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| Zappa question Burnt Weenie Sandwich is a good one... a similarly fine aroma is emitted from Chunga's Revenge, Transylvania Boogie alone makes this worth getting, (check out Warren Cuccurullo's much later version on Roadrage if you really wanna' catch a fine gui... | |
| Band with highest success/talent ratio? Welp (i think this came up before), the hinge might be how "talent" is defined... could be:-Ability to execute very complex and difficult stuff on an instrument, (making Yngwie, Dream Theater, EVH, Rush and a few others mentioned ineligible as tar... | |
| Your Favorite, Most Outstanding Guitar Solo Kbarkamian-There are several suspects ... could be Shut Up And Play Your Guitar, (3 disc set) or his Guitar album, (2 discs). | |
| Why Doesn't Contemporary Jazz Get Any Respect? Some rap shows a lot of vocal agility, comes from a real place / displays some originality ... and delivers impressively tight, complex clusters of syllables. I don't have much of an appetite for the stuff, but I respect it way more than most of t... | |
| What`s your fave Audiophile Chill Out recording? Sorta hard to pick just one, but Eberhard Weber / The Following Morning still works. | |
| Marcin Wasilewski Trio Nearly scored a Wasilewski disc a couple of times...heard him on a couple of Tomasz Stanko discs i think, looks like good stuff although some recent Stanko is maybe too good a cure for insomnia. On the Achirana... it sure doesn't hurt to have Aril... | |
| Funk Essentials - Under The Radar The funk aroma has wafted over a pretty large area, here's a few i like that sprouted up along the fringes:The J.B's. Doin' It To Death ... (1973) James Brown does sing (or maybe more like talks you up) on this one, but this is the J. B's. record ... | |
| Real Stinkers -Even a genius like Miles Davis had to work for a couple of years to reach a level that made On The Corner possible. -He did tell everyone what was coming by touring and releasing 5 electric albums, (three of which were double Lps) before On The C... | |
| Real Stinkers Remember liking Get Up With It a lot, and just ordered it...thought it was one of the darker electric period records but haven't heard it for about 30 years.Saying you don't get it or don't like a record is one thing. Entering it in a "Real Stinke... | |
| Real Stinkers Hmmm... a record w/ Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin, Badal Roy, Jack DeJohnette, Billy Hart, Colin Walcott, Dave Liebman, Bennie Maupin and Miles Davis giving their best is a real stinker? George W. and the Downbeat two star review of... | |
| Real Stinkers Have never subscribed to the "if you can't say anything nice..." cliche, but a record is not a real stinker just because someone can't decipher it. Lark's Tongues In Aspic, Starless And Bible Black and Red are hugely influential recordings that ma... | |
| Why Doesn't Contemporary Jazz Get Any Respect? Calling Kenny G, The Rippingtons and most similar stuff contemporary jazz is kind of like calling cool whip and velveeta cheese modern cuisine. Contemporary players like Dave Holland, Tim Berne, Fred Frith, Gerry Hemingway and Ken Vandermark get a... | |
| Song covers that are better than the originals The you know what they say about opinions adage may apply... (IMO in some cases covers can be good or interesting, but there's no such thing as better). Anyway The Shadows cover of Sleepwalk is real good... same with The Who/ Young Man Blues, Moun... | |
| "You can't handle -- The Yanni at Mandelay " Yes, if you want to find creative musical genius and original ideas everyone knows Las Vegas IS the epicenter. There's an obvious cynergy (sic) at work in that wonderful city w/ all the original architecture and other exciting new manifestations o... | |
| Music you HATE the most but once you LOVED it -ELP had big skill but may have been a bit McClassical and heavy on the cheese. -Still have enough brain left to know that the 1st two Mahavishnu Orchestra albums suffer no similar defects and are solid inspired works that dwarf nearly every rock ... |