en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 60 http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices PeterRDavey's Last.fm Journal http://www.last.fm/user/PeterRDavey/journal The Last.fm journal for PeterRDavey. Last.fm journals are a place to talk about all things music. Minus the Bear Completely http://www.last.fm/user/PeterRDavey/journal/2008/11/08/29l3ox_minus_the_bear_completely Sat, 8 Nov 2008 02:03:38 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/PeterRDavey/journal/2008/11/08/29l3ox_minus_the_bear_completely Mon 3 Nov – Minus the Bear, Annuals, 27

For my communications class I have to write an essay, and I am going to choose to write about this concert. I am bipolar and shared a joint with my friend before Minus the Bear came on.



And I saw me playing as the Minus the Bear band. I was each band member. They all synchronized in their idiosyncratic dancing w/ guitar. It seemed like everyone was standing still like zombies. I dont' know. But the experience was... well... a Revelation if not 'Revolution' in some sort. Because I am a troubled addict.

communicated pretty healthy all my life. Although I have recently succumbed to my addiction to drugs and on top of that I have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I recently went to a rock concert with a friend, we decided to skip class and see a "Minus the Bear", a rock band from Seattle. I understand Transactional Communication (TC) involves everyone sending and receiving. This is very true to the concert we went to, called "Revolution" in Ft. Lauderdale. The crowd communicates with the crowd and then there is the band and crowd. That Monday night, at the concert, they were all communicating with me.

In the begging of the night me and my friend Pete, who was a musician. Likewise we both had a lot of music technicality, musicality and things to say. We were on the balcony trying to yell down to the other musicians. As the show went on we noticed some musicianship that we hadn't need discuss. As from the amount of time we have spent playing music together, we subconsciously new what was happening, and that we were both having a good time. Eventually the main act came on and so we both shared a joint.

Being bipolar, the grass made me a little introspective and manic. A few things were on my mind, 1) watching a good show, 2) finding some girls, and 3) having a good time. I made my way down stage level, stage left, where there were the most girls populated and stood to enjoy the show. As my mind drifted in and out of control there was one thing that didn't stop, the Simultaneous communication. To explain what goes on inside my brain are first the symptoms of pot; elated, relaxed, grandiose, and introspective thoughts. Secondly, the manic forms which bring about irritability, distraction, short-term memory loss, and paranoia. I was feeling the groove, talking with myself, others, and the band, who all looked like me.

There is no doubt that smoking makes me hallucinate and even worse, psychosis. This rock band were different ages of me, if I had been performing and saw myself in the 3rd person. It was a trip to watch, to say the least, because each musician would move back and forth, dancing melodically and idiosyncratically with one another.


This concert was a stand around kind of thing. People just stood like zombies. The lyrics changed from happy and if i tried to think happier it got really elated climaxing in a big Drum solo with strobe flashing behind the drummer. I can't turn to see anyone's face. The whole crowd is equally spaced as I look on from a-far. Either I saw a persons face and it was my friend, or I looked and they turned or I heard chatter about me, Paranoia. This wasn't good when I focused back to the music, they would be playing the bridge to some line about, Negative or pessimistic worrisome lyrics. Some would call these lyrics emotional. Picture these words sung to you with some strange green light: And its almost split the side of my brain if I focus too much on the people, music, where I should be, I get stiff.

Partly amazed, in a daze, hallucinating, inter-rumbling (subconscious tightening of suboccipital muscles causing a crepitus in the atlanto-occipital cartilage or simple awareness of a bruit in the artery).

The two sided dialogue kept me in trance. Almost mixed-mania type schizo-effective. I can only focus on only one thing at a time. The movements white/rock dancing- or quickly I soon am run over by the melodic bass-line. I close my eyes to feel the music scale my toes to my cerebellum. Then all of a sudden a bright light always transient but I mean strobe-light. Bright flat in-front of my face. No doubt these were sources of external noise and internal.

All I remember is blacking out partially throughout the night and unconsciously sneaking into the theater seating balcony. After being kicked out I then found some friends and we left and all the way throughout the crowd I had to force my way through. It was almost as if the zombies wanted to make me late for something. This noise, "loud people in crowded places" is one exact term I read from your TC essay. The noise inner and outer led me to have a hell of a night.

Now I can sense my balls and then make a decision to move froward. Whats needed to be noted is here- I have embellished a personality quiet, studious, spiritual, calm. This gets me blue balls. No I get hyper sexuality. And curiosity, so I am split. It seems I could talk to myself on this high and I was cynical, or skeptical, fearful, or arrogant, or unpleasant, and sometimes peaceful. Thinking back egotistical? of coarse. But see this: When I am high, I can bad trip or good trip, or both in a hole of one. However, everyone feels the need to feel. To sparkle, to find some purpose they lack. Girls and I are fond of one another, but my petty problems get in the way. After taking Speech Comm. I learned to burn my fears "up in smoke." I think this has helped me a lot.]]> Sickness http://www.last.fm/user/PeterRDavey/journal/2008/09/13/25wswe_sickness Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:36:29 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/PeterRDavey/journal/2008/09/13/25wswe_sickness
impair one's ability to enjoy a vista or view visual clutter@!

think that park bench. Who the fuck SAID a park bench had to be plain black. FUCK YOU PARK BENCH. I hate my campus is all white buildings. I'm going to have to address this issue myself. Put this problem in the forefront. I cannot stay well.

Commonly cited examples are advertisements, billboards, houses, automobiles, traffic signs, roadsigns, highways, roadways, litter, overhead powerlines, utility poles, contrails, skywriting, buildings!!




FatCap.com]]> Ultra Electronic Festival Sat. 10yrs Trip:Exstacy http://www.last.fm/user/PeterRDavey/journal/2008/03/30/5vbb_ultra_electronic_festival_sat._10yrs_trip%3Aexstacy Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:21:27 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/PeterRDavey/journal/2008/03/30/5vbb_ultra_electronic_festival_sat._10yrs_trip%3Aexstacy Fri 28 Mar – Ultra Music Festival



My ears are still ringing. My eyes are returning to a less-than trance state.

My 1st electronic/rave and it was a really nice. I didn't know what to expect. My friend from work told me about the show. He went to see .

...The day was Perfect day. The girls were hedonistic and mesmerizing. The dj video turntable booth was awesome. The half-pipe was Badass, the way those guys completely fuck Gravity. A lot of music wasn't my type, but I found to be in the right spot at the right time.

Drum & Bass


DJ SS ft Green law killed it. they had some outrageous quick rhythmic flow. and some great samples. Black mc. even sang "oompa-loompa-doopity-doo" from Charlie & the chocolate factory, which was crazy fresh. (Can anyone name the distorted hype distinct 3 part harmonic synth/guitar sample that intro into a song?)

Planet Of The Drums - By far the best show. This was the only group i looked forward to. They cut out the beat so flawlessly under your toes. Used techno-beats, break-beat,Jumpstyle and Hip-hop beats. Most of all kept the songs going. The other D&B bands kept stopping and asked "Does everybody feel good?" That got on my nerve.
This show was amazing I finally found my center when in the crowd. The blinding lights, the sexy ass dancers and wild-hair costume guy with a laser pointing it like a gun. It was terrific.


Bay Front Stage
Sasha & John Digweed - i only caught the end but it was so chill and hypnotic. I got trance fucked.

CarlCox&Friends
Moby was nice and trippy. I really should have wore a longer shirt when rubbing up this girl left me hangin out. It was nice loving, unlike that rapeage you get at a Rock festival.

They said "no backpacks, cameras, or drugs." And yet they all were there. I saw 3 joints and smelled it constantly throughout the breeze. *Sniff Sniff, ahhhh* Then right before Underworld went on I passed through the Drum and Bass stage and some guy asked me if I wanted to get high. He gave me a cigarette down to the butt and said hold it in. I take a tiny hit then ask what is it? "It's wet."

Main stage
Pete Tong is playing. I see this Dude flashing finger lights in front of peoples faces really fast. He is pretty damn good. So I ask... he asks me if I would sit on the ground. In the middle of the crowd I am sitting in complete dark with my shades on and he starts flashing them,
then a guy with Multi-colored knuckle lights fists them at the sides of my face.
No shit it looked like two Sentinels from the Matrix!



From then on things got crazy visually. I started leaving when Underworld began and people who were moving there arms would pop into my peripheral. Lights and objects started to jump at me. I watched a bunch of light-stick fandango.

Everything was pretty cool and then I finished my night w/ Planet of the Drums. On my way home my windows were foggy and the lights red glare, the bombs bursting in air, I digress. My windows were greasy and I had no windshield wiper. I had to stop my self from tripping on the drive home.

Don't Do PCP and Drive.

"Who is a Raver?" A Ravers Manifesto

Our emotional state of choice is Ecstasy. Our nourishment of choice is Love. Our addiction of choice is technology. Our religion of choice is music. Our currency of choice is knowledge. Our politics of choice is none. Our society of choice is utopian though we know it will never be.

You may hate us. You may dismiss us. You may misunderstand us. You may be unaware of our existence. We can only hope you do not care to judge us, because we would never judge you. We are not criminals. We are not disillusioned. We are not drug addicts. We are not naive children. We are one massive, global, tribal village that transcends man-made law, physical geography, and time itself. We are The Massive. One Massive.

We were first drawn by the sound. From far away, the thunderous, muffled, echoing beat was comparable to a mother's heart soothing a child in her womb of concrete, steel, and electrical wiring. We were drawn back into this womb, and there, in the heat, dampness, and darkness of it, we came to accept that we are all equal. Not only to the darkness, and to ourselves, but to the very music slamming into us and passing through our souls: we are all equal. And somewhere around 35Hz we could feel the hand of God at our backs, pushing us forward, pushing us to push ourselves to strengthen our minds, our bodies, and our spirits. Pushing us to turn to the person beside us to join hands and uplift them by sharing the uncontrollable joy we felt from creating this magical bubble that can, for one evening, protect us from the horrors, atrocities, and pollution of the outside world. It is in that very instant, with these initial realizations that each of us was truly born.

We continue to pack our bodies into clubs, or warehouses, or buildings you've abandoned and left for naught, and we bring life to them for one night. Strong, throbbing, vibrant life in it's purest, most intense, most hedonistic form. In these makeshift spaces, we seek to shed ourselves of the burden of uncertainty for a future you have been unable to stabilize and secure for us. We seek to relinquish our inhibitions, and free ourselves from the shackles and restraints you've put on us for your own peace of mind. We seek to re-write the programming that you have tried to indoctrinate us with since the moment we were born. Programming that tells us to hate, that tells us to judge, that tells us to stuff ourselves into the nearest and most convenient pigeon hole possible. Programming that even tells us to climb ladders for you, jump through hoops, and run through mazes and on hamster wheels. Programming that tells us to eat from the shiny silver spoon you are trying to feed us with, instead of nourish ourselves with our own capable hands. Programming that tells us to close our minds, instead of open them.

Until the sun rises to burn our eyes by revealing the distopian reality of a world you've created for us, we dance fiercely with our brothers and sisters in celebration of our life, of our culture, and of the values we believe in: Peace, Love, Freedom, Tolerance, Unity, Harmony, Expression, Responsibility and Respect.

Our enemy of choice is ignorance. Our weapon of choice is information. Our crime of choice is breaking and challenging whatever laws you feel you need to put in place to stop us from celebrating our existence. But know that while you may shut down any given party, on any given night, in any given city, in any given country or continent on this beautiful planet, you can never shut down the entire party. You don't have access to that switch, no matter what you may think. The music will never stop. The heartbeat will never fade. The party will never end.

I am a raver, and this is my manifesto.]]> Easter 08 feelin free' - how it feels to be on a sunny day http://www.last.fm/user/PeterRDavey/journal/2008/03/22/5vba_easter_08_feelin_free%27_-_how_it_feels_to_be_on_a_sunny_day Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:49:59 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/PeterRDavey/journal/2008/03/22/5vba_easter_08_feelin_free%27_-_how_it_feels_to_be_on_a_sunny_day Grateful Dead have many similarities harmony/melody-wise with The Beatles

For instance Truckin' when jerry garcia is rapping fast delivery of the lyrics "most of the time..." etc... It reminds me of a The Ballad of John and Yoko which i learned relates back to
upbeat New Orleans Chuck berry - You Never Can Tell

Rock

- this is basically pre-emo. Sure there was emo before this. But really all music is ocean in the meotion. it takes me back with the deep rhythmic hi hat that sucks you in. A familiar almost voice that sounds like cheech from chong. This is off the 80's new wave hits album.

- "that is one of my absolute favorite songs, ever. it's one of those that transcends, it's just higher. my friend says "you can't listen to it too much because it's too close to reality, it's too close to true feelings and if you do listen to it often it will just hurt too much because of how genuine it is." - novels

such clean and vibe. Funk like go-go amazing guitar solo great Rnb mix in there. its very sweet.


Hip-hop

reminds me of sittin in the backseat of my friends pop's car. ee used to play Rnb and smoke cigars... a real classy fellow. BUT with hip-hop, which is the REAL.

- 1st heard this in my brothers car just cruising down main street. Intoxicating bag-pipe swingin funk east coast beats. and that call and response that reps. in D.C. Go-Go!


Reggae


sick dope dub reggae. the way the guitar or is it snare that comes in and fades into the backround again and again. Great ending with that sound of an acordian type thing.

- off the hi grade ganja anthems album. Very classic reggae sleng teng. "Toasting" or Sing-jaying freestyle rapping. So sweet. Makes me feel soul thirsty and veri irie ya fee me dub sayin, singjayin. ONE LOVE.

]]> A.D. spiritual SUBLIME alternative u Down? http://www.last.fm/user/PeterRDavey/journal/2008/03/15/5vb9_a.d.__spiritual_sublime_alternative_u_down%3F Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:11:00 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/PeterRDavey/journal/2008/03/15/5vb9_a.d.__spiritual_sublime_alternative_u_down%3F Arrested Development similar to Sublime in Spiritual, Musical aesthetic (hip-hop/rock, alternative, soul, melody, samples), and over all feel.

Unlike sublime, what A.D. lacks in boisterousness and rebellion, they make-up for with intelligence and positive vibes.

hip-hop samples like Steady B Loop Dub similar with many different samples to Man's Final Frontier

"Rwaaaa!!!" the growl of bradley nowell is heard in Honeymoon Day


Luxury (Part I)
W/ powerful messages like: "just give me all of my needs and some of my wants" putting down all the luxury in world that

m a k e s m e S I C K.

"$$$ Money $$$ is the root of all evil or that our ego makes us think we got something to prove." My brother could take a toke of this one.

A.D. also has many great new tracks...

Speech's Sounds JUST LIKE Common on Somewhere in North Georgia

Latin guitar santana riffs on In The Sun

theres a verse on Night Time Demons when speech sounds like Wyclef Jean but Speech is WAY MORE versitile.

He sings Redemtion Song live with so MUCH soul and depth that ive never heard in his voice ever.

::::: S U B L I M E 101:::::

hear/read it here::: on pandora radio

http://www.pandora.com/stations/34c71229c4fa1397f6333f715bcb9ab5f65c8be49b9a722a

updating rewind selector bootleg.

Mi God, Mi King (rhythm to Legalize It)
Peter Metro & Sister Charmaine Dibby Dibby Girl (dibby dibby girl, me don't want no dibby dibby)
Look How Jah Great (Dub Medley: "Real, Real, Real/ Jah so real to me/ I Love him/ Because he gives me the victory... ")
Ryan Paulson - My Life Sucks (Emo) ("Drunk Drivin")]]> step into go-go http://www.last.fm/user/PeterRDavey/journal/2008/02/28/5vb8_step_into_go-go Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:09:32 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/PeterRDavey/journal/2008/02/28/5vb8_step_into_go-go http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyaVpAUp_fE&feature=related

"A new style that has branched off from go-go is called bounce beat." - wiki

hear the bounce beat here>>>


The Junk Yard Band started out in 1980 as a group of kids (as young as nine*) I plan on going to see them on my Spring Break!

they also played the RFK "Stop the violence" = http://video.google.com/url?docid=3225031674468575561&esrc=sr1&ev=v&len=599&q=junkyard%2Bstop%2Bthe%2Bviolence&srcurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DLMGdOJIVKUk&vidurl=%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D3225031674468575561%26q%3Djunkyard%2Bstop%2Bthe%2Bviolence%26total%3D2%26start%3D0%26num%3D10%26so%3D0%26type%3Dsearch%26plindex%3D0&usg=AL29H23x_Nzcjik7TyHwGQYYc3Z0RrLUkA





Early Go-GO Bands:

Experience Unlimited: (from jimi hendrix experience)


Trouble Funk: (this funk should be down in history among the greats ft. James brown, George funkinstien)


Chuck Brown ( father of go-go U HAVE TO HEAR THIS GUY 1st*)


(*) - i joined my band at age 9 and I met chuck brown in florida Jan. 08

Ginuwine- Pony (Screwed and Chopped) the quiet gueit guitar in the begging!!! synth bells/keys the and bells slowly in the backround

Northeast groover- Push it Up go-go riff. alanis morresete lyrics maybe? have i heard them b4? "what i am, is what i am"

out of left-field a northern chorus- Red carpet Blues ;)]]> i called up my ex-stripper friend-girl... http://www.last.fm/user/PeterRDavey/journal/2008/02/27/5vb7_i_called_up_my_ex-stripper_friend-girl... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:16:37 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/PeterRDavey/journal/2008/02/27/5vb7_i_called_up_my_ex-stripper_friend-girl...
saw her on myspace. 17 weeks pregnant.

I feel fine... but i bet deep down inside i feel :
don't have children.


says always think positive

wall of sound anybody?

Quiet Summer Dreams

currently residing in south florida... i really want to go to a MIAMI BASS show --> 100 greatest miami bass songs



i also want to get into some Grateful Dead at some point.]]> My sister says i sound like... http://www.last.fm/user/PeterRDavey/journal/2008/02/26/5vb6_my_sister_says_i_sound_like... Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:53:16 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/PeterRDavey/journal/2008/02/26/5vb6_my_sister_says_i_sound_like... Jamie Cullum

nowadays... i feel like No Sleep in Dreams



when i drive home and see the florida sunsets. i hear Claws


...then one time!Rules (First Cut) because my mom knocked the headphones off me!!!

Dc Go-Go
I just love go-go! I ran into chuck brown (father of go-go) this january at the orange bowl. He is mad pimp from d.c. gravely voice having, top hat chillin, gold jewelry having, woman on his arm at all times.

WARNING: GO-GO isnt some soft ass chicken shit bullshit. Its origin from africa, raised up in the city of d.C. its some real shit. You can just feel the beat in your bones.

Chek out some go-go videos over yonder:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BB4B102E6E796B22]]> punk RnB rap http://www.last.fm/user/PeterRDavey/journal/2007/11/07/5vb5_punk_rnb_rap Wed, 7 Nov 2007 07:19:17 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/PeterRDavey/journal/2007/11/07/5vb5_punk_rnb_rap
I like music. Good Music.

Pony = DL THE SCREWED AND CHOPPED VERSION!
Pony (Screwed and Chopped) [RnB meaning Gritty blues w/ CHOPPED] the slowed down houston malasses-like feel of the south holds a grip on your body as the double click of the snare in repitition sets a chill up your spine. its so much more funkier sexier and badass than the plain original version.

Harlem World. - [a hyptnotic gritty rap] It is true there is no father to odb's style = Starting off in the begging of the song by playing guitar with his voice. You can hear the influence Rza and Gza play in his rap and vocabulary. He intellectually holds back words "as i detect what i wrote with my ...." they said rhyming on the mic is the number one ...." Gritty rhymes "cant smile teeth too gritty."
"go to school take a shit dont whipe your ass blame it on the other nigga in your class." brain insane claim fame gain came pain name. i LOVE = "when i rhyme i get loose better than mother GOOSE" kanye west, an arrogant son of a beast, claims he wish he had ODB's voice. It is clearly portraied at the end of this song.

Bored of You. similar to Burritos a song about being "sick of everyone" "boring bands" "i hate the things i say" awesome punk rock.]]> johnny appleseed smoked weed http://www.last.fm/user/PeterRDavey/journal/2007/02/25/5vb4_johnny_appleseed_smoked_weed Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:05:50 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/PeterRDavey/journal/2007/02/25/5vb4_johnny_appleseed_smoked_weed Riding With Gabriel Greenberg
Eminence Front]]>