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AI and VDP
AI and VDP
It’s dispiriting to see so much AI-generated blather about stuff one loves. Example: an explanation of Van Dyke Parks song.
#music#technology#VanDykeParks
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
AI and VDP
Don Heffington (1950–2021)
Don Heffington (1950–2021)
I heard Don play with Van Dyke in Chicago and St. Louis. So I can agree with his Lone Justice bandmate Marvin Etzioni, quoted in Variety: “Like Ringo, he didn’t play drums, he played songs.”
#music#VanDykeParks
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Don Heffington (1950–2021)
Orange Crate Art redux
Orange Crate Art redux
I think the Omnivore description — “sounds like nothing before or since” — is objectively accurate. Orange Crate Art is music of no time and for all time.
#BrianWilson#music#VanDykeParks
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Orange Crate Art redux
Orange Crate Art returns
Orange Crate Art returns
Coming June 26, from Omnivore Recordings, a remastered reissue of Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks’s 1995 album Orange Crate Art, with instrumental tracks and three unreleased songs, including an affecting Wilson-Parks interpretation of “What a Wonderful World.”
#BrianWilson#music#VanDykeParks
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Orange Crate Art returns
VDP and “Southern Nights”
VDP and “Southern Nights”
Allen Touissant: “While I was finishing the album Van Dyke Parks visited me in the studio. He was a wonderful guy, a genius of a guy. He said, ‘Well, consider that you were going to die in two weeks. If you knew that, what would you think you would like to have done?’
#music#VanDykeParks
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
VDP and “Southern Nights”
Sanford Sylvan (1953–2019)
Sanford Sylvan (1953–2019)
Elaine knew him when she was a teenager, and heard him sing many times. The two of us heard him in a Boston Shakespeare Company production of Mother Courage, directed by Peter Sellars. It was our third date, January 24, 1984. Linda Hunt played Mother Courage. I’ll never forget it.
#Boston#life#music#VanDykeParks
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Sanford Sylvan (1953–2019)
“The Immigrants”
“The Immigrants”
Gaby Moreno and Van Dyke Parks’s recording of David Rudder’s “The Immigrants” has made Jon Pareles’s list of the best songs of 2018.
#music#VanDykeParks
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
“The Immigrants”
VDP’s next-to-last
VDP’s next-to-last
“His friend Eric Idle, of Monty Python fame, introduced him to the packed house. ‘Van Dyke Parks,’ he said, ‘is not just a genius. He is a fucking genius.’”
#music#VanDykeParks
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
VDP’s next-to-last
VDP on songwriting in these times
VDP on songwriting in these times
“Forty years ago, co-writing a song with Ringo Starr would have provided me a house and a pool. Now, estimating 100,000 plays on Spotify, we guessed we’d split about $80. When I got home, on closer study, I found out we were way too optimistic.”
#music#VanDykeParks
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
VDP on songwriting in these times
A new Van Dyke Parks single
A new Van Dyke Parks single
Van Dyke Parks has a new single out on the Bella Union label (also available from iTunes): “I’m History” b/w “Charm School.”
#music#VanDykeParks
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
A new Van Dyke Parks single
Van Dyke Parks on Bookworm
Van Dyke Parks on Bookworm
“I don’t draw any distinction between the stuff that has my name on the banner or something that I might do anonymously to help someone else in their album effort. It’s all the same to me.”
#music#VanDykeParks
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Van Dyke Parks on Bookworm
VDP in TNYT
VDP in TNYT
“I believe that anything worth its salt in the arts must create a wobble. We are not polestars.”
#music#VanDykeParks
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
VDP in TNYT
E=F♭
E=F♭
Here’s a theory of relativity I can understand. A doctored photograph of Einstein, courtesy of Van Dyke Parks.
#music#VanDykeParks
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
E=F♭