... j'ai fais un peu de sax ... mais quand j'entends didier malherbes (blomdido bad de grass in "gong", ou i an underwood) ou john coltrane, j'ai envie de faire de la batterie ! < 3
Wow. I was expecting the hate, honestly, because I saw the lenghth and Solti was definitely a hit or miss, but this is actually very good. The transitions are great
0:00 i. KING KONG ITSELF (as played by the Mothers in a studio) 0:50 ii. KING KONG (its magnificence as interpreted by Dom DeWild) 2:16 iii. KING KONG (as Motorhead explains it) 3:54 iv. KING KONG (the Gardner Varieties) 10:14 v. KING KONG (as played by 3 deranged Good Humor Trucks) 11:00 vi. KING KONG (live on a flat bed diesel in the middle of a race track at a Miami Pop Festival . . . the Underwood ramifications)
This is the finest work of the Mothers of Invention , of course, that is my opinion, but it was always playing on vinyl continuously when I was studying through university in the seventies.
As a recording artist, singer Jo Stafford was highly regarded for her incomparable pitch. Only a singer who was supremely talented would know exactly which notes to slur off-key to turn a song into the equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard. While Stafford never won a Grammy Award for her "straight" work, she and her husband Paul Weston won the Grammy in 1960 for best comedy album.
For some stupid reason, I never checked out this album until tonight. Holy hell! Better late than never I suppose. This is grade-A quality Zappa for sure.
Have you by chance heard Theilemann with Vienna? I think that is my favorite performance of this piece and the wind machine is quite prominent during the storm section.
I think the 2 versions sound drastically different. Kinda prefer the Lennon one....Idk...Who exactly was playing on the Live Lennone one, and on this one? Idk. Controversial opinion maybe. This one is really fucking good though.
The fastest take no prisoners versions out there....lots of tinkles and up front highlighted instrumentation that gets buried in other renditions...very much worth a listen. One of the very best storm segments you will ever hear.
Came here out of recommendation. Brilliant at some places but its typical Solti performance where everything its on steroids and there's little care or sensivity in quiet passages. Cant imagine the wind players from 16:30 where its so freaking fast. The best part about this recording is the wind machine sounds in the storm, otherwise I'm going back to Karajan BPO
I agree, but Dave Hurwitz was talking about the brass playing. It is great brass playing on this recording,especially the principal horn. My fave is Mravinsky and Leningrad, It is a live performance and the the biggest sound an orchestra could make.The principal trumpet playing is worth the listen,alone.
