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Post by Doc on Feb 26, 2005 18:49:48 GMT -5
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Post by JoJo on Feb 26, 2005 19:14:19 GMT -5
You are very talented sir! I think my fav is Desert City, interesting how it was inspired, I remember flying over the area at night and being amazed at the lights. Mainly because it doesn't go from nothing at all (flying over the desert) to bam lights in your face all of a sudden where I'm from. Thanks for sharing!
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Post by eyesbleed on Feb 26, 2005 20:40:13 GMT -5
Yes.... Desert City is excellent. indeed! That is a very well written piece. I also like Celtic Dance. Well, they're all very well done, but Desert City is most definately my favorite of the 4.
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Post by xpt626 on Feb 26, 2005 22:08:44 GMT -5
fabulous!!! Desert City is my fave too. I always enjoy your music. Thanks for the link
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Post by Doc on Feb 27, 2005 2:22:08 GMT -5
Thanks Jojo, eyesbleed, and xpt!
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Post by xpt626 on Feb 27, 2005 3:45:44 GMT -5
Baby Doc R:
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Post by Doc on Feb 27, 2005 4:00:42 GMT -5
rofl ;D
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Post by eyesbleed on Feb 27, 2005 8:47:12 GMT -5
I'm not a piano person at all & much prefer the string instruments. Guitars mainly.... or string quartets. So a piano piece is gonna have to be pretty good to catch my ear.... & I didn't think I would hear anything that I would actually want to hear again. WRONG....... Desert City is as good of a piano piece as anything I've ever heard. I'm not just sayin' this to be nice & return the compliments either. DC is a wonderful piece of music. I think I better go check it out one more time this morning..... that sounds like a good way to start the day!
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Post by DarkHorse on Feb 27, 2005 11:13:08 GMT -5
Something's wrong with my WMP and I couldn't hear the songs.
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Post by eyesbleed on Feb 27, 2005 11:34:29 GMT -5
Something's wrong with my WMP and I couldn't hear the songs. Go getcha a free version of the musicmatch or real player.
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Post by Jai Guru Deva on Feb 28, 2005 20:13:05 GMT -5
I've got a question for you Dr. Robert, it's not quite a piano question, but within the same ballpark... Since I learned the Beatles used the Mellotron, I've been looking at that instrument. The Beatles, for example, used a Mellotron to create a flute and combined brass in Strawberry Fields. Do you think the Beatles might have also experimented with playing a bass guitar sound on the Mellotron?
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Post by Doc on Mar 1, 2005 4:02:10 GMT -5
I've got a question for you Dr. Robert, it's not quite a piano question, but within the same ballpark... Since I learned the Beatles used the Mellotron, I've been looking at that instrument. The Beatles, for example, used a Mellotron to create a flute and combined brass in Strawberry Fields. Do you think the Beatles might have also experimented with playing a bass guitar sound on the Mellotron? Uhm, I am not sure! Itis remembered that the mellotron was used often for string sounds, whatever could be "sampled" in a analog kind of way directly to mylar tape, and the little tape loops made for each chromatic pitch on the keyboard. Tended to have the organ grinder effect. Stevie Wonder used it well in his "Village Ghetto Land" song on Songs in the Key of Life. I suppose you could prepare it to be a "bass' of sorts. It seems like it would depend on the attack of the bass---since each note is a momentary loop, each strike of the key might not hit the tape at the point of the fingered attack as recorded......So, it seems like the playing would sound spongy, irregular, even klutzy, its not the same as a real strong bass player plucking with rhythmic accuracy in his fingers, as felt by the listener. Mellotron worked OK with strings and sustained instruments, it usually played "pads" or accompaniment support, not the leading rhythm..... I think one would want a real bassist playing to get a good feel. I have to say, and I may catch flack, that a couple of songs on Pepper, though, the bass seems thin, narrow, and very "pick bass" in charactor. I guess that reflects a shift in insturments? Away from the Hoffner violin bass to the other one I forget..... I wont say it wasn't done, because many new things were tried with great finesse, and perhaps hours of trial and error, to get new effects. I doubt all of Pepper would have been done in such a way. Before Pepper? I just personally dont think so.......but, there was some experimenting going on in Revolver, as we all have read..... I just never heard anything that struck me as "synthesized"from the bass.... EXCEPT, maybe, Fixing a Hole. There is something tubby yet thin about the bass on that tune. I dont hear a lot of low EQ in the bass on just that one tune, well, and Rita is odd to me too......though I llike both tunes........the bass sounds uncharacteristic, to my ears, of what came before......... well, the bass on Lucy in the Sky seems that way too...... cant explain it...a kind of bouncy, stacatto playing style, the notes go pum pum pum with this kind of decay between each one. The attacks almost like organ pedals or a synth keyboard. Do you hear this at all? The mixes on Pepper seem top heavy at times.....imo Ah, yes. The post that lost me any credibility I might have ever had.........
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Post by Doc on Mar 1, 2005 4:08:18 GMT -5
I'm not a piano person at all & much prefer the string instruments. Guitars mainly.... or string quartets. So a piano piece is gonna have to be pretty good to catch my ear.... & I didn't think I would hear anything that I would actually want to hear again. WRONG....... Desert City is as good of a piano piece as anything I've ever heard. I'm not just sayin' this to be nice & return the compliments either. DC is a wonderful piece of music. I think I better go check it out one more time this morning..... that sounds like a good way to start the day! Eyesbleed, thank you!
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Post by Girl on Mar 1, 2005 8:11:36 GMT -5
I also can not listen right now, but I don't want to load up my computer again... I'll figure out what to do.
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Post by eyesbleed on Mar 1, 2005 8:40:06 GMT -5
Have y'all thought about downloading the song instead of streaming it? That way you'd have it in yer machine & then figure out a way to play it. That free musicmatch player doesn't use much space. I've got the paid versions of musicmatch & real, but I prefer the musicmatch player. The realplayer software is a little too aggressive.
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Post by Girl on Mar 1, 2005 9:15:14 GMT -5
I agree. Thanks, EB, I'll check out musicmatch.
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Post by Doc on Mar 3, 2005 8:08:48 GMT -5
I have added two songs to my NoWhere Music space. In keeping with the "desert" theme.......
"Desert City" will be back as soon as my payment goes thru for the upgraded amount of space. 15 MB goes fast!
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Post by xpt626 on Mar 3, 2005 12:23:10 GMT -5
more great stuff!! I'll put the little cyber-you ---> into this post so I can watch you play while I listen ;D
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Post by Doc on Mar 3, 2005 18:41:46 GMT -5
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Post by Girl on Mar 3, 2005 21:12:12 GMT -5
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Post by eyesbleed on Mar 3, 2005 22:41:06 GMT -5
Yep, a couple more superb pieces of work! Be sure & holler when Desert City goes back up so Girl can hear it also.
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Post by Doc on Mar 4, 2005 15:23:13 GMT -5
Wowwwwwww, Doc, that was awesome... haven't heard Desert City yet, looking forward to it! Are you getting all the exposure you deserve? Consider networking @ myspace.com, if you haven't already... Bless you, dear Girl! Thanks for the recommendation about myspace.com, I'll check it out. I piad for my extended space on nowhereradio 3 days ago, and it still hasn't kicked in. Hoping it will soon........ hese were all on a CD locally produced (Atlanta, GA)about 15 years ago that I did. Actually, there were two of them. One of which, I have no copy and I have to try to get off eBay or amazon used CDs! I just never kept up with them. They were buy-outs; made by Intersound/Platinum, they sold them all over America in the second line New Age counters......... Anyway, I forgot I made them for about 6 or 7 years! I just came across the one and thought why not...... Anyway, I am working on making my own thing here in this year sometime......
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Post by Doc on Mar 4, 2005 18:20:57 GMT -5
I just put "Desert City" back up.
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Post by Girl on Mar 7, 2005 21:11:51 GMT -5
Finally got to hear it... it's great, Doc!!!! Can't believe you've been sitting on these for so long... wow, but I'm glad to know you're finally doing something about it... I liked "Joyride" very much as well. I'm listening to the others now... To Sir With Love is playing... an awesome classic I haven't heard in ages. "New Age"-- ;D that's okay, I do love my New Age music... that and the Beatles get me through my satirical existence... So, yeah, myspace is FREE, and you'll become a household word in no time... and we'll become your VIP groupies, 'k?
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Post by Doc on Mar 7, 2005 21:48:28 GMT -5
Ho! Thank you mega, Girl!
I will look into the "myspace" location later tonight. Thanks for tellin' me about it. Sounds fun!
"......VIP, groupies, 'K?"
K! Groupies! Now, that's a new concept for me!
If people enjoys the pieces a little bit I'm happy.
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