2 Dec
2008
2 Dec
'08
1:38 a.m.
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Ken Restivo wrote:
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 12:14:00AM -0500, frank
pirrone wrote:
Sure, I know that. Actually, blues tunes and the ways they're played
are 8.96 times as common as hills, but despite how common they are and
the ubiquity of the players, I was intrigued by both your conversion of
that cheap guitar to fretless and the interesting timbre of it as
amplified. I also thought your playing was quirky, and thus the video
was noteworthy for that a well.
Still, I agree, that viewership is phenomenal. Hey...bask in the glory!
Frank
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Ken Restivo wrote:
Yeah, but that's my point.
Blues is as old as the hills, and quite possibly ten times as common.
There are great blues guitarists within hailing distance of
practically everyone.
Why anyone-- let alone 16,000 people-- would have wanted to hear me
play blues, is a mystery to me.
-ken
As an expeirment, over a year ago, I plugged my
fretless guitar
into my FastTrack Pro USB interface, loaded up Ardour on my
laptop, set up a cheap digital camera to film, and simultaneously
filmed and recorded myself playing some blues. It was an
experiment to see how easy it would be to sync the
Ardour-recorded audio up with the video, using Avidemux on Linux.
Worked great and was quite simple to do. I posted the results
here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZuE2LWLXMc
And, over the past year, that cheesy little off-hand experiment
has been by far the most successful thing I've done musically *in
my entire life*.
16,473 views so far-- more than any music I've ever made. I'm
baffled. I have no idea why such a simple, unremarkable, and
almost cliche'ed thing would have become so popular, but
nonetheless it is, in defiance of all rationality.
-ken
I dunno, Ken. Greater departure from conventional than the groovy
funkalicious stuff you've done on keyboard/bass?
Blue LEDs could have been Herbie Hancock playing, but for as
complimentary as that observation may be, folks have heard stuff
like that before.
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