Cappuccino. Monkey and Bull make meal of Pomegranite, potatoes, pineapple & peppers. LL Zamenhof worked Pepsi's graveyard Shift til the day he died. Poetic. Death not for lack of irony. For growing calamity, asks Esperanza, Does one need fertilizer? Removes tongue from cheek. 1477. Chris visits Iceland inquiring As a wannabe Portugese picking up Waterfront gossip of "the NewFound Lands." Looks like Lawnmower Man on valium. Vacation - Grape Cod. Dwelling on payola, Punkrock, and plasma in Adobe Abode. Hystorically, a bladder bag full of bull. Mother Earth, you are beaux, bela, belle, Beautiful - Where's Dr. Esperanto When you NEED him?? Peabody Coal purchases Cavenham Forest for a copper penny. Mrs. Farthing leaves a pie on her porch for The plutonium miners. Make mine a strip so Rare IT'S STILL IN THE GROUND. Spineless as a Portugese Man O'War, now if That ain't the scumm calling the scummsucker scummy. Sage tea makes sore throat to merely a wet Groggy flemmy thing; yet Dire Wolf offers 12-page thesis on Yak semen. Can God hear you in a Hindu Ashram? "Yes," yells Yayo. She's 12 and SMARTER than you. Fiesta. Laguna March 19, 1992 They say you'll be led by children. Haiku: Zuni Moisture Dance Mudhead Kachinas - Laura, Yayo, HasKey Tso. Sweatlodge. Madrid, NM 2 FAS children flying a kite. Filthy fake fony false hair follicles Now fact thanks to Rogaine. Or was that Reagan?? Nancy's war-on-drugs: Rhymes with moron thugs. Open Mike is playing at the Chez What Cafe. Who IS this Open Mike? Just some honest Joe? Stench fries and fillet of potatoes at The Full Spoon Cafe. And Bo Diddley's cook wears wine-red Dingos pouring sherry in Mrs. Farthing's Chowder. Pampa, TX. Letting go of Police Brutality - Release, relax, relief. 2:30 a.m. Katy reads poetry for tips at the Omaha Greyhound. Makes 2-bucks on "Bernalilo Blues." Mytho-philosophical street poems. How do they make coffee in Nowata? Strong - same as Coffeeville. Trivia question: who's face on $5 Foodstamp?? Thomas Jefferson or Johnny Cash? Movado watch with moon minute hand, I straddle the corner of Florence & Normandy contemplating cops. A house full of cat-tails never falls; And Medina pours Mecca a 20 oz. cup of Mocha java. Previously published in a $5 Chapbook entitled "I Slurp My Coffee." Currently released as an album at: http://www.reverbnation.com/marcfruchtpoet And you can get the whole album as a printable .zip file at: http://www.frucht.org/Poems4RobertaBlackgoat.zip
08/10/2014
JOURNAL POEM 24 – Poems For Roberta Blackgoat
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07/21/2014
Little Boxes – Remembering Pete Seeger
Little Boxes – Malvina Reynolds
The first time I saw Pete Seeger perform this live
was in Providence Rhode Island. He was doing a tribute
to Malvina Reynolds who he credited for his first hitÂ
single. It was an evening of folk music that was a who’s
who of “Pete Seeger & Friends.” Each did a song or two
that she’d written, and then they
ended the show with a stage full of people singing
Little Boxes for a very long time. I was in heaven.
Not for the fame around me, but for the mass of people
we were, singing together. It was something I can’t
describe in words. Greater than his banjo playing and
his beautiful voice that to this day remains clearer
than a bell, Pete Seeger’s gift really IS his ability
to get an entire “room” singing together.
“Katzberg recalled Seeger as emcee at a tribute to Malvina Reynolds at Veterans Memorial Auditorium in 1993, and singing at the Rhode Island Labor & Ethnic Heritage Festival in Pawtucket in 1996. The latter, she said, perfectly fulfilled a vision she once had about the festival. (Katzberg has a picture of herself on stage with Seeger.)”
The nammys say this about him:
Seeger also encouraged Oneida Nation musician Joanne Shenandoah. She was one of his favorite artists. He shared the stage with her on many occasions including a remarkable set with the late Odetta ten years ago, at Madison Square Garden for his 90th Birthday on May 3, 2009, and in 2012 when he, Shenandoah and Patti Smith sang at Cooper Union Hall in New York City for a human rights event. When asked last year as to which performance he wanted to attend he elected to hear Joanne Shenandoah, standing on the side of the stage for her entire hour long set.
Last night Lincoln Center Out Of Doors put on a ginormous memorial concert remembering Pete Seeger’s legacy through song.
It reminded me so much of that Malvina Reynolds tribute in Providence way back in the day. It had that same feel to it. Heck, at least 15 of last night’s performers were at that show.
Anyhew, they’re streaming that entire concert on a loop at http://watch.lincolncenter.org/pages/live-stream-seeger-memorial?_ga=1.67522065.1040021086.1405935394 for the next 24 hours!
Check that out.
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07/04/2014
ANNOTATIONS: Marc Frucht’s American Songbag.
Here goes some “explication” about the two newest recordings I’ve mastered and edited up. Enjoy.
Recorded live from the soundboard at a Bonfire in Groton, CT.
I noticed while I was organizing these tunes that it kind of serves as the best kind of ethnomusicology lesson you could ever receive for free. Pro Bono, my gift to you. Call now, operators are standing by…
16th Century Greensleeves. (cover of a Ritchie Blackmore arrangement of a very old song)
Old Folksinger – by Merle Kessler, aka “Ian Shoales.”
Need a real audio of my studio version?
http://frucht.org/audioclips.html
Other Side – Orig. Someone I was very sweet on turned to me one night and said, “why don’t you write a song about turquoise and silver and a pebble and a ring.” So I did.
Johnny B. Goode – Standard (played very non-standard)
Oh Boy – written by Sonny West, Bill Tilghman and Norman Petty. Made most famous by Buddy Holly
Hey Mon – Orig.
One Tin Soldier – Coven. Made most famous by the movie “Billy Jack.”
Little Things – Orig.
Wicked Wicked World. – Medley arranged by Marc Frucht. “Wicked World”
by Black Sabbath’s Ozzie Osbourne, “When The Levee Breaks” collected
folk style by Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page. Last verse Original.
Happened Just That Way – Roger Miller
Seminole Wind – John Anderson
Want to hear just a cute cover of it by a little girl named Mary Elizabeth Kirkpatrick? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsN0zk7VojA Neat how sometimes a song can be kept immortal by lots of people giving it some love!
Mary Had a William Goat – I learned this parody from Carl Sandburg’s publication “American Songbag.”
Merry Minuet – I first heard the Kingston Trio version of this song from my mom and dad’s massive record collection. It was written by
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes – from the Movie of the same name.
I’ve actually been asked to sing it a capella at movie premieres and stuff.
Dream On Again – You notice how they sing, “sing with me” and it’s a song written in like Fm7 with a flatted 9th in the bass, and it’s a key that only Bessie Smith can sing but she’s gotta warm up all opera style before she even tries to sing it?
Evil Ways – Carlos Santana
Milli Vanilla – I wrote this as a parody to the Poison song “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”
FUN song – from Sponge Bob Square Pants. Just don’t ask me to sing the Campfire song or “I Ripped My Pants.”
Blister In The Sun – Violent Femmes. Done as a medley together with “American Music” and “Free.” Proof that the Bodeans stole liberally from the Violent Femmes. J/K they’re all friends with each other.
Oh Freedom – medley. My version of Pete Seeger’s version of Odetta’s version of several ancient spirituals
Do Wacka Do – more Roger Miller
FryBread – Orig.
* Recordings engineered in Groton, CT by Andrew Barnes
Listen to the entire thing in two parts at: http://soundcloud.com/atizine/marcofruchtsamericansongbag-part2
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12/16/2013
Free CD — Last year’s entire 18 song Christmas record!
Hi all,
Last year I engineered and mastered a Christmas record that I was quite happy with. I printed my own jewelcases, and mass produced hundreds of copies and passed them out to everyone I knew personally the weeks leading up to Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa.
I thought of doing the same thing this year; but suddenly decided, “maybe instead I’ll just print up download cards.”
So I’ve placed the entire CD, 18 songs and color .PDF album cover as one big .zip file.
Here’s where you can get it for free:
http://www.frucht.org/christmas.zip
You simply download the file, unzip/unpack and burn to a blank cdr, print out the artwork and fold it into a holder for your CD. Then play the thing in your car, media center or stereo or right there on your laptop.
And of course these days if you don’t even feel like printing a CDR you can just make a playlist on your phone or ipod with the MP3’s themself.
Cheers,
marco
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10/05/2013
And now a note about John Boehner [Caveat: 1st I’ll say I don’t think much of Harry Reid either]
Boehner told Harry Reid to “Go F___ yourself” when Reid said he was behaving dictatorially.
Somewhere back near 1998 Boehner walked right in and bumped me for a haircut and shave in the Rayburn building basement barber shop and I said to both him and the barber that I learned on grade school field trips that since I was ahead of him in line I should get my haircut first.
The barber was very apologetic, but truly feared for his career. I could see in his eyes that he knew I was right.
For hundreds of years those barbers told little kids how important it was that there be places like Washington DC where everything is absolutely fair. I believe the word they made us little kids look up and learn fully for understanding was ‘egalitarian.’
So John Boehner threw F-bombs when Reid said he was behaving dictatorially and people were astonished, many just perish the thought and try to forget it, but I cannot.
John Boehner told me to go F— myself at that moment I too had to point out he was behaving dictatorially.  He also said he could buy and sell me in a minute’s time. All I could think to say quickly was to suggest he die trying.
A lot of people believe that he is just fronting for the Teaparty, cowed by them, and he’s trying his hardest to rein them in but the one fact I know from first person experience is that he is a very mean-spirited and selfish man.
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04/17/2013
Why Seek An Inventive Mind? YOU have one! Part 2
Who remembers that kick I was on to use less than-a-dollar  reinventing overpriced things such as the 29.99  ipod/cellfone charger wallsocket holder out of a piece of cereal box cardboard?
http://muffinbottoms.org/?p=223
Or the 16$ iPod sock made out of an actual used sock from just needle, thread and scissors!
Well it’s refreshing to know someone else out there who I’ve never even met is thinking along the same lines.
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I usually just link to an image someone else took so much trouble to make but I can only find it on facebook so I’ll download/upload here and give link back to THEIR facebook. I think you want to click /like/ on theirs for sure and see what ideas they come up with next, the really have it going on.
http://www.facebook.com/ImaginationF4U
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02/04/2013
OPINION: Beyonce Knowles; Underachiever Of The Millenium
OK,
Beyonce LipSync’d the National Anthem and she sang her medley of perishable non-memorable hits “LIVE.”
Anyone hardly even know what LIVE means anymore??? Yes, she cranked up the mains and left her full-on backing track pumping loudly in her monitors so you mostly heard her, and faintly heard everything she prepared. She really could have just skyped the entire show in but she had something to prove. Back when she was young, she sang a capella on late night shows. She was one of the few artists who didn’t put a rider in their contract refusing all a capella songs, even Happy Birthday. Many artists resented her that. She was very talented. She can sing like a bird, and she often does, but she isn’t very courageous and she most likely never wrote a real song in her life.
Flash forward to the present. She has been singing more and more with the Backing Track dialed in and cranked up to… well to 11. Yupper, she can’t dance OR sing live as well as Madonna. (and that’s not saying much.) Should we compare/contrast her voice with Odetta’s? Aretha? Mario Lanza? Nina Simone. South Park’s Chef even… OK I’ll stop there. As for dancing, right! She’s no madonna, she’s not even a Paula Abdul or a Janet Jackson. In fact can I complain about something as far as dance moves go? Janet and Paula already did all that. I rarely see anything done by anyone that hasn’t already been regimented 15 times already the past 50 years! (except maybe Pink but that’s different)
Who’s going to be the next James Brown, Little Richard, Madonna or MJ? It’s not Nicky Minaj and it’s not Lady Gaga and it darned sure isn’t Ms. Knowles.
So OK, she admitted publicly she lip sync’d the National Anthem, and then belted it out a capella to show the world that she can carry a tune if asked. And then she proceeded to lip sync a medley of potent soundbytes during the Superbowl’s halftime that was so stunningly flawless that she can now forever say she did it “live.” Yup, virtually live. What’s the truth-in-advertising quotient on that one, does it have to be 26% live to call it “live?” Well she nailed it at something like 66% or more. Yay. Happy for her.
Songs that are “not worth lip-syncing!” as many of my friends keep suggesting, I’m serious people. We’re going to remember “Yesterday,” and “Summertime,” “Johnny B Goode” and “Follow The Drinking Gourd” forever, trust me. “Wipe Out,” yes, and the “Hawaii 5-0 Theme song;” but “put a ring on it?” “If I were a boy?” “Me myself and I???” Oh come on. I already attribute “If I were a boy” to little Mimi Sledge of the Sledge Grits band because she does it with just vocals and an acoustic guitar better than Beyonce EVER could.
Well, Pete Seeger, his Grandson Tao and Bruce Springsteen led a civic choir of hundreds in This Land is Your Land. 100% live with a very meaningful song. All the verses to boot! Not a backing track to be found for miles. I would challenge people like Beyonce to write a real song for once or get out of the way so people like Beyonce’s little sister Solange, Frank Waln, Kinnie Starr, Crystal Crow Dog, Wab Kinew and I can make our way up there where we belong.
Idle No More.
That’s all I can say for now.
Pete Seeger sings “This Land Is Your Land” for President Obama’s Inauguration
follow the drinking gourd: (Audio)
Immortalized song Summertime from Porgy and Bess.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_db7zHR7cc
Same for Johnny B Goode
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01/02/2013
Django Unchained Is Navajo Joe; Just Like Inglourious…
Earlier I did a compare and contrast between Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” and one of his favorite Spaghetti Westerns ever,  “Navajo Joe.”
Title: ‘Inglourious Basterds’ Was ‘Navajo Joe??’
Well here I’ll do the same, essentially some raw notes after seeing ‘Django’ (the d is silent) twice and then sitting myself down and watching Navajo Joe again.
Navajo Joe callbacks to/from Django Unchained
by Marc Frucht
7:47 Tips over a horse with rider falling to the ground.
of course scalping, letter R on cheek for runaway slave
10:18 Â Wanted posters. Bounties. Scalps. Corpses
13:11 Â “no sale.” Â Arresting you for murder.
15:10 Â “you won’t have to run around chasing stinking indians just for a few dollars…”
17:21 the music is very very similar, thank you Ennio Morricone
A lot more hand to hand combat in Navajo Joe than Django, but shooting and shooting into dynomite is similar.
21:35 Â Posse horseriding up over the crest of the hill has the same feel as the klan riders before they start their argument.
24:06 Â shoot em ups are much looser in Navajo Joe than anything Tarantino does. Everything seems more calculated and direct in Django Unchained
26:17 Â rosepetals in the wind. Note the blood spatterings on the cotton in the fields early in Django
Burt Reynolds is a one man vengeance machine killing everyone on his way to doing his nemesis Duncan in; whereas Django is helping a bounty hunter go after a new person each scene. Â Although there is the focus on freeing Broomhilda for the entire back 2/3’s of Unchained.
29:30 whistling for the horse to follow a command. Kind of parallel to the victory dance at the end when all of Candyland was destroyed.
31:00 Estella interrupting something important. I’ve forgotten where there were interruptions of conversations throughout Django but I’m pretty sure there are some parallels there too. The womens’ characters are better developed in Navajo Joe than in Django I think. Tarantino kind of makes everyone besides Uma Thurman kind of “flat.”
34:55 I don’t think Navajo Joe has said a word yet, just killed and killed.
35:19 “I brought you a train.” He speaks simple words, but never in an accent making fun of NDNs perhaps because Burt Reynolds is part Cherokee and fought against that.
38:26 “plus the reward that’s posted for Duncan” there’s the bounty hunter.
44:57 Â “and one more thing. I’ll need some dynomite.”
49:50 “and his father before him, and his father before him… now which one’s American…”
55:07 No tricks Duncan. Don’t worry you’ll get your half. Safes. Remember the tooth at the top of the Dentist wagon?
56:12 Â Chester, the NDN has it all. He tricked you.
Dynomite thrown.
Empty rolls to look like sleeping people under the dental wagon?
57:16 Â Hostage. “I’m gonna kill this woman.” ‘Hilda? “she’s an NDN just like you
58:01 torturing Joe… parallel to the castration scene maybe. (close to the end of Django so I don’t want to give away too much there)
59:10 Spurrs on boots. again at 59:30 on Navajo Joe’s neck. I think in Django they were 5 pointed stars or something, and looked more for show than poking horses’ bodies.
59:47 Â horsewhip and something resembling eaglebone whistle sounds. very high pitched, maybe piccolo.
1:00:47 Â String him up by his feet.
1:05:22 gets out of the “string.” I don’t remember how Django gets out of his mask and shackles.
1:14:09 “my revenge” — Duncan.
1L17:05 Â “navajo joe” on the horse. foiled. it’s Jeffrey symbol carved in his forehead with a longknife.
1:18:10 Â Dynamite in the saddlebags.
1:25:29 “you won’t escape now, redskin” Â — reminds me of “I count 6 shots, nigguh; I count two guns nigguh…”
1:27:32 Â “I know you’re a bounty killer, you want to have my bounty.”
this belonged to my woman. do you remember her?
OK, the tomahawk flying through the air into someone’s head has a similar feel to someone flying from one room to the next being shot. I’m avoiding two spoilers there, or I’d say more.
The horse delivering the town their money all by his/her self. Humanizing horses shows up in lots of westerns, not least of which is Django.
I’ll end this essay with a question that’s not rhetorical. I’d love an answer some day. Is Quentin Tarantino a guitarist? I know his stepdad played guitar and piano. But it doesn’t say he plays anywhere. But not only does he have writer credits in many of the songs to the Django soundtrack but I’m noticing that the whole soundtrack is very very guitar driven. Lots of Dm, Gm and Am pieces. 🙂
11/30/2012
When Does A Usenet Reply Become An Essay:
When Does A Usenet Reply Become An Essay:
(Another Accidental Guitar Lesson)
by marco frucht
You caught me. It was me all along.
I invented tapping in the middle 1700’s when I was in Paris picking up chicks. There was something majikal about playing the guitar back then. You ended up with scores of wives. I mean before weddings even. They were all willing to call themselves your wife with no strings attached. Imagine a wife in every town taking care of your children with no commitment save for an occasional waltz or sarabande. All you had to do was send a buck or two once in a while or maybe a manuscript to show some progress, and of course you must tell them when you’ll be there performing next; if even a year later!
Oy!
I felt like Mischy Barishokov, I had so many wives. And none of them were formal weddings. So no paternity suits! And all because I could tap. We called it “tokarring” back then.
It was my 35th wife, Elena Sanz, who coined the phrase “tapping.”
“My husband can tap like a racehorse,” she was heard saying. And then I was challenged by guitarists all over France, Spain and also Honduras for some strange reason. It wasn’t until I got to Chiapas, in the late 1800’s before I knew that people had been tapping since long before me. Chiapanecas can tap your socks off. I believe Charo was the best at it, even if she wasn’t the first.
Oh, April 1, 1894, I remember that date well. Charo and me tapping by the moonlight until 4 am, maybe 5. But then her father came by with a huge musket and called me a “dirty Castillian tapper” and told me if I didn’t stay away from Charo he’d have my P, I, M AND my A cut off.
Last I knew Charo was married to a cabinetmaker and recorded a dozen or so albums herself. All her children know how to tap. Actually it comes naturally to them.
Tapping was a lost art until the 1960’s. Before that I thought for sure, I was the only one still doing it. Then suddenly Andres Segovia added tapping to his repertoire. And next thing you know, going into his 70’s Segovia’s got newborn babies singing his praises in NY, Boston, Paris, and Honduras just like me. Oh, Andres, Viagra’s got nothing on you, babe.
Everyone knows the story of how Eddie Van Halen learned to tap. He found out about it in a musty old issue of Playboy behind the orange barn in Santa Cruz, CA on a hot september day in 1970. The thirteen year old was reading an interview I gave to George Plimpton where I basically described tapping in full detail.
“You put your pinky here…”
The story was called “Making Her Sing,” but I swear I had nothing to do with the titling. Probably Plimpton’s sick sense of humour.
Eddie (EVH became his nickname, or Vertical Hold for short) couldn’t wait to try it himself. He was doing it in front of television one day and saw a flamenco star named Bertilucci Valderon tapping her little butt off on one of those Brady Bunch type shows and he just knew he had to tap with her.
“Get me Valderon,” he told his agent on the phone. The agent called her, but she wouldn’t return the calls for days. So vertical hold Halen took matters into his own hands. He hopped into his maserati and found out where she’d be driving her mustang. He came to a stop light and speeding up next to her, he tapped into her.
The rest is history. They have 72 children, almost all of them of tapping age, and Eddie gives an occasional tapping lesson at one of the local guitar shops; where he still furthers the myth that he invented the techique of tapping.
Nah, I don’t say anything, because I know who started it.
And besides, who else has to know besides you and me? Oh and my wives.
Tapped In Wisconsin,
marco
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Craig Nelson wrote:
> tapping was a classical technique long before evh or anybody else tried it.
correct.
> Steve Cobham wrote in message
> > On 26 Jun 1999 15:22:37 GMT, (Magicween) wrote:
> > >Give me a specific example to prove me wrong, that guy from Genisis is
> known as “The Father of tap”.
No! What was said, was “that is one tapped daddy.”
> > Harvey mandel before Steve Hackett and before HM some jazz guy, but the name escapes me.
Byrd? Reinhardt?
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11/11/2012
FREE GUITAR LESSON: Supplemental Notes About The A-String Pages Of The Mel Bay Book
Notes about pages 18-21 from the Mel Bay Grade 1 book.
A free lesson from Marco Frucht:
Not to be too much the complainer; but all four songs in the Mel Bay book work you out on the A string’s ‘C’ note but not the ‘B’ and ‘A’ notes even once.
I’m afraid this might be an oversight that has gone unnoticed by teachers all over the world for something like 65 years now!
I’ve written an Etude in Am that includes all three of those notes as well as everything on the four higher notes that a student has already mastered and worked out on inside of the Mel Bay book, so the learner won’t develop too many bad habits before moving on to the 6th string.
I’ll put up an mp3 of how I play it, for any who wish to work out with it.
[Â http://www.reverbnation.com/open_graph/song/15130863 ]
I’ve made Standard Notation of the first two passages so far, and as soon as I’ve done two or three more, I’ll put up a youtube with the same audio and a page of notation to refer to so you can play along fairly easily.
UPDATE: Â Here’s the Youtube -Â http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75SwKORBauE
I might propose that this be added to any next edition of this book that has dominated the guitar learning world since 1947.
Sincerely,
Marco Capelli Frucht
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