No Offense, But Why...

IF YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT I LIKE, YOU ARE CLOSE MINDED.

E N D   O F   D I S C U S S I O N.

BaldJean wrote: it is the steady beat of hip-hop and rap which gets on my nerves. it is like having a revolver pointed at you and being told "dance, buster, this is a 4/4". I really like to dance, but not at gun point

I hadn't even thought about that. That's a really good point.
And even more true with dance music.
And they wonder why I don't like parties...

To all people who have tried to get into hip hop and couldn't try out some Quasimoto. This has got to be some of the best hip hop I have ever heard....very original.

Some other great Hip Hop
Black Star (Mos Def & Talib Kweli)
Slum Village
RJD2
Madlib
Jurassic 5
Strange Fruit Project
The Roots
Jaylib
A Tribe Called Quest
Digable Planets
J Dilla
Oh No


serious stuff...



Edited by MusicForSpeedin - March 08 2008 at 10:05

Hey, I even found the second Wally album, "Valley Gardens." This is straight up symph, and mellotron abounds.

Just read the sidetracked bit about progressive country wich reminds me... The String Cheese Incedent (a bluegrass/jamband/jazz/psyche/prog band from Colorado) should be added into prog folk after all bluegrass is a type of folk, and their arn't enough prog-folk bands with US-folk influences

  saw that tour

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: micky wrote: jammun wrote: Yep, quick search sez these will be hard if not impossible to find.  Damn.  Ya never know though, looks like they were originally released on Atlantic which gives some hope, since it's not a totally obscure label. exactly...  for curiosities sake... it is an interesting listen.  But the review is dead on. Now the fun is proposing them to Symphonic Would give anything I have.. but Raffaella's love of course .... .. to see Ivan's expression as he listened to it hahhahahhaha.   Sh¡t....You did it Micky   If you got samples, send them, if I'm a Kansas fan, I have no problem with Country Symph Mellotron.   Iván

I'll get some samples uploaded for you this evening...  to be honest.... I don't think they fit Sympho.. .but what the hell do I know . Since sympho had first dibs on them back then..was submitted to you.... you all get first dibs...if you reject... just let me know and I'll find a home for them under the AR blanket I'm sure.

I don't like it
I've heard it, bue I dont like it
maybe cause I've heard only 2000's hi-hop, maybe I should listen to 80's hip hop...

good thread

Hey guys regarding albums with Mellotron and pedal steel, just go on this web site (PA) and type in mellotron pedal steel guitar and you will see quite a few albums, for instance London Underground.

In addition to that, you might want to check Pete Sinfield's Still album, although I think he uses a Symphoniser (high end Lowrey organ) instead of a Mellotron. You might also want to check Shawn Phillips, an early 70s folk artist who did some long songs that ended up on US progressive rock radio.

There are probably some country songs from the late 60s and early 70s that use Mellotron instead of strigs. It sure sounds to me like a lot of soul music from this period used Mellotrons. A friend of mine used to work on Isaac Hayes' Mellotron. Isaac was involved in many songs as a producer and writer so I bet his Mellotron shows up on a lot of songs.

I'm just guessing that there were probably some country songs on a budget that decided to use Mellotron instead of strings.

Edited by Easy Money - March 03 2008 at 07:47

micky wrote: hmmmm... pretty well I guess  The time honoured 'double moon', bravely delivered from the safety of our tent. Heck, I bet a few of us crazy kids were even shouting 'Wally' around the site later too!