His timing wasn't very good, but he's got pretty good stride piano skills. And ragtime is surely a part of the history of *jazz.

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That's not ragtime. It's 50's jazz-pop or something similar but definitely not ragtime.

Also, this is the video that Elliott Smith's first band Heatmiser was named after.

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dude, ragtime harp FTW!

What do elephants use for tampons? ..........Sheep.

I listen to that radio station KPMS quite a bit. Their programming alternates, 2 weeks of rocknroll, 1 week of blues, and then 1 week of ragtime.

What do you get when you cross a parrot with a centipede........a walkie-talkie.

I just got back from a pleasure trip........I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

How do you keep a lawyer from drowning? Take your foot off their head.

A lawyer's son is in the 4th grade. He comes home from school and that evening they are having dinner when his Dad says, "so, son what did you learn in school today?" His son says, "the teacher talked about something called "ethics". The father says, "well, did you understand what she meant?," The boy responds, "not really."
The father pushes back his chair and says, "OK, here, let me give you an example of ethics. Let's say I do some legal work for a little elderly lady. Let's say her bill comes to $500. She comes into my office, walks up to my secretary, opens her purse and hands 5 brand new crisp $100 bills to her. She gets her receipt and walks out. As my secretary is putting the cash in the box, she discovers that 2 bills were stuck together, so the old lady had actually overpaid by $100. Son, this is where ethics comes into play.............do I tell my partners?"

You might be a redneck if your mother doesn't even take the cigarette out of her mouth as she tells the state-trooper to kiss her ass.

Brad Dourif was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for this role. He lost to George Burns, which, if you're going to lose, you should lose to a legend.

Dourif went on to become a successful character actor, appearing in Foreman's Ragtime, David Lynch's Dune and Blue Velvet, Mississippi Burning, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, HBO's Deadwood, and he's also the voice of Chucky, the doll from all the Child's Play films.

This calls for the Issy song.


(In an old timey two beat feel.)

C
Issy....You got me in a

A7
tizzy... Oh, ya keep me so

Dm G7
busy... Cuz you're my ragtime

C Bb7 Ab7 G7
girl.

A video of Issy... ----> http://www.videosift.com/video/The-REAL-Issykitty-other-Issykitties-are-just-imitating

...and here is the song she was named after, ----> http://www.videosift.com/video/Moth-Delivers-Her-Message

Useless musical knowledge: The music is from Scott Joplin's Ragtime Opera, Treemonisha. It is the only opera in existence to be entirely comprised of ragtime music. Joplin died before it could be performed, but close personal friend Irving Berlin financed a production of it several years later.

Yes,4/4, but feel free to arrange it anyway you like. There is no copyright.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
I'm gonna see how this sounds tonight. 4/4 time?

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
C
Issy....You got me in a

A7
tizzy... Oh, ya keep me so

Dm G7
busy... Cuz you're my ragtime

C Bb7 Ab7 G7
girl.

I'm gonna see how this sounds tonight. 4/4 time?

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
C
Issy....You got me in a

A7
tizzy... Oh, ya keep me so

Dm G7
busy... Cuz you're my ragtime

C Bb7 Ab7 G7
girl.

C
Issy....You got me in a

A7
tizzy... Oh, ya keep me so

Dm G7
busy... Cuz you're my ragtime

C Bb7 Ab7 G7
girl.

SG,

You've misunderstood. Your criteria for disliking something may be rational or irrational. Disliking something doesn't make you irrational.

On Country

You don't like 'modern' country, but you do like country, which means you haven't written off an entire genre of music (I'm not judging, it's just an observation).

I happen to agree with you on country, but there is some decent stuff out there if you look for it. If you don't already know Abigail Washburn, then she is soon to be one of your favorites. Other acts to look for are Old Crow Medicine Show, Wilco and Nickel Creek. None of it but the AW stuff really stack up to Patsy Cline or Johnny Cash, but it's a helluva lot better than the drivel on the radio.

In general, music on commercial radio is horrible.

Jazz and Hip-Hop

Jazz and Hip-hop are actually more similar than you think.

-They both use the same types of rhythmic syncopations. This point is made clearly by an excellent mashup of an Eminem song and an old piano rag. The track is called 'Snookered' by a DJ named Freelance Hairdresser. You can follow these syncopations from ragtime to Dixie Jazz, to Swing, Rock, Bop, Soul, Funk, and eventually Hip-Hop.

-The co-opting of popular tunes is also shared between the two genres. Rappers are much maligned for their use of samples and get little credit for the creative ways in which they reconstruct the source material. Jazzer's would also co-opt the popular standards of the day, tweaking the harmonies/ melodies and adding their own improvisational ideas.

-Both types of music place a large emphasis on improvisation. In Hip-Hop it's called freestyle.

-Like Hip-Hop, Jazz was an outlet for a culture largely shut out of the mainstream. Both styles of music were marginalized, maligned and generally considered lewd, crude and disgusting.

-Jazz was eventually co-opted and accepted by whites, which is happening as we speak in the hip hop world. This isn't a bad thing, as white folks had/have some nice things to add.

Finally, I must say that your characterization of Hip-hop as negative is as bad a generalization as saying all Christians are as lame as Pat Robertson. There is plenty of positive Hip-Hop out there. I'd suggest MeShell Ndegeocello, Eryka Badhu, Outkast and M.I.A. for starters.

The media spends much time attacking Hip-Hip, and buying into media distortions don't make you a racist.

The racism I speak of is subtle and internalized. If you were to recognize this racism in yourself, it would evaporate instantly upon recognition. I'm not trying to brand anyone with a scarlet R, this is just a plea for folks to be introspective and constantly in a state of self improvement.

We are all a product of our time, and although things are getting better, we have a long way to go before we are free from racism/sexism/classism/homophobia to name a few isms (and one phobia). If it exists in culture, it exists in you too.

Finally, I know I pissed many people off with this thread. It was intended to be light-hearted. I have arrived at these ideas after doing quite a bit of thinking, and didn't bother to fill in the space between A and B. In other words, I blurted out some unconventional, controversial ideas without telling you how I got to them.

Some of got it right away, but apparently others thought I was calling them Klansmen, and apparently others still ACTUALLY ARE KLANMEN (just kidding you know who.)

It probably would have been better to present these ideas as things I've discovered about myself, without forcing anyone to have to take a critical look inside their own soul. Forcing introspection is not polite.

Still, I think this discussion will be rattling around in sifty heads for some time, and at the very least, we've breached that most taboo of American taboos, racism. Maybe we should move on to classism..........