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Posted: Mar. 27 2005, 13:10 |
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Quote (moonchildhippy @ Mar. 25 2005, 18:59) | Quote (T4 @ Mar. 25 2005, 20:11) | Mike became famous for long, mainly instrumental pieces covering a myriad of styles and genres - not just one. This is what made him famous and this is what I love above all of his other output.
So I would favour a return to long instrumentals, played on real instruments and percussion, fewer synths, folk, rock, prog, celtic, new age, etc - all in the same bag, shaken up and see what emerges. |
I agree with your first paragraph T4 , and favour a return to the long instumentals of the '70's.
Call me ignorant, but I'm not sure what you mean by fewer synths,rock, prog,celtic and new age, then shake it all up and see what emerges. Are you saying that you wish for Mike to mix up various styles of music, and see what emerges.
Personally speaking I love all Mike's '70's work, and some of the '80's work. From TB2 onwards I don't think Mike has released anything bad . |
I agree - my second para reads ambiguously.
I meant a return to the 70s style of mixing the various genres (Folk, Rock, New Age, Celtic, Prog, etc) using fewer synths than he does these days and returning to more basic instrumentation (that's where the emotion comes from). Synths and technology may make life a lot easier and exploited to the limit, I guess possibilities are almost endless. But it takes a truly great keyboard player to get emotion out of a synth and Mike doesn't achieve that presently.
Now, Wakeman, Banks, Emerson and Moraz are a completely different kettle of fish.....
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