Pete Townshend: Rough Mix : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone
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- Pete Townshend: Rough Mix : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone
- Making music their way
- Pen Ultimate / Starting from scratch
- Soaring Saxophones and American Gothic
- Music: Teenage dreams so hard to beat
- Israel’s David Broza is incomparable
Pete Townshend: Rough Mix : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone – Dec 23, 2007
Townshend’s stinging guitar on “My Baby Gives It Away” the chugging. Faces-like title instrumental and the wailing saxophone coda on Lane’s Fifties-style “Catmelody” are hardly typical of spiritual music. But then matters meditative have never before been fully integrated into the ugly angry sounds we call rock & roll. Their juxtaposition here in fact might be one meaning of Rough Mix; it certainly ain’t smooth. The Who’s Townshend and former Face Lane come by their rock & roll inclinations honestly and obviously but spiritual inclination is their long suit here.
Making music their way
Las Vegas Review-Journal – Las Vegas Review – Journal – Dec 23, 2007
If Ryan Ahern had only a guitar to play on the streets of Las Vegas he would be borderline homeless. But Ahern has more than that: a piano; a big rig called appropriately the Piano Rig; and a line of merchandise including CDs and T-shirts. com%2F_tools%2Fseed%26save%3Fu%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww… Ferris plays for the camera closing in on people who stop to film and photograph him ensuring he’ll be a permanent fixture in their vacation videos and photo albums. He has been playing the Experience for eight years and says he could go another eight. It has been a pretty good gig Ferris says and it enables him to sell his original jazz music. Ferris didn’t want to reveal how many CDs he sells for $15 each or what constitutes a good night financially but he says between his street performing and Internet sales on safe-sax. com he makes about $30000 to $40000 a year. It’s good enough that he doesn’t have to work other gigs. “This is home to me” Ferris explains.
Pen Ultimate / Starting from scratch
×”×רץ – Dec 23, 2007
” Here this grand master of the baby grand tinkles away on the keys accompanied by Ray Brown on bass and Ed Thigpen on drums playing tunes that are a balm for the soul anytime any place. When I was 17 we were all addicted to this particular recording. “We” was me Micah Lewensohn who later became a theater director and Doron Solomon who at the time was already an accomplished guitar player and is today mainly a conductor although he still occasionally strums the strings. We would argue for hours about whether the broken chord at the beginning of “Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars” (also known as “Corcovado”) was played by a guitar (Peterson did work a lot with Herb Ellis but not on this recording) or by Peterson himself hitting the strings not the keys of the piano. So I listened again to the tunes I had heard so many times before sipping a drink that I poured for myself to toast the memory of the piano player when suddenly I heard – well actually I did not hear – the noise that used to spoil the sound of scar’s right hand climbing up the scales in “My ne and nly Love” the third track on Side A. Ahh of course! I was listening to a re-mastered version on a brand-new CD not to my old 12″ LP which went the way of all vinyl… In it the man in question spends an hour in a room alone and is then joined by a life-size female marionette-mannequin and later by a real live dancer (Renana Raz). All this time he is accompanied by a cello (music composed by Yuval Mesner) playing Bach-esque tunes. The prerecorded music is produced by an old-fashioned gramophone operated by a mute third actor who puts on and takes off 7″ records the ones with the big hole in the middle. Throughout the audience hears those characteristic “ticks” and “pops” so distinctive of the vinyl era when (although not on this particular occasion) a scratch on a record could make the stylus jump a groove forward miss a couple of notes or leap back repeating a few bars again again and again until you gently nudged it along. To indulge for a moment in what I would like to call “past(o)urism” (i.
Soaring Saxophones and American Gothic
New York Times – Dec 23, 2007
GILBERT GIL: ‘GIL LUMINS’ (DRG). This is the album I have listened to most: a master Brazilian singer-songwriter alone with guitar sanding down old and new songs to the core. Few records are as beautiful. RBERT PLANT AND ALISN KRAUSS: ‘RAISING SAND’ (Rounder). Both doing something quite different from what they’re known for — Mr.
Music: Teenage dreams so hard to beat
Belfast Telegraph – Dec 23, 2007
Undeterred the core of the band (which includes guitar-playing brothers John and Damian ‘Neill bassist Michael Bradley and drummer Billy Doherty) enlisted the help of former frontman for The Carrelines Paul McLoone to sing those old songs that everyone loved and pretty soon they began packing out the venues across Europe once again. Although initially the new and improved version of The Undertones was only supposed to play a couple of shows for fun the recent version of the band ended up becoming a full-time concern quite quickly. In 2003 they took things one step further by releasing an album of new material called Get What You Need on Sanctuary Records and the praise was universal with Q Rolling Stone and Hot Press all happy to see the seminal group putting out new music. After a brief period of rest and relaxation they began writing a new album in 2006 (their second since their reunion) and it was released last ctober. The record was called Dig Yourself Deep and showcased the Undertones as a band who can still hold their own with the likes of Snow Patrol Ash and Therapy? and the rest of the local music scene… Undeterred the core of the band (which includes guitar-playing brothers John and Damian ‘Neill bassist Michael Bradley and drummer Billy Doherty) enlisted the help of former frontman for The Carrelines Paul McLoone to sing those old songs that everyone loved and pretty soon they began packing out the venues across Europe once again. Although initially the new and improved version of The Undertones was only supposed to play a couple of shows for fun the recent version of the band ended up becoming a full-time concern quite quickly. In 2003 they took things one step further by releasing an album of new material called Get What You Need on Sanctuary Records and the praise was universal with Q Rolling Stone and Hot Press all happy to see the seminal group putting out new music. After a brief period of rest and relaxation they began writing a new album in 2006 (their second since their reunion) and it was released last ctober. The record was called Dig Yourself Deep and showcased the Undertones as a band who can still hold their own with the likes of Snow Patrol Ash and Therapy? and the rest of the local music scene. But then the lads always did have an ear for a good tune and that was proved nearly 30 years ago when they released the timeless EP Teenage Kicks on local label Good Vibrations. The lead track also called Teenage Kicks was the song that catapulted The Undertones into the big-time making sure the five teenagers had to grow up fast as the world fell in love with their punk-influenced yet charmingly innocent love songs.
Israel’s David Broza is incomparable
Toronto Star – Dec 23, 2007
This month as part of its holiday membership drive some PBS stations are broadcasting a stunning film ? also available as a DVD ? of the July 2007 concert there featuring American folk-rockers Jackson Browne and Shawn Colvin as well as Arab musician Ebrahim Eid. In David Broza at Masada: The Sunrise Concert Broza who records in a Palestinian-run studio in Jerusalem and is a regular fixture at peace rallies in his homeland is revealed as a genuinely charismatic artist and ingenious guitarist. (He plays a massive handmade Manuel Contreras classical guitar and his influences run from Jimi Hendrix to Leo Kottke). His instinctive sonic fusions defy the "world music" flag by enriching his songs with powerful and provocative poetry ? written by others he points out ? and a fiery personal style. Broza is also the star of a long-running Tel Aviv musical Bejuntos! In a reversal of former travel patterns he’s able to slip away for performances in Canada the U. and Europe only on the three days a week he has off.
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