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tony said, amongst other pointedly erudite things:
>My nephew took the resulting photo of himself in front of the castle to 
school
>and showed it to a teacher (presumably an educated woman) who asked him
>very seriously if that was his ancestral home! This is akin to suggesting 
that
>Chicago is full of gangsters in spats and that those fine people who bring
>us Logic Audio do it in those few free moments when they're not lying
>blitzed in bierhalle in their lederhosen after a good few foaming steins.
..... or, by extension, that all americans sit around the tv-set eating 
mcdonald's pseudo-burgers, drinking pisswater-beer & being completely 
ignorant of other 'cultures', eh?
*-)

a telling, 'funny' story:
some time ago, i was in a band w/jan garbarek (norwegian 
saxophonist/composer) for a coupla years;
jan *really* hated touring in the usa --- (we only did that twice).
we were in a *nice* hotel in chicago, once, and jan was trying to telephone 
his wife in oslo.
apparently, there was no way to dial directly from his room, so he was 
connected to an AT&T intermediary international operator.
he gave her the country sode & phone number, and she asked him exactly where 
he was calling;
he replied, 'oslo, norway'.
with no delay at all and clearly *not* disinegenuously, the operator 
proceeded to further query, 'is that oslo, norway, sweden, sir?'.
8-()

best,
splattercell

Thoughts from the mind of texture444@..., 11/2/01:

>some time ago, i was in a band w/jan garbarek (norwegian
>saxophonist/composer) for a coupla years;

Wow, impressed...  I have a couple of his CDs and he has done some 
amazing things imo.  And what a wonderful sound some people manage to 
create with their instrument.  Really takes saxophone to another 
level.
Did you also record with him?  If so, which album?  I might like to 
check  out _your_ contribution :-).


cheers,
HJ
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     Hendrik Jan Veenstra
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http://www.cellsynth.co.uk/

Hendrik Jan wrote:

>Wow, impressed...  I have a couple of his CDs and he has done some
>amazing things imo.  And what a wonderful sound some people manage to
>create with their instrument.  Really takes saxophone to another
>level.
>Did you also record with him?  If so, which album?  I might like to
>check  out _your_ contribution :-).

What! Impressed!!!!! I was more than impressed.
I was totally silenced.
I simply could not believe it when he casually said that. If my 
calculations are correct then splattercell plays guitar and his "real name" 
is David Torn.

David Torn, no less.
My God.

Played not only with Jan Garbarek, but also with Eberhard Weber, Mark 
Isham, Bill Bruford, David Sylvian, Nana Vasconcelos, Jeremy Werbin, 
Micheal Wellen, Marty Fogel, Terje Rypdal, John Surman (not sure about the 
last two because I can't find the relevant albums) and a few other 
luminaries and god-like figures like that.

I am still reeling that my Inbox has actually been receiving messages from 
someone like that and I never noticed.

Sheesh. Still pinching myself.

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Yeah ... don't know how I did it but ....
I forgot two other music gods that David Torn played with ... Lou Reed and 
Don Cherry the Magnificent.

Pretty sure that this is splattercell.
Only he can confirm, though.
Going to look very stupid if I'm wrong, but anyone who's played with 
Garbarek is quite OK in my book and I really don't mind looking stupid over 
something like that.

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hj wrote:
>Wow, impressed...  
it *was* a good story, though, right?

>I have a couple of his CDs and he has done some 
>amazing things imo.  And what a wonderful sound some people manage to 
>create with their instrument.  Really takes saxophone to another 
>level.
agreed!

>Did you also record with him?  If so, which album?  I might like to 
>check  out _your_ contribution :-).
yeah, we did one studio recording, but.....
it's not a great document of that band's oeuvre (imho):
'it's okay to listen to the gray voice' / ecm.

best,
splattercell

Hendrik Jan wrote:

> >Did you also record with him?  If so, which album?

splattercell wrote:
>yeah, we did one studio recording, but.....
>it's not a great document of that band's oeuvre (imho):
>'it's okay to listen to the gray voice' / ecm.

Personnel: Jan Garbarek, sax; David Torn, guitars; Eberhard Weber, bass, 
Michael DiPasqua, drums.
Don't think you're Garbarek himself although you could be; and don't think 
you're Eberhard Weber. You are either Michael DiPasqua or David Torn. 
DiPasqua also played on Wayfarer and you said 'we' did 'one'. I do not have 
EVERY Garbarek record but I have most. David Torn only playes on 'gray 
voice'. So ... my limited intellect (I long ago admitted to being wrong 
about many things) tells me that you are David Torn.

Ina ini
Lahiya lau

(Meaning, very roughly, 'may your days be many and all go well'; and 'may 
long you remain in a state of wellness')

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Thoughts from the mind of texture444@..., 11/4/01:

>hj wrote:
>>Wow, impressed...
>it *was* a good story, though, right?

Yeah :-).

>  >Did you also record with him?  If so, which album?  I might like to
>>check  out _your_ contribution :-).
>yeah, we did one studio recording, but.....
>it's not a great document of that band's oeuvre (imho):
>'it's okay to listen to the gray voice' / ecm.

Will check it out one of these days.  Thanks.


cheers,
HJ
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     Hendrik Jan Veenstra
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I was reading some of the later exchange and wanted to revisit something:

> nephew took the resulting photo of himself in front of the castle to
school
> and showed it to a teacher (presumably an educated woman) who asked him
very
> seriously if that was his ancestral home! This is akin to suggesting that
> Chicago is full of gangsters in spats and that those fine people who bring

I don't quite get this.  What is so ignorant about asking if the picture is
where some family ancestors dwelled several hundred years ago?  It doesn't
sound like the teacher asked if this is where his family lives now and it
doesn't sound like his teacher assumed all Scots lived thsi way even way
back.  Sure, it's mildly fantastic, but no moreso than if someone from
Chicago said their grandfather lived in Cicero in the 1920s and another
person leapt to the question, "Oooh, did your grandfather know Capone?".  No
doubt it's rather unlikely but why not ask?  I've seen people's names online
that are the same as people I've otherwise heard of (one comic book writer,
one musician) and asked each person if they were in fact the same person.
In one case it wasn't true, in the other case I never got a response.  But
why not ask?

Thoughts from the mind of LogicBaby, 11/4/01:

>http://www.cellsynth.co.uk/

Cool thingy!  Check it out.  Also for PC btw.  And... shouldn't this 
be posted to the regular LUG as well?  Heck, I'll crosspost myself...

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     Hendrik Jan Veenstra
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kool wrote:
>my limited intellect (I long ago admitted to being wrong 
>about many things) tells me that you are David Torn.
oops, sorry!
no mystery: that's right.
best,
dt / s-c