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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Monday really isn't a day to visit here, is it. -->
(Trumptonshire, where it's full alert when the mayor's hat is in a tree. "It's just like riding a nobby lift.")
Drew, Drew, Barney, McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble & Grub?.....Used to watch it, errrrm.....with my young 'un?
Blues Monday
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I'm pretty sure i saw him at a music festival in the CVNRA in the early '90s. Same festival where I first saw Bucky Pizzarelli.
Watching some more vids with Alex Skolnick, I saw this one. I would never want to go through an audition/test like this!
Watching this video reminded me why I don't play guitar, especially speed metal.
This reminded me of when I saw Rush in concert during the Signals Tour (I think it was the Signals Tour...some of my concerts earlier on are a little foggy) and the opening act was Yngwie Malmsteen. After about 2 minutes of listening to breakneck speed arpeggios, I got up, went to the bathroom, and then got a beer. I could not wait for Ing-Wee to finish his set. To me, this was all about speed and technique and it had no feeling. Not my thing, but hey, whatever floats your boat.
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My 'bitter half'(not a musician but been around me since 1970)is unimpressed by players "running scales".Watching this video reminded me why I don't play guitar, especially speed metal.
This reminded me of when I saw Rush in concert during the Signals Tour (I think it was the Signals Tour...some of my concerts earlier on are a little foggy) and the opening act was Yngwie Malmsteen. After about 2 minutes of listening to breakneck speed arpeggios, I got up, went to the bathroom, and then got a beer. I could not wait for Ing-Wee to finish his set. To me, this was all about speed and technique and it had no feeling. Not my thing, but hey, whatever floats your boat.
I don't get it, either. Seems like there's a sub-genre of shredders who live to play like this, and they have followers, but to me it's just soulless trickery that gets old fast. I feel that way about acoustic guitar tappers, too. OK, neat, you can do something different with your guitar. Let's not hear that stuff all night, though, please?
I admire the technical skill required to play those things, but what I want to listen to is something that is melodically and harmonically moving in some way. It can be dissonant. It can be different. It can use weird chords. But I need to feel it.
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I wish I’d written this.
As an ex saxist, I useta be impressed by some of the jazz cats who could play like they were being paid by the note. Then I got a listen to Paul Desmond, Stan Getz, and others who played melodies. Sometimes weird melodies, but melodic just the same.
Thank you. I was reminded a moment ago of the Pat Metheny show I saw a couple of years ago. He came out with this monstrosity of an acoustic guitar that had several necks on it, he did a bunch of tricks with it, then set it down and proceeded to play actual music for the rest of the evening.
I know it's cool and novel and when I was in high school I really enjoyed seeing these kinds of things, and there is a portion of his audience that will feel unsatisfied if he doesn't do that, but he knows enough to give them their moment and then move on. One of many things to admire about him.
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Sunday and Monday we have soul and blues here, and seems to me everyone feels that.
It's the saxophone whut first held my musical attention, and the two guys who grabbed me by the ears when I was only knee high to a leprechaun were Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman. There's a master's degree transcribing those numbers (yes Ray Brown :: faint :: )
It's the saxophone whut first held my musical attention, and the two guys who grabbed me by the ears when I was only knee high to a leprechaun were Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman. There's a master's degree transcribing those numbers (yes Ray Brown :: faint :: )
Saxophone is as soulful as it gets. Although, this guy got a fair amount of goodness out of a different kind of horn.
Perhaps, Alex got to feeling the same. He still does stuff with Testament (not my kind of music!), but has become more musical as he gets more towards being a GOF, like the rest of us.
Never did really figure him out. He did Song X with Pat Metheny way back, and I could not listen to much of it.
Of course I should point out that Miles has a couple of not-so-shabby sax players along for that ride, too.
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It is Ornette Coleman's Lonely Woman
that melted my face at the tender age of 8. The Shape of Jazz to Come was one of my sister's discards, along with Beatles, Chubby Checker ... She's got eleven years on me and was in orchestra and band. Likely the albums came from friends at school via a music teacher, and landed on me. She's the one in the family who gets all hot for Mahler big bass stuff. I'm the one in the family who went to the rock show on a GA ticket and never came out
Anyway, I never knew a melody like Ornette plays can be so weird and beautiful at the same time. I was totally prepared to listen to Jerry and The Boys.
that melted my face at the tender age of 8. The Shape of Jazz to Come was one of my sister's discards, along with Beatles, Chubby Checker ... She's got eleven years on me and was in orchestra and band. Likely the albums came from friends at school via a music teacher, and landed on me. She's the one in the family who gets all hot for Mahler big bass stuff. I'm the one in the family who went to the rock show on a GA ticket and never came out
Anyway, I never knew a melody like Ornette plays can be so weird and beautiful at the same time. I was totally prepared to listen to Jerry and The Boys.
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