This guy is the epitome of taste and ,in the the George Harrison vein ,being a song's "best friend".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GheTxJ1F-mw
This guy is the epitome of taste and ,in the the George Harrison vein ,being a song's "best friend".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GheTxJ1F-mw
"My flesh and my heart fail...but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."
PS. 73:26
MY JAMS--
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/defa...&content=music
Thanks for sharing refin.
I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.
Mmmmm...Norah Jones...
"...pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field;
that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little,
shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour."
-Edmund Burke
She's got a new album coming soon. Next week, maybe?
"I haven't slept for ten days...because that would be too long." -- Mitch Hedberg
He's super tastey, and his timing . . ._________ just kills.
And I want her . . ._________ guitar.
He cuts a little looser on this one. There's always a just right factor to his solos.
Last edited by NeoFauve; 11-04-2009 at 05:37 AM.
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
I just turned down a gig where I could have done this very thing... playing of tasty, background-y parts behind a woman with enough charisma to make Norah Jones look like a gangly girl.
I am a freakin' idiot.
That's a nice clip, refin... thanks for posting it.
Originally Posted by silent j.
That's part of what I like about her. Mega-platinum, Grammy winning performer, and she still carries herself like she playing with her friends in a neighborhood club.
Did anybody notice the eyebrow in the second tune?
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
Yep. A singer who goes out to NYC bars and plays in thrown-together punk and country bands just for the fun of it is someone who loves music and performing. Norah may be a Grammy winner and a big star, but she's clearly in it for the love of music.
Plus, you know --, sexy voice, great singer, very attractive woman...she's the whole package!
"I haven't slept for ten days...because that would be too long." -- Mitch Hedberg
Ok I thought Neo was referring to Norah's eyebrow raising every couple of phrases, and thought 'that's not unusual', and kept watching...then I saw the eyebrow. Wonder what the story is there.
On another subject, after paying even closer attention to Norah's facial features/movements, I will tell you I think she has one sexy mouth.
What's all this about her eyebrow?
"I haven't slept for ten days...because that would be too long." -- Mitch Hedberg
Her Dad is Ravi Shankar. She sure looks like him.
CT.
She looks like what Ravi Shankar's hot daughter would look like if Ravi Shankar had a hot daughter.
Which he did, obviously.
"I haven't slept for ten days...because that would be too long." -- Mitch Hedberg
He had more than one...Norah's half-sister is Anoushka Shankar, renowned sitarist:She looks like what Ravi Shankar's hot daughter would look like if Ravi Shankar had a hot daughter.
Which he did, obviously.
Norah grew up here in DFW, and Anoushka didn't.
Here's a GREAT song that Norah sang on for Anoushka - it's called Easy from the album Breathing Under Water
Last edited by NTBluesGuitar; 11-04-2009 at 06:22 PM.
"...pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field;
that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little,
shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour."
-Edmund Burke
In the clip I linked in my post, watch the backup singer, Daru Oda.
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
Neo, the solo in your link reminded me of yet another expression of the je ne sais quoi we all went 'round on in that recent thread about makes a great solo.
This is a paraphrase of something I read, but it's an idea that's stuck with me for a long time, so I have no idea where I read it or who said it....
... but it was to the effect that a boring, ordinary, workaday rock guitar solo produces the effect of a trained seal (I recall the writer was writing about Keith Emerson), a reflection of what our own Kap'n once called "ossified competence" (he was talking about Esteban)... but in a really good solo, you could hear an engaged intelligence at work.... you can hear the musician thinking, singing, figuring out the music.
A good example of this is country pickin', where guys like Brad Paisley fly through licks at breakneck speed, reminding me more of a gymnast than a player... but a guy like the impeccable John Jennings (used to play in Mary Chapin Carpenter's band) beings a personal and surprising set of rhythmic ideas to every lick, so that you could hear him thinking about the music.
That's what separates Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter from ordinary sax players, Larry Carlton and Robben Ford from stock blues players... I can hear their brains working when they play, and not just their fingers.
Yeah, you can picture that thinking as being what's happening in the pauses. But I don't think he's pausing and wondering "What should I play now?" If anything, it's more like he's singing or breathing the parts.
His playing is pretty economical, but he leaves you hanging with anticipation as each phrase ends, then the next one comes and he turns a corner and it's a bit of a surprise.
It's never in a look-what-I-can-do way.
But, man, look what he does.
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
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