Joni LA fire benefit with fretless guitar

[jerry]

I don't know the player, but the fretless guitar sounds badass, almost cello like. E-bow maybe.

 

[corinpills]

That is Blake Mills who made a fabulous album with Pino Palladino last year. He’s a very cool guitarist, producer and singer/ songwriter who works out of the old Sound City studios in LA.

 

[Oddly]

Fantastic performance from Joni...and that guitarwork is awesome!
I've been watching a lot of the FireAid concert...some really fine music indeed.
Pink with Justin Derrico were stunning.
Rod Stewart, Sting, Billie Eilish, Green Day, RHCP, Anderson Paak...in fact everyone gave truly memorable performances..

 

[jerry]

That is Blake Mills who made a fabulous album with Pino Palladino last year. He’s a very cool guitarist, producer and singer/ songwriter who works out of the old Sound City studios in LA.

Makes sense, I have that album with Pino and dig it. Thanks for naming him, I really dug what he was doing and like giving him credit. A lot of killer bass playing on the show, Sting's old P- bass sounded massive, I dug the three piece.

 

[thombo]

You can hear Blake Mills use it w/ on the Pino Tiny Desk around 13:30. I love this video.

 

[Killing Floor]

He's really great.

 

[WRM]

God Bless Joni Mitchell and the USA. That made my eyes wet....

 

[Wood and Wire]

I don't know the player, but the fretless guitar sounds badass, almost cello like. E-bow maybe.

With the volume swells, it sounds like the guitar track is playing backwards - it's a really cool effect.


More than anything, it really reminded me of this Vangelis track, from his score for Blade Runner

 

[Wood and Wire]

... who works out of the old Sound City studios in LA.

I thought the whole building was demolished, and most of the equipment sold to Dave Grohl?

 

[sunbeast]

I thought the whole building was demolished, and most of the equipment sold to Dave Grohl?

No the original owners sold off most of the original equipment and briefly closed the studio (what the Grohl documentary was documenting), but its still around and currently an active studio again

 

[logdrum]

The soprano sax intonation is bad specially in the beginning and he did not fix it hat much.

 

[WRM]

The soprano sax intonation is bad specially in the beginning and he did not fix it hat much.

Until I saw it, I thought it was a Flute, and thought, I can play that w/my B foot?...

 

[Wood and Wire]

No the original owners sold off most of the original equipment and briefly closed the studio (what the Grohl documentary was documenting), but its still around and currently an active studio again

Oh, cool - I mean, that makes absolutely no sense to close it, and disrupt a highly valuable studio, to then re-open it with pretty much 100% of it's cultural cachet, and marketable value flushed down the toilet - but hey ho.

I'm sure I heard the original plan was to demolish it, and turn it into apartments, or something.

The thing that real baffled me about the documentary was that everyone raved about the unique sound of the live room, and one spot in particular that was the ideal placement for the snare drum - yet nobody thought to record impulse responses of the room????

 

[sunbeast]

Oh, cool - I mean, that makes absolutely no sense to close it, and disrupt a highly valuable studio, to then re-open it with pretty much 100% of it's cultural cachet, and marketable value flushed down the toilet - but hey ho.

I'm sure I heard the original plan was to demolish it, and turn it into apartments, or something.

The thing that real baffled me about the documentary was that everyone raved about the unique sound of the live room, and one spot in particular that was the ideal placement for the snare drum - yet nobody thought to record impulse responses of the room????

Wikipedia says that the only surviving owner at the time of original closing/liquidation was in his late-70s, it kept operating as a leased studio after they closed down operations, then his daughter and another investor re-equipped and reopened it 6 years later as a full-on studio again. Given its location the real-estate that they owned was worth far more than the studio itself so there must have been some passion involved in the decision to not just bulldoze it and cash in.

I know Universal Audio has a plug-in pack meant to emulate the sound of that studio from consoles to rooms, so presumably they have indeed done IR recordings there

 

[Michedelic]

This was a special moment…

 

[Low Main]

The soprano sax intonation is bad specially in the beginning and he did not fix it hat much.

It's a vintage Saxello from the 1920's and they are very hard to intonate well.

A modern soprano would be easier to play in tune. Although no soprano is a piece of cake.

But the Saxello has its own timbre which is a bit different than a soprano, and that appeals to some players.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Elton Dean are among those who played Saxello during their careers (Rahsaan made some changes to his).

 

[logdrum]

It's a vintage Saxello from the 1920's and they are very hard to intonate well.

A modern soprano would be easier to play in tune. Although no soprano is a piece of cake.

But the Saxello has its own timbre which is a bit different than a soprano, and that appeals to some players.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Elton Dean are among those who played Saxello during their careers (Rahsaan made some changes to his).

I play the soprano sax. I guess this is a Saxello which was only made by the HN White company. There are modern bell tipped sopranos that would have intonated better or if he wants vinatge the Buescher version would have been much better, specially for something like this. He was also adjusting his mouthpiece, probably after realizing he cannot get it intonated right. These things are so finicky that you have to use vintage mouthpieces as well or have one made for it, As a player it was cringe all the way for me. He did not have to be there. That number was fine without that. The essence of the song is simplicity . That's my opinion. But Joni seems okay and only woodwind and some orchestra players would care.

 

[Low Main]

I once played soprano and understand your pain listening to the intonation on this.

I didn't know that you had to use a vintage mouthpiece with this older horn or go with a high dollar custom piece.

There may be more King labeled saxellos still in circulation than White labeled saxellos. This might be a King.

Perhaps I should have bought a vintage saxello when they were kicking around for short money back in the 1970's. They sell for a lot now.