No such thing as mastering your instrument.
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Winter music thread.....
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C'mon guys, we're all showing our age here: committed arguments about jazz? There is absolutely no way I could listen to jazz of any sort while on the rollers, nor classical, love both genres though I do.
On the other hand, I rediscovered a favorite album of my youth the other morning, the Pogues' _if I should fall from grace with god_. Ah, the memories. Strangely, some of the songs still sound good to my ear (as Dead Kennedy's do not).
OC: Just be glad that we're not raising our kids in the '80's.
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although i'm not a jimi fan (i tend to think he was just a bunch of noise on stage) i do believe he had some talent. he just was playing what people wanted to hear and at the time that overdriven fuzzy feedback was new and exciting. having tried to play guitar in my youth, i can appreciate talented guitar players but i got tired of the 'masturbatory guitar solos' a long time ago. some people are just good guitar players while others are true musicians.
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where do you find new music? i listen to a station out of seattle that plays a lot of new alternative music.
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Ha! Eric, the Flamenco guitar player in Sustanon's video clip, is my former teacher - never expected to see him referenced on a cycling forum!
Ironically it brings this thread on topic as I really disappointed him when I chose trying to become a pro cyclist over being a Flamenco player - off course I ended up being neither...
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lochness - I grew up in the 80s, that was bad enough; my friends and I had widely divergent tastes.
Pogues - saw them about half a dozen time life - awesome mosh pit mania. Them, and the Cropdusters.
Jazz - in my college days the hotbed of Dutch jazz was a short train ride over from Utrecht, a town littered with jazz cafes. Went there regularly and really enjoyed it. But I can't stand listening to jazz on records.
On Page, I went to see Celebration Day couple weeks ago. He may have a gutt now but he's still on fire.
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The thing about Jimi was he died so early. He was background was blues and R&B. He was just figuring out the more complex stuff. To get an idea of where his chops were headed I always suggest people listen to his opening solo on "Rainy Day, Dream Away" and his clean Strat tone.
He was jamming with Miles Davis the year he passed away. He probably would have been the guitarist on "Bitches Brew" had he lived.
But as the great Anthony Jackson said (google him, he invented the 6 string bass as we know it and a huge James Jamerson fan. As am I), "I am a fan of any music or musician that is performing or performed with conviction and feeling."
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The Anthony Jackson quote is one that I live by. Although Jimi may not have been the greatest master of the craft of guitar playing (as a matter of fact many, many back room players have better technique) I am in complete awe of his musicality and consider him a master in the art of guitar playing.
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***Check out my former classical guitar instructor, the late John King, and observe how this creative genius transposed Baroque music, mainly JS Bach pieces, on to the Hawaiian Ukelele!! You have to see this:
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::Slaps hand on forehead::
WHAT?!?!?!
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Ana Vidovic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWIOGbL9Lm4
Just saying...
BTW Ana Vidovic is well on her way to become similar in stature as the great Andres Segovia (she still has a few decades to go though)
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Just picked up the latest from Neal Morse ex Spock's Beard member. Mike Portnoy on drums. Wicked good!
"Riding is about rhythm and flow. It's the wind in your face and the challange of hammering up a long hill. It's the reward at the top and the thrill of a high-speed descent. Biking lets you come alive both in body and spirit." -
@sust - Jimi unplugged with some melody, catchy phrases, and all.
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I can only imagine what hanging out with Tommy Emmanuel is like with a few guitars on hand. This is a prime example of playing with gusto - never mind that it is 'only' a 12 bar blues (followed by Amazing Grace)
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Great stuff on that second Hendrix clip!....couldn't open up the first one for some reason - something about a copy right violation.
Zoetemelk (Sweet Milk)....that Bouree that Ana is playing is the same piece that my former guitar instructor plays on the Ukelele in that youtube clip in my preceding post. Great stuff.
Are you familiar with Li Jie? This girl can play! Listen to her rendition of Andrew York's "Sunburst". Classical guitar with a 20th century feel and harmonic content/phrasing:
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Jesus, you guys. Jackie du Pré. Elgar.
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I love Jackie! I used to listen to her a lot.
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i just saw dave brubeck died. everyone take 5.
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Has Jackie du Pré done any of Shostakovich's cello concertos?
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No such thing as mastering your instrument? I think Jeff Beck might have.
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No. He has not. He will tell you as much himself.
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Keith: check out Marek Pasieczny - I may have it totally wrong, but from your postings it seems to me like you would enjoy listening to him, both his guitar work and his compositions. I particularly enjoyed his 'hommage a Tansman'
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@Sustanon: I am not sure what to think of Li Jie, she seems to be at her best when not as well rehearsed. I find this often the case with classically trained guitarists with great technique.
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Keith, she performed both and recorded neither officially, although a radio performance of No. 1, the E-Flat Major, can be heard in a recording that is available through the BBC programs archive:
http://www.jacquelinedupre.net/BBC_programs/BBC3_2005_01_26/050126_21_shost.mp3
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