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07-05-2006, 12:55 PM
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Havent ever listened to these guys , but heard alot of talk about them. I watched a video of them from Bonnaroo . Very awesome stuff. How long haev these guys been around? They had any albums out lately. Im still on the hunt for newer groups that haev a great sound. Ive foudn a bunch of great new bands in the process. |
07-05-2006, 01:25 PM
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Endorsing Artist: see profile | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: toms_river.nj.us | | I love MMW! Chris Wood has monster groove on both URB and electric. I've got everything they released as a band plus the 2 John Scofield discs they help out on. www.mmw.net is the Official Site... they have some media there. "End of the World Party" is the newest and my fav. "Uninvisible" is another one I listen to often. |
07-05-2006, 01:27 PM
| | | Shack-Man and Combustication for me!  |
07-05-2006, 01:31 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Dallas, TX. | | | They have been around a long while and have changed a lot as a band. They started out very old school jazz type stuff. A lot of free form stuff, but much more traditional. At some point, they decided to make their jazz dancable, for lack of a better term. To me, End of the World Party is the perfect melding of all their past, present and future all rolled into one. All previous albums deserve a good listen though. I dont think I would have appreciated End of the World as much, had I not heard the other stuff first.
If you want to check out anything on mp3, I have most of their albums, just PM me. |
07-05-2006, 01:40 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Denver | | | Some of their material is a little too "free-form" for my liking. Most of "Combustification" falls into that category. But, the stuff that leans toward groove, including the collaborations with Scofield, are very cool.
I recommend you start with "Hottentot" (a song on the Scofield "A Go-Go" CD) and go from there. |
07-05-2006, 01:46 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: outta this world | | | yep they're pretty great, but am only able to listen to a few songs at a time, that keyboard sound starts to grate on my nerves after a bit. they need more vocals i think |
07-05-2006, 01:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Bowling Green, KY | | MMW rules. Love thier stuff. I personally feel like the easiest stuff to start with is on Uninvisible. Lots of simple groove orented jams that get kind of spacey. Lots of songs bassed (haha, get it!   ) around a simple bass groove, like Smoke.
I don't reccomend starting with End Of The World Party. Thats all hardcore dance haze, trip hop, abeiance (I know I misspelled that) kind of stuff. Its still a great album, but I feel like you have to get into MMW a good bit before being able to sit, listen, (or stand and dance), and take in that album.
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07-05-2006, 02:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Indiana | | What album is this song off of ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUiTF...n%20%26%20Wood
And if you look on youtube you can find a video of them from Bonnaroo and I liek that song also . Wood plays some nice solos/fills |
07-05-2006, 02:14 PM
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Endorsing Artist: see profile | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: toms_river.nj.us | | | that's "Pappy Check" from Uninvisible... at double speed though |
07-05-2006, 02:43 PM
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I'm a fan. Love "End of the World Party" for speed up/slow down moods. |
07-05-2006, 02:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Dallas, TX. | | | I will agree with Uninvisable and Shack-Man probably being the easiest introduction albums. |
07-05-2006, 06:13 PM
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m Moderator Emeritus | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Connecticut | | MMW kicks serious tail.
I have 6 discs and love them all.
Combustication
Combustication Remix EP
End Of The World Party (Just In Case)
Friday Afternoon In The Universe
Last Chance To Dance Trance (Perhaps)
Uninvisible
But I need more!!!!!  |
07-05-2006, 06:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: New York, NY | | | Ugh. I've heard a lot about them, but never heard them. Now that I have, I have zero interest in hearing them again. |
07-05-2006, 06:26 PM
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Originally Posted by James Hart I love MMW! Chris Wood has monster groove on both URB and electric. I've got everything they released as a band plus the 2 John Scofield discs they help out on. www.mmw.net is the Official Site... they have some media there. "End of the World Party" is the newest and my fav. "Uninvisible" is another one I listen to often. | Hey James, did you get that Wood Brothers disc?
It's really good! |
07-05-2006, 06:48 PM
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Originally Posted by bigbottomline Hey James, did you get that Wood Brothers disc?
It's really good! | not yet!!! I'm on a buying freeze for another short while (just accepted a wicked job offer today and told the old place what to do  )
It's near the top of my "to get" list! |
07-05-2006, 06:52 PM
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Originally Posted by labgnat yep they're pretty great, but am only able to listen to a few songs at a time, that keyboard sound starts to grate on my nerves after a bit. they need more vocals i think | Dats's not a keyboard! That, my friend, is a Hammond B3 Organ. Organs are instruments. Keyboards are appliances. Always remeber this. :>
MMW are each fabulous musicians. Great feels. Great soloists. GREAT groovers.
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07-05-2006, 07:04 PM
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Originally Posted by tzadik MMW are each fabulous musicians. Great feels. Great soloists. GREAT groovers. | +1
BTW, anyone out there got the 'Tonic' Acoustic disc? If you do, do you dig it?
EDIT: Also, just out of curiosity. Was anyone at the 4/13/05 show in Murhpreeburro, TN, on MTSU's campus? Sick show that was.
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07-05-2006, 07:08 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Avondale Estates, GA, USA | | | MMW are great. I've seen them everywhere from a tiny club where they didn't start playing until almost 1 a.m., to Atlanta Symphony Hall. They never fail to groove like crazy. Chris Wood is excellent.
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07-06-2006, 05:13 AM
| | | I prefer their first(?) album...still- Notes From The Underground. More acoustic & more 'out' than the organ-groove stuff(which I had first) & which I always thought was missing a horn or two.
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07-06-2006, 06:38 AM
| | | | I have tonic. It is a "difficult" listen. it is from their acoustic tour - piano, db, drums. Some intense stuff, none of the groove stuff.
I'd say Shack man is my fave mmw | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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