Mark Mallman recently performed a 52.4 hour song. That is pretty crazy. I guess he got to take bathroom breaks but he had a crew of rotating musicians so the song itself never stopped.
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
I wonder how much of the music was just repeated over and over, and I wonder how much was just improvised by the musicians.
I wonder if the whole thing got recorded. That's a lot of tape.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
That sounds like something that I could live my whole life happily without ever hearing.
Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :
You just know he had to have a few riffs of "Free Bird" in there.
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
What the hell is the point of that? I mean, I love music, and I'm all for taking your coolest songs and inserting instrumentals during live performances to make them longer. As much as I loved the studio version of the Dire Straits song "Once Upon a Time in the West" (5:25), the version from the live album "Alchemy" (13:02, including about 1:21 of introductory stuff before the real music begins) is much, much cooler.
But fifty-two hours? That simply enters the realm of the absurd. Even if it wasn't repetitive, it would cease to be interesting long before then and would simply turn into noise. Who has the patience to sit there and listen to the whole thing? There's nobody in the world so good at what they do that I can sit there and watch them do it for fifty-two hours without getting bored, then tired, then falling asleep, then waking up in irritation that they were still at it, and wandering off to go find some pancakes. Even Mark Knopfler could not entertain me that long.
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Holy crap. Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
Performed live? So was it the same audience the whole time?
Posted by solo (Member # 3148) on :
The public had to leave the club from 2am until it opened the next day so the only people to hear the whole thing would be the core band and club employees I would think.
I think he did this as an exercise of the absurd. And to double his previous record.
From the descriptions I have read it sounds like the music was quite varied and included bits of many other peoples songs. He had a 600+ page book containing the music and lyrics.
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
That is awesome Bob. I hope someone is recording that. Cage however is not a rock composer so that doesn't invalidate this thread.
Can anyone recommend a good book on Cage? I find him fascinating based on the little I have read around the net and I would like to know more about his life and works.
[ November 05, 2004, 12:42 PM: Message edited by: solo ]
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