Bakullamas Last track.

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Goodbye Bakullama

Going on a long Hiatus, This one is gonna be it until I find some inspiration, learn how to play drums, and take care of some other issues that have risen.

Let's hear ideas for new band names! Anything goes!


Hope you like!

Edited by Valdez - May 27 2025 at 16:26

Hi,

Really nice piece of music, and I will look to purchase a thing or two here in the future as soon as I settle in this new place. So far, so good, but I'm just exhausted and the music helped soothe it all ... wonderful stuff!

Don't let me get near ... you don't need a drummer or learn drumming ... do some "anti-drumming" instead, which will help the work you do! As I like to say to my dogs and cats ... well ... welll ....

I'm too different to be able to find a new band name ... though I tend to think a literary one is better than some clever bs! I think that one of the best band names I have really found cool, and enjoyed senseless, was Djam Karet ... and even better when Gayle said that the only chords he remembered were the ones between A and Z! one could always use some kind of scrambling thing ... you know that Alec Guiness is Genuine Class, right? Or that Eno thing ... I call it 52 pick up ... throw the cards in the air, and the ones that land on cow poop are the letters you use for the name of the band! That ought to make the spirit of Storm Thorgerson happy! And Andrew will smile ... a cover that has so much nothing in it!

Edited by moshkito - May 29 2025 at 22:34

Valdez wrote: Yes! I just scored a complete Yamaha DTXPRO drum set and I’m having a blast with it . Anti-drumming in the works!   And yes to throwing cards in the air. I don’t do well with constraints or dogma. Free as a bird. No need to purchase just go to Bandcamp and stream away.   Who is Andrew?

Hi,

Andrew Powell ... the other guy in Hipgnosis ... try to catch that special on Hipgnosis somewhere, and it is mostly about Andrew Powell, since Storm had passed away too long ago. The only sad thing is the ending ... but it is pure poetry!

My take on drumming is bad for a lot of folks ... I like folks that paint the music with the stix, not just keep up the beat ... which should not be an issue with experienced and folks that "know" their music. And even Robert Fripp mentions this on the KC special last year, that you listen to the folks you are with and you join them ... which, of course, makes you wonder how/what is the idea behind the three drummers ... which is cool in many ways ... and then we can try to compare this with the Grateful DEad always having had 2 drummers, and you and I never even thought about the drumming in a GD set ... which I think suggests that they knew the music was more important than the beat itself. The last album by Kate Bush also has a lot of touches since some of her stuff would not even be considered a "song", it just wide open beat poetry, we could say, and putting a beat to it, would destroy the feeling and the poetry ... and I'm not sure that many bands ever know how to get that far in their work ... most are too worried about being conventional and easy so that ears can pick it up right away ... but honestly, I never had to work to pick up wild music in our hearts that does not exactly owe anything to what we know as "music theory", or what I like to say is "thusic meory"! In Kate's case the quality of the expression is poetry magic! Even Dylan Thomas did not do this right and well ... and the majority of "poets" don't even dare read their work! Pablo Neruda did well, but I tend to think that he tried too hard to be "meaningful" and sometimes take away the flow of the nice way he worded things. I would like to find T. S. Elliot reading his stuff ... but I think it might even have some sardonic touches that are poetic to the reading, but probably something else when spoken or staged on theater or film ... I would like to do a production of some poetry on stage, with or without music ... with the idea being about the words, and maybe use some of the well known songs though I know that Robert Fripp would not approve and say no, but some of the inflections done by Greg Lake are special, and pure theater!

Edited by moshkito - 1 hour 15 minutes ago at 00:39