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No one "plans" to be a smooth Jazz musician

#2
Can't stand smooth jazz, but I have learned that if the audience is in to it I can be happy playing many, many things I don't like (I have even played Southern Rock as of late as another extreme example;). And if I can make that kind of money doing it -- bring it on.
 
#3
"Then you wake up from a daydream to find yourself sitting on top of a piano on a beach in the Caribbean, wearing a loose-fitting white shirt, with photographers all around you, and you don't have any idea how you got there."

Funny. Thanks for sharing.
 
#5
The only thing wrong with "smooth jazz" is that the production is too clean and poppy.
Take the same musicians and same tunes and let them play the head then improvise in turn like a real jazz tune you would see what I mean. Also take the syrupy trebly pop filters and tone em down and it would sound like real jazz LMAO.
 
#8
Hahahaha. That's good.

Really, though, smooth jazz CAN do harm. One time, for two weeks straight, I had the saxophone part from George Michael's "I'm Never Gonna Dance Again" stuck in my head. I was ripping the wood out of the expansion joints in this apartment complex pool deck and filling them with joint sealer and the office/clubhouse had a two hour loop of smooth jazz playing over the outdoor speakers nonstop. After a few days of it, that damn saxophone part got permanently embedded in my neurons. I can even hear it again now just by thinking of it. It will probably be there for the rest of the day.

I'm probably going to have this condition for life.
 
#9
Back in the late 90's, we had a local station that played smooth jazz here in central ny. I had tons of fun rolling around in my lifted F-250 blasting those saucy slap licks and blooming fretless lines!

The station changed to "modern country" and I had go back to my Yanni and Rippingtons cassettes.
 
#10
Bloodhammer said:
Hahahaha. That's good.

Really, though, smooth jazz CAN do harm. One time, for two weeks straight, I had the saxophone part from George Michael's "I'm Never Gonna Dance Again" stuck in my head. I was ripping the wood out of the expansion joints in this apartment complex pool deck and filling them with joint sealer and the office/clubhouse had a two hour loop of smooth jazz playing over the outdoor speakers nonstop. After a few days of it, that damn saxophone part got permanently embedded in my neurons. I can even hear it again now just by thinking of it. It will probably be there for the rest of the day.

I'm probably going to have this condition for life.
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It's actually called Careless Whisper. :atoz:
 
#15
Bloodhammer said:
Hahahaha. That's good.

Really, though, smooth jazz CAN do harm. One time, for two weeks straight, I had the saxophone part from George Michael's "I'm Never Gonna Dance Again" stuck in my head. I was ripping the wood out of the expansion joints in this apartment complex pool deck and filling them with joint sealer and the office/clubhouse had a two hour loop of smooth jazz playing over the outdoor speakers nonstop. After a few days of it, that damn saxophone part got permanently embedded in my neurons. I can even hear it again now just by thinking of it. It will probably be there for the rest of the day.

I'm probably going to have this condition for life.
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Don't worry about the subliminal messages in that music.

"You will buy lots expensive cars and electronics on credit. You will vote Republican, you will procreate as much as possible and name all your chidren James no matter their gender."

I have listned to Goerge Michaels for GET OUT! years and it hasn't SPIDERS, BIG BLACK HAIRY SPIDERS! affected me TAX AND SPEND! at all. Did someone say something?
 
#17
Bloodhammer said:
Hahahaha. That's good.

Really, though, smooth jazz CAN do harm. One time, for two weeks straight, I had the saxophone part from George Michael's "I'm Never Gonna Dance Again" stuck in my head. I was ripping the wood out of the expansion joints in this apartment complex pool deck and filling them with joint sealer and the office/clubhouse had a two hour loop of smooth jazz playing over the outdoor speakers nonstop. After a few days of it, that damn saxophone part got permanently embedded in my neurons. I can even hear it again now just by thinking of it. It will probably be there for the rest of the day.

I'm probably going to have this condition for life.
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Somehow this helps me comprehend how one could conceive *human centipede*
 
#18
Bloodhammer said:
Hahahaha. That's good.

Really, though, smooth jazz CAN do harm. One time, for two weeks straight, I had the saxophone part from George Michael's "I'm Never Gonna Dance Again" stuck in my head. I was ripping the wood out of the expansion joints in this apartment complex pool deck and filling them with joint sealer and the office/clubhouse had a two hour loop of smooth jazz playing over the outdoor speakers nonstop. After a few days of it, that damn saxophone part got permanently embedded in my neurons. I can even hear it again now just by thinking of it. It will probably be there for the rest of the day.

I'm probably going to have this condition for life.
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It's like tinnitis, only worse. You poor $#@!!!
 

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