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{ardon? But seriously, I dealt with it another way. I got everyone to turn down. Radical, eh?

[quote name='casapete' post='308620' date='Oct 17 2008, 02:28 PM']Just great to see players supporting the songs, not afraid of leaving space where required etc.[/quote] Not on my watch

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Strange New Flesh - great LP - 'Down To You' was a favourite! That was when Gary Moore was sounding great and not generic!

Mark Levine's ' The Jazz Theory Book' has it all. You don't need to buy anything else. And all of the examples are evidenced with references to tunes. For cds, just try your local library and ask around' everybody has a copy of Kind of Blue (except you, obviously )!! If I can help at all, PM me. I have mountains of this stuff.

Long before he hit the mainstream with Whitesnake, Gary Moore etc, Murray was the bass player with a UK jazz rock group called National Health. He has some quite credible fusion chops hiding behind the hair and his ability to nail that gig at short notice comes as no surprise. [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health[/url]

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='306382' date='Oct 14 2008, 04:37 PM']Do they do an Ampeg 810 version?[/quote] Fcuk me! How big are your cows?

[quote name='thedontcarebear' post='306306' date='Oct 14 2008, 03:24 PM']Looks like a Fender amp to me? Do you sit on a Fender Amp to milk your cows?[/quote] Best way to get a good sound out of one

Has he still got the gig? Some great music being played on there. Cuban, Salsa, Rumba....

How is THAT in any way cool? Looks like something you'd sit on to milk Daisy!

My first amp was a Carlsboro Cobra 60W - piece of junk.

Nothing crazy, agroupuk, just practice. One finger after the other and repeat 1,000,000 times and you'll have it. It's not rocket science, just incremental. No easy fix, just time.

Looks like a bug splat to me Not my cup of tea but its 'original'!!

My first ever gig was Gillan at Cardiff Top Rank on the Glory Road tour supported by White Spirit (inc Janick Gers on guitar) and a band called Quartz. Remember when the bands used to do 30 date UK tours in the little clubs with support bands like Diamond Head and Trust and Rose Tattoo? I used to see some quality stuff then. Now the name bands all do 4 nights at Brimingham NEC, Wembley Arena, Manchester Apollo and sod all else. Shame for the little people who can't afford £100 for a night out. Rock On!!

Try sight singing - learning to read music without an instrument and using your voice. Its hard but you can get skills that will make you the most employable bloke in Gloucester (!!??)

So he has good days and bad. Me too (grrrr!!)

Great - are they playing any jazz on it this time?

[quote name='mcgraham' post='301034' date='Oct 7 2008, 09:05 AM']I wouldn't say it shows a lack of critical awareness if you are a listener, but I reckon that's not what you meant anyway.[/quote] Sorry, Mark, but that WAS what I meant! I think liking everything shows a complete lack of taste!! Now wait for the fireworks!

[quote name='4000' post='300759' date='Oct 6 2008, 07:45 PM']I love a lot of pop music. I love a lot of rock. I love a lot of jazz. In fact I like most of everything. It's all music. To pigeonhole is ultimately pointless. There are tracks I don't like, some artists I don't like (please stand up Mr Hucknall, Boyzone and those other post-Boyzone guys I've thankfully temporarily forgotten the name of), but there is no genre I don't like. I love ABBA. I love Motorhead. I love Yes and Matt Garrison. I love Public Enemy and the Beastie Boys. I love the Chilis and Bow Wow Wow. I love Basie & Ellington. I love Faithless, Manowar (yes, Manowar!!!), 30 Seconds to Mars and Bob Marley. I love the Stranglers and the Damned, Simon & Garfunkel and James Taylor, Paco De Lucia, Bach, heck I love Thomas Newman, John Williams, James Brown...I think you get the picture. As for pop music, even leaving bands like ABBA out of the equation, the Primitives' "Crash" is to me as perfect a record as you'll ever hear in any genre, and that's pure pop through and through.[/quote] I play with a pianist who likes everything and she is a pain in the a***. One minute she is calling Anthropology, the next its Candyman by Christina Aquilera - idiomatic anarchy. Probelm is, a jazz drummer with a jazz kit isn't going to sound like a rock drummer with a rock kit and vice versa. Your eq is set for jazz, then you are playing pop/funk with a band that can swing but can't play funk. I can see the moral justification for liking everything but, somehow, it feels more like a lack of critical awareness.

That Evans/La Faro/Motian Vanguard LP is a great recording but what amazes me is that there is this ground-breaking, creative artistry going on but, in the background, you can hear people's cutlery clanking away as they dive into their nosebags, oblivious to what's happening in front of them! Paul Motian - now there's a real jazz drummer, one I would love to play with.... :wub:

Has anyone here heard Hal Wilner's 1992 'Weird Nightmare: Meditations on Mingus' cd? Its marvelous! Features a range of musicians from Bill Frissel to Keith Richards to Vernon Reid to Henry Threadgill and also features some 'made' instruments from Harry Partch. Stunning stuff and one that really shows the importance of the creative producer in a recording situation. It also shows the flexibility of Mingus' compositions.

Steely Dan are, for me, one of those rock bands that allows the genre to retain some self-respect; Zappa too. Intelligent, creative music both lyrically and musically. Every genre has some of these true artists. 'Katy Lied' does it for me but that live DVD from the 'Two Against Nature' tour is great. (Tom Barney, if I recall correctly).

[quote name='mcgraham' post='300361' date='Oct 6 2008, 11:21 AM']P.S. For jazz, does anyone else find it a little bit pretentious/infuriating/confusing when someone says they are into 'jazz', and they're simply using it to describe music that they can't think which category it fits in to? It's not heavy, it's not poppy, it sounds odd, therefore it must be jazz?[/quote] If you try and put a circle around what people think is 'jazz' someone will try to cross it. Its a very broad church.

I have no problem with the ethos of LIKING loads of stuff. I like Jazz; that's a given. But I also like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin, The Dixie Chicks, James Taylor, Nektar, John Mayer, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Holst, Prokofiev, Genesis, Yes, It Bites, Earth, Wind & Fire, Steely Dan, Astor Piazolla, Marisa Monte, Michael Tippet, System Of A Down, Javier Navarette, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Flook...... But, because, like all of us, I am up to my eyeballs in life, I have to prioritise and make choices about what I go to first and last. I don't only like jazz and then hate everything else. I just like more music under the 'jazz' umbrella than I do classical, blues, HM, funk.....etc. etc... I think this hate thing doesn't come from the music's content but from the over-representation of bubblegum in the mainstream media. I was saying to my wife on Saturday, its an appalling situation when the programme on mainstream UK TV with the most admirable ethos regarding a wide range of live music of differing genres is 'Strictly Come Dancing'. Those of us who 'hate' pop music don't 'hate' it, we just view it with contempt, bred by familiarity.