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February 25th, 2009

They Don’t Make ‘Em Like The Used To: Original

This is the original Autotune® sound, by the way. I was looking for a good example before but just couldn’t think of nor find one.

Today this showed up on my “you might like” YouTube box. Wtf? Um….okay.

Well here it is: the sound that threatened some of mankind not much more than a couple weeks ago and prolly still

threatens someone today.

So I still can’t think of a song that I’ve ever loved which employs this effect. I used it on our version of PRIMARY (The Cure) but

ended up taking it off. Maybe I’ll post a mix of it back later.

Actually I took it off because it’s the first time I’ve liked the way my voice sounds singing “yelliie guy” style. Mr Yellsworth. Yells Yellington. It doesn’t really sound like me. I love that.

COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR

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February 23rd, 2009

They Don’t Make ‘Em Like The Used To: Chet Baker

Ladies and boys hold onto your panties I’m on a Chet Baker thing.

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I’ve got a record called The Best of Chet Baker Plays. Well I believe it. One of the best records I own. It’s all hits pretty much. What a guy.

He lived in Portland for a while. Guess he liked to shoot dope and be left alone. Played gigs with the local cats out on NE Vancouver. He left his saxaphone with the only white jazz cat, Billy Hood. Oh, actually I guess it was the pawn shop ticket for the sax. Not the sax itself. Apparently his daughter or grandkid still has it.

(If anyone can verify that story, would be nice to know. Thanks.)

Portland has a great dark history. We had the book Portland Confidential while we recorded Oddy or Warlords. It’s all about the creepy old place.

COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR

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February 3rd, 2009

They Don’t Make ‘Em Like They Used To

Hey there whoever is reading this, it’s Courtney and I have recently acquired a handheld personal wireless device so I’m going to have Gothman (or whomever) put up anything cool that I run across in my daily wanderings about.

We are going to put up a new website (which is currently under construction) and it will be far simpler to navigate, so for now he will just stick it in the “news” section.

Okay. Yesterday whilst finishing my “Amigos” remix with Jacob, he showed me this:

It reminded me that Bauhaus is indeed my favorite band ever and why. Also that I was the singer for Bauhaus for a few minutes in DC once. I like to call it that cuz it’s funny but really all I did was sing “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” with Daniel, Kevin and David J. which is pretty much the same as when sammy hagar sang for van halen but that we were smart enough to limit it to one song. Ever.

Sorry for the cheap shot, Sammy, but it was just right there, ya know.

Anyhoo.

This next clip is dark, sweet and campy and basically everything I love about old film. the lighting is so beautiful and the story is obviously very sad. Marlene just looks amazing. She actually did have Bette Davis Eyes back when they called them “bedroom eyes”.

Now here’s a quick look at Marlene Dietrich, my favorite female archetype ever:

Incidentally she is also my favorite singer from the 20′s / 30′s era largely because she has a low voice that never gets shrill as many of those old recordings do. btw the movie is called Dishonored.

COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR

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