Jimster
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Rogue One... Enjoyed it for all the above reasons. Only nag at the back of my mind was, with all that passing of the file at the end:
They have invented Hyperspace, yet lack email.
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You. Lately.
Me:
Working hard. Not making any money. Or, what comes in, goes out. Got a week left on this contract, then who knows where the wind will blow.
Got the man-cave/cabin setup properly now and getting to play bass a lot more. Think I am 95% there with mastering the five-string. Loving my music still. So much new stuff out there with the interwebs, like drinking from a fire hose. Thank God for the Strut and Duder and dem to weed out the gold from the dog muck.
Not collecting vinyl personally - there is just no room. Have it all digitially now. Also, spending most of this weekend clearing out my dad's chud which drives home just how much shit we acquire and really have no need for. They have to move downstairs and the clutter is unbelieveable. Glad I don't have the hoarding gene.
Unless it comes to basses
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What up what up.
SO...
"Thriller" or "Off The Wall"?
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Poast A Recent Good Gig
Good question.Junior said: Thread hijack, what say you on the Miles in general? Visionary or talented self marketer with a top ear for collaborators?
Visionary with a top ear for collaborators. Visionary enough to not want to pigeonhole his style, to embrace other genres of music and hear how he could sound amongst it. Brave enough to risk his entire reputation and career by shifting styles because he was genuinely bored of playing the same stuff, no matter how good he was at it. To be battered by critics but then later apologised to. But also wise enough to recruit the correct people, people who would enable this sound, and hear where Miles could fit in - not try and do it all himself.
I don't think marketing or money was a driver for him at all, he just always had his ears open for the contemporary sounds. Not all of it works for me of course, but everything ain't for everyone. For example, I am not mad keen on Wayne Shorter over George Coleman whereas everyone else is. For me, that band had a perfet Coleman-shaped hole, wheras Shorter - granted, a more rounded musician - didn't fit as well. Again, his game is kinda not the droids I am looking for. "On The Corner" - a Strut sacred cow, it would appear. For me, some more emperors new clothes. Miles was out of it during this period and to me it sounds it.
Herbie of course has also tried the same style-shifts, with varying results. The thing with Herbie is, he never leaves his past behind, so even when he was at the height of his electro days in the mid-80s, he would still go to japan and do trio jazz gigs. I'd say Herbie has also chosen his collaborators...hmm... Less-well than Miles. Although some have been inspired. Norah Jones on Joni's "Court and Spark"? On paper it was a finger-crucifix for me but they hammered it.
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Poast A Recent Good Gig
Avishai Cohen's work has consistently failed to move my Oligarch's yacht from dry dock.
Some meandering ish that I lack both the time in my day and the music-scholar intellect to ever get.
I like the Miles 64 stuff. I mean, basically...
