Dan Kletter πŸ₯‘Aug 21, 2023
#NowPlaying #StarkReality Here’s a story. Hoagy Carmichael’s son wanted to make a kid themed TV show for a PBS station (WGBH, Boston) in 1970. So he hired #MontyStark (vibraphone), #PhilMorrison (bass), #VinnieJohnson (drums), and a very young #JohnAbercrombie (guitar) to record jazz-funk interpretations of his father’s songs from a 1958 kids LP. You still with me? Although a commercial failure, the LP eventually became a holy grail in the DJ scene. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mpX2F90DVZyN8qeGSSLqgkYD-9MjYwYOk
The Stark Reality Discovers Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop (Master Tape Transfer)

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Brian SmallJul 22, 2023

.> The beginning of protest, they started in Chicago. There were rumblings in Chicago pretty much after that phase was over. Then you started thinking of, you know, what are we doing? [At] Los Alamos there was nothing. I mean, they had the smartest people in the world living there in a closed environment, most of them politically pretty radical, they came out of the European left and things like that, sitting there, no protest. In fact, no questions..> I was teaching an undergraduate course here on these issues and you know Phil Morrison? Phil Morrison was a physicist here, actually he’s still alive but retired, he was the guy who put the bomb together on Tinian Island, he was in the Los Alamos phase, and I think he was probably communist, certainly on the far left. He described for the class what it was like in Los Alamos. And it was just what Feynman said, you know, he said we were all interested in the technical problem. We didn’t even ask what we were doing. And there was no Chicago phase because they were kept at it till the end. They didn’t know it was going to go off, when it went off. So they were all excited, what Oppenheimer called, you know, a beautiful technical problem or something. So that’s what they were engaged in. And yeah, in that respect, Feynman is correct. A number of people did become pretty active but [there] weren’t many. #Oppenheimer #LosAlamos #Feynman #TheSciences #TheBomb #TheAtomBomb #PhilMorrison #TinianIsland