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Post by Rabbit on Apr 24, 2015 19:31:55 GMT
I'm finding DSD quite lethal in that respect. On the face of it, sounds no different to anything else until tou listen to acoustics and 'space' in the recording. I often find that you can hear for instance a guitarist playing in a different room to everyone else or cuts that have been very badly done. Noise gates working etc.
Still the biggest pain is compression though.
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Post by proglover on Feb 19, 2021 6:43:00 GMT
Well Rick Wakeman now does appearances almost as a comic figure on early evening newsy/chat shows. His son plays keyboards as well but I don't think he's as good as his Dad when he was playing. Another great one was poor Jon Lord from Deep Purple. i always found Deeo Purple a bit of a struggle to get into. I'm not sure why. it might be because their music sounded very American rock like to me. I liked Jon Lord's playing a lot though. His technique on the Hammond was fantastic and I always loved his curious 'Concerto for Rock Group and Orchestra'. Instead of trying to get the two sounds to blend, he kind of set them against each other since they're such a long way apart in terms of tyle and sound. Jon Lord used to publish keybpard pieces in rock magazines. It was notated and very interesting to play and learn about the style that he developed. I used to use them with aspiring 'rock' pupils. You know, people who want to be rock stars but need to be taught how to do it!! Jon catered for them in his pieces.. I think Keith Emerson has gone off the boil. In this box set, there are recordings from concerts in the 90's and his playing is really uneven at the best of times. In some pieces, you get the feeling he's fudging his way through and the pieces that he once could play backwards on his head are now impossible for him. In some places, you just think that he's going to make a real mess. He gets close. What I don't understand is why they're releasing it. It doesn't show them at their best because of Keith Emerson. The group relies very heavily on the keyboard player and he's really struggling. Good memories from the pieces but disappointing performances. I think it's four cd's as well. The other two are fine. Greg Lake performed perfectly well on bass and Carl Palmer is ok on drums. It's the keyboard that is disjointed and sounds like he's kind of out of his depth. Mind you, they did always perform on the edge of their technique in the early days. Naughty boy didn't practise did he?
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Post by proglover on Feb 19, 2021 6:45:13 GMT
Unfortunately, nerve damage to his right hand and debilitating focal dystonia is what caused Keith to not play as perfectly as before, and he committed suicide because of it.
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Post by elysion on Apr 13, 2021 1:38:14 GMT
Looks like I'm getting old (I'm 45 now).... Although I certainly used to listen to the music of Emerson, Lake and Palmer on the radio from time to time, I don't have a special relationship with it. Actually, I just wanted to have a quick look at the thread and then did some quick reading in Wikipedia when I was only on the first page of the thread. I immediately saw that Keith Emerson has been dead since 2016. Déjà vu... So many musicians have died in the last ten years, some of whose names had been more or less stored in my memory for decades.
Of course, these musicians are often 20, 30, 40 or even more years older than me. But their names are disappearing from this world one by one, and that's when I realise that life is finite and that we ourselves are getting older. After all, musicians leave us their music as a souvenir. Somehow they live on in their music.
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