Sax 4th Avenue
Originally Posted by markwoll
I don't understand how this is supposed to sound different from the original one...
Parker is still alive. You gave me a bit of a fright there with "tribute".
Don't care for pedal steel in prog. Or I should say, I don't particularly care for Steve Howe's pedal steel/lap steel playing. It's okay on Gates Of Delirium but on GFTO and TFTO I don't like it. It doesn't ruin those albums but I just prefer Steve playing guitar and going nowhere near the steel guitar.
Wha'??? No chiptunes (or 8-bit music) in Prog?
I want to dynamite your mind with love tonight.
^ Hilarious!
Oh my, these are the best cover versions for sure! :^)
Love it!
"The world will soon be right again,
Innocence and undying love will reign." - Transatlantic
Brilliant !
That and the pirate hat, of course.
I remember seeing him take a real drum solo at a show quite a while back (around Little Worlds IIRC, so '03 or '04) and wishing he'd do that kind of thing more often. However, I don't have a problem with the synthaxe drumitar either. It's not about whether you use 'fake' sounds, it's how you use them.
I really hate it when someone farts right in the middle of the quiet part of a prog song.
Doesn't happen very often, fortunately.
So, lemme get this straight: it's the sonic aspect that you hate?!
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
Well yes, that is the title of the thread.
Obviously there's no issue if it's in a part of the song with loud guitar and booming bass - it can even be appropriate there - but in the quiet bits - definitely a no-no.
I've got a story for you!
About 15 years or so ago, I was playing with a band at a fundraiser for the AIDS Foundation. It was a fairly large band with a rhythm section and seven horn players. Anyway, a hired actress (her name was Nicolette Sheridan) gives a speech as a prelude to this film they're about to show about children born with AIDS; really depressing stuff... and the band is sitting silently on an adjacent stage while this is going on. She ends the speech by saying, "So let's take a look at this incredible film." In the few seconds between the end of the speech and the start of the film, the tenor sax player rips the loudest, most resonant fart I've ever heard in my life and Nicolette turns and gives the band a dirty look. Then the movie starts. We're all falling off our chairs and turning purple from suppressed laughter while this really sad, somber documentary is showing; feeling guilty, but unable to stop. It's just one of those life stories you never forget! Afterwards, I told the sax player that it was the best solo of the night.
Sorry to derail the thread. Okay, maybe I'm not.
^^ The old trouser trumpet always raises a laugh.
At least with men; not so much with women. If there's a God, he made us so different just to get His laughs up there.
Are you sure it wasn't the trombone player warming up?
Actually, the only banjo on that album is the little solo in "The Unattended Funeral", that's it, maybe 15 or 20 seconds. However, there is a lot of hollow body electric guitar on that album which does sound a bit like a banjo because of the way I played it and because I recorded the acoustic sound of the strings as well as the amp sound. The album with the most banjo is "The Shunned Country". I've used it here and there on subsequent albums but so far Shunned is the most banjo-ey.
Bob
www.bdrak.com
"Conductor" sounds quite a bit like banjo, but listening closely the "banjo" produces a little more tone or sustain than normal.
That track is so awesome (ought to be on the tube
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