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hard truth

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  1. I have compiled some of the best instrumental music from this century including, jazz, experimental/free, rock, electronic, world, world fusion and some stuff in-between and beyond. Many hours of free fun on YouTube at
  2. I love the type of "residencies" that happen at the Stone in NYC and some other venues. These give an artist the opportunity to do a series of shows with different personnel and/or choice of material. For example: Billy Martin's scheduled residency for 2/9/22- 2/12/22. (which ended up getting cancelled due to COVID) 2/9 Wednesday Billy Martin (percussion) Ju-eh (male soprano) 2/10 Thursday Billy Martin (percussion) Joanna Mattrey (viola) 2/11 Friday Omnispheric Orchestra Ned Rothenberg (shakuhachi, clarinet, alto sax, flutes) Shelley Hirsch (vocals) Billy Martin (percussion) 2/12 Saturday Billy Martin (percussion) Leonor Falcon (viola) Juanma Trujillo (guitar) http://thestonenyc.com/calendar.php
  3. Danelectros with lipstick pickups have a unique retro sound and tend to be very lightweight.
  4. The GuÄa Trumpet Festival looks like a lot of fun.Someday I'll go. It seems like a great opportunity to enjoy and support music from the region's impoverished and oppressed Roma people (AKA Gypsies) and others. "Tons of meat and tens of thousands of hectolitres of beer are shipped in. The streets, restaurants and beer tents are teeming with musicians. Brass bands come from all over Serbia to compete for the "Golden Trumpet', a prize that fetches money and acclaim at home and abroad. (DW) An English party site, ThisIsTheLife.com, has named GuÄa the best festival in the world. "Forget Glastonbury, Reading, Burning Man and Coachella: the wildest music festival on earth is a cacophonic and crazy brass band festival that takes place every summer in the tiny Serbian town of GuÄa in the western region of DragaÄevo. Said Miles Davis,[2] a GuÄa Festival visitor: "I didn't know you could play trumpet that way"" (Wikipedia)) Has anyone here ever attended?
  5. My (the OP) list was only electric guitarists and only lead players, which is why many players were not included. Thanks for the many suggestions, they include several players I might have included if they came to mind at the time I made the list.* I don't expect everyone to like every player on my list, but I do think that every electric guitar player should hear all of them at least once. *especially Sister Rosetta Thorp, Tom Morello, Tosin Abasi, Nicky Skopelitis
  6. I personally file all my CDs, cassettes, MP3s and vinyl alphabetically by the artist's last name. Because I am attracted to music that combines or bends genres it would be nearly impossible to sort many titles by genre. I own several compilation albums and I file those by genre/area of origin. When I feel like listening to a particular genre or mood I often go for a compilation album. My compilation sections include: India/Pakistan, Middle East, Africa, Spanish (speaking/singing) America, Rock, Jazz, Blues/R&B, Hip Hop, Jamaica/Reggae, Lounge, Louisiana, Balkan, Funk, Electronic and Misc. World/Other. Electronic is the biigest section and it is informally sectioned off (no dividers) into Jungle/Drum and Bass, Techno (includes most forms of electronic dance music), Ambient, Hardcore, EDM and Dubstep There are also filing issues such as: do you file Captain Beefheart under C or B? I file their work under the letter C because it is a primarily a band name. Don Van Vliet credits himself by name on the albums. What about Muddy Waters, file under M or W? I file Muddy Waters under W because it his stage name, not a band name. If an album has the names of multiple artists, I file it under the name of the artist listed first. (ie. Medeski, Martin and Wood under M) I usually file box sets by the artist's name, or by genre/area of origin if it is a compilation, but many of them have unusual shapes and can't fit on the shelves. I have a genre-less section for odd shaped box sets. I highly recommend having the collection well organized so you can find what you want easily. But I think that whatever system makes sense to you is fine.
  7. Try to problem solve with them. Perhaps you get them to change their schedule to a time that is better for you. You could also advise them on how to contain more of the sound in their space with sound proofing. It would probably help if they can move into their garage. You also might want to sound proof your own space better. It is reasonable to ask them to maintain a reasonable SPL outside of their property. We rehearsed with headphones during lockdown and it was bearable, but no nearly as fun as making real sound. I wouldn't expect anyone to do that all the time.
  8. Thirty Four Essential Electric Guitarists December 2015 Every guitar enthusiast and player should investigate these 34 players that successfully created innovative and effective music, displayed exceptional skill and played with great emotion, intensity and musicality. I excluded steel and bass guitarists and players who are primarily known as accompanists (ie. Steve Cropper), this is a list of the best lead guitar players. The list is roughly chronological and indicates which musical category the player is usually classified under. Do not rely on this list alone for finding good guitarists since for purely subjective reasons I have omitted many players who are also highly skilled and historically important. I also left out many of the most obvious choices (such as Eric Clapton, George Benson, Chet Atkins and Les Paul) because those players don"t need and/or deserve increased recognition as much as the guitarists that I listed. 1. Charlie Christian (jazz) 2. George Barnes (jazz) 3. T-Bone Walker (blues) 4. Barney Kessel (jazz) 5. BB King (blues) 6. Muddy Waters (blues) 7. Jimmy Bryant (country) 8. Mickey Baker (rock, oldies, blues) 9. Dick Dale (rock, oldies) 10. Wes Montgomery (jazz) 11. Grant Green (jazz) 12. Albert King (blues) 13. Freddie King (blues) 14. Jeff Beck (rock) 15. Jimi Hendrix (rock) 16. Frank Zappa (rock) 17. Jerry Garcia (rock) 18. Jimmy Page (rock) 19. John McLaughlin (jazz) 20. Carlos Santana (rock) 21. Duane Allman (rock) 22. Dickey Betts (rock) 23. Robert Fripp (rock) 24. Steve Hillage (rock) 25. Steve Tibbets (rock, jazz, world) 26. Danny Gatton (rock, country, jazz) 27. John Scofield (jazz) 28. Bill Frisell (jazz) 29. Adrian Belew (rock) 30. Derek Trucks (rock) 31. Jimmy Herring (rock, jazz) 32. Charlie Hunter (jazz) 33. Oz Noy (jazz) 34. Guthrie Govan (rock) From http://www.oranjproductions.com/essentialguitarists.htm
  9. NYC New York City"s 48th Street Music Row was great, but apparently it is over now. The remaining legendary jazz and folk clubs of NYC such as Village Vanguard, Blue Note, Bitter End Washington Square Park often has good buskers Tokyo Shibuya area for music stores. Also check out the huge Tower Record store. LA/Hollywood The area of Sunset Blvd in Hollywood with several music instrument shops which is not far from many well known rock nightclubs Amoeba Records Chicago The former Chess Records studio is called the Willie Dixon"s Blues Heaven Foundation Buddy Guy's Legends nightclub Memphis The Stax Museum in Memphis. Beale Street In Memphis. New Orleans and Louisiana The best clubs are not in the touristy French Quarter. FQ mostly has cover bands and DJs. Frenchmen Street,and Bywater district are better. Louisiana Music Factory record store in NOLA Mulates Cajun Restaurant and club, Breaux Bridge (Cajun Country) Mississsippi Clarksdale Miss. is a blues tourist destination with several clubs and the Muddy Waters Museum. Seattle Museum of Pop Culture, formerly called the Experience Music Project in Seattle San Francisco Amoeba Records in SF and Berkeley. Audium-the theater of sound sculptured space in San Francisco https://www.audium.org/ Great American Music Hall SF Jazz Center The Fillmore Florida Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park & Campground Nashville Broadway has many music clubs and stores Grand Ole Opry Ryman Auditorium If you love the roots music of the USA a road trip including New Orleans, Cajun County, Clarksdale, Memphis and Nashville is recommended. Portland, OR and Austin, TX are also good towns for music lovers.
  10. My band in the 1980s devolved into a free improv group that did multi-media performances. We did a series called A Tribute to the Seven Deadly Sins. When we did the Lust show the bass player got a strange growth near his mouth. When we did the Greed show the drummer cut open his hand with a broken beer bottle.while working as a bartender. When we did the Envy show on Halloween the venue burned down. The fire was not caused by our performance, it happened in a residential section of the facility. We stood around outside for a couple of hours expecting to find our gear in ashes. Meanwhile people in sexy costumes were walking past as they made their way to the Exotic Erotic Ball. The good news was that most of our gear survived after we spent that night using hair dryers to get everything dry. The bad news was that our friends at the venue lost most of their video editing gear and their archives. The good news is that the venue moved to a new location and is still serving the community. We sold copies of the recording of the aborted performance at a benefit for the facility. That version of the band never played out live again although we continued to play together in the studio. From the venue's website: "On the fire: There was a noise band playing at ATA [Artists Television Acess] on Halloween night who were particularly grating and noxious; most of the audience were chased away. The band was grinding and screeching away and had a tape machine going to document their concert. Though I wasn't at the show, I got a chance to hear the tape later. In the midst of the "music", John Martin runs up to the band , yelling "Get out of here!, there is a fire"... and then you hear the band making a hasty exit. After a minute you hear the flames crackling like a loud barbecue. How often do you hear a building burning from the inside? Chunks of ceiling coming down could be heard hitting the drum set. One of the most haunting parts is hearing the fire engine down the street just like you always do but from the perspective of the building being burnt. The tape kept rolling even though everyone was evacuated. Next you hear the firemen chopping everything with axes, and the sound of extinguishers and hoses. After the fire is under control (one assumes) one of the fireman comes up to the band area and can be heard doing an impromptu drum solo. I was there the next day and Marshall gave me a tour. We swatted around broken glass like hockey pucks amidst the black ash and inches of water. He showing me a stack of videotapes that were fused by the heat into a human head shape and said "these were all my videos, all my work...". It's not often one's lifework gets condensed down into one convienient sculpture." http://www.atasite.org/History/started1.html
  11. The sex positive community reclaimed the word slut many years ago. You may recall the Slut March a few years ago. Now there are many proud feminist sluts such as Dossie Easton author of The Ethical Slut. "It"s [the word slut] a defence mechanism of the silliest kind used by masked trolls and acerbic people, and if we think slut is a gaali/slang, then we are participating in a misogynistic narrative. A slut"s life is hers to live, it cannot be compared, judged or disparaged- slut is a woman who is free in her deportment. So, revisit, redefine and bring forth the inner slut in you." https://feminisminindia.com/2020/02/04/feel-liberated-reclaiming-slut-shaming-slang-words/ Of course, context is essential for determining if the use of a word is intended to be an insult or oppressive. IMO the name GearSlutz is in the spirit of the sex positive reclaiming of 'slut" as a term to be embraced not shunned. Just like it is not shameful for a person to openly enjoy sex, it is not shameful for people to openly enjoy music and audio gear.
  12. I am a bit worried that historical revisionism is happening with the Let it Be/Get Back movie. The original Let it Be movie included some happy moments, but it seemed a bit grim. The new movie looks like it will be the opposite. By most accounts, the Beatles did not enjoy most of the Let it Be movie making process, so the original Let it Be movie may be more accurate. I am especially worried since Disney is involved and they might want to clean up the Beatle's image for the benefit of Disney's branding. The truth may be somewhere between the two movies. I hope they re-release the original Let it Be movie when this comes out on disc so we can compare the versions. I have heard a large portion of the audio outtakes from the Let it Be sessions and most of it sucks. On most songs they did not seem to be making a genuine effort to play as well as they could. At times I wonder if they were intentionally bad to avoid being bootlegged.
  13. Has anyone anywhere ever make a guitar fretboard that shows the black and white notes in a manner similar to a piano keyboard? I think it would be helpful for new players, esp. those who already play a keyboard or already read music.
  14. "The Most Unwanted Song" is a song created by artists Komar and Melamid and composer Dave Soldier in 1997. The song was designed to incorporate lyrical and musical elements that were annoying to most people, as determined by a public opinion survey. These elements included bagpipes, cowboy music, an opera singer rapping, and a children's choir that urged listeners to go shopping at Wal-Mart. For The People's Choice: Music CD, "The Most Unwanted Song" was paired with "The Most Wanted Song," which incorporated musical elements that were "wanted" by listeners, again as determined by a public opinion survey. Instruments such as guitar, bass, piano and drums, and lyrics about love were "most wanted" by the survey respondents, and are included in the song, which has been described as "Celine Dion-esque". The vocals for "The Most Wanted Song" are provided by Ada Dyer and Ronnie Gent; Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid is featured on guitar. [Wikipedia] In my opinion the unwanted song is listenable and the wanted song is unlistenable. [video:youtube] [video:youtube]
  15. Very short three prong AC extension cords keep your wall warts from hogging all the space on your power strips. Also, I love headband style flashlights so you can use both hands while working in a dark area.
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