Posts by Simon Grigg
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has been digitally re-released
Cheers for that Russell. In the same batch we've also reissued for the first time since 1994, the Mark Tierney produced Freebass album: Raw- Live At Cause Celebre, which is notable, apart from the fact it was really very good live contemporary jazz from a bunch of astounding young musicians, as the first released recording from the Haines Brothers, Joel and Nathan.
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would be a marvellous thing- but a copyright nightmare, eh?
As George says, do-able, but clearly you work within the boundaries that you can negotiate and some things are easier than others. I'm not talking about uploading every record ever made in NZ but the data relating to much of that should be available if only as a central reservoir of our musical past.
Mostly, right now, I'm just terrified, as someone who has been passionate about the music we create in NZ, and the culture around it, since I was in my early teens, about how much is disappearing and so very quickly.
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I thought the National Library (maybe Turnbull or Hocken) archived all NZ releases (and ephemera) - might be a simple, and supportive, step for them to make that available somehow - perhaps along the NZ film/on screen model...
Yes they do, but I'm talking of something more than that, an archive which co-ordinates the digitalization of the audio past (which too is partially being done by another agency), that brings together the graphics, the label data, the band information, the release schedules, the press releases, the touring schedules, the cultural aspects of the music industry, much of which is disappearing at an enormous rate.
And then making that available to the public as NZ on Screen is doing with video. Just keeping the records in a room is a start but not enough.
I know the number of people that come to my site because the bits and pieces, like the Zodiac data, are not available anywhere else. There is so much that needs documenting but nobody is really doing it.
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In a culture that marketed Elvis as the King of Rock n Roll?
He has some claim:
Elvis' five Sun singles pioneered the blend of R&B and C&W that would characterize rockabilly music. For quite a few scholars, they remain not only Elvis' best singles, but the best rock & roll ever recorded.
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On Monday evening, July 5, 1954, Elvis, Scotty and Bill went to Sun Records for their first recording session. They were nervous despite Sam Phillips' efforts to loosen things up. They worked in vain on the Bing Crosby hit, "Harbor Lights," and on the country ballad, "I Love You Because." Finally they took a break late in the evening. During the break Elvis picked up his guitar and started clowning around, playing the fool on ``That's Alright Mama," the Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup blues song. Elvis went up-tempo as first Bill, and then Scotty, joined in. In the control booth Sam Phillips heard the sound, the "new" music, he
had been looking for. He stuck his head out the door asking, "What are you doing?" The boys answered, "We don't know." Turning on the tape Sam said, "Well, back it up, try to find a place to start, and do it again." Rock n' roll was born.Those 24 Sun sides remain, 55 years later, some of the most revolutionary of the last century.
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ninjacloak is a reasonably reliable web based proxy. for stickier workarounds,
Mostly in Thailand things flow through without much hassle but you get the odd kneejerk by some over-enthusiastic bureaucrat who blocks a list, which slowly gets unblocked when worked through by smarter heads bit by bit.
The only real exception seems to be sites that make negative comment about the monarchy which is such a massive no-no and generally respected. There was an insult to the king on CNN last week (and it really was, both racist and hugely ignorant) but I'm in breach of Lèse majesté laws if I even link to it.
So I won't.
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The site is unblocked now. Oddness.
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The weird thing is that the top layer url is blocked but the posts are all available url by url.
I feel like a punk again (cue: first Clash album)
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Anyone else having issues with scoop.co.nz? PAS seems to stall on that when loading quite often today.
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His "think of the children" line is exactly the one being used by China, Australia and the "entertainment" industry to close down the freedom of the internet as we know it.
Having just had my blog blocked by the Thai censors I know how the children feel
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we need a music archive, the amount of music that is and has slipped from the public sphere is sad... to put it mildly
It's a hobby horse of mine and has been for years. We have bits and pieces out there doing sterling jobs but a central, funded, NZ music archive, is massively overdue.