Sorry CJM, and DFB a question for you both. Have you ever liked McLaughlin/ Mahavishnu/ jazz guitar wig outs ? Or was it just this one? If the answer is no you don’t like that style of playing then you are never going to like whatever he does.
I cant stand Kate Bush- never liked her never will. DFB loves her but I dont wade in and snipe on posts about Kate.
As to the playing on that it was clearly to the brief we’ll just start on the vamp and you do some of that frenetic stuff on thew guitar you are famous for.
Yebbut Junior…I’m no fan of McLaughlin/ Mahavishnu/ jazz guitar wig outs , though Colin must be used to the refuseniks by now. But what made that clip particularly unlistenable/watchable was its wild inappropriateness – not one of Elvis’s better ideas, if it was his. The music of the Roots is economical and airy – what I’ve heard of it, anyway – and to get the Widdlemeister in to fill the gaps with, well, widdle just made no sense. I suspect that was what CJM and DFB were objecting to. I may be wrong, of course.
Looking at Costello there, he evokes the shy nerdy teenager who reinvents his persona as a cool dude when he starts college. New duds, new haircut, contact lenses, new attitude.
Except there is one student from his old school in his new class and they know… they know. He knows, they know and they know he knows.
Be thankful for John’s 30 second version of ‘Dragon Song’, all ye who would naysay…
Here’s Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express covering it in 1971 ( 5:50 minutes in). Brian’s cover of it on one of his albums was, I believe, the first recorded cover of a John McL number:
Yes widdling for widdles sake. And it features Costello so I feel as a trainspotter I can comment on his dodgy decisions musically esp when involving jazz wankery. Whether Mr Wells approves or not
Colin H says
Hmmm… video above didn’t appear. Let’s try again…
badartdog says
Chooooon
(as in where’s the …)
DogFacedBoy says
Jazz(master) wankery and self indulgent wibble of the highest order. A plague on all their houses
Junior Wells says
where is a down arrow when you need it.?
count jim moriarty says
Sorry Junior, I’m with DFB on this one. Horrible fretboard wanking of the most tedious order. Never thought EC could get lower than She…
Junior Wells says
Sorry CJM, and DFB a question for you both. Have you ever liked McLaughlin/ Mahavishnu/ jazz guitar wig outs ? Or was it just this one? If the answer is no you don’t like that style of playing then you are never going to like whatever he does.
I cant stand Kate Bush- never liked her never will. DFB loves her but I dont wade in and snipe on posts about Kate.
As to the playing on that it was clearly to the brief we’ll just start on the vamp and you do some of that frenetic stuff on thew guitar you are famous for.
mikethep says
Yebbut Junior…I’m no fan of McLaughlin/ Mahavishnu/ jazz guitar wig outs , though Colin must be used to the refuseniks by now. But what made that clip particularly unlistenable/watchable was its wild inappropriateness – not one of Elvis’s better ideas, if it was his. The music of the Roots is economical and airy – what I’ve heard of it, anyway – and to get the Widdlemeister in to fill the gaps with, well, widdle just made no sense. I suspect that was what CJM and DFB were objecting to. I may be wrong, of course.
Malc says
Am I the only one who watched that and thought “John Le Mesurier”?
DogFacedBoy says
I say, do you really think that’s wise?
Moose the Mooche says
“Would you Mahavishnu chaps mind awfully falling in?”
….at which point Private Cobham asks if he can be excused
DogFacedBoy says
And Costello is obviously guest star Phil Silvers playing a Yank general
‘On the double, Questlove, heyyaheyup’
Zanti Misfit says
Looking at Costello there, he evokes the shy nerdy teenager who reinvents his persona as a cool dude when he starts college. New duds, new haircut, contact lenses, new attitude.
Except there is one student from his old school in his new class and they know… they know. He knows, they know and they know he knows.
Colin H says
Be thankful for John’s 30 second version of ‘Dragon Song’, all ye who would naysay…
Here’s Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express covering it in 1971 ( 5:50 minutes in). Brian’s cover of it on one of his albums was, I believe, the first recorded cover of a John McL number:
DogFacedBoy says
Wow the drugs must have been great back then to make it through endless hours of that
DogFacedBoy says
Yes widdling for widdles sake. And it features Costello so I feel as a trainspotter I can comment on his dodgy decisions musically esp when involving jazz wankery. Whether Mr Wells approves or not
Colin H says
…and here’s the full performance: