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What are you listening to...

Discussion in 'Tilted Art, Photography, Music & Literature' started by Tully Mars, Aug 23, 2011.

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  1. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

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    Chris Noyb, Mar 28, 2025
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  2. DamnitAll

    DamnitAll Wait... what? Donor

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    My space heater. My office is fucking freezing.
     
    DamnitAll, Mar 28, 2025
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  3. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    I worked in an office in a high rise building where the electricity in the space was inadequate/faulty. Several women in the office had small space heaters under their desk, which caused their computers to glitch. Not a good thing if you forget to save your data, or you're between autosaves.

    Edit: This was the mid 1990s, computer software wasn't as programmed as smart as it is now.
     
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    Chris Noyb, Mar 28, 2025
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  4. redravin

    redravin Cynical Optimist Donor

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    This is almost better than the studio version.

     
    redravin, Mar 31, 2025
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  5. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

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    How many effects pedals does a bass player need? I'm thinking both boards, bass & guitar, are more prop than functional. BWTFDIK?
     
    Chris Noyb, Mar 31, 2025
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  6. redravin

    redravin Cynical Optimist Donor

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    This song doesn't show it as much but Georgia South uses it a lot on other songs.
    Between the two of them they can do sound work that is really unique.
    They keep what pedals they have on their boards close to their chests.
     
    redravin, Mar 31, 2025
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  7. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    I can see musicians who use pre-recorded music in their performances needing "controls," of course with the number depending on how much they need & how it's used.

    On that thought I remember the "cheating" outcry when bands started openly incorporating pre-recorded music in their concerts. Does every part of a song have to be played live for it to be a real live concert? I'm guessing now it's so common nobody questions it.
     
    Chris Noyb, Mar 31, 2025
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  8. redravin

    redravin Cynical Optimist Donor

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    The people who have watched them live, say what I did, their live shows are even better than anything taped.
    From what I understand from their interviews they use the pedals to make sounds that guitars just aren't supposed to make
    so it seems like there is a much bigger band.
    It was how they were able to get gigs in the early days when stripped down bands like theirs weren't considered bookable.
     
    redravin, Mar 31, 2025
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  9. redravin

    redravin Cynical Optimist Donor

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    redravin, Mar 31, 2025
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  10. martian

    martian Server Monkey Staff Member

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    You can do a lot with a tape loop. Modern ones don't use any actual tape.

    Most pop acts use some kind of recorded backing track, which is fine because usually the focus is singing and maybe choreography depending on the act in question.

    It's a not-very-secret secret that many "live" acts for TV require performers to use a pre-recorded track. Less chance of something going wrong that way.
     
    martian, Apr 2, 2025
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  11. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    Chris Noyb, Apr 2, 2025
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  12. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    Last edited: Apr 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
    Chris Noyb, Apr 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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  13. martian

    martian Server Monkey Staff Member

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    Giant Steps


    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwIC6B_dvW4


    Everyone focuses on Coltrane and maybe Tommy Flanagan on the piano when listening to this track. And that's understandable. But I would like to call your attention to bassist Paul Chambers here (who by the by was quite possibly the greatest jazz bassist to have ever lived.)

    So for those not in the know this song is the origination of a series of chords known as the Coltrane changes. I won't get into exactly what's so interesting about; there are videos and articles and probably entire books out there if you really want to know. But the main thing to know is that it's very very fast and requires the musician to be constantly thinking on their feet. Contemporary musicians can spend months or years studying and developing their technique around here but these guys did not have that luxury. Notice how stilted Flanagan's solo is. Notice all the gaps. Notice how, within those gaps, you can actually faintly hear the gears in his brain grinding as he tries desperately to figure out what the fuck is going on.

    The notice Chambers, effortlessly, seamlessly, keeping up with it all. Providing that oh-so-important driver. The technique Chambers is using here is normally called walking, but when done at this speed I think it's actually sprinting.

    Want to feel like you're wasting your life? In 1959 when this was recorded Paul was 23.
     
    martian, Apr 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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