Why didn't I think of that? I'm so ashamed. (That's my foible.)chris ivey wrote:aesop's foibles...
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Its not what we as musicians think or want in a video that matters Chris. Its all about what the product buying public want and what they want is to be entertained. Apparently what they most often find entertaining is a bunch of people in McHammer parachute pants dancin around lip synchin and air guitaring.chris ivey wrote:i like rod, i like the song, and i want a foible!
my thought about videos, which evidently isn't shared by most of you, is that i would prefer to view reality as it relates to the music. watching a steel player or other musician play is more interesting and informative than a video with hippity hop-synched actors with smiley faces, or scenes depicting the dreamlike vision that the video creator wants me to conjure from the song.
my mind is more than capable of conjuring visions and emotions on it's own....the better the song, the better the conjuring!
Thank you, Patrick. That's what it's supposed to sound like, to my ears. Mebbe my foible isn't so bad after all. Nice playing, whoever played on it. Now if I can just figure out how to save it to my computer - it's being obstinate. I think it's interesting that Sony BMG felt the need to emasculate that beautiful steel playing in favor of synth-strings.I was looking around for any info about who was in the video and I found a better version of it, and in THIS one, you can hear the steel, it's not covered up with the lousy strings:
http://music.clevver.com/video/21537/ro ... n-love.php
Scuse me, but it had been RR playing and they covered it up with synth-strings, I'd have said the same thing.(Can y'all imagine what would have been posted if it had been Robert Randolph playing behind RS?)
Dave Mudgett wrote:Youse guys is somethin' else. Throw out one six-bit woid, and you're on it like a fly on a hot toid.
Never kick a hot toid with yer new boots on
Now if I can just figure out how to save it to my computer - it's being obstinate.