New Archetype Names!

[Eric the Green]

Both Bach and Beethoven, arguably the best composers of all time, and two of the most innovative, were also arguably Artist Generation natives. Beethoven's birth in 1770 would put him just inside the civic generation on the cusp, unless we think that the European turnings were a few years behind the American colonies. Astrologically, the Uranus in Taurus position in the astrological correlate to the turnings cycle links both Bach and Beethoven to The Beatles and also to whomever is being born today as Gen Z. I think of Bach and Beethoven as being able to glide right in to the civic-established institutions of their time, but soon they transformed them, just like Silents did to theirs.

The reason I bring this up is that fact #5 in the 10 Facts video mentions the Indian drone sound that underlies Tomorrow Never Knows, and which David Parsons adopted also for his Rishikesh track linked above. The Bach drone organ sound underneath the two canons and the climax of Toccata in F has always moved me greatly as well. I wore out the leathering on the F pipes at my Unitarian church's organ where I practiced this piece, by holding down the F note to practice the canon, and had to sponsor and perform at a benefit concert to pay for the repairs. The organ was later damaged in a fire anyway and was replaced by an electric one. The drone in Toccata in F has a similar "mind-expanding" effect that the tambura drone sounds in The Beatles' and Parsons' pieces do.