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I'm with Tony Levin on this one. Look for a space to put somethng meaningful in. G > Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:28:36 +0100 > Subject: Re: David Torn,Terry Bozzio,Tony Levin,Pat Mastelotto NAMM 2010 > From: perboysen@gmail.com > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 4:00 PM, > > chris@christojota.de wrote: > >> > >> First impression: Lots of noise and thousand notes per minute, few soul! > > andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > > > > yep, I was disappointed by the "guitar god" hierarchical structure, > > and lack of interplay. > > Can't deny that. But obviously it was a big stage with loud PA and > on-stage monitoring - anyone that has tried that knows how hard it is > to get the interplay flow running freely.... I think they did well > under the circumstances. Torn was sometimes clearly not able to hear > the other guys but still managed to make some interesting noise and > the same can be said about Bozzio. When monitoring is down you just > have to stick with something that minimizes the risk for musical > clashes ;-)) Tony Levin chose the other alternative in such a > difficult situation: not playing until you get a good view of what's > going on and then start adding something that makes sense. In a way > the video was a nice lecture. > > > The first lesson on any instrument should be how to create silence. > > I'm mastering that right now by keeping my 1929 tenor sax in a french > case at the closet. On the STick I'm not that good... keep pounding > "metal riffs + thumping bass" all over, but I guess that's just a > childish phase that will soon leave room for something more silent. > (can certain music be more silent than other music? would that be > better?) > > Greetings from Sweden > > Per Boysen > www.boysen.se > www.perboysen.com > We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us now |