Synthesizer Patel

hungarian sausage lessons learned from rocky i to rocky iii "scratch knows exactly what he wants, and the musicians respect that..."

That looks interesting. What's it all about? NP.

I think this version is so much better than the album one. I don't dislike the album one, it's just a bit too over-blown (but then I guess all their music is, in some way or other).

It was me that posted it. It was from the BBC's Culture Show. Here's the clip on youtube Looks like I need to see Incident at Loch Ness, I'd heard of it, but never bothered to check it out.

I prefered it in the Grizzly Man thread, it was more obscure there.

I've got that poster in a frame on the wall, right alongside Paul and Linda McCartney in tophats taken out of some Wings album or other.

That's true. I did hear that he had problems with the producers over the film, that's the only thing that puts me off a bit (especially after seeing the trailer - which you can see here) It just doesn't look like one of his films. It's funny actually, cos he openly admits that his documentaries kind of cross the boundaries of documentary film making because he often rehearses what people will say or manipulates them like actors, and the documentary was good enough to not need to make this film. But, then he's not a man who is motivated by money or fame, so he must have his reasons for it I gu

I mentioned it in my first post. He made the documentary called Little Dieter Needs To Fly (which is a great doc, by the way), and it's that same story as a movie - starring Christian Bale as Deiter. It's about a german who saw a fighter pilot fly past his window when his village was bombed in the second world war, and that event made him realize that the one thing he needed to do in life was fly. He then moved to the USA and joined the airforce, ultimately getting to fly in the vietnam war. He was shot down and then captured, and then escaped again. That's the jist of the story, but what I've

As long as he was talking about sport, I heartily agree.

Yeah, I've never played Baseball, but I've done that in softball and rounders (Baseball's little brother and sister), and there really isn't anything better in sport than hitting a six in cricket - scoring a goal in football doesn't even come close (in my personal experience).

Watch this, and try and tell me another sport that suits this song? It's A Long Way To The Top THE SPORT OF ROCK N' ROLLERS!

Of course it's silly; it's sport! Shouldn't sport be silly?

It's not really that confusing on one level, but the finer rules (the LBW - Leg Before Wicket rule can be a little hard to understand, for example) are definately a little tricky to fully grasp I guess. I would have thought it was the time length of the whole thing that would have put people off more than the rules, but kids in India play it in the street without worrying too much about all the rules, so it's not essential to know all that. I guess you end up loving the games you grew up around - I grew up in a small village where people played cricket, so that's why I prefer it to any other s

You wait till he starts fucking with your hollywood films! Then you'll be pissed you let him into your country By the way, why don't American's like cricket?

I never even thought about the age difference myself. I guess it's one of those things where Bruno S was perfect for the role apart from his age, so that was over-looked. I kind of get fed up when you watch all these 'making-of' hollywood films where they get these historians in and say how accurate it is from the point of view of the sets/costumes/key events etc... yet, for want of a better word, the films suck. The hollywood way of making that film would have been to choose a child of comparible age and then make it into a mystery film about where Kaspar came from and who ultimately killed h

I don't want to have to keep quoting wikipedia, but it is the easiest way to get my point across: Ok, you'll probably say that a lot of that was only in the UK, but remember that this was the 1960's when most of the world was looking toward England's music scene (perhaps more-so than at any other period), and you'll see he's more well known than Randy Newman. I actually don't think Randy Newman does live in a mansion, by the way. He probably earns a lot less than you think - writing film scores can't be that rewarding, and I don't know why he should be a great exception to the rul

Nosferatu is my least favourite of the Herzog/Kinski films - I think something jarred with me about the fact that it was filmed in the style of a silent movie, yet had sound; and something about that just didn't seem to work with me. Why didn't you like Kaspar Hauser? That is one of my favourite films of all time.

I give up! You've beaten me down into the ground with that comment and I don't think I have the strength to recover. (oh, but I will say Scott Walker is better known than Randy Newman - the Walker Brothers were pretty big back in the day, and as I said, his first couple of solo albums went to no.1, it's only since he's gone more experimental that people stopped buying his stuff - doesn't mean they don't know who he is though.)

Seeing as I'm the only one arguing with you about this. I'd just like to make it clear that I do not think that Randy Newman is a cult artist. I just don't think he is as well known as the biggest stars who have a comparable level of talent. I'm not sure why you find that so hard to grasp. To follow on from what you said - If he lives in a big mansion then as long as it's as big as Paul McCartney's one then I'm happy, if not, then I'm not. Are you saying he is as huge as Paul McCartney? No, I assume not. I think he should be. Therefore I think he is underrated. That is what the thread is - not

Even if there were 10,000 covers of his songs, ultimately that only amounts to 10,000 people who have appreciated them - or do musicians levels of appreciation count 50 to 1 to the ordinary person? or what figure exactly? I think this whole thread refers to the general public, not who rates who in the music industry.

Actually I was going to quote wikipedia in my defence. How exactly can these facts be concidered as successful?: Short People did well, mainly due to the single, then he dropped off the radar again with Born Again. Yes, he's scored some big disney films, but he hasn't been rewarded much for them - he's only got 1 oscar, even though he's been nominated a lot - and really few people would remark on the scores to those films as being of any real worth (mainly cos they aren't - he openly admits that he does them to pay the bills). Anyway, we could argue all day about whether he's successfu

Well that isn't what I said, really was it - I was refering specifically to Randy Newman and his talent alongside those groups, not anyone else. You can only put 'everyone' in that category if they are deserving of the same level of fame, surely?

Well, has he sold as many albums as The Beatles or The Rolling Stones or blah blah blah? No. Should he have? Yes. Therefore he is underrated. I did allude to that in my first mention of him on page 1.

It's on youtube. He had to eat it because he bet Errol Morris that he'd never make a film in his life because he always talked about it, but never seemed to have the drive to get up and do it; and if Morris did then he'd eat his own shoe. Morris did, so he did. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3