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How the drum set became extinct.

Greta wrote: ↑July 18th, 2020, 6:08 pm How the drum set became extinct.

Hope that wasn't a response to the immediate above? They're a live band.

The Clash, from the album Sandanista. My favourite rendition of "The Guns of Brixton":

The guy from Mungo Jerry has (had) the kind of sideburns that are so impressive they make you wonder, at what point do sideburns become a beard with a bit missing? A bit like the abortion debate. At what point does a foetus become a human being?

Steve3007 wrote: ↑July 19th, 2020, 11:42 am The Clash, from the album Sandanista. My favourite rendition of "The Guns of Brixton":

I have always loved "Daddy was a bank robber".

"Yeah, just set up the mikes and amps right over there in front of the pool..."

Steve3007 wrote: ↑July 19th, 2020, 11:42 am The Clash, from the album Sandanista. My favourite rendition of "The Guns of Brixton":

Talking of homages to Augusto César Sandino and the Sandinistas...

Papus79 wrote: ↑June 14th, 2020, 10:10 am

I confess I won't watch videos on computers; that's what TVs are for. [Don't ask! ] But Miles has been part of my recent musical development. I started with rock and folk, and quickly also came to appreciate jazz-rock as part of the prog-rock scene. Much later, I discovered that there is quite a lot of classical music that I like. Like many young people, I had been put off by bigots who said that their music (classical) was the only good music, and the stuff I liked was . So I ignored them, and classical music. But now Debussy, Ravel, Chopin and Stravinsky form a regular part of my musical diet.

In recent years, especially since I retired, I've been listening to more jazz. Which brings me back to your post of Miles' Bitches Brew, a fantastic performance. I've spent the last few years discovering loads and loads of amazing music, much of it recorded before I was born. Brubeck and Paul Desmond, Art Tatum and Art Blakey, Monk and Mingus, and many others. They account for half my listening these days. My most recent discovery is Maria Schneider.

TBH Youtube can be audio-video or audio only with or without a suspended thumbnail (as is the Bitches Brew 'video' above).

What it was for a long time was the whole world trying out the media of an archive of videos to communicate. One of the more obvious uses is posting songs you like. Another is commenting on life, politics, and philosophy, which you have your fair share of that, and you also have organized outlets popping up at least in the last few years, either trying to build a news or media agency (The Hill, David Packman, Jimmy Dore, etc. come to mind there), and then you have social commentary and thoughts on the state of human affairs in long-form interviews (some of Joe Rogan's stuff, Rebel Wisdom, Bret and Eric Weinstein's stuff, etc.).

I know that a lot of people I've talked to in the UK and Europe seem to have different arrangements with their ISP's, so in the US you can watch all the videos you want (if you're at your PC at least getting your internet from the router downstairs) whereas in the UK, Europe, and a lot of the commonwealths using the internet at home seems to be priced almost the same way as watching videos on one's phone (ie. priced on bandwidth).

I definitely sympathize with the later, and it's sad to see they do that. OTOH videos as a media because they're minted as videos (especially when it's just music or just an interview or long-form discussion) where one could just as easily downsize the 'video' and listen to audio), not sure I understand that way of thinking but it's everyone's right to do what they feel most comfortable with.

Pattern-chaser wrote: ↑July 22nd, 2020, 10:45 am

Papus79 wrote: ↑June 14th, 2020, 10:10 am

I confess I won't watch videos on computers; that's what TVs are for. [Don't ask! 😊] But Miles has been part of my recent musical development. I started with rock and folk, and quickly also came to appreciate jazz-rock as part of the prog-rock scene. Much later, I discovered that there is quite a lot of classical music that I like. Like many young people, I had been put off by bigots who said that their music (classical) was the only good music, and the stuff I liked was 💩. So I ignored them, and classical music. But now Debussy, Ravel, Chopin and Stravinsky form a regular part of my musical diet.

In recent years, especially since I retired, I've been listening to more jazz. Which brings me back to your post of Miles' Bitches Brew, a fantastic performance. I've spent the last few years discovering loads and loads of amazing music, much of it recorded before I was born. Brubeck and Paul Desmond, Art Tatum and Art Blakey, Monk and Mingus, and many others. They account for half my listening these days. My most recent discovery is Maria Schneider. 🎷🥁🎹🎺🎧

Bitches Brew has some great moments. Miles Does the Voodoo Down is a wonderful thunbing of the nose to the conservative part of his audience at the time. My most recommended Miles albums would be In a Silent Way, Kind of Blue and Tutu. The first two are beautiful in the early morning, when you are still feeling a little delicate. Other wonderful mellow and complex performers you might enjoy are Pat Metheney (a personal favourite) and Swiss fusion/world music harpist Andreas Vollenveider.