RE: [Texascavers] RE: Music in Caves

2008-07-12 Thread RD Milhollin
Of Course Tony Levin Rocks. I thought that jazz flautist Paul Horn had recorded one of his "Inside" albums in a cave, but I cannot find any evidence of that through the net. He isn't dead yet, maybe he could be coaxed into doing so at CWAN or another suitably acoustic cavern. The "Inside the Great

RE: [ot_caving] Re: [Texascavers] RE: Music in Caves

2008-07-12 Thread RD Milhollin
Naaa, it was Patrick O'Hearn. I was working off a mobile e-mail platform and didn't have access to the web when I posted before, but O'Hearn was the bass player for the "Zoot Alures" Zappa Band as well as for Missing Persons later. The 2008 Dallas performance of Dweezel's "Zappa Plays Zappa" to

[Texascavers] [TSA Landfund Idea]

2008-07-12 Thread Don Arburn
Kicking around another idea for the dispensation of TSA Landfund monies... Recently I spoke with Gustavo Vela-Turcott of Mexico, he was a member of a recent trip to Krubera. The only North American to go. He wants to go back, but needs sponsors. While not a TSA member per se, perhaps he c

[Texascavers] Wikipedia and St. Pauls Cave

2008-07-12 Thread John P. Brooks
Here is one that you missed David. It has a wikipedia page also. But the UNESCO page has more information. http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/652/ I visited this while I was in the Philippines in June. It is quite spectacular and a very fun tour. You take a banca across a bay on the south China Sea to

[ot_caving] Re: [Texascavers] RE: Music in Caves

2008-07-12 Thread Don Cooper
Ah yes, that would have been Don Van Vliet - otherwise known as "Captain Beefheart". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart They recorded "Bongo Fury" in 1976 right here in Austin at the World Armadillo Headquarters. -WaV On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 2:13 PM, RD Milhollin wrote: > Definitely

Re: [Texascavers] RE: Music in Caves

2008-07-12 Thread Chris Vreeland
Speaking of music in caves, Tony Levin (the world's greatest bass player, if you ask me, or even if you didn't) recorded an album called From the Caves of Iron Mountain, though after reading the scant notes here: http://www.tonylevin.com/store/store.html (It's about the 8th item down the pa

Re: [Texascavers] Music in Caves

2008-07-12 Thread John P. Brooks
There is a hotel built in a lava tube in the canary islands as wellthe pool is in a large sinkhole. And adjoining sinkholes have restaurants in them. Of course the public spaces and corridors run through the lava tubes. And I think the rooms are "built" in smaller sinkholes. It is quite a famou

RE: [Texascavers] Explore a cave?

2008-07-12 Thread RD Milhollin
Not quite under a river, but under a pool... There is a small, gnarly vertically-oriented crawl underneath the terminal pool at Harrell's Cave in San Saba Co. I am sure that when the pool fills the water spills over into the passage and drains away, so it is probably not always air-filled. -

RE: [Texascavers] Music in Caves

2008-07-12 Thread RD Milhollin
I was along as a "safety diver" with a well-known cave scientist, actually a respected Texas biologist, actually Texas A&M's own Tom Iliffe, several years back on a trip to the Atlantic Island of Lanzarotte in the Canary Islands. The cave he was sampling in is a huge lava tube that plunges from a v

RE: [Texascavers] RE: Music in Caves

2008-07-12 Thread RD Milhollin
Definitely Wakemen, sans Yes. The album was recorded live, with a full orchestra if I remember correctly. I seem to remember he set out on a tour with the whole ensemble, but the costs were too great and it ended before schedule. Unrelated, I seem to have a foggy memory about a former sideman

Re: [Texascavers] Journey to the Center of the Earth

2008-07-12 Thread Mark Alman
I just watched Channel 8 (WFAA) news here in Dallas this AM. They're an ABC affiliate, FWIW. Anyhoo, their movie critic, Gary Cogill, a guy I've enjoyed for years and whose reviews I tend to agree with rated the movie, and I quote, "Unwatchable". Not exactly a ringing endorsement. Guess I'll be sa

Re: [Texascavers] Before the Deluge

2008-07-12 Thread Nancy Weaver
A popular theory of speleogenesis in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was that caves were eroded when the water of the flood came from within the earth and/or when it drained back into it. If one isnt utterly literal - that explanation would certainly jibe with my understanding of sp

[ot_caving] More NGV

2008-07-12 Thread quinta
I know this is a carbon problem but it is less oil used. The last one is in Nigeria so who knows if it will happen or just be bombed. Quinta Market Developments Sourced NGV Global Friday, 04 July 2008 00:00 Germany, Mannheim New building for two additiona