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Topic: Art Center class comes to my studio |
chas smith R.I.P.
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Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 21 Mar 2011 11:25 am |
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Tom Knechtel brought his Art Center class over to my studio for a show-and-tell and they made a short video.
http://vimeo.com/20897241 |
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Earnest Bovine
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Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 21 Mar 2011 12:16 pm
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| Looks like you really clean up the joint when the art school babes come over. Nicely done, good hi-fi live audio recording, and I like the way they brought up your music as underscoring slowly so I didn't realize it was there at first. |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 21 Mar 2011 12:28 pm
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Funny, Dave. Chas, after viewing the video, (which, by the way, somehow caused my browser to crash,) you might consider updating your avatar.
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Michael Robertson
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Ventura, California. USA
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Posted 21 Mar 2011 12:35 pm Interesting
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Now THAT was interesting!
Is there more to the video or is that it?
I hope there is more.
You could call what’s his name, Huell Howser?
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 21 Mar 2011 12:48 pm
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Huell Howser. Good idea except Huell, being from Tennessee, might end up talking about that Sho-Bud to the exclusion of the other instruments.  |
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James Nottage
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Indiana, USA
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Posted 21 Mar 2011 3:19 pm Art Center Visit
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Chas:
Your inventiveness never ceases to amaze me. Your devotion to the traditional in steel guitar balanced with out-of-the-box creativity creates a dimension beyond anyone I know. More power to you. So, did the students get to hear the traditional as well?
James
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chas smith R.I.P.
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Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 22 Mar 2011 10:14 am
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| Looks like you really clean up the joint when the art school babes come over. |
Doug, if you could have seen it a couple days before, it was borderline Haz-Mat, but when the ladies are coming over, everything has to be clean.
James, thank you for the nice words. Two of the students, who play in a death metal band, wanted to hear the steel guitar and they stayed after. They were fascinated. They wanted to know everything about the tunings, the patterns, how it worked and since they had never heard any "trad country", they recorded me playing around on both necks.
That's the thing, I don't think music is mutually exclusive. Pop music and Pop culture are about identity. For example, Country was hats, boots, big belt buckles and pickup trucks, hip-hop/rap was saggy and baggy, rockabilly was/is pompadours, Betty Page hair with poodle skirts, tattoos and hot rods, in fact a couple of the most rigid formats are rockabilly and blue grass.
My 1st class, 1st semester at Berklee 1-69 and the 1st thing the teacher, Tony Texiera, said was, "you've got your thing and you can really get into it and play it really well, but can you get into my thing and play just as well, because if you can't, you're not a musician." I believed him. Although, I don't have the skills for blue grass. I had a run, a while back, where on the weekend I was playing in an orchestra for an opera, mid week it was with a metal band, the following weekend was with Sugarballs and the 18-Wheelers, truck driver music, followed by 4 nights of deathmetal and free improv noise (not really noise, which is random, but very complicated sound) then back to art music. You would think that this would be musical whiplash, but it's all about what is appropriate at that moment.
I'm not going to criticize someone who only wants to hear and play one style, but for me, the bigger the playing field, the more fun and interesting it is. |
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