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Topic: Your favourite recording OF YOURSELF ! |
basilh
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Posted 8 Jul 2010 12:41 am |
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This could be enlightening, we all have favourite recordings of other players, but come on it's time to confess up as to your OWN personal favourite of YOURSELF..
it doesn't necessarily need to be a commercial recording, and to start the ball rolling I'll list mine, recorded on a Philips 1/4" in mono @ 3.75 ips, live at the Castaways Night Club in 1966.
My #1 favourites would be:- Sweet Leilani, or South Sea Island Magic.
Those versions are by Pat, Mike de Sousa, Frank and myself live at the castaways when I was 23 years old, BUT from the same amateur recording period would be my favourites from a rehearsal session:- 12th Street Rag or Hula Blues. If you listen closely you can hear chat in the background and myself calling the chord changes whilst playing 12th Street Rag..
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Earnest Bovine
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Posted 8 Jul 2010 1:13 am Re: Your favourite recording OF YOURSELF !
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| basilh wrote: |
... mine, recorded ... in 1966.
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Is it discouraging to realize that in 44 years, you haven't been able to top that?
BTW I hate all of mine. |
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Nicholai Steindler
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New York, USA
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Posted 8 Jul 2010 2:55 am Re: Your favourite recording OF YOURSELF !
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| Earnest Bovine wrote: |
| basilh wrote: |
... mine, recorded ... in 1966.
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Is it discouraging to realize that in 44 years, you haven't been able to top that?
BTW I hate all of mine. |
Mine is probably me at age three banging on a piano in tune to beachboys with a friend hitting drums. One, I remember hitting notes that sounded right and being amazed, two, why were we recording ourselves jamming at age three (maybe four, maybe)? My friend had too many toys for a three year old obviously.
Gosh there are so many memories out there on tape it's kind of scary what will happen when I go digging. Talent show in highschool was epic, we played a 13 minute funk version of the McDonalds menu in costume with gogo dancers and lights and smoke machines and strobelights etc. They pulled the plug. i have a video of that one! (I hope) The singer guitarist killed himself after getting thrown out of harvard and yale, you can't replace old recordings like that for memories. |
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basilh
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Posted 8 Jul 2010 4:01 am Re: Your favourite recording OF YOURSELF !
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| Earnest Bovine wrote: |
Is it discouraging to realize that in 44 years, you haven't been able to top that? |
Presumptive Ernest!, I have indeed improved albeit not to my satisfaction. I did take a break from Hawaiian Style playing from 1970 'till 1998. But since then I have been steadily increasing my understanding of the style.
It's the spontaneity and exuberance of those early performances that (Obviously with advancing age) now elude me..
BTW I can't say whether I hate YOUR playing or not, send me one of the ones you hate the most (Just to get rid of it).. |
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 8 Jul 2010 4:09 am
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I've done a few recording sessions that were OK and I can live with, but mostly I don't like my recordings much. That said, I think it's necessary to listen back with honest and critical ears in order to improve.
I have recorded a lot of original music as a singer/songwriter (which has never seen the light of day, for the most part, and probably never will). Some of that stuff I can still listen to proudly.
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Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 8 Jul 2010 9:27 am Well...............................
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My rendition of "LITTLE ROCK GET AWAY" and "Steelin' Away".........as viewed on You Tube, IMHO, is some of the better examples of my work.
My hope is that other folks will like it. |
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basilh
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United Kingdom
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Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 8 Jul 2010 7:26 pm Many Thanks to you Basil.....................
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I surely do appreciate your kind comment, your posting of LINKS, etc.
It's great to know I have a really good friend in the UK. |
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basilh
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United Kingdom
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Joey Ace
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 9 Jul 2010 5:02 am I most Enjoy Being an Accompanist
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My dobro work on Neil Cotton's "Georgetown Will Always Be Home" is my favorite recording.
It was recorded and mixed so well!
My playing was exactly what I wanted, based on what I heard in my head.
Neil wrote the song to celebrate the anniversary of the the founding of his hometown. There was a major homing reunion event in the local arena. Folks came from as far away as New Zealand. (G'town in in Ontario, near Toronto)
The entire song was done in one six hour session.
Most of the time spent on vocal harmony overdubs.
http://www.joeyace.com/audio/gtown.mp3 |
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Kay Das
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 9 Jul 2010 11:21 pm
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| Have made a couple or three recordings over the years, but as Sir Paul Macartney was recently heard to reply to this exact same question,....am still trying to make the big one... |
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