2016/07/28 17:12:16
sharke
I like most kinds of jazz - composed, improvised, or a mixture of the two. I love a really well arranged piece of music with lots of improvised blowing in the middle. Duke Ellington's music is amazing. 
2016/07/29 05:44:49
craigb
Bob Nelson update: I start on his 1987 material tomorrow!  (Only 3,923 more albums to go - or so it seems! LOL.)
2016/07/29 12:18:20
jamesg1213
craigb
Billy-Bob Nelson update: I start on his 1987 material tomorrow!  (Only 3,923 more albums to go - or so it seems! LOL.)




 
Fixed.  Any favourites so far? I always had a fondness for Chimera, it was one of the first long-distance collab records I'd heard about, thought it was very cool that he took Yukohiro Takahashi's bare drum tracks and turned them into such great soundscapes.
2016/07/29 12:48:58
craigb
I've always thought it interesting how many different styles he has throughout the years.  There's soooo many songs that sound like they were influenced by or influenced other songs.  Very much like Tangerine Dream in that respect.
 
I like most of it, probably the ones I like least (a relative thing) are the ones where he's doing too much playing around with technology and sampling loops (but only because I've heard too much of this type of music over that last decades).
 
Like I said, I hear so many other bands in what he plays (like Tangerine Dream, Roxy Music, Gary Numan, Brian Eno, Art Of Noise, Japan, etc., etc.), but I LIKE all those bands!  It's been a long time since I've played his material and I'm playing it the same way that I used to: as one big playlist, so it's hard to associate songs with the albums they're on.  That said, of his early stuff, I like the Red Noise (BBD to solo transition) album Sound On Sound (which is where that online magazine got their name from) and Chimera (which is a bit more upbeat and musical than a lot of his ambient efforts).
 
Too bad I'm trying to do some tutorials right now.  If I was just working on the PC these could be playing all day and night in the background - lol.
2016/07/29 12:53:41
BobF
My current guilty pleasure
 

 

2016/07/29 13:07:48
craigb
Yes, but what do you think about the music? 
2016/07/29 14:17:27
BobF
I think the singer has a great voice and presence ... the guitar player has a sweet riff or two as well.
 
 
2016/07/29 14:27:09
jamesg1213
Kicking back on Friday evening with some favourite acoustic players;
 

 

 

 
 
 
 
2016/08/01 00:39:00
sharke
Just came across this stunning video of Bob James performing the theme from "Taxi" live....
 

2016/08/01 00:50:20
craigb
I'm finally into the 1990's with Bob Nelson, but I took a break last night and today and listened to some CCR, Byrds and Deep Purple.  Now, back to another tutorial!  Yay...
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