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Sebastian Peralta answers … He played all the time. He was known to sleep with his guitar in the army, he played as he walked around his apartment, he would go to late night jams and play until morning, after he already gave a live concert. At his stage of development, he didn’t view time […]
Reverend Keith A. Gordon / ThoughtCo writes: Let be honest here, shall we? Blues-rock fretburners like Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, and Stevie Ray Vaughan typically receive all the love while other talented guitarists are too often forced to wait in line to gather up whatever crumbs of critical acclaim remain. These skilled musicians bring plenty […]
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Alex Johnston, Bass & guitar, BA Hons in music theory, tech and musicology writes: Oh, but they did. Did they ever. You know the persistent rumour that there are unreleased Beatles tracks which are so crazy-ass off-the-wall that the band won’t let them be released? And that these tracks have been rumoured to be, at […]
In a seven-part series, Guardian and Observer writers are trying to tell the history of modern music. Rounding everything off, today they pick out 50 key moments in the story of jazz – but what did they miss? Drug busts, razor-sharp tailoring and breathtaking musicianship: yes, it’s the turn of jazz, completing our seven-part history […]
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Timm Davison, studied Media Communication at University of Washington (2017)Answered Dec 24 In the past, lots of bands had what could be considered ‘bad’ second albums – and this was due as much to the way bands got signed, and what was expected of them in the ‘old’ (pre-internet) recording industry. In the ‘old’ system, […]
Editorial note: We’ve no idea. We never met him. But we did sniff around on the Web and found this: Barry Moore, I’ve been reading extensively about the Beatles for a few years now. I definitely know more than the average …Answered March 8, 2015 According to Tony Barrow, who worked for The Beatles managing […]
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“I never really got into Lifetime’s music, but I still like the recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet with the young Tony Williams on drums. He was a very special, unique drummer and played like nobody else, avoiding the obvious rhythm and “time” which were already present, but filling the space between the beats with […]
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Well, first off, looking at his Fleetwood Mac career, avoid nothing other than Mr. Wonderful. From his Splinter Group years, most of it is pretty good although the first album, Peter Green’s Splinter Group is a bit weak. Nevertheless everyone was pretty forgiving about this because it was a miracle he could stand on stage, […]
Really? Re Soft Machine, I sat through too many of their live tedious ramblings at too many 1960’s free gigs waiting for Pink Floyd as the headline act. There were murmuring that some hapless audience members would sooner bite their own heads off rather than sit through another experience. Mind you, the same was said […]
Now I’ve never consciously tried, but I don’t think I am capable of picking out a musical “personality” in the way mentioned. I tend to like what I like, for reasons often ill-defined, or not defined at all. It would appear that, after 30-odd years of classical listening, I still have a very long […]
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