{"id":653,"date":"2010-06-13T16:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T21:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=653"},"modified":"2015-02-04T09:27:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T14:27:06","slug":"ross-carnegie-co-open-up-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"Ross Carnegie & Co. – Open Up Your Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nMr. Ross Carnegie at work on the Hammond<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download – Ross Carnegie & Co. – Open Up Your Mind <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Greetings all. <\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope the new week finds you all well.
\nI spent Thursday, Friday and the rest of the godforsaken weekend dealing with yet another in a seemingly endless parade of kidney-related roadblocks. Long story short, one of the newer kidney stones (which weren\u2019t supposed to be happening) became dislodged from its home in the \u201cmeat\u201d of the kidney (as my doctor likes to call it) and scored itself an eagle, dropping directly into the ureter, which in accordance with Murphy\u2019s Law, was too narrow to afford it egress. As a result, my doctor (always properly cautious) dragged me back into the surgi-center and reinserted a stent, so that my sole, remaining kidney would not fail.
\nHow\u2019s that for fun?<\/em>
\nThis all sounds a lot worse than it is. Aside from being a huge inconvenience (with the added risks of anesthesia), if the greatest minds of the urological\/nephrological world could figure out why I\u2019m still getting stones, and cause it to cease, there would be no problem at all.
\nUntil then, I\u2019m trapped in this bizarre loop where I go through another surgical procedure, only to discover another speed bump when I emerge on the other side.
\nThat (and the fact that I had to take my sick three-year-old to the doctor) is why there was no Friday post.
\nBut, all is \u2013 if not well<\/em> \u2013 at least back to the status quo, so continue on I will.
\nThe tune I bring you today is something of a slightly later vintage by a great producer of Hammond 45s, Mr. Ross Carnegie.<\/strong>
\nI first heard\/heard of Mr. Carnegie via the legendary \u2018Vital Organs\u2019 comp which featured his song \u2018Cool Dad\u2019, as well as his visage on the cover.
\nSome years later, deep into my own Hammond obsession I scored a copy of \u2018The Kid\u2019 (as featured in Funky16Corners Radio v.48), also very groovy.
\nAnyhoo, the tune I bring you today falls somewhat later in Mr. Carnegie\u2019s limited discography, bears no date but the sound in the grooves suggests to me a recording sometime in the early-to-mid 70s.
\nRoss Carnegie emigrated to New York from Canada as a young man to work as a jazz pianist. He ended up working not only on piano but mastering the Hammond organ as well, eventually leading his own band which featured a young Alphonse Mouzon<\/strong> on drums in the late 60s.
\nLater on, Carnegie became known (at least locally) as the pianist in the White Plains, NY Nordstroms department store.
\nToday\u2019s selection, \u2018Open Up Your Mind\u2019, credited to Ross Carnegie and Co.<\/strong> , is a funky, semi-blaxplo experience with all manner of keyboards \u2013 analog and synthesized \u2013 horns, police whistles and chants (no doubt courtesy of the \u2018& Co.\u2019 of the title) of \u2018Open up your mind\u2019.
\nWhile there are elements that would later come to signify disco, this is most decidedly a non-disco affair (though Carnegie would later release the tune \u2018F-Minor Disco\u2019 on his El-Con label, using the same exact catalog number as \u2018Open Up Your Mind\u2019).
\nI hope you dig the tune, and, assuming I\u2019m not hit by a bus or falling space junk, I\u2019ll be back mid-week.<\/p>\n

Peace<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/p>\n


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Mr. Ross Carnegie at work on the Hammond Listen\/Download – Ross Carnegie & Co. – Open Up Your Mind Greetings all. I hope the new week finds you all well. I spent Thursday, Friday and the rest of the godforsaken weekend dealing with yet another in a seemingly endless parade of kidney-related roadblocks. Long story […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[60,11,17,14,12,18],"tags":[163,166,27,164],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enough-already","category-funk","category-funk-45","category-funky16corners","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-funk","tag-funky16corners","tag-hammond-organ","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-ax","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5458,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/5458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}