Crickets.......


Maybe I should have waited until Halloween?


How about this one then:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzb39miCcQ4

Hi Scott: I am deeply, deeply arachnophobic. So I hope you appreciate what I've put myself through for you, feeling sympathetic after seeing your "crickets" comment. Eeeeeessssh! [Shudder]

I'm not going to pretend the sounds did for me what five minutes of Duane Allman does, but on the whole I don't seem to be as troubled by this sort of stuff as many others here on this Forum.

I suspect you know the reaction you're going to get from most here, don't you?

I'd certainly take an hour of this over five minutes of Eminem, if that helps.

Keep going, man - C

Scott I loved the video of Bacharachnid.

I thought the music really described well the shuddery juddery lives of spiders.

I found it a very entertaining piece.

Gotta say mate. I sometimes take a peek at what your up to. I think your doing far better with the saxophonist than the keys player. It's like listening to the traffic go past in places. With how I think about music, take that as the compliment it's intended to be.

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Thanks Ceri.... sorry about the scary spiders. Check out the other one I posted.... the volcano video. You're not afraid of volcanos?

And yes, you are right. I get bashed all the time here for my music. I expect it.

And a big shout out to nikininja!! I'm going to look for some of your stuff I promise. On Youtube?

FYI - The sax player is also my keyboard player. Robert Leng. He plays both sax AND keys. Plus he's got a degree in composition from some fancy music conservatory.... a talented guy.

Only scared of volcanoes in the most obvious and reasonably way. Not phobic about 'em.

How interesting: I completely agree with Nick in liking the sax parts better than the keys. Glad I checked out the second link, that one's doing it for me much better than the first.

I'm interested that you are putting these tracks over pictures cos there's something I've notice about music people find "difficult". They never find it nearly so problematic when it (or pastiches of it) turn up in mainstream movie soundtracks.

Thanks to my dad I grew up on stuff like Edgar Varese, Robert Kraft and such. Many people find that music unbearably cacophonous - and yet about half the film and TV soundtracks of the late '60s / early '70s were closely based up on it. The incidental music on the TV Mission Impossible, just for example (I'm not talking about the famous theme tune).

Scott, I bet if the folks here who don't like your stuff heard it in the background in a big budget Hollywood film they wouldn't even bat an eyelid. On this track I'm kinda seeing Steve McQueen in some sort of heist movie, for instance...

Mind you, I'm not sure that's the type of reaction you're looking for...

Cheers - C

Yes!! The music in Steve McQueen's Bullitt is classic avant-jazz. Fantastic stuff.

And funny you mentioned Duane Allman. His music on this forum is very welcome.... but he never played Fender guitars. As far as I know.

I'm a Fender player. Almost exclusively Stratocasters for many years. Yet I'm the one that takes heat for posting my music. Mostly because I don't play blues based rock music.

Well I'm not going away.

Where can I hear your stuff Ceri?

Ah...

Most of what I've got is recorded on impossibly out of date equipment by today's standards. Anyone remember cassette tape? The sound quality is horrible - as is some of the playing. As are some of the numbers.

I own a nice Yamaha AW1600 and keep meaning to make gleaming new presentable versions of a few of the bits I still feel slightly pleased with, and one or two new things. (And that Yamaha is itself several years old by now...) I also keep meaning to construct a website to host them.

I'm not actually the bashful type when it comes to show-and-tell, as some here might have noticed.

...So I'll let you know.

Cheers - C

Scott

I feel exactly the same way about the blues only mafia that you do. Worst of all, I love playing blues, I just don't want to do it all the time. There's more to life and to the ears.

This is my last band (final gig with them tonight, what a painful experience that was )

Must sound quite neanderthal to your ears mate.

http://www.myspace.com/thesidevalves

Still atleast I can focus on my own writings now.

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Nikininja,

I have no problem listening to others play blues based rock. I've been in cover bands. From 1979 until 1987 or so I played in a rock cover band. There is no way I'm going to dis you for that. Or dis anyone's musical taste.

I don't have any problem if somebody doesn't like my music either. It's the vitriole that I object to. It's that "you suck!" attitude. "Burn your guitar and bury it." That thing......

I work just as hard on the music that I'm playing as John Mayer, for instance. He probably wouldn't like my stuff, and I don't like his music either..... but I don't want JM to stop playing. Keep it up JM!!

And you keep it up Nikininja..... and Ceri too!!

Hi Heustis,

I like your tunes.



Nice!

Not too keen on spiders though

Its not usually my thing but in my early 20's I spent many, many weekends in amsterdam and can now listen to Jazz with out my brain melting

Keep up the good work dude!

Andy

P.S The pic is a charater who hosts a Jazz show which is part of the comedy sketch show The Fast Show. Not sure if you get that out in the US....

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Hey Scott,

I like your tunes. The spider piece is (plenty) outside, no?

I have been playing along with acid jazz lately and have enjoyed stepping away from the blues idium

You had the vid with the camera mounted on the headstock didn't you? I enjoyed that as well.

Thank you for posting here, pal.

Wow! Thanks!!

Compliments? Where's my fainting couch?

And yes.... that's a hilarious comedy sketch about a jazz music show and its host. Really goofy.... the music is funny too. I had to watch it on Youtube. We don't get it in the US.

heustis, I don't like spiders but the close up video was kinda cool, I like some jazz but not really the stuff that your band plays. It is really cool that you are a Forumite though as it is the different musical influences that make it interesting. Play on Bro!

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Quick, couch for Mr Heustis! Catch him, someone!



Cheers - C