Simpsons Fans? Music School Geeks? Be sated.
Go here. Really. Something you will like. I can't figure out how to get a better link to what you need to see on this page, but when I open this homepage the clip in question starts automatically and is only a small scroll down the page.
I hope to be back to some semblance of thoughtful posting soon. In the meantime, the Simpsons played by a total guitar geek will work.
posted by Teodoro Callate @ 11:19 PM
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http://www.koreus.com/files/200502/double-guitar.html
i have not heard Roa's Magic Elf project yet
anyone?
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But what I'm wondering, T, is how exactly you came to discover this guy's site?
It was sent to me via a fellow ex-music school geek. We music school geeks are an odd lot. This is the type of performance that can only come from someone between 18 - 25 who is fully ensconsed in the minutia of music-school geekdom. There is beauty in the prodigal nature of the performance combined with the complete and total lack of real-world interest/applicability of such a performance.
Once you leave music school, you generally don't do things like this. But when you're there, you're a star.
Maybe this guy's blog...a medium that did not exist when I was a music school geek (and I was all the way there)...will keep his geekdom dreams quite alive for a while. And I say more power to him. Viva la Geek! Play, baby, play!
I am compelled to weigh in on Teo's analysis of Mr Gordon and his talents.
In this changing world, I feel strongly that something like the "simpson's" song might work quite well as an encore after a solo recital, something heavy with all the required pieces that everyone expects a young turk to play yet really never looks forward to. This joy of tossing off (and he tosses this one off better than the others) such a ditty could not help but engage an audience of today, most of which don't like leaving their living rooms anyway.
"We music school geeks are an odd lot."
hey, speak for yourself!
Well, I'm happy to speak for myself. Apparently I'm happy to speak for others, too. Oh well. But here's the deal: I don't disagree with you. There is an unbridled joy in "tossing off" this kind of ridiculously great playing. And as a former music geek like this, I celebrate the performance.
But you just don't see this kind of stuff outside of the exact thing you describe. I'd love to see it at the end of a recital. 95% of all recitals happen in music school. Thus, my point. Once you leave the safe grounds of music school where this type of playing is not only tolerated but respected, there are very few venues where such a performance will really be accepted.
I like plenty of geeky music, and if you know me (you're anonymous, so I'm not sure), you will surely recall my glee at being able to play lots of shit that no one gave a crap about nor was interested in seeing or hearing once I left music school.
So I like the piece. I just think there aren't many places for this guy to go with it after a certain time in his life. I'd love to be wrong and have the dude make trillions.
I'm not sayin, I'm just sayin.
"there are very few venues where such a performance will really be accepted."
In my career, I have seen more disatisfied audience members, oddly, than recitalists. Audience members who would rather see something different, somewhere different, something unexpected maybe even "geeky". they will gladly pay their admission and go through the motions at the usual fare but they more often than not (from my humble observations) reserve their passionate commitment and involvement for what they can get at home-that is anything and everything. Why not program flawlessly executed arrangements of TV Show themes if they show off your true talents and engage the audience? Surely there would be a lot of hit and miss with this approach, but that happens already while the "beating a dead horse" cultural institutions in big cities flog themselves for not getting the attendance and subscriptions they need. Seeing something like this makes me say: let's start from scratch-you want the Simpson's-I'll give you the Simpson's. you, yeah you over there, you want Swan Lake, well we'll see if we can work that out.
actually, i'm not sure that recreating the Simpsons on guitar is starting from scratch. so there's that.
and i'm not sure that i follow everything you say 100%. but that's OK. i'm not the tightest lid in the jar. (huh? see. i'm not.)
what should be clear, from the title of my post, to the sign off of my original post, to the previous explanation, is that I like what the guy did.
i call it geeky, it's said with affection. i say appreciate, i mean he won't pay rent with this. i'm not saying whether it's right or wrong. i'm just sayin.
i had fun watching the dude, which is why i posted it.
"the kid has talent"
i've been thinking about this, and I think i'm gonna piss off my fellow music student here.
flawlessly executing a note-for-note rendition of a tv theme show that has been played a few million times over the past 15 years...no, sorry, that's not original nor compelling nor the ticket to fame. the kid has talent in his fingers, but so did yngwie malmstein, and he sucked ass. i'm not saying that this kid sucks ass. what i'm saying is that don't you dare compare what this kid is doing to swan lake or something that has stood the test of a couple centuries.
i like the performance. it's fun.
but it's not much more than calesthenics.
i like the performance. in it's place.
no, i wouldn't buy a ticket to see the guy.
ever see stanley jordan back in the mid-80s? yawwwwwwwwnnnnnn.....
big time producers miss the mark very often. sorry, man, this one ain't makin' it to the big show. He's a hot prospect in Double A ball until he starts writing his own compelling compositions and one-ups Danny Elfman on the theme show front. I promise you I will root for the kid. I really, really will. Keep playing and keep writing and keep posting shit to pass around the internet. I wanna see it, I really do.
your call, your ball.
and on third thought, asking someone to one-up somebody isn't really fair, either. that ain't right. and the calesthenics line i wrote was kinda mean. i've played my share of musical calesthenics so I thought i could write the line, but you don't know my history...so i assumed you knew the context but i didn't actually share that context. my bad.
i just want to hear someone do their own thing. 'das all.
I like geeks
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