audiofelch
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yeah, that was a raw show.. dont think he got any sort of soundcheck. wrecked that shitty pa.. it was so distorted. it was great!
Lidell's been releasing for 10 yrs, if he wants to make a soul album then why not? Thing is about him, he's got the voice to do it, and the talent, and the depth. It may not be to your particular taste, but the whole 'must be modern, it's too safe, must be futurist' blah blah begins to sound a lot like that hipster "rejector" mode of listening . . . I know nothing about Jools Holland . . . Lidell's live set is still amazing, and he generates the entire thing from a small rig, can do the soul thing but spends a lot of time just going way way way the fuck out there, I saw him the night before his nyc warp/bleep gig this fall, he was playing to a tiny crowd of maybe 35 kids in the middle of nowhere in upstate new york, and he absolutely played his ass off from start to finish and went waaaaay out into dark, dissonant, sine-wave beatbox looping mayhem repeatedly . . . the guy is extraordinarily talented, has proven himself time and again within different musical forms . . . in any case, here is a photo i took of the rig he used at the upstate show last october . . . EDIT: couldn't get photo link to work properly, pfft)Ah, but I love pop r'n'b in a timberlake like mold--- I was anticipating him being like an avant timba-land/lake combined in a self-production avant-teenpop explosion of sex, falsetto and technological perversity, instead its kind of obvious stuff, and the solo album was retro as fuck... its all much safer than it needs to be! He's not POP ENOUGH, and there's an air of smugness that hangs over a bit... and he's been on fucking later with Jools (eugh) Holland (eugh) the toxic penguin of death.
I saw him at 93 Feet East a couple of summers ago, and two of the people I was with walked out, saying it 'wasn't real music'. Obviously it was bloody brilliant.I saw him play at the barfly once of all places, he was really angry, and it was absolutley brutal, metallic aggressive and distorted, i loved it. it scared a lot of people though, it was off key, more like mark stewart or something at his most fcked, really exciting.
now that i've read most of what's out there, those moments are much fewer and farther between
not all of it, but i have less leisure time for reading, too (at least, print books.) the sheer jolt that is experiencing "greatness" during adolescence is so tied up in that particular stage of psychosexual development it seems obvious to me, looking back, that it won't be the same for me now that sexuality is not so radically *at stake* as it was
actually just bought "confessions of zeno" on amazon, looks good! who is "witkiewicz"? gombowicz? oe?
maybe we should start a new book recommendations thread...
shudder: you play jazz sax? you're a drummer, too, or am i making that up?
i could make this thread about hip hop. this is simplifying things obv but i think threads like this are just what happens when anyone listens to one particular genre for a long time - its almost inevitable that at some point youre going to think that things have gone downhill and other genres start to seem much more exciting. its like hank shocklee who said that he thought there was nothing new that could really be achieved in hip hop anymore, but lots of people just said he was out of touch...
FWIW i dont think you can evaluate rock with the same criteria as grime or dubstep or whatever - rock isnt about sonic innovation, its about songwriting isnt it? so its about melodies, good hooks, structure, etc etc. not about production or interesting new sonic properties (although of course you could argue those were priorities too in the 60s/70s etc). those are its constraints and id think the way you judge it is within those sef imposed limits.
keyboards, protools, reason, etc., i'd like to learn bass, but my fingers are too precise from the classical violin/piano. frets are cheating! and those huge strings are hard on my fingertips.
Bass is one of the most enjoyable instruments its possible to play (obviously dependant on the kind of music you play, but anything outside of dullard root-note following is immensely satisfying....)! Within a few months yr fingers will be so callused as to make no difference