Observation

[2cute]

we had a (maybe Tibetan) throat singer on "The Voice", last year....he got chair turns, but ultimately...well....it's not really commercially viable......

I don't watch 'The Voice' but it seems to me if you have a unique style or gimmick, any musical style can become 'commercially viable'. I mean look @ Penatonix or 2 Cellos. They are pretty successful even though their ideas may have been a unique concept.

Pentatonix = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdVj...1h0MZs7iRAT3iw

2 Cellos = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk

[floppers]

we had a (maybe Tibetan) throat singer on "The Voice", last year....he got chair turns, but ultimately...well....it's not really commercially viable......

[2cute]

Definitely off topic but, bwt, I remember you posting a YouTube video of a throat-singing Mongolian heavy metal band (I think it was the Hu). I saw a documentary named Genghis Blues on TubiTv and the caption said it was about an American blues player who won a contest doing Tuvan throat-singing. Unbelievably, they had other different styles, not just the guttural one. Some of them sounded like a bull elk calling. My wife and I were both fascinated by the show. Apparently, others liked it too as I found out today it was nominated for an Academy Award. You should check it out if you can. Here's a clip I found from it. When the Tuvan guy shifts to the high register at 1:25, it sounds like someone is playing a high-pitched wind instrument but it's his voice. Remarkable!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LYc06l2gGo

I listened to the video. You're right that's amazing they can control their vocal chords like that. I wonder how they learned how to do that? It sounds like a synthesizer. It reminds me of those songs by Peter Frampton, when he uses that 'talk box' instrument.

Do you feel like we do (starts @7:22 into the song)?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUioud7Qtsw

[lalatan]

Definitely off topic but, bwt, I remember you posting a YouTube video of a throat-singing Mongolian heavy metal band (I think it was the Hu). I saw a documentary named Genghis Blues on TubiTv and the caption said it was about an American blues player who won a contest doing Tuvan throat-singing. Unbelievably, they had other different styles, not just the guttural one. Some of them sounded like a bull elk calling. My wife and I were both fascinated by the show. Apparently, others liked it too as I found out today it was nominated for an Academy Award. You should check it out if you can. Here's a clip I found from it. When the Tuvan guy shifts to the high register at 1:25, it sounds like someone is playing a high-pitched wind instrument but it's his voice. Remarkable!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LYc06l2gGo

[2cute]

chillipepper just got "shrooms" in a puzzle....I figure you guys got the jump on shrooms...

Yes, I've noticed wordtwist accepts slang as well.

Here's a related classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVER6hyoyJo

[2cute]

Or is it "The moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Bars"?

Yep, the wordtwist version Spike.

Ooo, I liked that song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06X5HYynP5E .

[2cute]

The group was "The Fifth Dimension". Heck, everyone knows there are eight spatial dimensions. There have to be (complex numbers are two dimensions, quaternions were four dimensions and map nicely to the Theory of Relativity, and Octonions are the next step -- and there is nothing past Octonions). So the Fifth Dimension was far short of their full potential.

Not everyone BWT.

Quaternions = In mathematics, the quaternions are a number system that extends the complex numbers. They were first described by Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton in 1843 and applied to mechanics in three-dimensional space. A feature of quaternions is that multiplication of two quaternions is noncommutative. Hamilton defined a quaternion as the quotient of two directed lines in a three-dimensional space or equivalently as the quotient of two vectors.

Octonions = In mathematics, the octonions are a normed division algebra over the real numbers, meaning it is a hypercomplex number system.

Eight Spatial Dimensions has to do w/particle physics - here's an article about it: https://bigthink.com/surprising-scie...1#rebelltitem1

While I like the theoretical part of physics, the mathematical part is waaaay beyond me. I know its the mathematical part that explains why the theoretical part is possible.

Thankfully for our purposes here, its the words that are useful and not the complicated explanation. Phew!

[lalatan]

Golly, I wonder if the words to my childhood song are in the dictionary: "Mairzy doats and dozy doats and little lambsie divy." Loved that song when I was young. I think "doats" is a word.

My son loved that song when he was young. It got into my head many days, ran in an endless loop (the chorus) in my mind and just about drove me crazy. Yes, doats is valid word, an alternate/obsolete word for dotes. I remember playing it as a faux speed player and looked it up.

Lol, Spike. Good one!

[floppers]

chillipepper just got "shrooms" in a puzzle....I figure you guys got the jump on shrooms...

[bwt1213]

I thought once 10 bars were reached it would surely usher in the long-awaited (since 1969) Age of Aquarius. Major bummer that it didn't, man.

disclaimer: only senior citizens may get this...

Golly, I wonder if the words to my childhood song are in the dictionary: "Mairzy doats and dozy doats and little lambsie divy." Loved that song when I was young. I think "doats" is a word.

[bwt1213]

The group was "The Fifth Dimension". Heck, everyone knows there are eight spatial dimensions. There have to be (complex numbers are two dimensions, quaternions were four dimensions and map nicely to the Theory of Relativity, and Octonions are the next step -- and there is nothing past Octonions). So the Fifth Dimension was far short of their full potential.

[Spike1007]

Or is it "The moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Bars"?

[dannyb]

The moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars.

[lalatan]

I'm such a dork..................I can't wait 'til you get past 10.............I'm thinking the bars will change colors or some such.

I thought once 10 bars were reached it would surely usher in the long-awaited (since 1969) Age of Aquarius. Major bummer that it didn't, man.

disclaimer: only senior citizens may get this...

[2cute]

Questions are good.

Answers are good.

I had never observed the bars before 2cute made her originating post asking what they represented.

Then, as these forums do, one cat went this way, another went that way, and before long Seattle was in a state of merry emergency, with bars set ablaze.

Fortunately, flops and RussDnails and 2cute brought buns, weiners and marshmallows for roasting as the group settled in around the blazing bars to celebrate our good fortunately.

Yes, that's the way of my life as a 'detail oriented' person. I even sometimes see what is supposed to be hidden as well.

Good Fortune with great friends. Pass the mustard!