20 Feb 09
Originally posted by buckkyi cannot say who was greatest, only my favorite has to be Micheal Bloomfield, an outstanding musician! check out album Analine, he plays guitar, mandolin and organ,
For shear soul I give Ray Charles the gold star.
For shear chops I give Charlie Parker the award.
For going far beyond the human level Mozart get's the prise.
http://www.youtube.com/user/BuRnT53
20 Feb 09
Originally posted by sonhouseI haven't heard very much of what Dweezil does. He's a good guitarist, but I don't know if he's the brilliant understander and creator of music that his father was. Frank did a vast range of things musically, he sucked every drop of possibility out of his ideas and he stretched the musicians who worked with him. To the extent that I'm qualified to judge it, his technical understanding of music was profound, and he seemed to grasp, if somewhat cynically, the mental effect that musical abstractions have. His music takes us to weird places that make us better people.
So you are saying Dwezel is not a chip off the old man's block?
21 Feb 09
Originally posted by AttilaTheHornThose would be my picks, too. May I add Schubert, Brahms, and Chopin? Schubert was actually the most prolific of all of them considering the age he died and he covered about every type of genre. I think he compsed over 4000 numbers. He was a boy tenor with the famed Vienna Boys' Choir as a child. I saw them perform in Tacoma, Washington in 1954, I believe. About 300 years after he was one of them, of course. 🙂
J.S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven
21 Feb 09
Originally posted by ale1552Schubert was incredibly shy, painfully so. Both he and Beethoven lived in Vienna at the same time. Beethoven was a giant in music, famous throughout the world, and he used to go regularly to this coffee house where he had a table reserved for him, It must have been great for the business because people would come from all over to meet Beethoven, who, because of his deafness, would communicate with his writing pads.
Those would be my picks, too. May I add Schubert, Brahms, and Chopin? Schubert was actually the most prolific of all of them considering the age he died and he covered about every type of genre. I think he compsed over 4000 numbers. He was a boy tenor with the famed Vienna Boys' Choir as a child. I saw them perform in Tacoma, Washington in 1954, I believe. About 300 years after he was one of them, of course. 🙂
Schubert came too, many times, and would sit in the opposite corner gazing at this great man, but he was too shy to go over and introduce himself. So the two never actually met.
It's tragically sad.
22 Feb 09
Originally posted by AttilaTheHornThanks for the bit of trivia....which I love! Schubert would compose a song and take it to trade for a loaf of bread. He was never a success during his short lifetime. History had recorded that he died of typhus, but I read not long ago that it was actually syphilis...the same thing that caused Beethoven's deafness....only it was the father's ailment, not his own. Those things were hush-hush when I was still young and learning about the masters. Sometimes I wish I had not been enlightened. Again....it may just be hearsay in Schubert's case. I mean, how would anyone know?
Schubert was incredibly shy, painfully so. Both he and Beethoven lived in Vienna at the same time. Beethoven was a giant in music, famous throughout the world, and he used to go regularly to this coffee house where he had a table reserved for him, It must have been great for the business because people would come from all over to meet Beethoven, who, b ...[text shortened]... too shy to go over and introduce himself. So the two never actually met.
It's tragically sad.