The Actual Music Thread

[Mowl]

Knower: 'Butts, Tits, And Money'

 

[Mowl]

Led Zeppelin: 'The Crunge'



Here, AN4 - using your razor sharp iq and musical talents, can you tell us what time signature this one's in?
Surely a man of your esteemed intellect can figure out just one little wee bar and what it's measure is?
I've been given the correct answer by special needs children in the past, by the way.

Give it your full 200+ iq.

 

[Mowl]

So that's a no-show from the site's million-plus iq genius who thinks owning a guitar makes him a musician and therefore qualified to consign the entire history of jazz music to the bin because Oasis and East17, because Boyzone and The Bangles, and because he's a fucking moron.

Here's something ear-worm to start this beautiful sunny day in Helsinki with. Great show, last night: had to teach the barman how to mix a proper Bellini, so he handed me everything I asked for and I measured one out just for him to taste. He loved it. So I mixed a half dozen of them, thrice, to bring to our table. Short gig, only twenty minutes and five songs, all from his new record which is being mixed and mastered at the moment. Release date some time in the next month, in time for the busy summer schedule of Finnish festivals (there are dozens of them).

Siouxsie And The Banshees: 'Cities In Dust'.​

 

[Mowl]

Therapy? 'Stories'

 

[Mowl]

RíRá - 25 O'Clock in the Mornin' (live- with Joe Mooney on Bagpipes)

 

[Mowl]

I never said that I was any good at the guitar

Perhaps, but you do insist that Noel fucking Gallagher's - a man you credit as being one of the most important voices in modern music - opinions on jazz are 100% watertight. Consequently, your own interests in owning a guitar implies that you too must be a genius because you know the same three chords he does.

That was you putting you into that box of your own design.

You dope.

But I wanted to learn how to play, relatively late in my case (late teens)

It was clearly a waste of time and resources, just give it to the first kid you pass by next time you're heading out for a slab for the evening's consumption.

At least when you're drunk your three basic chords begin to surpass even the furthest reaches of jazz, of Miles, of Coltrane, and even of Susanna Hoffs.

I remember two things,

And they're probably both the same thing.

one it was surprisingly easy (and quick) to be able to form chord shapes with your hand,

Yeah, definitely easier than trying to form chord shapes with your feet.

"muscle memory"

Dutch Gold likely infects your muscles as much as your tiny brain.

Come next morning's hangover, they remember nothing either.

and two, I really didn't realise that you had to learn to do something with your other hand (in my case, that would've been my left hand) which is of course strumming

Ah, so you learned to play guitar with one of these:



Good man.

All the chords I learned as a beginner

You mean all three of them?

were of course on the top three frets..

Three chords across three frets?

Tell us, what's your personal opinion of say American jazz in the 1950s?

Then you learn bar chords,

Yes, I do

You, on the the other hand, do not.

which are all the same shape but harder,

especially if the guitar is a cheap acoustic,

as I tried to explain to @David about the difference between electric and acoustic guitars,

You were trying to explain to David?

You?

Explain?

Music?

To David?

Jimmy, you're an East17 fan.

difficulty to play

Yeah, really?

(your answer was abysmal)

I was probably setting you up for a whopper like in that previous image.

And then, once you get that pinky finger working with the bar chords,

Better that than picking your nose all day.

you learn how to play the blues

AKA my favourite type of music of all time

- Rock & Roll

Fueled by an eighth of soap-bar and two slabs of Dutch Gold.

You can even kid yourself in the mirror doing your best Liam Gallagher impression:

 

[Mowl]

Sonny Rollins: RIP (1930 - 2026)

 

[Mowl]

Dave Brubeck Qrt: 'Take Five'



Paul Desmond (alto sax)
Joe Morello (drums)
Eugene Wright (bass)
Dave Brubeck (piano)

 

[Mowl]

'No one really cares about "'originality'" in music' Jambo: 12.07.2024

 

[Mowl]

Here's another reason not just I, but most of my old Irish crew are all more Irish than you'll ever be, AN4

The guy on the pipes is Mark Farrelly, or as we called him: 'fucking hippy'..

That's the uilleann pipes, Shay, not the pan-pipes or waste-water pipes. He's a master player, studied with the greats, has a mental library of literally hundreds of pieces, any one of which he can summon up and deliver on a dime. We booked him primarily as a keyboard player, but we knew he had tricks up his sleeve. He's also a great jazz player, although we all know that you, AN4 - are a hole in the ground when it comes to any musical form that isn't a three-minute three-chord dirge by Nollaigh Ó Gallchobhair and featuring his idiot special-needs brother, Liam Óg.

These are two ancient pieces: 'The Weeping Of Women' and 'Jenny's Welcome' both of which are traditional pieces with no known author.

The pipes are a B flat model he's used since way back when we got him to bring them for both studio and live work. Then we added pick-ups to the chanters and ran them through a delay and an envelope filter, giving infinite options to how they could be used, and we sat him on a red velvet love-seat with a standing lamp (for reading like) and gave him an ashtray (he smoked like a trooper back then) and a broken TV that only showed fuzzy interference, so we jimmied the audio signal into another array of effects from that and let him at it.



Great fun.

Mark Farrelly – uilleann pipes
John Meskell – dord ísea
Frank Ryan – bodhrán
Rod Callan - sound engineer

Again: this is why you're not now nor will you ever really be Irish - as far as we Irish are concerned.
And I include my black mate from Tulla' in that.

 

[Mowl]

I'll put to you this way to you the Mowl: Nobody can be more Irish than someone else.. You're either Irish or you ain't, do you know what I mean?

Can you swing that by me again - this time with an Irish accent, Brit?

This lad's also from Tulla' - but he's not black. Or dogs.

RíRá: '25 O'Clock In The Mornin'​

I take it that you're inured to the drone of the uilleann pipes, Brit-Boy?

 

[Mowl]

THROUGH the years 1975 to 1979 and 1981 to present.. No one died!

Remain on topic.

John McLaughlin: 'Zamfir'



Acoustic Bass – Jean-Paul Celea
Drums – Tommy Campbell
Guitar – Paco De Lucia
Guitar, Producer, Composed By – John McLaughlin
Percussion – Jean-Pierre Drouet
Soprano Saxophone/Tenor Saxophone – Francois Jeanneau
Synthesizer, Electric Piano – François Couturier
Synthesizer, Piano – Katia Labèque
Violin – Augustin Dumay

 

[Mowl]

Placebo - Bruise Pristine RE:CUT VERSION (Official Video)​

 

[Mowl]

Cocteau Twins: 'Pitch The baby'

 

[Mowl]

A few tunes for poor James 'Jambo' Dawson - who's not having a good day - or week, or month, or existence.

Talk Talk: 'Laughing Stock' (Full Album)



AN4

 

[Mowl]

Chuck Brown: It Don't Mean A Thing'

 

[Mowl]

John McLaughlin: 'Stardust On Your Sleeve'



From: 'Belo Horizonte'

 

[AN4]

So that was somebody else who hacked into your account on the kiddie site and posted The Bangles, Cindy Lumper, and East17?

Never happened

I think I've posted one song by all of acts that you've mentioned (and always for a reason)

Just to make you look like a fool?

Yeah.

Really.



What? Make you look a fool?

You're only getting that now?

 

[Mowl]

Never happened

Except it did.

Really.

I think I've posted one song by all of acts that you've mentioned (and always for a reason)

This one:



The reason being you're scared of females: particularly younger, stronger women.
Which is exactly why you prefer Cindy Lawper and Susanna Hoffs: because they're both old age pensioners.
They're not a threat to you, not unless you disagree and think that girls DON'T want to have fun?