Festival Question

[onosson]

that song they used to play in Charlie Brown specials. "Christmas Time is Here."

I love this version

 

[Russell L]

Best to go under, IMO. I've worked in theater where you HAVE to keep the time right. Besides, you have to consider the other bands. How would you like to sit around waiting and waiting for your turn?

 

[Tituscrow]

Best to go under, IMO. I've worked in theater where you HAVE to keep the time right. Besides, you have to consider the other bands. How would you like to sit around waiting and waiting for your turn?

He did. Have you read the whole thread or just the OP?

 

[mellowinman]

Best to go under, IMO. I've worked in theater where you HAVE to keep the time right. Besides, you have to consider the other bands. How would you like to sit around waiting and waiting for your turn?

I've been waiting for my turn for four years in this town!

 

[mellowinman]

I love this version

I'll take that over Norah Jones any day!

 

[BobWestbrook]

I'll take that over Norah Jones any day!

I'm guessing you don't like Mozart or Dvorak or Pavarotti or Mel Torme or Nat King Cole either.

 

[mellowinman]

I'm guessing you don't like Mozart or Dvorak or Pavarotti or Mel Torme or Nat King Cole either.

Mozart? I was raised on Mozart! He's the greatest of all the greats!

Mozart, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Chopin, Handel; those guys are the reason I took piano lessons at age five, and was being drilled on theory at the University of St. Thomas by the time I was eight.

Mel Torme is OK, but is a bit of cheesy pop. I suppose the same could be said of Nat King Cole, but that voice! He stood miles above Torme in every imaginable way.

There's no need to pretend to be a musical snob; no one can actually be one. You might as well enjoy "Little Brown Jug" for all I care. (James Stewart, as Tommy Dorsey would protest, "but that's TIN EAR music!")

When I listen to Jazz, and I do, I tend to listen to the best of the best. Miles Davis. Charlie Parker. Sarah Vaughn. Ella Fitzgerald. Nancy Wilson. (no, not THAT Nancy Wilson, although I do enjoy her, too!) Ray Charles!

Pavarotti, I could live without. I'm not a big opera fan, in fact I'm not any kind of opera fan. My favorite opera involves the Marx Brothers.

I cut my teeth on Classical, mostly Symphonies, and I immersed myself in classical training until I became one of the most debauched teenagers known to history, and then I forgot everything I knew, ran with a bad crowd, and became a real, legitimate rock and roller.

I'll take Little Richard over Mel Torme; Fats Domino over Fats Waller; Gene Simmons over Gene Kelly; (although I would take Grace Kelly over either one of them) and Linda Ronstadt over Norah Jones by a mile and a half.

Linda has tons more tone; far more nuance, and doesn't have to stay in the breathy range all the time. Linda can open up the gates like a Streisand or Dion, but she can coo like Marilyn Monroe. She's the real deal, and she wasn't too good to do Buddy Hollie songs, or the Rolling Stones.

She's sang country, jazz, rock, pop, opera, latin, roots; you name it, she can sing it. I'm a bit spoiled when it comes to amazing female vocalists, but don't you dare look down your nose at me.

Freebird is a great song, and I challenge you to master Leon Wilkeson's bass line in it from beginning to end. It's fantastic in every possible way. It's easy to sneer at what we don't understand which is why I never talk about dog politics.

 

[BobWestbrook]

Good response. I apologize if I seemed condescending.

 

[mellowinman]

Good response. I apologize if I seemed condescending.

We're good.

We're all into MUSIC here, besides, that's a very cool bass you've got.