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Post by Ripper on Jan 7, 2006 23:20:24 GMT -5
Right now im listening to the Beatles "Abbey Road"...In my opinion it was their masterpiece.
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Post by vaisatsteen on Jan 8, 2006 22:11:54 GMT -5
On the road,Malsteen`s Rising force At home Satriani, Marty Friedman
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Post by UnklMickey on Jan 12, 2006 12:42:54 GMT -5
Right now im listening to the Beatles "Abbey Road"...In my opinion it was their masterpiece. there were songs on Rubber Soul and Revolver that i liked better than any on Abbey Road. but as a whole, i do agree, Abbey Road was their masterpiece. they also did some "sneaky" stuff there. like gradually and suBtly lowering the pitch on the second side, so that by the end of Carry That Weight, they were about a quarter-tone flat. when the piano begins on The End it is right back to normal pitch and it is truly haunting. if that weren't enough, they hit you one last time on Her Majesty. Huge orchestral chord before the beginning, then the song begins. it ends on a fifth tone, upbeat, you expect it to resolve to the tonic, but it's not there, why? 'cause they already gave it to you, before the beginning. unk
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Post by dunkelfalke on Jan 12, 2006 15:17:12 GMT -5
does anybody except me like porcupine tree?
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Post by GuyaGuy on Jan 15, 2006 23:22:16 GMT -5
sorry to disappoint--no guitars in my most-listened-to music right now. i've been listening to a lot of J.S. Bach and Arvo Part--the latter being a contemporary composer of the most gut-wrenchingly emotional music ever. and it's purdy too!
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Post by johan on Jan 18, 2006 9:47:06 GMT -5
Jamie Lidell - Multiply **** JJ Cale - Collected works on 1 MP3-cd (no cartridges no more!) Dr John - Desitively Bugaroo J Coltrane - Coltrane's Sound John Martyn - Solid Air --- Sunday's Child Right now im listening to the Beatles "Abbey Road"...In my opinion it was their masterpiece. if that weren't enough, they hit you one last time on Her Majesty. Huge orchestral chord before the beginning, then the song begins. it ends on a fifth tone, upbeat, you expect it to resolve to the tonic, but it's not there, why? 'cause they already gave it to you, before the beginning. unk Well that's a nifty analysis, but I seem to remember Her Majesty wasn't intended to be on the album. I will have to check, but I think McCartney was against putting it on the album... How do you check that a side of a record goes a quarter tone flat over so many minutes? But great analysis still... j
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Post by UnklMickey on Jan 18, 2006 14:16:13 GMT -5
...How do you check that a side of a record goes a quarter tone flat over so many minutes?... well you tune to the pitch in Carry That Weight, then lift the tonearm (does that give you any idea how long ago i did this?), and start at the beginning of the side. since i was now about a quarter-tone flat, i listened to the transitions from the end of each song to the beginning of the next. there wasn't a discernible point where there was a difference. i THINK the change was gradual over the whole side, but it may have occurred within one song. but not from one song to the next. okay, so it wasn't professional detective work. just enough to know they was playin' with us. unk
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Post by night0wl on Jan 19, 2006 6:42:16 GMT -5
I am currently listening to G3 Live in Tokyo.... Petrucci's Glasgow Kiss.
Great DVD
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Post by 4real on Jan 22, 2006 20:04:58 GMT -5
WOW...what an eclectic bunch...I thought I was the only one...now I feel free to confess... In the car I've got the Merman playing, and I'm quite partial to Slacktone. These are progressive surf bands and I got this thing for clean raw simple little tunes of the surf and garage ilk. Of course I love the blues. All those guys, especially the english blues players who took it a little further...page, clapton...and bands like John Mayall. My all time favorite is Jeff Beck and am loving what he's doing now with the kind of electronica influences and David Torn remixes. The guy is astonishing and a CD to recomend is Jeff Beck live at BB kings...available direct from Sony. Wonderful stuff, great version of "A day in a Life" and the hot rod opener "roys toy" is terrific. The other night, getting sentimental over the soul stuff (Wilson Pickett R.I.P.)...got to love that simple songs and rolling bass lines and cropper fills. The stax stuff, albert king and the like...a little rawer than the Motown Sound. Love a little Reggae...Marley's great, but I'm rather partial to the Dub stuff direct from Jamaica and the influences that came out in the english Ska movement, and bands like the Police and The Clash. JJ Cale always a chill out standby. Such an influence. Quite liking some of Mark Knophler's post Dire Straits stuff in that vein too. Got to like Miles and the whole cool Jazz thing...Kind of Blue is always good to listen too...there are gems in his later funk stuff as well that I quite like...and the whole mystique and attitude of the guy... And speaking of Gems...got to love picking up the odd "best of...". There is only so much Blue Oyster Cult that one can stand, but "Don't fear the reaper" is a classic (maybe it's that endless sustained note in the solo)or the other day picked up Atalanta Rhythm Section...remember "Spooky". That one song from the past that came and went...love to hear them again. But, you know you got to like the guys that kept guitar alive... Vai and Satriani, EVH all those shredders...the whole over the top guitar thing, the Metal Guys too, kept the thing alive. Even though it's kind of like watching sports...the sheer physical dexterity, over the music at times...it's all entertainment! Case in point. Recently over at PG there was a post of this kid playing a rock/shred tap/sweep extravaganza of the "Canon in D". I defy any guitar player to watch that and not what to learn a little, even if it wouldn't make rotation in the car as music...you got to admire the skill and the dedication of physically being able to do that. Here's a link... projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic=21063&st=0The guy who arranged it is even more over the top...there's a clip further down the thread...even a link to the backing track and TAB if you dare...it's amazing what happens in the privacy of some people's bedrooms, ain't it... Anyway...this is great that the site has attracted such a range of musical interests and tastes...it's fairly rare on forums that there aren't distinct camps...I feel better for confessing...got to go...surfs up, sustainer style!!!...[glow=blue,2,300]pete[/glow]
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Post by Ripper on Jan 30, 2006 23:07:13 GMT -5
Actually, the big "bang" at the beginning of "Her Majesty" (AbbeyRoad) was the end of "Mean Mr. Mustard" Her Majesty was taken off of the album, but put in at the end. It was suppose to go between Mean Mr. Mustard and Polythene Pam... Yes, im a Beatle geek!
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Post by UnklMickey on Jan 30, 2006 23:22:13 GMT -5
hey deepblue, i'm glad you brought that up.
i listened to the cd and either it's different than the vinyl version, or i remembered WRONG.
there doesn't seem to be that droop in pitch. the piano in "The End" is just a half tone sharp.
i'll be sure to check out the end of mean mr. mustard. that kinda dove-tails with what Johan was saying.
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Post by UnklMickey on Feb 10, 2006 0:07:01 GMT -5
okay, so i listened to her majesty, and mean mr. mustard, and polythene pam. yep, it sure does seem like it could fit in between as a transition.
but here's the weird thing:
the first chord on her majesty is way flat. the rest is normal.
i was confused before when i listened to the CD and it didn't match up with what i thought i remembered about about the pitch sliding over the course of the album side, then returning to normal at the piano of the end.
now i'm really confused.
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Post by Ripper on Feb 10, 2006 12:53:12 GMT -5
Hey Unk...When I finish my class today im going to go through my Beatles books ( You wouldnt believe how many I have! ) I may be wrong, so ill check again.
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Post by johan on Mar 1, 2006 9:16:14 GMT -5
hi,
been offline for a while because of a move, but getting back ... to that Beatles issue. I checked my Beatle bible: Ian McDonald's *Revolution in the Head: The Beatles and the music of the Sixties" (not sure about the subtitle, my book's in a box somewhere now :-))
Her Majesty was recorded and intended by McCartney, like deepblue stated, as a interlude between Mean Mr Mustard and Polythene Pam. Upon playback Macca judged that it didn't fit and told the engineer to cut it out and dump it.
The engineer, who had been told never to throw away anything the Beatles recorded, put it at the end of the tape, with some spacing before it. When McCartney heard it at the end of the final tape, he decided to keep it there.
Seems your talking about the same book Deepblue!
J
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Post by Ripper on Mar 2, 2006 11:32:20 GMT -5
Hey Johan!...The book I used was called " The complete Beatles recording sessions" It goes through every Beatles song year by year and tells all the ins and outs of the sessions. Who played what, who wanted this and who wanted that, and even talks about some of the wonderful mistakes that were left in, that became Beatles classics. A great book for a fan.
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Post by dunkelfalke on Mar 4, 2006 6:10:31 GMT -5
yeah yeah, the newest album of the rock deity is released ;D and the same rock deity is in my town next friday and i couldn get a ticket
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Post by sumgai on Mar 22, 2006 20:09:12 GMT -5
4real, Weeeeeellllllll, and isn't this a fine howdya-do?! Hey, 4, come on over to www.surfguitar101.com - the water's fine! ;D sumgai
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Post by UnklMickey on Mar 22, 2006 20:55:59 GMT -5
that sounds gnarly. i hear the waves are tremendous in Baghdad! (i stole this inside joke from Doug)
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Post by Ripper on Mar 25, 2006 13:26:03 GMT -5
I have rediscovered Rush. My word those boys can play! I have seen them many times in concert, and yes, they have got soft in there old age, but the music is hard driving and the lyrics are amazing. Im listening to "2112" as I type this. Geddy sounds like a chipmunk on helium...but hes great!
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Post by 4real on Mar 28, 2006 2:02:54 GMT -5
Weeeeeellllllll, and isn't this a fine howdya-do?! Hey, 4, come on over to www.surfguitar101.com - the water's fine! Al right...hodad, I got to get my woody and check in with me gidget over there...thanks for that link. Hang5...errr...4... 4real ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by simes on Apr 7, 2006 2:05:32 GMT -5
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping: great tones, great solos, great riffs - Ed King is the the Man
Led Zeppelin III: riffs, Vikings, acoustic Jimmy
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam: Dan sophistication with a raw edge, funny lyrics, Larry Carlton's "Kid Charlemagne" solo
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks: lyrics you can more or less understand, some nice open tuned guitar work ("You're a Big Girl Now" - was that Bob?), melodies, spite
I'm stuck in the decade I was born in ...
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Post by sumgai on Apr 7, 2006 15:44:47 GMT -5
Bugs Henderson, hands-down the best blues player/singer to ever come out of Texas. But Jr. Brown is cued up on the CD player right behind him. sumgai
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Post by pollyshero on Apr 7, 2006 18:36:14 GMT -5
Cheap Trick Kenny Wayne Shepherd Kiss ZZ Top Pantera
It's been a rough week...
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Post by Mini-Strat_Maine on Apr 26, 2006 13:17:45 GMT -5
My latest eBay acquisition arrived in today's mail. Not a guitar, but a copy of the Guitar Player Magazine Presents Legends of Guitar CD. Three cuts each of Electric Blues, Jazz, and Country; four each of '50s and '60s. I mostly got it to have a full-length copy of Link Wray's "Rumble." (My Signature Licks Guitar Instrumental Hits CD that came with the book has only part of it, and that's split up by all the instructional stuff.) It has a bunch of other good tunes. One I don't recall hearing before was "Sabre Dance" by Love Sculpture. I never heard of the group before, either, but the case insert says "with Dave Edmunds," so it's not a total "Huh?" moment. The little shredweenies of today have nothing on those guys, whoever they were.
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Post by Ripper on Apr 29, 2006 18:09:53 GMT -5
Dave Edmunds!...Wow!...Theres a name I havent heard for years. He was...or I guess still is an amazing guitar player. Ill admit I was a fan of Rockpile....dont spread it around.
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Post by ChrisK on May 3, 2006 19:01:48 GMT -5
"Transistor Radio"
The album, not the device.
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Post by Ripper on May 4, 2006 9:15:32 GMT -5
I have made a disc of all those 80's dittys....You know, the ones we couldnt stand at the time but now turn up if and when they come on the radio. ie... " Blinded me with science" , "Goody two shoes ", " Video killed the radio star" I guess its not so much that I like the tunes, I guess it takes me back to my youth. I need a tissue!
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