Muff's Modules & More

10011001 · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 5:45 pm Post subject:

anybody know anything about the scales these riffs are wraped around?

Dr. Sketch-n-Etch · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 7:07 pm Post subject:

Mostly they used the whole-tone (hexatonic) scale and the diminished (octatonic) scale. These are two examples of symmetric scales. For a more complete set of such scales, check out the composer Olivier Messiaen's famous book "Technique of my musical language" where he describes his "modes of limited transposition."

odecahedron · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:47 am Post subject:

woah

fredguy · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:11 pm Post subject:

neandrewthal · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:38 pm Post subject:

MindMachine · Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 1:44 am Post subject:

Heaviest four piece lineup since Blind Faith (at the time). Just solid at every station. Anyway... My all time favorite is still the first album. RED is my heavy favorite... and my underdog best song is 'Ladies of the Road'.

odecahedron · Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 4:02 am Post subject:

THIS...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=OlfKWRbwYPA

is amazing - 90 min show in Japan mid 80s, incredible performance, dig me, waiting man, indiscipline, industry - all the bent stuff - soo rad

solitaryzen · Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 1:12 am Post subject:

well2thebone · Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 6:17 pm Post subject:

Def. a cool band. Makes we want to go listen to them...

Flux Jetson · Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 1:18 am Post subject:

I know this thread is dated, and my reference is a shot off the bumper in the corner pocket, but one of my favorite Fripp works is....

Fripp and Eno "No Pussyfooting".

Two guys, a Les Paul, and a room full of reel to reels and tape loops. I still have the orginal vinyl of that album that I bought in the fall of 1978. I got it after I heard it being used as background fodder on this late night rasio show in the Houston area. Two guys taking in late night phonecalls .. they'd put these stoned-out-of-their-minds callers on these delays and screw with the delay times and feedback while the callers were talking to them .. all the while Fripp and Eno are going on in the background .... it would totally trip out the callers!

I listened to it until 3am that night. Fucking with stoned people on live radio was great late-night entertainment at one time. Those times are gone forever.

So if you like the "Frippertronics" thing, it nearly sounds EXACTLY like an entire LP of this stuff on this video. 26 minutes per side of this exact type of thing.

In fact, this is so close to No Pussyfooting that it may even be part of it, or inspired from it, or even vice-verse.

smile

Flux Jetson · Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 1:53 am Post subject:

Huh .... it would appear it's all over You Tube ... whoda thunk it seriously, i just don't get it

It get's into full flight after about 8 minutes or so. Typical! thumbs up

DruidTek · Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 2:33 am Post subject:

I love all of their albums and still listen to them all the time! They're a huge inspiration for me. On "Discipline" Fripp insisted that Bruford not use any hi-hats, so he ended up using things like octobans instead, which gave the album a really interesting feel, percussion wise.