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After months of spine-tingling excitement, Ruben won. I was upset, as I'm a technique nut and found Clay's pipes to be much more developed, but life goes on.
Incidentally, Ralph Humphrey is the drummer on all the music arrangements for that show. Some of the stuff was kind of cheesy, but it was good drumming, none the less.
I beg to differ tho I really didn't pay much attention to this one. But based on the first one.
the point is that the music industry is just in fact that, an industry. They don't really care at all about the music or what kind of talent or skill that a person may possess. They only care about selling records and making money. It is a sad truth.
Now, personally, I love Norah Jones. I thought it was great to see her win some awards for what she did with her album, even though i detest the grammys (or any other award show for that matter). If what she does in some way affects even the least amount of change in the way that current radio goes it would be absolutely wonderful. Sometimes I wonder how people can continually listen to the stuff that comes out today and regard it as new. When in fact, it just another example of the cookie cutter ways of the music industry.
I think that the appearance of artists like Norah Jones and John Mayer (whom i personally do not care for, but nonetheless respect) is perhaps a small signal that the music industry may be beginning to remember that music is a part of the industry that they partake in. It would be excellent to see more groups that are more than just 3 chords played through a mesa full stack
No, no, no. I tell you, this American Idol was DIFFERENT! It was magical, through and through. What was interesting is that neither of the finalists looked or sang like pop stars. Ruben looks and sings like Barry White, and Clay is the second coming of Barry Manilow. The Britney Spears-esque starlets were fast eliminated from the show, which was refreshing.
I love TV more than anything in the world, and I tell you American Idol is surpassed in entertainment value only by the last season of Big Brother, about which I still have long, thoughtful discussions with my roommate. And, no, I'm not gay.
"I love TV more than anything in the world"
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"No, no, no. I tell you, this American Idol was DIFFERENT! It was magical, through and through."
WOW...beer cheap in your local market "T" There's beena transformation in HOD...and it's scarring me! [img]graemlins/shhh.gif[/img]
Hey..all LA boys...let's check Steve out Saturday in Valencia. Who's up for it? Email me if you are. I've already called several bro's to see SH--Man in Demand!
I need my updated FuseU1 Dictionary [img]eek.gif[/img]
...Amazon ran out [img]graemlins/sure.gif[/img]
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ May 23, 2003 01:19 AM: Message edited by: PocketPlayer ]</font>
Sorry [img]tongue.gif[/img] ...hey, it's late, 4 cryin out loud, ah, soft...
If u r refer'g to the "melizmatic" thing, i prob mispelled it... it's the music termonology that describes that rapid flurry of acsending or descending scalular/pitch/note changes that is common among gospel/soul/r&b singers... i believe it is called something similar to this by many classical pianists... some1 correct me if i'm off on that 1...
... if u r talkin bout my abbreviations, i figure all the little abbrevs save me a little time when i get into the long-winded typing thing [maybe; maybe not]... & well, then, GOOD LUCK deciphering [img]wink.gif[/img] ... [img]confused.gif[/img]
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ May 23, 2003 01:50 AM: Message edited by: FuseU1 ]</font>
Fuse, you have a signature feel and this is cyber-world! I can only imgaine how this dynamic relates to the kit! Where are the music Instant Graemlins?
...OK, ok, i'm goonna go ahead & sound in on this 1; i'll try to be a bit brief [yeah, RIGHT] - I said ["i'll TRY...&...a BIT..."] -
From what little i've watched of it ["American Eyeball"], I have to go w Teeb on this 1 - while i thot Ruben was very good [Barry White/LVandross/TPendergrass-ish type veign - not 2 b cornfused w "hashish" [img]tongue.gif[/img] ], Clay was DEF the better 'techniquesman'...was this a PC maneuver once again? I hope not...but it looks like it may be...& now they're makin a big stink about how Clay shoulda won because a lot of people's call-in votes didn't connect... a' la' the Clinton/Bush election...hey guys, i know - let's get some unknown cuntry sanger named Chad on the show & hang him high fr the light truss - we'll call him, "Hangin' Chad" or "Hang 'Em High Chad" [img]tongue.gif[/img] - it'll be great, like a Letterman/Leno/Conan show gimmick]...the Democrats'll LOVE it [img]wink.gif[/img] [hoo-boy, here we go - eddruming]...
Not that i'm some kinda "higher critic," or anything like that, but Rube had some very subtle intonation/pitch tonality discrepancies every so often that Clay did not...however, both these guys r DEF WAY better sangers'n me [img]wink.gif[/img] [i'm only a backing/harmony singer in the pop/folk/rock style] -
- gotta hand it to guys like PCollins, Kirk Covington [great raspy-bluesy singin' while playin serious blusion drumg behind ScottH!], etc - with all those frequencies around their heads [cym, sn, monitor mix, etc], NTM the additional rhythm of the lead vocal melodies, it's a wonder they consistently stay in key awa they do [in-ears have helped tremendously these days]...
Rube, i believe, is genuinely the guy that u see, there... because of the type of person he seems 2 be & prob is, i'm glad 4 him... & that style of gospel/soul/r&b/melizmatic[sp?] type singing seems like it'd be really difficult to master... but Clay still shouldve won... he kicked all their patooties in this round...[it WAS good to c the Britney/Sheryl Crow copycats & the token "good ole' boy" canned [he shoulda been 1 of the 1st to go] ;=)...
So much 4 "brief"...the only brrrrief thang about it is all of the "Am Idol undergarrrrments" they'll soooon be prrrresently peddlin' to all the good little viewerrrrs - in my best [worst] Irrrrish "brogue"....
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ May 24, 2003 02:32 PM: Message edited by: FuseU1 ]</font>
My 2 cents worth....
I'm not a big fan of these types of shows.
I'd rather watch BET Jazz and see some great players perform, but I did give it a bit of a watch.
Clay in my mind (and ears) was the clear winner.
Although he did look like Ed Grimly (sp?) with a spiked hairdo.
I can not believe that they allowed people to call in more than once a night. I can write a program to jam the phone lines with hundreds of calls per hour. I didn't by the way.
The songs that the contestants performed, seemed like glorified elavator muzak. You would think that they could select some more current or better arranged tunes.
Oh well....
It just TV anyway.
Flammy