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either or together.

I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago in another thread. How many Neil Young threads do we need?

Goldtop, P90s!!!! I've never seen Zappa with one...

How much money do you have to spend? Not that I NEED another guitar right now. Although I am "GAS-ing" a bit for one of these at the moment. Paul Reed Smith SE Custom Semi-Hollow - $599 Interesting, I'd like to try one. I have a GP review floating around here, I should scan it and post it.

Hey Chuck, Happy Birthday. .

May 20, 2008 Music Review The Clarinet, Speaking in Many Voices and Accents By BERNARD HOLLAND When composers look for important voices among the family of wind instruments, they come away, more often than not, with a clarinet. It has many colors. Its acoustical presence makes it a good public speaker. It can sing simply or be complicated on demand. But there is something else: an ambiguous quality, a hint of delicious sourness that says to the listener, “You think I’m playing flat, but I’m not.” Bartok’s “Contrasts,” as played at an evening called “Mitsuko Uchida and Friends” at Zankel Hall on Saturday, has the appearance of a European composer’s catering to the ambitions of an American jazz musician. And this three-movement trio for clarinet, violin and piano would indeed not have happened if Benny Goodman had not been restless to expand his immense talents beyond jazz. But “Contrasts” is more Bartok’s using Goodman than the other way around. Goodman is given his virtuoso turns on the clarinet but is otherwise taken through a busy survey of Hungarian folk music. The first movement bounces with the inverted dotted rhythms that give Hungarian music its singular identity. The finale dances wildly. Those who discover jazz in Bartok’s more seductive syncopations may be imagining things. I hear more Central Europe than 52nd Street. The pianist Llyr Williams began the evening with “La Lugubre Gondola,” whose morose vision, quiet voice and indifference to accepted rules of harmony show how far Liszt in old age had come from the florid paraphrases and rhapsodies of the past. Wagner is about to die, and Liszt has imagined his funeral procession by gondola in Venice. Liszt, the most public of all composers, turns intensely private. The impression is of an improvisation. Why he wrote it down at all is a question, but be glad that he did. Ms. Uchida’s other “friends” on Saturday — recipients of grants from the Borletti-Buitoni Trust in a program conceived by Ms. Uchida — were a kind of United Nations of splendid talent: a Swedish clarinetist (Martin Frost), a Welsh pianist (Mr. Williams), an American violinist (Soovin Kim) and a Swiss cellist (Christian Poltéra). With Ms. Uchida now as pianist, the rest of the evening was Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time.” I have run out of adjectives and images to describe this great piece. It is in good part a series of soliloquies: for clarinet (bright and raucous), cello (soulful) and violin (more soulful). Messiaen is, as ever, the busy ornithologist, and his feathered friends chirp from every branch. In Messiaen’s unorthodox church, it is the birds who preach to St. Francis.

This sounds freakishly familiar...did I ever do anything like this?

Doesn't look like the video had too much to do with the music. I dig the bouncy chicks. Like crazy man. .

IHM had a crash and lost their archive of posts for a few weeks until today. They're still getting it together. Interesting place, but I really have to use the search engine to make it that way. :rsmile:

I'd love to know too. It sounded like someone had their hand up her dress.

There's some good news... How much money do you have to spend?

Metheny did a solo album with a baritone guitar... I know someone who wanted to have a 31tet baritone guitar built - well, at least a neck made. He probably didn't get around to it.

my answer to the musical question: yes.

Think of this way: She wasn't supposed to say that on the air and she apologized. What the fuck? Sheesh.

I'm pointing. .

Debussy and Schoenberg

nothin' but good times, I tell ya.

It works for me. It can work for him.

Somehow missed all of the drama at the time.....what was the avatar?

Please come back Chris!

now there's someone who started his own style of Jazz.

rest in peace Walt.

got it!

When I first started buying records I was really into Machine Head & Who Do We Think We Are?, but soon got tired of them. A few years later the drummer I was playing with was a Blackmore fanatic, so I became one too. I heard the mid-'80's reunion tour a few times, the band with Joe Lynn Turner (blah!) and got to hear the latest version with Airey a few years ago. I give the albums a nostalgic listen every once in a while. I still have to give the Steve Morse studio albums a good listen, don't know 'em too well. I think Ian Gillan is one of the great rock singers, he's amazing.

In my experience, it's not unusual for interns and admin people not to know anything about arts history.