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Post by walkingdecay on Jul 16, 2021 22:49:55 GMT
An odd thing I noticed, which I have yet to see any reference to in Beatle literature. John Lennon gave Ono full credit for the concept of Imagine, yet he seems to have been toying with it's phraseology and rhythm at least as early as 1965, when his book A Spaniard In The Works came out. A poem called The Fat Budgie sports the verse:
It would be funny wouldn't it A budgie on a stick Imagine all the people Laughing till they're sick
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Post by walkingdecay on Jul 14, 2021 18:01:20 GMT
Macca didn't actually sing or say, "Quite rightly," on Mellow Yellow, despite legend. There's some doubt whether he spoke or giggled either, but he probably did clap.
Americans on early Beatles forums would argue fiercely that John Lennon did not repeat the phrase "Sugar plum fairy" in lieu of counting in on A Day In The Life. This means they were either deaf, thick, couldn't interpret English accents or all three. By the time Anthology came out it was too late to prove them wrong. F*****s would probably still contend that Lennon says something other than "To your mother" at the beginning of It's All Too Much. T****s.
Duke Ellington's piano teacher was named Mrs Clinkscales.
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Post by walkingdecay on Jul 14, 2021 17:35:12 GMT
A Telecaster frankly, as when I got another after three decades it felt like it fitted my body and reminded me of what I could actually do with a guitar. I only resisted for so long because it was associated something that took a long time to come to terms with.
But we're talking acoustic guitars, which I tend to think of as a different instruments having some things in common with electrics, in a similar way to a mandolin or banjo. In their case I favour dreads for their spacious sound and projection, and because they were favoured by so many of my heroes like Doc Watson, Clarence White, Jerry Garcia and Norman Blake. With a cutaway because I sometimes venture into bat territory.
But not for jazz. You can play jazz on a dread but there's too much airiness and boom. The snotty sound of Selmacs often makes acoustic guitar players reel back in horror when they try to play one, but the abilities of the boxes to chuck forward a cutting rhythm and to sing out the individual notes in a solo or arpeggio makes complete sense once you use them in a jazz setting.
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Post by walkingdecay on Jul 13, 2021 16:58:46 GMT
I'll be honest and say I have no right to condemn someone who sings better than me, belonging thereby to a massive grouping which includes most of the human race and all members of the crow family.
That said: Three lions? I barely got past three lines...
Not worth a "Boom boom!" or even a single, faint "boom" I know.
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Post by walkingdecay on Jul 6, 2021 8:44:46 GMT
Wow, I'd be gazing firmly at my navel if I had those skills... But the other chap ain't bad either, although is he the only mandolin player in America!? There is another, Grisman by name, but he must keep getting lost in his beard these days.
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Post by walkingdecay on Jun 28, 2021 17:47:25 GMT
My wife hears Joni Mitchell with her social psychologist's head on and says she's a horrible woman, citing the way she seems to use relationships for fuel and the apparent grabbiness in the reclamation of the abandoned child. She's right of course - but the songs say that that a perfect soul is tucked away in there somewhere.
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Post by walkingdecay on Jun 28, 2021 17:33:19 GMT
The Beatles quiz thread put me in a Beatley mood and led me back to jazz guitarist Mimi Fox's unique take on Blackbird. It's from her acoustic album, which is very honest, with the engine room workings of her technique showing through more obviously than they do when she plays electric.
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Post by walkingdecay on Jun 23, 2021 8:00:39 GMT
Earlier on in this thread I claimed that guitarists can benefit from using a basic keyboard. That may make more sense in light of videos like this one, where the demonstration of fitting a tune to the chords C,F,G and A minor is as applicable to a fretboard as a keyboard.
I'll add that guitarists could do worse than subscribe to Jess Witt's channel, which is packed with good, basic musical knowledge.
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Post by walkingdecay on Jun 18, 2021 23:40:12 GMT
At the risk of betraying my obvious, to me, lack of knowledge, and asking what is probably an obvious question - that's a recorder isn't it. I really like the tone anyway. I really like all those twists and turns. thanks Pete, walkingdecay Martin Yep. It's a tenor recorder. Same fingering starting on C as the descants (sopranos) that destroyed so many musical aspirations at school in the fifties and sixties but an octave lower, in the same range as a flute. There are three others in the family: the tiny sopranino, which I know little about other than that it sounds like Baby Clanger on speed; the alto, which sits between descant and tenor but annoyingly starts on F; and the bass, which both starts on F and is essentially a small tree with holes in it. The increasing sizes mean the finger spacings are correspondingly wider and the breathing and air pressure each requires are at variance, so how Lucie can switch between them without losing tuning or speed as she does baffles me. It's actually a pig of an instrument to manage in all sorts of ways and found its entree into school curriculums via Germany and the Nazis in the thirties, so how it found its way into British schoolrooms is a deeper mystery. Nevertheless, in the right hands...
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Post by walkingdecay on Jun 18, 2021 17:05:48 GMT
The beauty of Lucie Horsch's playing is a given but of equal wondrousness here is Thomas Dunford's always attentive and sympathetic accompaniment.
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Post by walkingdecay on Jun 12, 2021 12:14:22 GMT
Nice Tele, congrats. Vintage, over the last few years, have brought out some wonderful guitars, at very low prices. I'll second that; very pleased with my 12 string that I bought following recommendations here I've had a problem with my fingers, but a lot of feeling has returned to them in the last couple of weeks and with it the urge to play a bit. A twelve-string would be nice, as I've never actually owned one.
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Post by walkingdecay on Jun 10, 2021 13:15:52 GMT
The sorry tale of why I gave up playing for a living and sold most of my instruments doesn't bear repeating here. Suffice it to say that after a fruitless search for my original workhorse of a Telecaster I finally relented and bought three new ones. It wasn't supposed to be like that, but I got a very playable Squier as a stopgap, the snobbishly prized "real" Fender Vintera Telecaster and the one pictured below. As you can suppose from the branding on the pickups, it cost 15 quid from Wilkos. Not really. A Vintage V58 JD (for Jerry Donahue) that is, with custom hardware by Trev Wilkinson. It was bought pretty much as an afterthought, as I came very close to buying a much more expensive Jerry Donahue model with the same hardware rather than the Fender. It feels and sounds like a good old snotty Tele, but the trick electronics enable it to sound like a Strat, a good clean jazz moaner and to produce rather good overdriven humbucker sounds by turns. Thing is, it's now the only one I play. Neither the other other Teles nor my Washburn come out now, because it's so versatile and does the job so well. This isn't so much a review as a heads-up. A friend bought one a few days ago, but found that they are getting hard to find on sale. I'll just say that if anyone is looking for a versatile electric at around 400 quid the V58 JD would be a really good option to look at - if you can find one.
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Post by walkingdecay on May 26, 2021 17:32:56 GMT
I found the French singer curiously attractive. (is that wrong?) I was quite taken with the young ladies in skimpy black underwear from Azerbaijan too. Trouble is, I'm so old, I can't remember why! I had a bit of a thing about Vicky Leandros, who won in the early '70s. Her power over me was undiminished when I met her through work around 1980. I didn't say much to her though, possibly because I could feel my partner's eyes boring into the back of my head
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Post by walkingdecay on May 26, 2021 11:23:12 GMT
Wasn't talking about 'entry level' banjos, as it goes, assuming that Alex wasn't looking at going there, but rather that sweet spot where Recording King pitch the majority of their instruments. Won't say anything else. Didn't mean to offend.
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Post by walkingdecay on May 25, 2021 17:08:23 GMT
Recording King have a range of good banjos at sensible prices, whether open back or bluegrass. They're my personal goto.
There's even more cultishness over brands and builders among banjo players than guitar players, but as Matt implies the notion that you can't get a really fine budget instrument is possibly even more risible. Careful set up yields more than spending power.
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