David, you might have heard of "full-frame" DSLR's versus APS-C or whatever the abbreviation was for the first generation for small 3/4 sized sensors.  There were huge internet debates, circa 2004, before a full-frame DSLR had yet been produced, on what effect it would have on image quality.  Many people, such as myself, were skeptical that it would make a big difference.  Well, that issue was answered decisively by 2006-07, as the full-frame cameras hit the market, and showed there were huge differences in image quality.

 

Basically the way camera manufacturers sell the public on megapixels is a scam, since there's really no way to tell in the final image above a certain level.  The differences for full-frame cameras are two-fold: the pixels themselves are larger, meaning there is a microscopic amount of increased space between them, which eliminates a lot of electronic interference problems.  This permits high-quality low-light performance. 

 

Second -- and this one's a lot harder to describe -- the larger sensors require more space between the sensor and the rear of the lens.  This means the image, automatically, takes on a more 3-D look.  Extrapolated up to larger film sizes, medium-format, then large-format, exhibit progressively smoother character.  In the past, many people (again, including myself) confused that character for the larger size of the film (more resolution).  There are such things as medium format (and large format) digital cameras, but they all cost over $10,000 and are pretty much never seen outside studio applications. 

 

My argument though is this is yet another example of technology destroying something -- filmmakers dreams for decades of access to pro gear, but now that they have it, it's going to destroy the art form/hobby as we know it.  I predict that the quality of independent film is going to go down, for two reasons:

 

1. young people will no longer be seduced by film making, since the mystery and exclusive knowledge has been removed

2. people will script their films to become viral hits on youtube, and such videos can never be too serious

 

I wrote a blog post on this topic earlier this week:

http://www.cincinnatimonocle.blogspot.com/2012/02/tyranny-of-dslr-video.html

 

 

what hell hath Les Paul wrought?

Not a favorite but an old Ohio band, Owen-B

Owen B. - Never Goin' Home ■ 45 RPM 1970 ■ OffTheCharts365

there's a reason they sound kinda like the Partridge Family

http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/entertainment/music/mcginn-springfield-man-has-his-own-moments-in-rock-n-roll-history-1338536.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=t-fV6fdWVgQ#!

Whatever is on 105.9 WNKU. Holy cow @ the great mix they have! Major props to the station, even if it is in Kentucky. :)

WNKU smokes all other Cincinnati-area radio stations. 

 

I'm an asshole at parties when somebody's playing shitty music.  I like to say out loud "there are thousands of great records out there so why aren't we listening to one?".  On Saturdays and Sundays, WNKU can go 10 hours straight without playing a lame song. 

 

Just had a flashback...the last time I heard this song was at a party in Athens in 2003:

 

^ GET UPPP AND GETCHA GRANDMA OUTTA HERE!

 

lol one of their best!

 

bonus -- how to close it out

I just read Ace Frehley's book. Gene used to think Ace was always late to stuff because of his heavy drinking and drug use, which seriously angered Gene as a lifelong teetotaler. So after Ace cleaned up in the mid-2000s he still found himself running late. So Ace basically said, "Suck it Gene, I'm late to everything anyway!"

best band from Cleveland ever!

I'm a bit late for St. Patrick's Day, and looking for an excuse to bring up the subject of Sinead O'Connor, who unfortunately disappeared from the US after tearing up that picture of the pope on Saturday Night Live back in 1989 or 1990. 

 

I just looked up the video of the performance on youtube and I remember watching it live the night it aired but it's totally different from what I remembered:

Sinead O Connor - WAR - SNL

 

Actually I don't think I watched it live.  I think I saw the rerun, which didn't show this song at all.  It showed whatever song she sang first. 

Here she is doing "Mother" with Roger Waters at the Berlin Wall in 1990. They did The Wall all the way through with lots of special guests such as Scorpions, The Band, Joni Mitchell and even Soviet orchestras and choirs. It was really badass; I'm pretty sure the crowd lost their minds.

 

 

 

In the suburbs I

I learned to drive

And you told me we'd never survive

Grab your mother's keys we're leavin'

 

You always seemed so sure

That one day we'd fight in

In a suburban world

your part of town gets minor

So you're standin' on the opposite shore

But by the time the first bombs fell

We were already bored

We were already, already bored

 

Sometimes I can't believe it

I'm movin' past the feeling

Sometimes I can't believe it

I'm movin' past the feeling again

 

Kids wanna be so hard

But in my dreams we're still screamin' and runnin' through the yard

And all of the walls that they built in the seventies finally fall

And all of the houses they build in the seventies finally fall

Meant nothin' at all

Meant nothin' at all

It meant nothin

 

Sometimes I can't believe it

I'm movin' past the feeling

Sometimes I can't believe it

I'm movin' past the feeling and into the night

 

So can you understand?

Why I want a daughter while I'm still young

I wanna hold her hand

And show her some beauty

Before this damage is done

 

But if it's too much to ask, it's too much to ask

Then send me a son

 

Under the overpass

In the parking lot we're still waiting

It's already passed

So move your feet from hot pavement and into the grass

Cause it's already passed

It's already, already passed!

 

Sometimes I can't believe it

I'm movin' past the feeling

Sometimes I can't believe it

I'm movin' past the feeling again

 

I'm movin' past the feeling

I'm movin' past the feeling

 

In my dreams we're still screamin'

We're still screamin'

We're still screamin'

 

^ That album is still in heavy rotation with me. There are some killer youtube video of them performing life.

 

It's time for some Danzig:

Danzig - Bodies

 

Got D@mnit, anyone else have this song stuck in their head? Are these guys hipsters? I hate hipsters but the song is catchy.

 

Fun-We Are Young Lyrics

Guitar Wolf "Sky Star Jet"

no, not a favorite just a recording by an Ohio band, Lodestar from Springfield, OH from the mid 70s.

http://www.box.com/shared/ap1yf1u1i7

I believe Lodestar was the name of an IH truck. Maybe it was Loadstar.

The band was produced by Jimmy Crain, a Spfld cop who had a brief rockabilly career when he was younger. It was recorded by a Cincinnati company, Carl Burkardt's Rite, but released under some other name.

The song would be better if it was about 1 minute long.....

I started a new pandora station for artist "Fun."

Awesome running station.

The Ed Davis band - Cincinnati late 70s

!

July is Guided by Voices month in Dayton, OH:

 

 

Here's the mayor (Gary Leitzell) introducing the band at a secret/private show at Dayton's Canal St. Tavern. Some profanity on this, so be aware if kids/coworkers are around.

 

Guided By Voices Month Announcement

 

People came from all over the country, as well as Norway, Sweden, U.K, Switzerland, and Australia. Fun time had by all! Still recovering!

Sweet.  Should be expanded to all of Ohio.

Dokken only ever got a day, not a whole month. Wow.

 

"I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" - JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound (Wilco Cover)

 

They will be at MidPoint Music Festival in Cincinnati (September 27-29)

Sweet.  Should be expanded to all of Ohio.

Agreed. We should pick a GBV song for State Rock Song, like Oklahoma did with "Do You Realize" by the Flaming Lips. What to pick, what to pick...

Sweet.  Should be expanded to all of Ohio.

Agreed. We should pick a GBV song for State Rock Song, like Oklahoma did with "Do You Realize" by the Flaming Lips. What to pick, what to pick...

How's My Drinking? :lol:

 

Weed King

 

I am Scientist - a more serious suggestion

Yung Life.

 

Met these guys after they played at Mahall's last night. And then crashed out on my living room floor. I left them in the house so I'm hoping they didn't steal anything. They're from Memphis, and you should be hearing more. Great live act.

 

My favorite track is Pathfinder. Check it!!

 

http://soundcloud.com/yunglife/sets

This is pretty awesome right about now

 

Easy Star All-Stars – Dub Side Of The Moon

 

The new Elton John vs. PNAU collaboration is pretty nuts. Definitely great summmer pool party/BBQ/drinking music.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Good-Morning-Night-digital-booklet/dp/B008E371EI/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1343334846&sr=1-1&keywords=pnau+good+morning+to+the+night

 

read more http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jul/12/elton-john-pnau-review

Ive been randomly picking CDS from the library if the album cover or song titles or group looks "interesting"

 

So far its been hit or miss.

 

Some oddballs:

 

The Gathering/Aboreteum (or is it Aboreteum/The Gathering?).  Sounds Like:  An updated take on prog rock..sort of like Uriah Heep.

 

Alarum by Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Wit.  Sounds like:  that Mumford and Sons take on folk music...not as electric, more buskerish.  A bit of Robb Johnson thrown in, too.  I like these guys (and gal).

 

Augustana:  CD packaging looks sort of rust belt gritty...instead I find they are from San Diego!. Sounds Like: sort of that Springsteenyish rock thing, but not like Marah.....  Vaguely folk rock. 

Johnny Flynn is pretty solid.  I was introduced to him through WJCU.  Turns out he grew up in the same area and developed in the same music scene as Mumford and Sons, so it's not shocking that there are some similarities.

Bombay Bassment - Bombay Blues [LIVE at High Spirits]

 

Sounds like early Public Enemy and Living Color mixed together with an extra splash of Marley.

Buddy Guy's B-Day

Bill Doss of Olivia Tremor Control and Sunshine Fix died last week. I was really looking forward to the new album OTC was supposedly working on.

 

RIP

http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2012-07-31/olivia-tremor-controls-bill-doss-dead-43

 

 

Dusk at Cubist Castle and Black Foliage are two of my favorite albums ever.

Sweet.  Should be expanded to all of Ohio.

Agreed. We should pick a GBV song for State Rock Song, like Oklahoma did with "Do You Realize" by the Flaming Lips. What to pick, what to pick...

How's My Drinking? :lol:

 

Weed King

 

I am Scientist - a more serious suggestion

 

I think this is the right answer. The lyrics are unusually straightforward, not at all controversial, and the song is palatable/digestible for a wide audience. And it's (for these reasons) probably their most well-known song off their most well-known album. Anything else would be too obscure, too weird, too offensive, or too challenging to the ears.

Based on the half dozen or so people jumping up and down in front of the stage (probably some old classmates of mine and fueled by too many trips to the beer tent), perhaps this song should be renamed Burned Out Boomer Wasteland (then again, is there anyone under 50 who even remembers it??) :drunk:

 

the Jenn Cristy Band performing Teenage Wasteland at Painesville Party in the Park two weeks ago--

http://www.ustream.tv/embed/recorded/24128844/highlight/282134

Kind of a departure from my normal obsessions (dance, trance etc.) but this song has been my summer jam:

 

Tongue Tied, by Grouplove

 

^For being shameless hipsters, that Grouplove album is not half bad. I was kind of shocked (in a good way). It's just more proof that LA hipsters are advanced specimens compared to their counterparts in New York and the Midwest.

For over a year, Joy Formidable's The Big Roar has been a constant on my playlists. I think it was the best album of the last decade, and these guys are insane live. They do the 90's as well as anyone in the 90's did:

 

Just bought tickets for The Afghan Whigs at Bogart's on New Year's Eve:

 

I saw The Gutter Twins in 2003 or 2004 in Columbus at Little Brothers but did not see the Afghan Whigs in the 90s.  The 2012 reunion Afghan Whigs clips on Youtube all look like the band is back to kicking ass, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten tickets. 

Saw them on Jimmy Kimmel or some such late night show that I wasn't really watching until I heard their name announced. Good stuff.

Not really my fave music of the moment but an Ohio musician whose birthday just happens to be 10/13.

Anyway, his son just rightfully told off an e-friend of mine on PhaseBuch which got me thinking about Springfield's Johnny Lytle.

heehee

 

more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Lytle

 

more boring old farts

I've been listening to Alejandro Escovedo, Herbie Hancock, Gilberto Gil, and Hugh Masekela stuff recently - I'm listening to this now :) :

Two vids from sexy chicks that rock......

 

 

 

And this is DEFINITELY NOT suitable for the workplace or for near children......

 

Enigma - Touchness ( Seven Lives ... )

Oh man KJP, you stepped into the Enigma zone!

 

People in the States a lot of times think that Enigma is a bunch of druggies or only Pure Moods stuff for people in their 40s trying to mellow out after 25 years of partying. But, in all actuality they were a husband-and-wife act (with some help from their friends) that both had major pop success in Europe individually.

 

Here's Michael Cretu, known as Curly MC in Enigma:

 

Michael Cretu - Samurai (dt. Version) ( Musik Convoy 04.03.1985).mpg

 

And his hot wife Sandra (they've since divorced). You know the Mortal Kombat music from the movie? Listen at the beginning and during the bridge for its origin:

 

 

They never had Sandra appear in the Enigma videos because they probably didn't want people to think it was just more Sandra since she was very popular. That, and I doubt anybody involved wanted her doing stuff like that in a video.

 

This is all great stuff that we missed out on in favor of a bunch of boring Bryan Adams and Johnny Cougar in the '80s. Cretu's a hell of a musician.

^Enough. 

 

 

With Halloween fast approaching, it's time to break out those White Zombie CD's again, especially La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1, released 20 years ago (do the math 1992!).

 

But it gets better.  The album artwork was awesome, then there were the samples.  Remember, this is only 5~ years after Paul's Boutique, back when you could pretty much sample whatever you wanted.  But the recording of this album was ridiculously high quality, for something that maybe moved 10,000 copies its first year, then became an INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON and sold billlllions.

 

And check this out, they broke with this boogie:

 

 

Haha, the guy who thinks he has objectively good taste in music loves White Zombie.

^?

Besides the obvious camp factor, what exactly is wrong with White Zombie?