Couldn't take more'n the first few beats o' that. The nearfields pret' near jumped offa their stands here <grin>,

Myself, I find most Techno or Euro offerings to be too simple for my tastes, of course. But that dos not preclude me from occasionally listening and finding out what they're doing.

I do try to listen to just about everything, at least as far as being able to keep up with things goes. If I like it, I'll do what I and most other serious practitioners of the musical arts these days are likely to do. I'll steal it. What I mean by that is that it will get placed into the practice regimen and parts of it may indeed appear in my live gigs or in my songwriting, or perhaps found useful as in influence in improvisational soloing.

Always in search of the popular vernacular hooks, themes, riffs, etc. and I do try to incorporate as much as I can that will work and sound good into those moments in a solo where you "quote" such.

While others knock today's Nashville offerings for various reasons, I listen to those as well, and I've come to the conclusion that they are representative of some of the cleanest studio work to be found. The Audio Quality that comes out of Nashville is simply state of the art. Never mind if the genre is or is not "real country music". ALL musics that are made by live human beings will grow, change, or go the way of the dodo.

Quote:

"Keep listening. Never become so self-important that you can't listen to other players. Live cleanly....Do right....You can improve as a player by improving as a person. It's a duty we owe to ourselves." --John Coltrane

"You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything." --Branford Marsalis



Bird quoted so-called "hillbilly music" (later to be renamed "country western") in some of his famous bebop solos.

Diz quoted some of the Classics, such as the use of Ferde Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite hook. In Bebop and Modern Jazz solos.

Heck. While most Rap is not my cuppa tea, I will listen to it. And, if I find some little thing in there that I can take away and use to communicate with my audience, maybe for just the fact that a particular audience may identify well with same -- I will use it.

"The more you know..."


--Mac

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