This is going to be a roll-your-own diary. (Possibly in more ways than one.) I’ll get us started by posting some eclipse related music and let everybody else post their own. And any eclipse related images you want to throw at us although I would prefer they are less geek-sciency and more “Far fucking out!”-ish. There will likely be no shortage of excellent diaries on the mechanics of eclipses today, so let this one be about AWE.
The image at top is stolen from the New York Times. It’s definitely awesome. If you do a google search for images of Total Eclipse, you’ll find no shortage of mind-blowing NATURAL images, not photoshop jobs made in a basement.
Let’s get the ball rolling with a song that leapt to my mind immediately, one of my favorite stoner songs, Us and Them, from Pink Floyd’s album Dark Side of the Moon.
I could have picked the more obvious cut, Eclipse, but I just prefer this one. It’s special because of the use of a very dissonant chord, the minor-major seventh chord, in an inspiring way. You can hear the chord the first time just before the words, “And after all, we're only ordinary men.” The effect is smoky and mystical.
For music freaks, an A minor-major seventh chord would be A, C, E, and G#. The first few times I tried picking this out on the guitar, I used the simpler three note Augmented chord, C, E, and G#. But closer listening revealed it just wasn’t right that way. It wasn’t fucked up enough. You need that fourth note for a root to make it really squirm. Like a toad.
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