I'm supposed to write a guitar solo for the piece Fab and I have been working on. Well, I've been supposed to write it for a few weeks. Now Fab's cracking down: "I want this bitch recorded by next week!!" He's also always saying that since half of it is written, I may as well improvise the rest. "[Nils] is probably the only one who's ever gonna listen to it. And it's not like he's gonna go, 'Hmm, that sounds like unplanned dissonance!!' or 'That last bar didn't sound like a cat dying!!'". On the other hand, the jazz hand, we've been trying to play better blues than, you know, wanking guitar solo blues. (Even though it's always time for a wanking guitar solo.) I'm slowly improving. My sax homework this week is to steal an idea from Mr. Parker.
We went to the see the live jazz last night, but we were only joined by Luan, and even then, not til halfway through the second set. During the break, Steve (the drummer) sat down at our table. We talked for quite a while. He said he'd been playing drums for twenty years, but jazz for just one. He asked what kind of music we play. I said, "Well, we've been debating what to call it for a while. I say it's called chamber rock," and Fab said, "And I insist that it's prog rock". Steve said, "I love prog rock!", and we got into this long conversation about prog rock, and he gave us his list of Prog Rock Classics.
The last tune was Well You Needn't by Mr. Melodious Thunk, during which Joel (the bassist) quoted my favourite Coltrane tune, Syeeda's Song Flute.
And I met Eliot the other day. She was pretty tiny, but bigger than I expected. You couldn't put her in your lapel or anything.
4 comments:
Sweet! Now I don't have to borrow it from you.
Hmm, I always liked Tull's Minstrel in the Gallery myself cos of Martin Barre's crunchy guitar bits and you need an ELP album on there even if you can't listen to one all the way through without gagging at something Lake sings or Emerson steals. I might go with Close to the Edge instead of Relayer but you gotta love the moxy of side long songs. I was never a big Genesis fan because of how awful they became after Gabriel left and call it sacrilege but I prefer Crimson 2. You do need some Kraut rock on the list dontcha? Can or something by Holger Czukay.
lapel-pin-baaabyy. i want one. a lapel pin that is. not so much on the baby at this point.
maybe someday i'll have both! (wow that was like a eureka moment..how sad)
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