Black Sabbath: A National Acrobat [1973]
from the indispensable Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath
Drummer Bill Ward walks the fine line between funky and plodding on this track, staying just to the funk side of the line, with breathtaking results. Please note what Bill plays between 4:31 and 4:32 -- this moment alone immediately catapults him into the pantheon of rock legends.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
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Wow. Just found this blog. Amazing stuff ... please keep it coming.
Thanks for the comment, A-Dub. Glad you enjoy it...
I'm enjoying your posts!. Visit often. Always a surprise.
Props!!
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Have you just given us the second that you talk about in your post? The file is very short. I'm sure its pantheon ascending but very hard to tell out of context!
Casey -- thanks for the comment! Ween -- the whole song is there to my knowledge. Sorry you're having download trouble...
Hey Emmet - I'm posting this comment here not so much as a response to the Sabbath track, but because this appears to be your most recent post. You may recall that i'd mentioned previously in response to the Roy Harper track i'd been experiencing some problems with bad links, etc ? (Thanks for offering to e-mail the Daevid Allen/Euterpe track, incidentally.)
Anyway, i appreciate it greatly that you encode at 192kbs upward, but since i have never experienced problems on other blogs i did doubt it was solely connected to my limited bandwith. Have you changed anything with your server recently ?
Everything now is working great now, so i've been slowly trawling back and forth hoovering up those gems i'd been unable to grab earlier. (i do mean slowly - the Daevid Allen track took me over an hour to download but i'm used to it.)
Whatever the reason, i'd just like to mention that since i've been away this blog seems to be positively thriving. Art Decade seems set to become the best blog i've had the good fortune to stumble across in a long time, and i appreciate the efforts you and your fellow contributors are making in covering a good variety of bases. Keep it up, and thanks, man. I'm just sorry this comment is so long-winded, but i'm getting a real buzz out of what's posted here.
ib
ib -- if I may expatiate upon Mike's perhaps not entirely helpful comments...
We're very glad you're enjoying the site! I don't know what to tell you about downloading since we didn't change our server and I'm unaware of anything we might do to help those w/download issues. I'm not about to start ripping at 128 kb/s -- that would be boorish. So I'm just glad you're able to hear some of this stuff now, even if it takes a while, and thanks again for your kind words...
Emmet,
"Expatiate" on Mike's comment ? Sorry, but if you at Art Decade have been discussing in-house as to whether you should encode at a lower rate, then i missed that one completely.
Personally, i concur that anything below 192kbs is criminally painful on the ears. I think you're missing my point.
To reiterate, since i have recently returned to this site there DOES appear to be a significant improvement on the reliability of linking within a browser. Given that you seem to have generated a good deal more traffic by way of comments posted, I would suggest there may well be an improvement in how your server connects to lower-end bandwith users.
Am I, or was i, complaining ? Not one fucking bit.
I seldom if ever frequent sites that encode below 192 kbs, and your site is working for me now.
If it ain't fucking broke, don't fix it.
- ib
Sorry ib, I am too blame for the confusion here. I posted a comment earlier and then deleted it because the comment was meant to be joke, but wasn't actually funny.
Hey IB, sorry, I knew you weren't suggesting we downgrade to 128 kb/s, and didn't mean to imply that you were... I was just sort of musing to myself about the issue, and mostly I just wanted to use the word "boorish". I know you weren't complaining -- we appreciate your support.
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