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The Image A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

Daniel J. Boorstin

First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of “pseudo-events”—events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported—and the contemporary definition of celebrity as “a person who is known for his well-kno...

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Monday Morning Podcast

It was described as a great album with incredible arrangements and time signatures, with Vinnie Colaiuta on drums. It was recorded straight to disc and had to be recorded in one take.

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I just downloaded this fucking album that he played on, which is really incredible because I know that I heard this music before some sort of sports highlights or Or possibly the Olympics, I don't kno...

— Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 4-19-21

Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 4-19-21

It was described as a great album with incredible arrangements and time signatures, with Vinnie Colaiuta on drums. It was recorded straight to disc and had to be recorded in one take.

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I just downloaded this fucking album that he played on, which is really incredible because I know that I heard this music before some sort of sports highlights or Or possibly the Olympics, I don't know if anybody recognizes this music here It's not something I would normally listen to but I was listening to

It's called images. You can get it on iTunes and what's cool about this thing is they had these things back then these recordings. It was straight-to-disc and What you had to do you had to record I don't know if I talked about this last podcast

So this album if you listen to it And you listen to the arrangements the different time signatures and sometimes when the whole band drops out and the the keyboards are just playing the hits to they're always like off beats and just really crazy shit and Vinny is just the whole band is just fucking on it.

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