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(sigh) I gave it a shot. But I hope this is simply mindless prejudice and not the result of actual harm done to you.
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Your hope is fulfilled: this is simply mindless prejudice against organs...although I *have* been harmed by a few of them!
(I should probably take away the
but then this looks very serious, doesn't it?)
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Actually it's 'God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen', but now we're getting somewhere. Were you being waterboarded while learning Christmas tunes? lol.
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Yes.
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You missed some non-churchy dissonance in there too. I'm not saying Ingle's a prodigy on the organ (that would be the singular E. Power Biggs). Much of the organ work in In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is fill, but it's good fill.
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Good...I also felt Ingle's organ playing sounded mostly like fill. Not that we have to agree, of course.
I do not know of E. Power Biggs, but it sounds like his name (Power) must be appropriate!! I wish my name were Power.
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That's 'Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565 ', which I doubt you'll ever hear in church unless someone's giving a recital. And even then you probably won't hear it on a pipe organ. You've chosen an average performance here, but I'm glad you have some sense of the power of this music. Sadly, none of Biggs' performances can be found on YouTube. The Lezajsk at youtube.com/watch?v=0Aej0vQJNQA is the best of the pickings, I think.
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Yep, I can sense power in the music. And excruciating beauty (especially at 2:50 and beyond) and delicacy. I just wish it didn't have that organ warble. You like this singular Mr. Biggs, don't you!
I'll settle for the following for now:
^ Actually, this organ tune is sort of starting to grow on me after listening to it in your Baroque thread as well as here.
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You have me there -- Slayer has put some balls into the piece, where now it sounds more like a paean to Satan. rofl. Very effective. I don't mean to compare Iron Butterfly with Slayer, though. For me, the original piece demonstrates a successful integration of organ keyboard work with psychedelic rock music.
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I understand your perspective: the two pieces aimed to achieve different goals and both achieve them well.
I don't really know why Iron Butterfly's version is considered "psychedelic," though, other than it meanders around (drums to organ, etc.) with a stream-of-consciousness sort of feel. It sounds like prog rock, as best I can guess based on what I've learned about progressive rock here at MB, where its main afficionado (boo boo) is unfortunately currently on involuntary hiatus. Boo boo!!!!
(That was a tortured scream.)
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In case you're wondering, I can't post complete URL's yet).
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Really? Huh. I guess you'll just have to up your post count! Remember: go UP, not DOWN!
You can go down, though, if you want to. I don't mind. But don't most people like their posts to go up?
I *was* wondering why you weren't just embedding the youtube videos as you usually do.
