Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 02:00:45 -0500 From: "William Chavez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: >> >"Ever since I was a baby girl the one thing I wanted most in this >world >was to keep my love alive..." ~ Heart
>I LOVE this line, I LOVE this song and I LOVE the guitar work on this song. This is one of my all time favorite Heart songs and album. And "Dream of the Archer"... why doesn't anybody do songs centered around a mandolin anymore??? Even in Bluegrass(which I can listen to only in small doses) always uses them in the background or minor leads. This is a bunch of crap. Someone needs to bring this instrument (and the lute) back into rock/pop and most definitely back into classical! Have any of you noticed that their is a lute playing a tiny part in T'log? Will < As a mandolinist, I am loving this thread, especially the tips about new mandolinists on the block. Thanks. As an instrument the mandolin is indeed, much maligned, partly because it can be made to sound pretty appalling, though probably not as bad as the dreaded banjo. But the classical mandolin can be stunningly beautiful to listen to, although, sadly, classical mandolinists are few and far between. Anyone interested in the subject should visit mandolincafe.com for a treasure trove of information, including a classical mandolin discussion list as well as bluegrass, jazz, celtic and other styles of playing. Also I should recommend Radim Zenkle as an extraordinary player, worth listening to. I guess Rod Stewart did a lot to popularise the mandolin in pop music but that was a long time ago. Also in the UK, folkies like Kate Rusby tend to use the instrument sensitively. I had noticed the lute on T'log and appreciated as the nearest thing to an accoustic guitar on the album. I still miss Joni's guitar playing badly and can't really come to terms with it's absence from one of her albums. Anyway, I've never heard the Heart track mentioned so, I obviously need to put that right soon. Jacky
