Dinner with Venomous Stiff

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so yeah, Harry Partch was one of the first ever, what you call truly independent musicians. He financed his own records, which did not have commercial appeal, even in the 1930's when he was giving birth to many of the ideas the beatniks would adopt. I'm trying to avoid the 'hippie image' here, because he was an academic, but had a great affinity with hitchhikers, hobos and 'truth seekers'. He was a genuine 'outsider', despite his formal training as a musician.
wiki sez:
Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of musical instruments. He was one of the first 20th-century composers in the West to work systematically with microtonal scales. He built custom-made instruments in these tunings on which to play his compositions, and described his theory and practice in his book Genesis of a Music (1947).

Hardcore Dementoids will recognize edits from the 'funny 5 countdown' from Partch's composition "8 hitch hiker inscriptions" The music can definitely be challenging. This ain't no Celine Dione.

this one, study in an ancient greek enharmonic scale.

and we're having crab legs!