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STEWARTNESS!!!!! !!!!! aka Stewart's Gene Krupa show on BBC2

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Postby HalcyonLisa on 14 Jan 2009 17:22

[quote="Divemistress of the Dark"]Hey folks, the next one's on Thursday at 7 local time....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gn39k

(You know, in all the excitement I forgot to thank Dirty for her help in finding/posting the first link in the other thread, too...Thanks, hon. I know you'll be all 'aw shucks' about it, but your search-engine mojo is excellent.)

*Four parts* of Stewarty goodness. I still can't believe somehow we didn't know about this in advance...not meaning to be critical, just sorta still feeling like it's an unexpected gift :)[/quote]

I was just driving home and good old Radio 2 played a trailer for this that said that its on at 7pm on Friday night (GMT)??

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Postby smudge on 14 Jan 2009 22:38

Yup it is definitely listed for Friday 7pm. (GMT)
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Postby Chatchka on 15 Jan 2009 03:40

Finally listened to this. Very cool and educational, but you are right, the pacing was oddly quick. If I hadn't listened to as many interviews with Stewart before listening to this, I don't know if I would have been aware of his usual speaking cadence or noticed the speed of this. I really enjoyed it and will be looking forward to the additional segments.
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Postby TheEqualizer on 16 Jan 2009 17:36

Can someone pleeeeeeease gigasize today's installment? :D
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Postby luddite lady on 17 Jan 2009 13:55

Episode 2 is up on the BBC website now. I won't have time to listen to it until at least this evening. I'm just surprised that none of the British peeps have commented on it yet.
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Postby Divemistress of the Dark on 18 Jan 2009 04:22

Get it while it's hot:

http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=lwn51p1b8cf
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Postby luddite lady on 18 Jan 2009 06:42

I just listened to episode 2 on the BBC website while Dive was posting the link here. Amazing stuff about Krupa's contribution to the swing era.
I forgot how much I love swing music and what an influence it had on me as a little kid. "Sing! Sing! Sing!" is still one of my all time favourite songs. When I was really small the only records we had were my parents big band albums and a couple of Christmas albums. Weird as it sounds, my brother and I used to play radio station with these records and a truly crappy little record player. He was always the DJ and I was the technician. After he'd announce a song and I cued it up and started playing it, we'd dance around the basement like fools. Such infectious rhythms! And thanks Iain, Dive, Stewart and the BBC for helping me get to know the guy behind the drum kit that had such an impact on me.
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Postby Lynne on 18 Jan 2009 17:05

[quote="luddite lady"]I just listened to episode 2 on the BBC website while Dive was posting the link here. Amazing stuff about Krupa's contribution to the swing era.

I forgot how much I love swing music and what an influence it had on me as a little kid. "Sing! Sing! Sing!" is still one of my all time favourite songs.[/quote]

I'm listening to it (and recording it) right now, and this is my reaction too. Love swing, love Benny Goodman, and this is helping me to understand why.

Favorite quote about Krupa: "he always made Benny fly," from one of the interviewees.

Also some very historically interesting analysis of the cultural and creative consequences of the color-blindness of some band leaders and the slow racial integration of big bands.

This show is just a joy, a sheer joy.
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Postby Susan on 19 Jan 2009 17:29

This is great! I finally downloaded parts 1 and 2 so thanks, Dive, for gigasizing them.
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Postby TOWOS on 19 Jan 2009 19:27

I wholeheartedly concur. 8)
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Postby DirtyMartini on 20 Jan 2009 15:32

Thanks, Dive!
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Postby 63falcon on 20 Jan 2009 22:46

[quote="IndyGirl"][quote="63falcon"]The gig he saw that he told me of was one where Gene was just going at it, playing so hard that he fell off of his seat and kept on playing, never missed a beat!![/quote]

Wow, that's dedication to keep playing after he fell off of his seat. Good story.[/quote]

Late again....and also in response to Dive. My Dad was pretty sure that the amphetamines Mr. Krupa was said to be fond of had a bit hyped him to play on :wink:. Not completely, but it was part. Still, a great drummer. That/the speed most likely contributed to GK's earli-ish demise.......
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Postby Divemistress of the Dark on 20 Jan 2009 23:57

Ha! You know, last night I was out to dinner with some folks I know from a local ADHD group, and one of the guys is a drummer. He claims that "a lot" of drummers are ADHD...guess it sorta comes with the territory.

Maybe Krupa was just self-medicating...;)

(to the uninitiated: a common treatment for ADHD is amphetamine in various formats, which works kind of the reverse in ADHDers than it does in "normals".)
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Postby TOWOS on 21 Jan 2009 01:03

[quote="Divemistress of the Dark"]Ha! You know, last night I was out to dinner with some folks I know from a local ADHD group, and one of the guys is a drummer. He claims that "a lot" of drummers are ADHD...guess it sorta comes with the territory.
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True dat. My brother was a drummer and I always wondered how could he divide his brain in 5 parts to play the instrument. It helps with coordination, believe it or not. 8)
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Postby 63falcon on 22 Jan 2009 22:37

Heeheeheehee........I'll stick with coffee, although it actually puts me to sleeeeeppppp..........
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