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Tunes For The Troops

This music is provided for the entertainment of our Troops, Veterans, Allies & their families!

Enjoy the variety of musical selections that the Canteen Deejays provide throughout the thread. Please ping any DJ with your requests for the Troops!

All music is removed on Monday.
Thanks to all the DeeJay's for their time & effort providing entertainment for the Troops!

*Canteen Mission Statement*

Showing support and boosting the morale of
our military and our allies military
and the family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.


Candlebox - Into The Sun	Charlie Daniels - Keep on the Sunny Side
Traffic Paper Sun	Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love
Devin Townsend - Sunshine And Happiness	Diana Krall - East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon)
Dio - Born On The Sun	Don Henley - Sunset Grill
Dr John and the Lower 911 - A Place in the Sun	Duncan Sheik - In the Absence of Sun
Eddie Vedder - Hard Sun	Edwin McCain - Sun Will Rise
Enya - The Sun in the Stream	Eric Burdon - House Of The Rising Sun
Eric Clapton - Sunshine of Your Love	Eva Cassidy - Ain't No Sunshine
Frank Sinatra - On The Sunny Side Of The Street	Fuel - Sunburn
Garth Brooks - Midnight Sun	Gary Allan - We Touched The Sun
Gary Moore - Sundown	Gene Autry - You Are My Sunshine
Helloween - The Smile Of The Sun	Ill Nino - Pieces Of The Sun
Iron Butterfly - Feilds Of The Sun	James Blunt - Sun On Sunday

Connie: La Dimension Latina - Tú Pagarás, ( You Will Pay/You Are Going To Pay )

Welcome to the Salsa Addiction Emergency Room!

We are all in critical condition here!

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Friday Night Salsa for 08-01-2014 for the TROOPS and their supporters everywhere!

Here is a list of the songs in the Jukebox:
Artist/s - Song Names:
Humberto Ramirez - El Ministro
Humberto Ramirez - En La Soledad
Humberto Ramirez - Four
Humberto Ramirez - Hasta Decir No Mas
Humberto Ramirez - Herencia
Humberto Ramirez - La Barandilla
Humberto Ramirez - La Perla
Humberto Ramirez - Maria Cervantes
Humberto Ramirez - Mienteme
Humberto Ramirez - My Funny Valentine
Humberto Ramirez - Nicas Dream
Humberto Ramirez - Olas Y Arenas
Humberto Ramirez - Paradise
Humberto Ramirez - Round Midnight
Humberto Ramirez - San Juan Ritual
Humberto Ramirez - So What
Humberto Ramirez - Someday My Prince Will Come
Humberto Ramirez - Straight No Chaser
Humberto Ramirez - To the King
Humberto Ramirez - Transcendental
Humberto Ramirez - Tutu
Jesus Pagan Y Su Orquesta - Salsa De La Mata
La Dimension Latina - Tostao Y Colao
La Dimension Latina - Tu Pagaras
La Dimension Latina - Ven Bernabe
La Dimension Latina - Yo No Fui
Luisito Rosario - Casino Rueda
Manny Oquendo Y Libre - Bailala Pronto
Maria Victoria Y Su Latin Son - Chuchy
Nils Fischer - Pancho ( Radio Edit )
Nils Fischer - Que Pollo Mujer Picando de Vicio
Nils Fischer - Que Va Guaracha y Bemb Cachondea
Nils Fischer - Que Va ( Radio Edit )
Nils Fischer - Tremendo Coco ( Radio Edit )
Nils Fischer - Ye No Tengo Amigos
Nils Fischer - Yo Vine Pa Ver ( Radio Edit )
Sonora La Calle - Se Le Fue El Avion
Tony Canales - Rumba Para Los Rumberos

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 8 PM PDT (11 PM EDT)

Beethoven: Septet in E-flat, Op. 20

When I told the story of the Schubert Octet three weeks ago, I mentioned how the root of that piece was Beethoven’s Septet. This was a massively popular piece and still brings people to concerts. It’s scored for violin, viola, cello, bass, horn, bassoon and clarinet. Beethoven distrusted popular tastes, and he came to dislike the piece because so many of the “unwashed” liked it.

It starts with a slow introduction marked “adagio”, “at rest”.
At 1:25, the sonata movement starts, marked “allegro con brio”, one of Lou’s favorite directions. I’m sure you remember your Professor Publius lessons, so I’m not going to dissect it.

The second movement in A-flat, marked “adagio cantabile”, “at rest and songlike”, begins at 10:57. It’s in the tradition ternary (A-B-A) format. The “B” section, started by the horn, is in C Major.

In third place is a minuet in E-flat at 20:47. It’s in the traditional format: AA-BB-CC-DD-AB.

When Schubert wrote his Octet, he attempted to one-up Beethoven in the use of instruments (eight versus seven) and the number of variations in the theme-and-variations movement (seven versus five).
The theme, marked “andante”, “a walking pace”, starts at 24:02 in B-flat Major. Remember the rule for theme-and-variations: The harmony supporting the theme must remain constant, but everything else is permitted to vary. One variation should be in the opposite mode (major versus minor).
Variation #1 at 25:00 features the strings alone, working around the theme.
Variation #2 at 25:56 features the strings with the theme while the winds make comments finishing the theme.
Variation #3 at 28:59 features the winds breaking the theme into canonic pieces while the strings provide discrete support.
Variation #4 at 28:01 is in E-flat minor with the violin tracing a filagree around the theme while the winds take it directly.
Variation #5 at 29:03 returns to the major with the strings and the winds taking turns with the theme.
The coda at 30:42 finishes it off cleverly.

Lou had problems with the popularity of the scherzo, marked “allegro molto e vivace”, “very fast and lively”. He heard it everywhere: on the piano, no doubt played poorly, as he walked past someone’s house; played by the resident quartet, perhaps a little better in quality, as he walked past a restaurant. The worst moment came when he heard it played on a hurdy-gurdy. He remarked, “I wish I had never written the damn thing!” I have this mental image of Lou saying, “May God strike me deaf if I have to hear it again!” It’s exuberant and sheer fun, and you can see why it captured everybody’s attention. It begins at 31:35, and the format is AA-BB-CC-DD-A-B.

The finale at 34:43 begins with a slow introduction marked “andante con molto alla marcia”, “very much a walking pace like a march”. It’s in the minor, but with a gently mocking tone. It’s just too sad to be serious.
The finale itself begins at 35:44 and is marked “presto”, “pedal to the metal.” It’s in sonata format. Remember your lessons! At the recap, the violinist improvises a cadenza at the fermata, a correct use of period performance practice.

Beethoven: Septet in E-flat, Op. 20

Edwin H. "Eddie" Kramer was born on April 19, 1942, in Cape Town, South Africa. He is a recording producer and engineer and has sat at the mixing board for some of the most iconic recordings of the 70s and 80s and is still quite active. He had a front row seat to music history and made some very remarkable contributions along the way. Working at Pye Studios in 1963 he engineered sessions for The Kinks, The Searchers, The Undertakers, Petula Clark and Sammy Davis Jr. He established himself early on as a skilled mobile recording engineer, often being assigned live concerts. These skills would serve him well as he was the chief engineer for the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and he was the sole engineer for Led Zeppelin's live film, "The Song Remains the Same" recorded at Madison Square Garden in 1973.

But, before I get too far ahead, in 1964 he founded KPS Studios, a facility which was acquired in 1965 by Regent Sound, where the Rolling Stones had recorded their first album. Regent then tasked Kramer to help build and run their new four-track studio in London. Kramer engineered two Beatles hit singles there which appeared on the "Magical Mystery Tour" television special and album, "All You Need is Love" and "Baby You're a Rich Man". These were cut at the newly dubbed Olympic Studios, where, in 1967, Kramer engineered albums for the Rolling Stones, Small Faces, Traffic, and Jimi Hendrix.

Kramer instantly became a permanent part of Jimi’s creative process, collaborating on the four albums the guitarist released before his death in 1970.

In 1968, Kramer relocated to New York city, primarily to continue working with Hendrix. Headquartered first at The Record Plant and later working as an independent producer and engineer, at Jimi's state-of-the-art Electric Lady studios, custom built at a then staggering one million dollars. Kramer produced the first Johnny Winter album and engineered a sequence of five Led Zeppelin albums, beginning with Led Zeppelin II. He served as Director of Engineering at Electric Lady from 1970 to 1974, producing Carly Simon’s debut solo album, as well as albums for Sha Na Na and Peter Frampton, and also engineering albums for Lena Horne, Dionne Warwick and David Bowie including "David Live" and "Young Americans". (The latter featured rhythm guitar and vocals from John Lennon on its Number One hit, "Fame".)

In 1971 he mixed Humble Pie’s double album "Performance Rockin' the Fillmore", featuring Steve Marriott and Peter Frampton as well as Larry Corryell's "Barefoot Boy", his first and only album for Flying Dutchman label. He then reunited with Curtis Mayfield, producing a double album "Curtis/Live!", his first release after leaving The Impressions. In 1973 Kramer mixed Led Zeppelin’s "Houses of the Holy". In the same year he began a lengthy association with Kiss. Earlier he had produced a five-song demo that won them their first recording contract. He eventually produced "Kiss Alive!", "Alive II", "Double Platinum", "Rock and Roll Over", "Love Gun", "Alive III" as well as member Ace Frehley’s first solo album, "Ace Frehley", which yielded a hit single, "New York Groove". Also in 1973 he engineered the live Derek and the Dominos album "In Concert".

Kramer left Electric Lady Studios in 1975. Working independently, he engineered the Rolling Stones’ "Love You Live", Led Zeppelin’s "Physical Graffiti" and "The Song Remains the Same", and Peter Frampton’s "Frampton Comes Alive!", the biggest-selling album of 1976, a 2-disc release that sold over 14 million. In the same year he mixed Bad Company’s third album, "Run with the Pack".

In the 80s Kramer produced Buddy Guy, classical guitarist John Williams award- winning country group The Kentucky Headhunters, hard-core rockers and metalheads such as Fastway, and Anthrax.

1992 saw the publication of a book co- authored by Kramer and John McDermott. Hendrix: Setting the Record Straight was built on Kramer’s first-hand recollections of his years of friendship and collaboration with Hendrix, and augmented by fresh interviews with key musicians and other participants in the meteoric Hendrix career.

In 1993 Kramer produced and engineered "Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix", featuring tracks by Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, The Cure, Buddy Guy, classical violinist Nigel Kennedy, Living Colour, jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, hip hop artists P.M. Dawn, Spin Doctors, and others. The album raised three-quarters of a million dollars for music and dance scholarships at Berklee College of Music, the Juilliard School and Dance Theatre of Harlem.

In 1994 Kramer released a two-part video series entitled "Adventures in Modern Recording", utilizing interviews with Les Paul, the seminal guitarist as well as pioneer of both electric guitar development and modern recording techniques such as multi-tracking and looping. In the same year Kramer produced the Spin Doctor’s single for Woodstock '94, as well as Buddy Guy’s "Slippin' In" the 1995 Grammy winner for Best Blues Album and winner of the W.C. Handy Award for Album of the Year in 1996. Buddy Guy and the Saturday Nite Live Band with G.E. Smith, also produced by Kramer, was a 1996 Grammy nominee.

At the time of his death, Jimi Hendrix had a considerable backlog of material recorded in anticipation of future album releases. In a multi-million-dollar lawsuit which concluded in 1995, the heirs of Jimi Hendrix won back the rights to his voluminous recordings. Since then, Kramer has served as co-producer of all Hendrix releases.

Kramer produced a second Hendrix tribute album in 1995, "In From the Storm". Its extremely diverse artists’ roster included the London Metropolitan Orchestra, Toots Thielemans, Carlos Santana, Robben Ford, Taj Mahal, Sting, Steve Vai, Buddy Miles, Brian May, and Bootsy Collins. In 1997 he was the producer of "Now", the third Paul Rogers studio album. He won a 1999 Grammy award for his audio production on the video for Jimi Hendrix’s live album "Band of Gypsys". Kramer collected another Grammy in 2002 for engineering a single entitled "The Game of Love", with Carlos Santana and vocal by Michelle Branch. The track also won a Grammy for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals.

In 2004, Kramer had several Hendrix-related projects, including helping DigiTech design and create an effects pedal which emulates characteristically Hendrixian guitar sounds. He also remastered Hendrix albums for Classic Vinyl, and remixed "Woodstock, a posthumous live release", in 5.1 surround sound. Concerning his remastering work, Kramer told Guitar Player magazine, “I was able to really enhance and improve upon the actual sound, so if the original sound was good I was able to make it even better. I gave it a more full- bodied sound. I was able to improve some of the dynamics. Of course this is made possible by new technologies and equipment.” Kramer specifically credited modern monitors, which provide abundant high-end detail, making it clear where various instruments are within the stereo image.

In 2005 Kramer reunited with architect John Storyk to design Anacapa Studios in Malibu, California. In the same year, Kramer remastered the Woodstock video footage of Jimi Hendrix for DVD release, revealing a fuller perspective of the guitarist’s performance.

Again working with Digitech, Kramer helped design and create a Brian May guitar effects pedal in 2006. Also that year, galleries in Santa Monica, California, Hollywood, California, and Rotterdam exhibited Kramer’s photographs of rock stars performing, recording, and in candid moments.

Gallery photographic exhibitions in 2007 included Santa Fe, New Mexico and Beverly Hills, California. Kramer also remixed "Evil Ways" a previously unreleased live Santana track from Woodstock, in 2007, for the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. In 2008 Kramer mixed tracks for the Jimi Hendrix avatar (a character that a game player can use as an alter ego) Activision’s Guitar Hero game. He also engineered and mixed a 2008 album with Joey Santiago and Dave Lovering of the Pixies.

Kramer again exhibited photos in 2009, at the Morrison Hotel Gallery in Manhattan, as well as a newly-opened branch Morrison Hotel Gallery in Del Mar, California. He was filmed and interviewed in 2009 for a BBC documentary about Sir George Martin, producer of all but one of the Beatles’ album releases. In that same year he remixed the posthumously- released "Band of Gypsys Live at the Fillmore East", along with albums by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Santana, and Crosby, Stills and Nash.

Waves Audio, a producer of software for audio engineers, released the Eddie Kramer Collection in 2009, a set of five plug ins for replicating Kramer’s studio touch in recording guitar, drums, vocals, bass, and special effects.

A 2010 exhibit at San Francisco Art Exchange displayed Kramer’s photos of Hendrix and other rock luminaries. During this year he also remixed "Cheap Sunglasses", a re-make of a ZZ Top single by the Australian hard rock band Wolfmother. In 2010, in conjunction with John McDermott and the Hendrix family’s organization, Experience Hendrix, Kramer prepared "Valleys of Neptune", an album of previously-unreleased Hendrix performances.

Kramer was chosen to be a presenter at the 2011 Grammy Technical Awards. Also in 2011 he recorded preeminent pedal steel blues/gospel guitarist Robert Randolph and the Family Band on his album entitled "Lickety Split", and Carlos Santana, a guest star on two of the album’s tracks, as well as completing and further mixes of Hendrix recordings in 5.1 Surround Sound. 2011 also saw the release of three more Kramer plug-ins for Wave, Kramer Master Tape, the Kramer HLS Channel, and the Kramer Pie Compressor.

In 2012 he did further sessions with Randolph, Buddy Guy, and produced and engineered tracks for "Acoustic Generations", yet another Hendrix tribute album featuring contemporary acoustic remakes of Hendrix songs. Still in progress, the project will have contributions from Brandi Carlile, Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready, Jason Mraz, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Billy Gibbons, Rafael Saadiq, Heart and Crosby and Nash.

Kramer’s activities in 2013 included introducing three Eddie Kramer Signature guitar effects pedals from F-Pedals, with partner Francesco Sondelli at the NAMM Show (National Association of Music Merchants), and also consulting with former Doors guitarist Robby Krieger on a new recording studio. Kramer also worked again with Robert Randolph in recording a “sacred steel” band for a 2013 release called "Robert Randolph Presents: The Slide Brothers". March 5, 2013, was the release date of "People, Hell and Angels", a collection of 12 songs which Jimi Hendrix had planned for his follow-up to "Electric Ladyland". Tracks that comprise "People, Hell & Angels" were recorded in 1968-69, following the breakup of the Jimi Hendrix Experience. The backing musicians include Buddy Miles and Billy Cox, later to become Hendrix's Band of Gypsies and included Stephen Stills on bass. "Somewhere", a single released from the album, reached Number One on the Billboard Hot Singles Sales Chart. November 2013 saw the release of the Hendrix documentary "Hear My Train A Comin’", and another Hendrix live album, "Miami Pop Festival."

"Jimi utilized the studio as a rehearsal space", Kramer has said, addressing the wealth of posthumous material left by the guitar great, and why he remains a vital figure to generations born since his passing. "Thank God he did." Kramer has described Hendrix as “Very sharp, very focused, very funny, very shy, totally dedicated to his music and his art. He was such a complete human being with such far-reaching intellect.” Kramer places Hendrix among Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Louis Armstrong. "He really is in that league", Kramer says, "because his individuality was so strong and his message was so strong and his mastery of his instrument was so complete. He was a maverick. He broke a lot of barriers, musically and in every way." "Tastes and sounds may change", echoes Chris Talbott of the Associated Press, "but Hendrix always remains close at hand".

Continuing his involvement with cutting-edge technologies, Kramer is working with Digital Theatre Systems (DTS) in the development of Headphone: X, an app which replicates 5.1, 7.1, and 11.1 Surround Sound in any type of headphone.

Kramer is also a frequent lecturer at La Fabrique Studios in Saint Remy de Provence, home of "Mix with the Masters", week-long seminars and workshops in which younger recording and mixing engineers wishing to improve their skills work closely with veteran producers, engineers and mixers and a popular Youtube channel.

In May 2014 in Genoa, at the FIM, Fiera Internazionale della Musica, Kramer obtained from the director of the event Verdiano Vera, the FIM Award 2014 - Legend of Rock - Best Studio Sound Engineer and announced the forthcoming publication of his memoir, From the Other Side of the Glass."

Eddie Kramer had a front row seat to music history like few humans ever have, and he's not done yet. This weekend we'll listen to some of his best.

Are You Experienced
~ The Jimi Hendrix Experience ~

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