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Going to London
By: indigo_dave Date: January 26, 2019, 8:03 am
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I'm going to London in mid-February - a lovely time to visit.
This began as an effort to see and hear Jacob Collier live in
concert. A friend is in London helping her sister recover from
recent foot surgery. She said I should come over. Jacob will
have a concert there around Feb 22 IIRC. But by the time I
began shopping for tickets in earnest, he seems to have sold
out. Same story in Nashville and New Orleans (concerts coming
in March).
So my friend said to come over anyway. I'll have a free air
bed/matress to sleep on in her one bedroom flat.
I believe Jacob Collier will attain some sort of legendary
status as a musical artist in the coming years. Some folks who
have listened to him say they don't hear anything special. My
thinking is that they don't understand some of what he's doing.
Actually some of what he does, I don't quite understand. Sort
of like if I read William Faulkner and some of his literary
techniques went over my head. Or maybe a nuanced acting
performance by say Alec Guinness. But some disagree.
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Re: Going to London
By: guest11 Date: January 26, 2019, 10:38 am
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Sounds like an ADVENTURE. I like those!
Have a good time, Dave :)
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Re: Going to London
By: AJ Date: January 26, 2019, 11:49 am
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That is AWESOME Dave!! Hope you have plenty of time to go
sightseeing! Such a historic city! Do take lots of pics and
please share with us when you return...Or even better, post from
there! Wish I was going too!
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Re: Going to London
By: AJ Date: January 27, 2019, 8:53 pm
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....Kind of rushed over your Jacob Collier mention in my
excitement over your trip to London.
Tonight I went to UToob....and Holy Fucking Hell....What a
talent!!! If this kid wrote and performed this piece...Just this
one piece is enough to bowl me over! he did all this? The video
as well? And this is 3 years old!
jeezus! This kid is a major talent...and I'm kind of amazed he
isn't already a household word!
HTML https://youtu.be/4v3zyPEy-Po
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Re: Going to London
By: indigo_dave Date: January 28, 2019, 11:19 am
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Thanks for good wishes. And Dano, I sometimes have trouble
keeping up with some of the threads - I wish you the best with
your health issues.
Regarding Jacob, he said in a Q&A that when he was growing up,
his mother (a symphony violinist) gave him recordings by a
variety of artists like Stevie Wonder, Benjamin Britten, Bobby
McFerrin, Bela Bartok - in other word a mixed musical bag. He
said he never practiced in the conventional sense. He also said
that he would save up money and every year he would buy a
musical instrument for his birthday. In other words this didn't
just happen by a fortunate fluke. Jacob has musical
wisdom/comprehension way beyond his years. But I suspect his
mother nurtured these talents. Jacob has said he sung Bach
chorales (4 part vocal harmony) with his sisters, which makes me
wonder whether there is more other-worldly talent waiting in the
wings.
So I'll sit back and wait, watch and listen. What I don't really
comprehend is when some people say that they hear nothing
special. Aside from the wizardry in putting these multi-track
recordings together, his harmonic and rhythmic language is at a
high level.
Almost just as exciting, for me anyway, is to watch Q&A's
recorded at places like Berkeley music college in Boston. I
believe he is inspiring young musicians who are only slightly
younger than Jacob. I've been scornful of the young singer
songwriters and EDM musicians who thing that creating music that
repeats 4 chords over and over is good music. It can be in some
cases - but using is at their go to formula grows tiresome
quickly. So I'm hopeful for the future.
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Re: Going to London
By: AJ Date: January 28, 2019, 6:58 pm
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thing is...He's creating very complex music...That's sadly
becoming very hard to come by in today's musical landscape,
especially among the young. You have to be willing to venture in
to Jazz or neo-Classical to find really complex stuff.
I only frequent 3 forums. Here, HC, and Guitar Forum. At GF,
most of the love goes to players that solo over backing tracks.
I mean all the way through. I'm get tired of that pretty
quickly. I got enough of that, really. I think I've heard the
best of them already. And I mean like 20 years ago. The peeps at
HC and GF are good folks. They aren't as cliquey at GF, but it's
all guitar, all the time. While that's my instrument of choice,
I like having a more diverse conversation, y'know what I mean?
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Re: Going to London
By: indigo_dave Date: January 29, 2019, 6:00 pm
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He's creating complex music, but usually it's pretty fucking
catchy. I was going to post a short one here. But now...well
shit.. this is Jacob at the YouTube space (I thing maybe they've
got em in NY and LA and maybe elsewhere). Now, this, best I can
figure is a pre-planned arrangement he did. Oh this Synclavier
MIDI piano, somewhere at his feet are maybe 5 MIDI triggering
pedals, you see the player piano thing happening, with Jacob
also playing in real time. That fucking arrangement, the harmony
he's doing is fucking heavy...to use an old cliche hippie term.
But he fucking excites me. He said he's going to record with
Steve Gadd and (IIRC) Christian McBride. He also said he'd like
to have a band who can also sing. His fucking imagination is
off the scales.
Just a couple of very different sampes,
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC3GrzoQG9U
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bref7JGITws
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Re: Going to London
By: AJ Date: January 29, 2019, 6:44 pm
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Astonishing stuff....I think the second one was lip sync
though...The vocals are just too clear...Still...Sounds
greet..The first one he really has command over his instrument
and the looping tech he is employing.
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Re: Going to London
By: indigo_dave Date: January 30, 2019, 7:39 am
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Speaking of forums you frequent, which forum is "Guitar Forum" ?
I frequent HC, Pianoworld (non-classical subforum mostly),
and Keyboard Corner.
The Keyboard Corner is very active with quite a few actual
gigging musicians. The thing is there are a lot of synth
players who seem more interested in how to program sounds, tweak
them and so on. Lot of guys who lug lots of equipment. There
are a few jazzers, but not a lot.
The Pianoworld Non-Classical subforum seems to get quite a few
beginners even though they have a Pianoworld Adult Beginners
subforum. The Piano Corner forum on PW is pretty active, but
it's just the classical side of the piano.
Interesting how the niches develop over time. Oh, I also
sometimes visit Clark Howard's website. Clark calls himself a
consumer warrior. He gives lots of great tips and information.
He has a syndicated radio show out of Atlanta. He used to be on
the air daily here, but was on the same station as those right
wing distortionists (Hannity and Herman Caine among others) and
seems to have be squeezed out. No doubt the distortionists
ratings were higher. People love hate.
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Re: Going to London
By: AJ Date: January 30, 2019, 5:31 pm
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