Jim McAuley guitar improv (+ Nels Cline & Rod Poole)

[AlbinoMeatpod1]

Mike Patton has "not of this earth" vocal prowess... but he makes my ears hurt nonetheless. I guess I'm small minded wanting to be entertained & such. ;)

[AlbinoMeatpod1]

BTW, Brenballs is literally the kid that exclaimed, The King has no clothes!" Gotta admire his honesty in this apparent gaggle of pretentious musical connoisseurs gazing over their imaginary musical horizon of dissonance. Can't really win an argument with such nobility, Brenballs...you're simply too much of a musical serf to understand the complexity of the masterpiece...Excuse me while I vomit.

[AlbinoMeatpod1]

Human biological tendency instructs the brain to go to work figuring out which note is the tonic—the tonal center. The other notes and their frequency ratios that define the other intervals depend entirely on the tonal center for context. The tonic note acts as a kind of gravitational force on the tune as a whole, which is why it’s called the tonal center, or as I have grown fond of referring to this musically gravitational force as the musical vortex.

[Naturality]

@AlbinoMeatpod1 What you have said is definitely true of Western music. We listen to music and expect to hear certain things, but that is not to say that they are essential. We have become conditioned to expect such structure in our society,

Spiritual/'Eastern' music is some of the most basic and fundamental human music, and that often doesn't have a tonic note. It's also often microtonal.

I'd argue that your highly structured understanding of music is far less natural than anything microtonal.

[AlbinoMeatpod1]

My guitar once sounded like this...it was out of tune due to bridge float. I refused to apply the sustain damping double sided tape. They should put some cello rosin under the bridge to prevent float.

Seriously, the end of a piece is usually indicated by a return home to the tonic note. This was so unusually chaotic that I never really heard the rhythm or the melody. A for exploring new territory but F for providing a "regurgitation" lacking structure & having few pleasing characteristics.

[cordedpoodle]

Wow. What a bunch of dummies. No less than Bach, Mozart and Beethoven experimented with microtones. Tuning has nothing to do with the quality of music other than people who understand how to tune know a lot more about harmony than people who don't.

[Brenballs]

OK, well lets just agree to disagree. I dont have to like microtonal music, but I will credit you with being passionate and talented at what you do, it's just not for me!

I happen to dislike Pollock's stuff too..

Maybe some day my western ears will undersand.

[ronkopald]

I think it's great; but I've been playing guitar for almost 30 years. After that long, one starts to see more of the horizon, so to speak. So, I dig it.

[brantland35]

to all of you who 'don't understand' this man has been reviewed in the New York Times, interviewed in Exclaim! (canadian equivalent to rolling stone) and has THREE albums that he did not produce. go figure- don't understand.

[Brenballs]

@brantland35 ....so to me that says that there are enough idiots out there who call this music!!!! Maybe I'm just not 'smart enough' to understand - but with my rythmic nature and a preference for harmonics and not disharmonics, this microtonal improv stuff is just painful to listen to as well as disturbingly random and devoid of rythm.

It's more of a lesson in math as far as I'm concerned...

[Brenballs]

This really is the musical equivelant of the painters who believe they've created masterpieces by blindly spraying a few colours onto a canvas.

[RSwordIAAA]

@Brenballs yes, youre *so* right here! I can tell you're an acclaimed art critic - "yeah screw those artists who just throw paint around! Jackson Pollock--- what a fake, joker right?" ....you're out of your league, go home and play with yourself.

[Brenballs]

@RSwordIAAA It's comments like 'you're out of your league' and 'you don't understand' that make it all the easier to dislike it. All those coming out in defence of this music seem intent on telling me I'm just not intelligent, nor musically advanced enough to understand it!

Maybe I just dont like it.. I may still go home and play with myself though.

[RSwordIAAA]

@Brenballs No, in your previous comment you are insinuating that trying new methods and "just throwing paint on a canvas" is nothing, while "just throwing paint on a canvas" produced some of the greatest art (and Music) that came out of America in the 20th century...try again...

[Brenballs]

wow.. I signed in just to say how crap this is! I just dont get it!

[losthills]

Definition of the word Awesome.

[highonpgtips]

he looked like he way having a seizure at 2.24

[trixter79]

i love ya!

[szicsaboj]

I think that disharmony is sometimes necessary, and useful, for reflecting the feelings, but that's too much. It sounds like a crying depressive half-dead android rat zombie who killed his own mother.

....with an electric razor!

:-)

However, he could be a good musician, but I'm sure, that wasn't the best composition in his life.

[lycanthropydm]

Rod poole was killed....I am dedicating part of my life to making sure the pieces of shit who killed him are in jail rotting or are in hell once out of jail. God told me to.

[Tonymostrom]

NICE.

[70x4]

awesome...

[brantage33]

what an improvisation, mr. mcauley. lookin all sexy w/ the rocker do, and boy what a beeeeeeeaaauuuuutiful 12 string.