Is that a song or an episode of Stupid Bass Tricks? ::ducks the flames::
Um… yes, I am. And I wasn’t before.
Fuck yes. With prejudice.
If I had driven myself, I would have left. I didn’t like he harmonica to begin with though. It’s just not a pleasant instrument to me.
Fie on all you accordian haters!! Fie, I say! 'tis a fine fine instrument.
And where would Jimmy Buffet and Margaritaville be without recorders?
A couple of musical aberrations we could do without:
The melodica - difficult to play and shrill unpleasant sound. Combining a piano keyboard with a blowhole just seems wrong. And they run me out of breath.
The Acoustic bass guitar: These things don’t produce enough sound to be heard 10 feet away. Even with amplification they sound muzzy and indistinct. Anything an ABG can do, a mandobass, bajo sexto or upright bass can do ten times better.
To re-state the case I made for double reeds: Whatseriously? How can you dislike the French Horn??
Don’t you make me come over there, boy! Victor Wooten is not only a fine bass player, but a true ambassador of his craft and exemplary human being.
I hear you girl but that solo went on for a half hour too long and the part where he twirls the bass around his body is completely ridiculous.
Where would the intro to “Stairway to Heaven” be without recorders? I’ve played it, on recorder, for a friend who performed it live in pubs. (I prefer to play my flute, but he insisted I play a recorder for the song.)
The Calliopasaxaviatrumparimbaclaribasotrombaphone has definitely gotta go.
I’m stunned nobody has said the vibes. Play them fast or slow, hard or soft, you still get the same mushy sound with little dynamics. They fail utterly both as a melodic and a percussive instrument. Plus they can be replaced easily by a number of instruments–electric piano, celeste, marimba. Even when you hear a master vibist like Lionel Hampton or Milt Jackson, you always think “this guy would sound way cooler with a lot more sonic options on the piano.”
The guitar. Just to see what would happen.
That was truly amazing.
I’d like to add to my previous contribution (soprano sax) and nominate the harpsichord. There is nothing on earth that will have me reaching for the mute button faster than a solo harpsichord recital.
Soprano sax is usually inflicted on an audience in the company of a band or orchestra - other instruments go some way to masking the hideousness of that instrument.
Solo harpsichord is without mercy and an unalloyed misery.
And the lasso d’amore, do we keep that or what?
Bagpipes. They’re god-awful.
Girl? :dubious: Anyhow, yes it’s silly and over the top. It’s supposed to be. It’s called being theatrical and having fun. I kinda enjoyed the Bach quote in the solo. The studio solo for that song is a normal length. Let the guy show off a little–the crowd loved it.
It’s called showmanship. If it weren’t for the visuals, there’d be no point to live performance. Try twirling a bass on radio sometime.
I guess all of the orchestras of the world better practice instrument twirling because, according to you, just playing their instruments is pointless.
Let’s agree to disagree. What you call theatrical and having fun, I call self-indulgent and in poor taste.