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Topic: Stolen Moments, a jazz classic |
Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 18 Jan 2021 12:28 pm |
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My next release will be a Hawaiian-style trio setting playing songs from the Real Book. This is Stolen Moments, a demo version, featuring the Rickenbacker steel owned by the great Sol Hoopii. I am playing all instruments. The final release will feature a special guest on this track (and each track).
There is a phenomenon I discovered listening to early Hawaiian recordings by Andy Iona, Dick McIntire, etc. that has to do with the sound of the Rickenbacher--at times it sounds as if notes of a chord are coming from different locations in the recording, as if played by another steel. I experienced it with this recording. I wonder if anyone else has ever noticed that.
https://mikeneer.bandcamp.com/track/stolen-moments-demo
While you're at Bandcamp, pick up Anthony Locke's new release, Shades of Steel.
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Jim Mckay
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New Zealand
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Posted 18 Jan 2021 12:32 pm
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Great stuff going on there Mike. 
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Travis Brown
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Florida, USA
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Posted 18 Jan 2021 3:59 pm
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Lovely playing! I also love the theme of "Songs from the Real Book".
I look forward to buying it when the project is done. I'm fairly new to lap steel, but you are the first person I've heard improvise jazz leads on a lap steel, which is pretty dang amazing IMO!
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Joe Cook
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Lake Osoyoos, WA
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Posted 18 Jan 2021 6:24 pm
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| I love the stripped down sound. Very nice playing and tone, perfect for that kind of jazz. |
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 19 Jan 2021 3:22 am
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So great-sounding, Mike. Your steel is completely exposed in the mix which completely exposes your great technique, intonation and excellent thematic improvisation ideas. I'm not sure about the phenomena you describe but I recall the late Bruce Clarke telling me Johnny Pineapple's steel guitar always sounding to him as if it were coming over a short wave radio. Maybe it's the way a bakelite body deals with overtones? Or perhaps Sol is sending a message from beyond?
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Bo Parker
From:
Alabama, USA
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Posted 19 Jan 2021 3:25 am
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| Wow. Great stuff. |
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 19 Jan 2021 6:02 am
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| great playing as always. cool freddy green uke. |
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Scott Thomas
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Posted 19 Jan 2021 3:46 pm
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| I'm excited about this project! I have noticed that phenomenon you are talking about--mostly on old recordings (with frypans as it turns out) but Jerry Byrd would do that--the bass note sustaining while there's movement on the top. On the old frying pans it might have something to do with the throaty bottom end and wide voicing, but it really does sound like two independent registers sometimes. |
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David Matzenik
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Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 20 Jan 2021 10:29 pm
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That phenomenon, I don't know if we are talking about the same thing, but sometimes in syncopations on the old recordings, it sounds to me like ping pong balls bouncing around the mic. Next time, I'll take note of recording.
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Michael Diabo
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Nova Scotia, Canada
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Posted 23 Jan 2021 11:43 am
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A great version of a classic. Like others have said, I really enjoy the sparseness of the lap steel, and uke. What uke did you use on the recording?
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 25 Jan 2021 7:57 am
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Thanks everyone. You’re gonna love the final version with Anton Denner’s flute playing and my attempt to keep up with him.
Oh, and Michael: it’s a Gretsch ukulele I picked up about 5 years ago.
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