Ugo
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Posted: Nov. 05 2008, 15:58 |
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@ Sweetpea: the bass part of "Maya Gold", being based on a repetitive, circular tune, was certainly written down. But what he plays on the guitar is very clearly improvised, and you can see this because what he plays on the live version of the same piece (in the Edinburgh show) is only superficially similar to what is on the album. I don't really like it when Mike (or anyone else, as I said above) starts going off the 'structured' track and ventures into improvisation, and this is the reason why I hate jazz music - because improvisation is of course a key factor of jazz. This, of course, may also refer to guitar solos in other genres, such as (for example) metal. I love Dave Murray's solos in Iron Maiden because most of them are very tightly structured, but I don't like Yanick Gers' ones because they're not. It's just a matter of personal taste, of course, because some people may find Mike's relaxed style (more than 'loose' on "Maya Gold" much more appealing than his technical, virtuoso wizardry. I don't, but it's only me.
@ Bassman: I think it's rather hard to explain this for me, because English is not my native language, but what I was saying is that a piece of music sounds dated to me when it features too many of a particular era's trademarks or peculiarities. There are plenty of 80s songs which I like better than "Forever Young" because they don't sound as 'plastified', and, changing era, I'm a big Beatles fan because, to me, most of the stuff that the Beatles did (especially from 1965 onwards) does not sounds 1960ish at all - they were very, very, very ahead of their time. On the other hand, to me a piece of music like TB (1973) sounds firmly planted in its own time, and the fact that I still enjoy it now because it's (obviously) great music doesn't avoid the fact that it sounds very 1973-ish to me. And it always will. "I Will Survive" sounds extremely 1978-ish, but of course I still play it (and dance to it ).
-------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian
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