frogman
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| Jazz for aficionados **** A serious jazz artist must play an archtop in the vein of Russell Malone, Wes Montgomery, Barney Kessell, Herb Ellis, Joe Pass, etc None of these jazz guitarists played tele’s because the sweetest jazz tone is delivered by an archtop with at ... | |
| Adding an ignore list feature to audiogon **** Why not just skip over and not read the comment if posted by someone you do not want to read from ? **** Of course! Exactly right. As I said, consciously or not, some like the fight. | |
| Adding an ignore list feature to audiogon Some, whether they want to admit it or not, like the fight. | |
| Adding an ignore list feature to audiogon Could not agree more Re mahgister. A real gentleman with a perspective on music (art) and the place that it can occupy in our personal "spheres" that is refreshing and not found often enough in discussions here. Re the OP: Not having read through... | |
| Rock musicians with musical education. **** Who gave you permission to root around in my brain? **** 😊 | |
| Jazz for aficionados "You see what you want to see " 😊 | |
| Jazz for aficionados I have; and every day. Next Friday is the anniversary of The Gettysburg Address: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men ... | |
| Rock musicians with musical education. I think some of you miss the point. No one has claimed that being a virtuoso guarantees that they will produce memorable music. The point is simply that having a larger, more diverse musical arsenal opens up a lot more musical possibilities to the... | |
| Jazz for aficionados You are! How were you able to do it the old way? | |
| Jazz for aficionados Astounding! | |
| Rock musicians with musical education. stuartk, thanks for responding to what I wrote. Please tell me exactly what it was I wrote that might give that impression. I wrote nothing remotely like that. What you quote doesn’t suggest that in the least in the context of the totality of what... | |
| May as well call this... I see this differently. To me, it "crowds" the interaction. Dialogue becomes less direct. But, why not? The same trend is all around us. "Less is more"? Those values are becoming more and more a thing of the past. Call me a conspiracy (?) t... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Upon further reflection, I agree with Rok and marija; less is more. I wonder how Alex feels about it; he didn't seem to like the absence of titles for posted links. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Don't know, but I kinda like it. | |
| Rock musicians with musical education. All that you write is true, but there is much more to it all than that. Of course, technical ability does not necessarily mean good taste. HOWEVER, extraordinary technical ability opens many doors (musical possibilities) to the player with innate,... |