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  1. martinsantos

    Unpopular music opinions

    I tried to say that, in those or in our days, to get 14 or 16 guys together everynight, playing all night long, MUST be something profitable; a business. (but sometimes my English doesn't help me, sorry). I don't think Miller's band so standardized. He got a way to get wonderful results from...
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    Unpopular music opinions

    Not pionered any elements, i agree. In fact, a very commercial band. Not against that, dance band is a business. But was a great Orchestra, and with very complex arrangements! But to get full of it you must go out from those ever-heard records, as Kalamazoo, etc. And, of course, the sound of...
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    What are you listening to?

    Looking around about Bradley/McKinley Orch... And found a lot of Ella Mae Morse. Great! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YywLzU0jbdk
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    Unpopular music opinions

    I just can totally agree with you, Lizzie. "The Big Bands" is, of course, a great book, one of those you can read and read again and again. And it's hard to contradict him - of course he knew a lot about, and listened a lot of orchestras. A lot of them was almost impossibile to find...
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    Most attractive 30's - 40's movie star (dolls for the guys, guys for the dolls)

    Veronika Lake and Rita Hayworth.
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    Your favorite silent movies.

    Agree with you! Nosferatu is a tragical character, and this is the central point in that movie. From Murneau films, it is still the best to me (I didn't see all).
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    ;) I understand. I like noir photography, but in "Lady from Shangai" first I want to see Rita Hayworth...
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    The demise of VHS

    ...But this don't mean that would be easy!!! Last year I needed to work in a proceding about some taxes information from a client. He had what i needed, but in those large diskettes from the 80s, in a program that now nobody knows. At the end of the story we got it - but after two weeks looking...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    A great film... From a great play, that touch deeply in the reader.
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    Time Warp

    Something similar ocourred in my family. The father of an uncle was very interested in music, and had a listening room for decades. He died in begining of 80s. His sons did not touch anything, ever an old hat behind the door. When i visited the place there was a HUGE collection of...
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    Unpopular music opinions

    I really discovered Kay Kayser in this forum. I had an LP from 90s with the allegued "Best of" him. But a lot of songs are pure novelties, with a very specific interest. I coulnt't like "Bell bottom trousers" or "Praise the lord". Songs that did not resist to time, and then I never put again the...
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    Poll: Bela Lugosi's 40's, Poverty Row Films

    Maybe after it could be exibited here... Like one of the very first films of Bogart (do not remember the name in English), from 1931 or 1932. He appears 10 minutes, no more. But 20 years after the movie reapeared with hom as the "star".
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    Golden Era Photographers

    There are several factors that make difficult to find the same style of photography nowadays. The cameras usually are different, and so the lens. Studio portraits were made with large negatives, like 4x5". This change what we would call the "normal" lens. For a 35mm film camera, it is a 50mm...
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    Golden Era Photographers

    Alfred Eisentaedt. Robert Capa. Cartier-Bresson. Weegee (Artur Felig)... The very best, to me.
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    The demise of VHS

    Well, there are lot of people who never trew away their movies projectors (and those who BUY these, as myself). And everybody told in 80s that the VHS would kill super-8. It became not so popular, with is still running, ever with fresh film (prefer 16mm for quality or standard-8 for personality...
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    Your favourite jazz albums?

    Ella Fitzgerald singing the Gershwin Songbook - is it a jazz album? If so, it is my preferred - 5 hours without beeing tired.
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    Messrs Chandler and Hammett

    :eusa_clap What a seeing! :eusa_clap
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    Looking Forward to 2011? Vintage Aspirations for next year?

    Certainly 2011 will be a better year for all. 2010 was not bad, but... could be better. About vintages, looking for an old lens by Leitz, "Summarex" 8,5cm (1943/1950), and a leitz enlarger (1930/1979). At the same time, looking if my beloved hobby can pay itself - and so the lens and...
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    Messrs Chandler and Hammett

    It's difficult to talk about reading flow to me... Except for "The Dain Course", all I readed in translations to Portuguese. Some of the original flow will, of course, disapear. Hammett characters looks to me more human, and so more interesting... "Playback", by Chandler, is a lot...
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    Facebook anybody?

    FB is funny to get in touch with people you don't see for a long time. Or as a way to talk with other people. I have it, and if you want to talk, etc, I will be glad to add you! Just look for Martin Carone Santos.

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