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Post by Phantom Engineer on May 28, 2004 18:14:35 GMT -5
Mike wrote for TV guide?
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Post by donmac on May 30, 2004 3:57:07 GMT -5
I go into deep thought all the time. Too deep. I wish I could write out everything I think about, but it'd take up a thousand pages of writing. And though lots of people don't like talking about, or discussing these things, I love it, it makes the world and mankind seem more important. Forrest, you are sooo ready for college.
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Post by donmac on May 30, 2004 4:02:25 GMT -5
A couple of my thoughts on the interview: Mike's political slant: He seems like a deeply religious person. Moralistic values tend to steer people directly into the modern Republican party. Living in Minnesota probably strengthens his conservative beliefs because he has to constantly defend them from local criticism. I kinda wonder if the 2001 terrorist attacks galvanized his views, as it did so many other people. Hey, I'm still trying to figure out why he said TV has declined more than music, but then picked MTV ( MUSIC TV!) as the primary reason. Because the damage that channel has done to music far outweighs any damage it's done to TV.
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Post by mightyjack on May 30, 2004 6:14:13 GMT -5
Remember when MTV FIRST aired, and they played all these groups that could never get on radio. and it was hailed as this new venue for artists to break out. (That and Nightlfight, who introduced me to such acts as "The Dickies", "Mi-Sex" and "The Cramps" (I'm a garbage man!)
Ahh how things have changed.
Perhaps Mike had Beavis and Butthead, Jackass, things like that in mind. Since music seems to have taken a back seat on MTV these days.
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Post by Alleged on May 30, 2004 9:50:39 GMT -5
Great interview, Don, thanks. A little defensive on the weight issue.
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Post by donmac on May 30, 2004 11:23:39 GMT -5
Great interview, Don, thanks. A little defensive on the weight issue. Yeah, I wouldn't have even asked the question (which was intended to be a joke) if I knew he was going to be defensive. And I swear he said in some interview about the new intros for the DVD Boxed Sets that he had gained some weight (something like "aside from a few extra pounds, he looks the same"), but I could be mistaken.
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Post by yousonuva on Jun 1, 2004 2:00:32 GMT -5
Satellite News put up a link to the interview.
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Post by marytrobot on Jun 5, 2004 11:26:48 GMT -5
ok so sorry if I say somethings that some people have already said but I'm sorta tired and lazy so i've only read up to page 4ish, here's what I have to say about this religion stuff: First off, thinking of the history of religion yes I do believe the christianity religion shaped morals and society as we know it today, you want your proof? well how many of you think it would be great fun to see people get eaten by lions? or kill eachother? At first i think the church was good, it really started out with little power and just wanted people to be saved (ok so I beleive this stuff, but people who are or different religion I'm not saying this like it's the only way to redemption but that's what they believed..you following me?) But later on the Church got too much power and things such as the Spanish inquisition, Crusades, bad things like that happend. Lets face it, one thing we can never change about people is that there are currupt ones. Well then, now the church broke up, Luther posted things...ect. Umm, yeah so it is absolutly true that the church influenced the world as it is today. It WASN'T the best thing in the middle ages it was the most powerful and influencial, i think it's greatest time was when it started, when it just wanted to help. Now this idea that these days religion is what keeps us from comunism and Nazi's? Well perhaps you don't get Nazis but when you let a religion take power you normally get things like oh say Bin Laudin. The seperation of church and state is the most important thing of all society, it is what keeps us AWAY from the dictators. that's what I think right now, maybe tommorrow when i'm not so tired I'll refresh this so it maybe makes more sense or something....or add more comments whatever...(did I offend anyone? sorry i'm tired, I'll unoffend you tommorrow)
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Post by yousonuva on Jun 6, 2004 0:54:59 GMT -5
I'm curious if Mike got any hate mail from his statements in that interview. And maybe he's all pissed now at The MST3K Review Discussion Board
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Post by donmac on Jun 10, 2004 12:40:25 GMT -5
I don't think he would be angry. Afterall, those are his words exactly as he sent them to us, so he wasn't misrepresented at all in the interview and he wouldn't have said what he did say if he didn't mean it. Plus he said a lot of the same basic stuff in this other interview as well: liheliso.com/Interviews/MikeNelson030704.html(BTW, I agree with his recommendation of the Richard Goode Beethoven discs -- I have the sonata set and they are excellent).
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Post by donmac on Jun 13, 2004 13:35:42 GMT -5
Mozart, during the final years of his life, reached a level of composition and orchestration that no one has come close to. (For example, his Ave Verum Corpus is one of the most perfect pieces of music ever written).
...But I put J.S. Bach ahead of him as the greatest composer ever. One of the main reasons I think this is because, unlike almost every other composer, Bach's music sounds good no matter how it is played. Play it on a piano, a guitar, a banjo, or any other instrument, and it'll still sound good. The music of other composers, though, usually only sounds good if played exactly as it was originally written. Play it another way, and the music usually falls apart. That's not a bad thing, but it makes Bach's music seem a bit more pure and absolute, like it really gets to the heart of music.
(BTW, Mozart is second in my book, with Beethoven third.)
(P.S. The fact that Mozart called Bach the "father of all music" shows that he also rated him up there too.)
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Post by marytrobot on Jun 14, 2004 5:21:24 GMT -5
I personally perfer to play Bethoven over Motzart. Both are amazing composers, but Motzart is a classical play where there is no feeling, but a scientific timing. It's very precise when you play it and it has to be exact or it doesn't sound right. You have to think only "1 2 3 1 2 3" you can't try and put emotion into the piece because there is no emotion. The early compisitions of Bethoven are the same, but he developed the romantic form, which is less presice and you can feel what he's feeling when he wrote it, such as "Für Elise" when I play the song I imagine what he's trying to say through the music rather than count, and it comes out much better.
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Post by Ator on Jun 14, 2004 17:40:57 GMT -5
I personally perfer to play Bethoven over Motzart. Both are amazing composers, but Motzart is a classical play where there is no feeling, but a scientific timing. It's very precise when you play it and it has to be exact or it doesn't sound right. You have to think only "1 2 3 1 2 3" you can't try and put emotion into the piece because there is no emotion. The early compisitions of Bethoven are the same, but he developed the romantic form, which is less presice and you can feel what he's feeling when he wrote it, such as "Für Elise" when I play the song I imagine what he's trying to say through the music rather than count, and it comes out much better. Ahh, so you play Piano? I played Trombone for 8 years, and I really wanna keep going. Too bad the bloody things cost $2000+.
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Post by marytrobot on Jun 14, 2004 20:44:35 GMT -5
Ahh, so you play Piano? I played Trombone for 8 years, and I really wanna keep going. Too bad the bloody things cost $2000+. yep, well I haven't for a year cause my host family doesn't have a piano, so i'll be outa practice when i get back. and what sorta trombone? slide of valve? my oldest brother plays slide, and my younger (but still older than me) plays the valve. Interesting fact did you know another name for the tromboneis "sackbutt"?
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Post by Ator on Jun 14, 2004 21:30:06 GMT -5
Slide Trombone, with an F-attachment, since i'm lazy. There was this mouthpiece brand that had a really hard-to-pronounce name...but it was awesome. Had a nice mellow tone, and better range than the more popular Bach ones.
"sackbutt"? Where did that come from?
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