Hey! Great you like JT, too! Much of their music works great on lute - on baroque lute I like to play Locomotive breath and other songs from "Aqualung" while "Thick as a brick" doesn't work properly on a B-Lute but well on a R-Lute - I'll add excerps of it to my rock-pop lute soon (as I hope).
Thomas Am Samstag, 2. April 2005 22:57 schrieb Michael Thames: > > Roman, I'm thinking of making my own ornament of " Thick As A > > Brick", or "Teacher," or "Living in The Past" All by Jerthro Tull .And > > dedicating it to you. > > Any ideas anyone? > >JT is fine. Just no The Huh, please. > >RT > > Now, WHO, are you speaking of? > > Michael Thames > www.ThamesClassicalGuitars.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Michael Thames" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "gary digman" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> > Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 2:16 PM > Subject: Re: sketches of spain lute > > > >> I always found King Crimson to a bit "heady" and a >little > > >> "pretentious". > > >> It is "heady" only to cranial lightweights. > > >> RAT > > > > > > Roman, I'm thinking of making my own ornament of " Thick As A > > > Brick", or "Teacher," or "Living in The Past" All by Jerthro Tull .And > > > dedicating it to you. > > > Any ideas anyone? > > > > JT is fine. Just no The Huh, please. > > RT > > > > > Michael Thames > > > www.ThamesClassicalGuitars.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: "Michael Thames" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "gary digman" > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> > > > Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 2:02 PM > > > Subject: Re: sketches of spain lute > > > > > >>>> I am not a big jazz fan, but Strayhorn's "Daydream" is as >great a > > > > > > piece of > > > > > >>>> music as anything classical. > > >>>> And having "The Who???" in the same paragraph is >preposterous. > > >>>> The only R&R entity that ever could stand up to classical >and be > > > > > > judjed > > > > > >>>> (favorably) on classical terms was KingCrimson's >LIZARD. > > >>>> RT > > >>> > > >>> I always found King Crimson to a bit "heady" and a little > > >>> "pretentious". > > >> > > >> It is "heady" only to cranial lightweights. > > >> RT > > >> > > >> > > >> ________________ > > >> http://polyhymnion.org > > >> > > >>> Rock musicians, with too much knowledge, can be a dangerous > > >>> combination. > > >>> Unless you happen to be a heady, pretentious, self infatuated, > > imaginary > > > >>> composer. In which case one would be attracted to this kind of blues > > >>> butchery, and classify it as good classical music. > > >>> Michael Thames > > >>> www.ThamesClassicalGuitars.com > > >>> ----- Original Message ----- > > >>> From: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >>> To: "gary digman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> > > >>> Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 6:39 AM > > >>> Subject: Re: sketches of spain lute > > >>> > > >>>>> Dear Jim; > > >>>>> > > >>>>> I do. I need jazz. I don't need the Who. That's just me. However, I > > >>>>> don't need every expression of jazz that's put out. I'm not going > > >>>>> to > > > > > > try > > > > > >>> to > > >>> > > >>>>> tell you that you should need jazz or that you should need the jazz > > I > > > >>> like. > > >>> > > >>>>> There's something for everybody. I don't know why we seem to find > > >>>>> it necessary to belittle each other's tastes in order to promote > > >>>>> our > > own. > > > >>> The > > >>> > > >>>>> whole argument seems to come down to the idea that what I like is > > good > > > >>> and > > >>> > > >>>>> what I don't like is bad in some objective sense. So far no one has > > >>> > > >>> managed > > >>> > > >>>>> to articulate what objectively makes the Who good and Charlie > > >>>>> Parker > > >>>> > > >>>> I am not a big jazz fan, but Strayhorn's "Daydream" is as great a > > piece > > > > of > > > > > >>>> music as anything classical. > > >>>> And having "The Who???" in the same paragraph is preposterous. > > >>>> The only R&R entity that ever could stand up to classical and be > > judjed > > > >>>> (favorably) on classical terms was KingCrimson's LIZARD. > > >>>> RT > > >>>> > > >>>> -- > > >>>> http://polyhymnion.org/torban > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> To get on or off this list see list information at > > >>>> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- Thomas Schall Niederhofheimer Weg 3 D-65843 Sulzbach 06196/74519 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
