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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.
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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]
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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
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Expect it to be headstock heavy, an unbalanced design to put it mildly.
You could probably find some Squier or pointymetal Dean on craigslist for under $50.
All you need then is a bandsaw!!!! :- D
If they're indeed off balance a better & less-permanent solution would be to find the best point & glue on a counterweight
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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
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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
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LG sang this
but PB wrote it
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For me-
1. Jeff Healey
2. Steve Morris
Morse ?
3. Pat Travers
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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
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Personally I find it a bit distracting to have these clips so huge & wish they were sized as previously.
Anyone else ?
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[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]
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Tuck Andress is great! I really liked his performance of Europa...the last vid would not come up, but I heard enough to know he is exceptional...
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 !
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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]
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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
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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]
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Longtime Atlanta resident & Blues Maven, Bev Watkins has finally done her last show.
[ 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]
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80th BDay jam 2K19
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A final statement
[video:youtube]
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Unfortunately for me this comes at time when my own online time has become quite curtailed so checking some of the contact options may take a while for me to explore .
Except for those who may just becoming aware of this shift
(kinda like that big chunk of ice breaking off Antarctica, eh ?)
I think we're all in agreement that this, well, sux
& I don't want to just reiterate what's been said...
BUT
&, in the ever-immortal words of the King of Rock & Roll
"Gone like a cool, cool breeze" !
[video:youtube]
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Zappa, in rare form, hits almost every style of music &(even quoting some country-rock tune I can;t quite place (4:35 +)
then throwing the options open for client selection @ 6:45
As the band switched perfectly into Boogie form I couldn't but recall that at one time, Henry Vestine of Canned Heat had actually played in the Mothers....
Then the clock reached the 10:30 mark &. well, hear it for yerself .................
[video:youtube]
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Formulae are great for learning new things
& everything's new to each of us at diff times
so there's nothing inherently wrong with them.
Music, like medicine, is an art of practice.
Personally, I've found that at some point one just hasta let go & play, as DMan said, sounds.
That's what takes us beyond formulae & more into the realm of what magic music can convey to ppl.
That's where new ideas get their start
FWIW....
Here's something that seems to fit the concept of the thread
but reveals itself to be something else entirely.
[video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1GLdbNfyCw
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When I discovered that me,
Lyndon Baines Johnson
& Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman)
all had the same birthday [ diff yrs, of course ]
it cured me of all belief in
The Magic Science of Astrology
as a definer of personality.
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I just went to a website that lets you calculate your life expectancy. I put in 72 years old (about typical for a lot of rockers from the Sixties and Seventies), smoke 1/2 a pack of cigarettes a day, drink 2-7 alcoholic drinks a week, and it showed a life expectancy of 86 years old, with a 75% chance of living to 79. That sounds pretty high to me, but if this is close to accurate, we won't see a lot of Sixties and Seventies rockers dying off for about ten or more years.
I wonder if they factored in accidents....
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So...
How'd it go ?
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Coolacious, W PS !
BTW, I just finished reading this book
The speed of sound : breaking the barrier between music and technology
written by..........Thomas Dolby !
I knew a bit abt his work but the book gives a whole new picture of the cat.
I won't spoil the adventure for potential readers
(& if you haven't, W PS, should definitely read this during Oct)
but there's much more to the guy than just his music.
If ya can't find the book
watch this
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One solution is for ll extraneous sounds (tuning, etc) to be done via headphones.
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I've read yer brief & tactful comment in recent PM
& I can only guess what you're actually dealing with.
I also think that,
after some amount of time, anyone might need a break.
HOWEVER
I sincerely hope that you will,
as Davy Crockett counselled,
"1st make sure that yer correct..."
In any case,
please stay part of the scene here, CB !!!!!
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sometimes wonder where the F
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For you
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For new
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For
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an assistant to 20th C experimentalist composer Edgard Varèse, whose legacy he tended.
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Recommendations Without Comprehensive Tests. Hmmm.
in Guitar Forum
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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.