Slog - Comments on Re: The Once-Mighty Home Key http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key 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.... Copyright 2008 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:18:22 -0800 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:31:46 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Aislinn This post makes me really happy.

]]> Aislinn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939542 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939542 Arts Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:20:33 -0800 Comment by Grover Cleveland 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.

]]> Grover Cleveland http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939547 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939547 Arts Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:24:21 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi @2,

Let me guess. The John Cage box set is nothing but an empty box.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939554 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939554 Arts Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:31:47 -0800 Comment by seattle98104 @3 badumb ching.

It comes with a timer.

]]> seattle98104 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939557 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939557 Arts Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:36:29 -0800 Comment by Josh Feit More Aislinn.

Less bitter people who are upset cuz I like Thurston Moore or whatever.

]]> Josh Feit http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939563 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939563 Arts Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:43:37 -0800 Comment by w7ngman 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.

They kind of sounded bad without equal temperament.

]]> w7ngman http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939566 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939566 Arts Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:45:45 -0800 Comment by w7ngman 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.

To be fair, they kind of sounded bad without equal temperament.

]]> w7ngman http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939567 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939567 Arts Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:46:21 -0800 Comment by Levislade 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.

]]> Levislade http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939572 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939572 Arts Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:49:56 -0800 Comment by stunk Did someone get kicked out or just locked otu?

]]> stunk http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939588 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939588 Arts Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:55:48 -0800 Comment by Josh Feit @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.

]]> Josh Feit http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939591 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939591 Arts Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:57:08 -0800 Comment by Levislade 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!

]]> Levislade http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939595 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939595 Arts Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:59:17 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle 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.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939625 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939625 Arts Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:18:25 -0800 Comment by Jen Graves Josh, you are a wonderful magical unicorn.

]]> Jen Graves http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939637 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939637 Arts Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:25:56 -0800 Comment by KeeKee It's not very punk rawk, to be be so familiar with music theory...

]]> KeeKee http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939639 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939639 Arts Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:26:18 -0800 Comment by Aislinn @11: Did you read Jen Graves's post about computer keyboard "Home" keys? That's the joke.

]]> Aislinn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939668 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939668 Arts Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:40:00 -0800 Comment by Grover Cleveland @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!

]]> Grover Cleveland http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939672 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939672 Arts Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:45:41 -0800 Comment by Josh Feit 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.

]]> Josh Feit http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939702 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939702 Arts Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:01:17 -0800 Comment by Oswald MaGumm @16,

I do not understand your strange sense of humor. Please explain.

]]> Oswald MaGumm http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939757 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939757 Arts Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:23:24 -0800 Comment by Grover Cleveland 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!

]]> Grover Cleveland http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939774 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939774 Arts Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:30:34 -0800 Comment by KeeKee Was Gorilla Gardens really still around in '85? Really???

]]> KeeKee http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939827 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939827 Arts Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:13:50 -0800 Comment by Grover Cleveland 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!

]]> Grover Cleveland http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939964 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/re_the_oncemighty_home_key#c939964 Arts Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:31:46 -0800