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Friday Infuences Thread 10-05-12


Lee Knight

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Hi! :thu:

 

Go ahead! Do it. Doit. Just... do it. DOIT! doitdoitdoitdoit!

 

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Glenn Gould sold me on Bach. Before I heard this recording below, Bach seemed too mathy. Too sciencey, not musicy enough. I was wrong then. Luckily 25 years ago I figured that out. Yes, it is math, like a snowflake is. Or the chaos of veins in a leaf. It's God's math. Adding up to nirvana. I never forget to refill my resources with this recording.

 

Always.

 

[video=youtube;0RInThW6F9U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RInThW6F9U&feature=related

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I have an extensive backlog of songs I've been meaning to post in these threads. This one recently reminded me that how a lyric sounds can be more important than what it means.

 

[video=youtube;4OyimQGggls]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OyimQGggls

 

 

Now some they do and some they don't

And some you just can't tell

Some they will and some they won't

And some it's just as well

 

 

^That is bloody brilliant, while meaning absolutely nothing at all.

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The State of Funk, 1970

Why did Miles choose funk? What did Miles think funk was? Did Miles actually play funk? Is the music he made in that period successful when judged against more popular definitions of funk? Does Miles have a legacy in funk?

 

[video=youtube;rS042Cy21W0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS042Cy21W0

[video=youtube;YNC8u4xy35Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNC8u4xy35Q

 

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Notes from my guitar lesson this week.

 

"In a free, modal composition a lot of people feel the need to overplay, and sadly, I'm one of them. When you're playing over a chord progression, there's a melodic shape you can use as a guide, and refer back to, but with a modal thing you really have to focus and edit to make sure you're not just wanking endlessly."

"Was there anyone doing the modal thing before Miles Davis?"

"Sure. If you think of the 12 tone row as a mode the whole Second Vienna School/Serialism guys were doing that. You've got your set of available notes and you just keep cycling through them till you get to the end. And in a much shorter way, if you think of bebop tone clusters as a mode, Charlie and Dizzy were certainly doing that."

 

We spent the rest of the lesson trying to come up with a hipper guitar part to replace the unhip piano in Lookin For Love. After listening to me play a bunch of jazzy variations, and trying a few things on the piano, he said "eh, the piano's fine. It's foundational - what's the harmony, where's the one, that kind of thing".

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Talk about your dangerous breaks...

 

Rick Holmstrom...

 

[video=youtube;ksCEKD4YxEU]

 

I was looking for some vid examples from the 2012 Rick Holmstrom album, Cruel Sunrise, and found this among many clips. Rick is a long time veteran of the blues tour scene and most recently was on the Mavis Staples/Jeff Tweedy tour, along with Jeff Turmes and Stephen Hodges on drums, who fill those roles on the Cruel Sunrise album as well.

 

This isn't from that album but I couldn't resist it, since it focuses on one of the most fearsome surf breaks in all of SoCal.

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I was looking for some vid examples from the 2012 Rick Holmstrom album,
Cruel Sunrise
, and found this among many clips. Rick is a long time veteran of the blues tour scene and most recently was on the Mavis Staples/Jeff Tweedy tour, along with Jeff Turmes and Stephen Hodges on drums, who fill those roles on the
Cruel Sunrise
album as well.


This isn't from that album but I couldn't resist it, since it focuses on one of the most fearsome surf breaks in all of SoCal.

 

It's refreshing to see a crowded, on-shore, insides-of-a-washing machine break instead of those perfect, deserted, tow-in breaks you usually see in surfing vids. ;)

 

 

The music is killer too. :thu:

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