tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23062516.post2829506640777110618..comments2024-03-17T07:10:58.900+11:00Comments on Cassettes & Chocolate Milk: Eleanorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01059714155210664700noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23062516.post-45954877889277102102014-06-26T05:52:59.345+10:002014-06-26T05:52:59.345+10:00Thanks for letting me know about this, sts! I'...Thanks for letting me know about this, sts! I'll check them out and hopefully include them on my next Soviet mix!Eleanorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01059714155210664700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23062516.post-28313437027899945772014-06-23T19:54:27.324+10:002014-06-23T19:54:27.324+10:00Oh hey, we spoke briefly last Sunday about this to...Oh hey, we spoke briefly last Sunday about this topic. This is the name of a band I couldn't recall when you asked for some recommendations at the fair. I imagine you'll already know it:<br />Nautilus Pomilius. More via wiki:<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus_Pompilius_%28band%29<br />stshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151097680659627916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23062516.post-42293590843911391262014-04-06T23:46:39.431+10:002014-04-06T23:46:39.431+10:00Your ABBA story was heartbreaking, Kevin :( Althou...Your ABBA story was heartbreaking, Kevin :( Although you didn't get the opportunity to meet Benny, you still got a fascinating story out of it. Hopefully there'll be another opportunity at some point... it's never quite over!<br /><br />Do you know Mark Lewinsohn's book about The Beatles' Abbey Road sessions? It has the same level of obsessive detail, "Ringo messed up the 19th take..." Amazing!<br /><br />I'd love to do The Sound of Music pilgrimage too, I know like other films (Roman Holiday especially), it won't be exactly as it is in the film. Damn you, Hollywood sound stages!Eleanorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01059714155210664700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23062516.post-19093136865522310322014-03-20T08:47:16.817+11:002014-03-20T08:47:16.817+11:00I think the closest thing I ever had to a musical ...I think the closest thing I ever had to a musical pilgrimage was in Stockholm back in 1996. I was a huge ABBA fan (still am, but not nearly to the obscene degree that I was at the time) and I really wanted to meet and talk to Benny Andersson for just a few minutes. I boldly walked into the Mono Music office where he was located at the time and politely asked the secretary if I could say a quick hello. (It wasn’t Görel Hanser, unfortunately; she happened to be on holiday at the time, and if she had been there, I feel that I might have been successful, as we had a mutual friend and thought maybe I had an “in.”) I could even hear Benny in the next room, presumably mixing something in his studio. The secretary went in the next room and checked, but I was politely turned away. I was rather dejected. I realize that they probably had more than their share of overzealous ABBA fans wanting to meet him, but I had simply wanted to tell him how much I loved his solo albums at the time (Klinga Mina Klockor and November 1989, as well as his collaborations with Orsa Spelmän) and how they inspired me to take up learning the violin. His albums opened a door that helped me to discover a love for Swedish folk music. I wanted to tell him that, and I felt that he really would have appreciated that and might have warmed to me. I still hope to meet him someday, more so than even the other members of ABBA (whom I still adore).<br /><br />While in Stockholm, I also visited the ABBA exhibit at a Swedish culture museum or something like that; it was just a tiny exhibit, limited to a single glass case. Pretty lame, unfortunately. I still have a picture of myself standing in front of it. This was years before the actual ABBA Museum opened.<br /><br />Having read the excellent first volume to “All These Years” by the master himself, Mark Lewinsohn, I feel intimately acquainted with the Beatles’ childhood homes and haunts, and I would love to take the tour you linked to above. I feel like I’ve already been in the Mendips and Forthlin Road homes, and I would love to visit the real thing. That book is a true joy to read if you’re a diehard Beatles fan (and I like to think I’ve moved to the upper echelons of Beatles fandom over the years, from “casual” to “advanced”, but well shy of “obsessive”); the way Lewinsohn describes every little detail with loving attention is marvelous, and I savored every word. Of course, right after I bought it, the ultra-expensive (U.K. only) deluxe version came out. I did end up buying it, and I’ve already finished the regular version, but will be ready to read my lovely deluxe version a few years from now, just prior to when volume 2 is released (hopefully in our lifetimes). I would really, really love to visit the Reeperbahn in Hamburg; the Beatles’ Hamburg years are the most fascinating for me.<br /><br />But perhaps the ultimate musical pilgrimage I would still love to make someday would be the Sound of Music tour in Salzburg. I’m a true sucker for that movie, and I would truly relish being there. I never get tired of watching it; I watch it every Easter, so it’s just about time to watch it again. I would really love to see the actual Salzburg, and would love to see the houses they used in the film (one for the front, and a different for the back, I believe; of course, the interiors were simply Hollywood studios, which is so easy to forget). Maybe someday, hopefully!Kevin Moonnoreply@blogger.com