Well, on the subject of Beatles tribute stuff, Robben has appeared on a tribute CD ("Come together Vol 2). It is a great instrumental version of a lesser known track "Golden Slumbers", and legend has it, the great Alfonso Hermida (maker of the Zendrive) modelled his "Mosfetura" pedal tone on this track!
Joined: 08 Aug 2003 Posts: 943 Location: Terra Firma, Ether Sea
Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 10:24 am Post subject:
I've finally had a chance to listen to the Beatles "Love" CD and enjoyed it.
I AM a Beatles fan (though, in the very beginning of the "British invasion", I was more of a Dave Clark Five fan during the DC5/Beatles fanwars days) and have major respect, understanding, and admiration for what the Beatles were and did.
Although I am very hesitant and apprehensive about anyone touching the original Beatle catalogue, as performed and recorded by the Beatles/George Martin, I totally support the sentiments behind all the myriads of covers, tributes, and interpretations thru the years. One may not particularly enjoy a Beatles tune, but one certainly has to respect their place in music history to want badly enough to make either mock or honor or humor of them. (When I test the pianos and organs at soundchecks with my renditions of "Martha My Dear" or "Lady Madonna", I often get comments about "circus music"... LOL!)
For me, a case in point would be Bob Dylan. I never could, from the beginning, get into Bob Dylan doing Bob Dylan.
However, I respect the 'genius' of his songwriting thru all the wonderfully fantastic variations of covers and interpretations of his songs by other artists thru the years.
As for this Beatles "Love" CD... it struck me as if someone had asked George Martin, in his closing years, to "sum up" how he saw the whole Beatle experience. And who in the entire world could be more apropos for summing up the Beatles than George Martin, since NO ONE was ever closer to the totality of creation of Beatles music than he.
My understanding is that everything on this disc is taken from the original tapes, with the exception of some new orchestration that George wrote for the "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" segment (...a perfectly respectable exception in that it was he who scored the majority, if not all, of the original Beatles orchestration whenever orchestration was needed) and, as George notes in the enclosed booklet, he had been asked to create "a soundscape... using any sound I needed from the original Beatles multitrack recordings".
This is not the original Beatles being the Beatles.
This is a Beatle (for I DO consider Mr. Martin as much a full member of the band as any of the other four performers) giving a PERSONAL interpretation of the entire Beatles experience thru a sonic collage of the original music... almost a respectful requiem, you might say.
It took him over 2 years, along with the approval and help of Paul & Ringo, to put this project together and, considering he himself has said this is most probably his last involvement in a Beatles project in his lifetime... I think it is a fitting, proper, honest, revealing, and loving farewell from him.
NO ONE has more of a right to create such a personal work/ tribute/ artpeice/ statement of this nature, than Mr Martin.
And my ear... is open to anything HE has to say on the subject.
I salute you, Sir George Martin.
My deepest respect and appreciation for all that you contributed to the enjoyment and direction of my life thru the vehicle of the Beatles and their music. _________________ B C-ing U!
( }:-Daved
"This boy's diseased with rhythm!" -Bing Crosby (Road To Rio, '49)
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Joined: 29 Jan 2004 Posts: 1504 Location: Methuen, MA
Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:05 am Post subject:
On my way to NY and back yesterday, a 430 miles jaunt round-trip, I listened to:
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon. My Japanese import from the 80s, which sounds better than any of my other newer, remastered, and/or anniversary editions...
The Police- Every Breath You Take:The Classics CD. Always nice to revisit (most of) the best Police tunes...
Genesis- Invisible Touch. Long time buried in my cd collection. Forgot how much I liked this cd years ago. Great selection for the ride. Will get some more plays before getting buried again...
And, the cd I enjoyed the most during the trip, in fact, got played twice in its entirety:
The Beatles- Love. After reading Daved's most excellent review of this album, and after listening attentively at an enjoyably loud volume, I've finally come to realize and understand George Martin's brilliance. The man is a sound genius. The inter and overlaps had me guessing, sort of like a good game show, what song's excerp, and oftentimes, songs' excerps, I was hearing. It was so masterfully done that I probably will never be able to figure it all out. Which is why this album will remain "fresh" to me for a long time. It also makes me want to listen to all my Beatles albums again, something I haven't done in a while. Last comment- I particulary like the Ed Sullivan intro to The Beatles first ever appearance on his show, to the song I Want To Hold Your Hand with the screaming girls. Those few seconds of excitement gave me chills as I recalled my excitement that very moment as a 7 year old kid watching on the family 25" B&W console (huh, what's that?) and soon to be transformed into a huge, lifelong music fan...
And, that's the way it was, yesterday, December 17th, 2006...
Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 908 Location: Tampa Bay, FL
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:14 am Post subject:
Ringing in the new year with somethings old and somethings new...
Volker Strifler Band ~ The Dance Goes On (This is a great disc !)
Anne McCue ~ Koala Motel
Tommy Emmanuel CGP ~ LiveOne
The Michael Landau Group ~ Live
Jack Casady ~ Dream Factor
Pink Anderson ~ Carolina Blues Man, Vol. 1 _________________ Travelling by train of thought
Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 7 Location: Portland, Oregon
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 10:20 am Post subject: Diversity
Jing Chi - Live at Yoshi's
Larry Carlton - Firewire
Lee Ritenour - Smone 'n' Mirrors
Pat Metheny - The Way Up
Mark Knopfler - Ragpicker's Dream
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Greatest Hits of the 20th Century
All great albums, hard to pick a favorite. However, if there is anybody out there on this forum that has not heard any Bela Fleck, I highly recommend his music, and 20th Century is a good place to start.
Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 908 Location: Tampa Bay, FL
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 1:03 pm Post subject: Bela Fleck
gdolim wrote:
However, if there is anybody out there on this forum that has not heard any Bela Fleck, I highly recommend his music, and 20th Century is a good place to start.
I saw Bela Fleck last March at House of Blues/Orlando. I've seen a lot of great shows there, but that was a strange show... the band played lots of Disney theme music. It was weird.
I've been listening to Eric Johnson's Bloom (and watching his Austin City Limits DVD) in anticipation of his show this weekend !!!!! _________________ Travelling by train of thought
Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 646 Location: City of Trees, USA
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:04 pm Post subject:
I'm having too much fun with the iPod Nano my wife gave me for Christmas. Lots of bytes are loaded with John Lee Hooker. Additional space is presently occupied by Thomas Mapfumo (from Zimbabwe, now lives in Oregon), Samite (from Uganda, now lives in Ithaca NY) and Gigi (from Ethiopia, now lives in NYC).
Add to that podcasts: New York Times Book Review and "Grammar Girl." I
It's a wonder I ever get out of my car. _________________ - BlueRunner
Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 646 Location: City of Trees, USA
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:10 pm Post subject:
Wow. Definitely killed this thread with my mention of podcasts. So to atone:
Now in my iPod: All thre volumes of the incredible 1966 Vanguard Records set, "Chicago / The Blues / Today!" I have the original vinyl, given to me by my foward-thinking parents as a birthday gift back when I was in high school, the year Vanguard issued the records. Some years ago I had a turntable, a program and a modem with which I managed to get Vols. 1 and 2 on to CD, scratches and all. Never did Vol. 3, though, and the turntable is now history, so had to buy those cuts from iTunes. Now have it all. Perhaps Junior Wells is the most powerful of the artists, but with this past year's loss of Homesick James, I'm getting reacquainted with his contributions to the set. _________________ - BlueRunner
Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 69 Location: San Jose, CA
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:51 am Post subject: Love my iPod!
My iPod is the gift that keeps on giving. It's a three or four year old 15GB model and I still have 2GB left to fill it up. It's only 2700 songs. Lots of Robben Ford, Sons Of Champlin, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Mike Bloomfield, Bob Dylan, Beatles, The Band, Steely Dan, Grateful Dead, Miles Davis, John Hiatt, Stevie Ray Vaughan and many others. I listen to it every day, on my way to and from work and during my lunchtime walks.
Over the weekend I uploaded Marcus Miller's Silver Rain. What a player he is. Also I selected some tracks from Jeff Beck's Beckology (Cause We've Ended As Lovers!) and tonight I will add Taj Mahal's Giant Step. Jesse Edwin Davis (RIP) was another huge influence on my playing.
Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 401 Location: College Station, TX
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:06 pm Post subject:
Blue - I have that Vanguard LP. Great blues series. It exposed me to a lot of artists I would never have heard of when I was starting out playing. The musical sample concept does not seem to be as prevalent as it was way back when - remember the LP sleeves from the Warner Bros records (all my old Little Feat albums) - they had a series of sampler records you could send off for with 10-12 songs by different artists like Bonnie Raitt, Randy Newman, Tower of Power - all the great Warner artists from the early 70s. Great way to hear new artists. Damn I feel old. The magazine Relix has been including sampler CDs for some time now. I am grossly generalizing here but most of the cuts are unlistenable. Just mediocre jam band crap (although I did get turned on to Michael Franti and Spearhead which are damn good). But at least the magazine is spreading music around.
Pat - Taj and Jesse Ed - what a great team. Wore out a copy of Giant Steps, too, back in the day. Good stuff you guys!
Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 646 Location: City of Trees, USA
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 2:04 pm Post subject:
Loading a lot of Keb' Mo' and Eric Bibb into the iPod these days to keep a smile on my face while I'm driving around. Also the stuff from the reissue CD I found with Robben's live recordings from 1971. But also, just to keep my old car happy with some old tunes, I paid 99 cents and am heavily rotating: "Kiss Me," by Sixpence None the Richer, and "Soak Up the Sun," by that nice lady who used to date Lance Armstrong. _________________ - BlueRunner
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I'm having too much fun with the iPod Nano my wife gave me for Christmas. Lots of bytes are loaded with John Lee Hooker. Additional space is presently occupied by Thomas Mapfumo (from Zimbabwe, now lives in Oregon), Samite (from Uganda, now lives in Ithaca NY) and Gigi (from Ethiopia, now lives in NYC).
It's a three or four year old 15GB model and I still have 2GB left to fill it up. It's only 2700 songs. Lots of Robben Ford, Sons Of Champlin, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Mike Bloomfield, Bob Dylan, Beatles, The Band, Steely Dan, Grateful Dead, Miles Davis, John Hiatt, Stevie Ray Vaughan and many others. I listen to it every day, on my way to and from work and during my lunchtime walks.