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"Hear My Train A'Comin" made for PBS last year. Starts out strong then becomes tedious, kinda like the government that made it, but I digress.It made me realize how visual Jimi Hendrix' act was, more theatre than concert, or at least in equal measures. Saw him perform with Redding and Mitchell at Detroit's Masonic Auditorium in the Winter of '68. Mind blowing!
I'm a big fan of his music but have only one album, Experience, which I seldom play. Now I think I understand why. I need to find a concert DVD the like of Cream's Royal Albert and get experienced all over again.
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Bought the Blu-Ray. Loved it. Brought into focus just much Jimi changed the music scene - even today.
Just my (adjusted for inflation) $2
John Crossett
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It sounds like English, but I can't understand a word you're saying.
How about those Steve Winwood sideburns?
Never had a chance to see him!
"Hear My Train A'Comin" made for PBS last year. Starts out strong then becomes tedious, kinda like the government that made it, but I digress.
American Masters is an original series produced by WNET, which only receives about a third of its funding from government grants.
and misinformation spread and believed by the government haters truly is astounding.
Indeed.
"While the appropriation equals about 15% of our system's revenue, this is an aggregate number. For many stations, the appropriation counts for as much as 40-50% of their budget"
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Have Fun and Enjoy the Music
"Still Working the Problem"
"While the appropriation equals about 15% of our system's revenue, this is an aggregate number. For many stations, the appropriation counts for as much as 40-50% of their budget"
First, read the first bullet point in that document.
"The appropriation for public broadcasting does not come to PBS from the government."
Federal appropriations go to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which then distributes it from there. In 2012, the federal appropriation was $445 million. Of which only $27 million was distributed to PBS. That's a whopping 6%.
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Have Fun and Enjoy the Music
"Still Working the Problem"
PBS only gets about 6% of federal appropriations.
I don't see where you get the 6% number?
The chart on page 3 shows that Public Television gets 297 million federal dollars.
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Have Fun and Enjoy the Music
"Still Working the Problem"
The chart on page 3 shows that Public Television gets 297 million federal dollars.
Those grants go to the stations from the CPB. The money that goes to PBS (which is what this has been about) is under "System Support" and was $26.7 million which is 6% of the $445 million federal appropriation.
"In addition to grants to stations and funding the development of content, by statute CPB spends six percent of its funds on projects that benefit the entire public broadcasting community. Out of this “system support” funding, CPB negotiates and pays music royalties on behalf of all public broadcasting, funds research to explore audience needs and technological opportunities, and pays half the operating costs of the public television interconnection system."I don't think "system support" means what you think it does.
Part of the 27 million goes to PBS and part of the 297 million goes to PBS as well.
How much and what percentage of PBS's budget that is, I don't know but to say PBS is not government funded is a lie.
PBS says they get 15% of their budget from the government and that amounts to 50% of some of the smaller stations budget.
WNET get 33% of it's funding from the government.
You understand that any venture that's receiving 33% of it funding from the government could not stand on it's own?
PBS gets whatever it gets and still runs commercials!
Why not just run a few more commercials and leave my tax money alone?
I will let the facts stand for themselves.
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Have Fun and Enjoy the Music
"Still Working the Problem"
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There is a private board; a CEO.
No government appointees.
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Yes. It was actually pretty good.
...I saw his biography on PBS American Masters.
It may be similar to what you saw.
Watching it made me go back and listen to his 3 albums.
I saw the Hendrix trio twice - in early 1969 at Regis College Field House in Denver and in 1970 at Red Rocks Amphitheater.
I think Mitchell is unappreciated as a great drummer.
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Are you Experienced
Axis Bold as Love
Electric Ladyland
Band of Gypsies?
Best of Hendrix
best music is on those four, including the live last one, Band of Gypsies.
His family and others have been cashing in on second-rate stuff for decades. Not surprising, and not something other deceased (Janis, for one) giants haven't suffered.
Regarding your response: admit it, you were wrong. The fourth live album is as much a Jimi as the earlier three. After his death, it's hard to say anything is his because he didn't authorize it. I certainly haven't heard much from the vault that I'd place anywhere near his album material. To attempt to lump any "albums" after his death in anyway to the earlier four is disingenuous.
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I'm not too dependent on the visual's for appreciating his power and magic, they're just a bonus at certain times.
On the other hand "Electric Ladyland" provides its own visual imaging played on a good system, while kicked back with eyes closed and allowing the music to be absorbed.
No other stimulants or substances of choice necessary either, at least from my listening position these days.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
The mens room in Electric Lady land used to be wallpaper of full sized naked women and purple shag carpet, it was a trip peeing there....
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