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From: Alice
Date: 09 Oct 09 - 11:39 PM

Spock has an autoharp?? Who knew!

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From: Alice
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 12:55 AM

Don't tell Shatner about the song circle.

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From: Georgiansilver
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 03:09 AM

'Star Trekkin' across the Universe.. Always going forward coz we can't find reverse!!'

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From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 04:06 AM

On You Tube people seem to use the Way to Eden (AKA Space Hippies - 02/21/69) jamming clip as a vehicle for all sorts of trickery, but the episode up there in its glorious entirety, beginning here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtmRmqIVXgU. A forgotten classic best forgotten??

Spock featured his Vulcan Zither in other episodes, perhaps most notably - & folkily (?!) - in this impromptu duet with Uhura from Charlie X (09/15/66): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSxLqDt2QVA

S O'P

PS - I am not a Trekkie, just this stuff is an integral part of the ambient mythology of my childhood!

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From: MGM·Lion
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 03:27 PM

Tune of Uhura's song seemed to be amalgam of Greensleeves & Charlie Is My Darling. Agreed? Hardly - Boldly Going Where...

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From: Peace
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 03:48 PM

I had the pleasure of meeting Mr Nimoy in San Francisco in 1967 or maybe 1968 when I was traveling around the US working (expenses covered but no salary) for Eugene McCarthy. I'd been a Star Trek 'fan'--as in tried never to miss a show--from the first time it aired. Yes, I checked to see whether his ears were pointed. No, they weren't. He was a very nice gentleman and when I told him I'd checked his ears he said, "It's funny how many people do that." As I said, he was a nice guy.

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From: Ed T
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 04:31 PM

A spoke for Spock

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From: Alice
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 04:34 PM

It's a spoke instrument,
but is it a folk instrument?

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From: Ed T
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 04:41 PM

Tension builds as "Axel Rosie" plays her "space diagonal hubsicord". Spock visually inspects her spoke nipple.

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From: Alice
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 04:43 PM

This leads to a new debate....

What is spoke music?

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From: Ed T
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 04:45 PM

"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." — Voltaire ...

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From: Ed T
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 04:50 PM

Walter Brennan used to have spoke music....today its called RAP

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From: Alice
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 04:53 PM

Spoke music = Shatner speaking lyrics

AAAAaaaacckkk!!!

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From: topical tom
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 05:01 PM

Those instruments are not logical.

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From: Tangledwood
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 06:25 PM

Is it possible to play air guitar in space?

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From: Gurney
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 11:00 PM

I think she is weaving a bodhran!

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From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 11 Oct 09 - 04:31 AM

What is spoke music?

Seems a youthful Frank Zappa had the answer back in 1963:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9P2V0_p6vE