Uninformed discussion on the Gita

[Phillip Ernest]

Hey, wow, this is what I was looking for!  Glad to know I'm not the only
Indologist who loves to crank up _physical Graffiti_ almost as much as he
loves to read the giitaa-- even if I do get my bassists and Indologists
mixed up sometimes.

I have long been planning to translate a selection of Zep lyrics into
Sanskrit.  Choosing appropriate metres will be an interesting challenge.
But that comes after my rendering of Jewel's _Night Without Armor_-- as
Petrarch with his favorite Decameron tale, I feel that her masterpiece
deserves to be rescued from the perishability of the vernacular.  But
usually only after I have ingested a substantial amount of Soma.

P

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Phillip Ernest wrote:
>
> > > yet not one citation of Jean Przyluski's famous and fundamental study of
>
> > Wasn't he the bassist for Led Zeppelin?
>
> Good god, no!  Your are thinking of John Paul Jones.  To say that JPJ's
> latest solo album Zooma is an extraordinary musical achievement, although
> at times overwhelming, especially in its opening tracks, Zooma and Grind,
> which seem to refer powerfully to the relentless mechanisation of modern
> life, and that his use of eight and more strings on his bass guitars is
> heroic, but that the dependence on Pro Tools in production seems to take
> away from the naturalness and musicality of which, as is demonstrated in
> old Zep tracks such as Ramble On, Jones is eminently capable and which
> are, dare one say it, more succesfully achieved in the recent virtuoso
> release Out Bound by bassist Stu Hamm, would take us far beyond the remit
> of the INDOLOGY discussion.
>
> --
> Dominik Wujastyk
> Founder, INDOLOGY list.
>