stuartk
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| Chet Baker vs. Miles Davis @klimt You’re welcome. I can’t speak about trumpet from a technical point of view but there are others on the forum who probably can. The recordings of M. Davis 2nd Great Quintet are among my favorites in Jazz. For my taste, they embody an ide... | |
| Chet Baker vs. Miles Davis @klimt Fair enough. And you don't need to be an expert to discover what pleases you, just willingness to explore. BTW, next time, considerer posting on the Jazz for Aficionados thread. | |
| Chet Baker vs. Miles Davis @klimt For purposes of discussion, it would be helpful to know your reasoning... | |
| Recommended for Americana Fans: Amanda Ann Platt and the Honeycutters @gpgr4blu You’re welcome. I just ordered two more of their cds, myself. Didn’t want to risk driving my wife crazy playing "On the Ropes" over and over ;o) @bdp24 That must be amazing, once you get it down. . . | |
| Jazz for aficionados @yyzsantabarbara It seems fitting that it's a titan like Sonny who is still standing. Hard not to feel nostalgic and wonder whether Jazz will ever enjoy a resurgence. | |
| Recommended for Americana Fans: Amanda Ann Platt and the Honeycutters @bdp24 I didn’t mean in terms of how well the instruments partner/function together. I was thinking in terms of the fact that playing drums seems, like playing pedal steel, to require coordinating lots of things at onc. By comparison, guitar and... | |
| The HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL Thread Continued @larsman Thanks for your suggestions! | |
| JAYS Audio transport upgrade? @8th-note Makes sense, at that price. For more cash, Bricasti, Aqua and Gryphon make very fine transports that might beat it, in some ways. It's a moot point, however, as far as I'm concerned. They're all too expensive for me! My CDT2MKIII is ju... | |
| The HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL Thread Continued @larsman Much of Maiden’s more wonderfully melodic stuff always struck me in a similar way to Wishbone Ash, with the guitars intertwining in and out.... Can you recommend a particular album that exemplifies the above? @deep_333 Many metal... | |
| The HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL Thread Continued @deep_333 I don’t think there are actually that many stories/ themes/topics, be it music, visual art or literature. It’s not the what, so much as the how. The Iron Maiden tune is very pumped up -- unrelentingly so. there’s not really any contra... | |
| The HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL Thread Continued @larsman It depends on how you define Hard Rock, I guess. Is Jeff Beck Hard Rock? What about Hendrix? Where’s the dividing line between Hard Rock and Classic Rock? | |
| The HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL Thread Continued @larsman Sorry for my lack of clarity. I’d never tell any musician what they ought to play! I simply don’t relate to the aggression or focus on psychologically troubled states. I don’t like the way such music makes me feel physically or psycholo... | |
| JAYS Audio transport upgrade? @aolmrd1241 Excellent advice but not all gear is available from sellers who offer trial periods/return policies. I normally don’t buy anything I can’t demo at home and return if necessary but sometimes this just isn’t possible. I bought my Jay’s... | |
| The HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL Thread Continued Why the obsession among the Hard Rock/Metal genres with themes of pain, death, fear, insanity, etc? I simply do not relate. I don’t know if Richie Kotzen qualifies as Hard Rock but I like this a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkKBcEV75WE ... | |
| Recommended for Americana Fans: Amanda Ann Platt and the Honeycutters @bdp24 In this video, Fishell explains and demonstrates how the pedal steel guitar works: Crazy! Maybe this is the best stringed instrument for drummers to learn, given that it requires coordinating so much at once! |