This is the thread where we discuss the musicians and non-musicians who have amazing talents that are rarely discussed.
Who is the Hendrix of drum machine programming? Who is the golden god of tape loop editing? A prodigy at the kazoo? How about someone with a knack for building new, interesting instruments? Or someone who just know's everything there is to know about reverb? (Yes, King Tubby, Lee Scratch)
Nominate your own.
― filthy dylan, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago)
Who is the Hendrix of drum machine programming?
John Robie
Who is the golden god of tape loop editing?
Omar Santana
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago)
Also discuss why and how plz.
― filthy dylan, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago)
Reminds me of a joke:
Q: If Peter Hammill is considered the "Jimi Hendrix of vocals", who is the Noel Redding of vocals?
A: Jimi Hendrix.
― Joe, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 20:42 (seventeen years ago)
Recorder
Christopher Redgate and Heinz Holliger, but he probably has a higher profile.
Will Re-listen and discuss these sometime.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 20:50 (seventeen years ago)
Clara Rockmore and the theremin is the obvious choice here.
― John Justen, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago)
Prince, based solely on 777-9311
― Jordan, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 21:04 (seventeen years ago)
^ rong
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago)
can "drum machine" be extended to all drum sequencing?
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 21:15 (seventeen years ago)
drum machine programming, I mean
Chuck Mangione, unchallenged master of the Flugelhorn.
― John Justen, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 21:16 (seventeen years ago)
"Juggs" Nielsen, unchallenged master of breast flatulence.
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago)
Jon Gibson, maraca master
― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago)
I don't know enough about ukelele playing to say this with any authority, but Jake Shimabukuro sounds a virtuoso to me.
― Alba, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 21:27 (seventeen years ago)
master bass drummer
http://adventures-of-sherry.com/images/week41/UptownSuperSunday/Hot8Harry-Sherry.jpg
― Jordan, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 21:32 (seventeen years ago)
-- John Justen, Wednesday, August 1, 2007 5:16 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
Freddie Hubbard and Clark Terry might beg to differ
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 21:34 (seventeen years ago)
Probably old & new Down Beat polls - the Miscellaneous Instruments category -- would deserve a longer look again. There must be quite a few "virtuosos of little discussed instruments", I suppose. (e.g. Steve Turre: conch shells; etc.)
― t**t, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 21:34 (seventeen years ago)
Krys Brobrowski - Dried Kelp Horns
http://www.wired.com/news/images/full/edgetone1_f.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/djll/201272818/in/set-72157600072211726/
she plays in the amazing group Vorticella which has yet to record an album, over ten years into playing, you have to go to the shows, they're one of my favorite live bands
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 21:43 (seventeen years ago)
Gibby from the Butthole Surfers useta do some really cool stuff with various electronic vocal-distortion devices during their classic period.
And hey, how about the guy who played the marimba in Starbuck?!
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 22:42 (seventeen years ago)
worked a jake shimabukuro show tonight: pretty good way to get paid. (he has a lil kid now! i'm old.) he did an uncommonly beautiful version of bohemian rhapsody, cut right to its knotty heart.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 31 August 2014 08:00 (ten years ago)
may have been the wrong thread. it was this, "unfancied instruments", or the one about virtuosos who are not wanky.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 31 August 2014 08:01 (ten years ago)
A friend of mine invented the Fluid Piano, a piano which enables the pianist to tune individual notes on the fly and thereby play microtones that are found in non-western music but cannot normally be played on the piano:
http://www.thefluidpiano.com
― goth colouring book (anagram), Sunday, 31 August 2014 08:22 (ten years ago)
I've always been amazed by Steve Albini's drum machine programming assuming that's him who did the Big Black stuff. Certainly sounded to me as as good as a lot of actual drummers at the time.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 31 August 2014 12:57 (ten years ago)
That fluid piano looks great. I imagine it's horribly expensive, though.
― emil.y, Sunday, 31 August 2014 12:59 (ten years ago)
Yeah they run to about £10K.
― goth colouring book (anagram), Sunday, 31 August 2014 18:47 (ten years ago)