Am listening now to (the very good) "Varied Trio: V. Dance" from Charisse Baldoria's Gamelan On Piano long-player.
If you'll permit a *very* ignorant comment, I can imagine a musician with facility in Appalachian music connecting very well to that particular track, no matter how coincidental the similarities.
If you'll permit a self-referential comment, *I* have a presence on bandcamp (https://zachphillips.bandcamp.com/album/stars-vomit-coffee-shop-osr72), though the music pre-dates your signing me by 20 years, and didn't appear on bandcamp til a decade after your signing me [and I don't have my own bandcamp site; it's there courtesy of a kind man named Zach Phillips and his old label OSR Records]; republished the original liner notes here (https://koganbot.dreamwidth.org/361564.html); you'll notice my emotional ambivalence towards the music, but def recommend it, esp. "Highway 51" by Red Dark Sweet, "12 Varieties Of Worms" by the Pillowmakers, and "The Laughing Airplanes Of Kamchatka" by solo FK; am not northern Ohio myself, but Andrew Klimeyk (aka Andrew Klimek) and Charlotte Pressler of Red Dark Sweet were formerly and subsequently Cleveland area, and I once played JB's downstairs in Kent on a bill w/ Red Dark Sweet and Death Of Samantha.
Charlotte now lives in FL, but back in Cleveland in 1979 Charlotte published a first-rate (though unfinished) memoir of Cleveland area "new wave" (going back well *before* new wave was "new"), "Those Were Different Times" (https://realscatrecords.com/archive/charlotte-pressler-those-were-different-times); includes lots about Andrew's older brother Jaime Klimek and his band Mirrors. Jaime died last November, one of two titans of Cleveland music to pass recently, David Thomas being the other. Memoir doesn't get to David, who would've appeared in later installments, but does include early meetings of various musicians who went on to play in Rocket From The Tombs and Pere Ubu. Sincerely believe this is one of the best things written about music.
Proofreading: Don't know if spelling is Jaime or Jamie; appears more frequently as latter, but is former in Charlotte's memoir and in Wikipedia. I could find out easily enough, I'm sure, but honestly at the moment that question would feel intrusive.
I think we talked briefly about Charlotte ages ago—she entered grad school at SUNY Buffalo the same year I did, I believe. I might approach her about returning to the memoir?
From the title of this post I was hoping that you'd literally signed your name on the inside cover of a book that you'd written, several copies of them.
(says he's hoping to put together a book about from this)
Not sure if there's other music stuff he's writing besides that these days. It's a crowded homepage. Randy's got a substack but I haven't checked yet to see how often it bursts into song: https://randysrussell.substack.com
(Don't know if Tim Gilbride, Andrew Klimeyk, or Jeff Curtis are writing about music or just making it. Jeff's Instagram is https://www.instagram.com/jeffcurtis_clawhammer but I'm not on Instagram so can't read it.)
That exhausts my list of Ohio friends that I can think of off the top of my head.
Stoked to be working on my book with you!
Am listening now to (the very good) "Varied Trio: V. Dance" from Charisse Baldoria's Gamelan On Piano long-player.
If you'll permit a *very* ignorant comment, I can imagine a musician with facility in Appalachian music connecting very well to that particular track, no matter how coincidental the similarities.
If you'll permit a self-referential comment, *I* have a presence on bandcamp (https://zachphillips.bandcamp.com/album/stars-vomit-coffee-shop-osr72), though the music pre-dates your signing me by 20 years, and didn't appear on bandcamp til a decade after your signing me [and I don't have my own bandcamp site; it's there courtesy of a kind man named Zach Phillips and his old label OSR Records]; republished the original liner notes here (https://koganbot.dreamwidth.org/361564.html); you'll notice my emotional ambivalence towards the music, but def recommend it, esp. "Highway 51" by Red Dark Sweet, "12 Varieties Of Worms" by the Pillowmakers, and "The Laughing Airplanes Of Kamchatka" by solo FK; am not northern Ohio myself, but Andrew Klimeyk (aka Andrew Klimek) and Charlotte Pressler of Red Dark Sweet were formerly and subsequently Cleveland area, and I once played JB's downstairs in Kent on a bill w/ Red Dark Sweet and Death Of Samantha.
Charlotte now lives in FL, but back in Cleveland in 1979 Charlotte published a first-rate (though unfinished) memoir of Cleveland area "new wave" (going back well *before* new wave was "new"), "Those Were Different Times" (https://realscatrecords.com/archive/charlotte-pressler-those-were-different-times); includes lots about Andrew's older brother Jaime Klimek and his band Mirrors. Jaime died last November, one of two titans of Cleveland music to pass recently, David Thomas being the other. Memoir doesn't get to David, who would've appeared in later installments, but does include early meetings of various musicians who went on to play in Rocket From The Tombs and Pere Ubu. Sincerely believe this is one of the best things written about music.
Proofreading: Don't know if spelling is Jaime or Jamie; appears more frequently as latter, but is former in Charlotte's memoir and in Wikipedia. I could find out easily enough, I'm sure, but honestly at the moment that question would feel intrusive.
I think we talked briefly about Charlotte ages ago—she entered grad school at SUNY Buffalo the same year I did, I believe. I might approach her about returning to the memoir?
These all look like great titles. I especially love books about urban economics.
From the title of this post I was hoping that you'd literally signed your name on the inside cover of a book that you'd written, several copies of them.
If any of your Ohio friends are writing on music, send them along!
Well, I'll send you to Randy S. Russell's homepage (I fear he'd be too shy to get in touch with you himself):
https://rspeen.com
and where he writes about vinyl:
https://rspeen.com/vinyl
(says he's hoping to put together a book about from this)
Not sure if there's other music stuff he's writing besides that these days. It's a crowded homepage. Randy's got a substack but I haven't checked yet to see how often it bursts into song: https://randysrussell.substack.com
(Don't know if Tim Gilbride, Andrew Klimeyk, or Jeff Curtis are writing about music or just making it. Jeff's Instagram is https://www.instagram.com/jeffcurtis_clawhammer but I'm not on Instagram so can't read it.)
That exhausts my list of Ohio friends that I can think of off the top of my head.
Excellent stuff. I am chuffed to see Beyond Steel and thrilled that KSU is leaning toward more Rust Belt titles. Wheeee!