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Closing Thoughts: Pinball Wizard (Patreon)

Published:
2024-05-17 17:00:14
Imported:
2024-05

Content

Once again sharing the closing thoughts here in case anyone wants to hear it! As always, I'd recommend watching the video first, this won't make sense without it.

Comments

Michael Mol

Still in the middle of the main video, but wanted a place to voice this thought... Your illustrations are--literally--iconic. I'd *love* to be able to order swag with some of your recurring drawings. Obviously the different elephant characters, but lots of the others. Like the late rabbit, the melty clock, the gears, the Edvard Munch/Scream reference. If it seems like just the icon would be too boring on a shirt or something, a caption would seem right, like the {de}motivational posters. I'd definitely pick up a couple. It'd also be really fun to get a deck of cards using the drawings. All kinds of fun games you can make out of shuffling a deck of cymbals --er symbols, and drawing cards from those symbols. Maybe there's some pod-type store that can make it easy to set up some things. I dunno. I missed out on buying some of your art production sheets a few years ago, and I still love your symbolisms and visual compositions.

12tonevideos

I've considered it, although many of the non-elephant ones could potentially run into copyright issues if I were to sell them as standalone pieces. Mostly what's been holding me back is that it's hard to gauge how much demand there'd be for a product like that. I hadn't thought of doing a deck, though, that could certainly be interesting!

Michael Mol

Honestly, I'd buy a sticker sheet, too, and pepper my laptops and such. The really neat thing about your little drawings are their symbolic meanings, because of how you use them consistently; they're tokens in a language. (Which implies you could chain the tokens to form a sentence or phrase. And now I know one game I want to try with that deck...) You know a heck of a lot more about music theory than I do. If you wanted, you could conceptually try dividing the symbols into four categories to form a standard set of cards, or identify four symbols that can serve as suits where you can define 12 variations. Even something playing with different scales and moods, harmonic textures. I dunno; I'm rambling and googling to find the names of the concepts I assume exist. But really, I'd have a lot more fun with a deck of symbols.

MrScience

I really appreciate your thoughtfulness about the significance of Tommy. Two thoughts. First, lyrically, it has to be judged in its cultural context as being effectively sui generis: I don't believe that anyone before had approached these themes and topics. Townshend was so young, and so bold and brave to just put it out there like that. This wasn't part of some cultural dialog, it was the initiation of one, he had no context (maybe _Stranger in a Strange Land_). And as you probably know, while not autobiographical, he was clearly starting to work out his own demons here, something that would echo through his life and future work. Second, musically, Tommy isn't just a "good album", it's absolutely foundational for the rock canon. I'm a late boomer, so "kids these days", sure, y'all don't have it burned into your young minds like my cohort, every track, every phrase. You do mention it, but again for the complexity of composition, orchestration, production, and musical concept, it opened up the universe, at least for what broke through to the public. It contains some of the most fundamental pieces indicating what the possibilities for a rock ensemble could be. I may have now missed a chance to propose a song for you to analyze, but Amazing Journey/Sparks is this compositional triumph, in the first part weaving these intriguing chord changes under the melody, and then shifting into this blistering instrumental metal rave-up which is almost through-composed, working through a half dozen keys over John's pounding bass before crashing back to the opening theme. I worked on a piano arrangement for weeks trying to reflect the subtleties. Beyond that, the contrast with what they could then do to bring that live as effectively a power trio is nothing less than stunning (Live at Leeds being canon, of course). Moon live? Get outa here, you'd never be able to transcribe it. :) Thanks SO much for what you do, yours may be the best channel on YouTube.

StigsVanuCousin

Hey all, im relatively new here. I was curious, is there a discord or anything? If one wanted to submit a song for consideration is that an option?

Brian Miller

Yes, there is a Discord server. It's quite active. Send 12tone a message, I'm sure he'll point you in the right direction.

Emily Myers Corrigan

Art Youtuber Moriah Elizabeth designed a deck of cards last year and I was really surprised at how much work it was even doing all the designing digitally. But general merch would definitely be really cool. A tshirt with an elephant that says Keep On Rockin' would go in my cart!

Emily Myers Corrigan

As a young Gen X, you're probably around my parents' age, and I absolutely wore out my mom's vinyl copy and my own cassette tape. I performed it in my living room for my stuffies even at an age where I had zero concept of what was going on in the show besides the most basic plot. It went in the brain folder with all the other broadway stuff I loved and once I hear the beginning of the album, I have to listen to the whole thing.