Arts Re: The Once-Mighty Home Key
posted by on February 15 at 10:18 AM
You, Jen Graves!, know as well as me that the only music better than the race record underground circa 1951 is the experimental white weirdoes underground circa 1950. They too had no use for the home key.
However, you also know, while its disappearance was wonderful for a while, it has now returned. Gloriously. Csharp, Dsharp, Esharp, Fsharp, Gsharp, Asharp, Bsharp, Csharp, for example, is a great home key that today’s kids use that the Brahms kids didn’t use so much.
And so, I look forward to the return of the home key in new and different ways.
This post makes me really happy.
This from Josh Feit!, who's on public record as claiming to worship Thurston "Sonic Old Fogey" Moore, who "knows" that the only true home key is No Key At All, and has the John Cage box set to prove it!
You music geek people disgust me.
@2,
Let me guess. The John Cage box set is nothing but an empty box.
@3 badumb ching.
It comes with a timer.
More Aislinn.
Less bitter people who are upset cuz I like Thurston Moore or whatever.
They kind of sounded bad without equal temperament.
To be fair, they kind of sounded bad without equal temperament.
I play music and have a pretty good understanding of theory and have no idea what this is about. Esharp? Isn't that just F? Confused am I.
Did someone get kicked out or just locked otu?
@8,
4 white keys: C, F, B and E can also be named Bsharp, Esharp, Cflat, and Fflat.
And every black key has two names. Csharp is Dflat, for example.
As I understand it, in the key of Csharp, you name all notes with a sharp.
That part makes sense, I think I just don't get the joke in the first place. Since jokes never get funnier upon explanation, I'll just have to move on. Thanks though!
We were talking about Csharp coding last night at the SLOG event, actually. Two microsofties, in fact, and the first one was going on about why Csharp was less useful than Java, but the other guy disagreed with her and said Java was better, even if you did ECMA coding.
Josh, you are a wonderful magical unicorn.
It's not very punk rawk, to be be so familiar with music theory...
@11: Did you read Jen Graves's post about computer keyboard "Home" keys? That's the joke.
@8,
Esharp is short for Elliott Sharp, whom fake music geeks will never know about cuz they're not radical like me.
@5,
Yes, Josh, I really am being bitter and not silly (not!) and I really do resent you because you like Thurston Moore. Personally, I can't stand the guy. In other words, I ***HATE*** Thurston Moore, with every fiber of my urban-legendary spleen. In fact, I hate Thurston Moore so much I'm shouting out the following link so all y'all can see exactly why:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xpU7q1d9lAU&feature=related
See what I mean? The guy can't even keep his guitar in tune! What a dork!
GC,
You should check out his latest solo album. It's good.
Plus, he was hawking organic cantaloupe at his show at Neumo's this year. Fucking adorable punk/hippie.
And come on, man. Sonic Youth is a dream.
@16,
I do not understand your strange sense of humor. Please explain.
Josh,
I was at the Neumo's show. I'm the guy who correctly answered that Sonic Youth's first show ever in Seattle was in January 1985 at the Gorilla Gardens. Since I was way in the back, someone else stole my answer and got the cantaloupe instead of me. Yet another reason for me to hate Thurston Moore!
Was Gorilla Gardens really still around in '85? Really???
KeeKee,
Yeah. GG closed in late 1985, but it re-opened in Fremont. This nifty website:
http://10thingszine.blogspot.com/2007/09/gorilla-gardens.html
has the details. Check out the story about the Circle Jerks show in January 1986. Way insane!
Comments Closed
In order to combat spam, we are no longer accepting comments on this post (or any post more than 14 days old).