAK HIS FINGERS"

Foreword November 26 : "Now young men play video games".

I would contrast those of us who when we were young men strived to become musicians and composers. We were not "Cooperating and Interacting"  pretending to kill everything in sight on a video screen we tried to set our thoughts to music with lyrics and new compositions. I attended hundreds of practice and writing sessions and sessions where the object was to create cool new tones. I think that we were better prepared by this experience to possess intellect and creativity than by learning to be ruthless devious and really fast to push buttons and keys in "First Person Shooter" video games. I just remembered that under eight boys all had six shooter toy pistols when I was a child. We also went out and into the fields and orchards when I was twelve in New Brunswick where we had a number of War First Person Shooter games including, in season, stick launched apples from the Orchards and snowballs in the winter. One hit and you were out.

  " We should break his fingers"  

That is a line from my song "Delusions of Grandeur" which portrays the bad attitude which the ignorant and un-creative have towards music composition.

https://youtu.be/0I5KAi-tIAc  This a link to the post of this song on my website Lindon Collard.com. 

I have written extensively about the disregard which has been demonstrated towards my music composition and performance. From neighbours trying to get the Police to break up music sessions in the 1960's til now pretending that music was a noise nuisance  or bad people were involved in music or there was an opportunity for a Drug Bust! 

Every acquaintance and family member knew that music was what I practised and created and poured a huge effort into. The hard work and accomplishment would be totally disregarded as Family members ripped off my inheritances and set up situations where I would not be able to continue to devote as much of my time and effort to music as all other things.  Particularly, my ex-wife wanted all my effort put into her and her low plebeian selfish desires, the artless philistine manipulatrix. Who would think that getting her way and my assets and even my work as unpaid slave for more than six years was alright and my dedication to my work on music was a deplorable egotism and mistake? 

I listened on a stereo TV tuned to Stingray, the patch was Classic Rock. I was amazed at the depth and clarity of sound that the re-mastered performances were reproduced with layers of nuance and movements I had not heard before. Queen was particularly amazingly complex and had low volume background symphonic and harmonic and counterpoint embellishments I had not heard before.

Freddy Mercury was not a family man. I was actually supporting a family in addition to my musical efforts and it is not clever or cool or sternly just to interfere with me and my projects and work. My pussy whipped little brother Andrew said " Who wants their brother prancing around on stage playing harmonica?" Mental illness must be responsible that nonsense. 

He and my mother decided that I should not be informed when documents were sent to me at my parent's address. Andrew, with Francine, La Grosse Fromage, running his life and mind decided with my mother that I should not get my uncle Albert's will because if I knew I WAS INHERITING HIS HOUSE and his MILLION BUCKS, I would "not try hard enough". I did not get a cent of that money. My brother's Franco Fascist Francine did not want to have to happen in "her new family"what happened in her old family, her real family, where her older brother inherited and was educated et al. Her new family:she was not even an in-law, no Rugenuis was in any way family with her. Francine Dagenais did not even take the Collard family name when she got married. She phone book listed my brother Andrew Collard Contractor, as Andrew Dagenais, her family name but the money was different. She wanted control into the Collard and Rugenuis  family assets, Rugenuis money coming from my Uncle Albert and my Aunt Annette. The married into the family women got together with my absolutely hateful child abuser mother and they worked at stealing inheritance money full time. When I was forced to pay debts and interest on money which only my father earned, loaned over my objection for my ex-wife's business, are not all of the persons involved Indictable Criminals, that is extortion. 

WHAT IS REALLY HORRIBLE IS THAT AS MY EX-WIFE SAID "TARGET HIS MUSIC THAT ALL HE CARES ABOUT". OHH, I LOVED THE MUSIC MORE. OF COURSE I DID. I WAS NOT TRANSPORTED FROM THIS WORLD FOR MORE THAN A FEW MINUTES BY SEX BUT MUSIC GOES ON AND ON AND GETS BETTER AND BETTER. MAYBE IF THE WIFE PUT A SIMILAR EFFORT INTO THE MARRIAGE AS I PUT INTO THE MARRIAGE, INSTEAD OF  JUST GLEEPING MONEY AND BEING DIFFICULT, UNCOOPERATIVE AND DEMANDING, WELL MAYBE MARRIAGE MIGHT BE MORE LOVEABLE AND THE WIFE AS WELL.

 

Not so Swift LRC 2018

                                          NOT SO SEXY

Taylor Swift is screened on CNN dancing in a stilted non rythmatic manner that re-enforces the prejudice that white men cannot dance. Is there a counter balancing expression "but white women can dance"? 

    I would say from the look on this woman's face that she does not really enjoy dancing.                         

The stiff uncomfortable posturing by Swift in a blue dress (significant?) at the lege accomplished by the running around on stage and sticking the head at the audience which I have always been critical of. The United States House of Representatives or The Senate is the scene of the video. 

The vocal and band recordings are the usual Taylor Swift Pap, yes it makes a lot of money but I still think it is lame, lame, lame.

THAT IS NOT THE WORST PART OF THE VIDEO WHICH IS THE VULGAR WEAK CLUMSY DANCING WHERE TAYLOR SPREADS HER LEGS WIDE AND DOES SPASTIC PELVIC THRUSTS. TAYLOR SWIFT IS NOT THE ONLY PRACTICIONER OF THE MORE OBSCENE THAN SENSUAL CHOREOGRAPHY I THINK SHE THINKS IT IS SEXY.  

LIVE ROCK CRITIC 2018 # 61 KANYE WEST ON SNL

I returned to Saturday Night Live to view Kanye West's performance at length.

                                                                                 

                                         

I VIEWED THE PERFORMANCES PREVIOUSLY AND I WAS CONFUSED BY THE DRINK BOTTLE VIDEO WHICH DOES GROW ON YOU AS YOU STRUGGLE TO UNDERSTAND .
( Post script) Just now I got the hint that this is a political pro Trump statement characterized as a rant?!?

DO NOT UNDERSTAND BUT VIEW AND ENJOY WHATEVER THE KINKY GIRL REPRESENTED ON THE HUGE SCREEN BEHIND KANYE AND HIS SIDEMAN. I WILL HAVE TO WATCH IT AGAIN AT LEAST ONCE MORE CONCENTRATING ON GIANT KINKY GIRL TO SEE IF I CAN FIGURE OUT A THEME OR PLOT OR NOT, RIGHT, IT COULD BE A MEANINGLESS EXPRESSION OF A SINGLE THOUGHT AT LENGTH..........

The dancing girl video is great video better shaking of the boobs than Marilyn Monroe. The music is sparse and weak and totally pre recorded including some vocals but I do not really care to figure out what and where. The translucently vested dancing girl from dreams of perfection one wished one had is so beautiful and moves so well I wonder what Kardashian Family Frictions will arise. 

The first time I viewed the SNL episode I missed the ensemble finale where Kanye West sang really well. Kanye either directed and choreographed or accepted direction perfectly executed check some of the dance moves at the beginning of the Kinky Girl Drink Bottle Song and Dance. 

The Saturday Night Live Band played some unusual Funk and some of the ensemble players sang in perfect pitch and connotative voice modulation. Some of the skits                            were really funny again, where a few years                                  back I found the formula skits boring.

                                                                      

                                                                     

LIVE ROCK, WHY?

LIVE ROCK CRITIC 2018                                                                                                       I did critically view Kanye West on Saturday Night Live Saturday.       I do not quite know what to think about the Drink Bottle Dance and musical performance. I may have gotten a skit although I thought it was Kanye. I have it recorded on DVR and I will view it again. The second number I thought was weak. He uttered some form of atrocity about slavery after he performed. 

I was considering what I would say motivated me to attempt to perform and to compose and to be able to produce popular music. I think I might have been motivated by my desire to propagate my thoughts and discoveries and political and social theories as one would write in a newspaper or in novels or non-fiction books, at one time nearly the only way that this was possible. Movies were a step above books because they could penetrate a greater audience and boldly present their vision.

Records of the type which might affect a wide audience became influential and Live Performance was possibly the extension of records into a realism and power which even movies have only recently attained. I became aware that the most effective attainable medium would be Live Performance. That was at a time decades ago when Live Performance was both commonplace in bars, dance clubs, dances and even at parties and Surreal, Otherworldly, and Mindblowing at the most excellent public performances in theaters, stadiums and at outdoor concerts.

I thought about how to communicate original thoughts discoveries and theories and how to blow them up huge as cartoons and performances of my observations, commentary and didaction. I had also been pursing material to write about in the past, musical circles seemed to be a likely source. I could thus play some harmonica, I began to really practice harmonica again and I danced and rollerbladed to be as fit and rhythmic as possible. I did the practice blitz more than once in the past using exclusively Hohner Diatonic Harmonicas. I thought that if I joined a successful band I could make a living and vigorously pursue the proliferation of my ideas and discoveries. 

Reduced to posting on the inter net hoping to get noticed. Vote the video above does proliferate a number of ideas.

I found this live performance in my Video files

Creatus Interruptus

FAMILYBOORLOOMS - YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrR_84yBaZ9anjzqA2thaUQ

This is a link to Family Boorlooms  YouTube Channel listen to "Full blown Schizophrenic Liar"
I  think the recording was probably just good fortune, but the execution of the musical score on sequenced twin Kurzwiel Variable Architecture Synthesisers and the Les Paul Black Beauty was no accident. The musical score was carefully contrived, recorded, listened to and corrected in a hundred rehearsal sessions before it was recorded live in the air of the recital room pictured in my live music videos. The Kurzwiels played through four amplifiers configured quadraphonically and Leslie Paul had twin Marshal Cabinets and separately effected heads.  THE VOCAL IS ME SINGING LIVE.

 I have always had a desire to create something really mindblowing. A great Book I thought back in post WWII Canada. I was right there on the cusp as a teenager and at earlier ages, there was new but the old, the very very old world of pre War Society and buildings and roads and canals and bridges was right there. A trip on a bicycle in 1958 down St Patrick Boulevard beside the Lachine canal with the factories and docks and ship lifting locks was right out of Victorian England. I may be one of the few who felt the presence of the past and heard the sounds of industry and ships and trains, or perhaps many people felt the vibe down by the ship canal.

I had wanted to write so I joined in as I could in Trips, including the Music Trip, to write. I found myself writing extemporaneously live with any form of  composing or performing event I could participate in. I  had many Sunday Space Jams at my Richmond and Delta BC acreages with at the last one in Delta, an incredible huge tall 50 foot by 50 foot recital hall with a three story atrium as part of it. The Burr House was still in Deas Island Park, the last I knew of it, moved there in the 90` from the seven Acre Burr Estate where Raymond Burr , Perry Mason,  lived as a child at some point before I got the place in 1974. 

I had in conversation mentioned how my back was wrecked and it had been a tragedy for me creatively and musically since the first house at Otter Point Road was burnt with my musical instruments and tapes among many more things. I had spent at least five years working to get the house and possessions to raise the family my ex-wife was adamant about having. The house itself had to be finished, that took eight months. 

Believe me, I had to concentrate on other than music most of the time mostly and all of the time some of the time,  for instance as I finished the first Otter Point House. I said that since I lost all my possessions at that point life had never been the same. I stated that I could not believe that I was further exploited and extorted and ripped off as well after all I had had been lost. I said that I think that I would have lived a different life and I would have succeeded at music had not so many negative interventions been created. 

Every time I would be dispossessed or forced to pay extortion I would have to work at menial back breaking tasks and my art and writing and composing and performing would be curtailed. The back breaking work and accident injury and being caused to collapse use up more of my time until I am totally stalled and it is hard to start up again and very hard when I cannot stand.

Somehow I managed to write a couple of thousand innovative pieces of music and songs and musical scores for animations and cartoons. I  think most of those who I know who scoff at my efforts could  not have even kept the acreage and home together, debt free.  After 2000 I invested the last third of my inheritances, the first two thirds stolen. I had $750K as down payments and the houses and apartment building I bought are now probably Six Million Dollars of Victoria Real Estate which I do diminish not, the rental income strictly pays the principal off. One Million Dollars to pay still. I would have done well with my inheritances and been able to concentrate on my Art,Writing, Composing, Performing and Videography.

I maintain that if I had not been burned out and twice more impoverished and certainly had I kept the first two thirds of my inherited money which was stolen starting in 1964 I would have made as much money as David Bowie or at least $500 million and I plan to sue anyone who had apart in any of the destruction.

LIVE ROCK CRITIC IN 2018 : COOL SOUNDS

                    THE MUSICIAN AND THE COMPOSER             CREATE COOL SOUNDS 

What is a Cool sound? It is an intriguing sound, an evocative sound, or a sound that takes you away from the ordinary. There is the overall transmission of sound, from near, from far, ricocheting through passages or wistfully distant in the open spaces or clear and bold loudly dominating the  senses. Cool sounds are those which bring to mind such as passing trains or planes or the sounds of parades and sirens moving and shifting and  dopplering . Cool sounds morph. Cool sounds sound cool or torridly hot, serene or hysterical, calm or frenetic.  Cool sounds will transport your mind. 

There was a time when I pursued cool sounds. Today the array of digital effects, samples and sequencers makes the creation of cool sounds reliable and easy compared to using room acoustics  and feedback although those and other analog real room sound modifications have their charm. What would that charm be?  It is very cool to create that certain note and turn the guitar towards the speakers it is amplified through and hear and feel the resonance as the guitar strings sympathetically vibrate in unison or dissonance or even counterpoint with the amplifier output.   You can feel it in your fingers, you can feel it in your toes, you can feel it in your brain vibrating. You can hear it directly and echoing and vibrating walls and glass everywhere in the room. 

COOL SOUNDS WILL DRAW YOU BACK TO PLAY AGAIN AND AGAIN JUST TO HEAR

LIVE ROCK CRITIC in 2018

LIVE ROCK CRITIC POSTED FOR A FEW YEARS SEVEN YEARS AGO.
The first couple of dozen are the most detailed and earnest reviews and the last few reflect my lack of enthusiasm about the bands and the reviewing and how things slowly wind down..
Reviews on every subject including musical performance are everywhere now unlike in 2009...
I would like to point to a new body of Work or Art  but I have been limited in my physical mobility for some time to the degree that routine tasks exhaust my energy leaving little but the hour or so of music practice and writing tunes . I have been doing a bit of Poster Art, some is animated on YouTube Drunkycocamovision Channel and Collard Creations Channel.