From jackoverfull@gmail.com Wed Feb 27 13:59:45 2013
Subject:Re: Joey D. Boring?


Il giorno 27/feb/2013, alle ore 22.21, ccmacdon@rogers.com ha scritto:

> MRK,
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> I don't really think that this is a "bash Joey" exercise.. and I don't think that Joey needs you to defend him..
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Ever heard of irony? ;)

> A couple people have expressed their views that they find his virtuousity a bit boring.. He's an extremely talented guy, there is no doubt, but I think that it all sounds the same after a while.. (and that isn't a particularly long while)..
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> I prefer simplicity, a simple memorable melody, and for all the effort I have spent trying to develop my chops and learn speedy runs and riffs over the years, I find myself here at 57 years of age putting that stuff aside as I realizing that the beauty and mastery of music is in the simplicity.
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I'm afraid I've realized that MANY years ago. Even if I have to remind it to myself now and then these days…

Anyway, I just wrote that Joey is one of the few "virtuosos" that I don't find boring (mind you, I found boring the Brian Auger concert I attended a few months ago…He just lost me after a while) and that I like his choice of registers/sounds. That's it, just my opinion.

> I can hum every Greg Rolie hammond organ solo note for note from every Santana album, they all have such beautiful melodies, but I can't recall anything that Joey D's ever done. So who's the real virtuoso..?
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> Craig
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> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 2:55:48 PM
> Subject: [CWSG] Joey D. Boring?
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> I had to respond to this.
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> I don't find Joey boring,but sometimes the material he plays is fairly
> stock be bop jazz. Be bop is most of what he does.
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> If you put Joey in Tower of Power, or Santana my guess he would come up
> with some fairly classic stuff.
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> But like a lot of jazzers, he doesn't choose to go that route.
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> Make no mistake.... Joey is one of the most fluid jazz improvisers of all
> time, on any instrument. And he can get pretty passionate about it,which is
> when he starts to interest me
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> So if you want to talk about boring I wonder what percentage of people on
> this list could hold their own doing just a duo as Joey often does playing
> just instrumentals.
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> Most people would get pretty boring with their lack of harmonic content
> and interesting ideas, which Joey does not lack.
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> Hey.... I turned on the jazz station yesterday and lasted about two songs.
> The thing that bored me was the same old ding ding da ding rhythm on the
> drummers ride cymbal.
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> But Joey doesn't bore me because I always hear interesting ideas in what he
> does. Plus he knows how to make a clone organ sound good, which is
> something that I commonly hear people screw up.
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