dirtysanta
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Apathy said:
What should he be sat there with then ?
Did you get that Katie Melua album for xams ? Its right up your street i reckon.
Anyone can play guitar?
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What should he be sat there with then ?
Did you get that Katie Melua album for xams ? Its right up your street i reckon.
<rant>I HATE stripped down stuff when it takes the guts out of something - think Clapton doing Layla and the Donnie Darko version of Mad World. Whoever thinks slowing it down to 30 BPM and singing quietly makes it better should have their heads shoved in a bass bin at a Motorhead gig</rant>
Phew, sorry about that - stuck at work with only Lauren Laverne on the radio for company.
Phew, sorry about that - stuck at work with only Lauren Laverne on the radio for company.
I agree with most of the positive remarks about acoustic music. It's probably just me, but a lot of the time I seem to find acoustic music more interesting, refreshing and passionate if I have only ever heard the polished and slick produced versions of them first. When I hear the acoustic versions second, it seems, most of the time, to reinforce the feel (as somebody said earlier) of a more closeness than the original recording, and it is great to hear a decent tune from a different angle.
I think what many people overlook is that many 'decent' (subjective) songs will derive from an idea originally penned from the acoustic guitar anyway. My old lecturer used to say, 'shit in, shit out', meaning that if you've got a crap record, no matter how much you polish the 'turd' (mix it with as many effects and techniques as possible), it's always going to sound like a turd. So, if you strip down a 'decent' studio produced song, it will usually, more times than not, sound great acoustically too.
Anyway, acoustic does not neccessarily have to mean completely stripped down. I have heard remarkable sets where they have used orchestras to give it even more emotion and depth. Whether you can really call this acoustic is open to interpretation though, I suppose.
I think what many people overlook is that many 'decent' (subjective) songs will derive from an idea originally penned from the acoustic guitar anyway. My old lecturer used to say, 'shit in, shit out', meaning that if you've got a crap record, no matter how much you polish the 'turd' (mix it with as many effects and techniques as possible), it's always going to sound like a turd. So, if you strip down a 'decent' studio produced song, it will usually, more times than not, sound great acoustically too.
Anyway, acoustic does not neccessarily have to mean completely stripped down. I have heard remarkable sets where they have used orchestras to give it even more emotion and depth. Whether you can really call this acoustic is open to interpretation though, I suppose.
pilchardman
Dances With Penguins
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Hollis said:(1) : Acoustic guitar much more fun to play than electric .. ! (2) : Greater purity and tonality of sound aswell .. !! (3) This is basically why I've never gone electric .. *****************(stroll on) !!! ************
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8ball
World is a fuck
I think the problem with a lot of acoustic sets you'll hear from 'the-next-new-band-the-NME-is-currently-fawning-over' will just be a hastily bashed together version of a couple of their songs done because it's something you seem to be expected to do when you're the new big thing and have an album just out. Saw the Futureheads doing 'Hounds of Love' acoustically in a car park at a festival and it was truly poo - like they didn't really want to be there. I suppose there's also the thing that with the Futureheads the drums are integral to underpinning the dynamic but I digress . . .
I played acoustic for about 11 years then about a year ago got an electric as I had just joined a 3-piece punk band after years of playing folk. Great fun, totally different technique. I find a song written with the acoustic then reworked for the electric is way better than a song written on electric - generally because writing on an electric makes it easy to fall back on 5-note riffs and waves of feedback, plus the thing makes you feel more powerful so you can lose subtlety as you thrash out the distortion with legs akimbo.
The best thing about acoustic stuff is you can't get lost in effects and production and have to put some feeling into what you're doing because there's nowhere to hide. The best thing about all the toys is the freedom it gives you, but it can be easy to forget that all great creativity is in part born from the struggle with the constraints of your chosen medium.
Different artists will deal with this in different ways according to their temperament, and I imagine most will excel in one moreso than the other.
I played acoustic for about 11 years then about a year ago got an electric as I had just joined a 3-piece punk band after years of playing folk. Great fun, totally different technique. I find a song written with the acoustic then reworked for the electric is way better than a song written on electric - generally because writing on an electric makes it easy to fall back on 5-note riffs and waves of feedback, plus the thing makes you feel more powerful so you can lose subtlety as you thrash out the distortion with legs akimbo.
The best thing about acoustic stuff is you can't get lost in effects and production and have to put some feeling into what you're doing because there's nowhere to hide. The best thing about all the toys is the freedom it gives you, but it can be easy to forget that all great creativity is in part born from the struggle with the constraints of your chosen medium.
Different artists will deal with this in different ways according to their temperament, and I imagine most will excel in one moreso than the other.
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One downside to the acoustic guitar , people bring them to festivals and endlessly play some E , D , A chord progression.
On the upside , they're made of wood and burn rather nicely on one of many festival fires.
On the upside , they're made of wood and burn rather nicely on one of many festival fires.
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