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And is that related to the Aldous Huxley book on drug use or no?
In a word, yes.
The ''doors of perception'' comes from William Blake, and is where the Doors got their name. Just FYI.
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man
as it is: Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern."
William Blake - 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790)
From this Aldous Huxley took the title of his 1954 book 'The Doors of Perception' about his experience with the psychedelic mescaline. This book was the influence behind Jim Morrison naming his band The Doors in 1965. Wikipedia
The ''doors of perception'' comes from William Blake, and is where the Doors got their name. Just FYI.
And therefore "The Doors" gets a +1 for cool band name. That is the kind of subversive promotion of mind expanding drugs with an otherwise innocuous name we like to see in a name for it to officially be considered a cool band name. Also +1 to Thievery Corporation as that name just sounds cool while pointing out the self-righteous follies of capitalism.
The ''doors of perception'' comes from William Blake, and is where the Doors got their name. Just FYI.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... William Blake was first, but Aldous Huxley's book of that name was probably a more direct influence on The Doors.
The ''doors of perception'' comes from William Blake, and is where the Doors got their name. Just FYI.
I believe the Doors took their name from the Aldous Huxley book "The Doors of Perception" about his personal psychedelic experiences in the 1950's, not the William Blake quote. I could be wrong but makes sense.
The ''doors of perception'' comes from William Blake, and is where the Doors got their name. Just FYI.
And is that related to the Aldous Huxley book on drug use or no?
The ''doors of perception'' comes from William Blake, and is where the Doors got their name. Just FYI.
Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) used the same phrase as the title
of his book recounting his experiences with psychedelic drugs...
Tony in NJ
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I feature ganja when I'm listening to this type of music....and I'm at an 8 on this one though it's really a 8.4 with the "Doors/Huxley" reference as the track title...Long Live RP!!
As someone has pointed out, the reference is to a poem by William Blake from which Huxley used for his 1954 book "Doors of Perception". Easy mistake.
I agree about Chicago.
Thievery Corporation is a seriously smooth chill.
I feature ganja when I'm listening to this type of music....and I'm at an 8 on this one though it's really a 8.4 with the "Doors/Huxley" reference as the track title...Long Live RP!!
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Love the Thievery Corp.
Thievery Corporation is a seriously smooth chill.
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"Boring" fits rather nice.
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Indeed!
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YES RP IS THE SHIT
I am sure he would have enjoyed this on his trips...
kiss kiss and thanks for playing like this !
Glad they still play these medium size venues, because there was a love-fest in the crowd with that kind of music!
foothillfreak wrote:
Very smooth segue from Harry Manx's Afghani Raga, absolutely seamless from one sitar to the next - I couldn't spot the join. Another fine number from the eclectic Thievery Corp - 8 from the Nottingham jury.
Dear Fred, it's actually the tabla segue you're hearing there
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DITTO!
ckcotton wrote:
Great MUSIC!
Very smooth segue from Harry Manx's Afghani Raga, absolutely seamless from one sitar to the next - I couldn't spot the join. Another fine number from the eclectic Thievery Corp - 8 from the Nottingham jury.
I agree all around. And 8 was my score too...
Very smooth segue from Harry Manx's Afghani Raga, absolutely seamless from one sitar to the next - I couldn't spot the join. Another fine number from the eclectic Thievery Corp - 8 from the Nottingham jury.
This song is very cool by the way and Bill and Rebecca do a great job of setting up the programming. I've discovered many new artists by listening and have ended up starting to buy music again...
Thanks for your replies. It's nice to learn a bit more of the workings of a raydidio station.
To the perpetual whiners out there, I have a question: Speaking of programming nonsense, have you ever noticed how your favorite broadcast radio station that promises to have great variety (KFOG is one of 'em here in the Bay Area) will get a wild hare one day, after a 6 or 7 month absolute absence of someone like, say the little-known Eric Clapton or any other artist of your choice, and suddenly you find there isn't a day for about 6 weeks that Eric Clapton doesn't get played a good 6 or 7 times a day? Yep, it happens, and the funny 6 week run coincidentally precedes that artist's next major release or more commonly, his/her next concert here.
It's a remarkably efficient method for making an artist that I really enjoy become unbearable to listen to for a really long time, and that sucks. In fact, they also beat the snot out of all kinds of other music that the record label dip-shits have decided need to be the "Next Big Thing." Ugh, after so much daily repetition, not to mention the highly repetitive and unclever commercials, I just turn that raydidio right off, CLICK. Enter RP, and we have an aural paradise. It may not be perfect for everyone, but after we become grownups, we figure out that there really isn't true perfection anywhere in the universe, and we allow Radio Paradise into our hearts — Ohhhmmmmm.
YO Bill & Rebecca, you two ROCK!
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Harry Manx - Afghani Raga
Thievery Corporation - Doors Of Perception (Feat Gunjan)
I'm getting drowsy...
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As for automation, Bill and I both worked at stations that were automated. In my case, the station had three 10-1/2" reel-to-reel tape recorders, along with two carousels of advertising cartridges (similar to the old 8-track tapes). The "carts" would be programmed using a pegboard laid out in an alphanumeric scheme, as I recall, so that cart B4, say, would play at 4:15 am (ah, the graveyard shift!).
As one reel came near its end, the operator (me) would have to rewind it, thread up a fresh reel, and get it back online. With three reels from which to pick the next selection, the repetition of playback order was very small.
At RP, Bill puts together themed sets that do get repeated. With just Bill and Rebecca running things, would you expect one of them to be manually picking tracks 24 x 7? Even with the themed sets, nowhere else do we get exposed to such a W-I-D-E variety of great (and sometimes not-so-great) music.
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