JimmyS1969
MOODerator
Self neg rep! Wonder twin powers! Spider man! Batman!

Nothing works, I guess we just wait for Santa....
				
			
Nothing works, I guess we just wait for Santa....


 


I have yet to find out the purpose of rep
Until you get some, it will be like wondering what your guy junk is for. You don't know until you need it. lol!

Well thank you I guess i better learn and to increase the size of my rep![]()

LOL! I like you.![]()
should i start running now?

While ... believe it or not. I like show tunes.

I find that Indian instruments and Indian music in general really fuses well with everything I've heard it fused with. Great with rock, folk, rap/hip hop, jazz.......I remember listening to a fusion of Flamenco guitar and Sitar, my two favorite instruments......... YUCK!
are a must ! The fascinating thing about them are that Mayer was an Indian writer well versed in Western and Eastern music. Joe Harriott was a West Indian jazz man  saxophonist that had been pushing ahead with unfathomable free jazz. Both the Indian band and the jazz band were hardened improvisors but every tune here is beautiful, hummable, melodic and memorable. And damned clever. I've been sailing with John Mayer and Joe Harriott's fusion for 30 years now and all I can say is if I was stranded on a desert island without them, I'd be swimming back to shore to get them !
Same here. I love it to bits, same with "Love you to" on Revolver. It is kind of only now that George Harrison is receiving the credit for what was, in 1966/7 a bold, daring and frankly crazy fusion ! I dig him all the more for it. It was so risky, first of all to bring such a different voice into the Beatles ouvre, then to try and break down the dumb Western stereotypes of Indian music that existed at the time, then to use Indian instruments in Beatle songs {like "Tomorrow never knows", "Strawberry fields forever", "Lucy in the sky with diamonds", "Getting better", "Across the universe" etc} that he hadn't written, then to fuse the two thought strands of the the two musical headspaces by writing pop and rock but in an Eastern vein {and I'm talking about the ones without Indian instruments} and all this while being 23 and 24 years old and overshadowed by Lennon and McCartney and not taken seriously as a writer of note by what appears to have been most rock critics up until very recently and the likes of George Martin, Geoff Emerick, Brian epstein and the two "main" Beatles at the time.Within You Without You is one of my favorite songs.
Blimey, those Shankars get everywhere ! I have this wonderful 1970 albumI was just reading about an album by Anoushka Shankar "Traveller".
 by the Sitarist, Ananda Shankar, in which he plays some ragas but on other tracks, he plays with rock musicians and does covers. There's one fascinating cover of the Stones' "Jumping Jack flash" and a delightfully gorgeous fusion tune called "Metamorphosis". However, for sheer drama, tension and release of orgasmic proportions, nothing beats "Sagar {The ocean}", a 13 minute epic excursion. It's hotter than july ! There are many great show tunes. I've noticed though, that almost all the show tunes I like come from films or plays I knew as a kid, things like "Joseph and his amazing technicolour dream coat", "Oliver !", "Man of La Mancha", "Robin Hood", "Jungle book", "The Aristocats", "The sound of music" etc. Some fabulous songs came from these and other Disney films.While ... believe it or not. I like show tunes.
Ah, but the new genre ceases to exist until blended........Asking how many types of music there is is like asking how many numbers there are IMO! You can create so many blends!