stuff ver. 1.2
i've been laughing like fuck since yesterday, after downloading the first season of chappelle's show. benta sobra. some skits are kinda lame but still funny enough to cause a stomach cramp (like the wu-tang financial thing...what the? you could actually trust RZA and GZA with your insurance? hahaha!) but some were classic, like the blind white supremacist who didn't know he was black..that skit'll go down in history i swear. the shoutout your favorite NBA player too...a parody of guys who shout out "jordan!" whenever they make a cool play in basketball. i swear, benta.
guy smoking a joint: "RASHEED...WALLACE!"
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now seriously, what's the second most difficult thing to do, music-wise, aside from trying to play a john petrucci, joe satriani or joe pass guitar solo? in my case i'd have to say it's learning a song by steely dan. seriously, my fingers are in a bind trying to learn "black cow" on the guitar. so many unusual chord patterns; slash chords, 9ths, 11ths...nerve-wracking shit right there. and that's just the accompaniment. soloing over it is an entirely different story.
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pero speaking of steely dan, i'd have to agree with bobthealmighty's last post, that fusion does kick ass be it jazz-rock like steely dan or jazz-hiphop like guru (lupet mo langhiya ka!) and the sound providers. yun nga, the term itself is ambiguous. jazz-fusion can manifest itself in so many different styles and progressions but the end product still kicks big-time butt. that's why weather report's sound is considered one of the most groundbreaking of several jazz generations (diba kahlil_012?), and miles davis' bitches brew changed the way traditional jazz purists looked at the genre. fuck, that album burst on to the scene like it was a fucking social revolution, going through the phases of denial, acceptance and finally, institutionalization. heck, even bossa nova can be considered fusion, with the elements of standard jazz and traditional brazilian samba coming together, in my opinion one of the greatest movements/revolutions ever to take place in music.
no matter how much prog rock, punk-rock and hard rock i've been listening to, my heart still belongs to jazz. :)
"don't know why/ there's no sun up in the sky/ stormy weather..."
guy smoking a joint: "RASHEED...WALLACE!"
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now seriously, what's the second most difficult thing to do, music-wise, aside from trying to play a john petrucci, joe satriani or joe pass guitar solo? in my case i'd have to say it's learning a song by steely dan. seriously, my fingers are in a bind trying to learn "black cow" on the guitar. so many unusual chord patterns; slash chords, 9ths, 11ths...nerve-wracking shit right there. and that's just the accompaniment. soloing over it is an entirely different story.
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pero speaking of steely dan, i'd have to agree with bobthealmighty's last post, that fusion does kick ass be it jazz-rock like steely dan or jazz-hiphop like guru (lupet mo langhiya ka!) and the sound providers. yun nga, the term itself is ambiguous. jazz-fusion can manifest itself in so many different styles and progressions but the end product still kicks big-time butt. that's why weather report's sound is considered one of the most groundbreaking of several jazz generations (diba kahlil_012?), and miles davis' bitches brew changed the way traditional jazz purists looked at the genre. fuck, that album burst on to the scene like it was a fucking social revolution, going through the phases of denial, acceptance and finally, institutionalization. heck, even bossa nova can be considered fusion, with the elements of standard jazz and traditional brazilian samba coming together, in my opinion one of the greatest movements/revolutions ever to take place in music.
no matter how much prog rock, punk-rock and hard rock i've been listening to, my heart still belongs to jazz. :)
"don't know why/ there's no sun up in the sky/ stormy weather..."