Kip says:
Oh, I'd rather not incriminate myself in public, Roy. St. Louis is
a small town g.
Well, I think I get out to clubs pretty frequently and I've yet to observe the
tie-died masses playing all manner of fiddles and mandolins. I think you're
overstating it when you say "it's all
Bob Soron wrote:
I'd rather have a 5-minute guitar solo than a 20-second drum solo.
Oooh, I dunno about that. A short, tasteful drum solo (no, that is
not an oxymoron!) in the hands of the right guy is thing of beauty. I
guess I'm thinking mostly about jazz and big band drummers,
rather
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Roy Kasten wrote:
Kip writes:
It's becoming all da rage here in St. Louis, too: half-proficient
tie-dyed youth playing fiddles, mandolins, banjos and Martin
guitars.
Who do you have in mind here, Kip?
Oh, I'd rather not incriminate myself in public,
And I will confess to digging Neil Peart's solos simply from a
technical standpoint -- the guy is friggin' amazing. Plus, it's fun to
watch 10,000 16-year-old boys drool at the same time.
[Matt Benz] Hell of a lyric writer, too. Deep. Very Deep.
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Terry A. Smith wrote:
Yeah, it's a hoot to make fun of defenseless hippies, but lots more fun if
a couple of 'em come roaring up beside your pickup truck, and flip you off
when you make an off-hand comment about their hair.
Doh!
Seriously, though, it's not
A short, tasteful drum solo (no, that is not an oxymoron!)
in the hands of the right guy is thing of beauty. I guess I'm
thinking mostly about jazz and big band drummers,
rather than rock guys. I had the pleasure of watching Ed
Shaughnessy (sp?) from the Tonight Show band play at my
college,
Jon Weisberger wrote:
... but Grisman's also about as good a Monroe-style mandolin
player as you can find. For straight-ahead bluegrass, check
out his, er, tribute double album, Home Is Where The Heart
Is (Rounder) or Early Dawg (Sugar Hill) or what I think was
his first album for Rounder -
Jim Nelson says:
Uh, Jon, are you forgetting something? I don't see a mention of
"Here Today" (Rounder) on your list of recommendations. You
know, the one with Grisman, Herb Pedersen, Jim Buchanan, etc., oh
and some guy named Gill doing the lead singing and playing
guitar. I'm kind of
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Bob Soron wrote:
I'd rather have a 5-minute guitar solo than a 20-second drum solo.
Hey! What's wrong with "Wipeout"!? :-)
--Hiroshi
Any of you people familiar with these guys?
I saw them last night. I knew nothing about them, but
went on the recommendation of a friend. The first sign of trouble
was the proliferation of aging deadheads and 20-something-"I wasn't
even alive in the 60s, but all that free love and dope seems
Heh heh...Marie comments on the alarmingly growing ranks of
faux bluegrass and hippy acoustic bands.
It's becoming all da rage here in St. Louis, too: half-proficient
tie-dyed youth playing fiddles, mandolins, banjos and Martin
guitars.
Kip wrote:
Heh heh...Marie comments on the alarmingly growing ranks of
faux bluegrass and hippy acoustic bands.
It's becoming all da rage here in St. Louis, too:
half-proficient
tie-dyed youth playing fiddles, mandolins, banjos and Martin
Kip writes:
It's becoming all da rage here in St. Louis, too: half-proficient
tie-dyed youth playing fiddles, mandolins, banjos and Martin
guitars.
Who do you have in mind here, Kip?
Roy
marie arsenault wrote:
noodling, noodling. We stayed for about 30 - 45 minutes -
just long enough for the first song. g
I'm sure if we had stayed any longer we would've started smelling that "I'm
a deadhead and I've been so stoned I forgot to take a bath" body odor. g
They did have great
Ronni:
I'm sure if we had stayed any longer we would've started smelling that "I'm
a deadhead and I've been so stoned I forgot to take a bath" body odor. g
or patchouli!
Today when at a record store
I saw one of their cds. I made a mental note to buy a copy of it for your
birthday, Marie.
I
Terry Smith:
assume consensus
on this notion that any guitar solo over 30 seconds is self-indulgent.
30 seconds, no. Over 5 minutes, perhaps.
Terry:
But personally I'd rather see folks stick with critiquing the music, than
taking on such god-awfully easy targets.
Now that's a very hippie-ish
At 12:20 AM -0500 on 4/26/99, marie arsenault wrote:
Terry Smith:
assume consensus
on this notion that any guitar solo over 30 seconds is self-indulgent.
30 seconds, no. Over 5 minutes, perhaps.
I'd rather have a 5-minute guitar solo than a 20-second drum solo.
Bob
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