I tried to send this from work but it bounced. Anyway, here it is:
> Mark in Seattle said,
> > I think THOSL was a watershed for a lot of people.
> > I remember it took me a *long* time to finally 'get it'.
>
> And I remember thinking, "Cool album. Someone beside Keith Emerson
> understands that you can use classical elements and jazz elements in the
> same oeuvre." ("Nutcracker" and "Rondo Blue ala Turk", anyone?)
>
> For me, "The Hissing Of Summer Lawns" was a natural _evolution_ , not a
> departure. My earlier, high school era's typical day of music was:
> Beethoven introducing the NBC Evening News with Chet Huntley and David
> Brinkley, then Getz and Rollins and Armstrong and Ellington and Basie (and
> Annie Ross'es "Farmer's Market") from the living room, then Sly and the
> Family Stone from the radio, then backfilling with my own selection: a
> history lesson from the early Beatles.
>
> "The Hissing Of Summer Lawns"?
>
>
> I **GOT** it - like mother's milk. (That is, it ran all through my
> circuits like a heartbeat.) "The Hissing Of Summer Lawns" fit perfectly
> into the experience of an evening in my parents home and walking from room
> to room. That album smells like home.
>
> Lama
>
> ps- The other day I put on Deja vu after a long period without listening
to
> it and I was struck by how little the title track sounds like Rock. I
mean,
> it sounds more like David Crosby's "If Only I Could Remember My Name".
> Weird progressions, irregular pauses, and no back beat at all (on purpose
of
> course. It's no wonder Crosby GOT it too. He was "inoculated" with the
> same batch. Twins of spirit, no matter what route home we take. Or what
we
> forsake.) Kakki, Michael, is "Deja vu" a Crosby track?
>
> np: David Lahm's "Take" (ha!) on "she is another canyon laaaaady." Oh!
Oh,
> my! David gets it, big time. More solo piano, big guy!
>
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