@Sealer 5586 wrote:
I recently when I was sitting in a bar drinking a cold one I´ve heard a song by a band I haven´t heard in years (literally). It was “Art of me” played by a band called Kashmir. Old danish rockband, rather unheard of outside Denmark. I decided to try it out and bought a cd “Travelogue” by them and was blown away. This is one of the most inspiring album I´ve heard. I found there are plenty of elements I really love about their music – overall funky vibe, melodies based on groove, mood changes, really good vocals, fun energy with balls of funk and humor incorporated in songs, they all make up for a mixture that is getting better and better, the more of it I drink. There are no blazing fast, technical solos, but strangely it doesn´t subtract from the quality of this record.
Give it a shot guys, it is really worth it. There aren´t really any videos from this record on youtube though 🙁
Hey Marcin, 🙂
I will try to check out Kashmir when I have a chance. They sound pretty cool from your description. Interesting what you said about the solos, because I have MANY records/LPs that I absolutely love that have little to no soloing to speak of, and that’s OK! I think back in the 1980’s, it was mandatory for a rock-band to have the blazing solo, but I don’t think this is necessarily true. As you know, I LOVE good shred! However, I also love Radiohead and Fiona Apple and Jellyfish, all for different reasons, except one common denominator. The intangible magic of song! A great song need not have a fast solo, even though some do! I remember a thread here at IG that was about “what your listening to at the moment” or something similar to that. Anyways, I remember Rick Graham chiming in with his adoration for the band Coldplay, and I thought to myself: “Wow, Rick is this world-class shredder (although very tasteful and musical as well!) and yet he digs a contemporary “pop” band like Coldplay. To which I chimed in with my affinity for Radiohead and so forth, but I think that was a good example of Rick CLEARLY NOT listening to Coldplay for their “shredding guitar solos!” (lol!) Know what I mean? I also know that Rick really likes Genesis a lot, and they’ve never had crazy-fast guitar solos either! So I guess I’d like to think that I can differentiate between great “song” and great “guitar-song!” Isn’t that great that we don’t NEED to have a fast solo to like something though? I believe that’s one of those magic “artsy” elements about music that we should all be careful NOT to lose sight of in our “great clockwise pursuit of the “Dark Side of The Metronome!” (lol!) :rolleyes:
Anyways, that’s my zen-moment of the day here at IG!!! 😉
~Bill Meehan~ 😀
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