Eisboch wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:

"DK" wrote in message
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HK wrote:

This morning, for example, Eisboch thought it not possible for me
to review a YouTube video he referenced in the time I allocated for
it, which I suppose means he doesn't know how YouTube works. For
reasons that have nothing to do with me, my internet connection
apparently is about 10 times faster than his. That means I can
"get" a YouTube video much faster than he can, and skim right
through it without it breaking up or pixelating.


Bull****.




It is bull****. Regardless of his super-duper cable download
speeds, the fact is that YouTube streams the video files, allowing us
mere mortals with normal Internet speeds to enjoy the presentation.

The performance section of the "Tribute" involves at least half of
the time to watch the video in real time. So Super Harry was able to
watch a mere segment of a 7 plus minute long performance, then jump
back to rec.boats and declare his authoritative opinion of it's
quality compared to the original performance.

What a guy.

Professionals in the field hold Monaco in very high opinion in terms
of his interpretation and ability to emulate the Jimmy Smith style of
B3 organ playing. Some say Monaco has to hold back.

I don't think Harry knows who Monaco or Smith is, let alone his
ability to compare their capabilities.


Eisboch


Nice try. The reality is, I downloaded the video from youtube, watched
about 30 seconds of the schmaltzy beginning, then fast-fowarded to the
middle and then the end. I probably watched two minutes in total,
enough to determine the guy was damned good, but not Jimmy Smith. Just
an imitator.

Let's put it into simpler terms. Jimmy Smith played as Jimmy Smith;
Monaco played as an imitator of Smith. Wynton Marsalis has a CD out in
which he imitates many famous jazz trumpeters. I saw him interviewed
about that CD many years ago. He was imitating the earlier great
trumpeters (Armstrong, Miles Davis, and a couple of others), but as
good as he is, he said he could never equal any of them playing their
style, because each of their styles was unique, just as when he is
playing *his* style, he is incomparable.

Well, I'm sure your hero Monaco is terrific when he's playing in his
style, but when he is playing in Smith's style, he's not Smith...he's
just imitating him.

You righties are quite the trip...if someone intrudes onto what you
feel is your turf, you all go bat****. That's true of you, and to a
much greater degree, of Tom.

Entertaining, but predictable.




"Us righties" ? What the hell does the playing style or competence of
a B3 Hammond player have to do with politics?

Sorry Harry. I'll pit my knowledge of the Hammond B3, the artists who
perform on a Hammond B3 and their relative competence against your
knowledge any day.

Go ahead. Make my day.

Eisboch


I never said I was an expert on the Hammond B3 or its players. But if I
had my druthers, I'd rather listen to Jimmy Smith playing Jimmy Smith
than some imitator playing Jimmy Smith.

The comment about politics had nothing to do with politics, per se.
Didn't you get that? "If someone intrudes on what you feel is your turf,
you go bat****."

As you did.




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The modern GOP is little more than an army of moral absolutists led by a
gang of moral nihilists.