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| From | "garymaher@juno.com" <garymaher@juno.com> |
| Subject | Re: Buddy Judge Query |
| Date | Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:29:03 GMT |
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I also have it. It's loosely a concept album based on the musical inventions of Mr. Spalding, a Boston eccentric. AMG says: "The concept is that the music is inspired by a late 19th century Boston bookkeeper named Mr. Spalding, who created an orchestra of mechanical animal musicians run on steam power. Mr. Spalding was a bit of a recluse who died when the orchestral device's main boiler exploded, also destroying all of his devices. This album is recorded in that particular style -- sounding a bit like a circus gone mad -- making it possibly one of the only tuba-based pop records in memory."
Three of the last four songs are played straight, and they plus a couple of the concept songs are worth having for Grays fans. Too bad he didn't make a straightforward rock record -- I really love the songs he contributed to the Grays (esp. Nothing and Everybody's World). There's obviously tremendous potential there.
Gary
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I have it also and I agree with Eric's take on it. It's not something I
play very often, indeed I haven't for years.
On 21/07/2008, EricSSims@aol.com <EricSSims@aol.com> wrote:
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> I have the Buddy judge cd. It has about 15 songs, about 10 of which are
> weird but baroque pop with a carnival/circus sound to them. The rest are
> more normal pop songs in similar vein to The Grays. That is my take.
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