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- Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:34 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Home...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 880
Re: Home...
As a kid learning guitar in the mid to late 60s, the two really distinctive and unusual jazz guitarists to impress and influence me were Benson in his Jack McDuff and Columbia days and Jerry Hahn. Hahn stayed true to his art, as I saw it, and disappeared into teaching and making the occasional poorl...
- Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:43 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Home...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 880
Re: Home...
Someone who could do that but doesn't is George Benson, I suppose. We're lucky to have recordings of him when he was creatively alive. The easy listening crowd are lucky to have someone that good playing for them now. If part of what you love about an artist is their daring, I think you want to hear...
- Wed Feb 11, 2009 8:23 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Victoria forestfires
- Replies: 4
- Views: 594
Re: Victoria forestfires
Hi. Thanks for your concern, IB. These days I divide my time between Australia and Chicago, but I'm in Aus at the moment. I live about two hours drive south of the home of Oz Whistles in the same mountains. Despite very high temperatures, we've been spared the fires up here. Ironically, it's cold an...
- Fri Jan 30, 2009 9:19 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: John Martyn - R.I.P.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 627
Re: John Martyn - R.I.P.
This is very sad news although not entirely unexpected. As Dubh says, he was great to see live. In the early 70s he made a series of very fine albums. 'May You Never' remains my favourite song of his.
- Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:25 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Come Again?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1252
Re: Come Again?
Just when I thought I understood global warming, I discover it's something sold by old-fashioned grocers in brown paper bags. I'll have two decades worth for my basement please.
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 7:37 pm
- Forum: Traditional String Instruments
- Topic: My Les Paul for Your Octave Mandolin
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3628
Re: My Les Paul for Your Octave Mandolin
1981-1983 Japanese Fender Strats (copies of vintage instruments although genuine Fenders) blow Custom Shop recreations away and even mid 80s Squiers are better than American made Fenders since the 60s if what you want is that vintage sound. Just to pull the discussion further off topic: have you se...
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:05 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: FS: B. Overton whistles...
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2706
Re: FS: B. Overton whistles...
Just a few notes of explanation for the mystified. for quite a while, Overtons were made independently by both Bernard Overton and Colin Goldie. If they were made by Bernard they weren't made by Colin although Colin might have repaired or revoiced an instrument made by Bernard. Fans of Colin's Whist...
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:49 am
- Forum: Traditional String Instruments
- Topic: My Les Paul for Your Octave Mandolin
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3628
Re: My Les Paul for Your Octave Mandolin
That Les Paul isn't a 1958 or 1959 Standard is it? If you want to swap it for my Weber octave mandolin you've got a deal. :D Mind you, when I sell the Les Paul I'm going straight out to buy another Weber. It has a rich, complex, throaty tone I just love. To my hands and ears, its a much better instr...
- Thu Nov 27, 2008 12:03 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Marcel Proust vs. John Coltrane
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1003
Re: Marcel Proust vs. John Coltrane
Now there really is an important similarity between JC and MP. Coltrane would play a solo on and on, sometimes for an hour or more. When asked by Miles Davis why he went on so long he said he often didn't know how to finish the solo. Miles' terse reply: 'Ever tried just taking the horn out of your m...
- Tue Nov 04, 2008 11:08 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Music Derived from Sarah Palin's Speech
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1419
- Thu Oct 30, 2008 1:15 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: The Danny Boy Poll
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2600
- Thu Oct 30, 2008 11:10 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: The Danny Boy Poll
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2600
- Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:11 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Help with CD database
- Replies: 6
- Views: 662
That sounds like an accurate description of the basic feature of the currently available software. Several types of shareware are listed on the Gracenotes site. I just want to know if some are better than others. ah, that's what ya meant by available software in the OP! (sounded like ya wanted to r...
- Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:28 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Help with CD database
- Replies: 6
- Views: 662
- Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:45 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Help with CD database
- Replies: 6
- Views: 662
Help with CD database
I'd like to set up a CD database linked to Grace Notes so I don't have to spend years typing in information. Does anybody have enough experience with the available software to make recommendations or issue warnings? Any help greatly appreciated.