Tedster Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 This can be either on-topic (albums, CDs etc. by musicians) or off-topic (definitive performances in movie roles by actors/actresses, for example). You don't have to limit it to those...for example you could choose a director's definitive film...anything like that. List an artist, and what (in your opinion) is that artist's definitive performance. "Cisco Kid, was a friend of mine" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roto Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 Since you mentioned directors and I just watched it again the other night, Cameron Crowe's film Almost Famous. I think I love it more each time I watch it. The only complaint I ever have heard about this movie is that it's not dark enough, but it's supposed to be a sentimental look back at his own adolescence. For that, it's perfect! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmstudio99 Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 The one and only time Leonard Bernstein led the Berlin Philarmonic - Mahler's 9th Symphony. There are some flubs and misses in the performance, but IMO it's the best Mahler 9, or any Mahler, available. Paul Gila Monster Studio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tedster Posted February 11, 2004 Author Share Posted February 11, 2004 Good job, Roto! We're on our way...more? "Cisco Kid, was a friend of mine" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botch. Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 Ask me after Valentine's Day... Botch "Eccentric language often is symptomatic of peculiar thinking" - George Will www.puddlestone.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Zeger Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 For me, it's Sean Penn's career definining role as Spicoli in "Fast Times At Ridgemont High". It's the kind of role that comes around perhaps once in a lifetime for an actor, if they are lucky. The entire body of Penn's work that followed that watershed performance has paled by comparison, but how could it not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenshoe Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 Actors: Tom Hanks - Philadelphia Robert DeNiro - Taxi Driver Charlize Theron - Monster (well, maybe too early) Bill Murray - (tie) Caddyshack, Lost in Translation Alec Baldwin - Glengarry Glen Ross (only a 15 minute sequence, but the best he's done) Al Pacino - Scarface Dustin Hoffman - (tie) Rainman, Midnight Cowboy, The Graduate Jack Nicholson - (tie) Chinatown, About Schmidt (so-so film, great performance) Kathy Bates - Misery Gregory Peck - To Kill A Mockingbird Julia Roberts - Pretty Woman (that film still defines her career) Anthony Hopkins - Silence of the Lambs Charlton Heston - Ten Commandments Sean Connery - any of his Bond films Peter Sellers - Dr Strangelove Kevin Spacey - The Usual Suspects Elizabeth Berkeley - Showgirls (defined her in the worst way) Gary Oldman - Sid and Nancy Directors: Akira Kurosawa - Ran Martin Scorcese - Goodfellas Francis Ford Coppola - Godfather Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction Coen Brothers - Fargo Stanley Kubrick - Dr Strangelove Penny Marshall - A League of Their Own Woody Allen - Annie Hall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super 8 Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven. (Hell, EVERYBODY in Unforgiven!) William Shatner in Wrath of Khan... (I bet none of you were expecting that one...) Super 8 Hear my stuff here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funk Jazz Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 Miles Davis' Kind of Blue. the perfect record? it's damn close. as for movies, Baraka changed my life. i don't what else to say about it, but go buy it today. you'll never regret it. it's beyond words, and ironically, there are no words in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coyote Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 Blackmore's Rainbow - Suffolk Forum 1978. Not neccessarily the best performance by that band (though they were great), but certainly one of Ritchie's best individual performances. A band called TheGodz opened, and REO Speedwagon was the headliner. Apparently, there'd been an 'event' at the previous show where REO's manager stopped Rainbow's show early... Blackmore seemed particularly furious in his playing that night and blew everyone away. The vast majority of the crowd left, after Rainbow's set, knowing REO could never come close to that kind of performance. I used to think I was Libertarian. Until I saw their platform; now I know I'm no more Libertarian than I am RepubliCrat or neoCON or Liberal or Socialist. This ain't no track meet; this is football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botch. Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 I know virtually nothing about women's figure skating, but the little gal who won the gold at the last Winter Olympics... just watching her, I KNEW she had it in the bag. Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey Brian dePalma - Blowout (changed my opinion on Travolta as an actor too) Steve Gadd - drums on Aja Phil Woods - sax solo on Steely Dan's Dr. Wu Barbra Streisand - Somewhere Botch "Eccentric language often is symptomatic of peculiar thinking" - George Will www.puddlestone.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archer Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 C.S. LewisScrewtape Letters Me and my two dogs, Remington and Winchester Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super 8 Posted February 12, 2004 Share Posted February 12, 2004 http://www.accessplace.com/gdtc/images/1266.gif Super 8 Hear my stuff here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jode Posted February 13, 2004 Share Posted February 13, 2004 Led Zeppelin, "Dazed And Confused," from How The West Was Won. I never thought that the track from this set that I'd listen to over and over would be the 28-minute one. It's dark, it's creepy, it's sexy, it's funky, it rocks, it rolls, it's packed with incredible improvisations on the part of all four guys, it features some of Page's most inspired playing - it has the bow. For a Zep fan, it is the complete package. Speaking of Steely Dan: Larry Carlton on guitar, "Kid Charlemagne." Amazing. Could it be the greatest pop guitar solo of all time? "I had to have something, and it wasn't there. I couldn't go down the street and buy it, so I built it." Les Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Zeger Posted February 13, 2004 Share Posted February 13, 2004 Originally posted by Jode: Speaking of Steely Dan: Larry Carlton on guitar, "Kid Charlemagne." Amazing. Could it be the greatest pop guitar solo of all time?It might not even be the best Steely Dan guitar solo. IMHO, that would be Jay Graydon's solo on "Peg". Both are brilliant. The best pop guitar solo? I might pick The Pretenders' James Honeyman-Scott on "Kid". Love that solo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tedster Posted February 13, 2004 Author Share Posted February 13, 2004 Originally posted by Mark Zeger: The best pop guitar solo? I might pick The Pretenders' James Honeyman-Scott on "Kid". Love that solo.One of my contenders for that title is whoever played the solo in The Rembrandts' "That's Just The Way It Is". Amazing little neo-classical bit that even snuck its way onto commercial radio. "Cisco Kid, was a friend of mine" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.WOW Posted February 13, 2004 Share Posted February 13, 2004 The Band of Gypsys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendrix Posted February 13, 2004 Share Posted February 13, 2004 Originally posted by Botch.: I know virtually nothing about women's figure skating, but the little gal who won the gold at the last Winter Olympics... just watching her, I KNEW she had it in the bag. Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey Brian dePalma - Blowout (changed my opinion on Travolta as an actor too) Steve Gadd - drums on Aja Phil Woods - sax solo on Steely Dan's Dr. Wu Barbra Streisand - SomewhereBotch did ya know that Gadds solo on Aja was a "first take" based on his reading of charts laid out by the Dan. Amazing. Also -FWIW Mr Gadd lives a few miles from me in suburban Rocheswter. His brother was my barber for a while and his young son Duke also plays drums. Check out some tunes here: http://www.garageband.com/artist/KenFava Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendrix Posted February 13, 2004 Share Posted February 13, 2004 Stan Getz has got the definitive sexy sax tone/technique IMO. Live/Evil is the definitive live electric jazz album. In A Gadda da Vida is the definitive overblown self - indulgent sixties psycho-rock. Sgt Peppers: the definitive concept album (Tommy is a very close second) Mahavishnu Orchestra inner mounting flame- the definitive jazz fusion album ( Corea/ RTF is a close second) Eagles version of J. Browne's "Take it easy": The definitive california easy rock cut. SSS/GM's forums: the definitive music forums on the web. J. Beck the definitive guitar tone/technique maestro. Sly Stone - the definitive rock-funkmaster- all esle is derivative. (James brown is pure R&B - a different category IMHO) Enough for now. oh yeah- Sonia Braga: the definitive brunette Check out some tunes here: http://www.garageband.com/artist/KenFava Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antimatter Posted February 13, 2004 Share Posted February 13, 2004 Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk Alvin Lee at Woodstock The cast and director of 12 Angry Men(1957) Bill Clinton "I did not have an affair.." speech The Who at 'The Concert for New York' after 9/11 for a few.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendrix Posted February 13, 2004 Share Posted February 13, 2004 Originally posted by Mark Zeger: Originally posted by Jode: Speaking of Steely Dan: Larry Carlton on guitar, "Kid Charlemagne." Amazing. Could it be the greatest pop guitar solo of all time?It might not even be the best Steely Dan guitar solo. IMHO, that would be Jay Graydon's solo on "Peg". Both are brilliant. The best pop guitar solo? I might pick The Pretenders' James Honeyman-Scott on "Kid". Love that solo.Like em both but - i prefer the guitar solo on Gold teeth II on Katy Lied- Is that Denny Diaz? Check out some tunes here: http://www.garageband.com/artist/KenFava Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenElevenShadows Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 "Killing Moon" - Echo and the Bunnymen Ken Lee Photography - photos and books Eleven Shadows ambient music The Mercury Seven-cool spacey music Linktree to various sites Instagram Nightaxians Video Podcast Eleven Shadows website Ken Lee Photography Pinterest Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeebus Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 Originally posted by Botch.: Ask me after Valentine's Day... +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve LeBlanc Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 jeezus Tedster pick a topic would you? Music? Movies? argh ok... Peter Sellers in "Being There" Jimi Hendrix "Machine Gun" from the BoG...either performance http://www.youtube.com/notesleb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guruman Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 Marty Turco during the first game of a Stars/Blues home and home series. Flat out the best performance by a goalie that I have ever witnessed. --------- -Guruman- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel E. Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 Jimi Hendrix playing at the Monterey Pop Festival. The performance where he burned his guitar at the end. He did better stuff later on but I think this stands out as a defining moment in both his career and in rock music. "You never can vouch for your own consciousness." - Norman Mailer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZackEngOff13 Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 Originally posted by Gabriel E.: Jimi Hendrix playing at the Monterey Pop Festival. The performance where he burned his guitar at the end. He did better stuff later on but I think this stands out as a defining moment in both his career and in rock music.That was 1967 i think. -Zack When our war for love overcomes our love for war, we will b happy... -Jimi Hendrix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tedster Posted February 14, 2004 Author Share Posted February 14, 2004 Originally posted by Guruman: Marty Turco during the first game of a Stars/Blues home and home series. Flat out the best performance by a goalie that I have ever witnessed.This is exactly what I'm talking about, Steve I can't pick a topic, music, movies, whatever, Guruman just put a great sports example up. Any definitive performance! "Cisco Kid, was a friend of mine" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dak Lander Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 Robert Duval as Augustus McCray in "Lonesome Dove". Tommy Lee Jones as Hewey Calloway in "The Good Old Boys". Our Joint "When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it." The Duke... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basshappi Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 Jaco Pastorius - "Teen Town" Stanley Clarke - "School Days" J.S.Bach - Toccata & Fugue in D minor Pink Floyd - "Dark Side of the Moon" ( 741 consecutive weeks on the Billboard charts, that's as definitive as it gets!) J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings William Shakespeare - Romeo & Juliet Steven King - Salem's Lot Robert Hienlien - Stranger in a Strange Land George Lucas - Star Wars Akira Kurosawa - Seven Samurai Ridley Scott - Alien & Bladerunner (Director unknown) - Akira Harrison Ford - Indiana Jones Tom Hanks - Castaway (45 min Solo with almost no dialogue and still fantastic) Clint Eastwood - The Good,The Bad and The Ugly David Carradine - Circle of Iron (bet you didn't see that one comming ) Tom Baker - Dr. Who Bruce Lee - Enter the Dragon Tishiro Mifune - Sanjiro just a few off the top of my head Cheers! Nothing is as it seems but everything is exactly what it is - B. Banzai Life is what happens while you are busy playing in bands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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