Recent content by Hornbein

Look on the bright side. If the supply of gasoline dries up there will be renewed demand for field hands.

The latest in rock keyboards. The first demonstrator is Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater.

Everyone knows about perfect pitch, what about perfect rhythm? I became aware of this when overlaying the live version of a song over the studio recording. As far as tempo goes they were the same. That is, after four minutes of music they two versions were as close to the same tempo as I...

The rise of effects pedals contributed to the decline of the keyboard. You could get organ-like sounds out of an electric guitar, so who needs an organ? Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse As far as I know Andy Summers remains the King of the Pedalboards. Listen to this: it's downright orchestral.

I am not going to continue this squabble.

Written by Neil Diamond

One of my favorite "keyboard" solos. I'm pretty sure it wasn't actually played, rather programmed with a sequencer.

Then there is the Keyboard Phantom. The Grateful Dead always had an inaudible keyboard player. I figured his true role was to score the drugs. Actually they had three keyboardists at various times, one of whom (Tom Constanten) was at times audible. But the Grateful Dead took the...

All of IMY2's covers are this good.

Indeed they were. I believe Eric Clapton started it in 1964 with Having A Rave Up With The Yardbirds, which somehow never attracted as much notice as I feel it should have. That's the invention of rock lead guitar right there. Rave ups became cool and most of the bigshots did it. Today...

I'm very impressed with the high quality of AI music. Why can't they instruct the machine to "give me Charlie Parker's Koko, exactly the same but with modern recording technology"? Maybe I'd love it. Jazz musicians though tend to be very tradition oriented so I bet they would despise such...

Reviving this moribund thread on "best music in several genres." I didn't choose a rock "best" because so much competition. But this changed me mind. Play a song for 50 years and maybe you'll get this good at it. If you play the same song over and over either it improves or you get bored...