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If you master the five Ds,
no amount of balls on earth can hit you.....

Fenny's drag queens put me in mind of this song:

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Not as good as the last one, but fun nevertheless.

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Soundgarden's Down on the Upside. From a simpler time, when Chris Cornell wasn't a complete joke.

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More Auto-tuned News.

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Shakin' All Over by the Guess Who. Fantastic song. Nearly as good as the original from Johnny Kidd and the Pirates!

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"I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in imaginary violence." - Paul Rudd in Role Models

Q: How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Fish.

'History of jazz', a podcast series from iTunes U, 45 lovely episodes, great leisurely drifting through some undefined jazziverse. Downloadable via iTunes store (free).

Thanks for the tip o' the hat in this direction Vagabond!

Peace
Skei (the iTunes U one)

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This is the extraordinary version of 'scrapple' with just two guitars, live, so VERY good it just creeps up your back. Level is low, though, so raise your volume. It's worth it, I promise.
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Skei (the jealous one)

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Lovely is just a half-measure to describe this masterpiece. So beautiful it's easy to cry like a railroad whilst digesting...
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Skei (the takes a train to cry one)

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The Dead Weather (Jack White's new band) is streaming their new album Horehound right now on iLike on Facebook. I have to say I'm really enjoying it, but then, I'm a sucker for just about anything Jack White does.

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reYuBCMYDwo[/youtube]

A stunning improv from Jim hall and his trio. Note the interplay, these guys know each other and what to do, that's for sure. Having creative fun is really what all music needs, some people seem to walk away from that, not this bunch though...
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Skei (the ever enjoying good performance one)

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Some more from the great man, Jim Hall, and this time with a saxplayer as well.
If you like bass, check the bass solo. Awesome to say the least. I played on my bass guys upright jazz bass once, just to see what it's like, and let me tell you this kind of solo takes everything you've got and then some.....
All in all, my newest inspiration. Talk about jazz.
Mmmmm.
Peace
Skei (the something new under each rock one)

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Status Quo and Spinal Tap at Glastonbury, taped last night. Hello, Cleveland!

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Watched Spinal tp! They were great!



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love is a wet spot on the mattress of my life! Tracy Lundgren

after our performance a bunch of little kids were in awe of the size of my bassoon. Appogg

Trithwaite!
That's a supercool thing...
What a feeling, the smashing of guitars gets a totally new viewpoint, that's for sure!!!
Peace
Skei (the traveling with bass is tough one)

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Pass doing Parker, and what a job he did.
And the bassman. Some of the perfect interplay almost makes me stumble, grab hold of some rescue, like a handle mounted securely to the wall, or something to that effect.

WOW.
Peace
Skei (WOW)

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WoW indeed! I love Joe Pass. This is the kind of thing that makes you wanna give up playing the guitar!

Good find skei

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love is a wet spot on the mattress of my life! Tracy Lundgren

after our performance a bunch of little kids were in awe of the size of my bassoon. Appogg

I dunno, cleary brilliant technique and all that, but not much tune....

I think I prefer somebody who can't play so well but can make a nice melody.

It sounds to me like intensive scales, but clearly I have some issues with this jazz stuff.

You heathen! Go look up some other Joe Pass stuff. The man's a genious!I love him. He was a regular guest of Oscar Petersen on his show. It was a joy to watch and listen to them both play!

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after our performance a bunch of little kids were in awe of the size of my bassoon. Appogg

Call me heathen, see if I care.... bleeeh.

I just don't get it, to me it doesn't sound musical, it sounds like an excercise, now the Bee Gees, that's class!

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This then would be the original anthropology by bird and his band.
Not many play the tune at this tempo, about 300 bpm, I aim to do it at 200 or so, which is quite a cake to have and eat anyway...
It's really a 'rhythm changes' thing, like so many great bebop numbers, the chords from 'I've got rhythm' the classic, Bb, Gm7, Cm7, F7,Bb,Bb7, something etc. The nice thing is bird uses a lot of stuff in it that is so very nice and can be used - has been used - in any bebop number, just like certain patterns return time after time in blues, country, R&R, you name it, so his tunes are really a super bebop school. Listen to Dexterity, Ornithology, Scrapple from the apple, almost any of them, oh yeah, Donna Lee is another super example. Just to hear how you can cook up a nice stew with basic ingredients, add a little spice, let it zimmer man, and we have a nice course for a night downtown.
And Iain, bebop isn't about melody, not at all, it's sometimes received criticism for being too technique centered, and whoops, birth of the cool, there came 'cool' a new style with less 'academics' and more melody and more easily digested by audiences from outside the musician sphere. Miles on 'Birth of the cool' and the Brubeck quartet are some of my fav 'cool' dudes. I hear the structure and lines in bebop heads, especially since I've started to learn them and am getting there to manage following. Not at Joe Pass' or Birds more frenetic moments, true, but it's getting there, now I can hear it, which I couldn't just a month or so ago, soon I'll be able to play it at decent pace, well, never as fast as Pass or Coltrane, but there can be only a few miracles, the rest of us may enjoy the ride to our limits.
Peace
Skei (the enjoying the ride, every day, one)

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Oh, and as a follow up on Donna lee, here's one version Parker did, in fact the same group as my above post, Miles Davis on trumpet is the only one I remember, Max Roach is in there somewhere too I think...Perhaps they had Dizzie on trumpet in the above, never mind.
It's a little easier to follow in this arrangement, though this particular tune is one of the tougher bebop numbers to master, I really haven't got the guts to even think about trying it yet, but there are these constant trials, steps up the ladder, initiation I believe we called in when I studied social anthropology at university. And a lovely ritual it is too. It's all about training the mind to be fast enough to hear it, just like a rapid heavy metal guitar solo. Or speedy classic piano or whatever. Or writing at speed on the computer keyboard, something I never managed to do.
Peace
Skei (the nighttime is the right time one)

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To celebrate life, freedom and a later passenger, let's remember how I actually did this one live once at an outdoor concert, me and a mate, two acoustic guitars a harmonica and the wind, which we didn't break, it broke itself. Or something. 'you're a walking antique' was my fav quote from this one. Why? Don't know, except it sounds good.
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Skei (the walking antique one)

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Scriabin's 2nd Symphony.





....I wonder what Choccy's listening to?

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The drug purportedly affected an area of the brain called "Shatner's Bassoon"

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
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And to simplify my learning this head I found a great slow sax version, a practice of sorts, makes all the harmony and beboppish circumscription clear as the mule's nostril.

At this pace there really IS some melodic development to be heard, even if the original speed makes it sound very scales up & downish.
Peace
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Bop
Skei (the looking for a mantra suitable for jazz heads one)

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3 Cliffs Bay - Spin 2

http://www.revver.com/video/890864/3-cliffs-bay-by-spin-2-folk-band/

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after our performance a bunch of little kids were in awe of the size of my bassoon. Appogg

Nice, I need to go to more gigs like that.

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More auto tuned news, with extra cowbell

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Just brilliant! I love it!

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love is a wet spot on the mattress of my life! Tracy Lundgren

after our performance a bunch of little kids were in awe of the size of my bassoon. Appogg

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEebhUXjSoM[/youtube]

Been really feeling Funkadelic lately. That band had not one, but two of the best guitarists of the seventies as members, and most people can't name either of them.

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The little guy doing the blues, really, too good to be true.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PshGgt06XE[/youtube]

Peace
Skei (the stunned one)

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So fine, Wes in his prime;
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOm17yw__6U[/youtube]

Peace
Skei (the firefox one)

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Cowboy Junkies

All. Day. Long.
And still only 3/4 of the way through.

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More auto tuned News, OMG WTF LOL

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-4jU2wlRkQ[/youtube]

Far out, you uncanny & politically engaged DAC'er over yonder...

Peace
Skei (the intrigued but yet on the verge of disbelief one)

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qprYIyryj7Q&feature=channel_page[/youtube]

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love is a wet spot on the mattress of my life! Tracy Lundgren

after our performance a bunch of little kids were in awe of the size of my bassoon. Appogg

Good player. A friend of yours Steve? I came very close to buying a Gretch exactly the same as that one, same model, same lovely pale green colour, but didn't because is was a want more that a need. It was a huge want though!

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Scratch serenading the Rocky Mountain Meet-Up DACers.

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Actually I lied, That was Famous Grouse I was drinking and I'd sank a few.

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Her mouth opened, her eyes patients, the variety of age and constitution as a pullets egg, with some gobbits of fat, and the heavy sand.

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Yeah? We would never had guessed?

I don't know him. He's a friend of the guy who runs Songstuff. I just thought it was a pretty good piece of playing! for a solo act.

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love is a wet spot on the mattress of my life! Tracy Lundgren

after our performance a bunch of little kids were in awe of the size of my bassoon. Appogg

I'd have to say more than 'pretty' good. I have the pleasure of knowing one of the finest hendrix celebraters at least in sweden, mr Yngström of sky high, and I believe even he would have to dig this. Very nice, and even without the marshal stacks...

Peace
Skei (the mighty impressed to say the least one)

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