lol. just to clarify, i dont think i brought up the v word first. not that it matters!
― StillAdvance, Friday, 19 December 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
"I don't even like Hendrix but lol @ saying he wasn't a virtuoso
― Οὖτις,"
"I never practice cos it's hard for me. I just jam. It's hard for me to rememeber stuff. That's why I make a lot of mistakes [when i play]"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gwLQAuHJv8
― ..but is he a virtuoso? (Raccoon Tanuki), Friday, 19 December 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
I like how you think words mean different things than everybody else does, it's cuet
― Οὖτις, Friday, 19 December 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
^^official follow-up post
lol
― virtuoso thigh slapper (Jordan), Friday, 19 December 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
"StillAdvance, it's called rhythm, feeling, soul. Get it."
teach me racoon!
― StillAdvance, Friday, 19 December 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
Oh, don't get me wrong! D'Angelo is a very talented musician. I'd just never heard any key playing that particularly blew me away, not that there was anything wrong with it. But D'Angelo's not, like, some Stevie Wonder virtuoso, regardless. But he's super tasteful, so it's hard to tell. I did always think the "he can play anything!" thing was a little overblown. Most of "Brown Sugar" is pretty simple (to its credit). D'Angelo is not Prince in that regard, and does not need to be.
But yeah, some of the more technical jazzy guitar licks on this album, no, 10 years of adult time will not get you there.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, December 19, 2014 4:51 AM Bookmark
Based on what I've seen, D is probably a better keyboardist than Prince. Remember a lot of the flash wow keyboard moments on Prince's records were Fink.
― Dej & the Fommly Loaf (The Reverend), Friday, 19 December 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
Wow, this is getting kinda ridiculous
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 19 December 2014 17:51 (nine years ago) link
it's amusing at least.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 19 December 2014 17:52 (nine years ago) link
talk about virtuoso u gotta mention my dude mozart
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 19 December 2014 17:56 (nine years ago) link
not that it matters, but on a couple of my Prince bootleg dvds he does a little medley on solo piano, and it is murderous.
― virtuoso thigh slapper (Jordan), Friday, 19 December 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link
Can we get back to the Is Bob Marley a guitar virtuoso discussion please?
― ..but is he a virtuoso? (Raccoon Tanuki), Friday, 19 December 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
goddamn it jordan beat me to the virtuoso thigh slapper DN
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 December 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, December 19, 2014 11:56 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah he was like the stevie wonder of his day, produced such great tracks imo
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 December 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link
YAHWEH, YEHUSHUA
― ..but is he a virtuoso? (Raccoon Tanuki), Friday, 19 December 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
guys I think we broke the raccoon
― Οὖτις, Friday, 19 December 2014 18:12 (nine years ago) link
oh good we can return to discussion how well Macca can play lead guitar.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 December 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
haha that RT post was amazing
― marcos, Friday, 19 December 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
macca shreds bro
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 December 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link
i wish we could send d'angelo in a time machine to see how he'd do in the yardbirds
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 December 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
can d'angelo lute like sting can lute?
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 19 December 2014 18:27 (nine years ago) link
how much wood could a virtuoso woodchuck chuck
― Οὖτις, Friday, 19 December 2014 18:28 (nine years ago) link
can D'angelo play the timbales like Tito Puente?
― Dej & the Fommly Loaf (The Reverend), Friday, 19 December 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
everything d'angelo does is funky like lee dorsey iirc
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 December 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
RT on some gzeus shit
In Japanese.Not that I could read alot of it(one character speaks in an insanely thick and formal SAMURAI dialet, the royal family speaks high keigo which I oddly understood... not sure what that means. Alot of Kanji, too), what I did read is alot funnier, and I wouldn't have to read it anyway.I could play it in russian, swedish, arabic... DOESN'T MATTER. I can play it with my feet without looking directly at the creen. I'VE DONE IT BEFORE.In fact I set the battle modes to harder ones just for more of a challenge.THE ATTACK NAMES ARE DIFFERENT AND IT DOESN'T MATTER.I haven't played it in years and I can just go "Oh, now I need to do that, so I'll press this sequence of buttons and kill"SPINAL FUNCTION.If I did a blood transfuction I'm sure the recieving human(in addition to getting high from all the meds) would BE ABLE TO PLAY CHRONO TRIGGER.That's not very long, either. I used to do 4-5 hour stretches. I don't remember how long it took to beat lavos when I'm SUPPOSED to lose...I've seen all 11 main endings and variations of most of them.I used to level up by playing the game through.Fight the same series of wimps in the forect for an hour or two? I DON'T THINK SO. I think I'll BEAT THE GAME 3 times.The same way EVERY TIME.Fastest way to winning.Then I'd work at accumulating more items and becoming so strong NOTHING could stop me. But only after completing EVERY POSSIBLE SIDE STORY.This was accomplished in part by a trick my brother (ex-in-law) found.He spend 6 hours fighting the same battle over and over.Steal the same item from the same monsters.I was FLOORED when I heard that.He had a save on the system with MAXED OUT magic power on EVERY character.Then I went on to bit by bit max every character as much as possible.Then I lent it to my then girlfriend, and somehow that save was erased.it's wuite possible the fact that I had a Game Gear save on it that was so fucked it screwed the system, but she may (VERY DOUBTFUL) have deleted it on purpose, but I think she was ashamed of ACCIDENTALLY deleting it and lied.But I don't remember if you CAN just delete a save in CT....This game was my sole entertainment source save random TV things for 2-3 years.THAT'S INSANE.I had an old-school Geocities site(long gone, I loved it) dedicated to subtexts and retardo descriptions of characters.I sprayed my hair the color of my fav character, I bought a replica sword like the one he carried, GREW MY HAIR TO THE SAME LENGTH.Used his name on EVERY message board, wait, they were all CHAT ROOMS then.Remember CHAT ROOMS?There was a CT chatroom I had regular DAILY meetings in.I SOMEHOW developed a crush on the webmaster until I saw she was really palsied and horse-like.Still cool. Not attractive.WOW.This is the most meaningless crap I've ever written, but it's a bit of an insight onto how far into things I get.Any CT fans?Anyone else have a similar past with a different game?― The GZeus (The GZeus), Friday, August 18, 2006 5:18 AM
That's not very long, either. I used to do 4-5 hour stretches. I don't remember how long it took to beat lavos when I'm SUPPOSED to lose...
I've seen all 11 main endings and variations of most of them.I used to level up by playing the game through.Fight the same series of wimps in the forect for an hour or two? I DON'T THINK SO. I think I'll BEAT THE GAME 3 times.The same way EVERY TIME.Fastest way to winning.Then I'd work at accumulating more items and becoming so strong NOTHING could stop me. But only after completing EVERY POSSIBLE SIDE STORY.
This was accomplished in part by a trick my brother (ex-in-law) found.He spend 6 hours fighting the same battle over and over.Steal the same item from the same monsters.I was FLOORED when I heard that.He had a save on the system with MAXED OUT magic power on EVERY character.Then I went on to bit by bit max every character as much as possible.
Then I lent it to my then girlfriend, and somehow that save was erased.it's wuite possible the fact that I had a Game Gear save on it that was so fucked it screwed the system, but she may (VERY DOUBTFUL) have deleted it on purpose, but I think she was ashamed of ACCIDENTALLY deleting it and lied.But I don't remember if you CAN just delete a save in CT....
This game was my sole entertainment source save random TV things for 2-3 years.THAT'S INSANE.I had an old-school Geocities site(long gone, I loved it) dedicated to subtexts and retardo descriptions of characters.I sprayed my hair the color of my fav character, I bought a replica sword like the one he carried, GREW MY HAIR TO THE SAME LENGTH.Used his name on EVERY message board, wait, they were all CHAT ROOMS then.Remember CHAT ROOMS?There was a CT chatroom I had regular DAILY meetings in.I SOMEHOW developed a crush on the webmaster until I saw she was really palsied and horse-like.Still cool. Not attractive.
WOW.This is the most meaningless crap I've ever written, but it's a bit of an insight onto how far into things I get.
Any CT fans?Anyone else have a similar past with a different game?
― The GZeus (The GZeus), Friday, August 18, 2006 5:18 AM
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 December 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
get yr iron game up
― waddy watchel (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 December 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link
just wanted to drop in and say this album is dope.
― marcos, Friday, 19 December 2014 22:58 (nine years ago) link
major stylistics vibes from 'another life'
― marcos, Friday, 19 December 2014 23:06 (nine years ago) link
right down to the sitar experimentations
i used to think RT was a troll, but he just appears to be another guy on the internet w/ a short fuse. and a capslock key that catches.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 20 December 2014 03:19 (nine years ago) link
Hey yeah can we go back to talking about how amazing "1000 Deaths" and "The Charade" and "Sugah Daddy" (and the rest of the album) are and stop talking about whether D'Angelo would win an amazing rap battle of history with Mozart or whatever
― quan voice (voodoo chili), Saturday, 20 December 2014 03:41 (nine years ago) link
Big 'Zart had mad #bars
― waddy watchel (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 20 December 2014 03:43 (nine years ago) link
salieri wrote all his rhymes tho
― I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 20 December 2014 03:44 (nine years ago) link
salieri was the mad skills of the classical period
― waddy watchel (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 20 December 2014 03:55 (nine years ago) link
Salary went off the sermonizing deep end on Unplugged 2.0.
― Eric H., Saturday, 20 December 2014 04:04 (nine years ago) link
I know this album isn't really that short -- 56 minutes -- but the sequencing makes it feel like it ends too soon. The back half is so strong and flows so well together that it's a letdown when it ends. Feels like it should keep going and going.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 20 December 2014 04:59 (nine years ago) link
the songs on this record are among the shortest 5-minute songs i've ever heard... i mean that as a major compliment. they are so engaging and engrossing, and they end and i'm like, "wait, that's it? i could have listened to another 10 minutes of that."
― I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 20 December 2014 05:26 (nine years ago) link
that' what happens when you have real musicians playing real instruments and a vocal genius leading them
― ..but is he a virtuoso? (Raccoon Tanuki), Saturday, 20 December 2014 10:48 (nine years ago) link
thanks, dad.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 20 December 2014 11:00 (nine years ago) link
flugelhorn genius
― Dej & the Fommly Loaf (The Reverend), Saturday, 20 December 2014 11:10 (nine years ago) link
lol instruments are so old lol aren't they atually made of wood??? LOL wtf. actual musicians rofl get with the times grandad we just rub our clits now and wear giant mouse heads
― ..but is he a virtuoso? (Raccoon Tanuki), Saturday, 20 December 2014 12:06 (nine years ago) link
sounds like a party
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Saturday, 20 December 2014 12:22 (nine years ago) link
One of the reasons I love "Sugah Daddy" is cause it sounds like if the "just because the record's got the groove" part of "Sir Duke" was extrapolated into a full song.
― quan voice (voodoo chili), Saturday, 20 December 2014 12:24 (nine years ago) link
deadmaus's clit is MIDI?
― waddy watchel (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 20 December 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
Ben Kane says it's Mark Hammond (not familiar but he's a jazz dude apparently) on the fancy flamenco guitar on 'Really Love', D on other guitars, and Gadson on drums again (fooled me! the extra snaps and claps make it sound very Quest-ish).
listening back to that bootleg that went around a few years ago and the final version is definitely an improvement.
― virtuoso thigh slapper (Jordan), Saturday, 20 December 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link
As always, I enjoy/appreciate the instrumental detail and feel, regardless of who plays what where, and here the lyrics add something, though also as always, the vocals keep me a little detached, and currently get a little annoying, with that tendency to blur, if not strain---doesn't always happen: I really like "Sugah Daddy" for inst, and ”Till It’s Done (Tutu)” is very fine---but whatever you think of this set, don't sleep the *actual* Sly's 2014 (imperfect but often excellent) anthology, which is also timely, in a startling way, esp. keyboard-wise:http://lightintheattic.net/releases/1451-i-m-just-like-you-sly-s-stone-flower-1969-70
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oCyHAhJgFA
― dow, Saturday, 20 December 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
Also, he's got me listening to this year's Prince albums again, dittoMusicology, The Hits/The B-Sides, and The Black Album, so thanks D'.
― dow, Saturday, 20 December 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
Third Eye Girl might be the worst backing band ever, so gross clubfooted bar band gunk
― waddy watchel (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 20 December 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
made me listen to lots of old 70s and 00 soul i havent touched in a while (as well as prince). find it hard listening to individual tracks - it only really works as an album to me, though i do find certain phrases popping into my head every so often. sometimes think all the labour and attention to detail has maybe come at the expense of immediacy (save for sugah daddy), but then i think thats always been there in dangelos music.
not to return to the virtuoso argument but i think we do often conflate 'multi instrumentalist' with 'virtuoso'.
― StillAdvance, Saturday, 20 December 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
Didn't realize he was managed by Eric Leeds. Between Leeds, Jesse Johnson and John Blackwell, whole lotta Prince in the D'Angelo family.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 20 December 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link