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danstearns

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Feb 7, 2012, 4:45:33 AM2/7/12

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for anyone who might be interested, this is a new video piece i
dedicated to Derek Bailey who passed away Christmas Day, 2005

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI_P-JXtRyY

Dom Minasi

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Feb 7, 2012, 5:08:35 AM2/7/12

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On Feb 7, 4:45 am, danstearns <daniel_anthony_stea...@yahoo.com>
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> for anyone who might be interested, this is a new video piece i
> dedicated to Derek Bailey who passed away Christmas Day, 2005
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI_P-JXtRyY

Very Nice Dan

danstearns

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Feb 7, 2012, 5:15:19 AM2/7/12

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thanks Dom---this is the bit from the end:

Having made countless recordings over the better part of the last half-
decade with a veritable who's-who of creative music and genre-less
genres of which he occupied a very large space of his own making,
Derek Bailey passed away at the age of seventy-five on Christmas day,
2005

Quite aside from the thoughts and sounds he left behind, Derek Bailey
left behind the idea that the imaginative world of the creative person
is far from exhausted, and individuality need not suffer imitation in
order to exist. Having the wherewithal to believe and act accordingly
is a life-lesson both the aspiring and the accomplished reinforce with
positive examples. Derek Bailey, an unassuming radical and singular
guitarist, led a creative-life firmly rooted in the austere and single-
minded pursuit of being Derek Bailey

danstearns

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Feb 9, 2012, 3:42:42 PM2/9/12

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On Feb 7, 11:15 am, danstearns <daniel_anthony_stea...@yahoo.com>
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSO9vd35Kx4

i fixed the beginning to the way it was supposed to be and tried to
lengthen the end so the text would freeze frame as it's supposed to
but i think it's just an artifact of youtube which hard cuts you to
their "next video" page

The title adapted from Dark Drug a duet record Bailey did with
percussionist Jamie Muir--one of my favorites of his along with Time,
a duet record with clarinetist Tony Coe

Greg D

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Feb 9, 2012, 10:07:53 PM2/9/12

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On Feb 9, 3:42 pm, danstearns <daniel_anthony_stea...@yahoo.com>

As you may know from my past comments, I don't get your music at a
level that I should, *but* I do think you are a very creative
individual. Your music and art scream artistic.. even if I don't
really get it. It's like reading a fine novel and not really getting
the deeper meaning, but having enough sense to know it's there and
that I'm missing out on it.

danstearns

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Feb 10, 2012, 3:15:05 AM2/10/12

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well, some people would say you're spot on and just trust your
instincts....that there's nothing there to get to begin with

Personally, i think it's more a question of aesthetics than anything
else---not all things are for all people and, some things are more
difficult than others to find consensuses on. Bailey is one of those
guys who really splits 'em up....there ain't much middle ground with
his thing.In some ways i was drawn to that more than Bailey's
particular sounds and thoughts, and this is what the video was trying
to present....one, Bailey's contribution and signature sound , and two
the idea that he was never afraid to keep plowing his own fields and
that individuality is far from exhausted----don't assume it's all been
done if it doesn't benefit your forward-momentum.

There's a lot of music and art and literature that i didn't like on
first or even second take a then, boom, it just hit me and "worked" or
"made sense". Then there is some things you're (not you in particular)
maybe not ready for, or that weren't made for you, or don't work for
you, and whatnot. But if you find yourself coming back because there
is some glimmer of something that tells you it's got "something", then
it will probably hit its mark eventually. But that's all just
conjecture based on my experiences.

I have two sisters and they're both intelligent good people, and over
the years they've made a attempts to interface with what i do--coming
to concerts, listening to CDs, talking about it, etc---as they say
they don't get it but unlike some don't actively dislike it and would
like to understand it better.And for them i pretty much say the same
thing, and that's that all things are not for all people and if they
have to think about it too much then it probably doesn't have that
aesthetic overlap or "in" that's going to make it "work" any better

anyway, Gregg, thanks for taking the time to listen and comment, i
always appreciate it

TD

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Feb 10, 2012, 12:44:57 PM2/10/12

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On Feb 7, 4:45 am, danstearns <daniel_anthony_stea...@yahoo.com>
wrote:

> for anyone who might be interested, this is a new video piece i
> dedicated to Derek Bailey who passed away Christmas Day, 2005
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI_P-JXtRyY

Oh pardon me, I thought you were writing something pertaining to the
key of Db. It's a good key, nonetheless.

-TD

Tim McNamara

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Feb 10, 2012, 2:53:37 PM2/10/12

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In article
<54a5a688-2dba-402e...@hb4g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>,

De flat keys, dey are very popular.

--
This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in
unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in.

Theodore Roosevelt

Johnny Asia

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Feb 10, 2012, 9:29:59 PM2/10/12

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On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:44:57 -0800 (PST), TD <tonyde...@gmail.com>
wrote:

I read somewhere that Derrick Bailey always started solos on
D natural. I think I read that, maybe I imagined it.

Johnny

Johnny Asia

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Feb 10, 2012, 9:31:52 PM2/10/12

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On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:29:59 -0500, Johnny Asia <lo...@gnostic.com>
wrote:

Oops, I spelled his name wrong. I have a guitarist friend named
Derrick.