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Tiny Tim "Do You Think I’m Sexy?"

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Proof, if you need it (you don’t) of the indispensibility of Youtube. From the Carson show in 1980. This isn’t “Tiptoe Through the Tulips,” folks.

ALSO: Over at the New Yorker, S F/J demonstrates re: Radiohead why it’s basically him, several carriage returns, and then everyone else.

Radiohead’s gift is in creating compositions thick with intricate harmonies. At a performance in Boston earlier this month, the melody of “Fake Plastic Trees,” from the 1995 album, “The Bends,” sounded like the second theme of a Schubert string quartet: Yorke’s voice mimicked the timbre and varied dynamics of a violinist bowing. While deforming the words, he revealed the melody’s elegance, which I couldn’t hear before I saw him sing it. Yorke, as his early sponsor Michael Stipe once did, plays his voice the way his bandmates play their instruments, and he has impressively consistent pitch. Radiohead sounds like an instrumental band that happens to have a singer.

MOREOVER: The Cincinnati Enquirer gives some behind-the-scenes insight on how the Desdemona Festival popped off: (via)


In the weeks before the festival, Spencer, a two-time city council candidate, rallied music fans to flood city council members with e-mails asking that they waive up to $25,000 in fees the festival stood to pay for police officers, emergency workers and the cost of renting Sawyer Point. But talks broke down a week before the festival. The festival was able to pay all of the three dozen acts and all its vendors through ticket and beer sales and sponsorship money, Spencer says. Spencer says he has to foot the bill for the city services himself.

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