Members suitandtieguy Posted February 17, 2012 Members Share Posted February 17, 2012 most people who know me know that i resent Marley's dominance of reggae. that does not mean that i haven't listened to this song a hundred times out of love, nor that i can't appreciate someone NAILING this organ part, which i believe is pretty tricky if you want to follow the live version note-for-note like this guy did. my hat is seriously off at this guy. this one goes out to that jerk in Flagstaff who was doing a crap job of this song on the streetcorner and told me there was no good reggae other than Marley and Sublime. if you only worked half as hard as this guy you'd be on the road banking it with merch instead of busking it in Flagstaff like a broke trustafarian. [video=youtube;QfT7bdRkfJQ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Crazyfoo Posted February 17, 2012 Members Share Posted February 17, 2012 That was awesome, thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ElectricPuppy Posted February 17, 2012 Members Share Posted February 17, 2012 What, no knives? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members piano39 Posted February 17, 2012 Members Share Posted February 17, 2012 http://img3.harmony-central.com/acapella/ubb/smile.gifhttp://img3.harmony-central.com/acapella/ubb/thumb.gifhttp://img3.harmony-central.com/acapella/ubb/thumb.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members piano39 Posted February 17, 2012 Members Share Posted February 17, 2012 I meant to say "Two Thumbs Up"!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Plink Floyd Posted February 17, 2012 Members Share Posted February 17, 2012 I saw that guy, standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members girevik Posted February 17, 2012 Members Share Posted February 17, 2012 What, no knives? Duh, it's Marley, not Emerson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paolo Di Nicolantonio Posted February 18, 2012 Members Share Posted February 18, 2012 The true Hammond tonewheel sound - beautiful ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rooftree Posted February 18, 2012 Members Share Posted February 18, 2012 I saw that guy, standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona. Take it eeeeeeeasy. Take it eeeeasy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wkendhacker Posted February 18, 2012 Members Share Posted February 18, 2012 Wow. Awesome and what tone!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wkendhacker Posted February 18, 2012 Members Share Posted February 18, 2012 I want one of those. hammond B3, you say? Hmmm. Have to check'em out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Plink Floyd Posted February 18, 2012 Members Share Posted February 18, 2012 I want one of those. hammond B3, you say? Hmmm. Have to check'em out... That's actually an A100, which is a B3 in a 'home style' case with built-in amp, speakers & reverb. They used to be a great bargain till everyone figured out that they sound and play exactly like a B3 (if you add the right kind of Leslie). When you find out how expensive the full sized genu-wine Hammond tonewheel/Leslie combo have become, you might look into one of the Hammond spinets, such as the M3, which is widely regarded (except by S&TG) as the best of that bunch. And don't forget the Leslie. (spam: Hammond M3 with Model 225 Toob Amp Leslie, $600. $2600 shipped.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mediterranean Posted February 18, 2012 Members Share Posted February 18, 2012 The skill of knowing how to decipher the notes of a single instrument out of a song, and of course the beauty of knowing how to read music. Wish I knew the latter:cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Plink Floyd Posted February 18, 2012 Members Share Posted February 18, 2012 That guy picked it apart by ear in the first place, then wrote it onto that sheet he's reading. Someone should tell him there's an app for that now (at least, for the fingers to notation part). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cyberpunx Posted February 18, 2012 Members Share Posted February 18, 2012 That was really cool, but now you've made me REALLY want a dual keyboard organ. preferrably of the hammond persuasion :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Outkaster Posted February 20, 2012 Members Share Posted February 20, 2012 why would you resent Marleys dominance of reggae he's not done anything since 1980????? his music is really the backbone of everything. Roots and culture reggae is the toughest to play . I am seen plenty of musicians the can't touch marley Marley stuff. If that guy can bubble that will really be something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members suitandtieguy Posted February 21, 2012 Author Members Share Posted February 21, 2012 why would you resent Marley's dominance of reggae he's not done anything since 1980????? his music is really the backbone of everything. Roots and culture reggae is the toughest to play . I am seen plenty of musicians the can't touch marley Marley stuff. If that guy can bubble that will really be something. dude i love Marley. what i resent is that fact that most people don't look past Marley when it comes to reggae, and the general ignorance in regard to reggae of the public allows a genre like "dubstep" with "wobble bass" to be popular while having nothing to do with actual dub or Jah Wobble. i resent the fact that when you're playing a reggae gig in a college town for a bunch of entitled trustafarians you can't do anything other than play Marley covers or you get tomatoes thrown at you, and if you play "Simmer Down" they complain because they don't recognise it since it's not on Legend. i resent idiots like that street musician in Flagstaff who was butchering "No Woman No Cry" on acoustic guitar, and when i asked him if he played any reggae tunes other than Marley he said "what's the point, it's all garbage but him and Sublime." and it's not like he's the only mouth-breathing idiot that thinks reggae starts with Marley and ends in Sublime and everything else is garbage. i resent that jamaican music isn't more respected by american black music musicians. "trad ska" should be just as important a style to learn as "latin" or "ballad" to the working jazz musician, and reggae shouldn't be treated as a backwater genre. i resent that reggae, dub, and ska lovers all can't come together in togetherness unless they are record collectors. the hard-core listeners love all this stuff ... anyway, you say Marley is the backbone. Mento is the backbone. Mento came before ska, ska came before rocksteady, and rocksteady came before reggae. could you actually look Don Drummond or Ernest Ranglin in the face and tell them that Marley is the backbone of everything? as far as wether this guy can bubble or not, i don't really care. he earned his stripes with this transcription. i'm not trying to bust your chops here, i'm just explaining myself since you asked. you're one of the few people i communicate with regularly that loves jamaican music more than i do, and i know you understand what i'm talking about. think about every time you've seen a bunch of dirty hippies at a jam band festival butcher a song you love and how angry it made you feel. (and in my case their bass player's girlfriend insinuated that my modular synthesiser was just a bunch of blinking lights for show and that i was just miming my completely improvised set.) pardon me for posting interestingly for a change. i'll go back to being boring again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Outkaster Posted February 21, 2012 Members Share Posted February 21, 2012 Ok that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ElectricPuppy Posted February 21, 2012 Members Share Posted February 21, 2012 Alright, disclosure: I'm not an organist, and know nearly nothing about reggae. But I've heard this "bubble" term before, and I THINK I know what it is, but I want to confirm. Can one of you fine gentlemen point me to a Youtube example that you think is the best example of bubbling? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Outkaster Posted February 21, 2012 Members Share Posted February 21, 2012 Not much on Youtube that is worth repeating. Go look at some old Marley videos, there are only a few. Tyronie Downie or Jackie Mitto were a couple of the first guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members go go gergie Posted February 22, 2012 Members Share Posted February 22, 2012 Best reggae bubble video on youtube. [video=youtube;VLZX1Q_TT1U] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wkendhacker Posted February 22, 2012 Members Share Posted February 22, 2012 That's actually an A100, which is a B3 in a 'home style' case with built-in amp, speakers & reverb. They used to be a great bargain till everyone figured out that they sound and play exactly like a B3 (if you add the right kind of Leslie). When you find out how expensive the full sized genu-wine Hammond tonewheel/Leslie combo have become, you might look into one of the Hammond spinets, such as the M3, which is widely regarded (except by S&TG) as the best of that bunch. And don't forget the Leslie. (spam: Hammond M3 with Model 225 Toob Amp Leslie, $600. $2600 shipped.) This weekend I opened up craigslist and a guy was giving away a beautiful condition hammond spinet. the ad was at the very top of the musical instruments category, whcih means it had been there maybe ten minutes. I called immediately. the guy answered and told me that someone was on their way out to look at it, but that he would call me if the guy didn't take it (did I mention he was giving it away?) obviously, I never heard back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ElectricPuppy Posted February 22, 2012 Members Share Posted February 22, 2012 Best reggae bubble video on youtube. Thank you. Then it IS what I thought it was (for the most part). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Plink Floyd Posted February 22, 2012 Members Share Posted February 22, 2012 There's a lot I don't know about this genre, and I'll admit that there are some pretty cool and challenging keyboard parts in some reggae I've heard. But what's the big deal about bubbling? At the risk of incurring the wrath of those who discurr wrath, what's so hard about it? I learned to count "one-eeh-and-ah two-eeh-and-ah" in junior high school band class. It would seem fairly rudimentary, even after 'a foggy trip down the ganja river'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members suitandtieguy Posted February 22, 2012 Author Members Share Posted February 22, 2012 what's the big deal about bubbling? i can only answer this question from my own experience. the reason i am not good at "bubbling" and the other associated styles of jamaican music and i had to "do my own thing" instead as a matter of necessity is because i've always been the bassist in the bands i've lead (always as organist.) when you take half of your body and devote it to playing bass you find you only have the right foot and the right hand left, and the right foot operates the volume pedal. that leaves the right hand. it's physically impossible to bubble with one hand, so i had to take a more simplistic approach. when you have a big band full of devoted people it doesn't matter what genre it is, you're going to do a good job of it. if i'd ever been able to have a 5 piece band with 2 guitarists and a dedicated bass player i'd probably be much better at bubbling. however i've never been able to get more than a guitarist and a drummer to go along with my ideas, so i have to work from an organ jazz perspective. i'm not upset at this, because it's _highly_ efficient and more maneuverable than the Millennium Falcon. anyway, as i was saying, i actually have a lot of respect for good bubbling because it's a support role and i generally have way more respect for good support roles than soloists, because support (bass, drums, chords) is where the vibe comes from and if the vibe is good you can get away with almost anything on top of it. and as i said, i'm not good at bubbling because i've never had an opportunity to work on it. you might look at it and say "that's simple i can do that" but the reality is that it isn't true ... there _is_ a feel to it and while it looks like a bunch of rhythmic hocketing when it comes down to it there's more to it than that. and yeah i wrote this in a text editor. whatever. despite this i'm sure i'm ramblingLOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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