We can agree to disagree, then. But, innovation is a key concept here. The Moodies lacked a sense of adventure that is critical to me. I will always associate them with "old people's music". ...
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We can agree to disagree, then. But, innovation is a key concept here. The Moodies lacked a sense of adventure that is critical to me. I will always associate them with "old people's music". ...
My point wasn't whether or not someone likes a band because of influence. It was more that it's just another thing for music fans to argue about. In other words, it only matters to us, which really...
I'm always absolutely amazed at how much importance fans place on things like influence. Whether a band I like is influential or not has no effect on my tastes, and generally speaking, influence...
International Phonograph, by far, puts out the best mini-LP replicas in the industry, with the thickest cardboard stock:
http://internationalphonographinc.com/cd_reissues.html
One fine example...
Absolutely. A lot of companies have either moved there or set up their back office operations there. Be careful about Delaware. I've heard people complain that it is an extremely greedy state as...
North Carolina seems to be a place with a lower COL that many NYers move to also.
Look up Greenwich. LOL
Because any circumstance which conspires against the Yankees being close to a quality team is good. I always laugh at how exactly like LA Lakers fans Yankees fans are. If they win, it's the natural...
Better guitarist, better album. Of course, you still have to contend with the moronic scientologically infused album title:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/hymn-of-the-seventh-galaxy-mw0000263493
By comparison, it's a tiny list. I've been studying jazz (and believe me, following it can be considered a second career compared to following rock) for over a quarter of a century, and I'm well...
First of all, if you knew anything about statistics, you'd understand that since your small sample of local jazz musicians contains bias, it can't possibly represent the attitude of jazz musicians...
It sounds like you're doubting what has been true for years - that jazz does not provide nearly as many opportunities for making a comfortable living as rock does. This is not "cookie-cutter"...
Nobody's cited any jazz musicians who respect Steely Dan by name. It's my contention that, as poorly paid as jazz musicians are, they are likely to accept any gig which pays. It's a fact of life. ...
But you say you can stop anytime. Prove it. My reality is that Steely Dan ain't all that. Is it skewed because you disagree? Stop being a tool.
Not my sentence structure. But I am educated, and have a brain. While the childish "musician" diagnoses me from afar (while using incorrect and idiotic terminology, I might add), I am merely...
If you're gonna quote me, einstein, at least get it right.
Did you get your MD since you last polluted this thread?
Welcome to the gang bang. Don't tell me you love the Dan too.
Bull. You know you love me now. I can feel your eye burn through me.
Oh, my sweet little Deacon Blue Alabammy mammy, resorting to that low level brain activity becomes you.
I notice that your biggest contribution to this board is that of being a sideline commentator on the behavior of others. Yet, you're ignoring the behavior of your crony, the Kompost-ed one, as well...
Once a coward, twice a coward.
roflmao. What a maroon.
That's the way that uneducated dummies think they work. It's the way of cowards, which is the way uneducated dummies are prone to act. Thanks for feeding my need for attention.
You insulted me without doing it to my face. So you referenced me in 2 prior posts, asswipe. That's cowardly, and covers about 3 personality disorders. When you get your M.D., then we can talk...
But you just gave me attention twice. I have news for you - you're exactly as you describe me to be. LOL. You are seriously damaged. Grow up. A gift? We're about the same age, and you'd need...
Boy, you guys suffer no dissenters, do you? LOL Incorrect assumptions? No way. Difference of opinion.
If the thread were titled something like "Show your love for SD", I could see your point...
I heard "some standards" is NOT "still relies heavily on standards". The NYC jazz scene has changed dramatically in the last 40 years.
I don't know about no interwebz, but in real life, what we'd say is "It would take one to know one".
The Beatles are the fathers of rock and roll? roflmao. This is exactly the problem with claiming Steely Dan to be jazz. If I want jazz, why would I listen to them when I can listen to the real...
Offended? LOL
When you've polled (or poled) all jazzers and jazz lovers, let me know. And why exactly does the fact that many here love them matter to me? If it did, I would've been listening...
I would say that the claim that the GAS IS still highly used is absurd. Maybe our perspectives are different. New York has a much more vital jazz scene than CA. And besides, "a few standards" is...
Thanks for the lesson. The fact that Steely Dan is not jazz was never my point.
I can imagine anything and everything..........thankfully. That's precisely why I gravitate towards adventure in music. Btw, Shorter is my fave saxophonist ;)
Point? Chicago had horns. So did Blood, Sweat and Tears. Were they jazz/not jazz too? Weren't Steely Dan just doing what they did? As a matter of fact, the great Joe Henderson was a member of...
You keep insisting that I was someone else here. Think what you want. I don't play that game. There's no point in it. You see my join date. I posted, then I stopped and then I came back. Simple...
Disagreeing is NOT trolling. I'm not here to butter your biscuits or to make friends with you. If I annoy you, ignore me. It's pretty shitty to talk about people while they can read what you're...
I don't know who Bert, Ernie or Kim Jong-un are, but I'll take your word for it. Since they seem to be musicians, I'm sure they know everything and have analytical skills superior to us...
He's been known as a major prick for decades.
Still peeved about my truthing on the Jerseyian in your avatard?
Surprised she still liked rock stars after Browne used to beat the crap outta her.
Now, Steve. Are you REALLY displaying your Sunday best "virtual people skills" here. Taking digs at me without doing it directly. Is that really the example that one should want to set for good...
Fact? You're off your rocker. Obviously, you have no real knowledge of who the top contemporary jazzers were in the 70s or 80s were. I'll give you Shorter, but he played one solo on one song on...
Didn't figure you for a cultie. Unless being made to watch Rosemary's Baby over and over again for your allowance has turned you into a Satanist?
Wasn't too difficult to "get" that once you posted this:
the thing that no one seems to be observing is that these kind of movies have been increasing in number over the past 5 decades...
as are...
Of course not. But that doesn't mean that movies are to blame. What? Are we in the bible belt all of a sudden???????
What has been "foretold"? LOL. You guys are hypothesizing a direct connection between violence in movies and violence in real life without having any way to prove that one exists. Come down off...
Silly me! How could I forget those? Lucky for you that you didn't ;)
Btw, the CSN comeback album of the 80s (Daylight Again) had a far better single than "Dark Star" from the one in the 70s :
...
Personally, I think you should be made to watch Rosemary's Baby over and over again...............or perhaps The Boys from Brazil, or even Death Trap.
Let him answer for his own childishness. I suppose Johnny Quest will be back once Springstone becomes a credible PROG artist.
You know what I meant. The GAS is no longer a main jumping off point for improv in the jazz world. You happened to see one artist who uses it almost exclusively. For that one, there are 100 who...
This common internet meme makes you laugh?
:lol
Not here.
I've got news for you - the Great American Songbook hasn't been highly used in practice in jazz for at least 4 decades. And having heard "a bunch of" those artists does not make one a jazz artist,...
Define the word "troll" appropriately. One who has an opinion which doesn't match up to the 5 people here touting Steely Dan as the second coming (very strange for a prog board, btw) is not one. ...
My point (which you seem to have a difficult time understanding) is that the price of a concert ticket is exactly where it's supposed to be (unless you are the severely lazy and overrated Rolling...
Yesstiles' argument is even more incorrecto for the reasons I already pointed out. If the cost of writing, recording, etc. hadn't gone down, a concert ticket would NOT be 3x higher than any artist's...
I think I already did.
Absolutely. The cost of a concert ticket has not increased merely by cost-of-living, and the average salary increase often does not even keep up with COL. With all due respect to union-protected...
It has a bearing on his ratios - which is the point of what I said. The cost of recording is cheaper and the cost of labor in the blue collar world to put concerts on NEVER gets cheaper.