Errors-To: admin at elephant-talk dot com Reply-To: newsletter at elephant-talk dot com Sender: moderator at elephant-talk dot com Precedence: bulk From: moderator at elephant-talk dot com To: newsletter at elephant-talk dot com Subject: Elephant Talk #1247 E L E P H A N T T A L K The Internet newsletter for Robert Fripp and King Crimson enthusiasts Number 1247 Tuesday, 21 November 2006 Today's Topics: Origin of the name King Crimson Discipline symbol King Crimson BRASIL Situation Vacant internet DJ Prog'opolis: The Final Chapter Crimson music in the movie Children Of Men. Windows Vista & Fripp ------------------ A D M I N I S T R I V I A --------------------- POSTS: Please send *all posts* to newsletter at elephant-talk dot com ** Posts intended for the newsletter should have a subject prefix of ETPOST ** Posts intended for an individual newsletter contributor should have a subject prefix of their ET 'Ticket Number', shown at ETxxxxx in their 'From:' line in the newsletter. 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If you'd like to donate to the upkeep of ET, please press the "Donate" button at ETWeb. ------------------ A I V I R T S I N I M D A --------------------- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:31:19 +0000 From: jdanna03 at comcast dot net Subject: Origin of the name King Crimson I have noticed that the name King Crimson has been mentioned (by Peter Sinfield and Robert Fripp) as referring to Beelzebub--Lord of the Flies. Specifically, does the name refer to the psychotropic mushroom Amanita muscaria, the fly agaric, which has long been associated with Beelzebub? See reference below: The fly-agaric seems to have been sacred to Beelzebub ("Lord of the Flies") alias Atabyrius, a Hittite god who had an oracle on Tabor. The fact is that the fly-agaric, which has recently been identified by R. Gordon Wasson with the Indian ambrosia called Soma, is highly hallucinogenic. It has two varieties, one with birch as its host-tree, the other which uses the pine. Its juice when taken with wine or beer -- as in Dionysus's ancient Feast of Ambrosia -- is said to induce reckless courage, sexual lust and super-human energy. This mushroom itself is crimson (how else would the king be crimson) and has a long history of religious usage. Does this also coincide with the religious sound of the title song within the first King Crimson album? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 11:41:38 -0500 From: "Antonacopoulos, Glenn" Subject: Discipline symbol http://www.elephant-talk.com/faq/faq4.htm I thank you very much for providing the FAQ to those of us who love King Crimson. I see that the "mark" on the cover of Discipline is copywrighted by the artist (and untitled?), maybe this had something to do with the difiuclty in finding the album on CD, I don't know. And I see people have tried to make sense of Adrian Belew lyrics that I always thought were just wonderful nonsense. So I always thought that the lyrics to "Indiscipline" were just meant to be funny. But certain people always wanted to know what he is talking about, and point to the fact that Belew looks at his guitar during the song. But a friend of mine once insisted that he had figured it out - the lyrics refer to the "mark" on the cover of the album, because no matter how you break it down, it remains consistent. Food for thought, and I am cc'ing my friend. thanks, glenn ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:30:59 -0200 From: "Sylvio Passos - GMail" Subject: King Crimson BRASIL Please, See http://www.kingcrimson.com.br Sylvio Sylvio Passos RAUL ROCK CLUB/RAUL SEIXAS OFICIAL FA-CLUBE Caixa Postal 12.106 - Ag. Santana Sao Paulo - SP - CEP: 02013-970 - BRASIL tel/fax (11) 6948 2983 celular (11) 8304 4568 SITE 1: http://www.raulrockclub.com.br SITE 2: http://groups.msn.com/KomunaRaulseixistika SITE 3: http://www.raulrockclub.com.br/expo SITE 4: http://sylviopassos.multiply.com Veja o video "Meu Amigo Raul" acessando o link abaixo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXOXrKmrJW8 . ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:22:17 -0400 From: drg55 at netscape dot net Subject: Situation Vacant internet DJ I has now been just over a year since I first tuned into Prog'opolis with Vince and Daisy on thedividingline.com, the best damn King Crimson show on the planet (ok it was the only one). Sadly the show runs out of steam and Vince and Daisy are calling a halt, next Saturday. I have most King Crimson cds, so there wasn't much to learn there, yet in the past year I have gained a far better personal appreciation of the many fine musicians who at one time played with KC. Is there a better band than this? I think not. Vince, a musician himself, was professional as any paid DJ in putting together the play list, and Daisy maintained the support of the listeners who came into chat during the show. Away from the twisted marketing driven commercial stations, the internet is one place good music can reign supreme. Hopefully Prog'opolis has helped spread the word about King Crimson to another generation. If anyone would like to take up the mantle of a Crimson focused program, contact Shawn Bishop at the Dividing Line Broadcast Network. Davo http://www.myspace.com/davo4prog http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/Australian_landscape_photos/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:32:37 +0000 From: progopolis Subject: Prog'opolis: The Final Chapter Excerpt from last week's TV Guide: DLBN: "Prog'opolis: The Final Chapter" (2006) *** Starring: Vince Font, Daisy Jane Font Zombies created by a chemical fire attack a couple celebrating the final broadcast of their popular internet radio show. Low-budget Halloween frightfest co-stars Madeline Kahn, Roy Orbison, Adrian Belew, Shawn Bishop. {Comedy/Horror/Musical, 301mins) REPLAY THIS SHOW: Show page: http://www.thedividingline.com/p Stream the show: http://www.thedividingline.com/parchive.pls Download the archive: http://www.thedividingline.com/archives/parchive.ogg PROG'OPOLIS: The Final Broadcast (10.28.06) Styx - The Grand Illusion (4.35) King Crimson - Three Of A Perfect Pair (4.13) Porcupine Tree - Blackest Eyes (4.23) Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees (4.50) Yes - Siberian Khatru (8.53) Tony Levin - Sabre Dance (5.07) Adrian Belew - Welcome To Prog'opolis! (0.03) Adrian Belew - Dinosaur (acoustic) 5.44) Camel - Rhayader (3.01) Camel - Rhayader Goes To Town (5.20) Davo's Prog Taxi - Prog'opolis Lessons (0.08) Crimson Jazz Trio - Red (5.59) Variant - The Vince and Daisy Belews (5.56) Erik from Variant - Prog'opolis Punker (0.08) Variant - Carrin' Carrion (10.23) Steve Hackett - Every Day (6.14) Alistair Henry - The Momentary Dementia News (7.36) Emerson, Lake & Palmer - From The Beginning (4.11) Marillion - Ocean Cloud (17.58) Brems from IZZ - Prog'opolis (0.11) IZZ - The Bar Song (4.09) Madeline Khan - I'm Tired (5.19) Kino - Letting Go (5.25) Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill (4.21) Prog'opolis - The Spider Incident (1.03) Anthony Phillips - Um And Aargh (4.53) Genesis - Turn It On Again (3.46) Gong - Expresso (5.58) Kate Bush - Pi (6.09) Headshear - Complex Nothing (4.33) REQUEST Donny Who Loved Bowling - Eczema Bop (4.23) Christopher Petkus - Licking Boots (2.56) Donny Who Loved Bowling - Mother (3.13) Joe Griffin - Year Of The Car Crash (5.56) Donny Who Loved Bowling - In Heaven (2.17) Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings (6.33) REQUEST U.K. - Rendezvous 6-02 (5.00) Shawn Bishop - Goodbye V + D (2.48) Genesis - The Lamia (6.57) Marillion - Misplaced Childhood Redux (17.03) Riverside - The Time I Was Daydreaming (4.52) Vienna Teng - Transcontinental, 1:30AM (3.46) Ozric Tentacles - Vedavox (2.51) REQUEST Fractal - Friptomoogosity (live) (5.11) Camel - Long Goodbyes (5.14) Supertramp - Goodbye Stranger (5.48) -- PROG. It does a body good. http://www.thedividingline.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 23:37:56 +1100 From: Sean Curtin Subject: Crimson music in the movie Children Of Men. Hello there fellow ETers, This may have already been mentioned(havn't read the posts for a few weeks now), but in case it hasn't, I just wanted to let you all know how awesome it was to hear "In The Court Of The Crimson King", in the recent movie release "Children Of Men". The peice fit so well and was that 20th Century Schizoid I heard in the background on one of the outcasts radio's? A highly recommended movie for any ETer and made all the more splendid with this great classic peice getting played. The movie has a gritty feel and the ending would have fit well in an episode of Blakes 7, which by the way made it even better. The sound was spectacular with the effects actually mixed properly and not just a stack of bass where there shouldn't be(any one get sick and tired of seeing a movie at the cinema and when something minor like a glass breaks, there's a rediculously loud booming bass sound? It's totally dumb when they do that and ruins any hope of realism at all). At the end of the day it could just be the cinema I go to, but I assure you that if it can sound great in this cinema then it will be great with some of the other cinemas out there. All the best and may neuro surgeons scream for more, Sean. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 23:47:22 -0700 From: Christopher Heckman Subject: Windows Vista & Fripp The following article appeared in Saturday's papers. [Feel free to edit for word wrapping.] --- Christopher Heckman 18 months of work provides the tone for Windows Vista Allison Linn Associated Press Nov. 11, 2006 12:00 AM SEATTLE - Some musicians spend 18 months working on an album. At Microsoft Corp., it took that long to perfect just four seconds of sound. Of course, this isn't just any four-second clip. It's the sound - a soft da-dum, da-dum, with a lush fade-out - that millions of computer users will hear every day, and perhaps thousands of times in total, when they turn on computers running Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Vista operating system. To set the right tone - clean, simple, but with "some long-term legs," according to Microsoft's Steve Ball - the softwaremaker recruited musician Robert Fripp. Fripp, best known for his work with the 1970s rock band King Crimson, recorded hours of his signature layered, guitar-driven sound for the project, under the close direction of Ball and others at Microsoft. Then, it was Ball's job to sort through those hours of live recordings to pull out just the right few seconds. Fripp's involvement is not surprising. His occasional collaborator, Brian Eno, recorded sounds for Windows 95. Also, Ball, the Microsoft group program manager for Windows audio visual excellence has in the past been Fripp's student and business partner. Ball, a self-proclaimed renaissance man who is an engineer and a musician, considered the work of about 10 musicians for the project. Some of those people were influential in the final four seconds as well. Redmond-based Microsoft seriously debated several other sounds before settling on the final startup sound about three weeks ago. The rejects included a longer, more-lush clip and a quick, techno-sounding piece. While many people liked an upbeat ditty with a clapping rhythm, it was eventually rejected for sounding too much like a commercial. Ball said the hand-clapping also seemed like too "human" a sound when paired with the new graphic for Vista. "There's nothing that's especially human about our new Windows animation," he said. The short startup clip that was eventually chosen is meant to evoke the rhythm of the words "Win-dows Vis-ta!" and Ball hopes the sound will serve as a calling card for the operating system. It also consists of four chords: one for every color in the new Windows graphic that appears as the sound plays. It's no coincidence that it's also four seconds long. There are 45 Vista sounds that Microsoft has spent the past year and a half perfecting, including the dings you hear when you get a new e-mail, receive an error message or log off your computer. Generally, these are more muted, less jarring variations of the prompts familiar to Windows XP users. If it seems like overkill to go to all that trouble for a few seconds of sound, consider this: Microsoft estimates that the clips such as the e-mail alert will be played trillions of times in years to come. That's a lot of opportunity to annoy, offend - or, if the job is done right - please or appease computer users the world over. One major concern was that the startup sound not grow grating after a time. "You want a sound that people will love the first time they hear it, but it's a paradox to also say, Oh and by the way, we need people to love it the tenth, or the hundredth or the thousandth time they hear it,' " Ball said. ------------------------------ End of Elephant Talk Digest #1247 *********************************