'Never Leave Me'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Juliana, that production of Carmen sounds way cool. ITA that Don Jose would work better as a baritone.
On a similar note, one of the best operas I ever saw staged was Don Giovanni, w/ Dwayne Croft in the title role. He's a baritone who was misidentified as a tenor in his earlier career. Ergo, you get the deeper and (IMO) sexier baritone voice but one that is produced with the brightness I normally associate with a tenor. Sexy, sexy stuff.
Ergo, you get the deeper and (IMO) sexier baritone voice but one that is produced with the brightness I normally associate with a tenor. Sexy, sexy stuff.
Whoa. And purrrrrrr.... ITA about baritones being sexier. It's the rumble.
The MN Opera is performing Carmen later in the year, and I'm tempted to go see it to compare.
Whoa. And purrrrrrr....
Well, alright! Let's see... start --> settings --> control panel --> keyboard --> transpose:baritone. There we go. Check one two. Check one two. Sounds right. Let's give it a whirl: How you doin', juliana?
Didn't he play on "Flying Home"
Yes. Joe Lovano was interviewed on Soundcheck last Friday and shared some of his memories of Illinois Jacquet.
Finally managed to listen to the "Sister Ray" cover (couldn't save it, but listened to the stream) and I still have mixed feelings about the whole enterprise. The Velvets aren't sacrosanct, and solemnity has rarely if ever done art any favors, but neither is White Light White Heat simply a big joke. There's more to Phizmiz than just that, but there's also a really irritating selfconsciousness to the humor, especially the vocals. I buy the music, but the vocals scream "Listen to me! I'm being funny! I'm too cool to sell that, but the distance is funny, too!" and I don't buy that. Maybe it won't strike you like that, and I'm sure Phizmiz would say my take is wrong, but I had a very visceral reaction to it. And that's sad because the music really grew on me as I listened to it, sometimes even to the point where I could forget the vocals.
I just heard some of a Badly Drawn Boy album on the radio. Never heard anything by him? it? them? before, but it sounded good. Thoughts?
His soundtrack to "About a Boy" is pretty good, in a Beatles-meets-Moby sort of way -- kind of acoustic techno-folk, if that makes any sense outside my head.
kind of acoustic techno-folk, if that makes any sense outside my head.
It does, Lyra Jane. That's definitly a good term for what I was hearing.
ETA: I really need to stop typing so fast. Or clip my nails.
I hear what you're saying about Sister Ray, Joe. The vocals didn't bother me as much and I think I was more able to just enjoy the music. There are some nifty arrangements going on.
We get to do the interview at the soundcheck at the Fillmore. Kind of cool.
Sloan are opening for Jet. Anybody heard anything by them except the single?
The Sloan/Jet tour?
Almost as cool as Clinton/Gwar.
Almost as cool as Clinton/Gwar.
Yeah, but is it as cool as Jimi Hendrix/The Monkees?