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d halfnote

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  • Birthday 11/30/1999

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    musician/ethnographer
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    all music forms, especially R&B derivations/ also gamelan
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    no longer lexington, Kenfunky,UNITED STATES now in ATL

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  1. The OP is well-reasoned however one of the trix there would be "expecting the "recommending" entity to have actually tested those 15 pedals rather comprehensively" Ya simply can't know that even if the posters claims to've done so. That's why while one might get tips from others ya should never buy anything without testing it yerself. Everything from yer playing technique(s) to the environment yer in will affect how a device sounds.
  2. Glad ya liked "that Chou Wen-Chung piece"., Danz. I'm just ;earning abt him following his NYT obit. Besides being an epitome of progressive Chinese music he was an assistant to 20th C experimentalist composer Edgard Varèse, whose legacy he tended. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- That's quite a list you posted. I'm taking them 1 at a time. "No 1 Ever Died &...." has a great 1960s70s-style riff & gtr tone but I really liked that piping pop keyboard sound ! Plus they picked a great name whuich works with or without the letter "k" ! I'll work through the rest but in the meantime here's a cat who personified what the physical & mental melding of Eric Clapton & J J Cale... ... & to whom I'm listening to even as I type. [video:youtube]
  3. Here's a bit of music from one of the most a-traditional Chinese composer's of modern times, Chou Wen-chung. I'm just learning abt him but this piece, with it's interior thematic coherence & possibilities as a rock stringed instrument performance is racing up the Top 20. Think of the space enveloped by Beefheart, Zep & Fairport Convention... [video:youtube]
  4. Rarely do I recall TBells but it was/is a truly new thing at the time (at least for pop-rock ! (& besides the musical aspects, it was exceptionally well-marketed-----& if anyone thninks that's negative or not important )
  5. If they're indeed off balance a better & less-permanent solution would be to find the best point & glue on a counterweight
  6. This is gettin' to be too much... [video:youtube] The Feat's version of a trad Nawlins 2nd line dance-march They's all bawling 'bout you Down on the farm The cows bawl, the pigs bawl The horses bawl, too Miss you so much that crying's All we can do [video:youtube] Well I'm waitin' for something to take place Something to take me away from this race 'Round city to city, town to town Runnin' around in the shoes of a clown And that desperate, no count, desperado A thief of love, my business is the street I be shakin' 'em down In old Colorado Texas she's nice, but Georgia's oh so sweet Steal away with me darlin' your lovin' just can't be beat So it seems that the world keeps on turnin' but so what I don't doubt it, it just keeps on the move You're a dream, and that's all that I ask for So well now, I'm wonderin' just how I'm gonna tell it to you [video:youtube] LG sang this but PB wrote it [video:youtube]
  7. I just read of this today,. The NYTimes has an interesting article citing 15 of his performances. w/ links to audio-visuals. < https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/06/arts/music/ginger-baker-songs.html > While I disagree abt his status as "best ever drummer" he was quite talented. Here's what 1 of his strongest acolytes had to say while inducting Cream into the R&R HOF.. [video:youtube] Here's one that I bet most of his rock fans haven't heard. It's a long groove but abt 7:45 Baker revs into a drum solo/perc duet that breaks out in earnest @ 8:00 & lasts several minutes. [video:youtube] Another track from that session. Drum spotlight starts 5:05 & has a particularly striking cymbal bit abt 6:29 [video:youtube] & finally we have this [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7h8CqYXEx0
  8. Personally I find it a bit distracting to have these clips so huge & wish they were sized as previously. Anyone else ?
  9. d  halfnote

    Regrets?

    [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxzUmvzoVak Kinda like SG, I sometimes wonder if what seems regretful may be lookin' down (up?)...through the wrong end of the telescope of time. I will say that I too had a Harmony Monterrey archtop as a learning instrument as a learning instrument Actually a very nice tone. Then...., well... [video:youtube]
  10. The poster at YTube blocked displays on 3rd party sites but if you click the vid 's button it will take you to YT to view the clip. Tuck's a master alright ---& not just for his chops but for his interpretive skillls (dig their Hendrix cover !)--- & he's been around for ages both as a solo & w/wife Patti. He was covered long ago in GP but he seems to lack a certain self-promotional zeal.... like I said I even forget abt him for great lengths of time. That's not the way it should be !
  11. Yep, me again... [1] John Lennon Never got credit for his part in directing George Harrison (what---you thought GH wrote the solo in Hard Daze Nite ?) JL could rock it up (here he takes a solo) [video:youtube] & lay it back The only totally solo Lennon track by The Beatles [video:youtube] [2] Jerry Miller, Moby Grape A little-known blues-rock master [video:youtube] Be careful, listening to this track, esp the climax, may cause dizziness &/or swooning That's Miller on both lead tracks [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xEbbyKJ0mk [3] Mick Jagger demonstrates K Richards non-essentialness [video:youtube]
  12. I was abt to post this into "What's In Yer Ears" but heck, this cat, a long-time fave who I sometimes forget, deserves wider recognition & a discussion of his own here. [video:youtube] [video:youtube] Some thoughts on what he does & how he does it [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YkthieLuw8
  13. These may not be under-rated as much as forgotten or neglected. [1] Brian Jones The original blues-rock slide gtr cat. Also a master player of multiple instruments & the unrecognized creator of much music credited to others. [video:youtube] Rock sitar ? Take THAT , Mr George Harrison ! [video:youtube] [2] Eliot Ingber An original guitarist w/Zappa, then his own band the Fraternity of Man & later Capt Beefheart [video:youtube] A free-form solo exhibition of Hendrixian styleria [video:youtube] [3] Bill Harkleroad Known for his long-term membership in Beefhart's bands The most manic slide gtr solo the John Dawson Winter never played {1:50) [video:youtube] & to show a different side of things some contrapuntal improv [video:youtube] Bonus just to show ya don't know me completely Tuck Andress, inheritor of the George Van Eps legacy [video:youtube]
  14. Longtime Atlanta resident & Blues Maven, Bev Watkins has finally done her last show. [ https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-news/atlanta-blues-woman-enjoyed-late-resurgence/MAH7Znzff7LcbI2XbPwJGO/ ] [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Watkins ] A lifelong Ga resident, born 1939, who started playing gtr age 9 & remained active as a player-performer til the end. From a true rural blues culture---originally taught by her grandfather--- but also schooled under one-time Basie & Ellington horn cat Clark Terry, she 1st achieved professional credentials w/Piano Red (Wm Perryman) as a member of his touring band, Dr Feelgood & the Interns but she also had success partnering w/ other "Blues Mamas" such as Koko Taylor & on her own. [video:youtube] [video:youtube] [video:youtube] 80th BDay jam 2K19 [video:youtube] A final statement [video:youtube]
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