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Grex > Music2 > #32: THE GRAB BAG: Musical Meandering | |
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lumen
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response 250 of 416:
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Oct 5 23:15 UTC 1997 |
Ken-- nice observation. My musical digest has been very meager right now,
and I'm very impoverished. But I should be able to tap into local resources,
scarce as they may be.
I'm up for an item regarding religion in pop music-- but I myself would tread
lightly there. Praise music is not an active part of my faith, and I
sometimes find it a little trite at times. But then, there are no well-known
Mormon pop composers. I believe it was Kenneth Cope who made a try for the
Christian music scene, but he just didn't make it.
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orinoco
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response 251 of 416:
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Oct 6 01:46 UTC 1997 |
Re: way back when: Yeah, my favourite track on _Live Art_ is Future Man's
improvisation.
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krj
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response 252 of 416:
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Oct 6 05:48 UTC 1997 |
(I think response #251 got smotched somehow. Try again?)
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bmoran
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response 253 of 416:
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Oct 6 12:56 UTC 1997 |
Future Man is Victor Wootan's brother. Victor is an incredable bass
player. I saw him exchanging, note for note, with a mandolin player. Fast
fingers, big strings.
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mcnally
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response 254 of 416:
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Oct 7 01:06 UTC 1997 |
re #252: #251 made sense to me..
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orinoco
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response 255 of 416:
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Oct 8 00:14 UTC 1997 |
Wow. Most impressive.
#251 did, actually, get clipped. I went on to rave about the track, which
combines music with water sound effects, at great length, but I don't feel
like replicating my rant. Let's say I liked it and leave it at that.
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diznave
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response 256 of 416:
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Oct 8 12:13 UTC 1997 |
Sounds interesting, Bill. I'll have to check out more of their music. The
mandolin player didn't happen to be Dave Grusin, did it?
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orinoco
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response 257 of 416:
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Oct 8 23:00 UTC 1997 |
Live Art is back at the library, if you're interested, diznave.
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mziemba
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response 258 of 416:
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Oct 9 04:34 UTC 1997 |
I heard Jars of Clay almost endlessly on mainstream radio about two years ago,
with their previous release. What radio are you listening to?
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mziemba
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response 259 of 416:
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Oct 9 14:31 UTC 1997 |
Ken:
I stumbled across Don Dixon years ago with _Romeo at Julliard_, a really good
album.
I had the chance to hear _Romantic Depressive_ when it first came out.
I'd enjoy hearing it again. You say you found yours at Elderly?
In all the time I spent in East Lansing I never managed to make it over to
Elderly. I need to check that place out, some time.
I presume you'll be at the Muzsikas concert, at the end of this month?
Maybe we'll have a chance to get together and listen to a few tunes that
night...
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mziemba
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response 260 of 416:
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Oct 9 14:35 UTC 1997 |
Oh, and Marti and Don did sing together, briefly, on a live album, _The
Chi-Town Concert_ (or something close to that title).
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mziemba
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response 261 of 416:
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Oct 9 15:07 UTC 1997 |
I've mentioned this before, but a really wonderful album with Bela Fleck is
the Bela Fleck/V.M. Bhatt/Jie-Bing Chen collaboration for the _Tabula Rasa_
album on Water Lily Acoustics.
Bhatt is known for his sitar-like mohan vina, an instrument of his own
design. The mohan vina is an arch-top guitar with sympathetic strings,
played with a slide.
Chen is one of China's finest erh-hu players, a two-stringed, long-necked
bowed instrument similar to the violin.
The album is quite wonderful, and inspired me to find an album of ehr-hu
music featuring Jie-Bing Chen.
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krj
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response 262 of 416:
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Oct 9 15:19 UTC 1997 |
Mark, the copy of ROMANTIC DEPRESSIVE I got at Elderly was from a bin
of unwanted used CDs which had been slashed from Elderly's usual
used price, $7, to $3.50. There aren't any more copies there; I'll
be happy to loan you this one.
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orinoco
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response 263 of 416:
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Oct 9 16:34 UTC 1997 |
What, pray tell, is an arch-top guitar?
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senna
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response 264 of 416:
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Oct 10 01:23 UTC 1997 |
103, the only local station to play them regularly, is not mainstream, Mark.
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bmoran
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response 265 of 416:
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Oct 10 03:54 UTC 1997 |
diznave, the mandolin player was Mike Marshall, founder of the Modern
Mandolin Quartet. Has also played with David Grisman Quintet, Montreux,
and Psycograss. Very energetic player, fun to listen to and watch.
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mziemba
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response 266 of 416:
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Oct 10 09:19 UTC 1997 |
An arch-top guitar, as best I can figure, is a guitar with a horizontally
curved fingerboard, a design slightly derived from the sitar.
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mziemba
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response 267 of 416:
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Oct 10 09:23 UTC 1997 |
Are you referring to 102.9 FM, Steve?
I heard Jars of Clay quite a bit on 93.9 FM out of Windsor. I consider the
Windsor/Detroit area as "local", however.
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scott
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response 268 of 416:
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Oct 10 19:05 UTC 1997 |
An arch-top guitar is one constructed more like a violin than a "flat-top"
guitar. It has a hollow body, with f-holes instead of the big round hole,
but other than that it has more normal guitar hardware. It's the sort of
thing you see jazz players using, esp. traditional jazz. Aside from the
brutally high playing action some players affect, it is a normal-playing
guitar.
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kewy
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response 269 of 416:
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Oct 10 21:18 UTC 1997 |
steve (king) 103 is quite mainstream... very much so
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orinoco
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response 270 of 416:
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Oct 10 22:56 UTC 1997 |
So what difference is there - or is it just more comfortable to play?
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scott
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response 271 of 416:
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Oct 11 13:09 UTC 1997 |
It *sounds* different. And as I mentioned, some players have this thing
about really high/hard action, so that they are "cool" or something.
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orinoco
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response 272 of 416:
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Oct 11 13:10 UTC 1997 |
Well, given how hard I know it is to describe a sound, I guess I'll just have
to go hear it myself.
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mziemba
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response 273 of 416:
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Oct 11 19:10 UTC 1997 |
I wonder what the physics behind the shape of the "f" holes are. I assume
there must be some practical reason for that kind of shape over others...
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mziemba
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response 274 of 416:
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Oct 11 19:14 UTC 1997 |
That reminds me of a really good article I snagged from my high school physics
class from a real old _Scientific American_ on the physics of the piano.
Scientific writing was much better, back in the 50s, than it seems to be, now.
The danger of a lack of a good liberal education to back up such
specialization...
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