About to leave, but
The great curve, talking heads
Digital, joy division
Holland 1945, neutral milk hotel
Summertime clothes, animal collective
Deeper into movies by yo la tengo
And maybe Heroin by VU if people get out of line.
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I think I heard Adrian Belew
So im drunk and it late. I promise multiplied reveals tomorrow.
Goodniught!
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remember that Hendrix cover a couple days ago - the South American guitarist with his dog? A 12-year-old is capable of reproducing it, but not of originating it imo
that chord voicing and embellishment @ :41 and then the descending passage of play that follows till the idea resolves is singularly Hendrix. Itās so original and thereby foreign to all blues-based rock before or since.
And in a game like guitar, where so much is imitative, thereās no allowance for that in this instance.
I like your style here. Thanks for this. Be proud of that last sentence.
There perhaps can be something more intimate with a singer.
I recently discovered an author, and got choked up hearing him read aloud passages from one of his books before a live audience.
Thanks dude.
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I chucked the second heart on there because the drunk typos made me lol
People are overthinking these questions about Art and are confusing two different things.
Artists seek to create and express ideas/feelings about human experience; technicians (artisans) perform the more mundane act of materialising the formerās work.
Musicians who play other peopleās music fall into the latter category (Iām not being derogatory here as both musician parents would agree with this if they were still around).
People who write music fall into the first category, alongside other artists (writers, painters, film makers etc etc) and tend to have similar sensitivities and sensibilities.
This is why someone like Jimmy Page prefers to be described as a composer/producer, not a musician, and Jimi, although he was a musician par excellence, wrote most of his music and therefore both are bona fide artists.
Contrast that with the 12 year old guitarist playing a note-perfect version of a Jimi song, or an accomplished forger of paintings: technicians, both.
A parallel with writing doesnāt exist, because an author has no need for a technician to materialise his work.
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I donāt totally disagree, but given I think John Coltrane playing My Favourite Things is the greatest thing in music I canāt totally agree either. Just to take Coltrane and jazz then I donāt think you can gloss improvisation as something like instant writing, I think itās rather a kind of performance, and one that clearly points to performance being an artistic activity in and of itself - at least sometimes.
I also love that piece, but a HUGE amount of creation/on the fly composition went into it from Coltrane, marking him as an artist not a technician. Compare that with an orchestra member playing from sheet music according to the conductorās interpretation (the latter along with the composer being artists).
I obviously agree with the work and the effort, I just donāt think the split between writer & performer can capture it all. Another jazz example, I doubt Keith Jarrett would say he artistically takes it easy when heās performing Bach or another composer, as opposed to when heās doing jazz standards with his trio.
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I think it depends on whether the musician is altering the composerās original intention for the piece, which Iād guess would be as true in Jarret;s case (Iām not that familiar with him) as it would also be in the case of covers significantly different to the originals. Examples weāre both familiar with: Jimiās Like A Rolling Stone (live) has musical qualities absent from the original, as does your Melt Banana cover.
Improvisation is not composition. not in this lifetime, not in the next
thatās the result of mastery of oneās instrument, innumerable hours spent doing so, not some super-computer brain solving equations between each note to determine which way forward. And thereby the domain of true musicians. Not someone bestowed with the enigmatic title of āartistā for reasons deserved or imagined.
that whole post is extremely interesting, and thx for this feedback. Was hoping for a treatise from you, as I find the alternative sensibility relative to music interesting. It provides a real glimpse into an almost caste-type thinking you possess wrt the magic of music. Iāll extrapolate more later, after additional reads.
I really really loved your conversation about music and how it can be construed or seen as art or not.
It was very insightful.
Now who wants to hear a bunch of songs about fucking?
And mud/dirt?
And for some reason really distorted instruments?
Lets do this!
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In 15th place, scoring 1 point. Pyantinski - Surfin USA by Melt Banana
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Wait wat?
Wait wait, sorry. Just kneejerked that in there.
In 15th place, scoring 1 point (1,1) Twits - Grease Monkey by Jeff Beck
Just really really really not what I was looking for unfortunately. It didnāt track or make me want to move much at all. I just wanted it to stop.
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