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Post by andre005 on Jul 28, 2015 22:10:43 GMT -5
I don't agree about that comedian saying Jts bass lines are the same.. Flea slaps his bass on many many chili songs.. So the same can be said of him.. U are right about the reggae style.. I like Sting and I thing vocally he is way better than geddy....
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2015 8:40:22 GMT -5
Of course Nick's input on studio albums is amazing....but playin' live, c'mon!
check what Zappa's keyboardist is doing....it's not all about ability....it's about the approach to playing
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Post by mynick7 on Jul 29, 2015 10:41:20 GMT -5
I just interviewed Jason Sawford, keyboardist and one of the founders of The Australian Pink Floyd Show. It was a quick but very interesting interview. Of the interviews that I've had recently, I had a keyboardist in my grasp, something I could relate to.
This is a man who has been playing keyboards live since 1988. Aussie Floyd has no studio albums, and in my opinion, are the quintessential cover band. I know I'm referring to the music of Pink Floyd here and a different genre than Duran Duran, but music still the same. PF pre-dates digitial, and although Jason, like Nick Rhodes, prefers analog synths and Hammond organs, they are really impractical to tour with, so he has a digital set-up that he dumps everything into, and that is what he uses on tour.
So my point in this is that Jason has perfected the art of playing the keyboards live since that is all they do. I simply cannot wait to see them live next week and meet them. Even though the music of Pink Floyd is mainly guitar/bass/drum based, rock music, the actual keyboards are enhancement. Duran Duran are not a rock band. Their music is synth and guitar based. With that said, the keyboard "parts" of PF may not be as difficult and intricate as DD, but there is still an art to performing live.
Nick is, without a doubt, brilliant in the studio because he has access to the 100s of keyboards he owns. He cannot take them on the road. Even I will admit, a Nick fan to the core, that playing live is not his strongest point. He does play, yes. He pretends to play, yes. But he does what he does because of what he's created in the studio with his bandmates. And that is what this article is talking about; his studio work. He literally cannot play live everything you hear on an album so it's digitalized. So sometimes he fakes it. I don't get what the big deal is.
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Post by Max Zorin on Jul 30, 2015 15:15:26 GMT -5
In comparison to Caravaggio, painters like Andy Warhol, Kandinsky, Miro or van Gogh definitely can't paint... Well, I prefer Miro over Caravaggio. In the same way I prefer Nick Rhodes over Keith Emerson's boring solos.
creator/composer > instrumentalist
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