You don't know music

[Denny Crane]

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[ghoti]

What are your feelings about this?

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[ghoti]

And this freakin' guy.


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[Denny Crane]

He was pretty good on the keyboards, too. Not just piano. Check out the drummer, who is still one of the best ever.

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[Denny Crane]

Wakeman would be my #2. Both he and Emerson classically trained (the 2nd Emerson video is Aaron Copeland inspired). Wakeman went to the Royal College of Music at age 14 (amazing accomplishment).

Emerson does with his left hand what Rudess does with his right hand, which is what is so amazing about Emerson's playing. That is, Emerson has two right hands or he's ambidextrous.

It's too bad that Emerson got into drugs and alcohol, which basically destroyed his career about 30 years too soon. Wakeman is still playing

And, FWIW, ELP was (to me) the best 3-man band ever, Yes (Wakeman's band), the best 5 or 6 man band. I'm talking about the average level of talent in the band. Genesis is way up there.

 

[Dumpy]

They're all great musicians. I don't have any of Emerson's music. I don't know the other guys. Personally, I think that synthesizers are just toys--playing fast takes talent, but it isn't necessarily good music. I'd wish I could play like that, but to be critical, a synthesizer is NOT a piano; and in the first clip, Emerson doesn't display any real touch--he's just playing notes really fast. Here's a teenager from the former USSR--Estonia? I can't remember--who is a tremendous prodigy, but he also doesn't display much touch. He's very young, though.

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here is some solo work he did on an electronic keyboard

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but there's only one master, everyone else is just a wannabe.

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[Denny Crane]

Don't laugh. I'm no big fan of country music, but here's Roy Clark, star of that hit tv show (LOL) Hee Haw. I always thought he was a pretty amazing guitarist.

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[Denny Crane]

This guy's about 100 years old when this was done, but he invented the electric guitar and multitrack recording and was a brilliant guitarist at any age.

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And here's Eddie Van Halen giving him some props:

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[ghoti]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Denny Crane @ Mar 7 2008, 11:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Don't laugh. I'm no big fan of country music, but here's Roy Clark, star of that hit tv show (LOL) Hee Haw. I always thought he was a pretty amazing guitarist.

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This is just too good not to add.


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[Denny Crane]

Yeah, it's way harder to play lead type stuff on an acoustic.

I noticed Jan Hammer in the Van Halen video above. Here he is with another great guitarist (too many greats!), Jeff Beck:

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[ghoti]

Drops the pick at 1:04.

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[Denny Crane]

A lot of great dummers, too.

This guy is my #1 or #2:

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[Denny Crane]

Loved the Jose Feliciano.

I'm not going to play fair

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[ghoti]

The two greatest drummers of all time.

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[Denny Crane]

Keith Moon wails on the drums throughout this whole song. Well, every song too

Townsend gets himself a new pick off the amps behind him at about 3:40 in.

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[Denny Crane]

Best concert I even went to. House of Blues in Vegas, about 300 people in the audience. My pick for best drummer, but check out the guitar player and bass player, too. Downright amazing. They're both like 17.

Same song as in post #4.

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[Denny Crane]

More Carl Palmer Band. Bass solo.

It really is a bass guitar.

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[Denny Crane]

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No Wakeman in this version of the band.

 

[Denny Crane]

Dumpy,

I only saw ELP play live once. They were touring the USA with a 40 piece orchestra in about 1977 or 1978. It was a pretty big deal on the news and all in Chicago, and it took days to set up Soldier Field. The thing about Emerson wasn't just his playing it was his writing and his training.

here's his piano concerto #1

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And here's ELP doing Pirates (the greatest "pirate" song ever!

). They needed the 40 piece orchestra to do both pieces.

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Pirates pt 2:

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[Dumpy]

thanks for that, he's a great musician. Maybe I'll seek out some of his recordings.

 

[Dumpy]

I'll give a clip of one more pianist. This is someone from a long time ago, and there are very few videos of him performing, although thankfully a number of recordings. Not only is his technique incredible but he was nearly completely blind, which makes it all the more amazing. I have several of his recordings, and they are almost intimidating to listen to.

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[Denny Crane]

Nice!

Question - do you play an instrument?

 

[Dumpy]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Denny Crane @ Mar 7 2008, 10:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Nice!

Question - do you play an instrument?</div>

poorly. :-( you?

 

[Chutney]

Props to Denny for bringing up Jeff Beck. I'm kinda in love with his music right now.

 

[Denny Crane]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Dumpy @ Mar 7 2008, 07:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Denny Crane @ Mar 7 2008, 10:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Nice!

Question - do you play an instrument?</div>

poorly. :-( you?

</div>

Considering I've been playing an instrument for almost 40 years, I am nowhere near as happy with my abilities as I'd like to be...

I play guitar, bass, keyboards/piano and drums. I just started playing drums last christmas.

 

[ghoti]

This is my favorite Jeff Beck song. Listen to how he builds drama by spacing out his notes. He's a real craftsman.

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[ghoti]

My favorite guitar player, playing one of my favorite songs. The studio version is one of my reference tracks to test headphones.

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[ghoti]

Another of my favorite guitarists. He died of cancer this week at only 41.

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[tim]

I'm a bass player, so we need some Victor Wooten on here. My favorite bass player of all time.
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also this one

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[tim]

And how about some John Frusciante and Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers?

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