Everything needs more banjo.

Post #377,305 by mmoffitt 7/1/13 5:58:50 PM Reply	Everything needs more banjo.
Post #377,345 by Ashton 7/1/13 9:43:14 PM Reply	I contradict. Because I must. (But I shall spare you my Banjo cacophony is a mind-toxin treatise..)
Post #377,347 by mmoffitt 7/1/13 9:52:27 PM 7/1/13 9:52:39 PM Reply	Oh, come on. I'll bet you like this. I'm an old hillbilly from the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, so this ain't what I think of when I think of banjo music, but I dare you to say you don't appreciate this: http://www.youtube.c...tch?v=4sYgllgF7lc Edited by mmoffitt July 1, 2013, 09:52:39 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #377,350 by drook 7/1/13 11:00:39 PM 7/1/13 11:00:54 PM Reply	Sure, Bela Fleck, the one exception -- Drew Edited by drook July 1, 2013, 11:00:54 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #377,353 by Another Scott 7/1/13 11:11:49 PM Reply	Too many notes. ;-) The mics aren't set up very well here, but the goodness still comes through. http://www.youtube.c...tch?v=AQRadY4dG68 Cheers, Scott.
Post #377,358 by Ashton 7/2/13 2:02:59 AM Reply	Re: Too many notes. Umm, just about exactly the right-amount-of-notes; I mean--y'see he always left room within his constructions --for a one to let his own imagination generate fugues/other variations, as the listener is moved--> (Need look no further than Mr. Gould, whose 'shocking' tempo changes and his utterly perfect executions: ushered in a New Way of applying JS's genius [+ One's Own] and of delighting the audiences. Got to see him Live, in Berkeley, once. Magick. Rest case. Concur however that, Mr Townshend (despite apparent age-related vocal limitations) also neutralizes the stereotypical dismissal of.. (maybe not so much the Instrument as:) How, often .?. the composing for it--sucks.) ;^>
Post #377,410 by mmoffitt 7/2/13 10:25:33 PM Reply	You should check his teacher (and mine) out, too. http://www.youtube.c...tch?v=5i0lFJWaHWg
Post #377,357 by Ashton 7/2/13 1:55:14 AM Reply	You win. Stand corrected: there Can be a thoroughly satisfying JSB rendition; with the rapid octave jumps executed as well as on any stringed/bowed instrument I recall, the overall performance clearly virtuoso-grade. OK, that's one.. but proves your Point. In fact, seeing as how he has mastered several other catchy tunes.. http://www.cdunivers...o.asp?pid=7706763 I'd have ordered the CD, 'cept they're BO'd since ... 5/29? Huh.. ?? The Perpetual Motion product is not much matching its very Title! While Glenn Gould, for me fulfills the very essence of JS's unmatchable legacy, already I prefer Mr. Fleck's renditions to ... any of the various synthesizer versions of some years ago. Thanks for the tip: (and while I have heard Adler/respect the possibilities of the chromatic versions of this device: please.. No harmonicas. 'k?) PS: The Russ composer Reinhold Gliére, IIRC composed a Concerto for Balalaika + O. It too was surprising, I thought.. while rife with the dark lugubriousness of some Russ folk songs / I deemed that.. an acceptable mindset for anyone living within times of Stalin + Other psychotic Overlords :-/ She'll be Comin Round the Mountain never sounded like This.
Post #377,366 by drook 7/2/13 8:38:03 AM 7/2/13 10:34:47 PM Reply	Look for some Flecktones stuff Banjo-lead electronic funk. [edit] Good example here: https://www.youtube....tch?v=8fu2s2H-hlc -- Drew Edited by drook July 2, 2013, 10:34:47 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #377,419 by drook 7/2/13 10:45:18 PM Reply	The start of another time sink http://www.youtube.c...tch?v=qggxi0CNt2s -- Drew
Post #377,486 by Ashton 7/4/13 1:43:50 AM Reply	Know who'd a grokked-to-fullness ... the tabla player? and probably taught self how to Do That? Methinks: Dick Feynman Interesting too, that the high register of the banjo sounds a lot like the balalaika. Anyway, Copland surely would have approved that Hoedown, though possibly left a tad discombobulated.
Post #377,409 by mmoffitt 7/2/13 10:23:58 PM Reply	Glad you enjoyed it. ;0)

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