Howdy Michael. Wow, you know i never ever thought of it like that. I guess when i think about it, the way i hear music has been shaped by by listenin to electric gitar ( which i i've played since i was 15 ) . When i first started listenin to bluegrass, Monroe moved me the least. But now he's one of the few mando players that move me.
Also, if you do put out the definitive Munroe instruction collection, i'd buy it in a minute. On Oct 17, 1:23 pm, mistertaterbug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yak, > I have thought about it, but not much and not often, at least not > until recently. I have been told on a number of occasions that I > "should" do it and the answer usually to my "why" question is > inevitably the same thing...because I could make $$$ with it. Well, > while that may be true, I don't see that as a good reason. No, I'm not > being holy and pure of motive and I definitely could use the money, > but it's the same reason I've never put out a solo recording > project...I just don't see that I have any sort of "vision" or that it > needs doing enough to put the effort into it, not until recently. I am > in the process of seriously going about getting the recording underway > and I have been thinking that I probably should go on and finish > transcribing all of Monroe's output (about 750 cuts, and that's not > counting the hundreds of live cuts that are worth considering) and > make a "complete recorded works transcriptions" collection and be done > with it. Nobody else is going to do it and I think it seriously needs > doing. Some of this stuff is damned near impossible to write out due > to the "performance art" (to use a Matt Combs term) involved. Butch > Baldassari got a start on it with the "16 Gems" book. The > transcriptions there are accurately represented. I've read through > others that weren't in the ballpark. > > I think it takes a lot of listening over and over and over to get an > ear for this stuff and I really don't see that most people either "get > it" or even care to, primarily because Monroe is old-fashioned by > today's standards and not hip. I hear sounds in his playing now that I > didn't hear years ago. I think a person has to learn "how" to listen > to Monroe. The culture we're in is far removed from Bill's, more all > the time, and it takes going on a journey to get back there. We're for > the most part influenced by electric guitars and not fiddlers like > Bill's generation was. So, it's not nearly as easy for us to interpret/ > understand what that old mandolin style is about. It takes a lot of > listening and learning. Sort of same situation as Mike Hoffman's > friend/mentor Frankie has put himself in to learn what's going on with > the black string band tradition as far as I can tell. It takes a > helluva lot of time and energy and love to get in the ballpark and > even then, it's an imitation of the real thing. > > I shudder to think that I'd go to all that work to put out a > collection of notation/tab as extensive as that, that I thought was > worth investing the time and energy into to get done right only to > have every other armchair critic on earth start popping out of the > damned woodwork just to shoot a few arrows into it, or to have > somebody in the family or a publishing/copyright person come up and > say "Hey, wait a minute, you can't do that unless you gimme part of > it". I think I'd lose it. I know this is way more than a "yes or no" > answer, and I do realize your question was about MY take on the tunes, > but I figured I should go on and answer in full. As for the > instructional DVD, there was some brief amount of talk years ago about > doing something on Homespun, but that fell by the way. I have had a > few conversations in the past couple years with reputable people about > the DVD idea and I think that there is an avenue I'd like to pursue. > But all of this involves expenditures of cash. I don't really have it > to spare. > > Okay, I'll shut up. > Tater > > On Oct 16, 9:24 pm, Mandoyak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Have you ever considered putting out an instructional book/tab/ > > notation/semiphore/cd/dvd of your take on Monroe tunes (instrumentals > > I mean...preferably some of the more obscure ones...not to ask too > > much...)? > > > Just curious. I for one would buy it right quick. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
