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**Frownland** · 01-01-2018, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Maajo

I wouldn't go that far.

I would. Dynamic playing beats Dylan playing the instrument in the most boring way imaginable any day.

heker · 01-01-2018, 08:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

I really like accordion and harmonica too; played well, both instruments can do sad, angry or jazzy music imo.

Harmonica and violin share the capacity of reproducing features of the human voice.

That's why, when well played, they are capable of reproducing deeply emotional feelings.

Maajo · 01-01-2018, 08:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I would. Dynamic playing beats Dylan playing the instrument in the most boring way imaginable any day.

Yeah, except when Dylan plays it, the instrument is coherently involved with a song structure. Not every person wants to play weird Captain Beefheart avant garde ****. I respect that you like that style better, but it in no way translates to better. At least not in my opinion.

I respect people who play instruments any way they want, but it does sound exactly like someone who just picked up a harmonica and is experimenting with it.

**Frownland** · 01-01-2018, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Maajo

Yeah, except when Dylan plays it, the instrument is coherently involved with a song structure. Not every person wants to play weird Captain Beefheart avant garde ****. I respect that you like that style better, but it in no way translates to better. At least not in my opinion.

It's very coherent and miles more interesting to me than most rock music (which I still enjoy), which translates to better.

Lisnaholic · 01-01-2018, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I like Zeena Parkins and Rhodri Davies.

^ I liked both of these, especially the instrumental opening to the Richard Dawson, which I could not recognise as being a harp at all.

Regarding the flute, there's a brief solo about half-way through the Soft Machine Third version of Facelift, which, as we might expect, sounds unlike any other flute solo afaik.

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Originally Posted by Maajo

Little Walter is the ****, and that's all I needed to know about harmonica.

^ If you don't know Charlie Musselwhite, you might like him too:-

Maajo · 01-01-2018, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

It's very coherent and miles more interesting to me than most rock music (which I still enjoy), which translates to better.

Yeah, I don't see how that's any more interesting than anything that Bob Dylan or John Lennon has ever done with the instrument. We're just gonna have to agree to disagree on that, but yeah it sounds pretty bad to me.

Chula Vista · 01-01-2018, 08:54 PM

Frowny likes it so therefore it's better.

John Popper > Frowny's noise crap.

Maajo, Frowny digs bad music. It helps him to justify the crap he puts out.

Maajo · 01-01-2018, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

^ I liked both of these, especially the instrumental opening to the Richard Dawson, which I could not recognise as being a harp at all.

Regarding the flute, there's a brief solo about half-way through the Soft Machine Third version of Facelift, which, as we might expect, sounds unlike any other flute solo afaik.

^ If you don't know Charlie Musselwhite, you might like him too:-

Yes! I have I believe his debut album, "Stand Back!..." which is fantastic. Also really like Paul Butterfield. I got into those guys when I went on a major blues kick about a year ago.

**Frownland** · 01-01-2018, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Maajo

Yeah, I don't see how that's any more interesting than anything that Bob Dylan or John Lennon has ever done with the instrument. We're just gonna have to agree to disagree on that, but yeah it sounds pretty bad to me.

It's more interesting because he gets a lot of different sounds out of the harmonica and plays them in a fascinatingly fragmented and emotional way. It's cool if you don't like it but thinking that it's amateurish just because it's unconventional shows a pretty limited understanding of music. Speaking of which...

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Frowny likes it so therefore it's better. .

Duh, it's a subjective because it's art you dumb ****. At least I don't blindly dismiss art because it's not pop music.

**Frownland** · 01-01-2018, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

^ I liked both of these, especially the instrumental opening to the Richard Dawson, which I could not recognise as being a harp at all.

I love how percussive it is and how it weaves in and out of the guitar's melody in a really awesome way.

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Regarding the flute, there's a brief solo about half-way through the Soft Machine Third version of Facelift, which, as we might expect, sounds unlike any other flute solo afaik.

And who could forget Varese?

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