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  April 7, 2009


Comedy I grew up with

Well, at least it´s from the time of my yought and indeed I knew most of this as a kid.

 
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This one of the historic top conferances in the dutch language:

"Onder de wapens" met Jos Ghysen

These are probably the most well known TV comedians or some other description (artists) with broad appeal of a bit intellectual standing:

 


 


 

The main political standup act from dutch history until thus far:

 

The best comedian, probably:

 
very funny.

  (part 2 )
"Met je grote bloemkole" probably these comedies were amoung the most popular in the whole of dutch history.


Essential dutch history, known to most everyone (I might hope):

 


Two (book) writers who were also known as public figures:

 

In english, he´s talking about a little dog making an older person more talked to:

 

The last 2 humorist writers were both part of my highschool final examination (it goes without saying I was preparing for engineering university levels, not languages). I guess these are all important dutch cultural pieces of material.

 Majoor Kees, Paul van Vliet




 


Drukwerk is band, and I don´t hear much humor in this song:

 


Some Synthesizer/electronic music that influenced theover

This classic piece by walter carlos is not on youtube, but worth a listen, if you don´t already know it: on Moog synthesizer!

Electronics music means Moog, and Kraftwerk!



Of course this music was well known to me:

 

In the times I (mostly as it was) amplified the humble highschool band (in that time not yet playing or owning a synthesizer) I was quite familiar with the theme from Peter Gunn, by Emerson Lake and Palmer, great song.

Dutch big hit decades ago, I used this example years later when I played the synthesizer. I thought it was Ad Visser but I don´t discern him in the video:

 

How classic can electronic rock become:



I suppose for the intellectually minded, world class music when I was first into synthesis:

 

I guess I listened to genesis a little while after the Ultravox hit a little more because at some point I had some of their songs on good quality tape:

 

I gues this song is a bit remindfull

 

of this one:



I had all abba materials at the time from a at most 3 times played (on a good turntable) fresh bough album, and I remember this was one of the first digitally recorded albums (with the same name) from her studio in Sweden:




 

When I had a homestudio this was one of my favorite musics:

 

Electronic drums, sounds:

 

Heavy ynthesizers all over the place, totally great creations:

 

Try to play that yourself, very instructional (when you aspire to become a studio synth musician, I don´t mean sampling or sh*t, I mean take an analog synth or a good imitation digital one and actually play for instance the main riff).

American magic:

 

I must have been an early teenager when I really dug (digged) this chap with band (I recall radio recording I had with I love the Sound of Breaking Glass (Lowe) and Where were you (when the light went out in NY city)):

 

There is also a heavier clip, which is great. Were these like the top synthesizer

In a way this is heavy, too:

 


 

 

Talking about heavier:

 

Now that is a good internet version!

Lyrics (from here):

Song: Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me) ~~ 1980 ~~ 5:16
Artist: The Gap Band
LP/CD: III ~~ Total Experience ~~ 1980
Composers: Charlie Wilson~Lonnie Simmons~Rudy Taylor

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Woo, gave you my money, I gave you my time
Why you wanna hurt me, girl
Are you serious, I’m just curious
Why you wanna hurt me, girl

Just because you’re not for real
Why you hurt me, girl
Just because you’re not for real
Why you hurt me, girl

Never, ever had a lover
Who put the peddle to the metal
And burn rubber on me, Charlie
Oh, no

You took my money, you took my time
Made me think everything was fine
Then you upped and ran away
And made me just go crazy

I never, ever had a lover
Who put the peddle to the metal
And burn rubber on me, Charlie
Oh, no, no, no

Just because you’re not for real
Why you hurt me, girl
Just because you’re not for real
Why you hurt me, girl

I never, ever had a lover
Who put the peddle to the metal
And burn rubber on me, Charlie
Oh, no, no, no

Just because you’re not for real
Why you hurt me, girl
Just because you’re not for real
Why you hurt me, girl

You told me to go up the block
To get you a strawberry pop
When I got back to the flat
You had burned rubber out the back

I went to the closet and saw no clothes
All I saw was hangers and poles
I went to the phone and called your mother
And told me that you had burned rubber on me, Charlie
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

Just because you’re not for real
Why you hurt me, girl
Just because you’re not for real
Why you hurt me, girl

I never, ever had a lover
Who put the peddle to the metal
And burn rubber on me, Charlie
Oh, no, no, no, no, oh, no, yeah, yeah

Just because you’re not for real
Why you hurt me, girl
Just because you’re not for real
Why you hurt me, girl

Just because you’re not for real
Why you hurt me, girl

You took my money, you took my time
You made me think everything was fine
Like the clock on the wall said ding-ding-dong
Got to find another lover that won’t be gone

She won’t put the medal to the metal
And burn rubber, burn rubber on me, Charlie
No, no, no, no

Never, ever had a lover
Who put the peddle to the metal
And burn rubber on me, Charlie
No, no, no, no, no, no                            (8X)

Of course there were and are numerous American bands and artists and film score writers/musicians/producers who used the synthesizer in advanced and interesting and profound ways.

And of course quite some american bands would use the synthesizer as part of their sound, and of course lots of electronic and digital effects on stage and even more on records. Examples (without a special reason to mention these): the synth in Jump (van Halen), almost all Prince music, Crockett´s Theme (Miami Vice, by Jan Hammer), Foreigner, Toto, Stevie Wonder,

It´s almost like the american have invented the digital and analog synthesizer and Rock and ...

Well, alright one more song reference:

 
of course the original rose royce song is from around ´77, and at least for sure in ´Love don´t live here anymore´ there´s prevalent synth sounds.

 set fs [open /tmp/t2.txt w]
 for {set x 0} {$x <= 100000} {incr x} {puts $fs "$x {[expr $x*$x]}" }
 close $fs
 $ createdb test
 $ psql -d test

 create table squares (
 n int,
 sq varchar[20]
 );

 copy squares (n, sq) from '/tmp/t2.txt' with delimiter as ' ';

 test=# select * from squares where n >99990;
    n    |      sq       
 --------+---------------
   99991 | {9998200081}
   99992 | {9998400064}
   99993 | {9998600049}
   99994 | {9998800036}
   99995 | {9999000025}
   99996 | {9999200016}
   99997 | {9999400009}
   99998 | {9999600004}
   99999 | {9999800001}
  100000 | {10000000000}
 (10 rows)
and 8 megabytes of disc use are added! 
drop table squares
And they're back. dropping the database gives back another 4 megabytes. Anyhow this is how to list the names of the media-wiki users: 
 select user_id,user_name,user_real_name,user_password from  mediawiki.mwuser;
There's and md5() command which can hash passwords, of course sorting is possible...