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Post by chasmanian on Jan 12, 2016 20:34:46 GMT -6
one of the members of my band had a tragedy last weekend. she went to the Shopping Mall, and left the windows of her car rolled down, and her accordion sitting on the back seat. when she realized she had left the windows down, she rushed out to her car, and found 3 more accordions in her back seat.
ha cha cha.....
this line, was I believe said by one of the Four Nightingales, a vaudeville singing group. he was the one called Groucho.
outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
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Post by chasmanian on Jan 12, 2016 11:34:23 GMT -6
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Post by chasmanian on Jan 12, 2016 9:20:51 GMT -6
ah, thanks smallbutfine. I should have realized thats what you meant.
how interesting it is to me, that I soooooo disliked Heroes when it came out. and now I really like it. I certainly have broadened my tastes humongously since then. yeah, and I have a whole nearly 40 more years of life experience loving and playing music from all genres. its me that changed.
awesome posts smallbutfine.
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Post by chasmanian on Jan 12, 2016 8:37:45 GMT -6
very interesting.
not clear what this means: "the first wave of heroin in the end 70s and 80's in Germany after WW2."
WW2 ended in 1945, I thought.
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Post by chasmanian on Jan 12, 2016 7:10:52 GMT -6
thank you smallbutfine. I just listened to Heroes in German for a minute and am now listening to the English version. and I love it. I did not like it years ago. I just read on wikipedia a little about the song. wow, so much I don't know. Bowie was a really great man. I had no clue. am linking the article. an interesting studio recording thing is the 3 microphone vocal recording thing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Heroes%22_(David_Bowie_song)
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Post by chasmanian on Jan 11, 2016 20:15:14 GMT -6
a couple thoughts regarding some posts:
- worked on Isley Brothers song Harvest for the World today. there's a dude on youtube that has a great lesson video. also a video of a band of young and older musicians playing it that really cooks.
- the woman who cut my hair today (the few making custer's last stand, so to speak, circling the wagons around my bald pate, said that David Bowie was in her favorite movie of all time: (Labyrinth). I mentioned to her about Ziggy Stardust album, and that if I could only have 10 albums (maybe even top 5 material), it would be on the list.
- I also told her that I had read about Bowie. one of the kinds of music he liked was Soul and US black artists. (something about Philadelphia, maybe in the 70's. its in the wiki article.) so much great music has been written and recorded by black artists. the influence which they have contributed with Blues and Jazz is immeasurably large. music is the great uniter. it unites people across all boundaries, racial, financial status, all..... I am so glad that I am a musician. it is the source of so much joy for me. one of the things I like so much about the Ziggy Stardust album, is the beautiful melodies. some of them so simple. I think its so easy to not realize, that some of the very best stuff is really very simple pretty melodies. Hendrix played the solo of May This Be Love on the B string. just that 1 string!!!
I don't feel all that sad that David Bowie died. I think that he has a real soul. I think we all do. I think wherever he is right now, he is very happy.
none of us are booked for a permanent engagement on this Earth. temporary. ephemeral. we're born, we do stuff, and we die. ground rules of life. I'm just being realistic. live and love and laugh now. and make some music.
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Post by chasmanian on Jan 11, 2016 6:38:29 GMT -6
when I was a teenager, I madly loved his album Ziggy Stardust. so many incredibly beautiful songs, all on one album. masterpiece. happy for him that he's no longer suffering from cancer.
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Post by chasmanian on Jan 10, 2016 20:56:53 GMT -6
I'm happier than heck for you. being excited is the way to be!!
music is great. it is such a gift. I also am learning alot here. great people at this forum.
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Post by chasmanian on Jan 9, 2016 19:38:05 GMT -6
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Post by chasmanian on Jan 9, 2016 17:03:57 GMT -6
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Post by chasmanian on Jan 9, 2016 15:58:11 GMT -6
well, you've got my vote for post of the year wiz. thank you very much for that. you are an excellent teacher.
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Post by chasmanian on Jan 3, 2016 9:00:19 GMT -6
I really like what you just said there.
I am so much of the belief that its the song and the performance above all by an immeasurable amount.
and this probably/might sound contradictory, but I'll say it anyway.
I'm a tone freak, man.
I love beautiful tone.
and you know what, people like Shannon are our friend.
Shannon makes magic with tone.
magic, I say.
ok. said it. going to the studio. gonna bask in the glow of sonic beauty and magic, thanks to great gear, and Shannon, and people like him, that make extraordinary excellent recording tools.
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Post by chasmanian on Jan 2, 2016 19:19:13 GMT -6
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Post by chasmanian on Jan 2, 2016 10:57:01 GMT -6
I like how Jimmy Fallon could barely keep it together. I've watched the video more times in the last week, then in my whole life. a careful view, (the way it looks to me): - Ferrell very very slightly starts to laugh - Fallon hears Farrell stifling laughter - which causes Fallon to lose it (and start laughing). Chris Kattan too. thank you for the clarification on you being called Eric, Don. I had thought that you must have been being portrayed by Kattan on the left playing the Les Paul. Chris Parnell plays you (called Eric). he is soooo funny in this too. when I was a teenager, I considered it a true badge of how cool I was, having bought the BOC album with Reaper on it. truly madly loved that song. and played the album alot. hey, just made the connection: these days I am super into Astrophysics. I loved your song Astronomy, bomp bomp, chicka chicka ba bomp bomp, of stars................
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Post by chasmanian on Jan 1, 2016 20:08:03 GMT -6
yeah, I saw that. still not in a hurry to switch to 10 on any other computers.
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Post by chasmanian on Jan 1, 2016 16:17:08 GMT -6
the following is meant for your entertainment only. please do not try this at home unless you are a trained professional, or have ready access to same:
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Post by chasmanian on Jan 1, 2016 16:05:58 GMT -6
hey mobeach. thank you for the support, man. yeah, bad customer service on their part. I just got the drum bug recently, and researched quite a bit before buying my vdrums. I was astonished, when Roland customer support told me he said it would be unusual for them to make drivers for a discontinued model. I had just bought the freakin thing. it was by no means an old, obscure model. highly recommended on the vdrums forum. whatever. water under the bridge. but crazy, man. just crazy.
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Post by chasmanian on Jan 1, 2016 11:04:06 GMT -6
keeping in mind that I'm an amateur, and don't know much about really anything:
upgraded to 10 on my old gateway laptop. listen to playbacks on Reaper. have not tried it for hardware. (I record on a different computer.)
the only problem I had was that it changed Reaper to full screen, so there was no x box in the upper right corner. that was a real pain, until I stumbled on how to re-enable it.
I read a post a while back by Justin (Reaper's creator). he said he would wait to upgrade to 10.
all of that said, I was very psyched to get it back in August. I upgraded to 10 on my Sony Vaio laptop. but then went back to 7 because:
- Reaper would not open - my Roland V-drums which I had purchased new from GC, 7 months earlier was not supported. I called Roland, they said it was discontinued and they probably would not be creating drivers for my model for Windows 10. I decided I would think twice before ever buying any Roland gear again. (they've since made drivers for it for 10. but I don't trust them after that experience. sorry to say something negative about them. I have been buying Roland gear since the 70's. whatever.)
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Post by chasmanian on Jan 1, 2016 9:08:41 GMT -6
thank you very much for posting this. I have been a Sinatra fan for a long time. like, a really huge fan. like, I have long referred to him as the master of masters for singing. not saying that I think he was a perfect person in all ways. because I don't. but singing? forget it. to me (this is my opinion, and nothing else), in a world that has many exceptional, awesome, phenomenal singers, I consider Frank to be (in a sense), peerless. mind you, I could say this about many singers, who I admire as much. sorry if it sounds like I'm contradicting myself. some of what I'm trying to say is very difficult for me to accurately describe with words. it comes back to feeling(s), driven by tone, heart and soul. I have been recording My Way a little bit. I sing and accompany myself on acoustic guitar. I learned a lot from this article. I learned a ton from this article. the version of My Way, that I reference is the one I've been listening to for years. its a duet by Frank and Luciano Pavarotti. and for years I have amused myself, occasionally, by singing in an operatic style. now, I know why people sang that way, years ago. it makes me laugh sometimes. it just sounds funny to me. and it makes me laugh to hear it and feel it coming out my mouth. singing like Frank is just really really cool. I kid and say, that if Frank and Pavarotti, had a baby, it would sound like me. lol (I kid.) with a little Stevie Wonder, MacCartney, Van Morrison, John Mayer, JT, Strait..........thrown in. but I am influenced in my singing by hundreds of excellent singers. one profoundly important thing I learned here is: microphone technique is even more important than I thought. I already knew it. but this article just emphasizes the point in a very emphatic and true way. I have long pictured myself as trying to be the guy who sings and accompanies himself on guitar. well, I've gotten so much better on the guitar in the past couple of years. but, that is only a very relative statement. to be totally frank about it (hahahhahahha), I would say that I've gone from sucking beyond belief, to just a hair better than that. a further different hahahhahhahhaha ok, the point I want to make is that: Frank sang, sans guitar (ie, he did not play guitar and sing at the same time). so, I try to sing and do good microphone technique, AND try to play excellent guitar at the same time. and the result is: I'll be nice to myself: I have a lot of room for improvement. like light years to go. trying to do 2 things at once, and do them really really well.......... makes me think that guys like JT and Mayer, are supermen from another planet/universe. Happy New Years gents.
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Post by chasmanian on Dec 31, 2015 16:35:37 GMT -6
great post monkeyxx. (thank you for the kind words.) a couple thoughts that come to mind, from reading what you said: yeah, there's the zone, you know. getting into the zone. it can be great. it is soooooo about feeling. musical melodies and sounds have feelings. every little melody, every chord, every different voicing of every chord, every note that you add to that chord or voicing, they can all be feelings, and different shades or variations of feelings. every chord progression, and so on. it is truly one's heart and soul expressing itself in sound. I am into and love all kinds of music. pretty much every genre. and that includes Hendrix. I just watched a video on youtube by a guy who Jimi mentored, named Velvert Turner. he gives a lesson on how to play Love or Confusion and May This Be Love. astonishing. he introduces the solo in May This Be Love, saying this is one of the most beautiful things Jimi ever recorded. he plays the whole solo, on just the B string!!! Hendrix, I don't know man. he was so great, he made such great music, and so much of it, in such a short amount of time. I don't know. its like magic. its beyond my comprehension, that anyone could accomplish such mastery of an instrument, songwriting, and singing, for sure, in such a short amount of time. one of the great mysteries of life for me. Happy New Years and many more, to all of you kind hearted good people out there. peace on Earth, some sweet day, eh.
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Post by chasmanian on Dec 28, 2015 7:29:24 GMT -6
OP, here is more about what I think in answer to your original question: in my most humble opinion, sometimes: we respond to magic. its a rhythmic, hypnotizing thing that are hearts and souls sync with, and groove to. we ride on a good vibe. our heart rates and/or our soul rates (poetic license, please), phase lock to/with the beat/groove/rhythm. our senses delight in the pretty melodies and harmony. our nucleus accumbens (pleasure center), in our brain, gets into it. and says yes, yes please. don't stop. keep going. I love this. our hearts and souls are doing a happy dance. in varying degrees. ymmv lol in an interview, I saw recently, someone asked James Taylor about his voice. I don't remember what he said verbatim. but it was something about soothing himself. he soothes himself. by singing. can you imagine that? I do it. for sure. peace, man. want peace. then there's the timelessness aspect. when I am feeling joy, and really into a song, time kinda like disappears. its an ecstatic state, eh. I used to think that music could save the world. the right song with the right message. well, I cannot tell you with words how much joy it brings to me. I guess you have to be open to it though.
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Post by chasmanian on Dec 27, 2015 18:32:09 GMT -6
"worst case scenario it moves 2wice as much data! pretty good deal no?"
I sure don't know enough to answer that question. I do know enough to say that compatibility of the system components.......well, you're gonna wanna know before buying anything, if what you have will support it. if there's a bottleneck for speed because of some other component, it may limit you, and you gain nothing.
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Post by chasmanian on Dec 27, 2015 18:04:18 GMT -6
I heard about those a year ago. I have a friend that knows a lot about computers. yeah, they're way faster than the SATA III SSD's.
I don't know anything more about it though. he had recommended a laptop to me that had one. but it was way too expensive.
I do know enough to say, always check compatibility. for example, my old Sony Vaio laptop has a USB 3 port. but the rails (or some thingies), inside only support USB 2. thus, when the original HDD died, and I replaced it with an SSD, it too was limited to the speed of SATA II, instead of the SATA III that the the new SSD was capable of.
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Post by chasmanian on Dec 27, 2015 17:43:49 GMT -6
"the music that strikes me as true music is heart based."
me too. its all about the heart and soul.
(that is so cool, that you made that recording.)
"We want to do a good job because we love and admire what's happening in the room."
which makes you, in my book, exactly the right man, the perfect dude for the job.
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Post by chasmanian on Dec 27, 2015 17:28:57 GMT -6
the cowbell. more cowbell. that SNL skit is sooooooo one of my favorite things in life. it is a masterpiece of comedic art. have been thinking about it the past few days. for any of you that are not familiar: www.hulu.com/watch/536145
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