What are we all listening to at the moment.

[Philly Q]

Eurovision!  :P

[Plenum n Heather]

Live or a recording?

I've been somewhat obsessed with his 2&3 part inventions recently.

When I was taking lessons, I had to sight read the 2 part inventions; tough!!

[Lezard]

Crikey! I'm having a tough enough time getting through them bar by bar.
Did you use the Ken Hummer arrangements for solo guitar?


Really good book at an insane price if anyone else is intrested.
http://www.amazon.com/Bach-Inventions-Transcribed-Distinguished-Performer/dp/0739031937

[Plenum n Heather]

Crikey! I'm having a tough enough time getting through them bar by bar.
Did you use the Ken Hummer arrangements for solo guitar?


Really good book at an insane price if anyone else is intrested.
http://www.amazon.com/Bach-Inventions-Transcribed-Distinguished-Performer/dp/0739031937

Nope, I have a very good transcription that I picked up from Juliard; I can look it up if you're interested. But they are not transcribed for guitar, it's for harpsichord or clavichord or whatever it was. =p

I would play them as duets with my guitar teacher; having someone else playing the complementary part while you are playing one can REALLY throw you off!!

[_tom_]

Murder City Devils! So good :D

[Lezard]

Nope, I have a very good transcription that I picked up from Juliard; I can look it up if you're interested. But they are not transcribed for guitar, it's for harpsichord or clavichord or whatever it was. =p

I would play them as duets with my guitar teacher; having someone else playing the complementary part while you are playing one can REALLY throw you off!!

Thanks, but I've got the original transcriptions, I just can't play them haha.
I can imagine playing them as a duet would be pretty difficult.

No13 on Clavichord Ryan Layne Whitney (Bach: Invention No. 13 in A minor, on clavichord)

[dvorak]

I'm going through the back catalogue of King Diamond after a few years of absence. Really good stuff, especially Abigail, Them and Voodoo.

Mikkey Dee is killing it on the drums on the first few albums.

[blue]

after an acquaintance insisting that it was brilliant, i decided to revisit Ratt's Out Of The Cellar album, having dismissed it as rubbish about 20 years ago.  I have come back to other music that i didn't get before and ended up loving it.  Having now endured this record twice, I have again dismissed it as rubbish.  How did that awful band ever get a record deal, never mind a hit song?!

[dvorak]

after an acquaintance insisting that it was brilliant, i decided to revisit Ratt's Out Of The Cellar album, having dismissed it as rubbish about 20 years ago.  I have come back to other music that i didn't get before and ended up loving it.  Having now endured this record twice, I have again dismissed it as rubbish.  How did that awful band ever get a record deal, never mind a hit song?!

Now that is a very good question!  :D

[Philly Q]

after an acquaintance insisting that it was brilliant, i decided to revisit Ratt's Out Of The Cellar album, having dismissed it as rubbish about 20 years ago.  I have come back to other music that i didn't get before and ended up loving it.  Having now endured this record twice, I have again dismissed it as rubbish.  How did that awful band ever get a record deal, never mind a hit song?!

Funny you should mention that, I almost bought one of those "Original Album Classics" collections of Ratt albums just the other day.  I have most of them on vinyl, but haven't heard them for a very long time.  In the '80s I liked them, but they were never one of my favourite bands.

So I was looking at the track listing and thinking "hmmm, that one's OK, that's not very good, don't remember that one at all.... that one's rubbish!"  I didn't bother in the end.


Meanwhile, I have been listening to Spirit, Jo Jo Gunne, Galactic Cowboys and (something new!) Kadavar.

[JJretroTONEGOD]

after an acquaintance insisting that it was brilliant, i decided to revisit Ratt's Out Of The Cellar album, having dismissed it as rubbish about 20 years ago.  I have come back to other music that i didn't get before and ended up loving it.  Having now endured this record twice, I have again dismissed it as rubbish.  How did that awful band ever get a record deal, never mind a hit song?!

with respect I strongly disagree, they were far better than your average band, especially the guitar playing. I think detonator is their best album, you'd probably hate it even more.

[blue]

I put Detonator on afterwards (i bought that 5 album set Philly was talking about) and it is much better.  the guitars sound much better, the first one sounded like cheap practice amps!  and the drums don't sound like tupperware and wooden spoons any more :)   But it's still not the best i've ever heard. The singer (Stephen Pearcey?) is still terrible. I'd have to disagree with you, and it is just personal opinion of course, but i'd consider them an average at best band.  At least Detonator has half decent songs, Out Of The Cellar seems like bits of forgettable music with widdly solos.  they do seem like good guitarists, but only on the leads.

[Philly Q]

I remember when Ratt first came on the scene it was Robbin Crosby (RIP) who got all the attention as a guitarist, I guess because he was gobby, had bigger hair and was about 6'5".  It actually took a couple of albums before even the guitar mags started noticing that Warren DeMartini was (a) pretty damn good and (b) very much the lead guitarist (to be fair to Crosby, I think they did pretty much share the leads at first then DeMartini came increasingly to the fore).

And yes, Stephen Pearcy is an absolutely dreadful singer.

[ToneMonkey]

Ben Ottewell (the bloke from Gomez).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvc0FahbZ9Q

It's making me want to listen to whippin piccadilly though.

[Plenum n Heather]

These guys:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMrYSTzqFI8