| 17th October 2007 04:29 AM |
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| Dan |
http://www.jazzoasis.com/methenyonkennyg.htm
An excerpt:
"Not long ago, Kenny G put out a recording where he overdubbed himself on
top of a 30+ year old Louis Armstrong record, the track "What a Wonderful
World". With this single move, Kenny G became one of the few people on earth
I can say that I really can't use at all - as a man, for his incredible
arrogance to even consider such a thing, and as a musician, for presuming to
share the stage with the single most important figure in our music.
This type of musical necrophilia - the technique of overdubbing on the
preexisting tracks of already dead performers - was weird when Natalie Cole
did it with her dad on "Unforgettable" a few years ago, but it was her dad.
When Tony Bennett did it with Billie Holiday it was bizarre, but we are
talking about two of the greatest singers of the 20th century who were on
roughly the same level of artistic accomplishment. When Larry Coryell
presumed to overdub himself on top of a Wes Montgomery track, I lost a lot
of the respect that I ever had for him - and I have to seriously question
the fact that I did have respect for someone who could turn out to have such
unbelievably bad taste and be that disrespectful to one of my personal
heroes.
But when Kenny G decided that it was appropriate for him to defile the music
of the man who is probably the greatest jazz musician that has ever lived by
spewing his lame-ass, jive, pseudo bluesy, out-of-tune, noodling, wimped
out, fucked up playing all over one of the great Louis's tracks (even one of
his lesser ones), he did something that I would not have imagined possible.
He, in one move, through his unbelievably pretentious and calloused musical
decision to embark on this most cynical of musical paths, shit all over the
graves of all the musicians past and present who have risked their lives by
going out there on the road for years and years developing their own music
inspired by the standards of grace that Louis Armstrong brought to every
single note he played over an amazing lifetime as a musician. "
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| 17th October 2007 05:43 AM |
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| Jumping Jack |
As long as we are discussing celebrity golfers and necrophilia, I am looking forward to Saturday night's show in Birmingham.
One thing I miss is Cold Ethyl and her skeleton kiss
We met last night making love by the refrigerator light
Ethyl Ethyl let me squeeze you in my arms
Ethyl Ethyl come and freeze me with your charm
One thing, no lie, Ethyl frigid as an eskimo pie
She's cool in bed, yeah she oughta be 'cause Ethyl's dead
Ethyl, Ethyl let me squeeze you in my arms
Ethyl, Ethyl come and freeze me with your charms
Come on Cold Ethyl
Freeze me babe
One thing, it's true, Cold Ethyl I am stuck on you
And everything is my way, Ethyl don't have much to say
Ethyl, Ethyl let me squeeze you in my arms
Ethyl, Ethyl come and freeze me with your charm
Come here Cold Ethyl
What makes you so cold?
Ooh so cold
Cold Ethyl
Cold Cold Ethyl
Cold Ethyl
Cold Cold Ethyl
Cold Ethyl
Cold Cold Ethyl
Cold Ethyl
Cold Cold Ethyl
If I live 'til ninety-seven
You'll still be waiting in refrigerator heaven
'cause you're cool
You're ice
Cold Ethyl
You're my paradise
Ow!
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| 17th October 2007 07:41 AM |
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| SweetVirginia |
I have to agree with Pat. Those "singing with the dead" videos give me the creeps. Now Lisa Marie has done one with Elvis.
cringe
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| 17th October 2007 09:56 AM |
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| mojoman |
i guess he didnt like the song |
| 17th October 2007 10:14 AM |
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| glencar |
What took Metheny so long? I lost all respect for Kenny G when he did that video where he walked around playing a flute. And if it's wrong for Kenny G, it's just as wrong for Tony Bennett. That douchebag's been coasting for years now. |
| 17th October 2007 11:44 AM |
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| Dan |
quote:
glencar wrote:
What took Metheny so long? I lost all respect for Kenny G when he did that video where he walked around playing a flute. And if it's wrong for Kenny G, it's just as wrong for Tony Bennett. That douchebag's been coasting for years now.
I was informed it was an old article. It's still funny though. |
| 17th October 2007 03:13 PM |
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| pdog |
This really puts The Kabash on my Ramones project...
Damn! |
| 17th October 2007 03:23 PM |
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| Saint Sway |
I had always suspected that Pat Metheny posted here... this confirms it! |
| 17th October 2007 03:26 PM |
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| pdog |
Wow A Pat Metheney vs. Kenny G. thread! |
| 17th October 2007 03:31 PM |
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| Saint Sway |
quote:
pdog wrote:
Wow A Pat Metheney vs. Kenny G. thread!
if you combine their names into an anagram it spells "Cheney Takes Krystal Meth" |
| 17th October 2007 03:43 PM |
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| pdog |
quote:
Saint Sway wrote:
if you combine their names into an anagram it spells "Cheney Takes Krystal Meth"
I found some comfort in that... thank you! |
| 17th October 2007 03:45 PM |
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| mojoman |
quote:
pdog wrote:
Wow A Pat Metheney vs. Kenny G. thread!
don't they have the same stylist?
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