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http://www.myspace.com/tenorion
http://www.global.yamaha.com/design/tenori-on/
http://www.google.com/search?q=tenori-on
...it's hardly the same old song and dance
Home of the original Boneyard Brew and Mango-Peach Tango
http://www.joeperrysrockyourworld.com/
Joe Perry has been creating bone rattling licks with Aerosmith for 30 + years.
Now his Hot Sauce will rattle your palate with its incredible flavor and taste.
New music board if anyone is interested
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=10261
hey Bob...which one are you in this group?
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=20321058
DAMN !!! Those guys are tight !
Pretty incredible !
I'll have to see if the guy who does the work on my machines can get me a copy of the picture he took of the excavator stuck *again*. Got it out without any other machine helping last night. Well, started yesterday afternoon and once I figured out a way that might work, it took 6 hours. I basically rocked it back and forth a foot at a time, using the boom to lift the tracks so that piles of dirt I'd set at the edges would fall under the tracks, lower the machine, turn around and do the same with the other end of the tracks. Each time, probably gained about 6 inches of height. Until it finally pulled itself out.
Gonna take the hired help a couple of days to get it clean this time.
Anyway, music thread, right?
I was looking on Youtube last night for a live performance of Maynard Ferguson's "Give It One", which has always been a favorite.
Didn't find an MF one, but found this and am so glad I did. I'm absolutely blown away! The screamer in this group plays a good octave higher than I can, and I play pretty darned high!
Hi Bob...dunno if you saw this or not...http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=10706992
Bob, I'll bet this music video will make you all warm and fuzzy!
http://bravofact.com/shorts/details.asp?projectID=2050
Now you have ... lol ... good day to you!!
I've never heard of him/them...
did they sing My Ding-A-Ling-A-Ling?
Simon & Garfunkel Reunite At D.C. Concert
Simon & Garfunkel
May 24, 2007, 10:45 AM ET
Paul Simon sang with Art Garfunkel and his South African collaborators from the landmark "Graceland" album in a pair of rare reunions at a concert yesterday (May 23) honoring his contributions to popular music.
Simon joined the Zulu choir Ladysmith Black Mambazo for the first time since 1999 at the concert, which was sponsored by the U.S. Library of Congress. "I haven't performed with them for a few years, but they're my brothers from South Africa," Simon said as he welcomed the group to the stage of Washington, D.C.'s ornate Warner Theatre.
Together they played the hit "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes," from the 1986 "Graceland" album, a Grammy-winning milestone for world music. They parted with high-fives and hugs as the Ladysmith Black Mambazo members, wearing colorful traditional shirts and white sneakers, danced off the stage.
Simon also embraced Garfunkel, recognizing an award-winning and best-selling musical partnership that dates to the 1950s but has been marked by long spells of estrangement. "My dear friend and partner in arguments, Art Garfunkel," Simon said before they launched into "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and "Cecilia."
The concert commemorated Simon's receipt of the Library of Congress' first Gershwin Award recognizing contributions to the popular song as an art form. Among others who performed songs by Simon were bluegrass star Alison Krauss, reggae singer Stephen Marley and Latin vocalist Marc Anthony.
James Taylor sang a lighthearted version of Simon's "Still Crazy After All These Years," and to close the show, Simon teamed with Stevie Wonder and the gospel group the Dixie Hummingbirds for a rollicking version of "Loves Me Like a Rock."
Wonder, who is blind, missed a vocal line, made a crack about his cue cards, flipped up his dark glasses to peer at the audience in jest, and dove back into the song. The concert will be broadcast June 27 on PBS stations.
Source: Billboard Magazine
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003590018
Hey Bob...I was wondering if you have found this one lately?
My Ding-A-Ling-A-Ling
When I was a little biddy boy
My grandma bought me a cute little toy
Two Silver bells on a string
She told me it was my ding-a-ling-a-ling
My Ding-A-Ling My Ding-A-Ling won't you play with My Ding-A-Ling
My Ding-A-Ling My Ding-A-Ling won't you play with My Ding-A-Ling
When I was little boy In Grammar school
Always went by the very best rule
But Evertime the bell would ring
You'd catch me playing with my ding-a-ling
Once while climbing the garden wall,
Slipped and fell had a very bad fall
I fell so hard I heard birds sing,
But I held on to My ding-a-ling
Once while swimming cross turtle creek
Man them snappers right at my feet
Sure was hard swimming cross that thing
with both hands holding my dingaling
Now this here song it ain't so bad
Prettiest little song that you ever had
And those of you who will not sing
must be playing with your own Ding-a-ling
I see.
Congats anyway.
Did she decide on a school yet?
District is in a different venue every year, and I think we've done one in Warrensburg. They have State in Columbia every year now.
Not yet. She's a big deal locally and among her peers and music educators statewide.
But that's something she'll end up facing before too long. Among trumpet players, she's a budding "musician's musician", but fortunately her music interests go far beyond the trumpet and she may very well end up being someone who's more widely popular, but to an audience who yawns when she plays the trumpet.
Like that violinist, she plays for the joy of it, audience be darned.
Not yet. She's a big deal locally and among her peers and music educators statewide.
But that's something she'll end up facing before too long. Among trumpet players, she's a budding "musician's musician", but fortunately her music interests go far beyond the trumpet and she may very well end up being someone who's more widely popular, but to an audience who yawns when she plays the trumpet.
Like that violinist, she plays for the joy of it, audience be darned.
Nice- I scored a Loius Armstong award in highschool for a sax solo. Recently bought a sax, and plan to return to it after I retire <bg>.
Do they still have the competion in Warrensburg?
I went there for state a couple of times.
Nothing as good as your daughter though, lol
On the tv news a few weeks ago was a mention of how the New York City subway folks
can be "treated" to them musicians that currently have days jobs on non music tasks.
Since I don't frequent these bowels of big cities I can't imagine the quality of whats heard,
but that news story spoke of a well knowned gifted violin player that get big money playing
at sold out concerts having time to spend waiting for a train there, and having his Stradivarius
with him, so he walked to a corner and played for a short while.
Imagine... being able to stand a few feet away and heard pure tones.
Now imagine the horror that zero folks stopped as they walked by :(
I'm guessing only young adults of the MVTV and that Idol tv program heard him.
Has Darth Shibby experienced the lack of appreciation for excellent music based on folks
being brain-washed with the crap now being sold?
doug
My daughter not only got a 1 rating at State yesterday for her trumpet solo, "Napoli", for the first time ever she got nothing but the highest ratings on every single rating item and no corrections or negative comments. There was actually a bit of stunned silence at the end of the solo before the room erupted in applause. Turned out quite a crowd had gathered outside the room, too.
Nice finish to her high school competitions career.
We'll be performing it in a couple of weeks at the school's Spring concert and we plan to videotape it and put it online like with her previous solos.
"...a sort of Geppetto creating his musical Pinocchio."
Musical robot composes, performs and teaches
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/10/03/musical.robot/index.html
... has numerous musical algorithms programmed into it, Haile's basic function
is to "listen" to what musicians are playing and play along with them.
(Watch as Haile keeps the beat -- 5:11)
The basic level is to teach it to learn to identify music, to imitate," Weinberg said.
"The higher level is stability of rhythm, to be able to distinguish between similar rhythms.
In essence, Haile has the ability to recognize if a rhythm is more chaotic or stable,
and can adjust its playing accordingly."
Hi bob...I got three words for ya.........................
ding a ling...
From the link you supplied: Maynard Ferguson, RIP
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/015107.php
... just an idea of his abilities
... can see and hear him in the mid-1970s
Does anyone know who this guy is that he introduces,
and maybe where he and these guys are today?
Definitely died with his boots on too. I'm glad for that. Seems his popularity was increasing again lately and he was to go on tour soon.
I'll be watching for the date of the St. Louis tribute concert and really hope we can get out there for it.
Too bad my daughter won't be competing for the scholarship out there, as she insists on going to a Christian college, and the nearest one that offers full rides to musicians is TCU. When she told me she had decided against any of the big Eastern music schools and instead was going to go to one with "Christian" in the name, she agreed that whether she got a full ride or not, only schools serious enough about music to offer full rides for it were worthwhile candidates.
I really love most of the articles being written about him. And am learning new things about him. Had no idea his first name was Walter. But I remembered his birthdate at one time and was one of the ones quick to join in singing Happy Birthday to him when he performed at a local church about 5 years or so ago on his birthday.
That concert really stands out in my mind because he performed a piece that I know is on one of his albums but I'd never heard before (I'm not even CLOSE to having all of his albums), but knew from listening it was a deeply religious song to him (I don't remember -- Buddhist?) and expressed in music a deep, loving relationship with his God. One of the few times my eyes have watered at a concert.
Geez, I've seen him perform so many times! But never had the pleasure of meeting him or attending any of his many clinics, despite the fact it was his fault I switched from tuba to trumpet in high school, and (much to my band director's chagrin) focused more on extending my range than increasing my technique.
Interesting timing because we perform Birdland in the Drum and Bugle Corps my daughter and I are part of (I get to screech a bit in it, as 1st Soprano bugle) and I've been digging through my old Maynard albums and CD's in recent weeks looking for a piece for me to arrange for the Corps (so far, "Gospel John" is way in the lead, but the wonderful solo that opens it doesn't fit the Drum Corps model very well, but I still want to arrange it and try it as a standing piece and see if it can become a marching/show piece).
Betcha next season's DCI competitions are going to be FULL of MF pieces!
that is sad ... i like Maynard too.
check out this link for hearing new music .. my new fav
http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/
A sad day. Maynard Ferguson died last night at age 78.
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/015107.php
As huge a Rush fan as I am, I've seen Maynard in concert far more frequently than I have Rush.
He was the single inspiration that led me into playing the trumpet and I'm sure many current and former trumpet players would say the same, my daughter included, who plans to major in Trumpet Performance.
Bob, I am truly impressed !
Both with you and your daughter's performance.
Very cool indeed !!!
She ended up scoring a 1 at State on the solo, too.
And I finally got around to converting last year's and this year's solos to MPG format.
Last year's solo was Concert Etude by Alexander Goedicke, who, as it turns out, was a pianist, not a trumpet player, which explains why the "background" instrument is so aggressively-written. It's really more of a trumpet/piano duet. The piano part is so aggressive that we learned the hard way at district that I needed to test the piano's feel before diving into the song and if it was a piece of junk (as is the one I'm playing in this video), a lot of fast stuff needs to be left out because you can really butcher it if you don't have a good piano to work with. At State she asked if I wasn't gonna test the piano and I pointed to the "Yamaha" on the keyboard cover and said "Nah. It's a good one." Wish I had a recording of that, as it was our best performance of it by a substantial margin. I didn't have to leave anything out on the piano, and she nailed it pretty well. Surprisingly, she got a 2 rating, being dinged for "interpretation". She consciously decided not to play the song mechanically, as she's always heard it done. In her words "There's a real nice song hiding in this 'Study' and that's what I want to play."
This is a particularly aggressive song for a high school student to attempt. Especially a sophomore. Trumpet Performance majors often use this as a recital piece at least a couple of years into college.
Noteworthy in this video is how "into" her songs she gets in this setting. She never gets nervous before these kinds of performances. Only when she's playing in a room looking at a judge and wondering what he's writing down. She's very much "in touch" with the music she's playing and what's happening, including with her pianist, as is evidenced twice in this video when I lost the rhythm in one section and she instinctively turned toward me and gave the downbeats more emphasis so I could get back on track, and near the end of the song when the wheels suddenly fell off in an important measure (she'd already played a lot that night, including sitting in on Tuba with the junior-high band, and her chops were at the ragged edge) and she turned to me so I could use body language to show her the downbeat of the next measure.
I've also noticed that she (like I) kinda "dances" to the song she's playing, which you don't often see.
We've always communicated very well when we're performing.
Anyway, here's her solo from last year. Anyone who thinks they might want to watch either of these multiple times, please just do me a favor and right-click the links and save the files to your computer so we can save on bandwidth. At about 45 meg each, you don't want to wait on the internet if you want to watch one a second time.
http://adserv.stocksite.com/images/Darth_Soph_Solo.mpg
This year's solo was Willow Echoes by Frank Simon. I didn't think much of this song the first time we ran through it because the piano part is a lot easier than last year's, and to this day I find the ragtime piano interludes really weird. They feel like they belong in another song.
Unlike last year's solo, she absolutely nailed this one at concert time. Though, as you'll see, it's FAR more difficult for the trumpet player. The hardest part for me is just keeping up, even with my relatively simple parts. Her performance being much earlier in the program definitely helped her.
Again, in this one, she's dancing to the song. I love how at the end of the opening cadenza, her body movements are in perfect synch with what's coming out of the horn.
Again we see communication happening between us. I lost my place (I don't know what I was thinking at the moment, but it had nothing to do with what I was supposed to be doing) and didn't play for a measure or two while I tried to find my place on the chart. She turned toward me to make sure I hadn't fallen off the bench or something.
A couple of funny things in this one. You'll note she gets a solid round of applause at the end of the second section when (at least to us), the song obviously wasn't over. I'd actually warned her the day of the performance that this might happen, and in this section in particular, because by Boogerville standards, it's a real face-scorching section. I told her if it happened, to just enjoy it, and know she's gonna flatten them against the back wall of the building on the last section, which she has always nailed.
The second funny thing is that when we rehearsed it that day at lunch, within 4 measures or so of the end of the song, finishing up the most blistering section of it, she paused for a VERY long time in a place where I'm accustomed to her simply taking a big breath for the high C she has to hold out at the end. During rehearsal, I started cracking up because she took a swig from her ever-present water bottle and chided me for my laughing and said "Wait for it....".
The idea had occurred to her while she was playing it and we decided to incorporate it into her performance. I thought the big pause was even more obviously not the end of the song, but it fooled the audience. I even played it up by keeping my arms poised ready to slam back down onto the piano, but we still tricked them. You can see the band director (my page-turner) snickering as he realizes what she did.
Anyway, I really love this performance. What a difference a year makes! She's got plenty of high notes in this song and though she can't play as high as I can, she's got the sweetest-sounding upper register I've ever heard from a trumpet-player, bar none! Some of it might be because of her playing Mellophone in drum and bugle corps (in case I hadn't mentioned earlier, I'm the 1st Soprano player and horn section leader for a local senior corps that's in start-up mode and she's the only kid and only Mellophone player in it). I've been trying to find a copy of Chuck Mangione's "Feel So Good" to hopefully get her interested in taking up Flugelhorn. She's got the tone and control for it.
Without further ado, here's the solo we played this past Tuesday.
http://adserv.stocksite.com/images/Darth_Junior_Solo.mpg
Bob,
See if this is what you are looking for:
http://www.walkingfrog.com/home.php?cat=12
Phil
Anyone know where I can find an MP3 trumpet performance of "Willow Echoes" by Frank Simon? That's my daughter's solo for this year. It's specified as being for cornet/baritone/trombone.
She got a 1 on it at District last Friday so we're going on to State in a month.
The piano part is a LOT less sadistic than Goedicke's "Concert Etude" that we did last year, but the trumpet part is really something else. There's a part in it (last page on my part) where she picks up the speed to a ridiculous level and is playing something like 24 notes per measure when I'm doing about 2 chords per measure and barely keeping up with her. The band director was turning pages for me and commented later that he noticed I was supressing chuckling on that page. Can't help it. She just takes off at a pace that I can't believe I'm hearing a 16-year old girl play. Every time I dive into that page going full-bore I find I'm still struggling to keep up and it cracks me up because my part is so simple compared to hers.
Oh, there was only the judge and one other person in the room, so not the audiences other players were getting with applause, and she definitely prefers audiences.
At the very end of the song, the only feedback was "Wow!". In addition to the knuckled high five I gave her for the first time after a competitive performance. She nailed it! When we got out of the room I asked whether it was the judge who said that or the other kid in the room. Turned out it was the kid. But quite a crowd had accumulated outside the room and she was greeted with applause when she opened the door. The band director from the host school hugged her and said "You're an amazing trumpet player!" She got lots of hugs and praise.
Oh, she said the 1 she got was cheapened a bit, though. Earlier she heard someone playing the song she played last year. But at half the speed she'd played it and still messing it up, but they got a 1.
Sad day. Synth pioneer Robert Moog has passed :(
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9040977/
The Soul Sessions - Joss Stone
For an old folk like me it’s embarrassing to admit that I’m a fan of an 18-year old female singer, but I’ve found myself helplessly captivated by the rich and soulful voice of JOSS STONE.
I’m so out of touch with the pop culture that I’ve never heard of Joss Stone until I read about this 18-year old small-town singer from England in this Sunday’s newspaper. Just out of curiosity, last night I downloaded her second album, The Soul Sessions, on Rhapsody, a RealNetworks online music service. As soon as it started playing, I was under the musical spell of her voice. I thought of Janis Joplin and Aretha Franklin during some of her renditions.
The album was also very well produced for rock and roll fans. It keeps the instrumentals as simple as the way it should be. I thought, instead of an orchestra, the best and the only way that rock and roll should be played is by a small 5-pc band consists of drum, guitar, bass, keyboard, and vocal.
A very impressive and memorable effort in her second album.
Chanel
4 40's
5 50's
7 70's
8 80's
9 90's
chanel
40-54 Rock
60-67 Hip Hop & urban
70-76 Jazz and Blues
80-83 Dance
Do you need more?
My new truck has the XMSR radio in it.
I love it. Listening to 150 (comedy channel) all the time, but surely there's a channel that'd appeal to a big fan of the likes of Rush, Queen, and Styx. Anyone know what channel that might be?
That's good news Bob!
Darth report:
My daughter just called and reported that she got 1st chair in both the Honor Concert Band and the Jazz Band at the Missouri band camp she's attending.
She'd gotten first in Concert and Symphony in Kansas previously, so having reached the top of that mountain, decided she needed a new mountain. Having reached the top of this one, I suspect she'll be looking into Nebraska or Iowa next year. Hope so, as this'll be the second year I'll be in Omaha during her performance, and I really hate missing those. My wife will video-tape it, though, and she's found someone locally who can take her tapes and put them on DVD as MPG's. Which we'll do with this year's and last year's solo performances at the spring concert, too. It also won't hurt to have "1st chair" in as many different bands/states as possible when she's trying to get into Berklee or Eastman.
I'm a bit surprised that she got 1st chair in Jazz Band. She's truly a freak of nature when it comes to technique and tone (extremely mature sound for her age, especially considering that her horn tends toward the shrill side just by virtue of what kind of horn it is), but doesn't have the really high range usually necessary for 1st chair in Jazz. Her high F is just now starting to come in and she can hit the E loud and clear. Although maybe it's possible she finally took my advice and used a pea-shooter for the Jazz audition. Either her Schilke 14A4A (which is a large mouthpiece but the shallow cup helps the upper range) or maybe even my Bach 11EW, which is useless in the low range, but really helps the upper end.
She usually insists on playing her 3C, which is just an awfully big mouthpiece, especially for Jazz, especially on such a free-flowing horn. For the non-trumpeters out there, back-pressure from the mouthpiece and horn really facilitate higher notes. As does a smaller rim on the mouthpiece. 3C is in the very upper end as far as rim size goes (1C being the biggest) and the cup on that mouthpiece is pretty deep, so little back pressure. Personally, I use a 1E Megatone, which is the biggest rim so I can play low and to darken the tone, a shallow cup so I can also play high, and the greatly increased mass of the Megatone darkens the tone even further.
We're trying to find a local shop that stocks the Holton MF Horn with matching mouthpiece (basically, Maynard Ferguson's equipment) so she can try it out and perhaps get it as a second horn for jazz and marching band. Currently she uses my Yamaha (but an acrylic version of her mouthpiece) for marching band because its smaller bore helps since she has to play so high for so long in marching band. And, I strongly suspect, she's far less worried about damage to my very old Yamaha compared to her still new-condition Strad.
I think I might've mentioned earlier that her performance at this year's spring concert was quite impressive. I couldn't see her well during the performance (I was VERY busy at the piano), but couldn't believe what I was seeing on tape. Very relaxed, moving around, even getting drinks of water during her breaks. The only standing ovation of the evening. One of those terribly busy songs where even non-musicians could be impressed. ("Gawrsh, she's playing an awful lot of notes.") Played a piece that's typically the domain of college upper classmen.
HEY BOB!
Watch what you're saying about Country Music!
LOL!
Just picked up my first American Precision bass.
Stole it.
It was already discounted ridiculously, but I was also able to use a 25% off coupon, resulting in my paying $400 for it new. The store clerks were in cahoots with me since I've bought a number of guitars (including my Geddy Lee Jazz bass) and my daughter's Stradivarius trumpet there, as well as lots of gear. They put it in back for me a couple weeks ago and told me about the upcoming 25% off sale, so I showed up Wednesday during my daughter's trumpet lesson and picked 'er up. The manager was quite upset. Said the store was taking a huge beating on it.
Serves them right for ordering such an ugly one. I'm sure that's why it was discounted to being with. Probably sat there a long time with nobody willing to buy it. And it had a bit of fret buzz, but that went away as soon as I tuned it and did very minor adjustment to it.
The color is called "Daphne Blue". I'm sure it's probably quite rare because it's a distinctively non-masculine and non-bass color.
My wife asked me how I liked it when I tried it out the other night for a couple of hours and I told her that as long as I don't look at it, it's really a very good instrument. Told her that playing it is kinda like what the Harley guys say about riding a Honda, which I won't repeat here as it's distinctively off-color. The punchline being "Feels pretty good until one of your friends sees you."
The Geddy Lee bass is a Korean-made instrument, which is considered inferior to the American-made ones, but superior to the others. (Mexican? Chinese?). I'm very hard-pressed to find any differences in quality, though. Both instruments play well. The only differences are that the Jazz, being a much heavier instrument, has a deeper sound, absolutely sick sustain compared to any other bass I have, and is less prone to feedback, the P-bass feels like the neck is more "friendly" on the lower frets (likely a bit narrower), but the same on the higher frets, and I do prefer the pickups on the jazz, mostly because the lower pickup is a great thumb rest when hitting the strings where I prefer to hit them (very low to get a lot of punch and get rid of some of the fatness).
Overall, I do prefer the sound of the Jazz and especially like how handy the lower pickup is for a thumb rest. However, it's *heavy* and I can't figure out how a little guy like Geddy Lee can heft one of those for hours nightly. I'm sure a better strap would help. I can play the Precision a lot longer just because it's lighter, although I'm slightly more clumsy with it because of the pickup positioning.
I think this brings my total of basses up to about 9.
When my wife mentioned I could probably double my money on it on eBay (I like it enough I'm not parting with it), I did mention to her that if I do kick the bucket, PLEASE sell my musical instruments and most other stuff on eBay first. I can't stand to think of someone from Boogerville buying my beloved GL Jazz for $50 and using it to play <shudder> country music on his front porch.
Raise the flag, raise the flag....for a little more Poncho's mexican buffet...
LG
jackson browne...shaky town
running on empty
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turin brakes...Underdog (Save Me)
The Optimist
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robin trowler...Bridge Of Sighs
(same)
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