now 4 something really completly different...

amar · Post by **amar** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 3:31 am

check this out, I ordered it, irtrad with a sax!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... ce&s=music
cool.

pixyy · Post by **pixyy** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 3:38 am

amar · Post by **amar** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 3:52 am

ain't it kewl?

Jens_Hoppe · Post by **Jens_Hoppe** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 3:54 am

I think I've heard them play in Copenhagen once...

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 3:58 am

Well, now we at least have something tangible to analyze in the old "can it be done?" debate. Now I'm wondering if a trombone would work.

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 6:54 am

It's funny, that first track, the banjo goes zooming on and the sax doesn't really try to follow it, it just kind stays laidback, playing half the notes. It reminds me of me!

They have an interesting sound, though, and that's important. More power to them!

Chuck_Clark · Post by **Chuck_Clark** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 12:17 pm

I just listened to the samples, so this may not be a fair statement, but I loved the instrumentals but wassort of put off by the singer.

amar · Post by **amar** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 2:07 pm

same here, don't really care too much for the singing masel.

Scott McCallister · Post by **Scott McCallister** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 3:57 pm

Walden wrote:Well, now we at least have something tangible to analyze in the old "can it be done?" debate. Now I'm wondering if a trombone would work.

um... no... not really. :roll:

Bretton · Post by **Bretton** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 6:34 pm

I like sax, but found it a little disturbing in that context...sounded too Lawrence Welkish to me.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 6:43 pm

I had visions of the sax player in a fur hat, sidelocks and a tallit. Gives the idea of orthodox ITM a whole new spin.

ErikT · Post by **ErikT** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 8:11 pm

Bretton wrote:I like sax, but found it a little disturbing in that context...sounded too Lawrence Welkish to me.

Are you saying that there's something wrong with Larry!!?? Them's fight'n words.

ErikT · Post by **ErikT** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 8:14 pm

Actually, it sounds Polka-esk to me. Like an Irish German. I can imagine that sound at a Fest.

dlovrien · Post by **dlovrien** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 8:27 pm

I gotta say that sax player stinks. If you want a little sax with your Irish music, go with "Itsbynne Reel" by Michael Brecker:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... ce&s=music

Of course, he's playing a wind synthesizer most of the time, and it gets way jazzy after the first couple of minutes, but it's a fantastic track.

Or.. (if you'll permit me to toot my own horn... literally), here's an MP3 of me playing "Last Rose of Summer" on sax (my main instrument):

http://www.dws.org/dlovrien/ra/David%20 ... Summer.mp3

It's not exactly ITM, but hope you enjoy!

- David (new guy here)

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 9:25 pm

dlovrien wrote:I gotta say that sax player stinks.

I said it so much more tactfully than you!

Loved the Last Rose, BTW. That's easy, anyway, since that's one of my favourite melodies. Any details on that track? Is that part of a released CD? Nice band! (or sequence, hard to tell these days)

I found your home page:
http://www.dws.org/dlovrien/
Love the sax quartet stuff too. Gotta go now, but i'll listen more tomorrow.

Didn't like the Brecker track, though. He seems to be trying to give self-indulgence a bad name.