Here's another version of Harvest Moon. I covered this song on my last "Five For Friday-Episode #3", but thought I could play it better. About 50 takes later, here it is and I'm still not happy with it...Lol. Oh well!
the machines have killed music by remove mans imperfections, which to are the magic, your videos slow down and speed up and go out of time, and guess what hendrix and all the pre machine bands did that. i personally like that the best singer in history frank sinatra wudsing out of tune and in the last second rise in to tune, listen to strangers in the night. Your vocal style is unique and thats a good thing
Thanks for the comments Neil. Real music is meant to be played and heard live. Played and sung with all the emotion of the artist's performance at a particular point in time. This includes all its human imperfections as you stated. This is what I believe makes it art. Unfortunately, modern recording techniques can sometimes suck the life out of this by trying to be too perfect. This is why I like seeing live acts. In particular, acoustic unplug versions. Stripped down and played in their rawest form without any gimmicks (click tracks, etc.). "NPR Tiny Desk Concerts" comes to mind. As far as my own videos, while sometimes I'm purposely changing the tempo as I feel the energy of the song change, It mostly happens by accident. Sometimes it works and other times doesn't. But what the hell, I'm just an amateur and I'm not playing along to any click track...Lol. With respect to Harvest Moon, I've always found this song to very challenging to play in terms of the feel and tempo. On my next "Five For Friday", I plan on talking about the challenges I have with this song and what makes it so difficult to capture the emotional of it. While I've heard a lot of great covers of it, only a few come close to the emotional feel of Neil Young. Especially his unplugged versions with just his acoustic guitar.
its interesting to see your song choices, its clear to me music falls into to two catagories, live and recorded. i prefer to live in the live world, because recorded music has the luxury of bend time and harmony. live music is honest, but the dark art of recorded music means the recordings cannot be played live, so lip syncing and other tricks have to be employed. U2 and many bands have keyboard techs under the stage pushing buttons. the public are duped and dont realise how untalented their stars are, i worked in a music store in london in the 80s and many chart toppers came into buy guitars and they cud not even tune their guitars. i know the beatles broke up as they were not preppared to decieve the public. so lennon went back to 3chords and the truth music. all bands had a gay pedo manager that was in a relationship with the manager, epstien and lennon towshend and lambert, simon napier bell and mark owen take that. and in the studio 50 year old musos and engineers and producers actually made the recordings while the bands went to the bar and pub. to quote charlie watts drummer with the stones, he said at 40th anniversary 3 years of drumming and 37 yrs waiting around. quite possibly why brian jones was accidentally murdered once they had the formula they no longer needed him around, and he needed to be killed to prevent him starting his own band which wud haVE destroyed the stones
It's interesting you mentioned U2. A few months back I was watching a RU-vid video of one of their concerts with headphones on. Who ever mixed this and loaded it up on RU-vid forgot to remove all the timing cue's that were in U2's in-ear monitors. In the background you could hear a voice giving them music cues such as " Bono 1,2,3,4", "Chorus, 1,2,3,4", "Edge solo,1,2,3,4"...etc thought out each song. I'm not sure if this was the video I was watching, but you can also hear it on this video "U2 Live Full Show From The FLY DOWN Full Concert 2022". But you might need headphones on to notice it.
@@mutzmusic5737 yes also they use a device called time code which is like a conductor and will quantize certain instruments. The sound man tends to also control effects so by enlarge it’s not just U2 playing.
