Comments on: Video http://bibbly-o-tek.com the Scritti Politti source Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:05:32 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Fredrik http://bibbly-o-tek.com/video/comment-page-1/#comment-192455 Fredrik Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:08:31 +0000 http://bibbly-o-tek.com/video/#comment-192455 Perfect way is used in a new soundtrackhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00354NBAY?ie=UTF8&tag=kikaxe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00354NBAY Perfect way is used in a new soundtrackhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00354NBAY?ie=UTF8&tag=kikaxe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00354NBAY

]]> By: damon korf http://bibbly-o-tek.com/video/comment-page-1/#comment-192447 damon korf Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:15:14 +0000 http://bibbly-o-tek.com/video/#comment-192447 Wow! thanks, cool stuff. I will keep my eye out and notify you if i find anything. Wow! thanks, cool stuff. I will keep my eye out and notify you if i find anything.

]]> By: Mike N http://bibbly-o-tek.com/video/comment-page-1/#comment-192051 Mike N Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:28:02 +0000 http://bibbly-o-tek.com/video/#comment-192051 Hi Damon. I too am a fan of the early, shambling Scritti Politti sound. As far as audio material is concerned, what you'll find on this wonderful site is 'Hegemony', 'Windows' and 'Art Forever' (look under Audio/Gigs) and a recording of part of a rehearsal (under Audio/Pre-1980). It's marvellous stuff but that's all there is of it here. I clearly remember that there were tapes of 1979 Scritti gigs to be bought on the old market stalls of Camden as late as 1984-5 and I also remember one similar tape being for sale on eBay about three years ago. I didn't win that auction so I don't have the recording. Somewhere out in the wide wide world is someone who could share one of those gigs with us... please? But I don't know of any early Scritti video other than the few seconds you've mentioned. Let everyone know if you find any! Hi Damon. I too am a fan of the early, shambling Scritti Politti sound.

As far as audio material is concerned, what you’ll find on this wonderful site is ‘Hegemony’, ‘Windows’ and ‘Art Forever’ (look under Audio/Gigs) and a recording of part of a rehearsal (under Audio/Pre-1980). It’s marvellous stuff but that’s all there is of it here.

I clearly remember that there were tapes of 1979 Scritti gigs to be bought on the old market stalls of Camden as late as 1984-5 and I also remember one similar tape being for sale on eBay about three years ago. I didn’t win that auction so I don’t have the recording. Somewhere out in the wide wide world is someone who could share one of those gigs with us… please?

But I don’t know of any early Scritti video other than the few seconds you’ve mentioned. Let everyone know if you find any!

]]> By: damon korf http://bibbly-o-tek.com/video/comment-page-1/#comment-191942 damon korf Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:00:43 +0000 http://bibbly-o-tek.com/video/#comment-191942 Hey Guys, I noticed the Rough Trade BBC(4) had what appeared to be footage of the original Scritti (Green, Tom and Nial) playing live and packaging their very own ep's. Needless to say i was both shocked and thrilled to see my hero's in their early days on film. Would you happen to have any more live footage/concerts of the original Scritti Politti? Thanks, Damon -if this is the wrong place to make requests i apologize! Hey Guys,
I noticed the Rough Trade BBC(4) had what appeared to be footage of the original Scritti (Green, Tom and Nial) playing live and packaging their very own ep’s. Needless to say i was both shocked and thrilled to see my hero’s in their early days on film. Would you happen to have any more live footage/concerts of the original Scritti Politti?
Thanks,
Damon
-if this is the wrong place to make requests i apologize!

]]> By: Don http://bibbly-o-tek.com/video/comment-page-1/#comment-67172 Don Thu, 22 May 2008 08:25:42 +0000 http://bibbly-o-tek.com/video/#comment-67172 Hello all... sitting here at 1:30 AM California time, listening to my random iPod mix, and being carried back to 1985 and the end of my freshman year of college, when my best friend's roommate introduced me to "Wood Beez" via a compilation cassette she picked up at a small record store near campus. We drove around in her Honda Accord, rewinding the tape over and over so we could hear Green sing about Aretha Franklin. Scritti was a big part of the soundtrack of my years in college... several songs wound up on mix tapes for long-gone girlfriends. Every once and a while I get whisked back to those carefree times, and tonight is one of those times. Green, if you're reading, thanks for making some great music in the decade of the 1980s. Hello all… sitting here at 1:30 AM California time, listening to my random iPod mix, and being carried back to 1985 and the end of my freshman year of college, when my best friend’s roommate introduced me to “Wood Beez” via a compilation cassette she picked up at a small record store near campus. We drove around in her Honda Accord, rewinding the tape over and over so we could hear Green sing about Aretha Franklin. Scritti was a big part of the soundtrack of my years in college… several songs wound up on mix tapes for long-gone girlfriends. Every once and a while I get whisked back to those carefree times, and tonight is one of those times. Green, if you’re reading, thanks for making some great music in the decade of the 1980s.

]]> By: Ellen http://bibbly-o-tek.com/video/comment-page-1/#comment-62331 Ellen Fri, 02 May 2008 14:13:40 +0000 http://bibbly-o-tek.com/video/#comment-62331 My personal view on the meaning of wood beez, written without any real research: 1. Sounds like 'would be', emphasized in the song with the text like 'there is nothing i wouldn't be' with the nice double negation. I always understood would be in this sense as 'placeholder', blank canvas, something not with any inherent meaning, but ready to accept any meaning put on or in to it. 2. Spelling it out: wood beez. The actual thumbnail of the video of the hand squeezing out honey refers to bees. In an old interview in Dutch magazne Vinyl: <blockquote> n the video of Wood Beez you see a lot of honey. What stuck in my mind is the hand which squeezed a lump of honey. Honey does have a sexual meaning in black traditions. For someone like Yellowman its a symbol of sperm. "That's right. I didn't think of that when I used it in the song though. First it caught my attention in the work of Joseph Beuys, an artist I really admire. An image from a totally different corner came after that, namely from the bible. Somewhere in there is the saying 'Out of the strong comes forth the sweet'. I felt it said something essential about my music. The soft, the sweet (but not weak) that comes from the strong. In England there are pots of honey with that saying and an old drawing of a sleeping lion with a cloud of bees above him. That saying does have the same ambiguous meaning in relation to sperm. I won't deny that the ambiguous meaning began to play a part in the song. But mostly honey is a symbol for something organic, soft and vital." </blockquote> Source: http://www.aggressiveart.org/aof_files/interviews/aof_interview_p3a-9.htm My personal view on the meaning of wood beez, written without any real research:

1. Sounds like ‘would be’, emphasized in the song with the text like ‘there is nothing i wouldn’t be’ with the nice double negation. I always understood would be in this sense as ‘placeholder’, blank canvas, something not with any inherent meaning, but ready to accept any meaning put on or in to it.

2. Spelling it out: wood beez. The actual thumbnail of the video of the hand squeezing out honey refers to bees. In an old interview in Dutch magazne Vinyl:

n the video of Wood Beez you see a lot of honey. What stuck in my mind is the hand which squeezed a lump of honey. Honey does have a sexual meaning in black traditions. For someone like Yellowman its a symbol of sperm.

“That’s right. I didn’t think of that when I used it in the song though. First it caught my attention in the work of Joseph Beuys, an artist I really admire. An image from a totally different corner came after that, namely from the bible. Somewhere in there is the saying ‘Out of the strong comes forth the sweet’. I felt it said something essential about my music. The soft, the sweet (but not weak) that comes from the strong. In England there are pots of honey with that saying and an old drawing of a sleeping lion with a cloud of bees above him. That saying does have the same ambiguous meaning in relation to sperm. I won’t deny that the ambiguous meaning began to play a part in the song. But mostly honey is a symbol for something organic, soft and vital.”

Source: http://www.aggressiveart.org/aof_files/interviews/aof_interview_p3a-9.htm

]]> By: Peter http://bibbly-o-tek.com/video/comment-page-1/#comment-61073 Peter Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:14:27 +0000 http://bibbly-o-tek.com/video/#comment-61073 Could anyone tell me something about the menaing of "WOOD BEEZ"? Tks a lot. Peter. Could anyone tell me something about the menaing of “WOOD BEEZ”? Tks a lot.
Peter.

]]> By: Marco Raaphorst http://bibbly-o-tek.com/video/comment-page-1/#comment-2056 Marco Raaphorst Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:29:23 +0000 http://bibbly-o-tek.com/video/#comment-2056 Sorry, I misread your comment Stevo. Don't have a clue why you can't play QT. Try to update it at the Apple website. I have just WoodBeez (http://bibbly-o-tek.com/wp-content/video/musicvideo/woodbeezus.html)and didn't find issues. Hope you can solve it. Good luck! Sorry, I misread your comment Stevo. Don’t have a clue why you can’t play QT. Try to update it at the Apple website. I have just WoodBeez (http://bibbly-o-tek.com/wp-content/video/musicvideo/woodbeezus.html)and didn’t find issues.

Hope you can solve it. Good luck!

]]> By: Marco Raaphorst http://bibbly-o-tek.com/video/comment-page-1/#comment-2055 Marco Raaphorst Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:24:16 +0000 http://bibbly-o-tek.com/video/#comment-2055 Video's: at the top of this page. Some are in QT format, some in Flash. Video’s: at the top of this page. Some are in QT format, some in Flash.

]]> By: stevo http://bibbly-o-tek.com/video/comment-page-1/#comment-2054 stevo Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:18:13 +0000 http://bibbly-o-tek.com/video/#comment-2054 Why cant i watch the videos? I have quicktime!! Why cant i watch the videos? I have quicktime!!

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