Re: GRcade Musician's Club - Do You "Do" Music?
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 1:17 am
Thanks dude.
Reinhardt is pretty inspirational stuff. He makes me feel a lot better about my knuckle on my right index finger, which I bust punching a bin in rage mode after a family fight. Damn thing feels fine for ages then goes all awry and bruised after doing certain movements for a long time including guitar, gaming, using a mouse etc. Wonder if it will ever recover fully. But I do have fully movement of that finger and better guitarists have tolerated far worse. It seems to have moved place a few millimetres but it took no time at all for me to adjust to that, if I even needed to - it's hard to work out. There's that guy who had the tips of his fingers cut off as well.
There's gooseberry fool tonnes of other jams I could post up. I think I've recorded about 85 sessions (over mostly 2 but up until now, 3 years), most of them several hours long.
This one's pretty interesting as far as weird ambient noise stuff goes, kinda jazzy. Definitely one of our more interesting fusions:
http://www.thegreengecko.co.uk/tbs/trac ... 140310.mp3
More that controlled feedback stuff mixed with tapping style, slide, harmonics and whammy.
I play all this fingerstyle by the way. I never use a pick.. which is probably a lot to do with the "warm" sound you liked.
It goes pretty mental towards the end and turns into this dissonant metal thing. I think that riff is meant to be based on the image of a demonic psychopathic clown But then goes back to the ambient style at the beginning, if only for a moment, so formally, it kinda works I think. The more I listen to it the more detailed I find in the interplay between the instruments.
As far as basically getting wasted and murdering our own musical conventions goes it's a lot of fun. Is amazing how much a band like that slowly conventionalises itself and then has to destabilise those conventions to keep it interesting. And there's the massive irony in trying to challenge a particular convention or style of music, and by doing that conforming to it by doing the opposite of a set of rules and therefore inadvertently subscribing to what it is that you are trying to challenge; a set of rules cannot exist without a set of "wrongs" against which those rules are set. So the best thing you can do if you want to try and write "original" music is to not think about it at all. Preferably don't even talk about it or play it to anybody else. But obviously, that's a pretty depressing method. And it can be depressing enough creating music that the vast majority of people won't understand or automatically hate when you know you could easily step up to a microphone and play a 100 year history of guitar recital to respectful nods if not rapturous applause. The life of an artist, eh?
Speaking of irony though, that's the fun part. No wave noise punk live set interspersed with classical guitar sonata solo? Just look at their faces.
Reinhardt is pretty inspirational stuff. He makes me feel a lot better about my knuckle on my right index finger, which I bust punching a bin in rage mode after a family fight. Damn thing feels fine for ages then goes all awry and bruised after doing certain movements for a long time including guitar, gaming, using a mouse etc. Wonder if it will ever recover fully. But I do have fully movement of that finger and better guitarists have tolerated far worse. It seems to have moved place a few millimetres but it took no time at all for me to adjust to that, if I even needed to - it's hard to work out. There's that guy who had the tips of his fingers cut off as well.
There's gooseberry fool tonnes of other jams I could post up. I think I've recorded about 85 sessions (over mostly 2 but up until now, 3 years), most of them several hours long.
This one's pretty interesting as far as weird ambient noise stuff goes, kinda jazzy. Definitely one of our more interesting fusions:
http://www.thegreengecko.co.uk/tbs/trac ... 140310.mp3
More that controlled feedback stuff mixed with tapping style, slide, harmonics and whammy.
I play all this fingerstyle by the way. I never use a pick.. which is probably a lot to do with the "warm" sound you liked.
It goes pretty mental towards the end and turns into this dissonant metal thing. I think that riff is meant to be based on the image of a demonic psychopathic clown But then goes back to the ambient style at the beginning, if only for a moment, so formally, it kinda works I think. The more I listen to it the more detailed I find in the interplay between the instruments.
As far as basically getting wasted and murdering our own musical conventions goes it's a lot of fun. Is amazing how much a band like that slowly conventionalises itself and then has to destabilise those conventions to keep it interesting. And there's the massive irony in trying to challenge a particular convention or style of music, and by doing that conforming to it by doing the opposite of a set of rules and therefore inadvertently subscribing to what it is that you are trying to challenge; a set of rules cannot exist without a set of "wrongs" against which those rules are set. So the best thing you can do if you want to try and write "original" music is to not think about it at all. Preferably don't even talk about it or play it to anybody else. But obviously, that's a pretty depressing method. And it can be depressing enough creating music that the vast majority of people won't understand or automatically hate when you know you could easily step up to a microphone and play a 100 year history of guitar recital to respectful nods if not rapturous applause. The life of an artist, eh?
Speaking of irony though, that's the fun part. No wave noise punk live set interspersed with classical guitar sonata solo? Just look at their faces.