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Post by walkingdecay on Aug 18, 2022 8:00:32 GMT
A band whose mysterious music bears a lot of exploration.
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Post by walkingdecay on Aug 2, 2022 9:32:17 GMT
Old but worth digging out in a real sense. I found the still-wrapped CD this morning, stuck and forgotten behind a sideboard. I love it now that I've finally listened to it.
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Post by walkingdecay on Aug 1, 2022 17:18:14 GMT
Dylan has a way of utilising memorable chord progressions that just go round and round. Wagon Wheel's another one: you start playing and don't seem to be able to stop.
One of the magic things that occurred during the early years at the Cambridge Folk festival was that someone would always start playing Heaven's Door in the small hours and gradually loads of people would join in with instruments and voices. Maybe it still happens.
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Post by walkingdecay on Jul 30, 2022 8:08:02 GMT
OK, I get it. I'll stop.
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Post by walkingdecay on Jul 29, 2022 17:12:51 GMT
Bad Penny Blues by Humphrey Lyttleton, later the model on which Macca built Lady Madonna, became a hit by a series of happy accidents. It was only recorded because Humph's sax player wasn't available, leaving an opening for the piano-led tune they had only jammed on to be used. Once it was done, Humph was keen to go off on holiday and didn't stay for playback, leaving the track at the mercy of that most percipient of producers Denis Preston and his engineer - one Joe Meek.
Meek brought the drums forward, distorted the piano, compressed it and generally added Joe Meekness. The result was a radio friendly hit which traditionalist Humph admitted would have made him furious if he'd heard it before release.
(Someone needs to write a biography of Denis Preston before it's too late, by the way.)
Jefferson Airplane's name harks back to Jorma Kaukonen's blues roots, Blind Jefferson Airplane being an imaginary country bluesman.
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Post by walkingdecay on Jul 28, 2022 11:49:57 GMT
Bill Haley's mother came from Ulverston, Lancs.
Bobby Darin's first single was Rock Island Line, which was a direct lift of Lonnie Donegan's version, spoken intro and all. Lonnie had just made his freak entry into the US charts, generating reversals of the usual practice of UK artists copying American hits.
John Lennon always credited the wretch Ono with the inspiration for Imagine. However, this appears in his 1965 book A Spaniard In The Works, specifically in a poem called The Fat Budgie:
"It would be funny wouldn’t it A budgie on a stick Imagine all the people Laughing til they’re sick."
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Post by walkingdecay on Jul 27, 2022 17:44:09 GMT
There are some videos that upset me for the wrong reasons, I'm afraid, like the footage of Miles Davis after that cruel bastard Quincy Jones persuaded him to appear on a TV show. Miles was ill and wrecked, a pathetic semblance of his former self. Knowing how dismissive Jones can be of anyone who isn't himself, you have to wonder about his motives.
However, here's one of Graham Nash revisiting one of his truly great songs, seeming to realise its every emotion. This made a tear start for the right reasons.
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Post by walkingdecay on Jul 13, 2022 17:47:44 GMT
As with Cliff, there's a completely individual sound there.
I've long thought Bruce is underappreciated. For all that he underplays his own supposedly three chord talent in his autobiography the man is a veritable rhythm machine.
The book Rock and Roll I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life is well worth a look, by the way. Few gasp-worthy revelations, but it's very good on early British rock and on the trials and tragedies of being in a band, honest about Bruce's mental problems (felt a kinship regarding his obsession with tuning) and, given his long career as a successful producer, has a lot to say about how records used to be made. It's also turning up at decent prices now, instead of the 70 quid and more opportunist nonsense of a few years ago.
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Post by walkingdecay on Jul 13, 2022 8:29:18 GMT
Acapella jazz - but trust me, this is a truly remarkable musical moment.
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Post by walkingdecay on Jul 9, 2022 8:31:56 GMT
Again, this lady is a great teacher of piano (my wife, who's taken up playing since she retired, swears by her), and yet in this case the video is as applicable to reading and employing rhythm in tabs as in notation.
It underlines how much tab readers already know if they're thinking of moving on to reading notation, by the way.
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Post by walkingdecay on Jul 9, 2022 0:15:36 GMT
I think I'd just hammer momentarily off the nearest scale tone below, else maybe the 6 or 7 if I was on the 1. This technique falls in the useful area of, "Nobody in the audience knowing what you're trying to do anyway."
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Post by walkingdecay on Jul 7, 2022 17:31:00 GMT
Ry Cooder and David Hamburger are my favourites, the former because he can convince with sliding through anything from the dirtiest blues to the most delicate jazz, the latter for developmental techniques which often go beyond what you think are the limits of slide. And Dickey Betts, for that creamy tone. And David Lindley, who operates in his own inspirational space.
And some I haven't thought of, of course. There's really no such thing as the best anything ever, is there?
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Post by walkingdecay on Jul 6, 2022 13:09:30 GMT
I play piano most of the time these days, and Telecasters when I can be bothered to pick up a guitar at all. I suppose I've regressed. After playing mostly a Tele and the occasional folk instrument professionally I went barmy (no kidding: I'll not repeat the circumstances here again), sold, gave away or loaned my instruments and stopped playing guitar for almost twenty years. I didn't play anything other than keys until my son was born, when I went down the househusband route, and got an Ibanez Dread on impulse.
The Teles came back quite recently and I've found them a better fit than the acoustics, that somehow my fingers still "know" things from decades ago. They just seem enough now. I've got no hankering to do anything other than have a bit of a noodle on them when I feel like it.
I do know what you mean about feeling guilty to come here when you're not playing the "right" sort of instrument. That said, it's nice here, innit? Why deprive yourself?
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Post by walkingdecay on Jul 5, 2022 16:59:15 GMT
Both, for me. Octave mandos are easier to play tunes on, but there's a zing and a kind of airiness about the sound and feel of a 'zouk that I really liked, especially when recording.
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Post by walkingdecay on Feb 6, 2022 0:39:49 GMT
Relax.
Not being facetious. I've noticed that people who have problems holding down chords are often gripping too hard and skewing the pitch. Try practicing when you're watching the telly or when you're watching for your neighbour's cat to shit on your lawn with a water pistol placed nearby. Part of breaking self imposed barriers is forgetting they're there.
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