Finally, a seven-string I can see the point of. This makes more sense than a double-neck. This guy has a lot of very entertaining videos and he's a hell of a player.
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WordPress makes it so damned easy to embed YouTube videos.
I actually had this album, what a blast from the past!
Who remembers the Monkees? When I was a little kid, this show was in syndication every day after school. I loved the slapstick. At the end of every episode was a music video that I didn't really appreciate then. Here is the intro to the show:
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The oldest known melody - circa 1400 B.C. That drone note starts to drill into your head after a while.
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He's not doing it here, but Bruno Mars can play pretty much any instrument you throw at him. He's like an even-smaller version of Prince.
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The sound quality is not the best, but a great performance. For the kids: that's Debbie Harry and Blondie.
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Another weird music video for you. They had a cool website with lots of great stuff, but alas it's gone now, replaced by stupid Facebook. I despise Facebook, I can't wait for the day when they go the way of MySpace.
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To my mind, there are three kinds of "mash-up": functional, constructive, and stylistic.
- A functional mash-up changes the purpose of the base instrument, for example, building a bass on a guitar body. The Uke bass takes this to an extreme.
- A constructive mash-up is building a classic design in a different way, for example, substituting masonite and plywood for rare and expensive "tonewoods" ( most of which are in truth neither rare nor expensive, although you can pay a lot for them if you shop in the right places. )
- A stylistic mash-up consists of taking features from two or more different instruments and jamming them together. For example, horns on a violin body.
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