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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
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 Posted - 03/25/2006 : 10:34:27
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Frank: "I was 26 when the band broke up. We'd already made 5 records."
I’m the only one who can say that this light is mine
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
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Posted - 03/25/2006 : 17:09:29
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I'm sure there's an interview with Black on the Doolitte tour, and the writer points out that he's 'still only at the enviable age of 22', or something like that.
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IceCream
= Quote Accumulator =
USA
1850 Posts |
Posted - 04/24/2006 : 13:14:23
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I think Nietzsche was a professor of Classical Philology at 24 years of age.
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 04/24/2006 : 13:18:11
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Issac Hanson wrote "MMMBop" when he was 14
"I don't have any money to buy new clothes and if they paid me to get some I'd probably buy more hoodies." - Mark Wainfur |
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 04/24/2006 : 13:26:28
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The guys a genius.
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IceCream
= Quote Accumulator =
USA
1850 Posts |
Posted - 01/18/2007 : 19:24:09
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Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
Oh well I tried. I guess you really do little.
 I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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Erebus
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
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Posted - 01/18/2007 : 20:47:42
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Originally posted by IceCream
I think Nietzsche was a professor of physiology at 24 years of age.
"Nietzsche was considered to be a most particularly brilliant student and was appointed professor of classical philology at the University of Basel at the young age of 24 - at which time he had not yet been awarded a doctoral degree! When his doctoral degree was awarded it was actually awarded without examination!!!" http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/philosophy/nietzsche.html
"Philology, etymologically, is the love of words. It is most accurately defined as an affinity toward the learning of the backgrounds as well as the current usages of spoken or written methods of human communication." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philology (I offer the definition because people hardly ever refer to philology nowadays.)
I hopped on this because I caught at a glance IceCream's post from last April, and knew it wasn't physiology. I like this resurrection of old topics that has been going on lately. Nietzsche is my candidate for possibly the most intelligent person who ever lived, especially in regard to insight into the human condition. He was also a lonely mofo who couldn't get laid if his life depended on it.
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coastline
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
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Posted - 01/18/2007 : 21:10:27
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Originally posted by Erebus
Nietzsche is my candidate for possibly the most intelligent person who ever lived, especially in regard to insight into the human condition. He was also a lonely mofo who couldn't get laid if his life depended on it.
You're actually thinking of Morrissey.
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/19/2007 : 05:01:40
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Originally posted by IceCream
quote:
Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
Oh well I tried. I guess you really do little.
I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
Was that intended?
Yeah, what with him being in a Pixies tribute band n all. Nobody appreciates my genius.
I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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houstonguthrie
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Posted - 01/19/2007 : 16:50:29
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to me it's songwriting that is the key
guitar players are a dime a dozen. I can rock it up with the best of them - but I can't write a song - or haven't yet anyways. and to me that is where the difference lies. I mean think of all those incredible Frank songs - or Dylan songs - or whoever - and you just thought it was so mind blowing when you heard it. What the hell is he playing there? and then you get the tab or whatever and find out the whole thing was just C - F - G.
I'm amazed at how so many great incredible songs are built around the same simple chords. And where do they come up with the melodies? how many times have I pulled up the tab to some incredible Frank tune that I always wanted to learn but never attempted and then found out the whole thing was built around a simple 2 or 3 chord progression
songwriting is something that just baffles me. That's why I hold Frank up in such high regard - cuz he just churns those great tunes out one after another after another and it seems so effortless - he just has the gift.
they (Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, countless others) say that songwriting is like a muscle that you have to exercise. I sometimes think that I'm too hung up on writing my first great song - when what I should do is just write my first 20 bad songs - just get the ol juices flowing.
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/20/2007 : 04:15:08
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Originally posted by houstonguthrie
I sometimes think that I'm too hung up on writing my first great song - when what I should do is just write my first 20 bad songs - just get the ol juices flowing.
I think you just hit the nail on the head.
I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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coastline
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
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Posted - 01/20/2007 : 05:41:13
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Originally posted by houstonguthrie
they (Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, countless others) say that songwriting is like a muscle that you have to exercise. I sometimes think that I'm too hung up on writing my first great song - when what I should do is just write my first 20 bad songs - just get the ol juices flowing.
Great comment. It would also be appropriate in the Songwriters as Good as Frank thread. I don't think anybody's mentioned Woody Guthrie in that thread yet, but he definitely belongs. Woody was one of Dylan's hugest influences. I love Dylan's "Song to Woody" and "Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie." Here were some genius pieces that Dylan probably cranked out in one sitting, over two cups of coffee and a pack of cigarettes or whatever. By that point in his career (and it was really early on), his ol juices were definitely flowing.
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pixiestu
> Teenager of the Year <
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/20/2007 : 06:20:42
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I've written hundreds of songs. I think I am due a good one.
"The arc of triumph" |
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 01/20/2007 : 08:48:45
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I'm not yet ten years older than that, and I've written a good few tunes. Why can't fame just fall into my lap? I have to work for it?!
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Erebus
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
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Posted - 01/20/2007 : 23:38:02
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Originally posted by IceCream
I think Nietzsche was a professor of Classical Philology at 24 years of age.
EDIT: Thanks, Erebus. Always appreciated.
Hope I didn't come off as a jerk. Nietzsche's one of my faves so his name caught my eye and then I got motivated.
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"Doolittle" was made by a 24 year old
