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hairy_hen said:

 

Yeah, I'd have to agree with that.  I really like Sanitarium and Orion, too . . . damn, they used to make such good stuff.  It was never the same after Cliff Burton died.

I might have to count Bach's Passacaglia in C Minor as my favourite for organ.  Talk about endless variation and invention on one theme!

 

I also agree with the statement regarding Metallica. "Master of Puppets" was the best.

"...And Justice For All", could have been, but the mastering just ruined it for me.

My favorite Bach Organ piece has to be "Dorian". I have a Telarc recording played by Michael Murray and it sounds amazing and dry, where as every other recording I've heard sounds so distant.

Yeah, I'm around 5 and 6.

I think it is helpful in some cases, but I've seen it used so heavily, the picture almost looks painted instead of filmed.

Anchorhead said:

I love that song. Garfunkel sang wonderfully on there.

haljordan28 said:

Murry Sparkles said:

haljordan28 said:

As a musican I respect all music. Even those styles I can not stand  listening to.  With the exception of death metal.  That is pure garbage that takes no skill what so ever to play.  Always makes me laugh when I start discussing music with some   kid  who thinks death metal  i so  difficult to play

 

Death metal sucks...its easy..punk is decent to listen to  but it is always childs play...most rock n roll in general is  fairly easy to play. that is why when you go to a bar  most bands play the same tired easy songs  . stuff like ac/dc  stone temple pilots, nirvana..etc..etc  and why you never find bands that play styx,yes,ELO,genesis,REO,RUSH,etc,,etc. I am not a big fan of those guys either but their music is complex and not easy by any stretch of the imagination to play.

 Does it not take some form of skill to play a guitar nevermind playing at speed?. Speed metal guitarists like Dave Mustaine could teach most pop/ rock bands how to play a guitar at any pace. You also dont have to be a kid to listen to death metal, im 36 and enjoy a good old Napalm Death or a Brutal Truth cd some days. I would also say that bands of yours such as Motley Crue and Whitesnake dont have the most challenging guitar riffs either.

I never claimed motley crue or whitesnake did and as a matter off act they are quite easy.  Difficult would be country lead or rockabilly or jazz and flamengo.

 

It is easy to hide behind a ton of distortion and  miss notes and pull off bends that  do not even hit the  exact note you are looking for.  you can  get CLOSE with rock and the blues  but with country lead  you have to be  prescice  because you are mimicking   a pedal steal which is done by mechanics...also   the spped at which they play leads   going through  clean channels and HYBRID picking on top of that..not  flat picking wanking like rock guitar..is just a  sheer testament to their skills. 

Zack Wylde  said it best  "country lead players are from another planet" truth is they are not. they just put in the time to play like masters  and they dont hide behind distortion. they are truly the best of the best

I come from a deep rooted bluegrass and country background, and I fingerpick "Clawhammer like: Atkins, Reed, and Knoplfer", I can flat out say you really don't know what you are talking about. Distortion has absolutely nothing to do with it. It's hands first, pickups second, amp last. Even the greats of country use distortion from time to time.

Music shouldn't be judged by technique alone. The fact of the matter is, Flawless technique is boring. I don't like perfection. Even greats like Dvorak, Mozart, and Brahms saw the "uneducated" folk musicians as a big influence. Hell, Dvorak's 9th borrowed heavily from Native Americans and African American songs and spirituals (something considered primitive by some), and it's been praised since it's premiere. I've even heard it called the greatest piece of music by some. Le Sacre Du Printemps is a prime example of blemishes creating beauty. Half of the time it sounds like the orchestra is dying, yet it's so stunning.

The only music I really don't like is the cut and paste music of today. Everybody has pro tools and they just throw in shit and remove mess ups and then they edit it until it's without faults.

I like humanity in music, that's probably why I don't much care for the mathematical-composer Arnold Schoenberg, though some like him.

Lot of people have a problem with bands like Korn, but it's the simplicity and the feeling of their earlier work that draws me to them. That is music strait from the heart and it's rare to find. They lost that in later albums when they tried to make it cleaner and more complex.

The problem with the music industry is they try and create perfection. Their isn't an ounce of humanity in a lot of today's pop. It's still good in some respects, but everything is so sterile and manufactured.

I never cared for the snobbery that comes from all sides of music. I'll go to Heavy Metal forums right after leaving a Classical forum and hear how their genre is the elite.

I'll listen to Stravinsky and House of Pain in the same sitting.

You know you love music when the thought of naming the best musician or biggest influence in music is a joke to you.

I like Korn just as much as I like Rimsky-Korsakov. I look at Ravel in the same light as I look at Duke Ellington.

What I do on a daily basis is search everywhere for music. I find I become bored if I stick to the same 10 musicians/composers. I feel truly blessed when I put on an album and it speaks to me. I feel privileged to hear something new.

I even think the techno crowd has genius to offer. Music shouldn't be governed. It's art.

We all try to put a stamp on something when we like it and say: "This is good music, that crap you're listening to is awful."

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

I paid for college by working clubs as a jazz drummer.  Biggest influences: Tony Williams, Elvin Jones, Art Blakey, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, etc.  I quit about 10 years ago and haven't played a gig since.  I'm so rusty now that I doubt I could.

Shame, I've been searching high and low for a jazz drummer. Got too tired of all these young metal/rock drummers that play too damn loud.

My last drummer had his whole set mic'd so he could be louder.

Jazz drummers have the best dynamics.

The NCAA picks for the tournament were poorly decided. Georgia get's in, but Alabama doesn't?

Kentucky rapes Florida, moves down to a 4th seed, while Florida moves up to a 2nd seed?

Colorado also got snubbed out of playing.

Who's the Man? - House Of Pain

I've been playing guitar for about 10 years. Though I never had the heart to ask my parents for a Fender Strat. I make my cheaper knock off guitars sound pretty good. Now that I'm on my own, I need to buy one.

I have a lot of influences. I used to try to be the next Eddie Van Halen, but gave that up when every other person I've ever met was doing that. So I figured I would develop my own style.

Of all my influences Mark Knopfler is the one that seems the most obvious in my playing style, though I am a little more on the classical side, while he is more rock.

I've made a lot of changes over the years. 2 years ago, I was doing the heavy Korn and Pantera sounding stuff. I just really think as far as newer bands, Heavy Metal is dead. The genre just gets tireder. It had it's moment, now it's time for something new.

I like to keep a very organic sound. I don't like all the effects, though I use reverb occasionally.

I also don't use much distortion anymore. I occasionally pop it out just to make some racket, but it's not something I use for my songs.

Overall, my sound is almost acoustic.

Alexrd said:

haljordan28 said:

If there is one constant in life it i that  the more money you have the more you want.  THe rich are never satisfied.

Says who?

George seems to be more of an investor than anything. Regardless of what anybody says, he creates jobs.

I never saw him as greedy. I always just saw a big ego.

WhatsMyName said:

i think it would be cool to revamp the battle of Endor and make it somewhat like the ROTS space battle. Prlly not as intense, but something that makes you jump out of your seat.

I've been thinking that as well. Thank God it won't take near the work it took in 1983.

haljordan28 said:

WhatsMyName said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Any ST Lucas would make would suck just as much as - if not more than - the PT, especially since characters from the OT would undoubtedly feature in it and suffer character derailment in the process. 

 

Too late for that. Unless u exclude Harrison Ford.

And as much as i would like to see a VII VIII IX, i don't see how it can be done. if any SW movies should be made, it should be a novel from the Old Republic or something before or during the Clone Wars.

I have always thought an episode between 3 and 4  would be a good idea  as there is much that can be shown  and  their is a back story to take  to it.

At the end of episode 3 the death star is under construction. In a new hope no one knows what the death star is as they approach it in the falcon but all the sudden obi-wan  knows its a space station. I have always thought the force told him that and I still do but there is a chance he knew because he has seen it and been on it before. Hence vader telling ben on the death star "you should not have COME BACK"  as if he had been there before. Vader tells luke that obi-wan once thought as he did when luke tried to turn him back to the good side of the force. That can be bens reason for being on the death star at that time.  Going to try and make one last attempt to save his old friend. Not to mention such a film would give us a chance  to see costumed vader  in saber duels.Which Im all for if it is not the ninja kung fu sword styles we got with the PT. We  could get to see vader hunting down what is left of the jedi. they numbered in the thousands. no way order 66 killed them all.  Plus  qui gon could be in it mentoring obi-wan and training him.

There is much  an episode 3.5 could touch on.

Hal it's funny, one moment your bashing the hell out of George and his prequels, then the next your talking about how he should do more work.

Stone The Crow - Down

Harrison Ford said a long time ago he wouldn't do Han Solo again.

Down To The Waterline - Dire Straits

I found a really great pic searching for salad, but I had to censor it for the kids.

TheBoost said:

WhatsMyName said:

No sith in the movies can amount up to Darth Maul. I don't see how you can deny that he has potential.

Potential to do what? Be silent and look cool? Because that's all he does.

If he started talking and was given motivations and a backstory, he would have become lame... like Boba Fett did.

Maul did what he needed to do. Look cool, fight, and die. So did Boba.

They knew their role and shut their mouths. 

^this

Stone Cold said:

WHAT? You better take this wimpy thread down, coz Stone Cold said so. While your at it, get off your lazy asses and do something manly. WHAT?

WhatsMyName said:

Qui-Gon was good, because he was unique from the other Jedi. He was his own character and really made me want to see more of him in the movies.

Qui Gon was interesting only because Liam Nesson is interesting.

Other than that, Qui Gon is a card board cut-out of a character we are supposed to relate to and understand, but he ends up falling flat with just a simple gust (because that's what card board cut-outs do).

That's the big problem with TPM, I just can't really care about what's going on. I generally watch it for the pod race, the duel, and the shear fact that it is visually interesting.

It feels like George is writing for the effect instead of the affect. You could easily say the same thing about A New Hope, but those effects had a good reason to be there, they drove the story forward.

Star Wars was true story telling. It was a futuristic telling of saving the princess who is stuck in the evil fortress.

I don't know if George came up with the line or borrowed it from another director who really knew what they were talking about, but years before the prequels, "A Special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing" was a line that stayed instilled in my mind.

It seems like pure contradiction when you watch the prequels after hearing him say that.

There was just a magic about the original films. Down in my parents basement laying on the carpet watching those VHS's in my PJ's while the other kids were watching Sesame Street or Gumby, it was my heaven. Watching the asteroid chase in empire, or the death star duel in return. I miss it.

Ziggy Stardust said:

Aw man, sometimes it seems like I missed out on all the fun here! :-(

I thought that when I was new here, but then things got really fun. You'll have your chance at epic fun soon enough. All we needs a couple of trolls and you'll be ready to go.

Why am I talking about trolls like farmers talk about rain?

This thread is about household objects that are made to look like something else.

Example:

A bed that looks like a burger.

TV's Frink said:

 

I love that movie!!

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