Tied to the Whippin' Post

Happy November

What better way to celebrate the 11th month of the year than to be tied to the whippin' post...

Whipping Post - Allman Brothers intro is 11/8 [3332] and riff revisited 2 more times, 12/8, 3/8


Wikipedia says its in 11/4, but I think it sounds more like a 12/8 with the last note skipped - aka 11/8.

Here's another quote from Wikipedia:
As Gregg Allman later said:
"I didn't know the intro was in 11/4 time. I just saw it as three sets of three, and then two to jump on the next three sets with: it was like 1,2,3—1,2,3—1,2,3—1,2. I didn't count it as 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11. It was one beat short, but it didn't feel one short, because to get back to the triad, you had two steps to go up. You'd really hit those two hard, to accent them, so that would separate the threes. ... [Duane] said, 'That's good man, I didn't know that you understood 11/4.' Of course I said something intelligent like, 'What's 11/4?' Duane just said, 'Okay, dumbass, I'll try to draw it up on paper for you.'"[11]

Writing by feel, love it.

Whippin' it ODDly,
BetZe13
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New this Week

Here's a few new oddy discoveries this week:

Artist - John Scofield
Album - A Go Go
Song - Southern Pacific
Meters - This is a true "Where's One" Tune

Artist - The Last Poets
Album - Chastisment
Songs - Hands Off & Tribute to Obabi (Ogun)
Meters - both songs are in 6/4 which isn't the oddest meter, but isn't that common either.

Artist - Jane's Addiction
Album - Strays
Song - Wrong Girl
Meters - 14/8, 15/8
You go JA!

Stay tuned for these and of course songs to honor November with 11/4 & 11/8 (see earlier blogs)

Foreva Oddly Yours,
-B
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Happy 11/8

Here's to one of my favorite meters... yep 11/8 so many cool things that you can do with it and some have, but I wish there were WAY MORE...

Tunes totally in 11/8
Right in Two - Tool
Beach of Deception - Monks of Doom

Tunes partially in 11/8
Chemtrailku - BetZe (me) 12/8, 11/8
You - Radiohead 12/8, 11/8
Perverseerance - fred 11/8, 6/8
Cathode Ray Fantasy - fred 11/8, 5/4, 6/4, 4/4, 3/4
Serpent's Kiss - Symphony X 11/8, 44/, 12/8, 9/8
Cleanse the Soul - Slayer 4/4, 11/8
When Acting As A Wave - The Dillinger Escape Plan 11/8, 6/16, 13/8, 9/8, 4/8
All Gone Now - OSI 3/8, 5/8, 6/8, 11/8
Anesthetize - Porcupine Tree 4/4, 11/8, 19/8, 5/4, 4/4, 6/4
Bigger Wave - OSI 4/4, 11/8, 5/8
Day of the Baphomets - The Mars Volta 13/8, 11/8, 4/4
Elephants - Drums & Tuba 6/8, 5/8, 11/8
Midi Treat - BetZe (me) 11/8, 7/8, 3/8, 5/8

Listen for these songs this month on Odd Time Obsessed Radio

Happy 11,
-B
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ChemTrailKu

Today I witnessed alleged visual evidence of chemtrails in my lovely Hollywood Hills neighborhood. I happened to get up earlier than usually and took a look in the sky. Wow, this abomination staring right at me as if to say, yah… what are you going to do about it? (Just like gas station signs say to me and my 8 cyl Mustang). My astute neighbor informed me that they do this every couple of weeks. Okay, WTF. This is the first time I have ever consciously witnessed them.

There is an extensive amount of information on the Web regarding Chemtrails and is usually interesting reading and can led to many other tangents of discovery. Chemtrails refer to systematic, high-altitude dumping of unknown substances for undisclosed purposes, resulting in the abnormal appearance of contrails such as crisscross and grid patterns. Some think its for weather control, administering a vaccine for pending chemical warfare or simply dumping of chemicals through the air. What do you think? Look up in your sky, perhaps you might see too.

Check out these pictures of Hollywood taken today Sunday June 1, 2008.

What does this all have to do with odd time? Well back in that dark month of Sept 2001, I was in Northern California hanging with my bro and a genuine beat poet Ruth Weiss. She wrote many haikus and hung them in her garden which inspired me to write a series of them. If you don’t know, a haiku is a style of poetry that consists of 3 lines: first line has 5 syllables, second 7 and third 5. Yes, this oddness is right up my alley. So anyways, I had just learned about Chemtrails and a friend of mine, t.minus, put out an electronica album called “Chemtrails” which inducted me into this grim subject.

This new inspiration helped create "ChemTrailKu" which I occasionally play on Odd Time Obsessed. I wrote this lovely piece on Music Magix ($40 recording software) with sampled acoustic drums that my brother was playing out of time, Wurlitzer, classical guitar, and spoken word by my brother and I. Its in freeish time, 4/4, 12/8 and 11/8.

ChemTrailKu

once a sky so blue
carrying secrets anew
streaming, slow murder

hold on to your seat
hold on to your wee wishes
hold on to your soul

no one notices
blind impossibility
not crazy, not I

Livin’ xcross the barline,
-B

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Who Knew? Pt. 1 - Slayer, a cleansing 11

After all of these years of this classic sitting right in front of me, the 11/8 finally caught my ear. Can you believe it???
Who knew? Well nobody told me.
I thought they were a straight four band. Ahh the secrets come out.

Slayer - South of Heaven
Cleanse the Soul 4/4, 8/8 (332) and 11/8 (3332)

Unearthly ritual sealed in fire
Enter the kingdom of desire

-B

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