So, what have you been listening to lately?

[Pilgrim]

Americans have long made fun of the accents within the US.  Mobsters are often portrayed with various New York area accents.

And Tom Lehrer included this line in "It makes a Fella Proud to be a Soldier" in 1959:

Our captain has a handicap to cope with, sad to tell.
He's from Georgia, and he doesn't speak the language very well.

[uwe]

Poking fun at regional accents is one thing (and common in Germany too though I'm no good at doing impressions of other regional accents, my wife is though), but ethnic accents of immigrant minorities is another matter. At the time, I wasn't ridiculing a Miami accent but Rudy's then (it was his Whitesnake era, judging from more recent interviews he's lost most of it) inability to speak "proper English" after decades of being an American (but probably in an environment where most people around him continued to speak Spanish), he sounded like a Mexican bandido with gun belts across his chest in a 50ies black & white cowboy film. In hindsight, my pronunciation arrogance left a sour taste with me (long before 'political correctness' became a catchphrase) though I am generally not perceived as being all too touchy - or hesitant - as (my own) low pc remarks go. 

Whenever I hear the brilliant Tom Lehrer say a German word or phrase, it becomes evident to me that he must have grown up hearing and/or speaking fluent German. Some second generation immigrant story behind that. His parents, Moses and Anna, secular Jews, came to America before darkness engulfed Germany and most of Europe.

[Pilgrim]

We had so many Indian students that I can do Apu very well.  But I'm careful about who hears me when I do it.

[uwe]

 

[uwe]

Speaking of  Derek St. Holmes ... Big People, the Millenium supergroup that went underneath the radar ...



Having Benjamin Orr play bass on Nugent songs, Pat Travers play keyboards on Cars songs and Derek St. Holmes sing 38 Special hits sounds lik a recipe for disaster, but audibly it worked. Too bad they never recorded their own material.

[Basvarken]

That hyper-active drummer reminds me of Kenny Aaronoff.

[lowend1]

That hyper-active drummer reminds me of Kenny Aaronoff.

Liberty DeVitto - Billy Joel's drummer on almost all his classic stuff. He's a good guy. Yeah, there is a similarity to Aaronoff, though. Could be worse.

[Dave W]

Vince Gill, Sheryl Crow, Albert Lee, Keb' Mo, Earl Klugh and James Burton do Clapton

[lowend1]

Speaking of  Derek St. Holmes ... Big People, the Millenium supergroup that went underneath the radar ...



Having Benjamin Orr play bass on Nugent songs, Pat Travers play keyboards on Cars songs and Derek St. Holmes sing 38 Special hits sounds lik a recipe for disaster, but audibly it worked. Too bad they never recorded their own material.

I thought they were supposed to do an album... I think that project crashed mostly because Ben Orr got sick and ultimately passed.

[gearHed289]

Speaking of  Derek St. Holmes ... Big People, the Millenium supergroup that went underneath the radar ...



Having Benjamin Orr play bass on Nugent songs, Pat Travers play keyboards on Cars songs and Derek St. Holmes sing 38 Special hits sounds lik a recipe for disaster, but audibly it worked. Too bad they never recorded their own material.

Huh, what a weird combo! I'll have to watch more later.

[uwe]

I thought they were supposed to do an album... I think that project crashed mostly because Ben Orr got sick and ultimately passed.

Yes, they all say that Orr was the glue that held everything together. This is him three months before his death, singing and playing great, but looking at him in that oversized coat you can he was on the reaper's list. Pancreati cancer, he died October 3, 2000, aged 53.



They did play that Cars stuff with gusto. More gusto than the Cars often refrained from showing. 

[uwe]

Vince Gill, Sheryl Crow, Albert Lee, Keb' Mo, Earl Klugh and James Burton do Clapton

And who co-wrote it? My heroine Marcella Detroit!



Otherwise known as the edgy half of the brilliant Shakespears Sisters.

[Basvarken]

Today 32 years ago Stevie Ray Vaughan died in a terrible helicopter crash.
As far as I'm concerned one of the greatest (if not the greatest) guitarists the world has ever seen.

RIP SRV

[uwe]

Ok, Rob, so then the pentatonic blues scale is the be-and-end-all for you? 

SVR had incredible tone and fluidity, but there's eleven half-steps on the fretboard before reaching the octave, not just five and a couple of bendings. It's a bit like calling someone who speaks only one language the best linguist in the world.

My vote goes to Jeff Beck. Loss of SVR was tragic though.

[Basvarken]

  It's not about scales Uwe. It's about emotion.
Almost no other guitarist has the ability to move me like SRV did.
He was other-worldly.

And I do believe your knowledge of SRV repertoire is somewhat limited maybe?