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Main Forums => The Outpost Cafe => Topic started by: drummer5359 on January 14, 2014, 02:03:46 AM
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I'm guessing that this has been done here before, but not for some time from what I can see.
Tell us about a performance video that just knocks your socks off and why.
Then post a link to it on youtube so that we can see (and hear) why.
I'll start.
First off, full disclosure. I 'm big fan of Jeff Beck and have been pretty much forever. So, of course I'm going to offer up a clip of Mr. Beck in action. To most, a clip of his performance at the Crossroads festival with Tal and Vinnie would be an obvious choice.
I'm going with one less obvious. He did a Les Paul tribute show in which he collaborated with Imelda May and her band. They cover "Walking in the sand" and just knock it out of the park. They horn section is great, they are swaying along to the music. Drummer Steve Rushton just kills it and Imelda's voice is as pretty and unique as she is.
Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nv9zJif2G8
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nice! that tribute to Les is amazing from start to finish
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Once you are Jeff Beck, you shouldn't be obsessed with timing, too much vibrato or a bum note here and there. 8)
I'm not knocking it. He plays in parts "over the music and its beat" as Carlos Santana does too. Try doing that as a bass player and not have the band at your throat. I think the only guy who gets away with that (a little) is Jack Bruce.
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there are no rules in music, unless you are uve. you can play major, minor and whatever else you want in the same song. how do you play in that musical straitjacket of yours?
"if you're thinken' you're stinken'"
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That Walking in the Sand video is great! Love Imelda's voice...I see Lou Marini on the sax at the end, too.
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Does that song have anything to do with Les Paul? I'm only familiar with the Shangri-Las & Aerosmith versions.
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there are no rules in music, unless you are uve. you can play major, minor and whatever else you want in the same song. how do you play in that musical straitjacket of yours?
"if you're thinken' you're stinken'"
I don't have issues with rule breaking, Jeff Beck is certainly allowed to his share of it. I break or at least strain rules playing bass all the time, mostly consciously though, i need some control even when transgressing. Always playing by the rules is boring, never doing it can be grating, Beck generally has a nice mix of both, in recent years he has become rather conservative in playing (and staying close to) the vocal melody of songs (the above track, A Day in the Life, Somewhere over the Rainbow etc) on his Strat, something that went generally out of fashion long ago (I kinda like it). But then he does something off-the-wall'ish to spice it up.
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This one is one I love. I have to get the full documentary sometime.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA0GcXV2njY
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Has Beck done that fluttering thing with the vibrato for a long time? All I could think of whenever he did that was Brad Gillis but that's going back a few years, and I don't really picture Jeff Beck being an Ozzy or Night Ranger fan.
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Since his Jan Hammer days, his playing has become a lot more sparse and vibrato -both finger and whammy - has taken on a larger role. Isn't that what happens to all of us: Your fretting hand does more tone shaping as you progress and your picking hand less? Of course, Beck's exquisite picking technique plays a major role in his sound.
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A performance video that knocks my socks off? I've posted this before but time for it again. And I don't think I need to explain why. ;D
Still in love with the fiddle player.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZvpHwoQfqk
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This one is one I love. I have to get the full documentary sometime.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA0GcXV2njY
Love it!
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A performance video that knocks my socks off? I've posted this before but time for it again. And I don't think I need to explain why. ;D
Still in love with the fiddle player.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZvpHwoQfqk
Giddy up!
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Ah, thank you Dave. That was nice. And the fiddle player is definitely my favorite as well. And I'm not trying to turn this into a girly video thread but the first thing that came to mind after watching that was this; also a nice performance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WJVr4QStm4
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A performance video that knocks my socks off? I've posted this before but time for it again. And I don't think I need to explain why. ;D
Still in love with the fiddle player.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZvpHwoQfqk
Now this woud be a great look for the Nasty Habits!
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A performance video that knocks my socks off? I've posted this before but time for it again. And I don't think I need to explain why. ;D
Still in love with the fiddle player.
A little baby fat ain't a bad thang, ya'll!
And Debbie Harry - the face that launched a thousand... never mind... ;)
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Belly-button free, alas!, and perhaps too obvious a choice, I can't rule out that the split screen has something to do with it too, but if I had to explain to a Martian what rock music is, this is what I'd show him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW5M5xljdCI
I was never a TYA/Alvin Lee diehard, but the sheer physicality of those 11 minutes never fails to grip me.
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they had a couple albums i liked, cricklewood green was one. this was one band that was better in the studio than live. i saw them in 1973 and they were stupid loud. 2 full marshall stacks for each player and a monster p.a. which is still the biggest i've seen.
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They had a lot more variation, subtlety and nuances in the studio. "I'm going home" became the millstone around their neck. Doesn't change the fact that the Woodstock performance that created the millstone was iconic. By today's standards, Alivin was all too often a blues shredder, but I thought he always had feel.
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This just does not sound right...
The Country Sisters - been going since the seventies and have had lots and lots of members... ;D
Oh yes, and you'd never guess they are Checz from the shirts - Dave's fave, Linda, left in 2011 - quite a bit of material to be found online...
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Yes, Linda Jarošová left the group, but she's still fiddling around.
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And now for something completely different.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWkKlkGI2J4#t=1676 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWkKlkGI2J4#t=1676)
Wendy O Williams and Lemmy at 28:00 playing Jailbait.
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Now there was a Lady that knew how to get down... rip
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Here is another cool video. By a band out of England that I really like, the James Hunter Six.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyhR0iCrdBY
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I wouldn't want anyone to get the idea that I dig fiddle music. :)
Doug may have slowed down by now but he's got a hell of a lot of energy considering he was in his mid-50s when this was filmed (1990).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubSCPBkTyWY
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Doug is a heck of a player and a really nice guy, lives a few miles up the road from me.
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They had a lot more variation, subtlety and nuances in the studio. "I'm going home" became the millstone around their neck. Doesn't change the fact that the Woodstock performance that created the millstone was iconic. By today's standards, Alivin was all too often a blues shredder, but I thought he always had feel.
When I remember the movie Woodstock, that particular performance is always right at the top. I agree that it was iconic. Memorable is perhaps not quite enough to describe it.
That video also shows one of the things which impressed me about the movie - the multiple screens used to portray the performances. At the time, that was one of the most innovative and creative film editing techniques I had ever seen. It still outstrips a lot of film making more than 40 years later.
Pilgrim9 - you probably already know this, but Kershaw had a decent restaurant on Highway 85 near Greeley for some years - I think he sold it about a year ago.