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Topic: Brian Setzer's new record |
Johnny Rojas
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Houston, Texas, USA
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Posted 27 Sep 2007 7:10 am |
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This is pretty bizarre. Setzer did a whole album of big band arrangements of classical music. Sounds like they had fun making the record.
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David L. Donald
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Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 27 Sep 2007 6:26 pm
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Interesting turn around.
Usually there are pop versions of classica melodies,
or classical versions of pop and jazz standards.
A new twist. But I bet he pulled it off OK.
If it brings a few fans closer to classical music,
then it's a good thing.
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Pete Burak
From:
Portland, OR USA
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Posted 29 Sep 2007 8:56 am
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Brian Setzer is an excellent guitar player. I love to hear him solo.
I listened to the clips and enjoyed the playing.
For me it was a trip down Bugs Bunny lane, as my reference for most of these tunes is that they were the soundtrack for the cartoons of my childhood, before I ever knew these were songs composed by the Master composers of history.
'Cool concept. I will listen a few more times at least to ID the Scales and Modes for my own learning purposes.
I've found that studying classical pieces provies an interesting take on scales and modes (which I have been studying on 7 string guitar lately, and hope to apply to steel as well). |
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Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 29 Sep 2007 9:49 am
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I really like Brian Setzer - I'm into rockabilly and swing guitar and I think he's been good for both. The clips sound good, and the Frank Comstock arrangements are really well done - sorta sounds like what the "real" Tonight Show band with Doc Severinson and Tommy Newsome would have come up with on something like this.
With that said, I'd much rather hear someone like Uli Jon Roth play classical music on electric guitar. Check out his interpretation of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, for example. I think there is some pretty tough competition out there trying to work classical music into an electric guitar format. To my ears, the kind of articulation people who have been working on this for decades - like Uli - have developed doesn't come quickly or easily.
I sort of agree on the Bugs Bunny analogy - it sounds more like a novelty thing to me. I dunno, maybe that's the only way to sell this kind of thing anymore. |
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