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grinder

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Hello ! I'm a French experimental musician , I live near from Paris. I'm 22 years old and I have Algerian origins (North Africa). Don't have a job for the moment but coming soon. My favourite musical genres are : metal , hard rock , experimental music , ambient and dark ambient. Thanks to everyone !
 

John Watt

Member
As you can see by my name, I'm the thread-killer here in "Introduce Yourself".
Grind, grind-house and Grind Age music, are what I left behind, already.
If this ambience was any darker, I couldn't see to type.
And I'm an offshore islander as a Scotsman while you are continental all the way.

These forum users are more about classical and keyboard, while I'm an electric guitarist.
So I'm going to do something to pump up your thread,
and introduce myself, a long time member, in a way no-one here would expect.

Here's a scan of a mini-symphony I tried to write in high school,
before I knew the meaning of the word transpose.
When I was visiting my Ottawa Symphony and Ottawa Symphony Orchestra,
girlfriend, her friends wanted to start a winter festival, and they liked my name.
Winterlude. A little Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, a little Satie's Gymnopiedes,
some "In a Silent Way", wanting some passages like Nicolo Paganini.
And I was thinking about it like I was dubbing together riffs like Jimi Hendrix,
probably the biggest reason the senior band had a hard time with it.

You didn't find King Solomon's mines and beat it up north,
quand toutes les monde, wanna dig down into you?

This email was powered by the pure power of Niagara Falls.


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Do you see the little white water to the left of center,
along the edge of the Falls?
From the Canadian shore to this rock and gap in the stone,
the water is around eight to ten inches deep on any given night,
when the most flow is allowed for night-time generation.
That's as far as we walk along the edge, river-walking around.
Niagara Parks chiselled the stone that far, to lower the riverbed,
so water flow reached the Canadian side all the time.

How about posting some video of you "eeffen and effen" on the Eiffel Tower?
I got tired of always seeing it getting blown up in movies.
Je ne sais toutes les mots, je parle lentement, et je n'ecoute tres vite,
mais, quand les soleil dis bonjour aux montagnes, nous pense commes freres.
 
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JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
I think John means he is a human guitarist that plays an electric thingy, but wait on second thoughts.... :confused:
 

John Watt

Member
Everyone here knows I like to type about myself the best,
but sometimes I have to give in to someone else's request.

You never who you're going to meet in Niagara Falls,
especially when talk of eefen and effen gets around.
That's such a historic musical tradition in the States,
but the Falls makes it very, very difficult.
There was some eeffen and effen going on around the Tesla statue,
but that was more about a Clan Watt member losing static control.
More than one light bulb in the States suddenly lit up during that.
a huffin', a huffin', some eeffen and some effen, slap-a-dap, slap-a-dap,
slap'a some more'a that.

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JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Is that a selfie John and watts with the alias ?
 

John Watt

Member
I am Riverend John, knowing and going with the flow of Niagara Falls.

"Consider the bodies below the casino, they neither bet, nor do they draw.
And yet Las Vegas, with all its' desert skyscrapers,
can't generate as much, as the awe-full Falls".

Speaking about selfies and aliases, and reading this Bog People book,
I found out some things about the Danish identity, that gives me pause.
This started with seeing a new movie on the new movie shelf at the library.
It's about Christina Jorgensen, who had the first sex change operation in the world.
It turns out, in more ways than one, that he/she is a real part of this identity.
Ancient Danes had gods that could be either sex, both sexes, or change sex, depending.
This really doesn't give me any improper thoughts, or anxieties.
But, just like the disco era cliche about men in Porches,
I can see why Vikings felt they had something to prove.
And now I can also understand why so many Swedish movies,
show actors just standing there looking at that far horizon.

Sure, there's reverse discrimination in America,
that whole "Heidi-Heidi-ho" thing, yeah, that's not nice.
Everyone wanted to hike up the Alps behind her,
thinking she'd live with them instead of her grandfather.
That wasn't her fault, and she always got her ram.
It was good to see Ricola yodeling back.
I can still hear that voice, Ricola, Ricola.

I just put that photo of Keith Richards up because he was there.
He shouldn't have been standing that close to the Tesla statue.
When he tried to poke Tesla's pointed walking stick into his arm,
he grounded out and had what life was left drained right out of him.
 

John Watt

Member
This thread is bothering me. It won't leave me alone. It sexualized me in a new way.
You're going to be seeing that. But first, how wrong can I be about life,
and the music and art that defines it?

This is going to be blunt, and, it's a good thing I'm just blunt.

Scan1: When the sun is being made, there certainly is a moon.
Scan2: What's with the only suggestive finger, bent way backwards, a lefty.
Scan3: I didn't know the snake in the garden of Eden was a female.
Is it just me, or is this a very sexual rendering?
Scan4: It's a cliche to joke about Scotsman and sheep. Whats this?
Is that an ecstatic ram's head sticking up out of the cows horns?
Scan5: I see a face. Does anyone else?
Scan6: If the artist is keeping it small for the main focus, and it's pointing,
is the figure below, a female, showing us how big it really is?

Seeing these nude men makes me wonder how I would fit in, body wise.

I have nine photos I want to use, moving below.






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John Watt

Member
It's too easy to just sit back and type away, without offering real input.
I'm saying this baptism scene is only all wrong, according to the Holy Bible.
Look how different Jesus of Nazareth, John the Baptist and the sitting figure look,
very different from all the rest of the figures on the Sistine Chapel.

I'm being too bold and too stupid, putting semi-hemi-demi nudo photos of me online,
but, I'm answering nudity with nudity, and asking, what kind of man am I?
I'm not holding my breath, I'm over 65 years old, and what are those lines on my back?
I'm twisting a little to get the shot, and this camera is on the way out, dropped a few times.
It now starts by wanting to set the time before I can start to click.
And the horizontal is lessened, with the vertical staying the same.
First it's Danish gods and Vikings, now it's the Sistine Chapel and me.
I gotta lose ten pounds, that's for sure.
And you don't know how much I'm holding back about the Latin being used,
wanting to have some phonetic font fun.

Yous gots your selfies, JHC, as if the sins is on your skin.

And for all the sinestra, and some might say the sinestratatismo,
the evil left hand, of all of Michelangelo's depictions,
why is Adam receiving the gift of life with his left hand?

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JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
I would stop right there John we don't want to frighten all our members!
 

John Watt

Member
JHC, you broke my heart. I came back to delete this,
and do it again in the member's only open debate section.
I would still like to do that.

This has created a new duality for me, inside myself.
It's strange enough to photograph myself and see myself here,
without feeling a comparison to all the historic nudity.
I would like to explore this, with member input.

Seeing the grind got me going, and I'm gone,
never to set font in this thread again.
I will continue this in the open debate section for members only.
 
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John Watt

Member
When I type bad, Little White comes to me,
and with a little white-out, he keeps me spelling free...
dab on my little white, dab on...
and those fairy tales must come to an end,
because that's all I ever think about, writing with the wind,
and I must call the Axis, because she knows everything, everything
she's my axis, Axis: Bold as Love. instrumental solo
 
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Little White

New member
OK-a brief introduction.
I am a multi-instrumentalist in Southern Ontario,Canada- mostly working on keyboards as a session player-demos,projects,albums-retired now but still do finger exercises and scales daily on the acoustic piano-maybe the odd movement from a Beethoven Sonata or some McCoy Tyner quartal voicings and spend time screwing around with analog gear from the 70's that I bought new (that's how freakin old I am) .I like to say that I am now focusing on space and efficiency for musical reasons by leaving out notes (ones that I never was fast enough to play in my prime anyway(ugh))- but it sounds convincing. I have worked with/for Ron Sexsmith,Dutch Mason,Daniel Lanois,Roger Marin, Fred Eaglesmith plus other jazz blues/roots video mixed projects.
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
OK-a brief introduction.
I like to say that I am now focusing on space and efficiency for musical reasons by leaving out notes (ones that I never was fast enough to play in my prime anyway(ugh))- but it sounds convincing

So that explains Cage’s 4:33 he eliminated the notes he couldn’t play, and here was me thinking he was taking the psis, this is a fine performance. At least he used a Steinway.

 

John Watt

Member
Wow! I almost could have wrote that introduction myself,
except I would say Welland, near Niagara Falls, and guitar, instead of keyboards.
Well, there is one difference.
Everyone, from the first time I appeared onstage in 1970, to now,
say I have the fastest fingers on a guitar that they've ever seen.
Some say piano too.
I'll admit that I am playing some of the same notes I played before.
Hanging out between sets with McCoy Tyner is a career highlight.
And I am from Welland.
All my seventies analogs got stolen before the eighties.

I just have to thank the world of nature all around me, as I wander and wonder,
raising my voice, or vocalizing, the most heart-felt expression of me.

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Here's someone Little White didn't mention.
When Bruce Cockburn was standing beside me at Brock University, in 1970,
a loud voice said, John, how does it feel to be beside someone who plays like you?
It got very quiet. Bruce just looked me in the eyes.
I said, if a rock guitarist can play a steady bass line, and finger-pick,
I guess a folk guitarist can finger-pick and play a steady bass.
Bruce smiled, and everyone got back into it.

That was his "High Winds and White Skies" album tour,
where he travelled across Canada with his wife and dog in a pickup.
That's still my favorite album of his, and yes,
I was surprised when he started playing a Fender Stratocaster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z02J_kPincA
 
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