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It would have been better if their instruments were plugged in.
OMG, you crack me up! Yeh, it's a mellow sort of YES song, isn't it? All the guitars are bass guitars, too.
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OMG, you crack me up! Yeh, it's a mellow sort of YES song, isn't it? All the guitars are bass guitars, too.
And no power or cables to the keyboard to boot.
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and for a change of pace...
This is a tune for all the crazy going on with the elections, covid, etc.... and it just doesn't seem to end!
This is a tune for all the crazy going on with the elections, covid, etc.... and it just doesn't seem to end!
Cat's Squirrel
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Great! I had a roommate at university who liked the Bonzos, so I got to hear most of their better known tracks. They were about as English as you could get;
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stratty
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The first time I heard this song was just a few weeks ago. I've played it several times since then, enough times to be able to tell whether or not I'm hearing exactly the same version here. It's identical, and since the song was recorded in a recording studio and here the boys are definitely not in a recording studio it's pretty safe to assume they are going through the motions. I can live with that, it's still a really great piece of music.It would have been better if their instruments were plugged in.
Cat's Squirrel
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Another Yes classic;
Operating DB
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How did this "lonely" tread turn into a music thread?
When "Yes" was mentioned it made me think of ELP - Emerson Lake and Palmer. I was addicted to their music in the early 70s. I'm a pianist and transcribed the whole first side of the album "Tarkus" along with other of their material from their first album - "Take a Pebble" being one of them. One time I was at a party and Tarkus was playing on the turntable and I sat down at a piano and played along with it the whole first side of that album. Some dude looked on in disbelief totally dumbfounded. I think he had been smoking pot. lol. Those were good ol days.
When "Yes" was mentioned it made me think of ELP - Emerson Lake and Palmer. I was addicted to their music in the early 70s. I'm a pianist and transcribed the whole first side of the album "Tarkus" along with other of their material from their first album - "Take a Pebble" being one of them. One time I was at a party and Tarkus was playing on the turntable and I sat down at a piano and played along with it the whole first side of that album. Some dude looked on in disbelief totally dumbfounded. I think he had been smoking pot. lol. Those were good ol days.
stratty
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It must have been a fantastic coincidence that the piano and the music from the turntable were perfectly in tune with one another. It would have sounded horrendous if they weren't, I'm thinking.
If there was a little Panama Red going around, I'm sure it was amazing!
Operating DB
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As I recall they were in tune with each other. I used to play along with records and it never seemed to be a problem. It could depend on the quality of the turntable.
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stratty
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It was always a problem back in the sixties when I was learning the piano. Unless you had a record deck with a stroboscope or you could vary the speed of it it was difficult to get in tune. These days of course synths are always perfectly A = 440 Hz (unless you want to change it of course).
Cat's Squirrel
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"Tarkus" is great. There are piano transcriptions of that first side on Youtube; I'll see if I can find one.
Here goes;
Operating DB
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Wow, does that bring back memories. I haven't listened (or played) that in years. Keith Emerson was a damn genius - a thinking man's (or person's) musician. What a lot of work that was repetitively putting the needle on the record for 2 seconds to listen to a phrase and then scoring it out on paper. Fortunately my primitive turntable had a 16 RPM setting that not only slowed it down half speed but also lowered it an octave making it easier to grasp what was being played. But it's an effective way to learn how a composer thinks. That's also how I learned to improvise jazz by transcribing my favorite artists solos and then studying them and playing it. Back then we had no jazz teachers or classes. We had to wing everything and compare notes amongst us few aspiring jazz pianists in high school.
I'll have to look up those Tarkus transcriptions and compare them to my results.
stratty
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A very impressive rendition IMO!
There are loads and loads of these around with the notes illuminated so you can see what's being played (if you need to). It's how I learned 'Clair de Lune).
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Cat's Squirrel
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Another early Pink Floyd album and a good one;
stratty
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I've had this idea in my mind for many many years now that PF didn't really do anything meaningful until 'Echoes' came along as far as I was concerned. Listening to the first fifteen minutes of this has done nothing to make me change my mind I have to say.
Cat's Squirrel
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Hi stratty,
I call anything in the Floyd canon before DMSMH "early." That album actually came out the year after "Meddle" and "Echoes" - 1972, so it qualifies by your definition.
For me it's a good mixture - rockers, instrumentals and wistful ballads.
stratty
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Yes, you're absolutely right and I've got my timing wrong. Doh!
I've always hated it (not that I've listened to it very much - why would I)?
Right from the very start with the dodgy time-keeping by Mason it's difficult to listen to, and compared to 'Meddle' it's a bit of a shambles. I don't know much about the history of this album, but since it was a movie soundtrack, perhaps they were short on recording time.