[Date Prev][Date Next]   [Thread Prev][Thread Next]   [Date Index][Thread Index][Author Index]

Re: Hiromi



Title: RE: Hiromi
I'll be seeing Emerson on Sunday evening.  I'm not counting on silver suit or knives in the B3.  Apparently he does travel with a large modular though...
 
I'm  a prog-head and proud of it!  I have all of the ELP albums up to but not including "Love Bleah" oh, I mean "Beach"
 
I sometimes think it's just fashionable to trash prog, but I would rather listen to it than most of what's coming out these days.  It is interesting to note that there is a very active and very good modern prog scene going on. 
 
as said before. YMMV.
 
Tony
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 9:43 AM
Subject: RE: Hiromi

>>This is the only clip I've seen of her work, though, so maybe other
examples are better.  The best parts of this video sound like a pale
tip-of-the-hat to Keith Emerson's "Tarkus".  I also tossed most of my
ELP records out quite some time ago, however.  As with all matters of
taste, YMMV....<<

I wasn't going to chip in at all on this one, but now I have to. grrr....

not ELP, but UK spring to mind. the first incarnation, which morphed into the bruford band w/ dave stewart (not the annie lennox one) allan holdsworth & jeff berlin.

here's the difference for me- back then, having chops wasn't nearly enough. everyone had chops. you had to have something to say aswell (which was a big enough problem for talented musicians even then, especially instrumental combos at the dawn of punk/new-wave), & most importantly you had to have a sense of humour. ELP did. bruford did. Yes didn't, which is probably a lot to do with why bruford left them (for fripp.... hmmm....)

I'd like to have seen more of this clip, in case it turns out that she & her cohorts are actually enjoying themselves- the bit I saw, they all looked a bit serious, & that put me off trying to get the rest of it to appear on my laptop. I'll try again later.

duncan.



***************************************************************************
CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE

The contents of this e-mail are confidential to the ordinary user
of the e-mail address to which it was addressed, and may also
be privileged. If you are not the addressee of this e-mail you may
not copy, forward, disclose or otherwise use it or any part of it
in any form whatsoever.If you have received this e-mail in error,
please e-mail the sender by replying to this message.

It is your responsibility to carry out appropriate virus and other
checks to ensure that this message and any attachments do not
affect your systems / data. Any views or opinions expressed in this
e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily
represent those of MTV Networks Europe unless specifically stated,
nor does this message form any part of any contract unless so stated.

MTV reserves the right to monitor e-mail communications from
external/internal sources for the purposes of ensuring correct
and appropriate use of MTV communication equipment.

MTV Networks Europe
***************************************************************************