Three Things
Jul. 6th, 2008 10:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellyssianSaw this meme going around a short while back with a big, long text explaining exactly what to do.
Don't remember the exact wording, restrictions, limitations, and whether or not a warranty was included.
Short version: list three things you've done that no one else on your friends list has done.
Thus we have:
There was only one record store in New England that only sold classical music. It closed shortly after I moved away from the area. Rick (Electric Gramophone's owner Roderick S. Oakley Jr., who, I just discovered a few days ago, passed away back in 2001) really liked piano concertos, and had heard of Stenhammer's but hadn't heard it. He special ordered Stenhammar: Piano Concerto No. 2; Aulin: Violin Concerto No. 3
in for me, and begged me to listen to it. I bought the disc for the Aulin, but had to admit the piano sounded damn good on Rick's demonstration-quality uber-audiophile system. Some time after that, I got Rick - the owner of the only 100% classical music record store in New England, mind you- to listen to an entire album of heavy metal on that system. And he played it at 11.
Or maybe 12.
I'm pretty sure he ordered a copy of the Stenhammer/Aulin for himself after listening to my copy, and I suspect he also wound up ordering in at least one copy of Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force
for himself. And who knows, maybe one for the store.
~ ~ ~
More music on the next one. We'll stick with metal bands this time. Starting with Metallica
. See, one of their biggest influences was Blitzkrieg. And only one member remains from their initial lineup - Brian Ross. While I can't claim to be the one who got Brian Ross and the guys to make their first trip to perform on this side of the pond, along with fellow New Wave of British Heavy Metal stalwarts - and, likewise, Metallica influences Diamond Head, I can claim that, while Diamond Head did their part in the signing and festivities my friend held for them at his store (he was, by the way, the one instrumental in getting these guys to play here) I was discussing song writing with the guy who wrote a tune Metallica put on Creeping Death
. I also learned a bit about Brian's tastes in music, and so when the band Artch took the stage I knew they were the kind of thing Brian would like, so I talked him into going to see them perform. And he liked them. I also knew Brian was a big fan of Judas Priest, and so I stood with him while Artch performed a cover of Electric Eye
. And Brian Ross, who inspired Lars and James and crew, sang along. And, even though I didn't bring him to this country, he was in that room because I talked him into going there.
And that's pretty damn cool in my book.
Not only that, but he sang along spot-on.
~ ~ ~
I could probably do more music related ones - from "stealing" a girlfriend from Extreme's bass player to hanging out in their practice space to playing pool with people they went to high school with to commiserating with said bass player over said equally ex-girlfriend to getting aforementioned Rising Force vocalist into a NAMM show (he was briefly me long enough to get into the venue) to walking in on the bass player and guitarist of a certain unnamed metal act while they did lines with a few groupies in their dressing room at The Channel just to tell the bass player that a girl he was clearly annoyed with was madly in love with him and wanted to talk to him. Again. I could even mention how I made my live debut on stage with the percussionist who John Williams consulted with to write the score for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. I had just been introduced to him, told he was a world-wide expert in that sort of percussion, and then, moments later he was on stage playing with me. Yoikes.
~ ~ ~
But, I'm not going to go with music for this third one.
My dad was an research engineer at MIT. One of his friends there was Doc Edgerton. Doc essentially created the field of flash and stop-motion photography.
He did this for me - using an M1, live and in person so that I saw that famous photograph, caught by the strobe, bullet hanging mid-air. It briefly made me pretty cool, as I had brought my entire 7th grade science class along for a field trip that I arranged, scheduled, and acted as tour guide for.
To honor Doc Edgerton, I coined the term edgertonian to describe that hanging moment in time, and I have since used it in poetry in fiction. Go forth, use the word, let it spread.
Don't remember the exact wording, restrictions, limitations, and whether or not a warranty was included.
Short version: list three things you've done that no one else on your friends list has done.
Thus we have:
There was only one record store in New England that only sold classical music. It closed shortly after I moved away from the area. Rick (Electric Gramophone's owner Roderick S. Oakley Jr., who, I just discovered a few days ago, passed away back in 2001) really liked piano concertos, and had heard of Stenhammer's but hadn't heard it. He special ordered Stenhammar: Piano Concerto No. 2; Aulin: Violin Concerto No. 3
in for me, and begged me to listen to it. I bought the disc for the Aulin, but had to admit the piano sounded damn good on Rick's demonstration-quality uber-audiophile system. Some time after that, I got Rick - the owner of the only 100% classical music record store in New England, mind you- to listen to an entire album of heavy metal on that system. And he played it at 11.Or maybe 12.
I'm pretty sure he ordered a copy of the Stenhammer/Aulin for himself after listening to my copy, and I suspect he also wound up ordering in at least one copy of Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force
for himself. And who knows, maybe one for the store.~ ~ ~
More music on the next one. We'll stick with metal bands this time. Starting with Metallica
. See, one of their biggest influences was Blitzkrieg. And only one member remains from their initial lineup - Brian Ross. While I can't claim to be the one who got Brian Ross and the guys to make their first trip to perform on this side of the pond, along with fellow New Wave of British Heavy Metal stalwarts - and, likewise, Metallica influences Diamond Head, I can claim that, while Diamond Head did their part in the signing and festivities my friend held for them at his store (he was, by the way, the one instrumental in getting these guys to play here) I was discussing song writing with the guy who wrote a tune Metallica put on Creeping Death. I also learned a bit about Brian's tastes in music, and so when the band Artch took the stage I knew they were the kind of thing Brian would like, so I talked him into going to see them perform. And he liked them. I also knew Brian was a big fan of Judas Priest, and so I stood with him while Artch performed a cover of Electric Eye. And Brian Ross, who inspired Lars and James and crew, sang along. And, even though I didn't bring him to this country, he was in that room because I talked him into going there.And that's pretty damn cool in my book.
Not only that, but he sang along spot-on.
~ ~ ~
I could probably do more music related ones - from "stealing" a girlfriend from Extreme
's bass player to hanging out in their practice space to playing pool with people they went to high school with to commiserating with said bass player over said equally ex-girlfriend to getting aforementioned Rising Force vocalist into a NAMM show (he was briefly me long enough to get into the venue) to walking in on the bass player and guitarist of a certain unnamed metal act while they did lines with a few groupies in their dressing room at The Channel just to tell the bass player that a girl he was clearly annoyed with was madly in love with him and wanted to talk to him. Again. I could even mention how I made my live debut on stage with the percussionist who John Williams consulted with to write the score for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. I had just been introduced to him, told he was a world-wide expert in that sort of percussion, and then, moments later he was on stage playing with me. Yoikes.~ ~ ~
But, I'm not going to go with music for this third one.
My dad was an research engineer at MIT. One of his friends there was Doc Edgerton. Doc essentially created the field of flash and stop-motion photography.
He did this for me - using an M1, live and in person so that I saw that famous photograph, caught by the strobe, bullet hanging mid-air. It briefly made me pretty cool, as I had brought my entire 7th grade science class along for a field trip that I arranged, scheduled, and acted as tour guide for.
To honor Doc Edgerton, I coined the term edgertonian to describe that hanging moment in time, and I have since used it in poetry in fiction. Go forth, use the word, let it spread.
