On the topic of family vocal harmonies, I also thought of the McGarrigle sisters:
And of course there's the Beach Boys! Three Brothers, cousin Mike Love and childhood friend Al Jardine.
I like this much better, the sound quality is not that great but it is authentic and otherwise awesome in my opinion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyAUKU_ImNg
(2023-07-07, 12:19 AM)Jim_Smith Wrote: [ -> ]You can't unhear it.
I was watching a music video on youtube and noticed there was something creepy about it. I realized the problem was that the music was a studio recording while the video was of a live performance and all the ambient sounds that you should hear from what you were seeing were missing. It was noticeable because the music was not very loud - even though it was staged for a music video, and not really a live performance, you should have heard the other sounds in the environment.
But now that I recognized this inconsistency, all music videos with that defect seem off. Even the ones with music loud enough to drown out much of the ambient noise seem some how creepy.
The video was a spoof of a better known one. I went back and looked at the original and now that seems weird too.
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I just notice her guitar playing has such a special sound because she is playing the guitar left handed but the guitar is strung right handed. While most guitar pickers will play the base notes with their thumb she is playing the treble notes with her thumb and that gives her guitar playing a distinctive sound.
(2023-07-07, 06:53 PM)Jim_Smith Wrote: [ -> ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2DCWfBkMSI
(2023-07-08, 12:27 PM)Jim_Smith Wrote: [ -> ]I just notice her guitar playing has such a special sound because she is playing the guitar left handed but the guitar is strung right handed. While most guitar pickers will play the base notes with their thumb she is playing the treble notes with her thumb and that gives her guitar playing a distinctive sound.
Maybe Hendrix's inspiration.
(2023-07-08, 12:27 PM)Jim_Smith Wrote: [ -> ]I just notice her guitar playing has such a special sound because she is playing the guitar left handed but the guitar is strung right handed. While most guitar pickers will play the base notes with their thumb she is playing the treble notes with her thumb and that gives her guitar playing a distinctive sound.
That's interesting. I just researched this a little online and found this post about left handed guitar players on a music forum:
Quote:It strikes me there at least four varieties of left-handers:
1. Those who play a right-handed guitar, just flipped over and unchanged. Ie, with strings and controls reversed (bass strings on bottom, controls on top).
Albert King, Otis Rush, Doyle Bramall, Elizabeth Cotten, Eric Gales, Jimi Goodwin, Gruff Rhys, Dave Wakeling, Bill Jennings (AFAIK), Bobby Womack, Bob Geldof, Karl Wallinger
2. Those who play a left-handed guitar - with the controls on the bottom as normal, but the strings reversed.
Dick Dale, Rusty Burns, Jimmy Haslip, Uffe Steen
3. Those who play a LH guitar, but string it normally. Kurt Cobain, Paul McCartney, Tony Iommi, Elliot Easton.... orthodox left-handers. (Of no interest to this thread, I'm guessing.)
4. Those who play a RH guitar flipped over, but strung normally (bass strings uppermost). Jimi Hendrix. Anyone know any more who play this way?
Intriguingly, B B King (in a radio talk on youtube) remembers meeting Hendrix when he was with Little Richard, and seems to suggest he had his guitar strung in reverse then. He noticed he was playing a RH guitar left-handed and says he asked him "why didn't you change the strings?", and that Hendrix replied that was just the way he learned. However, a pic of Hendrix with Little Richard clearly shows his guitar (a flipped RH Fender Jaguar) strung as normal (bass strings on top).
https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index....wn.975819/
I also read another bit about Maybelle Carter, who played the guitar right handed, but played the melody with her thumb:
(2023-06-13, 09:48 PM)Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: [ -> ]
I really liked that. Good find. My favourite track from that album is
Koka. I've been listening to it a lot. My second-favourite track is
It's An Unknown Jungle.
The album generally brought to mind - appropriately or not; I don't know - Gotan Project, especially the only two albums of theirs I'd heard until looking them up again for this response:
La Revancha Del Tango (2001, although that's a link to the 20th anniversary version - the only version I could find on YouTube) and
Lunatico (2006).
(2023-06-29, 03:57 PM)Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: [ -> ]
Hauntingly beautiful. From the moment I first heard it, I was captivated.
(2023-06-29, 03:57 PM)Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: [ -> ]
This sounded to me like an Asian and mystical rendition of the sea shanty
Drunken Sailer.
(2023-06-29, 03:57 PM)Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: [ -> ]
Still on the theme of "This reminds me of...", the introductory guitar of this song (prior to the vocals) reminded me of a cross between the guitars on
FIND NO ENEMY by AKALA and the introductory guitars on
Nobody's Wife by Anouk.
(2023-07-13, 10:54 PM)Laird Wrote: [ -> ]I really liked that. Good find. My favourite track from that album is Koka. I've been listening to it a lot. My second-favourite track is It's An Unknown Jungle.
The album generally brought to mind - appropriately or not; I don't know - Gotan Project, especially the only two albums of theirs I'd heard until looking them up again for this response:
La Revancha Del Tango (2001, although that's a link to the 20th anniversary version - the only version I could find on YouTube) and Lunatic (2006).
Hauntingly beautiful. From the moment I first heard it, I was captivated.
This sounded to me like an Asian and mystical rendition of the sea shanty Drunken Sailer.
Still on the theme of "This reminds me of...", the introductory guitar of this song (prior to the vocals) reminded me of a cross between the guitars on FIND NO ENEMY by AKALA and the introductory guitars on Nobody's Wife by Anouk.
Good comparisons! I think Óró sé do bheatha abhaile pre-dates Drunken Sailor, or at least parts of the tune may go back to even before the rebel song serving a tribute to Gráinne Ní Mháille the pirate queen.
I feel like I've heard of Akala in the past, great musician regardless.
Also Gotan Project is up my alley as well, enjoying Chunga's Revenge right now heh.
Anouk sounds familiar but never heard of her before. Good stuff though.
(2023-07-21, 04:20 PM)Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: [ -> ]I think Óró sé do bheatha abhaile pre-dates Drunken Sailor, or at least parts of the tune may go back to even before the rebel song serving a tribute to Gráinne Ní Mháille the pirate queen.
Oh, it's an Irish song too - I had been under the illusion that it was Asian given that you slotted it in between two songs by an Asian singer. It sounded almost Mongolian to me, like the throat singers. That explains the similarity with Drunken Sailor.