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Points: 8052 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2009 at 18:03
Originally posted by James James wrote:

Gosh.  Veracious is quite simply superb.  Listen to it soon!

Is that the remastered Sitting Targets?


Think so.
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Points: 25210 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2009 at 18:03
Originally posted by James James wrote:

I've never heard of Charlie Hunter.

You wouldn't have a 7-string if it wasn't for Charlie Christian.  Not that he played one but he did play electric guitar in its infancy.  Les Paul was influenced by him hugely.

Many fusion guitarists were influenced by Christian and Les Paul.

I've no idea who Charlie Hunter is though.


Charlie Hunter, interestingly enough, actually does play 7 and 8 string guitars, and is one of the most well known modern jazz guitarists who plays guitars with over 6 strings, so in a way, without his influence as being one of the first to do, a lot of jazzers might not be playing 7/8 stringsWink
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2009 at 17:59
Gosh.  Veracious is quite simply superb.  Listen to it soon!

Is that the remastered Sitting Targets?
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Points: 8052 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2009 at 17:55
Originally posted by James James wrote:

I've been out all evening.  So now, I do not!

Rob, how's Veracious?

Mike, I just felt Fish Rising was messy and uninspired.  I'll give it another listen.


Still not heard it, tbh. Sitting Targets just arrived too. Been listening to more VDGG and less Hammill lately... sure it'll swing round soon enough LOL
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2009 at 17:53
I've never heard of Charlie Hunter.

You wouldn't have a 7-string if it wasn't for Charlie Christian.  Not that he played one but he did play electric guitar in its infancy.  Les Paul was influenced by him hugely.

Many fusion guitarists were influenced by Christian and Les Paul.

I've no idea who Charlie Hunter is though.
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Charlie Christian, Charlie Parker and Charlie Hunter were/are all geniuses in their own way.
My preferred of the bunch is Hunter.
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2009 at 17:49
Nah.

Charlie Christian.
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As well as Charlie Parker, it's also about Charlie Hunter.
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2009 at 17:44
I've been out all evening.  So now, I do not!

Rob, how's Veracious?

Mike, I just felt Fish Rising was messy and uninspired.  I'll give it another listen.
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Points: 28057 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2009 at 16:57
ITT: James posts. Lots.
My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want!
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Originally posted by birdwithteeth11 birdwithteeth11 wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:

Oh I know what album that is... except my brain has filed it some place and I forget not only the title of the band but the album name too.

The album begins with The though.

The Decemberists - The Crane Wife

Yes?

Actually, it's "And the Glass Handed Kites" by Mew. Absolutely fantastic rich, textured atmospheric music. It's somewhat poppy with prog sensibilities.

Although I can see how some people would think they could fit in Crossover on this site. But then again, this is the only album I've heard by them so far, so take my thoughts on that matter with a grain of salt.

That's a great album.  Frengers is another good one.
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Points: 8052 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2009 at 15:39
Hm. Awake is actually pretty damn good... really good. Maybe a bit overlong, I prefer slightly sharper keys, and Labrie and Portnoy are both very annoying once in a while, but overall, I did think it was a great album.
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I still need some Art Bears.Cry

But I still need that damn boxset too. So AB must wait because of priorities.

Although it sounds like I MAY be able to work out a deal with my parents on the boxset come sometime this spring, so I have my fingers crossed.Big smile
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Points: 16111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2009 at 14:34
What's your beef with this album, James? It's nothing like GonG? I like it, it's heavy
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2009 at 14:31
Oooh.

I shall PM you sometime in the future then.  I have acquired the Hodgkinson '90s versions of the Henry Cow albums too.  Strictly for comparison purposes, of course.

I read somewhere and I don't know how accurate it is, that some of the Bremen concert material was used on the Hodgkinson Remixes... hmm.
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Originally posted by James James wrote:

Oh I know what album that is... except my brain has filed it some place and I forget not only the title of the band but the album name too.

The album begins with The though.

The Decemberists - The Crane Wife

Yes?

Actually, it's "And the Glass Handed Kites" by Mew. Absolutely fantastic rich, textured atmospheric music. It's somewhat poppy with prog sensibilities.

Although I can see how some people would think they could fit in Crossover on this site. But then again, this is the only album I've heard by them so far, so take my thoughts on that matter with a grain of salt.
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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2009 at 14:28
I need to listen to the third one more, but they're all excellent.

I've not heard that gig.
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2009 at 14:24
Originally posted by NaturalScience NaturalScience wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:

Grrr.



This is a great album.


Winter Songs is even better!  Tongue


I shall be listening to it later.

That's despite the fact I just ordered The Art Box. LOL

How about the third?

Also, have you heard their 1st May, 1979 RIO Concert gig? Wink
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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2009 at 14:21
Originally posted by James James wrote:

Grrr.



This is a great album.


Winter Songs is even better!  Tongue
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2009 at 14:19
Oh I know what album that is... except my brain has filed it some place and I forget not only the title of the band but the album name too.

The album begins with The though.

The Decemberists - The Crane Wife

Yes?
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