OT:We saw Lightfoot last night.

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[Robatoy]

Delightful!!

[nailshooter41]

I guess it is a matter of taste. SNC is a nifty band, and they are quite polished. They do a lot of novelty type stuff. There is plenty of their work on the 'tube:

don't think they compare to MT, though. JMO, but compare this little impromtu scat they did with Ella:

to offend anyone, but to me it is the difference between performers and musicians.

Both have a place on stage.

Feeling mellow, listening to Oscar Peterson's live solo performances (with an occasional guest such as Ella or Nat) on a rainy day....

Robert

[Tom Dacon]

the Troubador when he and I were both young, with Gordon doing a solo set to a room of no more than a dozen, just him and his six-string and another guy called "Red" backing him on 12-string. He was probably about 30 or a little more, I was an aspiring but not very good folksinger in my middle 20's. Some people say he had the best voice in folk, in those days.

Tom

[Lee Michaels]

"Robatoy" wrote

Nothing like blowing a couple of hours on a Saturday morning following a music thread on the Wreck and rearranging a whole mess of music on one of the iPods.... It was 86F here day before yesterday now we have white global warming shit falling from the skies.... welcome to the micro-weather systems of The Greatest Lakes Evar! ================

Just be grateful it isn't volcanic ash!!

[Lee Michaels]

Was that the original drum machine?

Somehow or another, Ijust don't think it will catch on. Too big, too smelly, too country. etc.

[Swingman]

By any other name, anyone who can sing four, five and six part harmony, unaccompanied, _is_ a musician. ;)

[Robatoy]

The British and Dutch bankers to Iceland: "Send us SOMETHING!!"

Icelanders: " =D8kayy "

[Robert Bonomi]

Be warned, if you want to mako something of it -- I've got _lots_ more of them I could trout out. Including some that are really crappie, others that are merely tilipiadated, and a few that just smelt. That said, _anybody_ engaging in fish puns is likely to get scrod. Shad, but true. And, yes, I not only *did* do it all on porpoise, I manta every word.

[Swingman]

Tractors and tuners ... the pitch of a flourescent bulb in a night club is close enough to Bb for hand grenades ... turn up that hum in the monitors, let, say the tenor sax or clarinet, tune to it, then let them bring the band up to A4.

Who needs drum machines and tuners ... ;)

[Swingman]

And now you got muffin left to say ... ;)

[Han]

"Lee Michaels" wrote in news:4bca171f$0 $1485$ [e-mail]:

Not yet, just wait a bit ...

[Lee Michaels]

I lived close to Mt St Helens when it blew. I remember it well. Every night everybody watched the news for the "volcanic ash report'. Which was basically which way was the wind blowing.

If the wind is blowing in your direction when an eruption takes place, you are in trouble. If it is blowing in another dirction, big sigh of relief. Of course, that means somebody else is in trouble.

[Robert Bonomi]

Abalone! That _was_ just a start.

As for 'muffin left to say', I've got others that are bran new.

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[Lew Hodgett]

Somebody wrote: (A compliation)

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More Fish:

A redneck was stopped by a game warden in Alabama recently with two ice chests full of fish. He was leavin' a cove well-known for its fishing.

The game warden asked the man, 'Do you have a license to catch those fish?'

'Naw, sir', replied the redneck. 'I ain't got none of them there licenses.., these here are my pet fish.'

'Pet fish?'

'Yeah.. Every night, I take these here fish down to the lake and let 'em swim 'round for awhile. Then, when I whistle, they jump right back into these here ice chests and I take 'em home.'

'That's a bunch of hooey! Fish can't do that.'

The redneck looked at the warden for a moment and then said, 'It's the truth Mr. Government Man. I'll show ya. It really works.'

'O. K.', said the warden. 'I've got to see this!'

The redneck poured the fish into the lake and stood and waited.

After several minutes, the warden says, 'Well?'

'Well, what?', says the redneck.

The warden says, 'When are you going to call them back?'

'Call who back?'

'The FISH', replied the warden!

'What fish?', replied the redneck.

Moral of the story:

We may not be as smart as some city slickers, but we aren't as dumb as

some government employees.

You can say what you want about the South, but you never hear of

anyone retiring and moving north.

[nailshooter41]

Absolutely no doubt. I wasn't speaking badly about SNC at all.

What I meant to point out that was to me, there was a wide gap in choice of style and presentation between MT and SNC.

As I said, both have the place. SNC came here some time back, and the reviews were stellar.

Like those female voices in MT, though....

Robert

[Swingman]

Orange you something ...

[Swingman]

Manhattan Transfer is tops in my book also ... probably one of the best blends of "jazz" and "swing" ever, vocal and instrumental alike.

Like I said, their "Swing" album is one of the absolutest hardest _swinging_ albums of all time. Anyone wanna know what "swing" is ... introduce them to that album, it is the veritable definition of the genre. That particular album is also some of the most stellar musicianship you will ever hear, with virtuoso performances on every single instrument, on every single track.

Dayum, I wish I had had that recording budget a couple of times ... :)

You're right, SNC is not in the same genre, but damn those multi-part a capella harmonies. If you've ever been in a room and feel how they can acoustically make the air resonate without mics ... like Rob said, it'll make the hair on your arms stand up.

Then again, something like that is almost impossible to capture on a recording, it has to be physically experienced, whereas MT lends itself well, and can be enjoyed and appreciated, in all mediums.

[Robatoy]

There's always a touch-tone phone. There's a 440 in there somewhere.

[Robatoy]

You can't capture anything like that any more than you can capture a view of the Rockies on a photograph or even a painting.