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  2. Keepin' it greazy!!!

    in Recommendations

    Posted

    Y'all need to get hip to the Atlantic dates that McDuff did! Those sides are NASTY!

    I'm talking Double-Barrelled Soul with Fathead Newman.

    I'm talking Tobacco Road!

    I'm talking about... JESUS, look at McDuff's pants on the cover of Tobacco Road!!!!

    :blink:

    :bwallace:

  4. Jimmy Smith sick

    in Artists

    Posted

    I hope Jimmy gets better. He's had a rough go. He's truly a genius and one of the most influencial keyboardist of our time. Is there anyone who plays Hammond that didn't steal something from him? Not likely.

    I'm glad I got to see him at least once. Even if he was crotchety! :) God bless Jimmy Smith.

  5. Don Patterson

    in Artists & Recordings

    Posted

    The "cheating" thing can be taken many ways. I'm not sure what Lou was talking about, but when most organists who play pedals talk of cheating they are referring to cats who just stomp one pedal (usually the Bb) at the front of every note in a walkin' bass line.

    The Jimmy Smith way is to actually shadow the bass line that you are playing in your left hand with your left foot. You tap the pedal just slightly ahead of the key you're hitting with your left hand and that adds an attack to the front of the note and simulates an acoustic bass. It helps the bass lines cut through more, since the Hammond bass doesn't have many overtones and can get very muddy in some situations.

    You can achieve the same effect by "cheating" and just tapping one pedal... to an extent. If you're shadowing the left hand it's easier to lay into the pedals more for those nice accents.

    Larry Goldings is a fine organist. I like all his records and I really like his basslines on that Brecker record. He's playing some very very different bass lines than other organists. I've seen video footage of him using the "one pedal tap" method. And then I've seen him not use the pedals at all except for various accents. I don't mind that. He's admitted he's not much of a pedal player. Although he seems to be using them more and more on his records.

    I think it's a shame that the Soulive organist doesn't use them, as they can really help a funk bass line. I think he's even gone so far as to abandon the Hammond bass and play some sort of synth module. Whatever floats your boat. His left hand is amazing. If he got together with Chester Thompson and learned the bass pedals, he'd be an absolute monster.

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but to my ears it doesn't sound like Larry Young used pedals that much. It sounds to me like he used mainly just the left hand.

  6. Soulive

    in New Releases

    Posted

    Re: Singers.

    I have a beef with instrumental groups adding singers on one or two tracks. This trend just irks me. If I buy an Ed Cherry record with Dr. Lonnie Smith on it, I want to hear Ed Cherry and Dr. Lonnie Smith. I don't want to hear some boring singer chew her way through some lazy standard.

    Same goes with Soulive. It's instrumental improvisational music, right? What do you need a singer for?

    Of course, I just have a general beef with all modern singers, with very few exceptions. Cassandra Wilson is the biggest exception. But in general, I find "jazz" singers boring. I find pop singers even more boring with very very very few exceptions.

  10. John Patton Mosaic Select: What's in, What's Out?

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

    Posted

    If you ask me, this whole Select series is a crackhead move. How many records did Patton release under his own name? About 10 or 11? These could easily fit on a "Complete Blue Note Recordings of John Patton" boxset with about 6 discs. Maybe 7. And the set would then cost a little over a hundred bucks, right? What's wrong with that?

    Instead we get a Select series with, as Soul Stream pointed out, a bunch of stuff that is already available and has been available for YEARS instead of the recordings that have never been on CD in the US. Doesn't make any sense to me.

  12. Conversations with Jim Anderson

    in Audio Talk

    Posted

    Cool! You can see how hip I am to the real high-end stuff. Man, $4k for an eight channel Millenia mic pre. That would be nice! :)

    One of my dreams is to make a digital 24/96 portable computer based recording system. I don't want to use a laptop (not expandable enough). Rather, I'd like to build a rack-mountable PC (yeah yeah I know... PC... but Macs are a little out of my price range. I can build a really fast PC for about $400 plus stick it in a 3 space rack), stick Cubase SX on it and get one of those new MOTU 24 I/O (24 ins and outs in one rack space via firewire). I have my Presonus, so I'd need two more 8 channel mic pres. Like you said, Jim, it would be nice to get two different brands for color. I've always wanted a Precision 8 and a Millenia would be nice, but it's a tad out of my price range! :)

    What are some other good 4 or 8 channel mic pre's for under $2k?

  15. B3Bombers - Live at the Green Mill?

    in New Releases

    Posted

    I heard a track off this last night on WCMU on my three hour drive home. I agree with Soulstream. El stinko!

    I wanted to kill the guitarist. Can't play changes, plays pseudo-blues licks over everything drenched in effects and distortion. Boo!

    The organist sounded competent, but I will save judgement for when I hear him in a better setting, since someone said he's a good organist. His Leslie sounded like poo poo! :)

    Anyway, I won't be spending my money on that thing. I wish I had WCMU's number last night. I wanted to call the guy and say, "Stop playing that CD and play Organissimo! They're BAD! :)"

    :g

    Soulstream, I'll make a thumbsdown for ya!

  18. Lowest paying gig ...

    in Musician's Forum

    Posted

    My R&B band just got done playing a casino three and a half hours away from where I live. You gotta love casinos with all the slot machines singing a C triad over everything. Makes for some real interesting harmonies! :)

    The thing that sucks is our manager booked us three nights instead of the usual two. So we're thinking, "Cool! More money!" Yes more money overall but she accepted LESS money per night. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

    Oh well... she's just trying to get us more work.

  21. I was sad... but now I'm mad

    in Forums Discussion

    Posted

    I didn't see the New Yorker article, but they have had lots of coverage over here. Hm, "My pussy hurts". I'm trying to think of ways of dropping that into future conversation but so far I'm coming up with nothing...

    In my R&B band, the phrase "My pussy hurts" is said in imitation of the guy in the band that doesn't want to play a particular song because he hasn't practiced his part and/or his voice is not up to par or he's tired or ... you get the idea.

    For example......

    Me: "Let's play that Funk, Inc. tune."

    Guitarist: "Aw man, I don't want to play that tune. It's too early in the night."

    Me: "Awww, my pussy hurts!!"

    :rhappy:

  22. Neighbors

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    My wife and I live in a relatively quiet neighborhood and I hardly see my neighbors. The one on the south side of our house is a very nice middle-aged woman who was living with her elderly mother. The mother recently passed. But Jackie is still there with a new boyfriend.

    Our neighbors on the north side though. Holy moly. They seem like nice people, but I cannot understand where they are coming from.

    Number 1: The house looks like total shit. Every other house in the neighborhood is very well kept. This place looks like a crack house. They finally put actual stairs leading to the porch instead of cinder blocks.

    Number 2: They have three or four couples living in the house, each with 1 or 2 kids. And they did have 3 dogs (HUGE dogs I might add) and they just got another puppy. All in one house.

    Number 3: Their backyard when we moved in was a gigantic pile of trash. They finally cleaned that up after numerous calls to various officials. Now it's just dirt. When it rains, mud. Luckily it's winter so it's covered with snow now.

    Number 4: All the adults that live in the house drive MONSTEROUS SUVs. Brand new. I don't get it. The house looks like shit, yet they are all driving $30,000 vehicles. Except one. She drives an older Mustang all suped up. And she revs the very loud engine at 6:30am before going to work. And squeals away... every morning.

    Number 5: Since they all drive huge vehicles, they are constantly parking on their lawn. Which just looks ugly.

    I'm trying not to sound like a snob, but the little neighborhood we live in has been around since the 1920s and has some really nice houses in it and everyone takes pride in keeping their houses nice except for these people. You can't say it's money because they all drive really nice trucks or a Mustang. It's just laziness. They have four dogs and I never, ever see them walking any of them. They just sit around in the postage stamp backyard all day. And these dogs, like their trucks, are HUGE!

    Blows my mind....

  24. Conversations with Jim Anderson

    in Audio Talk

    Posted

    larsrec,

    That's very cool that David Baker likes the Presonus. I respect his work very much and I've always liked my Presonus. Although like I said, I think they changed the transformers and thus the sound.

    The Precision 8 is an amazing unit. That will be my next 8-channel pre.

    I've not heard of the John Hardy units. Where can I find them?

  25. Lowest paying gig ...

    in Musician's Forum

    Posted

    Damn Soul Stream... that's some crazy shit!

    Joe and I just did a gig tonight involving stairs and the B3.

    My back is aching.

    Plus the buildling we were playing in is 140 years old (no shit) and the power in it is atrocious. The organ was humming like mad. And for some reason my Leslie went poopoo. No switching from fast to slow. It just stayed on fast. So I had to unplug the motors and play like that all night.

    Bummer.

    But we did make $100 a piece.

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