12bar wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2019 10:03 pm
Martin sure knows what he does!
I know Nightwish very well - my son has nearly all of their records. Fantastic voice and very professional musicians!
Reminds me of my younger days when I was a bit into classic/symphonic rock (not rock classics) and listening to
Renaissance a lot.
Funny thing is the connection to EC, with former members of the Yardbirds in the first line-up.
Later Annie Haslam joined - a perfect voice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vODfYjbLxY or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKb2VlcrRn8
Martin Simpson does weekend courses in the UK but i wouldn't have the nerve to attend. I know a few guitar players who have been and are very impressed with his teaching as well as his playing. For me he has a great skill in being able to produce great melodic lines and arrangements, but with no huge complexity in the technique of playing - it's all down to great note choices and skilled use of open string and fretted note combinations.
I remember Renaissance and I was impressed with the intelligent musicality and with the singing of Annie Haslam.
Around about that time I also recall some Gordon Giltrap music that had something of the same feel.
The likes of "Fear of the Dark". Gordon is still going strong after recovery from serious illness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAUrBswDYXs
I am proud to have 2 signature acoustic guitars of his in my collection from the Vintage brand. If only I could play like him!
Your comment about Nightwish being professional musicians is spot on.
These days they also seem to be really enjoying all playing together in their current line up.
Nice to see after their sometimes high profile personnel problems of the past.
I particularly like the way in their more recent style that so much of the way they play a song is to serve the needs of the song. Very little in the way of ego solos that litter so many groups performances and are often pretty tedious. I also find that in at least 95% of cases that I prefer a good recording of a live version by them than the original studio version. They really step up a gear and it's like the individual members of the band morph into one entity that's perfectly synchronised. Most of my favourite bands have been ones that could cut it live with style.
Wow - I wasn't expecting classic blues on a jinashi Zen shakuhachi flute. I too found the Purple Haze version particularly effective.
I love good crossover music.
On which topic. Carmen , a group in the 70s that did a rock /flamenco crossover.
Their line up included the great John Glasscock who died tragically young at 28 (congenital heart disease) after he had moved on to become a member of what I reckoned to be the classic live Jethro Tull line up. Here's "Bulerias" from the first of Carmen's 3 LPs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrlCfBvsOqk
Smooth one, reminds me of EC's Nothing but the Blues tour in the 90's when it was the last song...
