{"id":1843,"date":"2008-12-04T14:27:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T19:27:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-10T09:42:31","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T09:42:31","slug":"mystery-date-revealed-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mystery-date-revealed-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Date Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/MysteryDateRevealed.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"490\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">Will your Mystery Date be a dream or a dud?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThanks to the youthful, speed-freak slim Elvis Costello of 1977 vintage, our <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/12\/03\/mystery-date-3\">latest Mystery Date<\/a><\/strong> is clearly visible behind Elvis&#8217; not-yet-ample butt, as the camera settles in on Elvis&#8217; left side. <\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fJKt-DhII_4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nKeyboardist <strong>Steve Nieve<\/strong>, who in the tradition of an earlier generation has stayed with the same job he took right out of college, was the man responsible for the instrumental piece from his 2004 solo album, <em>Windows (Music For Musician(s) &amp; Open Windows)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/windows.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/MysteryDate120308.mp3\" title=\"\">Steve Nieve, &#8220;Muriel&#8217;s Window&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what eMusic had to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to Nieve, his 2004 solo disc, <em>Windows<\/em>, was in part inspired by his travels as a musician &#8212; everywhere he goes, he snaps a picture out of the window of wherever he happens to be staying, and records a few minutes of ambient sound from the street below. Several of Nieve&#8217;s photos adorn the package of <em>Windows<\/em>, and clips from his sound collection form sonic bridges between the tracks, which exist in a stylistic middle ground between new age, jazz, and pop. Most of these pieces are dominated by solo piano with washes of other keyboards laid over them and occasional electronic interjections popping up along the way (a clarinet even appears on &#8220;Window #3 [Declan&#8217;s Window]&#8221; by way of variety).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow! Not the sort of thing friend of Rock Town Hall <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/08\/21\/eagles-the-movie\">Don Felder<\/a><\/strong> and his best buddy, at least for a spell, Joe Walsh, would have done with their down time on The Road.<\/p>\n<p>Although I knew of at least one previous Nieve solo album, I don&#8217;t recall ever hearing a lick from one. Like a couple of Townspeople, although I had no idea what to expect from a solo Nieve, left to his own devices, I didn&#8217;t mind this track. I simply love this kind of synth tone, whether it&#8217;s highly musical or not. I couldn&#8217;t see the point in downloading the entire album from eMusic, but I did like this second track enough based on the 30-second sample.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/SteveNieve_MercedesWindow.mp3\" title=\"Steve Nieve, &quot;Mercedes&#039; Window&quot;\">Steve Nieve, &#8220;Mercedes&#8217; Window&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The eMusic bio of Nieve also mentions a solo EP from 1980, <em>Theme Music From Outline of a Hairdo<\/em>, which I&#8217;d never heard of before. The title is promising. Has anyone heard that? I do recall liking The Attractions&#8217; &#8220;solo&#8221; album as a band, <em>Mad About the Wrong Boy<\/em>. One of my bandmate Townsmen, Andyr or Chickenfrank, used to own that one. Great album cover! Someday we should have a SHOWDOWN between that album, an &#8220;solo&#8221; album by The Rumour, a Crazy Horse album, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will your Mystery Date be a dream or a dud?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[2],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}