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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 11:52:00 CDT
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Subject:      Friday follies

>Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 12:50:01 CDT
>From:         Lee=Jenkins%Factory=Sup%Mfg=Hou@BANGATE.COMPAQ.COM
>Subject:      re: To Sharrock or not To Sharrock
>
>
>i also come from a metal background.  i have two sharrock cds: _seize the
>rainbow_ and _ask the ages_, and i like them both very much.  some advice:
>whichever one you choose, drop any expectations you might have; listen to
>it all the way through once casually and put it away.  don't analyze it;
>don't make any effort to think about it.  then listen to something else you
>know well and enjoy.  later that day play sonny again, this time paying a
>little closer attention to what's going on.  repeat steps two and three,
>whichever ones they happen to be :).  when you listen the third time you'll
>find yourself humming some of the melodies along with sonny's axe.

   That's solid advice Lee.  The first time I heard _Ask The Ages_, I really
wasn't sure what to make of it.  I wound up paying more attention to Elvin and
Charnette Moffett than to Sonny and Pharoah.  The second time I just opened my
ears (and my mind) and let the music dictate what I should be hearing.  From
that point on it was Sharrock heaven.

>that's what worked for me, anyway.  sometimes i approach new music from
>this "subconscious" perspective.  it helps me create a new mental
>context for the music, instead of forcing the music to fit, however
>akwardly, into a previously defined context.

   Another excellent point.  That's pretty much the approach I've used for
getting into some of the stuff we lovingly call "Beer Jazz" around here.
Rather than trying to pigeonhole the music, or questioning what the f*ck is
going on, let the music speak for you.  It's kind of similar to some of the
concepts in that book _The Inner Game of Music_ -- it involves turning off
the little internal voice that gets in the way of just experiencing music.


>Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 19:06:41 GMT
>From:         Jeff Beer <ujwb@UXA.ECN.BGU.EDU>
>Subject:      top 10 guitar list
>
>
>ALL BEER TOP 10 LIST on GUITARS TO HANG THE WORLD WITH:
>
>
>     5.    Jimi Hendrix:  MACHINE GUN, from Band Of Gypsies, Filmore New
>
>     There are tons of Hendrix of course, but this one reminds me most
>     of Coltrane.

   Hmmm, this is scary -- I'm actually in agreement with da Beer.  ;*)

>6.    James Blood Ulmer:  No Wave (out of print Moers album)
>      The 1st album with Music Revelation Ensemble,  it is some
>      harmolodic funk a la Ornette Coleman.  The time swirls in a
>      hundred directions at once, but it is still funky.  Blood
>      has 100 different articulations, much like Monk had, and
>      like Clifford Brown.

   This is out of print?  I bought it about a year ago, and it was still
sealed.  It was distributed by North Country (Cadence).  Here we disagree
completely.  I have heard Ulmer that I love (_Live At The Caravan Of Dreams_
and parts of _The Tales of Captain Black_), but about half of this recording
sounds like re-cycled Ornette that's badly in need of another "nervous
skittering guitar".  :*)

>7.    Sonny Sharock:  LAST CALL, from Last Exit, Koln
>      People have called this band "metal", but when Sonny had to
>      play through the house Marshall's he said: "The guitar player in
>      those Marshall amps is not me!"

   Wow, another vote for Sonny!  And another one off of Koln, no less!

>8.    John Scofield & Bill Frisell:  THRILL SEEKERS, from Bass Desire's
>      Second Sight.
>
>      Scofield is Mr Super-Line, and Frizz is spacey with his splattering
>      chords.  Great contrast between two guitar styles of today's
>      jazz.

   I thought about including their version of "Resolution" for the same basic
reasons.  They present a stark and wonderful contrast.


>Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 08:34:40 CDT
>From:         "Leonard Watkins" <ISTS024@UABDPO.BITNET>
>Subject:      Re: are you Cyrus?
>
>
>
>Why doesn't everyone lay off the Billy Ray Cyrus fan there is music for
everyon
>e and he chooses to like that, and everyone knocking his musical taste is
>getting old, he may not like miles or jimi but he's not knocking them all the
>time......L.W.

Lenny, Lenny, Lenny,

   This clown came on the list and said B.R.C. is the greatest thing since the
Disco Duck (thanks to Rick for that one  :*)  and when people disagreed he
started getting abusive.  He obviously has a large mouth, a simple mind, and
no sense of netiquette.  People like that will get flamed, and there's nothing
you can do about it except (a) tell the guy to shutup, or (b) think before he
speaks, or (c) have him offer some reasons why we should give up all the types
of music we like and become achy breaky klones.

Later Derek adds:

>Which would make him different from Ruxpig, so maybe it's a bit of an unfair
>comparison, eh?  And maybe some of the people on this list needed Rux a little
>more then they thought just so they could booster their own egos by busting on
>his.  Love and kisses....   :^0

   If this *were* the case it would be somewhat unfair (see above).  Also,
anyone who insists on showing you over and over in loud tones how stupid they
can be is going to get some response.
   Besides, this guy is such an easy target that I can't imagine anyone would
get an ego-boost from it.


      bye,
      cmv ("chuckrateeze -- who still hasn't heard the a.b.h. song, and has no
            intention of doing so")
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