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Re: kiss my bass
After swatting away the tsetse flies, rainscape at juno_com (Melissa M
Konieczko) said:
>a little too weak to dance, Chris Emery said...
Too clumsy is more like it.
>>Someone said something about him wanting to pursue some jazz thing.
>>Don't quote me, I'm sure it's all still rumor mill at this point.
>
>well, i can see that. too bad. i wonder how the whole Wade thing worked
>out, anyways...
They must have come into contact with him somewhere. Possibly
Greenbelt or one of the other festivals, since I know Steve Taylor
hits those. Seen his 'Greenbelt '88 on Super 8' video? LOL
>well, this is what make me wonder. what, did Karin and Linford just
>decide to do it, write an album, and then show up at Ric's doorstep
>saying "here, record some guitar for this"?
Since all we can do is speculate wildly....
I would like to think that they didn't exclude him on purpose. I'd
guess they just started writing together (remember, this is also the
time of the blossoming romance btw L & K), and decided to do it
stripped down, in the aftermath of the IRS thing. From listening to
the GDBD tracks, you can easily tell that (for better or for worse),
the songs were 95% finished when they were placed in Ric's hands.
They didn't really leave any room for a guitar part. Thus, he was
left to squeeze in what he could...mostly just textures.
FWIW, I think Ric is great at creating texture in a song.
>i mean, it doesn't really
>make sense. to my weak brain, at least. it seems an awfully backhanded
>way to "kick someone out of the band" or so to speak. but it *is* their
>choice; you've got the right to create your own songs... obviously Ric
>has exercised *his* now, too.
Again, we don't really know the true motives. Maybe it was
unintentional, and Ric was just dissatisfied with being cut out of the
songwriting. Maybe it was a way to assume more control. You also
have to take into account that if the band is seen as a democratic
process, the marriage of Linfor & Karin drastically changed voting
patterns. ;-)
>>You should qualify this with "in most forms of pop/rock"
>
>you're right, sorry.
;-) Hey...did everybody hear that? I was right, for once.
>>If you've seen any of the recent shows w/Jack, you wouldn't say this.
>>OTR is as guitar-based as ever, only it's shifted on the spectrum away
>>from 'rock' and more towards 'pop'
Did I say this. I think I meant to say 'folk/pop'...it's been a long
week.
>>He's not much of a backdrop these days. He's fairly prominent.
>
>wow. that totally invalidates my argument. i don't know what to say. heh.
;-Þ I think you were trying to relive our *last* discussion about
OTR guitarists before Jack found his "voice" in the band.
>hey, let's do the top five cd's of the week, month, whatever, deal again.
Yikes.
>*Tori Amos _From the Choirgirl Hotel_
Almighty Allah, this is a tremendous album.
>in the tape deck: Tori bootleg
What tour?
I'll put a twist on it...here's the last 5 CDs I've purchased (in the
last week or so)
ProjeKct Two _Space Groove_
Trey Gunn _The Third Star_
Tori Amos _Talula_ (CD5)
Robert Fripp _The Gates Of Paradise_
Orbital/Kirk Hammett _Satan_ (single)
--NP: Over The Rhine - _Eve_
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