Post #355409 by basilh on Wed, Jan 16, 2008 7:20 PM

Hi Ho !!
Thanks for your input, much appreciated and also the geniality of it.

but why listen at all to anyone else's version of a tune if the expectations are solely to hear how accurately they reproduced a prior rendition of the song? To me, that's missing something. There is an area in there where "this doesn't sound like the same song" kicks in but I think we're far from that in this thread.

I listen to learn, to enjoy the overall picture, study the individual snapshots within that scene and to study the expertise of the performer.
I just get saddened somewhat when I see/hear a little laxity in some of the aspects.
You said yourself :-

as time progressed, we've all learned the material further and studied it more closely and realized that there some diffs between our first passes and how we do it now - a glance at my book especially will yield a lot of pencil corrections

at least you recognize that your original hearing of the piece wasn't totally accurate, you say "Studied it more closely" presumably to pick of nuances missed first time around.
I must admit that I've been tempted to record an album of Exotica, but primarily finding the project rather daunting in its technical aspects and also possibly not very commercial (Nowadays) I've been swayed to shelve it.
I May yet tackle the project but not this year.

I wish you luck with the nominations, I've voted favorably, and as I have my own server and UNLIMITED e-mail address' !! Well !!
I hope you sell a Million.. wouldn't that be something !

Steelies do it without fretting !

[ Edited by: basilh 2008-01-16 19:26 ]