Very sweet Guitar tone. I am confused by the legal notice, though. Maybe I dense. (No, I am sure I am.) BUT--anyway, is that legal notice humorous or is it a real warning. Sorry, that threw me..
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A great question! I'll try to keep the details to a minimum. When I first joined the Forum as a jazz musician, I chafed at the provision barring "covers" because the term, frankly, insults the genre just as much as it would if applied to classical music:
The New York Philharmonic will tonight perform a cover of Beethoven's ...
I mean, gimme a break. The whole idea of jazz is to create, spontaneously, on the fly, in real time a new melody that "fits" the chords. Most musicians - even world-class players - cannot do this. Moreover, you better be sure that your improvised replacement melody is more interesting than the original melody of the song. Otherwise, why bother? Just play the original melody over again. The entire emphasis is on the changes, reharmonizing them, and on the solos. I'm not "covering" any other guy's solo, man. That's the whole point.
So the question became: How to stream legally my interpretations of the compositions of others. The oldest and largest institution that manages copyright protection for musicians, composers, lyricists, etc. is ASCAP. Keeping up with the times, they figured out a way to let musicians interpret, perform and stream any of the 9,000,000 or so tunes in their book. My ASCAP license number is found in my signature. It gives me, not ownership of the tune, but the legal right to stream it without download capability.
Nevertheless, some Forum members (who, as far as I know, are not lawyers) have expressed doubts about legality of this license, which costs about $250/year. I'm confident that ASCAP's legal team knows what their doing. And there is also the "fair use" doctrine, which I won't get into, but with which I am in compliance. My posts are intended for pedagogical use only.
Despite all this, the final bend-over-backwards is the unconditional permission I give to Forum members (see below) to contact the moderators or Peter Gannon himself asserting that I am in violation and requesting the removal of the offending post. I endorse any such request. My signature is simply neutral information about my due diligence: neither humor nor warning.
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A numberof people have mentioned McLaughlin. But, I'll tell you something and I know a lot of players who agree, if you take a random point in any of his solos, you'll hear something more or less like having chosen any other random point. To me, John is a non-melodic improviser. Chops? Well, he's untouchable, of course, but I ask, "Where's the beef?" Like those fast-talking disclaimers on TV, my first reaction is "Wow!" followed by "Uh ... Whad'e say?"
Frankly, I think the emphasis on "chops" has gotten out of hand. In one note, Gene Ammons could say more on his tenor than I could in a million-note solo. I even invented a Chinese proverb emphasizing that the guitar is a limited voice (apologies to my Asian colleagues on the Forum for this stereotypic delivery; no insult intended).
The proverb: "Man with guitar run into man with saxophone like man with guitar run into tree chipper."
After all, what other instrument requires so many prosthetic devices (stomp boxes, effects pedals, processors, etc.) to make it work?
It's a tremendous compliment to even be mentioned in the same breath as McL. But it would also be good if listeners could hear what I'm trying to be: a melodic improviser that plays accessible ideas that you can sink your teeth into. The way I look at it, chops are the means to the end, not the end itself. Of course, folks are free to disagree. This is just a personal thing. My rant is over.
Really glad you liked this. I'm pretty reserved and it's hard for me to list myself as playing all other instruments (except the RealDrums) but the truth is that I do. Keys, bass, guitar. I think of myself more as an arranger than anything else and a good arranger has to play a lot of instruments. I mean, he or she doesn't have to burn the joint down on every single instrument but I think you need more than just a casual knowledge of, at the very least, piano and bass.
Thank you Guenter. It's always great to get a positive review from a serious artist and sharp-eared critic. And let me thank you again for making it possible for me to hear what you did in that mixing contest.
Hold on a minute. Tommyc ... I just saw this name somewhere else ... Tommy ... Cole. Tommy are you the guy whose site on SC I visited last night? I listened and watched as the FUNK-O-METER started smoking and then shaking and then melting. The needle banged crazily against the end of the red zone and then stuck there for a moment before the gadget liquefied. As everything went black, I thought I heard someone say, "Damn!" or "Call 911" or something like that ... then I snapped awake.
Forget it. Strange things happen at 2 AM. Thanks Tommyc for the kind remarks.
Good to see you again. I hope all's well. The Law and Order theme is a real burner and I wish I could find more like it. If you have any ideas, let me know. Thanks for listening and commenting.
Good to see you again. I hope all's well. The Law and Order theme is a real burner and I wish I could find more like it. If you have any ideas, let me know. Thanks for listening and commenting.
Dean
Hi Dean,
I have been extremely busy the last month or so. I had 4 projects that I was working on as well as getting things ready for winter, thus I had very little time to listen. I hope the rush is over!
I want my last spoken words to be "I hid a million dollars under the........................"
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Always loved that theme, and you took it over the top!! On a forum with a huge number of great players, in my mind you sit at the very top Dean. Amazing guitar playing. I thought that flame on your avatar was just a special effect but now I wonder if it was spontaneous. This is incredible!! Here is a link to one of my favorite guitar solos of all time. You may know it. Take care. Greg
Everything but drums eh? That must be a nice creative place to be. Like Trevor mentioned, the discordant feel is very engaging. Great playing and tone wrapped up in your typical nice mix. But hey, only 3:11? Could've gone on for a while for us.
I'm in full agreement that it could have gone on longer than 3:11. The problem is that I couldn't have gone on a second longer. The whole thing was a kind a freak accident with a little story behind it. When I was sixteen, I washed dishes to buy my first good guitar: A Guild Starfire in cherry red. I loved that thing and foolishly gave it away. I've missed it ever since, but in the interim Guild had died and been reborn at least 32 times. Recently, I decided I had to have something like the Starfire back and asked my buddy Mark Campellone http://www.mcampellone.com/home.htm , one of the elite guitar builders, to make me a black, thin hollow body guitar. For the hell of it, I went on line, typed in Guild and found what you see here. An exact recreation of the original Starfire in black. Then I saw an archtop jazz box that replicates Guild's original flagship Artist Award model. I got 'em both for less than half of what I would have had to pay Mark for one guitar. Then I endured the long wait for delivery.
They arrived last Tuesday. I pulled out the Starfire and the feeling of having it my hands again can't be described. My head exploded with ideas. I sat down and ripped off the Law and Order theme based on a version I got from a TV themes website. I did virtually no editing and posted it. I only noticed that it was quite short afterward, but this was one of those rare moments that I dare not tamper with. I think I packed everything I could into those 3:11.
I'm so glad you liked it. Thank you for your generous words.
Thanks, man. Yeh, I'm actually the guy behind everything except the drums. And isn't that a great sounding bass? Originally I was going to use a fretless on this one, but I found a really terrific sounding synthetic bass. I almost can't believe we've reached the point where a synthetic instrument can sound better than the real thing. It hasn't happened yet with horns, but that day cannot be far. I don't know how to feel about it. It's kind of scary.
In my case, I learned how to play the real instruments because it was some time during the Pleistocene era and there were no DAWs, no BIAB, just sabre-toothed tigers and wooly mammoths chasing me on my way to school. With all this tech stuff, will any kid ever take up, say, the trumpet or trombone or learn to be a jazz guitarist? Or a real baterista?
Thanks for that. This all came together in one day, when my new instrument arrived. Actually, my new instrument is a perfect reproduction by Guild of my oldest instrument, my first good guitar, which I foolishly gave away and pined for ever since: A Guild Starfire. This one is black. Having played a lot of instruments in the interim, I never realized how great that guitar was. Guild has died and been reborn God knows how many times. In this incarnation, they're making the guitars in Korea and they are turning out beautifully made instruments.
Thanks Josie. I'm glad you had a chance to listen. I was trying to think of some hip TV themes and I seemed to recall that Streets of San Francisco had one.
When I went to the TV themes website, instead of the theme, I heard an automated voice announce that CBS had demanded its removal. Then a light bulb went off and I remembered Law and Order. Do you know that there must be at least 25 different Law and Order themes? There's several for every spinoff: Special Victims, California, Law and Order Paris, etc.
Wow! It's hard to come back from a compliment like that. You have my deepest bow. Pat Marr and I had a real LOL-a-thon going over that flame a while back. I tried to convince him that it isn't a magic power at all, but a glitch that I used to be able to control - for instance, I would light my cigars with it - but as I've gotten older, it's just one more organ system that's become erratic. Embarrassing. Even dangerous, like the time I was reading the paper in the tub and, to accompany my little glass of bourbon, I went to light up my cigar ... I don't think I have to say any more.
I also recounted to Pat how it is I came in possession of this trait. I won't go into it and you wouldn't believe it anyway.
Thanks so much Floyd for your comment on Law and Order. It's much appreciated.
Now, what I was really hoping to hear is the workaround chord I suggested in the diagram turned out to be useful. Of course, whether that particular voicing will work inside the song is your call. As far as the "clash" goes, I don't hear it because my ears are used to hearing, say, the mi7 played by the bass. You can walk the bass all the way down just as it stands. I'm really not sure what folks are hearing, only that it isn't familiar.
hi aleck great guitar work on this always good taste in the notes you choose always engageing thanks eric
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