I love Kottke too. Not better than MH, just different musical expressions. Adrian Legg is pretty cool too, I was inspired to install a set of Keith tuners on one of my guitars some years ago from hearing what he did with them.

Z

Its interesting, quite a mix, and most of this stuff is pretty out there, not the commercial stuff at all.

I did a few shows once with Leo Kottke on 6 and 12 string guitars and Mike Gordon on bass.  The audience was split into three distinct groups.  1/3 who loved Leo Kottke and didn't have a clue as to Mike Gordon.  1/3 who were huge Phish fans and didn't know Leo from Shineola, and a 1/3 who knew both.  Great shows by the way.

Did you have to do much research to find out the Legg equipment?  He is famous for painting out, or taping out the logos on all his stuff.

Quote from: tekla on April 09, 2008, 11:46:47 AM
Its interesting, quite a mix, and most of this stuff is pretty out there, not the commercial stuff at all.

I did a few shows once with Leo Kottke on 6 and 12 string guitars and Mike Gordon on bass.  The audience was split into three distinct groups.  1/3 who loved Leo Kottke and didn't have a clue as to Mike Gordon.  1/3 who were huge Phish fans and didn't know Leo from Shineola, and a 1/3 who knew both.  Great shows by the way.

Did you have to do much research to find out the Legg equipment?  He is famous for painting out, or taping out the logos on all his stuff.

I'd enjoy hearing them play together live. I'd be among the audience members who knew them both. I met Mike Gordon many years ago, just after they'd recorded their first tape Junta, which I still have.

It wasn't hard to find out what he was using, I probably read it in an interview. Basically, the only choices were either the Keith tuners or the hipshot levers/bridges that Michael Manring uses.

Z

Quote from: tekla on April 09, 2008, 11:26:38 AM
Well I'll see your Michael Hedges (too much harmonics for my taste) give you Belew who is great, get Jeff Beck in there, and raise you an Adrian Legg  and a Leo Kottke who I think are both better players then Hedges.  But that's just me.

Yes, Kottke is a better player because Hedges is dead and can't play anymore.

I appreciate Kottke's technical ability; it is unquestioned and far better than I could ever hope to be. I just like Hedges' sound better.

Jorge Strunz and Ardishir Farah are exceptional, too.

Yeah, its a matter of degrees and tastes.  If your more into the melodic, the rhythematic, or the technical aspects you might drift to one camp or the other.  And in most cases I know of these people only by their live performances.  I might even want to plug a David Lindley or a John Hammond in there - both are awesome in their genre.  And were not even hitting Buddy Guy, or Jerry, or that Carlos dude.  Blues, or jazz, or r&b?  Classical?  How do you compare Django with Segovia against Jeff Beck?  And how does that compare with that Wes Montgomery sound, or that Keith Richards deal?  Its just too huge to contemplate. 

And what about just pulling out the thing and entertaining and possibly enlightening and empowering them?  What about what Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie have done, albeit with far less chops than the above.  But Arlo can pull that thing out at a festival and get 20K people singing along and that's got to be worth something.

My favorite bands are AFI and My Chemical Romance (I'm sorry, Tekla...I just can't help myself).  It's not just the sound that makes me like music, but the feelings I get from the music.  But aside from those two bands, most of the bands I listen to aren't as mainstream.  My other favorites are mostly in the psychobilly genre.  I really love Tiger Army (just saw them in Feb!!!), The Nekromantix, and The Horrorpops.  I also like The Misfits (Danzig era only though), Dead Kennedys, Nim Vind,  The Quakes, etc.  I LOVE Rufus Wainwright and Yoko Kanno, who writes music for anime, but it's really fantastic music that spans all different genres.  I highly recommend "Tank" by the Seatbelts, if anyone is interested.  The only types of music I really hate are rap/hip hop (it's so overdone these days), pop (just because you're pretty doesn't mean you can sing) and most country.  I like Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Jimmy Buffet, Elvis, Hank Williams, and I listen to a lot of Japanese rock and pop.  Asian Kung Fu Generation is my favorite Japanese rock band.  I have at least 120 cds with me at work.  I'm a little obsessed with music...

I just listened to those neKromantix and I like them too.   

the replacements
violent femmes
grand funk railroad

Well not too sure about MCR or AFI, but I'll give you Tiger Army, I do like them.  Its a nice list however, not a lot of people could go from The Misfits to Rufus W.  (I love his song, "I Put My Phone On Vibrate For You" and his version of L. Cohen's "Hallelujah")  Did a Japanese band a few weeks back called The Boredoms, they were off the hook.

I do have quite a range of music....  I love Tiger Army.  I took a real beating at their concert though.  heh.  But I was right in front of Nick13, so it was worth it.    I've never heard of the Boredoms, but I'll definitely check them out!  My love of the Misfits stems a little from the fact that I was completely in love with Glen Danzig when I was 11 years old.  From the first time I saw the live video for "Mother", I was smitten!  hehe...that's not normal, is it?  Well, the Misfits fit in well with psychobilly.    I was a little sad when Tiger Army didn't play "American Nightmare"...

And there are no words that can express my love for Rufus...

I like dance music such as techno and trance, and also European pop (not most US pop). I think rock sounds too harsh.

sounds like a list of what i like least

Quote from: Pica Pica on April 17, 2008, 05:39:46 PM
sounds like a list of what i like least

Ugh, forgot about those.
Yeah, same here, not my thing.

No dance music for you all?  heh.  I'm not huge on dance, but sometimes it's all right.  From time to time, I'll listen to Juno Reactor or Blaqk Audio (which is the guitarist and lead singer of AFI doing Depeche Mode-esque music)  I also like Japanese pop/dance music.  It's very happy.  "Love Love Joy" by Yuki Kimura might be the happiest song on the planet.  I also forgot to mention my love for The Smiths, The Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen, etc, etc.  "Asleep" is my absolute favorite song.

Quote from: Jaimey on April 17, 2008, 07:48:17 PM
No dance music for you all?  heh.  I'm not huge on dance, but sometimes it's all right.  From time to time, I'll listen to Juno Reactor or Blaqk Audio (which is the guitarist and lead singer of AFI doing Depeche Mode-esque music)  I also like Japanese pop/dance music.  It's very happy.  "Love Love Joy" by Yuki Kimura might be the happiest song on the planet.  I also forgot to mention my love for The Smiths, The Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen, etc, etc.  "Asleep" is my absolute favorite song.

I can handle a few songs remixed into techno or house, but that is it.

Oh another I dislike... Disco.
Hmm, maybe I do dislike most dance music...

Gah, why does everyone hate dance? I'm the world's only rock hater, I think...

not keen on rock either - not cockrock typr rock.

But a bit of cure n smiths is good, and proper punk - real punk with people who are passionate, or just pleasantly nihilistic - not whiny punk. And postpunk, and people stripping their guitars to really thin sounds and jabbing with them.

But eurodance...really?

Though I do like disco.

cheap trick (at budakon)

I'm gone. I'm sick of being the only dance fan in the ->-bleeped-<-ing WORLD. Rock sounds like death to me.

You can dance to rock.

You can dance to rock.

You just look real bad doing it. 

And I like some dance music, it helps to be dancing however.