Stalin's ringtone
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Thanks Taft!
Imagine not like liking jazz like some of our tone deaf bros here.
I love some jazz tinged rock but can't really say I'm a jazz guy. I know it's a pretty broad genre and a lot of well liked American music falls within it even though most don't realize it.
It's the genre of cocktail receptions and elevator music.
Christ. Listen to the first 3 mins of this. Especially starting at 1:37. This is as technically proficient shredding as anything EVH did.
You're out of touch
The trumpet hurts my ears. Some of those notes actually made me wince.
I know that Miles Davis is considered to be an all-timer and all that. That's fine. To be fair about my cocktail reception comment, it's not this kind of jazz that they play at those events.
Do you have tinnitus or something, boss? Miles Davis' runs on the trumpet are some of the most beautiful sounds ever recorded by a human to wax.
Tinnitus? Maybe. Some of those high notes that come out of nowhere are like nails on a chalkboard.
I freely admit I am not a cultured man. The mish-mash of sounds forced together on that 14-minute long track overwhelms my ears.
I assume jazz is something that you love or hate.
I freely admit I am not a cultured man. The mish-mash of sounds forced together on that 14-minute long track overwhelms my ears.
I assume jazz is something that you love or hate.
I will die on the hill that jazz is amazing and critical to understanding the history of popular music in the 20th century. But at the same time, I get that it's not for everyone which is fine. The world would be a boring place if we all had the same tastes.
For whatever reason, I've just always had very eclectic tastes ranging across so many genres. In the same day I can listen Mile Davis, Sinatra, Van Halen and Hank Williams. As long it's old, old man Yella likes it.
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It took me a while to come around to it, but my former long-tim spiritual musical advisor (RIP H-Bomb) took me to see Wynton Marsallis in a small theatre in Spokane many years ago. When I saw it live, I got it. Soon after, a guy working for me (was a pretty big NW guitarist in his previous life) got me into Charlie Parker, and it was on. Like many things in life, it is an acquired taste…
EDIT: And for the record, the only ring tone music I have ever had is Lawyers, Guns, and Money…
EDIT: And for the record, the only ring tone music I have ever had is Lawyers, Guns, and Money…
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Lawyers, guns and money is my all time favorite @creepycoug song. It’s got lawyers and Cubans all in one phenomenal song.
Just listen to the first 45 seconds of this song. Can't you just visualize smoke slowly rising from the floor?
Good description by a technically gifted writer.
Jazz strikes me as a right place, right time feel. Kind of how fishpo31 described things. There are definitely types of music I enjoy when it's the right place or company, but would never listen to on my own.
I remember Tequilla making some comment about My Chemical Romance and me rolling my eyes as my memory 15 years prior was of them being emo junk. But I went back and listened again and ended up really liking them and am now going to see them in concert this July. So, there is hope for me and jazz at some point down the line, maybe.
Jazz strikes me as a right place, right time feel. Kind of how fishpo31 described things. There are definitely types of music I enjoy when it's the right place or company, but would never listen to on my own.
I remember Tequilla making some comment about My Chemical Romance and me rolling my eyes as my memory 15 years prior was of them being emo junk. But I went back and listened again and ended up really liking them and am now going to see them in concert this July. So, there is hope for me and jazz at some point down the line, maybe.
*heroin going into your veins in your smoggy Lynwood studio apartment on Hwy 99.